OCTOBER 2025 : Spiritual Emergence

"Those who choose their destiny will be the heroes, the pioneers, the midwives and the mothers of the future." - Alberto Villoldo 

Sunday Talks with Rev. Renee Bledsoe

October 05 - Spiritual Emergence

October 12 - Self Care is Soul Care

October 19 - Release of Suffering

October 26 - Soul Rebirth 

Spiritual emergence is  the process by which we are coming home to our true nature. Some of us can feel the new earth values coming alive in our hearts. This is ascension with feet on  the ground. Humanity as a whole stands at the brink of  the momentous realization that heaven on earth may be possible, even as we realize that we still have work to do. We are also coming to realize what that is and how it looks, not as innocent children, but as breathing, living, maturing human beings who understand the potential and power of this creation. 

As that power is realized, and our esteem and knowledge of self grows, not only do we learn about ourselves, we learn about the of everyone and everything. We see and experience the interconnectedness of all that is, all the time. We read energy and we see the shape of all things in the spirit. And we know that we have the power in our own hands and hearts and minds to get back into the garden. 

"The new myths, the stories that we will teach our children and endow them with the will to live epic lives, must be forged, lived and told by us."- Alberto Villoldo 

Most of us have a sense, even if we have never truly experienced it or only in fleeting moments, the power of the potential of this creation and that a very intrinsic part of this is the re-unification of the Creator. We have a longing for true community, but we have forgotten how to be with our tribe. To many, getting along with others without a tremendous amount of negativity and hurtfulness being present has been something only wished for, but never fully realized. But that was before so many people had shifted into the return back to the garden. The garden is quite simply the consciousness that believes and can clearly hold the vision that paradise can be restored to the earth. And that means that the potential for everything on this planet to live and grow in harmony has never been more possible. 

We have an inkling of what this earth can evolve into, if we will stop for a moment and truly assess the situation outside of our own wounds and the trauma and drama that most of us have endured on this journey to build the world into the state that it is now. Some who can only see, yet, in segments may have quite a different view and find it not so easy to be hopeful. But those of us who can see and who know the power of our own mind and intentions, and this is important... also know that this universe is unfolding according to a divine plan... and this is even more important... that the intelligence that created this universe is part of us and we are a part of it... then everything is by our own design... not as mere individuals, but as emerging souls who represent the body of God, who have come here to claim our free will to create paradise and come into the perfection of our wholeness. 

“The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”  ― Steve Jobs 

It is in our coming together and opening up to the magnetizing force of Love that we can cross the abyss of our own fears and realize that heaven on earth can begin to manifest for us right here and now. We flow between being of service to ourselves, being of service to others and then eventually when our soul stalkings bring us to the altar of our hearts and what we truly love in our unique expression, we find that what we love serves the world and our joy is the worlds joy and what heals us, heals each other. It is in this space that we come to understand the power of our individuality and our own soul. 

Achieving universal higher-state frequency is greatly accelerated as one more easily recognizes and claims their universe citizenship. - Crystal Tones 

It is important to approach ourselves holistically, and especially since time is compressing due to our ability to communicate. The energy of time is much denser and can now be used as the tool it was intended to be like never before. While it is true that clock time and the apparent limitations that it can impose seems limiting, time has given us the ability to determine what is truly precious and worthy of our focus, attention and devotion. So, it is here in this space that we stand with these new eyes, taking the gift of time to help us get clear on what we love... and it is through what we love that our soul emerges! 

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” ― Rumi 

True tribal community is where paradise is found. The memory of paradise is kept under the guardianship of our Native American Grandfathers and Grandmothers, the wisdomkeepers, who remind us that when we each know who we are, and we find our joy, then we can take our true place of honor in the community and bring glory and honor to our family, our community and to this creation. Soul's purpose expressed in beauty and creativity and joy is how we are in service to the whole, and is how we meet in tribal community. The power of ritual and ceremony in communion with our geographical tribe is what gives us the ability to be strong enough within our own ranks to truly bless the world. No longer reacting and surviving, we create our lives out of love and honor. 

It is time for change, time to allow our wings to spread and to allow our soul's expression to take flight. It is in the very act of flight, our reaching out for and our movement toward what we love that draws it to us. As above, so below... Let this be...Paradise found... created. It's time to GO LIVE! 

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” ― Margaret Mead

Spiritual Energence Affirmations

My soul is emerging.

I am becoming the Light of My Soul.

