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December 5, 2021 - Surrender is Action
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Call to Action:
“Be Still and Know You Are God.” Saying it, thinking it, and affirming it is not enough. We are called to live it more and more in our own unique way for ourselves and for others. When we struggle it helps to say:” There for the Grace of God go I!” Oh, and smile…….Infuse it with light and compassion. We just need to recognize the simple wonder of being alive, of being a part of life, and say an unconditional “yes” to being fully present at this moment of transition. Through this “yes’ we open ourselves to what life needs." ~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee Affirmation: I lay all burdens on the Altar of Divine Love. |
November 28, 2021 - Gratitude Beyond Gifts
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Let’s practice unconditional gratitude, knowing that we live in a whole and integrated generous and giving universe which is working for us, and through us. Our level of consciousness manifests whatever we are experiencing; and our beliefs determine whether we are suffering or thriving. Let’s be grateful for being available to serve and for being co-creators of the next part of our journey. “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all the others.” - Cicero Affirmation: I am grateful for everything I am, do, and have. |
November 21, 2021 - Celebrating the Triumphant Journey
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We are invited to hold a new awareness of ourselves: We are spiritual beings having a spiritual experience in a spiritual world which operates according to spiritual laws. Are we willing to let gratitude, joy, and a vision of what’s possible be the tools we choose and use for transformation? Are we willing to keep nurturing consciousness, in order to experience more of our own magnificence? And are we willing to live our values and beliefs out loud and proud so that we actually do create a world that works for everyone? “With an attitude of gratitude, you’ll realize that you already do have it all. Everything you could ever desire is already inside of you… appreciate it…love it…nurture it enough so it is fully expressed in your life.” The Daily Motivator to Go, Ralph Marston Affirmation: Today, I live as the Power, Joy and magnificence of God in dynamic demonstration. |
November 14, 2021 - Seeing Beauty, Feeling Grace
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Call to Action:
Each point along our journey has been integral in shaping who we are today. There is an exquisiteness and beauty to this Divine Order. Without even the smallest step we took, or the tiniest choice we made on the path, we would not be where we are today. Today we see the beauty and we feel the Grace. Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite. – Francis Bacon Affirmation: I appreciate Beauty and Grace that dwell within all creation. |
November 7, 2021 - The View From Here
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Call to Action:
Our task in any situation is to look beyond the appearances and seek the spiritual truth of what is before us. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance” Affirmation: I lift my eyes to the highest and grandest view of Life. |
October 31, 2021 - I Will Meet You There
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Call to Action:
If we stay in the field of right/wrong duality, we will never experience the true Freedom and Love of the Universe. We must let go of old stories, beliefs, hurts, fears and angers. We do this not by wrestling with them, but by “looking up” to Source which is our Freedom. Spend time each day taking an area of concern – personal or global - and sit with eyes upward and invite Spirit to shed Light on that circumstance. Then listen, without analyzing, to the wisdom that might seem from “beyond the veil,” yet is living within us always. And to my loved ones that have passed, I will meet you there. “To the enlightened individual it appears as a vivid and overwhelming certainty that the universe, precisely as it is at this moment, as a whole and in every one of its parts, is so completely right, as to need no explanation or justification, beyond what simply is.” ~ Alan Watts Affirmation: I step out beyond my old limiting ideas into a fresh new field of Freedom. |
October 24, 2021 - Dig Deep
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Call to Action: We are united with God and connected with each other. Every person’s Inner Wisdom knows this Truth. We are called to get our bloated nothingness out of the way and allow the divine currents of Truth to move in us, as us, and through us. We work for a world where lack and limitation no longer exist; where shelter, food, and physical needs are met. We act to ensure peace and freedom for all. We make these goals real through our collective, deepening consciousness of our humanity and by building a global community of spiritual beings living in harmony. “Awakened doing is the alignment of your outer purpose-what you do-with your inner purpose-awakening and staying awake. Through awakened doing, you become one with the outgoing purpose of the universe.” (A New Earth Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose, Eckhart Tolle) Affirmation: I am because we are. |
Sunday, October 17, 2021 - We>Me: Going Further Together
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Call to Action:
The stronger the ‘me’, the stronger the ‘we’. The more we appreciate the uniqueness of everyone in our community, the more we all grow and expand in our unified richness. Each patch on a quilt is beautiful on its own, yet the entire quilt is a magnificent reflection of the collective patchwork. The forest is held together by a shared root ecosystem of the individual trees. All benefit as each is a reflection of the whole, each one bringing their own unique signature and making the collective picture more bright, colorful, and glorious. As we go and grow together, we flourish. “Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of the other person. You can call it compassionate listening.” (Eric Butterworth, In the Flow of Life, p. 140) Affirmation: As we go and grow further together the world brightens. |
Sunday, October 10, 2021 - Share The Dream
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Call to Action:
We are personally responsible for how the world around is. When each of us takes up the mantel, we do our part to move the world to a higher expression of Spirit through our actions. “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” ~ Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist, page 146 Affirmation: My dreams are the stuff of Spirit Itself. |
Sunday, October 3, 2021 - The Divine Community
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Call to Action:
Our calling is to deepen our connections with one another now! When welcoming others, we extend our selves to do the work of justice, peace, and compassion in the world. The Divine Community is established upon the rock of love that knows no bounds but creates an everlasting bond in the heart and soul of humanity. When we’re are at home, we belong to one another enough to companion each other through the joys and sorrows of life. Let this place and this love that we declare be the measure of our faith that is capable of welcoming each other home. …Beloved Community is not an idea that ‘has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.” ~ G.K. Chesterson; What’s Wrong with the World Affirmation: I am a presence of Divine Love wherever I am. |
Sunday, September 26, 2021 - And Still I Rise
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You are well and wondrously made by the Divine Intelligence and Creativity back of all. Despite the appearance/experience of obstacles and adversity, the way of Life is always rising, expanding, and evolving. Every part of your journey is useful and necessary for that which Spirit wants to express as you. Nothing is wasted. All is good. As you rise, up into a life that works, Spirit use you to help others rise. This is how we create a world that works for all. There is no resurrection without the crucifixion first. All of our problems come from trying to rise before we surrender to our own crucifixion. -Glennon Doyle Affirmation: The power of God rises in me and I am free. |
