Center for Spiritual Living Midtown

Color Blind or Color Full, Guest Speaker Rev Cynthia McCarthy

Can you imagine looking at a beautiful garden that has flowers with many different colors, textures and heights, but not being able to see the variations in color because you are color blind? That’s the way it is with people if one embraces the idea of color blindness. You don’t see the other person’s differences or the nuances that make them uniquely them.​

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.​

Who are We? - Rev Dr Bob Deen

There is value in getting clear about our identities, individual and collective, and what we’re bringing to the table. Standing in our power and celebrating the identities of others is a gift. It also helps us foster Inclusion. ​

Affirmation: I stand proud of who I am. I adore myself and give myself love freely. I bravely heal my bias so that I can embrace all human beings and all of life with love.

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Let’s Get Together and Feel Alright - Rev. Dr. Bob Deen

An opening to how our central principle of Oneness calls us together in a state of diversity and how the fact of Inclusion helps us live out this Oneness. Oneness does not equal sameness.  Unity does not mean uniformity​.
Affirmation:  I am one with Divine Intelligence, empowered by It, as a point of creative power. As such, I claim harmony, acceptance, love for All through inclusion of the diversity that delights my life.

 

The Tao of Freedom - Rev. Dr. Bob Deen

Freedom is more than something to receive. It is also a verb and really only has meaning and power as we use it. It is a quality of God that cannot be bound, enslaved, or imprisoned which means the Truth of us is also Freedom as a Divine Right, A Divine way of life.

Affirmation: My freedom is the awareness that all things live together for the good of all other things, and for the greater good of life itself.

 

The Truth will Set you Free - Rev Cynthia McCarthy

“You shall know the Truth shall set you free.” Every day and at times in each moment we are choosing how we shall live our lives. Upon what do we base our decisions, choices, behavior, and passions? Is principle or precedent the governing factor for how we show up in the world? Now more than ever is the time for us to stand on and apply the Truth that sets us free.

Affirmation: I recognize the Truth that the Infinite lives within me and expresses Its divine nature in me, as me and through me. 

None Are Free Until All Are Free - Rev Dr Bob Deen

As we all move toward a greater expression of freedom in our lives, we affect the unfolding freedom for everyone. The accumulated beliefs of the human race tell us that our freedom can be limited by the actions and beliefs of others. However, in a Universe of Oneness and Unity with the Divine, where Freedom is whole and complete inside each of us, why can’t we the fullness of Freedom? Through Spiritual Practice followed by Divinely Inspired action we can live freedom in out time NOW.

Affirmation: I make no secret of my connection with the Divine, but give it freely for the liberation of Mankind. 

Free at Last - Rev Susan Zoller

Freedom is as much part of our Human nature as curiosity and love. It is not something we have to create. It is something that we must recognize and “walk out’ into our experience. When Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. ended his speech saying, “Free at last, thank God Almighty, we are free at last!” he was stating a powerful call to action. Earlier in the speech he declared we “Let freedom ring…” If we are letting it ring, then freedom must already have the impetus to ring and we simply are invited to let it be. He was affirming for all of us that in Truth we are free. As we “let it have expression” in our individual lives it adds to the expression of Freedom for everyone.

Affirmation: I know and live in divine freedom and every day I take action to share that freedom with the world.

Mindful Speech - Rev Cynthia McCarthy

What we say matters. We create through our language. The world is full of every form of language bringing life into being. 
Affirmation: I speak life into being with an intention of love, oneness, and peace for ourselves and all living things. 

Mindful Intentions - Rev Dr Bob Deen

 All demonstrations are complete when what you set into motion through the law of mind appears in form. All demonstrations first begin as a thought.  The power of intention is a demonstration of your faith in the invisible substance of life. 

Affirmation: I practice my gift of complete freedom by listening to my higher self and I completely trust the process.

Just Breathe - Rev Dr Bob Deen.

Breathing is life, it is Life sustaining ItSelf with the ebb and flow of each inhalation and exhalation. Breathing is also method or technique that helps us to process, shift, and evolve. 

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Affirmation: I breathe mindfully that I may intend, speak, & act as a Spiritual Maverick, doing what is mine to do, manifesting a world that works for all.