In today’s episode of “Healing from Within” your host Sheryl Glick author of The Living Spirit: Answers for Healing and Infinite Love welcomes Bruce Davis (http://http://www.silentstay.com/) author of The Love Letters which is the second book to have St. Frances of Assisi at its heart. As one of the world’s leading secular authorities on the inner life of the revered saint, Davis has resided in Assisi for many years and is well suited to retrace the steps and philosophy of love service and true humanity that this great Master and his dear friend Saint Clare shared in their time. They also professed hopes for the future development of all religions to recognize the power of personal connection to Spirit and to the true values of love harmony and balance which are the building blocks of our soul’s development and refinement for an empowered human community.

Bruce Davis a spiritual psychologist and teacher of world religions who has been leading retreats worldwide since 1983 will share the beauty and grace of silence and his deep connection to silence, simplicity and heart-fullness. In the fictional world of The Love Letters, Francis and Clare hear there is a new Pope. As word travels through the small villages of Italy, it is said the new Pope is a follower of Francis. What can this mean for the powerful and out of touch Church? This Pope feels the hunger and love of the people. This Pope knows that humility is the true path to God…Can the new Pope open the doors to the Church to include and serve the poor, those in need? Can the New Pope restore God in the heart where he truly resides in everyone, Christian, Jew or those of any Faith. Today we will share our trust that that is not only possible but probable in this new age of Spirituality that will usher in an era of Self Actualization of the Soul and the evolution of all to become more human and humane.

Sheryl’s book, The Living Spirit addresses this thought in a section called The Need to Take Responsibility for our Happiness which suggests each of us has the personal power to recognize we have an energetic or spiritual essence and physical live, but it is only by knowing this and allowing for us to align to higher Universal Energies of Love and Expansion of the Soul that we can live our most fulfilling life. That is what St Frances and St Clare showed us by the example of how they lived their life and also what many religious leaders and spiritualists of today are sharing with the world… It is not in the doing or having in a materialistic sense but in Creation of our “Being” goodness, kindness and being present that we connect to each other and to the Divine. This state of living is not only achieved in a mind or religious practice but through personal expression of love and devotion to our human and spiritual development.

This is an excerpt from The Love Letters….. “Eight hundred years ago two young people left behind the expectations of their families and a comfortable material life for the unknown path to explore the world around them and their inner heart essence or divine calling to serve and love themselves and humanity. Frances and Clare were typical youths of their time..Francis a troubadour and Clare a pretty young woman…they moved outside the walls of their small town of Assisi , Italy and lived nearby in the beauty of Nature…they lived a life without borders and boundaries or the opinions or restrictions of others..they were both in love with love and saw something pure in the heart of others. They discovered what we know today is the mystic’s path..they found their lives would transcend normal desire and fear as a perfect peace and joy grew inside.. their trust in life itself and God became stronger. This God was not limited to the building, the ritual and ceremony of Church, but was found mysteriously everywhere in everything and in everyone. The quest was to have an open heart, to be available to the magnificence of the moment.