I come into a more holistic understanding of my true nature.

As I care for my spirit and soul, I heal my energy and therefore my body.

I draw all my energy back into myself now, so that I choose how to spend it.

I collect up my power of choice and step even more fully into free will.

I take 100% responsibility for my own life.

I take 100% responsibility to do my part to bring heaven to earth.

I am gathering strength and courage daily to be my true self.

I am discovering my higher self and the true nature of being human.

Light is my medium and Love is the binding force for my creations.

I release addictions and attachment now in order to create the real thing.

I allow myself to experience and create true love in all aspects of my life.

My love is my Guide and Guardian.

Time helps me to prioritize and focus on bringing true love into my life.

As I bring true love into my life, I make heaven on earth.

My Joy brings Joy to the World.

My Peace brings Peace to the World.

My Love brings Love to the World.

My Light brings Light to the World

I am the change I wish to see in the world.

I continue to open to ever deeper levels of truth and light.

I am kind and gentle with myself and others as we grow together.

I am ascending with feet on the ground.

As I give my soul a voice, my spirit emergences in this world.

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SEPTEMBER 2025: StarBorn

"Believe. No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted island, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.” ― Helen Keller

Sunday Talks with Rev. Renee Bledsoe

September 07 - Star Born

September 14 - Owning Your Super Powers

September 21 - Sacred Circle Altar - Fall Equinox - Practical Magic

September 28 - Path of Initiation

Chances are, if you are reading this, if you are interested in the Light, you are a modern mystic, a seeker of truths, sacred insights and deep magic. Maybe you're even a wisdomkeeper yourself! It didn't used to be "safe" to own any of that. In fact, it used to be quite detrimental to one's health to be entertaining such an intimate relationship with the divine.  But the world is fast becoming a different place. As they say, "No mud, no lotus". The tipping point has been reached and now the correction has begun.

“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”― Harriet Tubman

We are at a very delicate stage of our human evolutionary development, both as a whole and as individuals. We have enough consciousness now and enough layers of denial removed to realize the extent of what humanity has been through. Most of us have processed gallons of grief, boatloads of anger and gigawatts of rage. Some of us have done so much clearing that we are starting to have past life recollections and visions on a regular basis. Some of us are developing the new skills that will soon be coming online for everyone such as increased psychism, heightened empathic senses, and mediumship including clairvoyance, clairsentience, and clairaudience. This will bring us to yet a whole new set of issues to be dealt with.

"Not just beautiful, though--the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they're watching me.”  ― Haruki Murakami

One of the most wonderful and powerful gifts that are coming to more and more people is the power to channel their spiritual guides, which include ascended masters, ancestors, animal spirits and angels, in addition to our Higher Selves our soul and our body itself! When we begin to take this communication seriously everything changes. These guides and guardians exist to help us. When we don't call on them, or take them seriously we are denying ourselves the deep magic. For it is these beings who guide us through the dimensional gateways to higher consciousness and help us anchor it with meaning into our lives!

“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”  ― Carl Sagan

As all of these strange new human qualities emerge, we need a great deal of support. It is important to receive that support so that we can help each other stay grounded in our ascension process. After all, we're not leaving the planet, we are shifting and changing, just as Gaia is shifting and changing. We are connected and that has never been more apparent. It's time to let your own radiant soul have authority over your life. It's time to trust these parts of yourself that have been long hidden. It's a great mystery how the soul emerges and it is a process to be respected and revered. New earth is taking hold and it's now time to let your own Star Be Born.

"The mind, this globe of awareness, is a starry universe that when you push off with your foot, a thousand new roads become clear, as you yourself do at dawn, sailing through the light." ~Rumi

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A Star is Born Affirmations

I am awakening to the fullness of my soul.

I accept the beauty of my journey.

My story is woven into the fabric of life.

I walk this earth in a sacred manner.

I let my light shine.

I help others to shine their light.

What I love will help and heal the world.

The universe is watching and waiting for me to fully engage in life!

When I am joyfully creating, I bring the vibration of joy to all.

My gratitude and appreciation brings a glow to my heart.

I look for creative ways to express my gratitude.

My love is my art.

Time stands still when I am creating from my heart.

I have the courage to try new things.

I do what I think I cannot do.

I face my life with positivity and excitement.

I embrace the unknown and open to the Great Mystery.

I am in awe at the miracles that unfold in my life when I trust.

I allow love to live through me.

