Belonging

There is just One Life, the powerful, loving spiritual Essence behind, in, and around all things. This all-powerful nurturing sustainer of all Life is eternally present, the center of all being. Its nature is love, power, peace, lavish abundance, beauty, and love.

This loving Presence is right here where I am, closer than hands and feet, closer than my very own breath. Its love inhabits every area of my life, loving me beyond measure. This is true for every other being as well. We are one global community, each made up of the same spiritual Essence. We are loved unconditionally and continuously—in ways that may seem ordinary or miraculous, in ways that we understand and do not understand.

I claim now for each of us that we experience this love as a feeling of being met, right where we are, wholly and completely. We are loved with the generosity only the Divine can express. We each matter and are all necessary. All sense that they truly belong to Life. All feel the love of Spirit in both a local and global way. I accept enough physical nourishment in the way of healthy food for each of us, and clean, affordable, and safe housing for all. I embrace a world where every one of us truly understands that we belong and that we are a part of the web of life, which can never be broken: a world that works for every single one.

I give thanks for answered prayer with an overflowing heart of gratitude.

I release my word to a God that knows only good, and only says yes. My word has been heard and is being acted upon, now.

And so it is.

Karen Norton, RScP Emeritus

Center for Spiritual Living, Santa Rosa

Responding to Life

Responding to Life

There is One Life, magnificently expressing infinitely and eternally as all that is. Life is perfect wholeness, perfect order, and perfect balance. Life is the Power of creative activity; Absolute Intelligence. Within Life is everything necessary for loving self-nourishment and the sustenance for all creation. Life is calling, guiding, and responding to Itself as the always-expanding Intelligence and conscious activity of wholeness, oneness, and love.

I am Life. I am one with the Absolute, powerful creative force of Life. I am integral to the nourishing and sustaining activity of Life. l am of the One Life, seamlessly one with all. My activity, choices, thoughts, and consciousness expand as Love-in-action. As this is true for me, so it is true for each person in our world community.  In each person the essence of the One Spirit is active as consciousness, intelligence, and Love.

I proclaim that this awareness of oneness is now the predominant calling and response among us. I accept the revelation of Truth in every heart: that each one is an instrument through which guidance, wisdom, and the creative urge resounds in support of Life’s activity of good. I claim and accept the goodness of all events and conditions as the resonant calling that awakens us to our awareness of oneness. I turn my focus to the good that is taking place everywhere, all the time. I proclaim that expanding Love is making Itself known in the heart of our world as constructive social action. This social action is the self-nourishment that is the essence of the One Life. I consciously support Life in constructive thought and activity. I bless and trust the loving guidance of Life to urge me and all people in our personal activity of social action.

I feel the excitement of all sentient beings, indeed, of all of Life responding to the call of expanding good through right action. Knowing this is already the perfect idea in the One Mind, I am grateful.

It is in this gratitude I release and I let go knowing the Law makes it so.  

                                                               

And so it is.

Victoria King, RScP

Creativity and Appreciation

Susan Robinson, RScP

Love, peace, beauty, joy, creativity: these are but a few of the qualities of Divine Intelligence, the One Mind back of all there is, which is everywhere present. This limitless Divine Source transcends time and space, is the Creator of all, and is ever available in support of the highest and best good of all creation. Spirit is the great weaver, continuously creating the tapestry of Life in perfect harmony with Its nature.

I am an extension and an embodiment of this Divine Intelligence. Love, peace, beauty, joy and creativity are my birthright. I am a thread in the ongoing tapestry of Life, weaving my individual path as part of the whole. I am infused with the creative energy of Spirit in unlimited supply. As I realize this truth for myself I recognize it as true for all of life.

From this understanding, I open to a greater experience of the creative process. I relax into the flow of Infinite possibility. I let go of ideas of personal imperfection and embrace the unique ways Divine creativity flows through me. I allow myself to be informed and inspired by the perfection of nature. The gentle breezes remind me to be flexible and the ebb and flow of the tides remind me to breathe deeply and take in the beauty of this life experience. I affirm greater appreciation of all forms of art, music, and the creative ways others are inspired to express their Divine nature. I claim a renewed interest and emphasis on beauty, nature, creativity and art and affirm that this awakening is occurring in all people everywhere. I declare that, through this renewed interest, we are collectively creating a world that works for everyone, in harmony with all of Life.

I am deeply grateful for this conscious awareness and awakening.

Releasing my word into the infinite Yes, and I live from this truth knowing it is so.

And so it is.

Susan Robinson, RScP

Center for Spiritual Living, Santa Rosa

Beauty and Creativity

There is one infinite creative Power, steadfast and sure, the Source of all life: the Spirit of God. It has no beginning and no end; It is eternal, limitless and everywhere present. It flows in, through, and as all things and all beings. It is the Infinite Intelligence that gives rise to all creation, and all creation is made of, from and by this Divine Presence. Within this creative Principle is the ever-expanding, ever-creating Love of Spirit. This Love is the source of all that is—all beauty, nature, creativity, art, and esthetics. This irrepressible force of Love both lifts up and provides the foundation for all being, beauty, and for the natural music of Creation.

I am completely one with the Creative Principle, deeply aware of my connection to Spirit. I am inseparable from the all-inclusive fabric of Its life. Spirit breathes through me in every aspect of my being as It expresses, loves, and creates through me. I am a unique instrument of the Divine, a vessel overflowing with unbounded good and potential. In the same way that I am birthed from this Creative Principle, all beings are also made of It, immersed in Its unlimited nature. There is no place where I, or anyone, ends and God begins.

