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and middle portions of the island are full of cozy beach cottages and inviting beachfront rentals. High season is January-March. You’re often better off visiting April-May or September-October when prices are lower and the weather is beautiful. But for me, I will go there anytime I can!

My Zen moments were, of course, at our spa day, but also the evening sunsets over the ocean. It’s tradition that everyone comes out to the beach with a drink in hand to celebrate another day watching the gorgeous sun set on the ocean’s horizon. This is pure paradise!

As always, I’m sending you much light, love and Zen journeys!

In gratitude, Sage

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by Wayne Holmes

At its best, religion is a relationship with The Divine, but problems occur when rules take precedent over our relationship. When that happens we discover guilt, shame, judgment, and other base emotions can distract us from our main focus. We can have both a religious belief and a relationship, but if religion interferes with relationship, then the relationship must come first.

True morality means we do the right thing regardless of what we are told even if the one doing the telling claims to have divine insight into our personal lives. Without discerning for ourselves if what we are told is right, and without trusting the divine guidance within our hearts, blind obedience can lead us astray. When we get caught up in the beliefs of a religion or the teachings of a religious leader regardless of what our hearts tell us, then we risk losing the path of Love and Light.

I have lived under both paradigms, and I know having a relationship takes more effort, more courage, and more love. I also know that simply doing what I’m told, following the leader, and not making waves is a simpler way to live, but for me, it was not as fulfilling as taking responsibility for my own relationship. We can have religion and a relationship, but when religion would take us in the wrong direction, it is our relationship with The Divine, or our spirituality, that will keep us from following the Pied Piper to our doom.

About the Author: Pastor Wayne Holmes is an ordained minister with Divinity Spiritual Church and also Revelation Spiritual Church. He is the co-founder of Religious Recovery, an organization dedicated to healing wounds inflicted by religion or the religious. He is not opposed to religion, but

he sees the hurts and endeavors to help.

Wayne is the author of seven books including the title, Every Path Leads Home: Opening to Your Spiritual Journey.

Learn more about Wayne’s healing work at ReligiousRecovery.org.

Opening to your spiritual journey, healing for the past, peace for the present. Direction for the future, Religious Recovery.

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Opening to Your Spiritual Journey Wayne Holmes’ Set Your Course shares six months of reflections that will give readers a path to spiritual freedom and help them connect to their soul and inner spirit. Not only does it provide healing from past religious abuse, but also abuse of nearly any form, and beyond that, it provides a path towards taking solid control of one’s religious and spiritual journey.

Wayne Holmes Phone: 513.205.1057 Email: Wayne@ReligiousRecovery.org Web Site: www.ReligiousRecovery.org

Phone: 513.205.1057 Email: Wayne@ReligiousRecovery.org Web Site: www.ReligiousRecovery.org

The goal of Religious Recovery is to reach out to those in need of healing Wayne Holmes’ Every Path Leads Home is a beautiful book of acceptance. For anyone from religious who has been abused by the supposed rules and strictures of a church or congregation organizations or pastor, for anyone who has come to see or religious religion not as a faith experience but rather as a set of ironclad rules, for anyone who has individuals. grown weary of the struggle to find God by whatever name:

Both books can be purchased through Amazon.

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