When I surrender to my soul, I come alive!

I face everything and rise.

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AUGUST 2025: Inner Light

Don't shine to be seen, shine so that others can see the way. ~ Unknown

Sunday Talks with Rev. Renee Bledsoe

August 03 - Revealing Your Inner Light

August 10 - Truth of Enlightenment

August 17 - Working with Light

August 24 - Dance of Shadow & Light

August 31 - Radiant Heart

Do you know the deeper, higher truth of who you are? Have you dared to acknowledge that there may be parts of yourself that you barely know or understand? Are you willing to allow yourself the leeway to grow, change and evolve? Do you have the courage to shine the light on your own inner being, as well as cosmic forces that are available to you? Do you ask and answer questions like these often? If you said, yes - Great! Self inquiry is an absolute necessity to begin to shine that light of yours from within.

Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?  ~Maurice Freehill 

If you see the Light, in its most practical nature, as the Truth, then you understand that enlightenment is the means by which we reveal the truth to ourselves and to the world. Yet, enlightenment is about far more than simply being honest. True enlightenment strips away all the illusions about life itself, including people, places and things, parts of our own personality and belief systems and anything else at all that is keeping us from the truth of love. It inspires us to open to our soul and it allows us to see the light in everyone and everything.

When you possess light within, you see it externally. ~Anaïs Nin

Many people try to shine a spotlight onto themselves from without, competing for attention and living in a perpetual state of lack, forgetting all about power versus force and the power of their true light.  When you absolutely know who you are, what you have to offer to the world and the importance of anchoring your God self onto this planet, then you know it's not really that much about you shining at all. It's about you becoming in alignment with your radiant God Self, so that the unique aspects of this creation that you are resonant with, can find you and we can all be re-united with the Light.

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within. ~Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

We are here now in a dance of shadow and light. This is a dance that we must come to enjoy. For even though we all know that the life giving light of the sun is what keeps our body and mind alive and well. It is under the cover of the night, and in the void of our own soul, where all possibility exists and the deep lake of our inner being, reflects the light of God and refracts it out into the world in a way that allows us to reveal, share and receive God's Love. This is the means by which the omnipotent forces of creation can experience itself in the material world, where we can play and have fun, creating our dreams and manifesting love without "blinding" each other with our Light. This is how we all come to shine our Light from within and live as one.

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.' We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we're liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." ~ Marianne Williamson

LIGHT AFFIRMATIONS

I am guided by the Light.

I am filled with the Light of the Creator.

I meditate with the Light.

As I shine the light and reflect on my life, I look for the love.

I ask what would love do?

My life is alive with the truth of my existence.

Life is Light.

I am a being of light.

I am evolving into the full realization and becoming my soul.

My soul will set my spirit free.

My light must come through the depths of my soul.

The Light is in service to my soul.

In the darkness of my soul, all things are possible and I choose according to the desires of my heart what I will create.

I use reflection and contemplation to know myself.

I allow myself to shine.

I allow others to shine, and bask in the gifts they freely give.

I see the inner beauty of all those who surround me.

I receive the gifts of life, through all the people, places and things on my journey.

The Light destroys all illusions of love.

The Light leads me to divine love.

I am inspiring, when I am inspired.

I live an illuminated life.

I dance with shadow and light, understanding that this is how I am able to choose with my free will.

It is within the darkness, that I find the true light within.

In order to access the darkness, I turn toward my problems and issues, not away.

I face the power of my own Light within and actively work with it to dispell illusion.

Once I see the Light, I have faith that my innate wisdom will guide me to the choices that will free my soul.

As I free my mind, I free my body. As I free my heart, I free my soul.

I am a radiant Light unto the world.

What I love inspires and enlightens the world.

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Check out our online community where each week we share our Sunday Meditation playlists, our monthly energy channeling, as well as New Earth Teachings, Universal Medicine Wheel Readings and Metaphysical Inspiration for soul recovery. You can join for as little as $5 per month. Visit ---> Patreon.com/cosl 

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JULY 2025 : One For All & All For One

“Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom.”  ― D.H. Lawrence

Sunday Talks with Rev. Renee Bledsoe
July 06 - One for All & All for One
July 13 - Leadership through Spiritual Partnership
July 20 - On Solitude and Inner Silence
July 27 - Vulnerability, Trust & Intimacy

No one is an island. We are all in this together. We are connected. Yet, even if we understand these things to be true from a spiritual perspective, as well as the physical, how do we reconcile our loneliness in a world full of 7 billion people? There is a big difference in "knowing" that we are interconnected, and living as if we are. That is where the rubber meets the road.

