Life Help Journal

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Define spiritual life help

Define spiritual life help

Thomas M. Williams
Aug 05, 2024
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When people come up against life problems they almost always attempt to solve these problems by engaging the world in some way or another. As a very simple example, a person with a headache might take a pain reliever or apply a compress to their forehead. The pain reliever and the compress are worldly things being used to solve a problem. Here’s another example: someone who is lonely and wants to find a mate joins an online singles website. Problem comes up, loneliness, a worldly response is used to try and solve the problem — singles website. This is the common pattern: problem appears, worldly solution is sought for and then applied. Typically people only turn away from this pattern after it fails, which happens fairly often. For instance, person with a medical issue applies a worldly response by seeking medical care. The medical establishment is not able to cure them and so the worldly response fails. Now what? Maybe despair to begin with but eventually they consider a non worldly …

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