Radiant Whispers

This morning meditation is a call to action for you to choose and reinforce your excellent and healthy intention and purpose for the day. It's a proactive step to take before the inertia of the day sets in and derails your plans. Our days are often hijacked by distractions and demands, causing us to lose sight of our true selves and our desired path. But with a little persistent attention, we can turn even the most ordinary days into something extraordinary. Let's make today, and every day, an extraordinary day!

The original text was written by Gabriel Porras and inspired by Lauren Brollier Newton's Intention Setting Meditation.

Credits:

The show was written, presented, and produced by Gabriel Porras for radianwhispers.com.

Music:

Meditation Relaxing and Chill, by Yurii Kohut on Pixabay. Used under licence.

Cover artwork by Ricardo Gil, [email protected]

Photo: Landscape Nature Lake, by Kanenori on Pixabay. Used under licence.

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This is a modern, versified version of the original text by St Francis of Assisi, written in medieval Italian 800 years ago, in 1225. As a great mystic, St Francis calls all of nature to praise God: the sun, the moon, the wind, the fire, the water, the stars and the earth are our brothers and sisters, praising God with their natural virtues. I closely followed the English translation published by the Franciscan Fathers on their website (https://franciscanfriarscresson.org/the-canticle-of-the-sun/ ). Still, I have made it more musical and more accessible to memorise, with rhymes and cadences. The Canticle of Brother Sun is a simple and precious prayer that deserves to be memorised and kept in mind because praising God with all his creatures is always timely and appropriate. This modernised version is a passionate rendition that I hope will inspire you. Listen to it with me in prayer, and leave a comment to let me know what you think.

This adaptation and rendition of the text Gabriel Porras

Programme voiced, recorded and produced by Gabriel Porras at www.gabrielvoice.com and www.radiantwhispers.com

Music: Pneuma, by Adrian Disch, at musicbed.com. Used with license.

Cover created by Ricardo Gil, [email protected]

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This is a beautiful and inspiring text by Lisa Nichols, a hymn to human resilience. It is part of her excellent “Speak and Inspire” course at www.mindvalley.com (https://home.mindvalley.com/quests/en/speak/intros/4).

If you want to give yourself a precious gift, it is well worth buying an annual subscription to take this game-changing course from Lisa and many more equally valuable ones. In Mindvalley, you will find a thousand paths through which your mind and spirit can travel to grow and shine like the sunrise. It's so worth it!

This program was recorded and produced by Gabriel Porras, who lives at gabrielvoice.com and radiantwhispers.com.

Cover by Ricardo Gil, [email protected]

Music: "Midnight Forest" by Syouki Takahashi on Pixabay.com

Cover image: North Shore, Waialua, Hawaii

Photo by Brannon Naito on Unsplash

Used under licence.

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Join me to pray together every morning this powerful prayer known as "The Breastplate of St. Patrick," which was written in the 9th century in Ireland. I invite you to pray this prayer every morning with passion, surrender, and eagerness, believing that God will transform your day. This prayer is not for the timid or half-hearted, as it requires genuine conviction and a belief that our prayers can reach beyond the walls of our room.

How big is your faith? How big are your goals and aspirations? Pray this prayer with all your heart for seven days and be amazed.

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Programme voiced, recorded and produced by Gabriel Porras at www.gabrielvoice.com and www.radiantwhispers.com

Music: The circle of life, by The Circle of Life @artlist.io. Used with license.

Photo: Morning Sunrise at Lake Kawaguchi and Mount Fuji. Yamanashi, Japan Copyright © 2022 Wallpapers13.com

Cover design by Ricardo Gil, [email protected]

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Psalm 27 from the Bible was written over three thousand years ago by King David, "the sweet singer of Israel". It is a profound prayer of praise to God and a plea for protection and comfort in the most troubled and challenging of times. David contemplates the most outrageous and cruel destiny he can imagine: that of a child deliberately abandoned by his parents. "Even if my father and mother abandoned me, you will take care of me"... even if something as unimaginable and unnatural as being deliberately abandoned by his parents were to happen to him, even if the natural and biological order were to be so twisted, God would take care of him. Even if his father and mother conspired to abandon him.

That is why I put his prayer on the lips of every aborted baby boy and girl.

Text:

The Voice (VOICE)The Voice Bible Copyright © 2012 Thomas Nelson, Inc. The Voice™ translation © 2012 Ecclesia Bible Society All rights reserved.

Adapted and read by Gabriel Porras for radiantwhispers.com and gabrielvoice.com.

Production: Gabriel Porras and Andre Sosa @drorangeacademy

Cover by Ricardo Gil [email protected]

Music: "Purify" by Embrace at artlist.com. Used with license.

A jewel of Spanish-language literature, quintessentially Mexican and universal at the same time. The story of a town that is all dust, loneliness and silence “where sorrow makes her nest”.

Original story by Juan Rulfo read by Gabriel Porras

Translation by Stephen Beechinor

Production: Gabriel Porras and Andre Sosa @drorangeacademy

Cover design by Ricardo Gil [email protected]

Music: La Guanábana, by Los Parientes de Playa Vicente, from the album América Afroíndigena at freemusicarchive.com

Every year, Christmas is the greatest celebration around the globe. No other event makes us get together as families and friends like Christmas. And yet, Christmas is also the worst time of the year for millions of lonely, hurting people. Commandeered by businesses and restaurants, Christmas celebrations often obscure Christ, whose birth is the original and best reason to celebrate Christmas. Find out why the birth of Christ deserves to be celebrated with all your heart.