"And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people as one of many hoops that made one circle." - Black Elk

We are all craving something we cannot name in our relationships, a warmth, a closeness, an intimacy. Yet, often when we have made ourselves vulnerable in this way, we were hurt, abused or ignored. This had the effect of closing our hearts down for a time, until the pain of a closed heart became more painful than opening up again and risking letting others in. Or, when others opened up to us we hurt them, even inadvertently because we didn't understand how vulnerable they felt. In relationships where people are not taking responsibility for their own feelings either way, this leads to the inevitable shutdown, because we do not know what true intimacy looks like, and certainly do not yet possess a healthy sense of self. After all part of our journey here is to learn how to love.

“One can acquire everything in solitude except character.” ― Stendhal

Conversely enough, since we exist relationally, we cannot get a sense of self without the contrast of each other. So as we go into pseudo relationship, pretending to be connected, but truly not we still do not learn how to love.  We get lost in blaming other people and forgetting that we are the common denominator in every single one of our relationships. Sometimes we are fortunate, with enough practice, to see a pattern emerging. When that happens we have the opportunity to understand that our whole process in relationship has not been some random propensity for isolation and suffering, but to introduce us to lost parts of our psyche. When we can clearly see this and make these connections there is a true softening of the heart and a coming to compassion for what has been at work in our lives.

“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.” ― Kurt Vonnegut

We must remember that what occurs in the 3 dimensional/physical aspect of our lives is said to be only 1% of reality, as Grandfather Black Elk has said that this world is like a shadow of the real. Yet, it is giving us clues about what is going on in that mysterious 99% of our existence. If we are to bring heaven to earth in our relationships, we must realize that there is a great unknown that wants to be revealed here through the mystery of our relationships. For, we did not come here to get lost in a one on one relationship and never experience the depths of love that comes from loving humanity, this creation and the creator as passionately as we do our lover.

Our soul will not let us rest until we love God/dess and have a real relationship with our divinity and our creator. Therefore apparent separation has been a part of our soul's evolution... and could be thought of at this stage as more of an involution, or the inward enfolding of the heart becoming centered from within, as we come to realize that there is a perfect equilibrium that is possible if only we will keep working towards it, one for all and all for one.

“Lovers must not, like usurers, live for themselves alone. They must finally turn from their gaze at one another back toward the community. If they had only themselves to consider, lovers would not need to marry, but they must think of others and of other things. They say their vows to the community as much as to one another, and the community gathers around them to hear and to wish them well, on their behalf and its own. It gathers around them because it understands how necessary, how joyful, and how fearful this joining is. These lovers, pledging themselves to one another "until death," are giving themselves away, and they are joined by this as no law or contract could join them. Lovers, then, "die" into their union with one another as a soul "dies" into its union with God. And so here, at the very heart of community life, we find not something to sell as in the public market but this momentous giving. If the community cannot protect this giving, it can protect nothing...” ― Wendell Berry

Even as we come into community and truly connect with all our relations, we must connect not only spiritually, but also emotionally, mentally and physically. We must connect socially. We must connect from within, and from our heart fields unfolding. We must also connect etherically. Yet, we will not do this until we are ready for a kind of intimacy that outstrips anything we have heretofor known. This comes through a series of initiations. These are initiations of the soul and hearts readiness to truly love. But it is not just a readiness of desire, for their are certain structures and measures of character that must be present and whole enough to truly love, and to be a strong container for divine love, or agape to be held on earth.

"And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people as one of many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father." - Black Elk

The subtleties of tribal community in the modern world are being forged behind the scenes right now within our very own community, and within our hearts. For we are practicing the art of true community every day here. Tribal community is about much more than getting together and banging on drums... or even doing sacred ceremony. It is not just about anything we could physically "do" together. It is about the spirit and consciousness with which we gather. it is about an understanding that even when we are not physically gathered that we are still connected. This makes the gathering times that much more meaningful. It is about Cosmic universal Truth, that is abiding, and a reverence for the sanctity of life and this whole creation, including the unseen worlds.