Sunday, September 19, 2021 - When The Road Gets Rocky
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Call to Action:
Oneness: There is One Infinite Reality. We call it many names, including but not limited to God, Life, Universal Spirit, Infinite Intelligence, First Cause, or The Thing Itself. The One Infinite Reality is undivided, complete, and whole within Itself. This Oneness creates everything out of itself, and therefore includes both the absolute and relative, tangible and intangible, physical and metaphysical aspects of reality. Let us acknowledge Divine Order regardless of conditions. When I judge my road as rocky, I look for the lesson. And I affirm: I allow, I accept, I receive, soothing healing Love. At the level of Being, one recognizes that all suffering is illusory. Suffering is due solely to identification with form. (Practicing the Power of Now – 26-4 Eckhart Tolle) Affirmation: Every step of the way is an extension of my Faith; the further I go the higher I rise. |
Sunday, September 12, 2021 - Transcend and Include
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Help to bring the “Beloved Community” into existence in our centers, communities, society, and the world. It is through the critical mass of individuals who have transcended the world of conditions and effects through their individualized consciousness that the “Beloved Community” can be actualized. This requires Spiritual Transcendence where one can experience the sacred where these experiences affect one’s self-perception, feelings, and the ability to transcend one’s difficulties, and increases one’s capacity to express compassion and forgiveness to others. "Feeling and thinking and sensing this Allness, we enter into conscious communion with It, and in some subtle way we do not understand, Its essence flows out into our acts, spilling Itself in and through everything we do and bringing to bear upon the problems of life an Intelligence greater than the human and a Power that is transcendent." – Ernest Holmes, 365 Science of Mind, p. 69 Affirmation: I transcend to the totality of all; inclusion made manifest. |
Sunday, September 5, 2021 - Reaching Higher
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Call to Action:
Live from the presence, the pure state of Being, the present moment, the only one that exists. The past and the future can only exist in the present moment. It is always The Present. To be able to inhabit the present when facing an issue:
“The key to transformation is to make friends with this moment. What form it takes doesn´t matter. Say yes to it. Allow it. Be with it.” ~ Eckhart Tolle Affirmation: “I believe in myself because I believe in God.” |
Sunday, August 29, 2021 - Rise and Re-Emerge
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As we embark on our continued journey, timeless wisdom and evolutionary vision invites us to pause for guidance and self-renewal before beginning the next leg of our journey. During this pause, we get to take time for a tune-up, enjoy a playful pause, spark our imagination and navigate our way using our G.P.S., and most of all we get to nurture our relationship with ourselves through self-renewal as we rise and re-emerge. Your call this week is to gift yourself time to be aware, aligned, and renewed. “In Every moment of your life you have the option to choose peace for yourself.” - Wayne Dyer Affirmation: Today, I rise and re-emerge fully nourished, restored and renewed! |
Sunday, August 22, 2021 - G.P.S Guidance/God Positioning System
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S.T.O.P. and pay attention to your own still small voice that can only be heard when we take a pause from the busy-ness of life and truly listen. Listen to the need to recalculate your own route in Life that enhances your own personal Spiritual Quotient. What can you do to slow down and feel the Presence today? No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us. ~ The Bible John 4: 12 Affirmation: I hear the still small voice expressing its Love through me. |
Sunday, August 15, 2021 - Sparking Imagination
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Call to Action:
Add or amplify an intention to be mindful and appreciative of your fertile and vivid imagination. This may mean you adjust, attune and redirect your spiritual practices to include more imagination and creative expression. Notice each time you have new thoughts, ideas, feelings, inklings and intuitions. In those moments of imagination, notice the feelings or qualities that arise, then notice any emotions flowing from those feelings, and then notice how those emotions change your body. Notice how your imagination shifts your entire being - spirit, mind, and body. “You have to find what sparks a light in you so that you in your own way can illuminate the world.” – Oprah Winfrey Affirmation: My imagination grows my consciousness and expands my life now. |
Sunday, August 8, 2021 - A Playful Pause
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Call to Action:
Where in your life have you stopped yourself from experiencing the full expression of Spirit through you in play? What activity, game, creative endeavor or hobby did you used to love but stopped doing because it was a “waste of time”? You are invited to see the joy and creativity of Spirit working in and through you in everything you do, including and especially play! “Being playful is a key component in making us happier, healthier, more present and connected in all of our relationships.” – Meredith Sinclair Affirmation: I take time today to play with and as Spirit! |
Saturday, July 31, 2021 - Time For A Tune Up
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Just like cars need a tune-up, we also need to take time one a regular basis to have a Spiritual Tune up. Take this week to re-evaluate your life. Get support with a prayer practitioner. Sign up for classes and be willing to be humble and teachable. And most of all, be willing to lose those things that don’t look good on you. And I’m not just talking about clothing! Judgment just isn’t flattering on anybody! Start being that which you want to experience more of in the world. You ALREADY have it within you. “Our troubles begin the moment our teachers believe they know it all, and our learners think they are not teachable.” ― Israelmore Ayivor Affirmation: Today I am realigned with Spiritual Truth. |
Saturday, July 24, 2021 - Stayed
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We lean into the flow. Infinite Spirit is expressing Itself as us, right now, in powerful, innovative ways. We trust the Divine Spirit within us; we listen to it. We never give up - no matter how compelling the circumstances, we trust the Truth in us. In shifting our focus, we put the world in perspective. Spirit as love, fairness, justice, equity, truth is all flowing through us as divine revelation. Now is the time for us to listen to the voice of our vision. We are the ones that the world is calling for. Let’s keep our minds stayed on this Truth. “As long as you are on the planet, you are here to deliver your gifts, your talents, and your skills with confidence and inner authority, withholding nothing.” – Michael Bernard Beckwith Affirmation: Divine Spirit is powerfully flowing as me. |
Saturday, July 17, 2021 - Free Your Mind and the Rest Will Follow
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When we pray, not for an outcome we are trying to control into being, but for the purpose of allowing the divine wisdom within us to rise into our consciousness and guide our steps, we more fully realize our purpose as emanations of the One. “I make conscious use of the Principle for a definite purpose – but I must ground that action in a deep inner perception and conviction of the Spiritual Truth about myself and any condition related to the treatment.” -Edward Viljoen, CSLR Website: Five Steps of Spiritual Mind Treatment Affirmation: I allow Spirit to fill me to overflow revealing Divine Truth. |
Saturday, July 10, 2021 - Is Your Commitment Greater Than Your Resistance?
