Center for Spiritual Living Midtown

Dance With The Donkey. Ready…5-6-7-8! - Rev Dr Bob Deen

Waltz with a wombat? Jitterbug with a jaguar? How about dancing with a donkey? Try it, you’ll like it!  Whatever your religious tradition, each honors the deeper reality of the creative dance of the universe. Ramadan began last week. Christianity’s “Holy Week” , Palm Sunday, Good Friday, Passover, and Easter Sunday all celebrate the One Infinite Creative Presence and Power which informs and guides all spiritual paths. The Creator Itself shines through all spiritual paths in unique ways. We can resist our journey, or we can dance the journey. Stumbling blocks or stepping stones? Tantrums or tangos? You decide. 
Weekly Affirmation: I am an open, dazzling channel for inspiration and peace. 

We are God’s “chips off the old block - Rev Dr Bob Deen

Today we move beyond doubts and fears about our abilities, talent, or imagination. Choosing to know ourselves as worthy of and fully connected to the Infinite Creator, we anchor in knowing that we are limitlessly sourced by a Limitless Source–and that includes our creativity! What is true about God is absolutely true about us, so we are saturated NOW with the magnificent artistry of the Universe Itself! We create from that, and yes, we are the ways in which God “shows up” in the world. 
Weekly Affirmation: I know myself as Spirit knows me: creative, unique, wonderful! 

So Happy Together - Rev Raymont Anderson

All month, we’ve been talking about how important a life of play and rest is for our healthiness, both inside and out. There’s another dimension, though – play helps us to build relationships filled with Joy and meaning. What if our whole community embraced the idea of playing together as a key component of healthy living?

Week's Affirmation: I am Joyful in my community.

I’ll Rest When I’m Dead - Rev Dr Bob Deen

How many times have we fallen into the temptation to glorify overwork and busyness, saying things like, “I’ll rest when I’m dead?” One of the great wonders of this life is the sweet sense of Joy and Peace that comes with real, substantial rest.

Week’s Affirmation: I rest in Divine Joy.

A Spoonful of Humor IS the Medicine - Rev Dr Bob Deen

Healing ourselves (mind, body, and heart) is one of the biggest reasons we come together to study metaphysics. What if we’re missing a key element in the healing process? Let’s explore the role of laughter, play and fun in revealing Wholeness. 

Week’s Affirmation: Laughter reveals my Wholeness. 

Playing Twister with God - Rev Dr Bob Deen

Connecting deeply with the Divine can sometimes feel like serious work. We can forget that Joy and Freedom are Divine qualities, too. What if, at the end of the day, we are all just playing Twister with God?

 Week’s Affirmation: I am having fun with the Divine.

The Ultimate Fear Buster, with Guest Rev Dougherty

If you could see the object of your fear until you really understand it, it would no longer exert any effect on you. You can do this to the degree where you become aware that you are divinely guided and protected, and establish your understanding of this in a definite way. – Ernest Holmes, Effective Prayer, p.35. 

Forgive to Live - Rev Dr Bob Deen

Divine forgiveness is always within reach. What a great burden of responsibility disappears when we understand that the Eternal Mind hold nothing against anyone! ​ – Ernest Holmes, The Science of the Mind, p.447. 

Week’s Affirmation: I forgive and I am free. 

Pause and Find the Cause - Rev Dr Bob Deen

The Reciprocal Universe…is the invisible counterpart of every visible form. We get what we give, if not now, then tomorrow. And we attract what we are. 

Week’s Affirmation: I am the co-creator of my life. 

The Inner Life - Rev Dr Bob Deen

To learn how to think is to learn how to live, for our thoughts enter into a medium that is infinite in Its ability to do and be. Man, by thinking, can bring into his experience whatsoever he desires – provided he thinks rightly, and becomes the living embodiment of his thoughts. This is not done by holding thoughts, but by knowing the Truth. ​– Ernest Holmes, The Science of the Mind, p.30.5. 

Week’s Affirmation: The Spirit within me is God; that Spirit is Perfect.