Welcome to OneLife Ministries, an online ministry of Brian Kenneth Wilcox Ministries. This site is designed to lead you prayerfully into a heart experience of Divine Presence, Who is Love. I hope persons of varied wisdom paths will find inspiration here.
You are invited to join Brian at his groups on Facebook : Sanctum of Prayer; Love & Light; Christian Spirituality; John of the Cross. Brian is on YouTube with videos pertaining to spirituality, and on Tweeter. For details or booking of events, you can contact Brian at briankwilcox@yahoo.com .
Entering the Inner Sanctuary
Enter this sanctuary time by settling down, becoming quiet, and breathing deeply some breaths. Remind yourself you are in the Presence of Love. This place you are entering, within, is the inner Temple, where you are One with God. You may wish to use a mantra, or prayer phrase, follow the breathing in-and-out, or witness the arising and falling of all around you as the manifestation of universal-Spirit. Enjoy these moments of quietly settling and come out when you are ready.
Song
Mercy Me. “Word of God Speak.”
Spiritual Teaching
John Shea, in Stories of Faith, clarifies: "God is not a law to be obeyed but a presence to be seized and acted on." The Sacred calls us to the joy of fellowship and union with the Divine. Obedience is not imposed on anyone, and it does not exists apart from the determinative context of relationship with the Spirit. Obedience as a separate fact apart from the relationship does not exists.
Therefore, enlightenment is not moral in the sense of obeying the Divine. Enlightenment is awakening to the Sacred in our midst and within us, and in Whom we are one Body of God. Then, all apparent obedience is a manifestation of the transforming of ourselves in the relationship and in respect for it.
Brian Kenneth Wilcox. “Enlightenment?: Seizing the Presence”
Responding
Give briefly your understanding of “the Sacred.” What is meant by being spiritually awake? Share ways you have seen yourself be purged, or cleansed, so to be more open to the Sacred.
Love gifts to support the spiritual Work of Brian Kenneth Wilcox are appreciated.
Ten percent of love gifts given in response to this devotional will go to purchasing religious-spiritual resources for inmates at the jail where Brian serves as Senior Chaplain. If you give a gift, please write Brian at briankwilcox@yahoo.com and let him know it was in response to this devotional, to have the noted percentage devoted to the cause to benefit persons in the jail seeking spiritual knowledge and guidance.
*OneLife Ministries is a ministry of Brian Kenneth Wilcox, SW Florida. Brian lives a vowed life, as an Associate of Greenbough House of Prayer. He lives with his two doggie friends, Bandit Ty and St. Francis.
*You can order his book An Ache for Union from major booksellers.