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Faith is the belief in the “substance” of things not seen, not a guaranteed replica of our mental prototype, the idea we held in our thought. The substance is the unformed God stuff out of which everything is made, including you. The call to action is in the questions:
Resistance is Hell, for it places man in a “state of torment.” ~ Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life & How to Play It Affirmation: I commit to the highest vision for my life. |
Saturday, July 3, 2021 - We Hold These Truths
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Call to Action:
This weekend aligns with the 4th of July Independence Day of the United States, and recently, Canada Day July 1st, and this weekend’s spiritual and religious celebrations in the United States is a chance to embrace a vision of freedom, justice, equity, respect, and stewardship. “…all [people] are created equal … endowed by their Creator with…unalienable Rights…Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” In our New Thought/Ancient Wisdom principles, values and teachings we believe in and affirm the principles of individual and collective spiritual, physical, and psychological evolution. We must evolve consciously as well as organically. We KNOW that we are co-creators. We have the responsibility, opportunity and authority to create a world in which everyone has the opportunity to thrive. On this sacred day, we get to un-shade the truth; be inclusive in our cultural and spiritual engagement; and to create safe mental, spiritual and physical spaces filled with the excitement of human interaction based on authentic and mutual Love and Respect. Let’s level up in consciousness together. "…hope of a new day to come when people would beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into farming implements; …hope of a coming time when … children would safely play without fear of harm." Tisdale, Leonora Tubbs (2011-03-20T23:58:59). Prophetic Preaching: A Pastoral Approach (Kindle Locations 118-122). Westminster John Knox Press. Kindle Edition Affirmation: I am the Spiritual and moral arc of the Universe. |
Saturday, June 26, 2021 - The Soul's Call To Freedom
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We are what the world has been waiting for. Any challenges we’ve ever faced in our lives have prepared us for this moment. Now is the time to commit to showing up authentically and choose to live the life we’ve always dreamed. The more of us choose to live authentically, the more we inspire others to do the same. When we show unconditional love and acceptance to others, we are serving by example. If we want to see more unity, peace and joy in the world, we have to commit to experiencing these qualities in our own lives. “I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is. I have a right to be this way.” ― Alice Walker, The Color Purple Affirmation: I consciously and confidently live my own truth! |
Saturday, June 19, 2021 - What Is Evolution Without Love
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Spirit is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. It is the One Changeless Reality that is Love and Light that created all to express Love, Light and Joy. Each of us is free to express ourselves in whatever way we see fit. Let’s work with one another to celebrate our oneness and interconnectedness. We realize that by doing this we can certainly achieve our aspirational idea of creating a world that works for everyone. The universe spirals upward because it is powered by love. "Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people." – Fred Rogers Affirmation: I move forward in my life from a place of Love. |
Saturday, June 12, 2021 - Lean Into The Discomfort
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Call to Action:
Let your pain speak to you of its wisdom and then let yourself seek the wholeness being offered. Lean into the pain, discover the message, forgive the untruth, and reclaim your wholeness. Freedom live your life, as you see fit, is a direct result. Let’s make a conscious, collective decision to change our pain into freedom. “Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.” ~Khalil Gibran Affirmation: I lean into discomfort and allow it to teach me. |
Saturday, June 5, 2021 - Pushed By Pain
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None of us enjoys painful experiences. But instead of avoiding pain, ignoring pain or pretending it doesn’t exist, we can accept it and use it in a positive way. This week remember whatever pain you are experiencing can inspire you to choose what you want instead. Transform that pain into fertilizer and then do the work to transform your life. And again, as it was said in our opening treatment, today, in this very moment and every moment forward, I open my heart and mind to the unconditional love of my Divine God self. “Pain can be your motivation for a breakdown, a breakup or a breakthrough. What do you choose?” ~ Tracy Brown Affirmation: I transform pain into fertilizer for my next success. |
Saturday, May 29, 2021 - Boldly Living A New Story
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We get caught up in our day-to-day struggles and forget to give thanks for the gift of life that is allowing us to still be here. Give thanks for your past and all that you have become. Give thanks for the old story you have needed in the past and begin to embrace the now. The place where you can choose to create a bold new story and simply be fully present in the now. Commit to changing the old narrative and being so bold as to Truly embody Principle as author, not precedent! “If you can view your mind as your house, it can teach you to control how much space you rent to your wounds and grievances. You are the proprietor, and you set the rent.” ~ Fred Luskin, Forgive For Good Affirmation: Today I release my old story and behold the new me as the beloved! |
Saturday, May 22, 2021 - Say Their Names
