Center for Spiritual Living Midtown

“We spend too much of our time and energy listening to a very confused and cynical world telling us how dangerous it is to open our heart even for a moment, let alone keep it opened. And even worse, we constantly look backwards at our own experiences in the area of love and relationships — most of which occurred when we either didn't understand our own emotions, or were trying to connect with someone who didn't understand their emotions — and we assume the future will be just like the past, if not worse. So every time we get hurt, we shut down a part of our heart, then another part, and then another, until eventually our heart looks and feels like an armed fortress.”

With all the talk of inflation and deflation, we’ll take this SUPER BOWL SUNDAY to examine just how much we deflate ourselves, even unintentionally, to the point that we feel tired, under appreciated, and not loved. But with one small ‘tool’, smaller than an inflation needle, we can inflate ourselves back to our intended, full pressurized Life. This ‘tool’ is available in Atlanta, no tire pump required!

“What we need to understand and to remember is that we are the means by which God, or Spirit, creates and expresses Life in the world. It does so marvelously in the world at large, whether we choose to live that way or not. It will do it through us, or around us. It will do it with us or in spite of us — just not necessarily  TO us or FOR us. The choice is always ours and ours alone. God doesn't make our choices for us. It gives us what we expect. So we can refuse to accept our good; we can deny it; we can close our eyes and claim we don’t see it; but we can’t change the Nature of this Power that’s always there to give us our heart’s desire. All WE can affect is how much good we are willing to accept.”

Whenever an idea comes to us, especially a powerful, exciting, life-expanding idea; when we finally accept it and give it our complete attention, and put our passion behind it, that idea will always find a way to appear in our life. But first, it has to become alive in our consciousness. Once we allow it to do that, then we become the means by which it becomes a part of our experience. And nothing outside of us can stand in its way, because it is the Power of All Creation doing what it does, which is creating something fresh and new in our life.

“It’s one thing to believe in a higher Power, in whatever way, shape or form that takes for us. But to live our life in the way we truly want to live it, we also have to believe something else. We have to believe that we all have within us — because, once again, we are all perfect ideas in the Mind of God — that we have within us all the power we could ever need to create whatever we choose to create. You are the only thinker, the only decision maker, in your life. And I am the only thinker in mine.”

If we want to expand our life, and experience all the possibility that the Universe holds, we have to learn to recognize this Perfect Intelligence, this One Creative Power, this Thing from which all other things emerge, as not only the greatest power in the Universe, but as the ONLY power in the Universe. We need to see It as a Power for Good. We need to see It as unlimited, as forever giving all of Itself to its creation. We need to do this because, as Dr. Holmes says, “Our belief sets the limit of our demonstration of a principle which is Itself without limit.

A new year approaches. Will you be a new you? 

Has this year been a blur? 

Has this year been the same as last year? 

Did you give most of your attention to happy or sad moments? 

Did you learn and apply new ideas? 

Make new friends? 

Go new places?   

Allow the Science of Mind principles to provide a source of renewal. 

Demanding, creating and maintaining a balanced, conscious life. 

Promoting and keeping resolutions of  wellness, vibrancy, happiness this year; every year! 

Name it! Claim it!   

I challenge you to launch the coming new year like none other! 

"Out with the old, in with the new " translates to "releasing what doesn't work, inviting newness!" I invite you to summon the habit to live each new year as "A Happy New You!"   

It is on this Winter Solstice, the longest night of the year, that it is appropriate to talk about Light. It is during this Festival of Lights, that it is appropriate that we talk about Light. And it is this week that we celebrate the birth of a new Light, not just of something that happened thousands of years ago, but is happening within us each and every day. YOU are the Light of the World!

True salvation is not a place that we get to, like the ribbon at the finish line of a race. Salvation is also not an award we get for chalking up a certain number of brownie points over the course of our ninety or so years on this planet. And it’s not a win-or-lose proposition that is bestowed upon us by a “thumbs-up or thumbs-down” as we stand before St. Peter at the pearly gates.

Instead, salvation is a state of consciousness. It is learning to work in harmony with the Law of Life that is present within us and all around us, all the time. Once we understand this, we can allow ourselves to live life in the present, rather than worrying about some future judgment day that doesn’t really exist.

It  may be an annual tradition, it may be expectations, it may be out of obligation…. But if you are going home for any of these reasons, you are not going home as your True Self. Your True Self would return home in Love and Gratitude. Come hear about a Holiday Challenge to have your best holiday ever!