Tag: Grace

• Digging My Way To China

  

  When I was about 9 or 10 my dad built a sandbox in the backyard of our home. Nothing real big and certainly nothing fancy. But it all a young child needed to ignite his imagination. To this day I am not sure where this idea came from, but I was certain that I could…

  Gary Merel

  November 14, 2022

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• Can you really speak to God?

  

  On one of my trips to Ecuador, I was relaxing in a hotel room my friend Craig.  Two days prior we had landed in Quito the capital of Ecuador.  A good place to start most trips to visit the country. It was the beginning of a two-week vacation. We were feeling the need to take…

  Gary Merel

  September 26, 2022

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  7.7 billion beings, awakening, co-creation, conscious intelligence, creation, creative intelligence, Ecuador, Grace, human mind, humanity, intelligence, Machu Picchu, mind dropped away, operating sysytem, public interface, public interface of god, Quito, spiritual teacher, unknowable intelligence

• Chop Wood. Carry Water.

  

  Chop Wood and Carry Water. This saying resonates with me. It is an old Zen koan. It is simple, yet profound. It reads, Before enlightenment, chop wood & carry water. After enlightenment, chop water and carry water. Although it appears nothing has changed on the outside (doing), everything has changed on the inside (being). It…

  Gary Merel

  September 21, 2022

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• Will I Be OK?

  

  I have mentioned in several blog posts that I sold my Functional Medicine practice. Here I am 6 months later. That transaction was an amazing example of the intersection of timing, Grace and where I am at this point in my life. Much of the time I am living in the present moment. Grounded into…

  Gary Merel

  August 29, 2022

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• Grace & My Life

  

  Grace has played an integral part in the unfolding of my life. The unexpected “gifts” bestowed by “God”. As I write this blog, what resonates more accurately is bestowed by the mystery that lives all things. For me the word God feels limiting. To many preconceived meanings. Who is worthy of grace. Do you need…

  Gary Merel

  August 16, 2022

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