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Call to Action:
Today I commit to honoring those upon whose shoulders I stand. I commit to honoring those who are my ancestors be they family, spiritual tradition, community, or another form of legacy, this includes those who have been made to be Early Ancestors. Their names and their lives impact my life as well and I honor them. I commit to taking the necessary action in my personal life, my spiritual community, and the community where I live to rise up and demonstrate a new level of presence and creative action that ripples out from where I am and what I do. “Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary.” – Fred Rogers Affirmation: I rise up and lead; I am someone’s answered prayer! Say Their Names: ~ My Teachers and Mentors: Rev. Dr. Kenn Gordon, Rev. Dr. Deborah Gordon, Rev. Dr. Frankie Timmers, Rev. Sharon Dunn ~ The 44 transgender that were fatally shot or violently killed in the USA, including Puerto Rico in 2020: Dustin Parker, 25, McAlester, Oklahoma Neulisa Luciano Ruiz, Metro Puerto Rico Yampi Méndez Arocho, 19, Moca, Puerto Rico Scott/Scottlynn Devore, 51, Augusta, Georgia Monika Diamond, 34, Charlotte, N. Carolina Lexi, 33, Harlem, New York Johanna Metzger, Baltimore, Maryland Serena Angelique Velázquez Ramos, 32, Puerto Rico Layla Pelaez Sánchez, 21, Puerto Rico Penélope Díaz Ramírez, Puerto Rico Nina Pop, Sikeston, Missouri Helle Jae O’Regan, 20, San Antonio, Texas Tony McDade, Tallahassee, Florida Dominique “Rem’mie” Fells, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Riah Milton, 25, Liberty Township, Ohio Jayne Thompson, 33, Mesa County, Colorado Selena Reyes-Hernandez, 37, Chicago, Illinois Brian “Egypt” Powers, 43, Akron, Ohio Brayla Stone, 17, Little Rock, Arkansas Merci Mack, 22, Dallas, Texas Shaki Peters, 32, Amite City, Louisiana Bree Black, 27, Pompano Beach, Florida Summer Taylor, Seattle, Washington Marilyn Cazares, Brawley, California Dior H Ova aka Tiffany Harris, Bronx, New York Queasha D Hardy, 22, Baton Rouge, Louisiana Aja Raquell Rhone-Spears, Portland, Oregon Lea Rayshon Daye, 28, Cleveland, Ohio Kee Sam, Lafeyette, Louisiana Aerrion Burnett, Independence, Missiouri Mia Green, 29, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Michelle Michellyn Ramos Vargas, 35?, Puerto Rico Felycya Harris, 33, Augusta, Georgia Brooklyn Deshuna, 20, Shreveport, Louisiana Sara Blackwood, Indianapolis, Indiana Angel Unique, 25, Memphis, Tennessee Skylar Heath, 20, Miami, Florida Yunieski Carey Herrera, 39, Miami, Florida Asia Jynae Foster, 22, Houston, Texas Chae’Meshia Simms, 30, Richmond, Virginia Kimberly, Fial, 55, San Jose, California Jaheim Pugh Jaheim Barbie, Prichard, Alabama Courtney “Eshay” Key, 25, Chicago, Illinois Alexandria Winchester, 24, Bronx, New York |
Saturday, May 15, 2021 - This Too Is God
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We dwell in the Oneness of God, even when appearances suggest an absence of the Divine. In our spiritual communities, we cannot merely gloss over the genuine issues in the world and hide behind platitudes until the storms pass. In times of social unrest, our community has the opportunity to apply the teachings of Ernest Holmes, among others, to find what is ours to do? Using the principles of Oneness, we allow these uncomfortable topics to help us deepen our spiritual practices, grow our compassion, and then take divinely inspired action in the world. “The spiritual journey is the relinquishment -- or unlearning -- of fear and the acceptance of love back into our hearts. Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life.” – Marianne Williamson Affirmation: I have no big problems; I tell my problems about my big God. |
Saturday, May 8, 2021 - Revolutionary Love
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This revolutionary love is the great work of our lives, and that same work brings us into that state of LOVE, which is a direct experience of the Divine. Every time we act through this revolutionary love, every time we are moved to love ourselves enough to say, “enough is enough,” every time we love another enough to fiercely protect them, to fight for their dignity, to come into a deeper relationship with their struggles and their pain, and every time we allow this same love to bring us into a state of true wonder and curiosity with those we have made an enemy, we are in a state of Love, we are at one with the Divine. “There is a lie that acts like a virus within the mind of humanity. And that lie is, ‘There’s not enough good to go around. There’s lack and there’s limitation and there’s just not enough.’ The truth is that there’s more than enough good to go around. There is more than enough creative ideas. There is more than enough power. There is more than enough love. There’s more than enough joy. All of this begins to come through a mind that is aware of its own infinite nature. There is enough for everyone. If you believe it, if you can see it, if you act from it, it will show up for you. That's the truth.” ― Michael Beckwith Affirmation: I am an ambassador of revolutionary love! |
Saturday, May 1, 2021 - This Adventure Called Life
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Investigate ways that you hold yourself back from Life. Uncover your fears. Are you afraid of failure? Afraid to appear ridiculous or foolish to others? Reorient yourself to your divine heritage. Become aware of your desires and when you find yourself constricting? Spend time in silence and listen. This is the adventure of the day! Then step out and up to your Spiritual Magnificence, reconciling the Divine Unfoldment (evolution) with your own enthusiastic participation. In The Power of Decision, Raymond Charles Barker said: “You are the present becoming the future.” When we do this work together, in community, we magnify the effects. Let us begin now. “There is only one reality, not two. There is no inner and outer, no me and you, no mind and matter…the mind has stopped conceiving of reality and now starts living it.” ~ Deepak Chopra & Meena Kafatos Affirmation: With unshakable confidence, I participate fully and freely in the adventure of Life! |