Programme presented and produced by Gabriel Porras at gabrielvoice.com and musmullosradiantes.com

Text: Nicky Gumbel

Nicky Gumbel is the creator of the Alpha Course, which is a beautiful and warm introduction to Christianity. Over 26 million people have taken the Alpha Course in over 100 countries. Nicky graduated in Law at Cambridge and in Theology at Oxford. He worked as a barrister before becoming a writer and preacher.

Join an Alpha Course near you here: https://alpha.org.uk/try

You can also do it online.

Cover created by Ricardo Gil, [email protected] with AI at www.bing.com by Microsoft

Music:

"Handpanophone" by David Charrier is from his album Ephemeral on artlist.io.

Sound effect:

Clean high bell ring, license Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) https://orangefreesounds.com/

Reducing the conflict in Gaza to a question of Palestinian-Israeli differences is an unforgivable mistake. The conflict that has been raging in Gaza for decades is the conflict between Islam and world civilisation, that is, between Islam and you and me, and each and every one of us who are not yet under Islam: not only Jews, Christians, Buddhists, Newagers and Hindus. Also homosexuals, transsexuals, feminists, atheists, agnostics, science, education, technology and progress and welfare for all. All this is lost if Hamas wins, and Islam advances.

Programme written, presented and produced by Gabriel Porras, at murmullosradiantes.com.

Cover created by Ricardo Gil, [email protected]

Image by Vectonauta at www.freepik.es

Music:

"Gone with the winds", by Veaceslav Draganov (Picture) on artlist.com.

"Jericho at Dusk", by Alon Peretz (Three Middle Eastern Cities), on artlist.com

"Ruhi", by Meriem Ben Amor, on artlist.com

Links and references:

On how Hamas rewards its soldiers with girls as young as nine years old, see these photographs: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hamas-wedding-girls/

On Islam's hatred of women, and how it promises a paradise of luxury and sex to Hamas soldiers and Islamism, listen to these past episodes:

"Islam hates women": https://soundcloud.com/murmullosradiantes/el-islam-odia-a-las-mujeres

"Is paradise a luxury brothel?": https://soundcloud.com/murmullosradiantes/el-paraiso-es-un-burdel-de-lujo

On the dangerous stupidity of the masses:

https://soundcloud.com/murmullosradiantes/el-peligro-de-la-estupidez-mr-sc-esp

A long and detailed collection of Hamas abuses on this Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Hamas#Press_restrictions

On the despicable sexual violence of Hamas’ attack on 07 October: https://youtu.be/2l3EbRiDATE?feature=shared

Mosab Hassan Yousef, son of one of the founders of Hamas, appears in multiple YouTube videos, such as this one:

https://youtu.be/H9WEcvrWvyo?feature=shared

His experiences and perspectives on the workings of Hamas appear in a book entitled "Son of Hamas":

https://amzn.eu/d/ff29BB7

and a film entitled "The Green Prince":

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/video/detail/B00YRUA3QU/ref=atv_dp_share_cu_r

On Hamas soldiers shouting "Allah is victorious" as they behead and rape innocent Israelis on October 7, 2023: https://youtu.be/SmivUM0tlwc?feature=shared

A passionate article by Alan Dershowitz, professor emeritus at Harvard Law School, which inspired me to write this episode: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/20126/hamas-nazis

Photos of Mufti Husseini reviewing troops and having tea with Hitler can be seen here: https://youtu.be/ou0EgaK49Ak?feature=shared

My atheist friends love to cite Immanuel Kant, David Hume and Voltaire as leading thinkers who opened new horizons for humanity, freeing it from the religious prejudices that had enslaved it for centuries. But things were very different, and the writings of these three influential thinkers provided a framework that supported the slavery and exploitation of non-European races more than anyone else. We examine the great ambiguities of the Enlightenment and the main myths of atheism, such as The Myth of Progress, The Myth of Human Rationality and The Myth of Human Goodness, with a discussion of Steven Pinker's "Enlightenment Now".

Programme written, presented and produced by Gabriel Porras, professional voice actor (gabrielvoice.com).

Cover design: Ricardo Gil ([email protected]).

Music:

"Joking Together", by Michele Nobler/Memory Tapes @artlist.io

"Alive and Well", by Campagna/Hello Love @artlist.io

The inspiration for this programme comes from a debate between Steven Pinker and Nick Spencer, titled "Have science, reason and humanism replaced faith?", available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Ssf5XN5o9q4?feature=shared

Nick Spencer published a well-argued article entitled "Atheist Fairy Tales: exposing secularism's major myths" on Premier Unbelievable: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/topics/atheist-fairytales-exposing-secularisms-major-myths/12200.article

Francis Collins, the director of the Human Genome Project, published a book entitled "The Language of God", in which he makes a strong case for the existence of God.

Jack and the Beanstalk,

by Roald Dahl

This version of the classic children's story is way funnier... and it rhymes!

Roald Dahl is a genius: his plot twists are mind-blowing, and that ending too! Brace yourself for a laugh-out-loud journey.

Presented and produced by Gabriel Porras, professional voice actor (gabrielvoice.com).

Cover design: Ricardo Gil ([email protected]).

Copyright Roald Dahl Story Company Ltd

Roald Dahl Nominee Ltd, 1982

Puffin Books, Penguin Random House 1984

Illustration: Quentin Blake, 1982

ISBN: 978-0-141-37885-5

(Treat yourself to a copy. It's a beautiful book!)

Visit the great Roald Dahl's website here: www.roalddahl.com

Music:

"Jay C”, by Synthet from the album Free Synthet! at freemusicarchive.org Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Sound effect: bbc.co.uk – © copyright BBC