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Welcome to OneLife Ministries. This site is designed to lead you prayerfully into a heart experience of Divine Presence, Who is Love. I hope persons of varied faith paths will find inspiration here. Please share this ministry with others, and please return soon. There is a new offering daily. And to be placed on the daily OneLife email list, to request notifications of new writings or submit prayer requests, write to briankwilcox@yahoo.com .
Blessings,
Brian Kenneth Wilcox MDiv, MFT, PhD
Interspiritual Pastor-Teacher, Author, Workshop Leader, Spiritual Counselor, and Chaplain.
You are invited to join Brian at his fellowship group on Facebook. The group is called OneLife Ministries – An Interspiritual Contemplative Fellowship. Hope to see you there. Blessings.
SPIRITUAL QUOTE
My detachment is not avoidance of the tensions and sufferings inside, both those common to all and resulting from a choice to follow Jesus. Rather, freedom and detachment is a chosen, conscious, and freely offered immersion in life - bliss and suffering, and all in between. Somewhere, I find the space within to relate with suffering as natural to this Way. To desire neither suffering nor non-suffering, but to remain open wholly to God-in-Christ, and in this to be open to life as I meet it daily within and without leads to a willing sacrifice of my small will to the greater Will, and out of love for others. And that greater Good is the Will of God, the good of the other, and my good, together in a harmony of Loving. Love, then, is not merely the feeling or ideal of Love; Love is the harmonizing Power which lifts me beyond suffering and bliss into a higher Order Union with the Heart of Christ. Then, I am in Love, truly. I do not know how to live this; I can only surrender to Grace and seek forgiveness from others and God, when I see I have failed. Even in failure, I seek to retain the pure intent of Grace, and may God help.
*Brian Kenneth Wilcox
SPIRITUAL TEACHING
Hidden in the Shadow
Is there not behind the face
a sadness so aglow
that if you follow,
the Light will lead you
Home, Friend?
Indeed, is not the price
of what is often denied
the womb to
conceive freedom within?
And is not the whisper
within the groans of pain
brought by loss,
the wisdom we seek for
Greatest gain?
For hidden in the shadow
of death, the wise know,
lies silently the
Way to Life.
*Brian Kenneth Wilcox, Aug 29, 2005. Revised Feb 02, 2010.
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How does the following Jesus words, from John 12.23-25, relate to your life and living out your True Self in Grace? Your freedom? The process of being born anew again and again? Be specific.
And Jesus answered them. He said, "The time has arrived for the Son of Man to be glorified. Truly, I say unto you, 'Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it remains alone: but if it dies, it pro-duces much fruit. The person who loves his or her life separate from God shall forfeit it; the person that disdains his or her life separate from God shall retain it unto Eternal Life.'”
© OneLife Ministries. Feb 2, 2010.
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*OneLife Ministries is a ministry of Brian Kenneth Wilcox, SW Florida. Brian lives a vowed life and with his two dogs, Bandit Ty and St. Francis. While within the Christian path, he is an ecumenical-interspiritual teacher, author, and chaplain. He is Senior Chaplain for the Charlotte County Jail, Punta Gorda, FL.
*Brian welcomes responses to his writings at briankwilcox@yahoo.com . Also, Brian is on Facebook: search Brian Kenneth Wilcox.
*You can order his book An Ache for Union from major booksellers.
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