“A proper community, we should remember also, is a commonwealth: a place, a resource, an economy. It answers the needs, practical as well as social and spiritual, of its members - among them the need to need one another.” ― Wendell Berry

True tribal community is about resonance and a harmonic convergence of souls. It is about absolute abundance of all things needful both spiritual and material. When we are ready to be on the path of love and release ourselves from the severity and the suffering path, we will come into true community. For it is here that life lessons are no longer learned through unconsciousness and malevolent shennanigans. Lessons are learned through true love. We live by the golden rule, and that is to treat one another as we would like to be treated. But the jewel in the crown is that the members of the community have and understanding of their own divinity and they have or are rapidly abolishing any distortions around the way they want to be treated.

“Without God man neither knows which way to go, nor even understands who he is... One of the deepest forms of poverty a person can experience is isolation... Poverty is often produced by a rejection of God's love, by man's basic and tragic tendency to close in on himself, thinking himself to be self-sufficient or merely an insignificant and ephemeral fact, a "stranger" in a random universe...The human being develops when ... his soul comes to know itself and the truths that God has implanted deep within, when he enters into dialogue with himself and his Creator... It is not by isolation that man establishes his worth, but by placing himself in relation with others and with God.”  ― Pope Benedict XVI

True tribal community must emerge... naturally and organically, as a result of a recognition of a deep common ground in complete wholeness. Any one of the aspects missing will not build true community. We may not be an island, but we are certainly asked to go deep within, to make friends with solitude and to learn how to love and relate from the inside out. It is our community, these faces of God/dess that have helped us to defy gravity from within and allowed our individual souls to soar for all to see, experience and delight in. As this outpictures, the true community is not only there to support... but the real story is that they have been a part of the midwiving of each of us as a soul, all along.

"The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us."  -Black Elk


ALL FOR ONE & ONE FOR ALL
I am free to be myself.
In being myself, I am free to Love.
I have the courage and strength to claim my free will.
I align my will with the will of my higher self.
My soul has been set free.
I practice freedom, by tending to my soul.
I love life and life loves me.
I am free to fulfill my destiny.
My boundaries and clear communication create a safe space.
I am a force for good to be reckoned with.
I am free to make mistakes.
The  is conspiring on my behalf.
It jjjnnis by my purified and unified will that I set my mind in motion.
I gladly pay the priernal vigilance of the desires of my soul.
I set myself free.
I am free to express from the deepest parts of my being.
I surrender to my soul which leads me to the light.
I allow the phoenix within me to rise up out of the ashes.
I step into my highest calling.
I remember who and what I am.
I give myself permission to re-enter the garden.
My body is a vehicle for freedom and the actualization of my dreams.
I dream myself awake to all that I am.
I choose life and I honor that choice.
I take great delight in Life.
The will of my mind, the will of my body, the will of my soul are one with the will of God.
As freedom rings I embrace the joy of true interdepence.
I am all for one and one for all.

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Check out our online community where each week we share our Sunday Meditation playlists, our monthly energy channeling, as well as New Earth Teachings, Universal Medicine Wheel Readings and Metaphysical Inspiration for soul recovery. You can join for as little as $5 per month. Visit ---> Patreon.com/cosl

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JUNE 2025: Let Your Life Be A Prayer

“You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.” ― Kahlil Gibran

Sunday Talks with Rev. Renee Bledsoe

June 01 - Let your Life be a Prayer

June 08 - Activating Prayer Code: Ceremony & Ritual

June 15 - The Role of Heavenly and Earth Angels in the Fulfillment of Desire

June 22 - Sacred Circle Sunday - Summer Solstice Celebration - Happy Father's Day

June 29 - Opening & Asking ☆ Believing & Receiving

The power of prayer and intention in our lives is all important to the realization of our free will and to the creation of a life of our choosing. Prayer is the voice that we give to these choices as we petition the higher powers that be for the love, support, protection and abundance that are not only necessary to our physical survival, but also our spiritual evolution. For in the asking, we come to realize that all is given, especially when we embrace the shamanic nature of our being and become the tracker in our lives.

When we gather in community on the medicine wheel we have milestones and markers, which allow us to not only see the signs and experience the synchronicities, but to better interpret them, offering us a way to ground, anchor and integrate the knowledge, or to simply have more patience as we build our own faith in the process of unfolding. With these spiritual eyes on the shamanic path we can see the often subtle responses to our prayers that will better allow the omnipotent forces that we have invoked to do their magic. And we can also better hear the instructions of our soul which can guide our actions and decisions.

