I have the pleasure of having a great artist as a dear friend. In fact, it turns out she and I are the same age and born on the same day. She was born about 12 hours earlier than me and we are so much alike. My Mom always told me to look out for older women!
My friend is an animal protector and caregiver to her cats and her passion for drawing animals and bringing out their soul in her renditions is simply amazing. She asked me to design a website for her and I was only too glad to accommodate her request.
She cares for many of our furry friends and makes sure they are fed and well cared for each and every day. Her heart is enormous as much as her talent for drawing. Following is a short biography on F.R. Rittenhouse taken from her new website:
“F.R. Rittenhouse was exposed to art by her mother at an early age and she continued to draw into young adulthood. Both of her parents died when she was young and the need to support herself became of paramount concern.
While working full time she put herself through college. During the era of Joan Baez and Bob Dylan, she started playing guitar and singing to express her creativity.
But as much as she enjoyed music her heart was still committed to being an artist. In recent years, she has rekindled her passion for drawing.
The art on this website About page to see her distribution page. If you enjoy her unique style, F.R. Rittenhouse is available for commissioned work.
She specializes in drawing pets and other animals. If you have a picture of a pet, someone or something else that you love, F.R. Rittenhouse will create an artistic rendering that will seem to jump off of the page and bring a smile to your face for years to come.
Please visit her website to view her art. We sincerely hope you enjoy her work.
Please email her for more info. E-mail:frrittenhouseart@gmail.com. Click here to order framed and non-framed art.” ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
Elizabeth and I would like to invite you all to our site ‘Service In Prayer’. For many months we have been led to offer a way for our online friends to have a forum to share our prayer needs with each other.
The purpose of this website is to connect with one another and share our needs for healing in whatever areas we feel we need. Please visit the website or go to the Facebook forum to post any public prayers on the Wall or PM us for private prayers.
We will pray for you or help you to find Prayer Partners to assist you in healing and realization of your Divine purpose and the unfolding of it in Divine order.
Thank you all for your support, kindness and for blessing us with your ongoing friendship. Peace and blessings to all of you and your families! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
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We are so pleased with the success of The Spirituality Post Weekly Online Magazine, The Spirituality Post Daily and The Spirituality Guidance Sunday Morning Service that we have now combined them into a daily online magazine for those involved in Spirituality. Every weekday and weekend we will be featuring the writings and sayings of Dr. Dean A. Banks, D.D. Please come and visit us every day to receive inspiration, guidance and opinion on spiritual and political matters. We would like to thank you all for your support and dedication to the writings and sayings that we feature. May God bless all of you and your families now and evermore! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
What we do with what we have determines how our Divine blessings will unfold within our hearts; for in the action of sharing our gifts of Divine grace with others we are fulfilling our Divine purposes in Divine order and contributing to the mutual growth and expansion of all life.
We are the instruments of Divine manifestation and when we hold back on what we know we must do and when we must do it, we are resisting the flow of the manifestation of Divine love in Divine order. Allowing the flow of Divine love to move through us unfettered by limiting and erroneous beliefs is the method by which we express and exude the benefits of health, wealth, prosperity and abundance. The results we experience in our lives are inner peace, Divine understanding, perpetual joy and Divine love; all key elements in our personal experience of divinity.
Without inner peace, we experience ongoing confrontation because we resist what we don't divinely understand. Without Divine understanding, we experience ongoing challenges because we resist what we experience as being not in our favor enough to bring us joy. Without perpetual joy, we experience ongoing frustration because we resist what we don't divinely love. Without embracing Divine love, we experience isolation because we resist being a part of the Divine whole of existence which maintains inner peace amid apparent chaos.
The keys to living a fulfilled life are in maintaining our inner peace, always seeking Divine understanding in all of our experiences, living in perpetual joy by expressing gratitude to all of life and feeling the presence of Divine love deep within our hearts with each and every breath we take and give. As a living and breathing child of the Divine every thought, feeling, action and expression of our being moves the omniverse to co-create our perception of reality.
