Center for Spiritual Living Midtown

Dance Like No One Is Watching - Rev Paul Gonyea

As far as I’m concerned, we take ourselves way too seriously. We get attached to looking a certain way, and being a certain way, and being thought of in a certain way. And we are very, very careful to protect our precious self-image. Part of that self-image includes our beliefs about how life is supposed to be lived, in every tiny detail, and that often includes how we think other people are supposed to live their lives, too. When other people are not doing the things we think they’re supposed to be doing, or when they’re not doing them in the way we think they should be done, we express our disapproval, sometimes openly but usually in more subtle ways. And subtle disapproval is the worst.

Dance Like No One Is Watching - Rev Paul Gonyea

As far as I’m concerned, we take ourselves way too seriously. We get attached to looking a certain way, and being a certain way, and being thought of in a certain way. And we are very, very careful to protect our precious self-image. Part of that self-image includes our beliefs about how life is supposed to be lived, in every tiny detail, and that often includes how we think other people are supposed to live their lives, too. When other people are not doing the things we think they’re supposed to be doing, or when they’re not doing them in the way we think they should be done, we express our disapproval, sometimes openly but usually in more subtle ways. And subtle disapproval is the worst.

The Way of the Spiritual Path part 2 0 - Rev Ursula Lentine

Learn about the patterns and meaningfulness of what happens in a reality that sometimes does not make sense. The Spiritual Path has a Way unto itself. When we understand the Way, life suddenly becomes easier and more playful instead of confusing and chaotic.

The Way of the Spiritual Path part 2 0 - Rev Ursula Lentine

Learn about the patterns and meaningfulness of what happens in a reality that sometimes does not make sense. The Spiritual Path has a Way unto itself. When we understand the Way, life suddenly becomes easier and more playful instead of confusing and chaotic.

Just Give Me A Sec - Rev. David Barrett

The World seems to always be making demands on us, and once in a while we ask people to “Give me a sec”, give me one second to complete what I am doing and I can then help you. Well, this week, the world time keepers give us one extra second….. what will you do with the extra second? Sleep it away, or change the world?

Go ask your Mother - Rev Paul Gonyea

What many chronically unhappy people express as irrational fear or justifiable anger towards their creator, because something in their life turned out badly, is actually fear or anger over their own perceived inability to control their life. They feel powerless. The problem is, as long as these people continue to focus on God as an unfair Father who keeps treating them badly, it gives them an external target for their frustration, which means they don’t have to take any responsibility. That’s why they spend so much time worshiping at the altar of victimhood. If they’d only stop being so spiritually paranoid, they might begin to realize that this Power can’t do anything TO them that it doesn’t do THROUGH them

Balancing Acts

When we remember that the world is created from the inside out, from the invisible to the visible, from thought to thing, we stop giving so much attention to the way things are at any given time because we realize that we can change them. In other words, by focusing on the one and only thing that we can control, which is what we are thinking in the present moment, we stop getting rattled when things go wrong. We stop getting upset because people aren’t behaving a certain way, or frustrated because the solution that shows up looks different than we expected. We simply start seeing something new in our consciousness, which sets the Law in motion, creating something different in our experience.

A Juneteenth Celebration -Rev. David Barrett

 When I am not feeling free, when I am not feeling loved, when I am not feeling rich, when I am not feeling well….. there just may be a reason for it. Come hear how a bit of our US history shares an insight in how we can change all those feelings.

Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained - Rev Angela Harmon

Are you afraid of taking risk?
Do you resist change?
Avoid uncertainty?
Do you do the same thing but want different results?

Often times, life becomes comfortable causing change to be undesirable To the point of being in fear! and doing nothing new or different at all cost

An acronym shared with me years proclaim the word FEAR to be
False Evidence Appearing Real
Living in fear of the unknown causes stagnation
Lack of movement
Resistant to change

In God there is no lack
Life changes constantly
Flows easily when we are able to face fear with faith
Keep in mind, “without risk, nothing changes”
Life is full of uncertainties
Allow SOM principles to build faith to overcome fear
Face the fear and do it anyway
Nothing ventured, nothing gained
We live in a Universe of infinite possibilities
Be brave, life will be abundant in all areas.
Enjoy the adventure.

Remembering What to Forget - Rev Paul Gonyea

We may not be able to choose or to change our past experiences. But we CAN choose what aspect of them we want to remember, as long as we also remember which part we need to forget. That means, instead of dwelling on someone’s death, we can choose to remember a life well-lived. Instead of remembering the pain of illness, we can choose to remember the healing that came after, or the health that sustained us before. Instead of remembering anger and fear, we can choose to remember love.