heart – Jackson Community Church

JOY Daily Devotional: Advent 3 – Dec 19

Cultivate joy each day this week. December 19: A Joyful Heart Scripture: Proverbs 17:22 — A cheerful heart is a good medicine,but a downcast spirit dries up the bones. Meditation: Joy has the power to heal and uplift. Spiritual Practice: Today, give yourself permission to access those simple contemplative or active pastimes that help you […]

A Valentine’s Note from JCC: Songs and poems about different kinds of love: for people, for the world, for each other (hopeful, sad, reflective, rowdy)

SONGS about LOVE: One Love by Bob Marley (reggae):https://youtu.be/g94A1R8xHcQ Your Love Keeps Lifting Me Higher by Jackie Wilson (rock):https://youtu.be/mzDVaKRApcg What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong (rock/blues): https://youtu.be/2nGKqH26xlg What the World Needs Now by Jackie DeShannon (ballad): https://youtu.be/YUaxVQPohlU Gentle On My Mind by Glen Campbell (country): https://youtu.be/ETkzK9pXMio You Raise Me Up performed by 12 Tenors […]

Lev/Heart as reflected in the Jewish prayer known as the Shema: home of your intellect, emotions, and discernment and decision-making, integrating body-mind-spirit

There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled.You feel it, don’t you? ― Rumi We can reject everything else: religion, ideology, all received wisdom. But we cannot escape the necessity of love and compassion. This, then, is my true religion, my simple […]

Meditations on treasures & legacies: what we cherish — themes from Hosea & Luke.

Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity. — Mahatma Gandhi You are searching the world for treasure, but the real treasure is yourself. — Rumi When he returned home to France, [Lafayette] lived on his big estates and did very well. He was in the same social class as the rich […]