We must be diligent in what we think, feel, speak and express in the actions and behaviors that we manifest; for they are tools of our experiences and the perceptions of our understanding of our mutual inner divinity. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
Currently Bobby Hinkle, Elizabeth
May Sutor and Dean A. Banks, D.D. have uploaded podcasts. Robert Yarbrough will be added soon. Just click on the podcasters placards below and click on the Podcast title. Currently there are five podcasts on Bobby Hinkle's page, one on Elizabeth Sutor's page and nine on Dean A. Banks, D.D.'s page. Stay tuned for more! Thank you for choosing us!
What is the Spirituality Guidance Channel? SGC is a video portal designed to introduce spiritually inclined individuals to be exposed to spiritual videos, radio, teachers, music, art, books, resources and links from a selected group of teachers and requests from viewers. Each featured coach/teacher will have their own page highlighting any videos, audios, websites or printed material they have produced. This portal will be regularly promoted on the Internet through social networking and targeted marketing channels. Please visit the website at the following address:
http://www.spiritualityguidance.com and email me at webproducer@hotmail.com with any suggestions, links or materials. Thank you for your most courteous participation in this project. I welcome your input. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
Welcome to our new Sunday Morning Service by Dr. Dean A. Banks, D.D.
Every week Dr. Dean will be engaging subjects that are pertinent to your growth and expansion into recognition of; respect to; and communication with your inner spirit.
Please feel free to comment or suggest topics for review. May the Divine always bless you and your families! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
Why are some so preoccupied with getting even when they get hurt? What joy is there in doing to someone else what they did to you? If you did what they did first, then the other person would feel that they have to get even with you.
The ego acknowledges its perceived ‘station’ in life by resisting and fighting back when it perceives it is being hurt. It rationalizes the only way to ‘make the other person pay’ is to respond with the very same behavior that caused the hurt in the first place. Is this logical? Is it appropriate behavior?
It is for some because their view of themselves is less than the truth that they are divine beings. They feel they have to ‘acquire’ things, adorn themselves in a certain way and control others in order to feel ‘happy’. They will also protect themselves, their families AND their property with their very lives sometimes in order to feel justified in how they feel. This does NOT take anyone else into consideration but it reinforces their self-image enough to claim that they fought for their security.
Security in what? Being a warrior? What about having security in being a peacemaker, a teacher and a lover of humanity? The one thing that has driven civilized people for many years is that they want to see their children and grandchildren do ‘better’ than they have! Not in getting even with some perceived hurt or injustice and resorting to resisting and fighting.
Be like the behavior of water. It allows the vehicle of emotions to create waves in it and it moves in synchronicity with what is projected; it also responds with what is reflected back to where the waves originated. Project Divine love in all you do and respond to the reflections of life with Divine love as well. Give to that which you perceive hurts you and its energy will be dissipated into oblivion.
It’s when you resist what you perceive as being hurtful is when you create more hurt in your life. Allow it to pass through you and let it go the way of all things. You are worth it. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
CONSULTATION
GETTING ON THE
SAME PAGE
Before a good musician begins to interact with other musicians they seek to ‘get on the same page’ with others by tuning up their instruments so that there can be congruency and perfect harmony. By making the time to ‘set the tone’ for their performances, they ensure that if their performance is flawless, that all the listeners, including them, will be blessed with sounds that are ‘in tune’ and harmonious. The unfolding of your Divine purpose in Divine order is the ‘one song’, or ‘uni-verse’ that you create each and every day of your life. By starting your day with the following steps, you will daily remind yourself of the greater good in the scheme of all things and minimize any selfish desires that don’t integrate into the ‘whole’ of life. These steps show us how to set the tone for our day and purge ourselves of selfish tendencies:
Alignment - Each and every day I align myself with my Divine purpose in Divine order and carry out Divine will into my world by loving and respecting myself and others no matter what circumstances arise.
Interaction - When interacting with others I speak the truth and relay the facts no matter how I feel at the moment in order to edify all of humankind.
