God Here - God Now

I think religion is a wonderful thing, it adds a tremendous amount of joy to my life. It is tragic that so many people miss out on all the benefits religion can provide. I read new research studies every few months that document the benefits to physical health, mental wellbeing, and family life that religious people enjoy. To nurture yourself, I hope you will develop a stronger religious practice, and realize the good things it can bring to you. With patience and persistence, you can embrace a faith that calls out to the best in you, and achieve the comfort and "transpersonal" part of your life that may be empty right now.

I encourage you to return to the faith of your upbringing, and return to it with your increased maturity and insights. It is familiar to you, and you can easily step back into your relationship with God and your own moral sense in an active and intentional way. Things can be different now, because you are different now.

If you cannot return to the religion of your earlier years, or were never part of a religious group, then look around, ask around, search out a religious faith that calls to you, invites you, and can provide for you. Religious practice can give you a strong foundation, a community of supportive people, and a pathway to those things that are more than the mundane and secular world.

Those are the two paths I would suggest. The many well established faiths of this world offer many wonderful, affirming and nurturing things to their practitioners. If you cannot fully embrace one of these religious traditions, but cannot accept the emptiness of abandoning a relationship with God and God's creation, then I invite you to do what I did and embrace Amitism. It is difficult, yes it is, but it is as wonderful as it is difficult. It certainly isn't for everyone, but it may be for you. It will be a struggle, but its more than worlh the effort. If it wasn't, I wouldn't have bothered with this website and all this writing to let you know about it.

Whatever you decide to do, please choose a path that is good for you, good for your family, your community and your whole world. Religion and an energetic, intentional religious practice can do all that.

Compassion - Strength - Vision

Welcome! This is a website for people who are seriously interested in their practice of religion. The focus of this site is the religion of Amitism, but it can also add a great deal to the religion you practice. Amitism is a faith that emphasizes your personal relationship to a benevolent, creative God. Amitism helps you express your love for God and God's continuing creation. It encourages you to be actively and intentionally compassionate with God's creation, of which you and all other beings are a part.

This webpage isn't only for folks who practice Amitism, because Amitism is not like many other religions in that it doesn't ask you to "convert", it is not in any competition with other faiths. Amitism isn’t about being a religion, its about intentionally practicing compassion, its about strengthening loving and caring relationships, and its about actively nurturing life. So you can take as much or little of this practice that you feel comfortable working with in your life. But the important thing is to start working harder to find God here, and God now in your life. I welcome you and I hope you will take a look around.

Here is a religious practice about Compassion, not Politics or Power

Many people back away from their relation to God, and to others within a religion because they are uncomfortable with the political connections, historical focus, or the power agenda present in so much religion now. A personal path and an interpersonal relationship with God has to be found too often in spite of the worldly concerns of the faith. Here you will find a faith that is not connected to any political agenda, to any historical injustices, to any debate over power or money or blame.

This is a practice that asks you to take responsibility for your spiritual connection to God, and to all other life here in God's creation. Its a question of whether you accept this invitation to joyfully and actively practice a religion of compassion. The practice of Amitism exist soley to nurture your relationship with God, and your caring relationship with others.

We can only live happy, fulfilling lives if we have good, nurturing interactions with those in our lives. And we can only survive as a species, in this world of growing technological power, if we put interpersonal good-will as the first priority of our decision making.

The religion of Amitism is about the importance and life-affirming power of compassionate relationships. If you are prepared to focus your religious practice on this, then Amitism can be a great blessing to you.

If you have any suggestions for items you wish to see on this website, please send me an email by clicking here. Make sure to use the word amitism in the subject line of your email.