“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.” ― Søren Kierkegaard

We came here to create. We are creators, or more aptly put, co-creators. First through the protection of our ego we acted out our lives and created in unconscious ritual. As we learned more about who and what we truly are, we no longer act out only symbolically, but with reverence and respect as we create a new earth reality by taking these same rituals and framing and containing them in the story of our life under the protection of sacred ceremony... consciously and with positive intent.

“Let your intentions be good - embodied in good thoughts, cheerful words, and unselfish deeds - and the world will be to you a bright and happy place in which to work and play and serve” - Grenville Kleiser

In our unawakened state we may have found ourselves relying a great deal on our own steam and forgetting to pray. Or we may have prayed, but only at times of sorrow, angst or fear. Most of us were plenty good at forming an intention, but painfully shy of releasing it to the Universe, which is actually what makes an intention, a prayer. Ultimately we want to integrate prayer and intention and weave a practice of ritual and ceremony into our lives that allows us to dance our prayers, sing our prayers, cook, clean and garden our prayers... create art, or sit in silence and be one with our intentions, certain of the soul's purpose and the desires of our heart, so that the very actions of our life take on new meaning under this high guidance.

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.”  - Douglas Adams

It's been a challenging journey, as we've experienced the knowledge of good and evil, duality and the polarizations of right and wrong doing. Now, unlike ever before, we have the opportunity to come to the center of our Self, the altar of our soul and pray in ways that make our whole life a sacred ceremony. When we pray we are speaking to the Divine, but when we wrap our prayers in ritual and ceremony, we are speaking directly and intimately to the divinity within our own being. We are speaking to our own soul and acknowledging that God comes through the people, the earth and that we are a great mystery. And as we leave room, the magic of the universe begins to respond back in spite of its mysterious nature, we can communicate meaningfully because we have framed and contained our desires in sacred space and surrendered them in complete faith.

“I am realistic – I expect miracles.”  ― Wayne W. Dyer

Make an intention to be listening with humility and awareness to the whispering of your soul. Then give a voice to it...spoken and written. Place it within the safe space of sacred ceremony. Enlivened with symbology, imagery, music... dance, drum and sweat your prayers... Annointed with precious oils. Activated with spiritual guides and angels. Taken into the silence of the void of your being. Align the Wills, then surrender fully to your soul, and to the Great Mystery. Watch and wait with calm certainty that the circumstances, the synergy and the guidance for right action will come and ultimately create something through this kind of surrender that far exceeds any meager wish that we can come up with on our own. That is the true power of prayer and intention.

“Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place you must find.” ― Wayne W. Dyer

Affirmations

I pray and intend my life with humility, awareness and surrender.

I claim my free will through the power of prayer.

I raise the quality of my prayers.

I pray for peace, love and joy for myself and others.

I create a sacred space for my prayers.

I seek to align with the divine will of my GodSelf.

I allow heavenly and earth angels to love and support me.

As an earth angel I am supportive of my fellow travelers and render aid in times of need.

I create a sacred life that inspires the world to wonder.

I invoke the higher powers of the universe to reveal and support my life purpose.

The more I recognize and acknowledge my life purpose, the more power and support comes to me.

I embrace the mystery of my life.

I wrap my prayers in the protection of the medicine wheel and intend for my highest good.

My intentions are for the highest good of all concerned.

I am open to this or something better and welcome the creativity of my higher power.

I pray for guidance in all aspects of my life.

I ask and it is given.

I knock and the door is opened.

As I converse with the universe, elements of my own mysterious nature are revealed

In prayer I come to a better understanding of myself.

I inspire and infuse my prayers with sacred ceremony and ritual.

My prayers are made whole within the the sacred container of the medicine wheel.

I meditate, listen, journal and use divination to determine my heart's desires.

I want for nothing, and choose to create my bliss.

My joyful creations add to the beauty of the earth.

I send lovingkindness to all.

I see the undeviating justice in my life.

I allow myself to receive good into my life.

My entire life is a sacrament and a prayer.

I will to will thy will.