From this place of unbounded Good and Oneness I claim an ever growing capacity for love, joy, and creativity. I declare an irrevocable partnering with my Good, remembering it is embedded in every fiber of my being, poised, ready and willing to express through me, however life shows up. When I walk in nature, I walk with the intention to enjoy all its beauty. I actually do see the blue of the sea and the pinkness of the flowers. My awareness of creativity reminds me to be present, and helps me to place ever increasing emphasis on beauty, nature, music, and art. I remember that as an expression of the Creative Principle, I am creative, and that there are no degrees of creativity. I begin to practice, experiment, view, and enjoy my life, actually engaging in play, and the wonder of all life.

I give thanks for the Creativity that lives in me and expresses as me.

I release my Word into the Law where it is already known and done.

And so it is.

Suzanne Sackett, RScP

Center for Spiritual Living Santa Rosa

Meaningful Involvement

There is only One, one intelligent Energy, one compassionate Power, one Essence, one Life. This Life is the Divine Urge of creation and connects all things. It is the essence of love and the joy of possibility. It is the I Am of all that is.

I am of the essence of the One, the I Am. The divine urge of the one Life creates and connects through me and all beings. Divine Life is my life and all life. There are limitless variations and all exist within the One.

I recognize that Divine Life inspires every human being to contribute, to create, and to give, and responds to every act of generosity. I claim for every individual the joy that is experienced in giving, creating, and serving. Every act of compassion and creation is meaningful and satisfying. Every act of service and generosity inspires others to act. The Divine Urge draws each individual to those who can support them in expressing themselves through service. People are drawn by Love into communities that are designed to serve through the expression of individual gifts. Every person has a part in creating and supporting through their service to the world, and to each other, with love and compassion. Truth and beauty are valued and honored as we work together and reveal the truth that heaven is at hand.

I am filled with gratitude in the recognition that God's will is even now revealing Itself on earth as it is in heaven.

With a full and grateful heart, I release this word into the Law of the Divine Will and Action.

And so it is.

Sherry Vierra, RScP

Center for Spiritual Living, Santa Rosa

Service to the World

 Service to the World

There is one whole, complete Power. Within It, all is in harmony. Its nature is Love. It is the Creative Source that has given rise to all creation.

As an emanation of this One Perfect One, I and all people and all beings share in Its nature—individually and collectively. Right where each of us is, completeness, harmony, and love are available to us and expressing as us.

Within this harmonious complete and perfect Oneness in which we all live, and move, and have our being, whenever there is a question, there is an answer. If there is a need among us, the resources, the means, and the loving desire to fulfill that need are simultaneously present among us. So I welcome the greater revealing and demonstration of this truth: our communities reflect the balance and harmony inherent in Divine Order. Each of us—individually and collectively—has a gift to give, and a gift to receive. I open to a greater awareness for each of us to know what gifts we have to offer, and how we can share them. I rejoice that we can harmoniously work together for the highest good of all among us, both as we joyfully provide service, and as we gratefully receive the service of others.  

I give thanks for the way that all are uplifted as we mutually give and receive our talents and gifts in our communities. I celebrate this demonstration of the revealing of Divine Love and Order among us—in harmony and balance in all that we are and do together in our communities.

And so it is in grateful, joyful expectancy, that I release this Invisible Word to That which makes it so in visible form.

And so it is. 

Rev. Joyce Duffala

Center for Spiritual Living Santa Rosa

Wisdom

Wisdom 

There is one Power, one Holy Presence; a field of Infinite Love and Intelligence, in and through all things; everywhere present, seen and unseen, expressing as form and vast spaciousness. It is one unifying wholeness that is the source and potency of life Itself; a magnificent harmony of love, light, intelligence, beauty, joy, creativity, and vitality. It is God, Spirit, Life, the Tao, Universal Intelligence, Unconditional Love.  It is that which is beyond one name. 

This Power, this Holy Presence is in and through me, expressing as me. I am one with this infinite presence of unconditional love and intelligence. It is my source and I am its eyes, ears, hands and feet. It is the love in my heart and the wisdom of my soul. It is all that I am. I know this is true of everyone and everything. We are all unique expressions of life, connected through this field of loving intelligence.

In this awareness, I accept for myself and for all of humanity a greater respect and value for spiritual guidance received from this vast field of loving intelligence. I claim a deep knowing that this guidance is sourced in infinite possibility and vision for the highest good and thriving harmony for all creation. I accept a widespread release of limitations based upon past experience, current conditions, fear or lack.  I claim an expanding willingness in every individual to explore and experience their precious, inherent gift to perceive the wisdom of Spirit. I celebrate a global shift where spiritual guidance expressed as intuition, insight, and answered prayer, is honored, valued, and encouraged in all areas of life. I know the world is blessed as more hearts and minds choose to receive and act upon insights and guidance from this Living Intelligence, this most Holy Presence, I call God. 

My heart overflows with gratitude for the way this awareness of infinite love, the wisdom of God, and divine guidance is recognized in us, accepted for what it is, and acted upon.

I joyfully release this prayer to that aspect of God that receives the Word and responds to it. Blessed be. 

And so it is.

Linda Marshall, RScP

Center for Spiritual Living, Santa Rosa