Religious Harmony
One of the most reliable routes to world peace is for people to share their sacred experiences without getting snarled in religious divisions. Each religion has a unique bouquet of love, harmony, and beauty. Taken all together, these varied bouquets bring a powerful healing fragrance to our world. Here is your place to offer to others encounters with the Divine nearest to your heart.

Welcome to the Religious Harmony message board!
- Daniel Uvanovic, Webmaster   4 May 2003

My dear aunt enjoyed a long life, 93 years. Most of them were lived in an active, vital way. In her final few years, however, I received her greatest gift, her strongest witness. She was a prisoner to Alzheimer's Disease. My time with her was spent in gently holding her hand, quietly praying aloud, or strolling with her in her wheelchair into the lovely garden. Occasionally, I was given the gift of feeding her. My aunt's illness allowed me the privilege to enter into her place of emptiness, into a depth comforted only by the Source of All Being. It was a holy, sacred space where I felt that we both were gently caressed by Love Divine and filled with a joy beyond all understanding.
- Rita M. King, California   4 May 2003

Thank you for this topic. It is so important in our world today to realize that we are not combatants, or enemies, but brothers and sisters in this world. I'd like to include here one short stanza from a longer poem that I wrote on this subject: .......... "We all share the same breath, and I can feel this in the seafloor of my soul this morning, you and I and all else in this wondrous strange universe exchange whirling atoms in a continuous bazaar of beingness, your outbreath becomes my inbreath, together our mingled breaths feed the world and ourselves. "
- Zen, Florida USA   5 May 2003

Breathing operates unnoticed so much of the time. This exercise brings this fundamental process to awareness and appreciation. I love the simplicity. May each of us breathe more deeply.
- mms, USA   9 May 2003

Thank you for reminding me of the peace which I hold inside as I slow done. This so much reminds me to hear and feel the breathe of my Divine life. It keeps me aware of being here... not as a mistake but for a reason... I just don't know all that my Divine power does. Thank you for this ultimate pleasure.
- bsj, KS USA   10 May 2003

All is well. All is harmony. All is peace. Thank you for the reminder.
- Allana, Canada   18 May 2003

I wake up to birds singing and chirping, then if I go and look out in my mother's backyard, I see bluejays. Today, I mowed the law for mom just to remind her that I'm here to be helpful. She offered to pay me for any yard work, but I declined this. I wake up from my naps to the smell of a very delicious dinner cooking in the kitchen, and the feeling this gives me is relaxing and warming. I also have to remember, life may not always be such a bowl of cherries as they are now as I have been clocked under mother's wing until I am back on my own two feet. It is lovely to be staying at a place with such a beautiful backyard. The silence today in the backyard with only the sound of the wind really freed my soul today.
- Dn, California   18 May 2003

I remember feeling an overwhelming presence of Love in the room. It was God and I knew it. I knew, in that instance, that It was real, totally real, and I was loved in a way beyond all imagining. It was frightening and exhilirating at the same time. When it was over, I was excited for a long time. I tried to explain it to others but I could tell by their faces that they didn't know what I was talking about. "It's real." I would say. "There really is a God. It really does exist." They just grinned patronizingly......
- db, USA   18 May 2003

The sleepy baby in my arms, the matching of our breath, reminds me of the sleeping baby in my arms, of two decades ago. Even now there is a matching in our breathe, the eternal clock of motherhood.
- chris, saratoga,wyo   18 May 2003

Each one of my experiences in life has the grace to bring me to the essence of what matters. All I need to do is to become fully alive and mindful of the present moment through my breathing. Thankyou for reminding me again this evening in autumn of this. Tomorrow is my mother's birthday and in sending her an email card this evening for her to receive when she opens her emails tomorrow morning I was remembering all the wonderful moments we have shared together and gathering all of them into a bouquet of gratefulness and love for her.
- Judy M, New Zealand   19 May 2003

the other night was a full moon and while my family slept i decided to sit by myself on the sofa in the living room and simply listen to the different sounds in the silence. with the milky moonlight streaming in through the window i could hear sounds far and close. i heard the sound of a single mockingbird persistenly singing through the night. i heard the sounds of our old house settling and creaking. i gave thanks in my heart for these things and i felt very blessed for nature and for the roof over our heads.
- mar, usa   19 May 2003

Today was such a hard day, I decided I needed to be grateful and remembered to open the newsletter I received the other day. I clicked on this link and started the practice of breathing. I remembered a quiet moment in the car this a.m. when I heard the birds singing, a moment several years ago when my infant nephew reached out to me and the last time I was Lector for my parish and kneeled in deep connection with the Divine during Communion.Thank you for these gifts today and reminding me what is really important. Many blessings!
- dmp, Illinois   22 May 2003