Center for Spiritual Living Midtown

Time for a Tune-Up - Rev Cynthia McCarthy

It is time for a personal tune-up to ensure we are aligned with our life values so we may continue on our path whole and with joy. We consider being in alignment with our personal values of spirituality, relationships, time, health, and time.
Weekly Affirmation: Today I am realigned with Spiritual Truth. 

Stayed! - Rev Dr Bob Deen

 “I woke up this morning with my mind stayed on spirit!” We are in the Water of Infinite Life as the fish is in the ocean…The Spirit of Life is all around us. It flows through us. It permeates everything. – Ernest Holmes, This Thing Called Life

Week’s Affirmation: Divine Spirit is powerfully flowing as me. 

Free Your Mind and the Rest Will Follow - Rev Dr Bob Deen

The recognition of the presence of God or Good…automatically wipes out any picture of undesirable conditions, for the Spirit of God is a law of elimination and obliteration to everything unlike Itself! – SOM p. 186.4
Week’s Affirmation: I allow Spirit to fill me to overflow revealing Divine Truth. 

Is Your Commitment Greater Than Your Resistance? - Rev Dr Bob Deen

One of the greatest stumbling blocks in any man’s spiritual advancement is dishonesty; the refusal to honestly face an idea if that idea happens not to please him.  This comes in part from the human tendency to take the line of least resistance, whether it be in our physical endeavors or in the operation of our mind.  Confronted with an idea that repudiates one we have held for years, we go far out of our way, entirely around the idea, to keep from being compelled to analyze and possibly to absorb it. Our cry is: “I do not like to believe that!” Back of this is the fear that an idea may be forced into our consciousness which will uncover to us our own responsibility. – Ernest Holmes, It’s Up to You
Week’s Affirmation: I commit to the highest vision for my life. 

We Hold These Truths... - Rev Dr Bob Deen

Unity is the song of life; it is the grand theme underlying the rich variations that exist throughout the cosmos. Whatever we see, whatever we experience, is only a manifestation of this eternal oneness. – Sherry Evans
Week’s Affirmation: I am the Spiritual and moral arc of the Universe. 

The Soul’s Call to Freedom with guest speaker Rev Dan Granda

Namaste is a clarion call for the Soul to express its Beingness, freely, boldly, unapologetically, and to be fully what it already is! We must recognize the Divine in ourselves, emancipate ourselves, and be the meta-physicians who heal ourselves first. Harriet Tubman could free others because she herself was free! Learn about Rev Granda here. 
Week’s Affirmation: I consciously and confidently live my own truth. 

What’s Evolution Without Love? - Rev Dr Bob Deen

Without love, EVOL-ution is a spiritual path of apathy, complacency, and lethargy. It’s easy to talk the talk about love and more challenging to love our neighbor as ourselves. The evolutionary leap of this radical love calls us to reach out and love another. This is the Be-Loved Community in action!
Week’s Affirmation: I move forward in my life from a place of Love. 

Lean into the Discomfort - Rev Dr Bob Deen

If humanity is to awaken its Spiritual Magnificence and a World that Works for All, our discomfort must become our guru. Individually and collectively, we must dive deeply into areas we shy away from – Politics? Privilege? Black Lives Matter? Spiritual Activism? Money? “There is no coming to consciousness without pain.” – Carl Jung
Week’s Affirmation: I lean into discomfort and allow it to teach me. 

Pushed By Pain - Rev Dr. Bob Deen

 Suppose we didn’t deny or avoid pain but rather embraced it as an invitation to higher consciousness, deeper love, and more resolute to faith in action. “I believe everything is as real as it is supposed to be. If a person hurts, he hurts; …there is no use denying it.” – Ernest Holmes
Week’s Affirmation: I transform pain into fertilizer for my next success. 

Boldly Living a New Story with Guest Speaker Rev Dr Raymont Anderson

What stories about our individual and collective past do we continue to tell, that if we are honest, we know are not the most life affirming stories? What if this Sunday we commit to changing the narrative? Imagine being so bold as to Truly embody Principle as author, not precedent! Learn more about our speaker on his website. 
Week’s Affirmation: Today I release my old story and behold the new me as the beloved!