Saturday, April 24, 2021
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In Brene Brown’s book, Braving the Wilderness she uses the acronym BRAVING (pg. 113-114) B is for Boundaries: set, hold and respect boundaries R is for Reliability: learn to say what you mean and mean what you say A is for Accountability: step up, be accountable, take responsibility, and issue meaningful apologies when you’re wrong V is for Vault: keep confidences, recognize what is ours to share and what’s not I is for Integrity: practice your values even when difficult and hard N is for Nonjudgement: give and receive help G is for Generosity: learn how to be generous in our assumptions about others How brave are you willing to be, to step out and step up into your magnificence? Affirmation: I confidently step up and into my greatness. |
Saturday, April 17, 2021 - Bless-itation
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As we begin new things we sometimes experience the joy of the newness and the hesitation of uncertainty. The opportunity is to feel the hesitation and appreciate its value, but to not allow it to impede our forward movement. This week take note of the bless-itations in your life and be fully present with them. Allow discernment to be your guide. "All power derives from conscious or unconscious cooperation with the principle." – John Heider Affirmation: Everything in my life welcomes a realization of Spirit. |
Saturday, April 10, 2021 - Open Gateways
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As you deepen your spiritual practices of welcoming everything into your life and see blockages and disappointments as opportunities, gratefully accepting them with an open heart, you surrender to the normal process of disorder, reorder, order which propels you forward in the direction of the vision for your life. This practice opens the way to embrace change with the openness, with curiosity and renewed commitment to the vision for your life and opens the way to make choices which are in alignment with that vision. Affirmation: I am consciously aware of the Presence of the Spirit. |
Saturday, April 3, 2021 - The Road Less Traveled
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What we consider the Jesus story has been articulated in all parts of the earth, which is why it so powerfully resonates with us to this day. Forgiveness is a powerful spiritual practice that is much needed in a world that has been divided by hate and division of all kinds. Jesus was a kind and patient, master teacher who taught us to forgive 70 times 7, as often and as long as it takes to reach a change in consciousness. This week contemplate these three sentences of the last words of Jesus. Allow yourself the freedom that patience, kindness, compassion, and forgiveness afford. Feel your heart open when you truly forgive. Be patient with yourself and others and allow compassion to overflow from your big heart. Whatever your soul’s mission is, forgiveness will support you in fulfilling it. Affirmation: I joyfully take the road of radical forgiveness to Freedom. |
Saturday, March 27, 2021 - Commit To Transformation
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As we release that which does not serve the Highest Idea and embrace new ways of being, the vision will unfold organically. This is a process of allowing, aligning with what already IS. Michael Beckwith says, “Where there is a willingness there is a way. Where there is a willfulness, there is a wall.” (Life Visioning, p. 157) We don’t need to make something happen! Simply rest in the awareness that the vision being revealed is already complete. Commit to transformation. Be willing to do the spiritual work of releasing and embracing. We then become beholders of God’s grace unfolding as our lives. We become instruments of the Divine. We fulfill our purpose. Affirmation: I relax and behold God’s grace unfolding as my life. |
Saturday, March 20, 2021
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We do not manifest the Vision. It already is. We release and let go of the obstacles we have placed in its way. We embrace a new idea, embody a new belief, and we become that which we already are. In doing so, we transform ourselves, attuned to the Vision and in alignment with it. The Vision already is. In our transformation, we come to its realization. The possibilities for your life are infinite. It starts with an embrace. What will you welcome with open arms today? Affirmation: “With open arms, I embrace my transformation.” |
Saturday March 13, 2021 - Release and Let Go
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The SOM Trinity, summed up in the statement, “Where your attention goes, energy flows and manifestation follows,” is central to these three stages: (1) Putting your conscious attention on asking for Spirit’s highest vision of what needs to be released; (2) Keeping your attention on this question long enough to receive the visionary insight on what needs to be released; and (3) Manifesting the vision by committing to embrace the conscious and creative mind stages. Affirmation: “The more I release, the more Good I can experience.” |
Saturday, March 6, 2021 - Living in Question: A High Idea
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Ask yourself a higher question, live in a state of curiosity, and remain open to possibilities to experience a life beyond your wildest imaginations that works in alignment with the highest good for all. If you would like to experience a visioning session, please connect with me to make arrangements. Affirmation: My life is the embodiment of Spirit’s highest idea of Itself as me. |
Saturday, February 27, 2021 - Journey to Freedom
