UpBeat Spiritual Living

Do you have a peaceful inner core you can tap when things are rough? Check out these pointers for getting in touch with your Peace Within.

Peace within, your personal inner peace, is crucial to the spiritual life and the relationships and life you want. What is your level of inner peace?

Don't quit! You can declare a New Day and a New Season. "Call it a day" on small things, but declare a New Day and a New Season on the big things, like your life!

On a level, each good person is a pumpkin in God's garden. We need to keep this process in mind during all the cultural chaos around Halloween! We must shine the light that God places within us [Matt 5:16].

We have the great gift of free will. If God is your Head Coach, who are you? What choices will you make, and when will you start? It's spiritual stress management!

We have the great gift of free will. We need to make choices every day for our strongest spiritual stress management. Not everyone wearing a cross subscribes to spiritual or Christian values.

Sometimes, even when we haven't asked, the Divine gives us advice. It may sound so brief or so practical that we are tempted to think those were our own thoughts. We need to act on these, for our own good, and to acknowledge God's loving guidance.

Many times, we have delays and hassles that alter our plans, but then cause things to work out better for us. These are wonderful examples of Divine Order. Here is an example around the moving of a meeting and the cutting of a phone line. God is good!