Silver Linings: Spirtuality in Life

Episode 21: The Happy Homeless Millionaire

Have you heard the story of the millionaire who gave away everything he owned to become homeless and happy?  He told of having no regrets about walking away from a lucrative shearing business that made him a "millionaire" to sleep under a tree in a Launceston Park. It’s a remarkable true story and you can hear about it on Silver Linings.

Terry Lees explains that for some people, less is more because they can live life without feeling trapped by emotions of the past. Terry offers insight into where we can find lasting happiness.

Episode 20: Love in Relationship

Relationship begins with people. Interaction with other human beings is something we crave and need in our lives. We rely on the strength of human relationships to survive and thrive. We are born into the world vulnerable, weak, and in need of physical and emotional nurturing. Immediately, we reach out to secure our first relationships. We also leave the world vulnerable and weak and, just as in infancy, we reach out for support from those around us. The level of support we get will often be based on the strength of the relationships we have created throughout our lives.

 

In Silver Linings, Terry Lees asks, in a world full of people, what can be more beautiful than knowing how to form healthy relationships and establish deeper connections with those around us?  What can be more powerful than looking at people around you and understanding that by being kind, loving and helpful towards them, you are also being kind, loving and helpful towards yourself?

Episode 19: Who Are You Really

Have you ever stopped to ask yourself who you are? Not who you think you should be, but actually who you already ARE. Life Coach Allanah Hunt teaches Once upon a time you were free to think, feel and behave in a way that was a true reflection of you. It didn’t last long as very soon, people started telling you what you should think, what you should believe, how you should feel and told you what the rules of acceptable behaviour are. Somewhere inside of you though, perhaps buried very deeply, is a spark of the person you once were before the world started telling you who you should be.

 

In Silver Linings, Terry Lees claims the more authentic we become, the more we are authoring our lives, and not simply living someone else’s script. And the more authentic you become, the greater is your sense of well-being.

Episode 18: One Thousand Marbles

How do we spend our time on the planet? Do we fill it with mindless activity, or do we consider it a precious gift? In 1,000 Marbles, author Jeff Davis shares a modern parable about discovering and appreciating life's finite nature.

 

In Silver Linings, Terry Lees shares how the concept of 1,000 Marbles is quite personal for him and how he applied it to The Saturdays of My Life. Terry teaches how to get your priorities right and make the Saturdays of your life count.

Episode 17: Love is What We are Born With

“Most of us long for stronger, more creative and rewarding ways of loving each other.”

Bestselling American author and spiritual leader Marianne Williamson says: Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here. Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them.

 

Join Terry Lees on Silver Linings as he shares the message of love. It’s not a pipe dream – as crazy as things can get, love can abound in your life. Love is for better or worse. Love is our natural state. Love is what we are born with, the sheer joy available in this present moment when we are open and receptive to the world.

Episode 16: Every Journey Changes Us

People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. A spiritual mentor came into my life several years ago, not long after I experienced dramatic turmoil in my life. She played a momentous role in my spiritual transformation and development and as is the nature of such things, accomplished the purpose for which she was sent and then moved on from my life.

 

Join Terry Lees on Silver Linings as he highlights how every journey changes us wherever we may go and how we need to make our own way as we live our own lives.

Episode 15: Healing Power of Touch

Touch is the first sense by which we encounter the world, and the final one to leave us as we approach death’s edge. ‘Touch comes before sight, before speech,’ writes Margaret Atwood in her novel The Blind Assassin. ‘It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.’

Join Terry Lees on Silver Linings as he highlights how science is now beginning to provide an account of why touch matters so much and how a better world is often just a hug away. Terry talks too of the saving touch of Jesus.

Episode 14: Who Are You God?

Why do people believe in God? For most people in the world, the answer seems obvious: Because it is self-evident that God exists. From the point of view of the believer, the really puzzling question is how anyone could not believe. Although many people in industrialised societies have abandoned traditional organised religion, many still confess to some sort of spiritual belief, such as a life-force or divine spirit that pervades nature and humanity. 

Spend some time with Terry Lees on Silver Linings as he shares how our lives can be transformed by listening and learning God’s voice and how God, as a patient and loving Father, is willing to teach us slowly if necessary.

Episode 13: Mr Eternity

On New Year’s Eve 1999, the eyes of the world were on Sydney and 2 billion people from around the world watched as the city to soon host the Olympic Games, welcomed the new millennium January 1, 2000. Sydney celebrated before any of the other great cities of the world and during the ‘Y2K’ computer bug fear. Sydney put on a display of fireworks never seen before. The world marvelled as Sydney Harbour was engulfed in spectacular fireworks.  Ending in a crescendo, as the smoke cleared, through the haze, the distinctive illuminated copper-plate lettering style of the word Eternity appeared, in 18-metre-high letters on the Sydney Harbour Bridge. The Sydney crowd cheered in delight as the rest of the world looked on bewildered.

For those who did not understand the significance of those millennium celebrations … Terry Lees relates the story of Mr. Eternity – the Sydney Legend, the most famous graffiti artist in Australia’s history.

Silver Linings can inspire you towards the achievement of your dreams, to grow, expand, and meet the challenges of your daily life.

Episode 12: It’s Okay To Talk

Everyone feels sad sometimes, just like everyone can feel joyful, angry, proud and a range of other emotions. Everyone has feelings, and those feeling are always changing. Sometimes we feel happy and sometimes we feel sad. Whatever the feeling, it is real and a part of living. 

Feeling better can involve taking one step or many. Terry Lees offers some tips that may help you to give your pain a voice and offers support from the best-selling book of all time, the Bible.

Silver Linings can inspire you towards the achievement of your dreams, to grow, expand, and meet the challenges of your daily life.