REFLECTING LIGHT

Welcome to SEASON FOUR OF REFLECTING LIGHT!  Mandy starts off the newest season by asking us to ponder this question found in Matthew 16:13-15.  Join us! For Show notes, please visit: mandybrookegreen.com For Tour information, please visit: www.forbiddenadventure.com For information about classes or the weekly COME FOLLOW ME video cast, please visit:  www.projectillumination.thinkific.com SO HAPPY...

Heres a short and sweet last thought for summer, "What Things?"  Invite the divine into your life.  Song for this episode: "The Scientist" by Coldplay. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm-Y9idMMQ4 For those interested in enrolling in classes each Wednesday with Jon Ewer and Dena Hall, please email: itsgreektome@hotmail.com . This is a rare opportunity.  Take it! Photo: Gang nach Emmaus, Robert Zünd...

Join Mandy as she interviews Dr. Marie Shelton about the roots of alchemy in Ancient Britain and the various ways people can learn truth through the newest tour offered by Forbidden Adventure, "Grail Legend, The Knights Templar and Alchemical Traditions.  Www.forbiddenadventure.com  

Join us for a reading of the book "The Hymn of the Pearl" written by Lori Driggs, illustrated by Tshikamba with essay by Mandy Green.  Mandy explains why this hymn is so important and relevant to each of of us, here and earth, and how it can help us remember who we truly are, and what our purpose, or pearl, is here to recover.  

Continuing on with the celebration of Mandikah, Mandy finished out her list of the 50 Most Important Things she's learned in her first half century.  Join us!

To celebrate Mandy's golden birthday this week, she shares with us 50 Things She's Learned from her first fifty years of life, complete with an epic playlist. "L' haim!"

Still basking in the joy of the marriage of her oldest child, Mandy looks at what marriage can teach us and some of the ways it shows up on in ancient mythology, the scriptures and in the Saviors life.  Tune in!

Have you ever felt "cumbered about" with much serving?  Or overwhelemed by the tasks you feel you need to do?  Or left to do all the work alone while someone else is able to just sit back and enjoy the moment?  Then this episode is for YOU!  Join Mandy as she discusses Luke 10 and the change of heart and attitude we can experience when we feel troubled about many things.  

 Easter, Through the Eyes of Matthew.  Matt 21-28 This is the first installment of the new Come Follow Me video cast.  But I found I wanted to share it with the podcast as well, so I doubled down.  And when I say that, I mean to say that I perhaps quadrupled down!  This is by far the LONGEST PODCAST KNOWN to Reflecting LIght. So FAIR WARNING.  It's LOOOONG.   Break it up, take it in chapters, or n...

Our discussion of "Treasures in the Heavens" by Hugh Nibley continues with the talk of creation of world and souls.  Show artwork: Jehovah Creates the Earth (Jesus Christ Creates the Earth and the Heavens) by Walter Rane

Mandy continues her reading and commentary of the essay, "Treasures in the Heavens" by Hugh Nibley.  Creation is actually organization and is overseen by the Great Sent One, Jesus Christ.  Show artwork is: "God creating the universe, using the compass to measure its dimensions, manuscript illumination from an Old French Bible moralisée "(c. 1208-15), Codex Vindobonensis 2554, fol. lv, Österreichis...

This week, Mandy continues her discussion of "Treasures in the Heavens" an essay by Hugh Nibley, and introduces a discussion of the Hymn of the Pearl from the Gospel of Thomas.  Show artwork is from The Hymn of the Pearl by Lori Driggs, Illustrated by Tshikamba!  For information on how to access these writings, and to pre-order this beautiful book, please visit: https://www.mandybgreen.com/show-no...

The Sermon on the Mount is an invitation for the students of Christ to follow him to higher ground.  In an effort to examine that, join Mandy as she begins disucssion of Hugh Nibley's essay, "Treasures in the Heavens."  

According to a Hopi Prophecy, we are living in the time of the third great awakening--a time we must learn to be inclusvie and loving with people of all races and backgrounds.  Join Mandy as she discusses how expressing LOVE for others, or ourselves is made so much better when we are able to extend it as grace and space for others.  

Sitting within your soul and spirit is this magnificent power of choice!  Join Mandy as she discusses "The Grand Inquisitor" a chapter from one of the world's most renouned novels, "The Brothers Karamatzov" and your magnificent ability to choose to follow Jesus the Christ.  Time after time.  Day by day.  Hour by hour.  The gift is in your ability to choose Him--over all else. 

Have you ever experienced grief fatigue?  Have you bottomed from feeling overload and retreated?  I sure have.  Join me as I talk about the importance of feeling all of our feelings and beauty these darker, richer hues offer to develop us spiritually and teach us compassion.

If, like Ignatius of Antioch said, "Faith the beginning and love the end," how to go from faith to love?  The answer is Hope.  In Hebrew, the word for hope is "tikvah" and means a cord.  Join Mandy as she uses the wisdom of the past to explore how we can hold on to hope to make it through the storms and tests of life.  

Join Mandy as she takes discusses the challenges of translation and illustrates them by taking a deeper look into the first few verses of the Gospel of John.   If you would like to enroll in her live course about the Gospel of John, beginning at the end of March, please visit: Projectillumination.thinkific.com

Happy New Year from Reflecting Light!  Rather than rushing into the new year with resolutions, Mandy discusses greeting the new year with a sense of shabbat, rest, or a pause. Join us as she explores clues from the Gospel of Mark that exemplify how the Lord found rest and solace.  

Merry Christmas from Reflecting LIght!  Join Mandy as she walks you through the Judean Hillside to take in the events of the Saviors birth.  Happy Holidays!

Holiday Greetings from Reflecting Light!  Join Mandy as she discusses the best idea of how to celebrate the 12 days of Christmas this Year.  Hint: The answer is in the title.  Episode artwork found from an article: https://www.templeton.org/news/can-forgiveness-bring-healing-to-the-world . Illustration by Rachel Aparicio.

Join Mandy in this weeks podcast to learn about the prophecies of Isaiah related to the birth of Jesus Christ.

Sometimes, we are healed of our infirmities.  Other times, we must bear them.  Either way, we can find heavenly peace in Christ.  Join us as Mandy kicks of the season with the "Peace that was prepared before ever your war was."  

We all have garbage in our lives.  What makes the difference is how we view it.  Join Mandy as she shares some of the lesson she learned from her recent visit to Garbage City in Cairo.  There is just something beautiful about Heaven's alchemy--even when it shows up as "garbage."  Love and Light and Happy Holidays my freinds!

Anciently, when you invited someone to break bread with you, it signified admitting someone into your family and life.  Join Mandy as she shares a store of her Shabbat in Jerusalem and a little bit of wisdom about how we can be open up and share our commonalities with others.