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February is Black History Month and freedom has not always been associated with people of African descent. The invitation today and every day is (1) to use our spiritual practices of visioning a world that truly does work for everyone; (2) to recognize that we really are all one; therefore, our choices include doing only what we would want done to us; and (3) to use this calendar month of February to celebrate the multitudinous inventions, contributions, foods, science, intellect, artistry and culture of Blacks as part of freeing ourselves from discord. As religious scientists, let’s do this experiment to discover the pure, kind heart that we each possess. Affirmation: Love acts through me and the Law of Love frees us all. |
Saturday, February 20, 2021 - One Mind, Infinite Connections
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Call to Action:
Through the practice of Spiritual Mind Treatment and Visioning we enhance our individual connection to God and we allow ourselves to be guided towards a life of integrity, equanimity, compassion and collaboration. We collectively commit to catch the vision of God’s idea as individual divine expressions and to the co-creation of the Beloved Community. We commit to participate in the awakening of all individuals to their spiritual magnificence and personal power to create an individual life that works within a world that works for everyone. Affirmation: I am in the Circle of Love which includes and binds all together in everlasting Unity. |
Saturday, February 13, 2021 - The Infinite Invisible
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Life requires agreement and participation. A spectator no longer, begin now to ask yourself what brings you joy and inspires a feeling of possibility and energy. Dr. Holmes advised us to prepare for our demonstration. What is the one thing you can do today to prepare for your demonstration? Where do you need to create space in your thinking, beliefs, or daily life to cultivate and nurture your awareness of the Infinite Invisible as your guide, partner, and beloved Source? Find that one thing. Do it with love, intention and passion, it will guide you to your next and your next and your next steps. Affirmation: With trust, joy and delight, I let God be God in me. |
Saturday, February 6, 2021 - A Clean Slate
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To live from the space of clarity and possibility that encompasses mind, body and heart, we are called to Practice the Presence regularly. We release thoughts of past or future and ground ourselves in the present, experiencing whatever understanding or gift the moment has for us. There are a myriad of ways to Practice the Presence. Core methods such as Spiritual Mind treatment, meditation and mindfulness serve to silence the mind. Give yourself permission to “indulge” in what feeds your soul…sacred service, nature, time with friends, music, creative endeavors, laughter, etc. Finally, honor your body and get plenty of sleep. Affirmation: I am open to the promise of a clean slate which every moment holds. |
Saturday, January 30, 2021 - Looking Above
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Call to Action:
This week, and throughout this year, I invite you to find the places in your life, your Spiritual Center, and within our movement where you’ve stopped remembering the limitless power and potential of God. Practice letting go; surrender to the Divine Will unfolding, and see the deep magic and high vision just waiting to be revealed. Affirmation: I allow the Divine to unfold through me. |
Saturday, January 23, 2021 - Looking Ahead
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We have the Timeless Wisdom to apply to our evolutionary vison of a world that works for everyone by harnessing, not only the power of our collective mind, but our collective heart and our collective body as well. This is an embodied spirituality that will take us to the next level of our evolution. To do so, we need to acknowledge the wisdom of the body, not be afraid of our embodied emotions, and come together in collective healing of our generational trauma. Affirmation: “I am the ever-evolving living embodiment of Love.” |
Saturday, January 16, 2021 - Here and Now
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Dr. Holmes wrote at the end of Ch. 4 – How to Use It: “A new light is coming into the world. We are on the borderland of a new experience. The veil between Spirit and matter is very thin.” I agree with this. We no longer have a “normal” – we’ll be creating a new normal this year. That new light is our willingness to expand our consciousness, to realize that we are the creators of our reality. We are creating something magnificent that benefits all. Affirmation: I now use the Power within to experience the Good that God is. Mantra: A great practice either before getting out of bed in the morning, or before you go to bed in the evening, is to repeat this mantra three times: “Now is the time to be aware of the present moment. I let go of the past and the future.” |
Saturday, January 9, 2021 - Grounded Beyond the Beginning
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Call to Action:
From the beginning of Creation, this Unity of Life was set in motion. Creation is defined as the giving of form to the substance of Mind. It is the play of Life upon Itself; the action of a limitless Imagination upon an infinite Law. Through this Unity, this One Mind, any individual has the ability through the power of the word, through our daily spiritual practice to ground the self in the absolute knowing and practice of oneness, to manifest the thought of God of true unity for all. Contemplate “What We Believe.” Prove this for yourself. Let’s create a world that works for everyone! Affirmation: Today, I am forever one with all Life. |
Saturday, January 2, 2021 - Timeless Wisdom, Evolutionary Vision
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Be humble. Be open. Resolve to Evolve. Here’s 5 suggestions from Deepak Chopra to make 2021 your Reset Year.
