This week I began training as a volunteer for the Florida Guardian ad Litem program – a partnership of community advocates and professional staff providing a voice on behalf of the state’s abused and neglected children.  During the training I learned that prescription drug abuse by parents is now one of the leading reasons for the need to put their children into foster care; drug use often leads to abusive parenting, sexual assault, and neglect.  Remedial measures for the parents such as counseling, rehab, and anger management workshops are often insufficient, and the children remain in a system in which worker turnover limits the ability to establish and maintain relationships with the children and their families.  That is why the Guardian ad Litem program was started, to provide consistency in a child’s life.  The court-appointed guardian is often the only person consistently advocating for the best interests of a child – ensuring the child has visitation with siblings and is progressing educationally, medically, and emotionally. 

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Jesus’ teaching is centered on the gospel of the kingdom of God, but what does this really mean?  The kingdom of God is generally associated with the church, Christianity as a whole, or a physical kingdom on Earth in which the Messiah will administer God’s law to bring peace and prosperity to humanity.  In this blog I will explore what I truly believe is the true meaning of the kingdom of God. A good place to start is to explore how the term “kingdom of God” was first introduced. . . .
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A quick answer to the above question is this:  Without a morality predicated on spiritual realities, a lasting society can no more be maintained than could the solar system without gravity.

Having made that statement, I still must address the distinction between religion and organized religion.

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I am currently in Colombia, serving as Spanish translator for the president of Urantia Association International during his visit to Pereira and Medellin. He is travelling throughout South America informing The Urantia Book readers about the Leadership Symposium in Chicago next year, and also about the importance of forming study groups in their countries.  During one of the meetings, I had the opportunity to present my workshop on Cultivating Universal Intelligence and the response was very heart warming.   It has been wonderful meeting with readers and non-readers alike.  I have been moved by the love, humility, and desire for growth that has been expressed both here in Colombia and also in Mexico City last February. There is so much that I have learned from my brothers and sisters in the south! . . .
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 With Easter approaching, I am compelled to share some intriguing insights into Jesus’ resurrection which are found in my book, Heaven Is Not the Last Stop. . . .
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