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MAY 2025: The Path With A Heart

“Men are governed only by serving them; this rule is without exception." - V. Cousin

Sunday Talks with Rev. Renee Bledsoe

May 04 - Path With A Heart

May 11 - Lead With Your Heart

May 18 - Nature of Love

May 25 - The Art of Giving & Receiving Love

"Does this path have a heart? All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. They are paths going through the bush, or into the bush. In my own life I could say I have traversed long, long paths, but I am not anywhere. Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't, it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere; but one has a heart, the other doesn't. One makes for a joyful journey; as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse your life. One makes you strong; the other weakens you. Does this path have a heart? If the answer is no, you will know it, and then you must choose another path." - Carlos Castaneda, The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge

You cannot walk the path with a heart if you will not bare your soul. So there are 2 types of destroyer relationships that we encounter that can help us remove our blocks to this path. The first kind tears away the idea that someone can connect with our heart if we have not connected with our own heart and soul, thereby provoking us into standing up and being true to ourself, through the caricature of their own exagerated self-interest. In the shadows, this can show up as narcissistic and addicted.

The second kind removes our blocks to love by mirroring back the love within us that is buried deep inside our own heart. This can only be accomplished by someone who is connected to their own heart, and is soul sovereign. Otherwise in the shadows this is codependency and enmeshment. In the light, this is the truest path of heart to heart communication.

Both of these encounters destroy blocks to love; one by mirroring our outer state, thus inciting us to take better care of our inner self; and the other destroys by mirroring our inner state and challenging us to take better care of our outer self.

Most of us have experienced both of these destroyers. As they pull us to the center of our heart we come to the realization that love is an energy that wants to flow in our life, regardless of circumstances. Love is a substance of the creator, and how it moves and flows is up to us.

Once these dualities have been cycled through we have the opportunity to get to that third synergistic place within ourselves. In this space we can come into complete acceptance of any and all relationships as a kind of sacred other.

We can come into oneness, but not where we put our circle over someone else's circle, but where we link with them, like a venn diagram or visica pisces. This would virtually have us coming into divine union with all those we meet.

One day, that place where we meet in the middle would draw us to our perfect partner in life, because we were brave and loving enough to embrace parts of ourself that we either disown out of disdain, or unworthiness through many everyday encounters with sacred others.

This is when the mirror gets put down. This is where we can now see face to face, and we can finally be fully known, even as we can fully know another simply because we love one another as we love ourself, and as God and humanity loves us. In the other, as in our self, we see only God/Goddess.

1 Corinthians

8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.

9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part,

10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears.

11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.

12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

 

Path of Heart AFFIRMATIONS

I  believe in the power of love.

I believe in the beauty of my dreams.

My dreams are important to me in ways beyond my imagining.

I allow myself time to rest and restore.

I schedule fun and play into my life every day.

When I smile, the whole world is alight with my love.

When I laugh, the angels are celebrating.

The care and feeding of my spirit is just as important as the care I give my body.

I give myself time to visualize, meditate and create.

When I am peaceful and tranquil, I am open to more inspiration.

I am inspired by the Light.

Each morning I lie quietly before arising and allow my higher self to speak to me.

I receive high inspiration from the quiet of my soul.

My soul speaks in silence.

I am a master of the art of doing without doing.

I treat myself as royalty and everyday I wear an invisible crown.

When I am happy, I give off the vibration of happiness and everyone and everything I come in contact with benefits.

I accept my highest good into my life in the manner in which it should unfold.

I rest in the belief that the Universe is supporting my purpose.

I acknowledge any apparent misfortune, but I see only good.

I experience my feelings clearly without attaching emotional baggage from the past.

I am filled with the endless blessings of the creator.

I find creative ways to relax my body and mind.

I breathe my cares away and restore myself with the breath of life.

I am leading with my heart.

I walk the path of love.

APRIL 2025: New Earth Values

"You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings." - Unknown

Sunday Talks with Rev. Renee Bledsoe

April 06 - New Earth Values

April 13 - Being & Doing (CoSL 17th Anniversary)

April 20 - Easter Celebration: Church in Circle

April 27 - Ascending & Grounding

We came here to shine our light. But first we have had to master this high and fine art of life to allow for the temperance of such brilliance so that we could learn how to physically work together. For we find here that shining our light to blind, exclude or compete with others is not what we came for. In other words, before we could really shine our light, we have had to experience the loneliness of our own omnipotence, in favor of taking a stand for our own unique desires and destiny, and looking at the power of going deep versus wide to express our own soul's purpose. Ironically, as we step outside of reductionist, linear time and thought, and into the fullness of fractal time and the realm of soul and spirit, we start to fully understand the gift of this physical world, and our embodiment takes on a whole new meaning.