Affirmation: Steeped in the wisdom of the ages, I humbly resolve to evolve! |
Saturday, December 19, 2020 - Cultivating Light
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BE the light you want to see in the world. See and Know the light in everyone regardless of appearance. Ernest Holmes “The Science of Mind”, 1938, p. 430.2 wrote: “Ye are the light of the world.” Man is the candle of the Lord. How important then that this light be kept trimmed and burning with the oil of pure Spirit, through the wick of peace and joy. In this way do we glorify that Indwelling …” Affirmation: I joyously walk in the light. My consciousness is illumined. I let my Light shine. |
Saturday, December 12, 2020 - Preparing the Way
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We are all living a different experience now with this worldwide pandemic. I’ve been reading news reports and talking with friends in both Canada and California where they are now required to “shelter in place” to a higher degree than at the beginning of this pandemic and most businesses are either closed or very restricted. This also means no get togethers for to the holidays. It means that we need to be more creative and resourceful. Now, more than ever, we have a need for connection with family and friends. Many say that they will have family gatherings via zoom, and will still make the festive dinner, and holiday baking, perhaps even baking enough to share. Packaging them up nicely in gift boxes and arranging to deliver them to the door of their loved ones. Remember to also share kindness with everyone. Let us each prepare the way for Love and Peace in our homes and beyond. Affirmation: Peace in my heart out pictures as peace in the world. My peace is a reflection of the Christ consciousness. Link to the Heart of Peace Collective Meditation noon Pacific Time on the second Monday of each month. To Join via Zoom or Phone: https://csl.zoom.us/j/640991278 One tap mobile +16699006833,,640991278# US (San Jose) +16465588656,,640991278# US (New York) Dial by your location +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) Meeting ID: 640 991 278 |
Saturday, December 5, 2020 - Welcoming The Shadow
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Call to Action:
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” ~ Carl Jung We cannot go through life continually trying to hide our shadows as if they don’t exist. We must discover what caused our pain, most likely some childhood trauma. Our life is meant to be lived, enjoyed, and experienced to its fullest potential. That includes the good, the bad, the ugly, the beautiful, the light, the dark, and everything in between. When we face our difficulties, true change can be made. We CAN make a difference, and it starts from within. Here’s a few things we can do to begin our shadow work journey:
If you think you don’t have a shadow, then you certainly have a big and dark one. Observe where you are defensive, or what easily triggers and upsets you. Observe your separating projections and feelings and thoughts charged with negative energy. “What we call our shadow is nothing more than an aspect of our nature waiting to be embraced and reclaimed.” ~Jacob Liberman Cultivate recognition of your divinity and unrestricted self-love! Welcome the Shadow, to explore and restore your divine self and greatest potential. It is your birthright! Affirmation: I do not judge myself nor other persons. I embrace the shadow and reclaim my highest good. I receive light that dissolves darkness and suffering. As I recognize darkness and shadow in my soul and around me, I acknowledge and release them. |
Saturday, November 28, 2020 - The Grateful and Cheerful Receiver
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When we can welcome in our own vulnerability and the vulnerability of others, we are well on our way to being grateful and cheerful receivers of goodness. Let’s cultivate our tenderness and tune into God’s rhythm. The ebb and flow of life is just waiting to flow in and through us. Affirmation: I stand with my body and heart open to goodness and I know that there is nothing that separates me from the river of life that flows through me as I give, and I receive. |
Saturday, November 21, 2020 - How Engaged is God as Us?
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I don’t have to be an activist and carry a picket sign to engage with Spirit, but I do have to speak up and do what is mine to do. A new US President was just elected. Whether you support the winner or not, let’s remember that this result was chosen through our consciousness. We are all one, so that means that in our cosmic democracy we are connected at the subatomic level. No matter who is president or leaders in our communities or household, let us engage on the field of love and be a stand for love in all arenas. Intention is the starting point of everything that takes place in the Universe, no matter how grand or small. Every intention we set, we set in the mind of the One Itself. You can harness the Divine Power which is the birthright of everyone by taking the time to do a few simple things: 1) Center yourself in the quiet place within, where all possibility lies; 2) Set intentions for that which you wish to manifest in the world of form; 3) Let go and let God handles the details of how/when/where it comes about; 4) Follow your intuition and live as if it already is. Remember – God is only motivated to create when you are! Affirmation: I am and will be a stand for love in this world, no matter who is listening. I am listening and I am engaged. |
Saturday, November 14, 2020 - What Is God Giving You?
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Working in the Absolute is an awakening. What are you awakening to? The only then we suffer from is Lack of Awareness. The only thing that limits us is a thought of limitation. What words are you saying? How can I welcome it? Can I be the place where God does that as me? Am I willing to shift my viewing point? Be the place where God shows up. Know that you are now fully supported by the Universe. Today be a conduit of the Divine. You are the Light after all! Shine on. Affirmation: I am so grateful that I am fully supported by God. |
Saturday, November 7, 2020 - Divine Authority to Choose
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Let us commit to our own growth, to loving ourselves enough to be our best selves. Let us recognize the natural ability to choose within us and continue to use that power regardless of what conditions surround us. Let us say YES to choice, over and over and over again! Affirmation: Today I choose wisely, compassionately, and decisively to express my authentic self in all that I do. |
Saturday, October 31, 2020 - Things I Have Learned From Playing
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Have fun. Life is meant to enjoy. It’s OK to stop and smell the roses and enough time to play. Be mindful of your time, watch out for distractions, take calculated risks, take advantage of opportunities as presented, be patient and persistent. But mostly, have fun. Please connect with me if you would like a session using the tools we offer of meditation, visualization, or Spiritual Mind Treatment. Affirmation: “We are born to be happy, to be abundantly supplied with every good thing, to have fun in living, to consciously unite with the Divine Power that is around us and within us, and to grow and expand forever.” ~Ernest Holmes |
Saturday, October 24, 2020 - Bridges That Last
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We are here together by Divine Appointment. We are here together in right and perfect timing. We recognize the unity that is expressed so beautifully by each unique and individual trait that makes up our wholeness. It is from this place of honoring one another and delighting in our variances that we can come together to create a world that supports the highest good of all beings. Let us stand together on this foundation of mutual and unconditional positive regard. Let us stand together and, from this place, begin to realize the splendor of life that fulfills the greatest needs and desires of everyone. Affirmation: I am an important part of the whole in a world that works for everyone. Who I am makes a difference. |
Saturday, October 17, 2020 - Bridge Over Troubled Waters