Guidance - I act on the guidance of the Most High by doing what I know is right and decent, assisting others in finding their light and being kind and loving to all.
Sharing - I daily share Divine love for myself and others by making my well-being a priority and sharing my talents and abilities to those in need.
Maintaining - I take full responsibility for my actions and maintain truth and honesty in all of my endeavors, communications and expressions.
Alignment allows us to clearly see where we are in relation to where we want to be. If our goal is obscured by our beliefs, disillusionment or lack of conviction, we need to align ourselves with whom and what we truly are. Being clear on our Divine purpose allows us to see opportunities to appropriately act in Divine order.
Interaction is something that most of us experience every day. Whether we experience real or virtual people, we are interacting with their words, actions and behaviors. They have an effect upon whom and what we are and it is our choice to allow that effect to alter us or not. Our feelings react to these interactions but our subsequent thoughts as a result of our interactions need to be proactive and based on the truth of what is revealed in order to positively contribute to the mutual growth and expansion of all.
Guidance is either what our lower ego self tells us we ‘must’ do or what our higher ‘spiritual’ self reveals. Our ego ‘guides’ us based on the securing of our self-survival at all costs and our inner Spirit of God guides us into securing what is the best for all concerned. Spiritual guidance promotes sharing love and providing assistance to all of those in need whereas egotistical guidance ALWAYS promotes ‘what’s in it for me’.
Sharing is the process of action that allows us to contribute to the well-being of others, and ultimately ourselves. It is taking what we have been blessed with (our talents and abilities) and using it to better the circumstances for all of us. It is stepping out into the world and giving of ourselves to grow and expand the conditions and happiness for all of us.
Maintaining is recognizing what works and what doesn’t, discharging what doesn’t work and utilizing what does work. It is being responsible for your actions and making the steps necessary to continue the flow of good to all. It requires being able to clearly see the truth, being honest about the results of everyone’s actions and communicating this unfettered by the ego’s desire to embellish what has happened and put itself in a favorable light. It is a consistency between understanding your Divine purpose and how you express that purpose in Divine order and in accordance with Divine will.
By aligning yourself with your Divine purpose in Divine order you become more in tune with your interactions in your environment, By listening to the inner guidance of the Divine you will encounter more and more opportunities to share your blessings with others and it will ultimately allow you to understand how to maintain an ongoing state of inner happiness each and every day of your life. Be true to whom and what you are and all that you Divinely desire will be added unto, pressed down and running over in universal abundance. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
“Give and it will be given to you in good measure, pressed down and overflowing, they shall cast into your lap. For with what measure you measure it will be measured to you.” Jesus, Luke 6:38.
Every time I dig deeper and deeper into Quantum Mechanics I further understand that how you experience things in your life affects your outlook on it. Depending on where you observe will affect your sensory input and what you mentally conclude. To experience the totality of the omniverse is to realize that without the presence of the Divine it is nothing more than a huge mechanism with no ‘soul’. It follows certain laws that slightly bend to the presence of consciousness, just as space-time bends from objects expressing gravity.
The suppositions we surmise from what we perceive are our personal experiences filtered through our belief systems. We bend and shape our experience with what we believe is true and what is false. Stephen Hawking is right when he says that the rules of the universe demonstrate that there is no need for God; however, that is his perception derived from his experience. We all need to feel more of our environment and experience the grand design to completely know that this omniverse could not have happened by chaos and chance alone.
Our experience of Divine expression locked in a perceptive war with entropy is the result of our perception of the ‘Perceived Dualistic Reality’ as being all there is. This omniverse is mostly occupied by energy and matter beyond our realm of sensing. It exists and cannot be sensed and is referred to as being ’dark’, or imperceptible. There are many things beyond our ability to sense and many constructs to describe their presence and perceived interactivity with whom and what we are.
I know that the Divine exists because I feel the Divine presence every time I enter deep meditation. I accept my being as it is and I experience life from that perspective. Being open to anything is not being constricted to something. Experience your life and listen to the ‘theories’ of others but experience divinity within every day. Understand that the omniversal mechanism is the natural order that is moved by Divine order that emanates from our consciousness.