"The darkness of our world awaits you -- not to engulf you, but to be transformed by you." ~ Neale Donald Walsch

The possibilities of an age of peace, enlightenment, artistry, creativity, unity in diversity, true appreciation for the earth and for the human condition can feel a bit like a fairy tale come true. Some of us are finally seeing how it is even possible to enjoy the journey, and not focus on the destination.  Can you imagine how sad we must have been to have to compete and bump up against each each other in order to reveal our unique soul's purpose to ourselves? We had to individuate, as this was and is our fate, but our true destiny is to re-unite and bring our great I AM presence back to the whole to honor each other. Humanity has finally "earned" through its own innovations, creations and evolution to come back into the garden.... and the garden is right here and right now ... on earth... with each other.

Truth be told, more people than ever before in the history of the world have the ability to find their tribe... to find their kindred spirits and to become empowered spheres of influence in their own right. This is the legacy of holographic creator gods and goddesses in the making. It is our birthright to step into the glory of the work of a true creator. Like our maker who was so patient with this work in progress called humanity, we must also extend this grace to ourselves, as we continue to emerge and evolve our higher selves into being. Could it just be that this new era of social consciousness is both too good and true?

“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” ― Rumi

Although these new sensories, skills and ways of being are not without their own set of new rules and potentials, as well as pitfalls, the vast majority of the way has been cleared for both lift off and a grounding of this new energy. The antidote for any discomfort as we acclimate is to continue to do our clearing and recovery work so that we can come into complete integrity with ourselves and others. This transparency that is phasing in, after all, is what we've wanted all along. For true intimacy and co-creation requires a measure of vulnerability that we may not have felt safe enough to express.To truly be seen we must reveal what is in our hearts. We must be strong within ourselves to reveal our tender hearts to each other and to the world. In the new earth, our love is our boundaries and our protection is our love.... and our joy is the artful expression of our life's purpose... whatever that may look like, even as it changes and grows. We must come to understand that we have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of our own blessings and our own ability to bless others.

“It is now your responsibility to nourish the qualities that are in you to create the luminous and glorious life that you desire. From your heart, radiate all this Love for humanity. Share your Joy.” - Sai Maa

A new age of originality and creativity is upon us, a renaissance of the highest order, giving license to the individual to shine on the world stage right in the comfort of our own hometown. Now we live locally, but think globally. Literally, the world is our oyster. We can have the best of both worlds and find that this duality is merging to form a synergistic blend of all that is good and right. The eternal will to good makes manifest delight and joy in our lives now. We must move forward now, even as some still suffer. For we truly know that misery loves company, which means that any subscription to that channel keeps it alive. This does not mean that we ignore the suffering of others, and the systems that are up for change. On the contrary, our creative solutions have never been more necessary. For this new earth won't respond to force. It is our power that we must source to create heaven on earth by our own action.

So let your light shine, let love live through you...for yourself, for your family, for your tribe and for the world. After all...It's what we came for.

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New Earth Values Affirmations

My heart is free to love.

I let love live through me.

It is my joy to create my life in conscious awareness of the I AM Presence within me.

It is my responsibility to participate in the manifestation of my blessings.

I feel, see and sense the divine in all that is.

I apprehend the beauty of this world on levels beyond the ordinary senses.

I focus my desires and align them with my higher self.

My higher self imagines me to Be.

The love of the creator has gathered my soul and made me whole.

I explore my talents and skills to deepen the glory of the great work.

I am the living embodiment of all that I believe.

The solar initiation is the path of a creator god and goddess in the making.

I release the fate of cosmic loneliness, as I find expression in my tribe.

All is my relative.

I am in relationship with all that I see.

I take responsibility for how I am in relationship to everything in existence.

I see unity, harmony and social consciousness into being.

I practice social consciousness to bring in the new earth energies.

I hone may art and my craft in whatever my chosen path of endeavor to expand our experience of heaven on earth.

I have new respect and insight in the use of linear time to benefit my creations.

I work with the medicine wheel to step outside of time and space to receive inspiration from above and manifest miracles on the ground.

I seek to learn the languages of love that include sound, color and light.

Freedom is only serving me if it is leading me to greater realization of love.

Love is more than a feeling, thought, or touch...it is a catalyst for creation.

Love is the synergy that happens within when I give my time, attention and actions freely and without thought of return.

True love is always returned, immediately and from within.

Receiving affirmations of love are a mirrored reflection of the love within.

I believe in calling forth the purest essence of life, truth, beauty and love.

I slow down to spread joy all around.