I want a better life; I want to be well; I am tired of being depressed...  But am I willing to change?

It seems that too often folks pray for things to get better because they do not want to change! The penchant for staying the same is one of the deadliest forms of self-imposed enslavement.

What can this mean: “Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.” (Jesus) All that I have experienced, learned, overcome, since childhood does not count for anything?

The First Commandment is clear: "Thou shalt have no other gods before me." We may have learned that there is only one God, but seldom do we consider that we all have a different concept of God! What blasphemy, they say. We have one, and only one Lord. But since we are all in different states and stages of consciousness... And since God is generally considered infinite, that is a rather large concept for each and every mortal to grasp uniformly!