Comments on: Describe your “spiritual awakening,” as you call it. http://www.stevemcswain.com/blog/2010/07/describe-your-spiritual-awakening-as-you-call-it/ Coaching in the Art of Leadership, the laws of success, the life you live, and the legacy you leave. Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:17:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Youngy http://www.stevemcswain.com/blog/2010/07/describe-your-spiritual-awakening-as-you-call-it/#comment-1889 Youngy Mon, 25 Jul 2011 06:20:19 +0000 http://www.stevemcswain.com/?p=366#comment-1889 Thanks for writing such an easy-to-unresdtand article on this topic. Thanks for writing such an easy-to-unresdtand article on this topic.

]]> By: Dr. Steve McSwain http://www.stevemcswain.com/blog/2010/07/describe-your-spiritual-awakening-as-you-call-it/#comment-1864 Dr. Steve McSwain Fri, 10 Jun 2011 23:42:19 +0000 http://www.stevemcswain.com/?p=366#comment-1864 Don't make knowing God into a problem, a struggle. My recommendation is that you simply let go of expectations regarding an awakening and proceed along the spiritual path as you are, recognizing that an awakening has happened already. It occurs for people differently and sometimes accompanied, although not always, by feelings of ecstasy and joy. You are an awakened soul. Don’t make knowing God into a problem, a struggle. My recommendation is that you simply let go of expectations regarding an awakening and proceed along the spiritual path as you are, recognizing that an awakening has happened already. It occurs for people differently and sometimes accompanied, although not always, by feelings of ecstasy and joy. You are an awakened soul.

]]> By: YVONNE http://www.stevemcswain.com/blog/2010/07/describe-your-spiritual-awakening-as-you-call-it/#comment-1861 YVONNE Fri, 10 Jun 2011 17:41:47 +0000 http://www.stevemcswain.com/?p=366#comment-1861 While I know the joy and energy I felt the day "received" the Holy Spirit with the evidence of tongues (God simply obliged my childlike faith and curiosity), what you describe has happened in fleeting moments but not in a "feeling" that stays. Maybe it is like that strange sleep/wakeful state...you know, where you are asleep but you find yourself struggling to wake up with a fear that if you simply let go of the struggle and let yourself fall back to sleep, you will never wake up...oh, maybe you have never experienced that. I want that kind of awakening. I want that peace and calm to be my "state of being", not just the occasional spiritual high. While I know the joy and energy I felt the day “received” the Holy Spirit with the evidence of tongues (God simply obliged my childlike faith and curiosity), what you describe has happened in fleeting moments but not in a “feeling” that stays. Maybe it is like that strange sleep/wakeful state…you know, where you are asleep but you find yourself struggling to wake up with a fear that if you simply let go of the struggle and let yourself fall back to sleep, you will never wake up…oh, maybe you have never experienced that.

I want that kind of awakening. I want that peace and calm to be my “state of being”, not just the occasional spiritual high.

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