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In many of our Centers all over the world, we come together in a circle, holding hands, and sing the words to “The Peace Song.” “Let there be peace on Earth and let it begin with me” (Jackson-Miller & Miller, 1955). Today, let us each resolve to do the inner work so that we might lift the collective consciousness of our spiritual family, of our local community, and of the entire planet. Let us build a bridge to bring compassion and kindness in order that we may all enjoy peace and freedom from all discord. Let’s stay committed to building that bridge for compassion and kindness within ourselves, our communities and the world. Affirmation: I am whole. I am healed. I am loved. I forgive and I am forgiven. |
Saturday, October 10, 2020 - Inextricably Connected
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If we are deeply experiencing, embodying, and knowing our inextricable connection to the One, Living Spirit, we then discover our inextricable connection to each other through that, and we can access that connection through love and compassion. To experience love and compassion is to experience connection to God. Let’s committed to being connected. Affirmation: God is! I Am! We Are! |
Saturday, October 3, 2020 - Just Like Me
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The connection that is happening when we connect with ourselves, with Spirit, or with another is all the same connection. It’s the movement of the Divine within us, around us, and between us. So, creating a connection with another, also creates a connection to Spirit, and allows for a deeper connection within ourselves. Connecting to Spirit also allows for more connection with ourselves, which creates a more genuine connection with others. Let’s make a commitment to get connected and stay connected. Affirmation: Today I reflect all of God’s Good outwardly so that each person I meet can have the same experience of Good through me. |
Saturday, September 26, 2020 - Just Do It
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Today is the day to get involved in your community. Put feet to your faith. I encourage you to check out volunteer opportunities within our Spiritual Center or your local community. Affirmation: Today, I act in ways that affirm the inherent goodness of all. |
Saturday, September 19, 2020 - Do You Have Faith or Are You Had By Faith
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We practice faith all the time. It is not something we just have and forget about. Faith operates every day. We know we are practicing faith when we respond to the world with love and compassion. Faith is an attitude of love, trust and compassion. This week, practice kindness with everyone you meet. And practice peace. In the end, faith is about surrender; surrendering our ego, our need to be right, our need to fight and instead, just allowing ourselves to be completely immersed in the divine. Affirmation: I surrender into the Grace of the One knowing I am divinely guided in all I do. |
Saturday, September 12, 2020 - Skepticism, Doubt and Faith
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The principle governing faith is, that when the one praying becomes convinced, their prayer will automatically be answered. Or as Jesus said, “It is done unto you as you believe.” Build your Faith until it becomes a Knowing. Affirmation: “I live in the faith that there is a Presence and Power greater than I am that nurtures and supports me in ways I could not even imagine.” -Ernest Holmes |
Saturday, September 5, 2020 - A Question of Faith
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Faith in Divine Spirit, regardless of your belief system, is able to cause surprisingly positive effects on its bearers. Regardless of what religion people belong to, they experience the same benefits from having faith. In particular, believers have longer lives, lower blood pressure, and lower rates of anxiety and depression. And in the words of George Michaels, I gotta have faith, faith, faith. Affirmation: “Faith is a Knowledge within the Heart beyond the reach of proof.” ~ Khalil Gibran |
Saturday, August 29, 2020 - We Are
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So today we speak a community statement of inclusion and love for similar reasons to why humans have taken spiritual vows and gone into the baptismal waters for centuries, because we are leaning into the sacred dichotomy: that we are at once living in a state of perfect Oneness and at the same time we are being guided in the direction of a more deeply manifested experience of that Oneness in our world. Our community covenant for inclusion and love, our affirmation, does not mean that we will never struggle with inclusion or diversity as individuals or a community. We may fight and disagree. We have a lot to learn together. We are human and we are messy sometimes. But our affirmation today can be a guiding North Star to us as well, giving us a path back to ourselves and to each other so we can live into the one stupendous whole that Dr. Holmes spoke about. Affirmation: Community Statement of Inclusion, An Affirmation: We, the Center for Spiritual Living Puerto Vallarta, are a community that: celebrates diversity, fosters inclusion, champions inner work, & creates space for brave vulnerable conversations. We are a community that: honors the unique emanation of God that each person embodies, advocates with people for human rights & dignity for all. We are a community that: blesses each other, sees holiness in all life, remains learners & listeners so that we can grow together, & understands that Oneness is not Sameness, and We, the Center for Spiritual Living Puerto Vallarta know that the Beloved Community is revealed when we love each other well. |
Saturday, August 22, 2020 - Better Together
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Nona L. Brooks, in her book Mysteries, p. 117 tells us: “Since unity is the basic principle of universal expression, let us base our living, our thinking, and our doing upon this law. When we live true to basis the hard experiences of the external pass away, and our days grow restful, free, and full of joy. That which we experience in the spirit of unity cannot limit us.” It is suggested that we Ask ourself: "Does what I wish to do express more life, more happiness, more peace to myself, and at the same time, harm no one?" If it does, it is right, if it is done at the expense of anyone, including yourself, then it is a wrong use of the Law. (Adapted from p. 270 SOM). I’ll add to that; by asking, am I being inclusive or exclusive? Affirmation: “I AM the activity of inclusion. I embrace the multiplicity of Creation as a Community expressing Divinity on Earth.” |
Saturday, August 15, 2020 - Colour Blind or Colour Full?
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If we are really interested in instilling Oneness, we need to be with other people who are different from us in order to experience a loving, unified relationship with God. Love pushes us to widen our circle of inclusion and reach out to others who are different from us. We shouldn’t assume that we will all think, believe, pray, sing, dress, talk, or behave exactly like us. In fact, we are challenged to embrace the differences, the disagreements, and the uniqueness. Why? Because in that kind of inclusive, diverse, and authentic way, we get a glimpse of what Oneness truly is. Affirmation: The nature of God's great creation is one of diversity. I am not color blind. I see the colorful, wonderful and mystical variances that are expressed uniquely as each of us. |
Saturday, August 8, 2020 - Who Are We
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Let’s bravely explore our identities in all their complexity and splendor. Let’s look at what is asking for some healing in our lives. Let’s kindly and boldly explore our subconscious biases. The work of coming to know and love the self & the work of being able to actually see other people and love them for who they are, is divine work. It is the work of seeing, knowing, and loving God more deeply. It is the act of being awake to the truth that the soul of the Universe is our soul too. Affirmation: I stand proud of who I am. I adore myself and give myself love freely. I bravely heal my bias and embrace live out love with all human beings and all of life. |