Gratitude is the New Form of Love: Start Feeling Grateful for Everything
Gratitude is the new form of love, says SEELE contributor Shefali Karani. She shares a few ways to be thankful and release gratitude into your life.
So One’s Life Reflects the Man
This week I went to a Celebration of Life service for a dear man we have known for over twenty years. The service was beautiful; rich in God’s hope and love and gave honor to a man of unshakeable faith. As I sat listening to the eulogies spoken about this extraordinary individual, I remembered Proverbs 27:19 which reads, “As water reflects the face, so one’s life reflects the heart.”
A Love Song
“The revelations of love when you are in this glorious cloud is intoxicating,” writes Seele Magazine contributor Rebekah Mazzei. Valentine’s Day has just passed and Rebekah reminds readers to cultivate a day with just YOU + GOD, and that when we come back to our first love, we will in tune with the LOVER of our souls.
Love Needs Action
In our busy lives we can lose sight of the fact that relationships don’t work unless we do, and that we must make an effort to invest into people. People don’t know what you mean to them unless you tell them. There are some things that must be professed with our mouths.
Before We Form an Opinion about Refugees, Let’s Do Some Bible Research
An in depth look at what the Bible says about refugees.
“God, What do you want from me?”
In life and at different seasons we find ourselves asking God “what is it that you want from me?” Perhaps we find ourselves asking that when we’re in great need of something, and it’s not happening, so in exasperation we cry out to God “if it’s anything I’ve done/I am doing wrong please tell me- I’ll correct it. What is it that you want from me? I don’t know what to do anymore?”
We are both Pharaoh and the Israelite; both the Oppressor and the Oppressed
We are all incomplete. We are sometimes victims and we are sometimes oppressors. We are sometimes the Israelites in slavery in Egypt. And we are sometimes Pharaoh oppressing others with a bad attitude, mistreatment, selfishness, or hatred.
The Morning After
Can you relate to that morning after feeling when you’ve woken up with such a heavy heart of pain because of something that happened the day before- because of some sort of loss? Perhaps this has happened to you.
The Condition of the Human Heart, Part II- Being Vain About Someone’s Attraction
"The human body reacts to the sight, entertained by the imagination and gives you all kinds of false hints that stolen waters are going to be sweeter. They’re not. They leave you emptier.” Ravi Zacharias
The Condition of the Human Heart- Feeling Offended
"You have the right to feel anything. You have the right to feel offended. But, if we want to walk in fellowship with God, you don’t have the right to be offended." –John Bevere
What's In a Mother?
The role of mother is intended to be an image bearer of the invisible God. And secondly, that mother’s have strength of heart that is unique to their sex.
We’re Not as Good as We Think we Are
Having grown up in the church all my life, and for anyone who has been a part of a church for years, you come across all types of Christians. And the saddest group is what I call the spiritually arrogant.