We affect this omniverse as it affects us. Think the thoughts that generate life and the perpetuation of consciousness in the limitless space-time continuum in which we exist. Contribute to the growth and expansion of the omniverse by sharing Divine love with everyone you encounter. After all, you live in the world of your making. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
OBSERVER OR CO-CREATOR?
When an observer looks at an event in the omniverse it causes a collapse of the quantum wave functions (natural order) and influences the information that is yielded from the event. What does this mean? Consciousness affects the outcome of events because in the act of ‘observing’, energy is transmuted at a quantum level to ‘alter’ the outcome.
Now, let’s look at the Law of Attraction. When we express emotional energy that negates or accentuates what we seek to happen, it affects the outcome. We only have the power to alter outcomes when we are aware that we do.
It’s not that our brains broadcast massive amounts of energy; it’s that we use our small amounts of energy (our consciousness output) to mold and reshape larger forces of energy (natural order) much like the function of an electronic relay. A safer and smaller voltage triggers a mechanical connection that passes a more dangerous and higher voltage that actually ‘does the work’.
In reality, however, it is not necessarily the Law of Attraction at work; it is more like the Law of Allowance. When we minimize the emotional energy output of our individual consciousness through meditation we begin to allow the presence and expression of Divine order to mold and reshape natural order to manifest our individual Divine purposes.
In other words, the Divine always has our best interests at heart and it is WE who interfere with the natural progression of the unfolding of our Divine purpose in Divine order by outputting contrary emotional energy. Our reactions to perceived circumstances, events, situations, occurrences and the behavior of the objects in the perceived dualistic reality actually taint the unfolding of our Divine purpose in Divine order.
That is why we need to get out of our own way every single day of our lives. We need to balance the egocentric forces of our chemically based brain reactions with the harmony and peace of Divine understanding. It is in the allowance of Divine knowledge that we come to the understanding that we influence our environments as much as they influence us!
We are the progenitors of our subsequent experiences and perceptions in our environments. When we can clearly see this we can begin to allow the infinite presence of the Divine Spirit of God to guide our proactions to manifest our Divine purpose in Divine order and minimize our reactions that interfere with the natural unfolding of our destiny.
We are co-creators of our existence and we have the responsibility to act as co-creators by choosing that which ‘edifies’ our beings and the conditions of co-creation for others. We do this by allowing the best to unfold for all by lifting the restrictions of erroneous beliefs and tainted perceptions. We put in check what doesn’t work and move full speed ahead on what does work.
Create the life you KNOW you are destined to live by allowing the guidance from the Divine to allow you to make the ‘correct’ choices to unfold your Divine purpose in Divine order each and every moment of your life. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
VAKMITE
VAKMITE is the coordination of all of these methods into one unified focus of desire. It’s practice brings your world into fulfillment!
VAKMITE is the coordination of all of these methods into one unified focus of desire. It brings your world into fulfillment!
Have you given up on yourself and can’t figure out why? Has the juice for life been filtered so much that the pulp of your existence has disappeared? Are your core values intact or are they subjugated to the status of transitory or erroneous beliefs?
Are things not moving quickly enough to your liking or are you feeling that no matter how things are happening that you can’t keep up? When we live in the past we rerun the emotions that led to frustration, lack and limitation or fulfillment and abundance. When we live in the future we anticipate either the let down or the fruition of our aspirations.
When we live in the now we embrace the peace, joy and understanding of the moment. Each moment of your awareness is new and creates an opportunity to get it right. Learn from the past and move toward the future. Live in the present and realize that each new step you take brings you closer to the fulfillment of your Divine purpose in Divine order when you share your talents and abilities in love with others. That is the key.
Giving back from the gifts you have been given makes you grow as a person, expands your sphere of influence and co-creates love into your world. It’s as simple as that and as difficult as you make it. Be here now and walk boldly into your future; it is up to you and you alone. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
God gives us family to know the love he has for us. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
God gives us clarity when we choose to see the truth as it is, and not how we want it to be. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
God gives us life for us to realize that He is our source, provider and Father of all of creation. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
God gives us joy when we accept our Divine purpose and allow Divine order to operate in our lives. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
God gives us peace when we turn inward and experience His silence and stillness. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
God gives us understanding when let go of our beliefs and allow His awareness to be born as intuition in our lives. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
God gives us health when we allow His grace to operate in our lives. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
God gives us wealth when make choices that benefit ourselves and others without hurting anyone in the process. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
God gives us prosperity when we use our talents and abilities to help our neighbor prosper. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
God gives us abundance when we open ourselves to His bounty of love, joy and understanding. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
GOD IS IN THE DETAILS
From one moment to the next you experience the bounty of the omniverse and whittle it down to what is important to you. You focus on what you need to take from your experience in order to survive, thrive and be alive. But what about all of what you dismiss and let go that is fleeting through your attention? Was it pertinent to your current situation? Or was it just a transitory experience that doesn’t apply? The idiom that the devil is in the details comes to mind. It generally means that “even the grandest project depends on the success of the smallest components. In this version of the proverb it often implies that the details might cause failure. A more positive version is “God is in the details,” a saying often attributed to the architect Le Corbusier” [dictionary.com].
Overall, it means that small things in plans and schemes that are often overlooked can cause serious problems later on. In a more vernacular expression, it means that which we did NOT pay attention to as being important information at an appropriate point in time is what will creep up to bite us in the ass later. But what was it about this information that wasn’t significant enough at that point in time that we didn’t give credence to it? We only pay attention to things based on what we ‘value’ as being important. You can take an essay test and know all the answers, write glowing essays and misspell key words that reduce your overall score. Paying attention to form and content together as a cohesive whole demonstrates a fine tuned awareness to the importance of each element in the overall picture. Dismissing ANY part of an effective presentation ‘takes away’ from the overall message. Why?
Because it reveals just what the author values as being important. If one key area is neglected, then what other areas are being neglected? Can you trust what the author says in one thing if they miss or dismiss other things that are important? Take graphic artists and sign painters. Some of the best artwork out there will contain obvious and major spelling errors. What the artist was paying attention to was the artistic expression MORE than being accurate in their spelling. They ‘valued’ this more than being accurate in their ‘overall’ presentation. Was it hard to pay attention to other details that you didn’t value? No, not at all! The artist could have asked someone else, looked it up in the dictionary or used spell check. There WERE options available to proof their work and they simply did not choose to use them. This reveals what they ‘value’ and because of them ignoring important details it ultimately takes away from their message.
When we all come to the realization that ‘God’ is in the details, we begin to understand that being precise is an extension of our divine perfection. We are perfect spiritual beings expressing ourselves through perceived ‘imperfect’ physical bodies. It is in this illusion that we are our physical bodies that we grow to accept our imperfections as being ‘how it is’. Nothing could be further from the truth. When we focus our attention on being precise means to ‘cut off’ the options that are not pertinent and focus on the ones that are. Precision means that we pay attention to the details that are being revealed to us at any given moment. Each breath imbues thoughts and feelings that we experience and focus on as being important, or dismiss as being unimportant based on exactly what we value. If our attention on what is important is constantly being distracted by thoughts and feelings that have nothing to do with our ability to pay attention to our current observations, then we WILL miss important details.
Doubting what we observe, worrying about what ‘could’ happen and fearing what ‘seems’ like it will happen, creates ‘distractions’ from our focus that lets important details ‘slip by’. Being here in the now and trusting in the Divine implicitly affords all of us the opportunity to pay attention to the important details that surround and influence our survival, our ability to thrive along with others and our ability to stay alive. Let go of the things and people that distract you from your Divine purpose and focus on what the Divine is guiding you to do. This will guarantee that you will not miss what is important, for if it was, it would have revealed itself to be in Divine order. Trust, don’t just believe. Focus on what is divinely important in the overall scheme and you will flow along with Divine order. Be ye therefore perfect! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
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