DECEMBER 2020: Divine Light

“Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, when one only remembers to turn on the light.” - Albus Dumbledore 

In theology, divine light (also called divine radiance or divine refulgence) is an aspect of divine presence, specifically an unknown and mysterious ability of God, angels, or human beings to express themselves communicatively through spiritual means, rather than through physical capacities. Spiritual light or divine light is often used as a metaphor for the Truth, as in seeing the light. However, spiritual light is a very real phenomenon that has a profound effect upon the earth and her inhabitants on many levels of being.

“Whoever lives the truth comes into the light.” (John 3:21)

Bringing in more divine light is accomplished slowly and over time, as we remove layers of denial and awaken to ever deepening understanding of the true nature of our being. Truth is revealed, this allows enlightenment to occur.. meaning darkness and confusion are brought to order. This order, at first can feel a little austere, and a kind of emptiness can occur, especially if the segueway into our purpose is not quite in step with the dance of our new beginnings. Yet, this stage of enlightenment is not to be feared. There is a definitive point in time where we are claiming the truth of our free will and going to places of greater responsibility with our free will.

At first when the full weight of that is felt, acknowledged and understood, it can press upon us and feel quite overwhelming. This is why the process of enlightenment, while in it's initial stages often entails a great deal of clearing and letting go of belief systems that do not serve free will, is ultimately leading us to the realization of our freedom to create our life, to live out our destiny in the highest, most ingenious ways we can imagine. Navigating in the emptiness of our own divine identity as it is coming to light is a time when our true selves are literally coming alive or coming online. It truly is an awakening and an unfolding of the great mystery within.

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” ― Plato

As we begin the process of unfolding, much like a flower that opens its petals to the sun, we continue to bring in more and more light. It becomes important for us to consciously work with light. We do this by continuing practices which help us to raise and maintain higher levels of awareness and mindfulness. some of that freedom we have earned includes the propensity to tell the truth.... regularly and even at cost to what was before. When this is faithfully done, we start to see the perfection of this existence in greater detail. This brings us into a deep appreciation for our life and for all life. This appreciation and gratitude becomes a way of being, and not just a list that we rustle up when we need a reminder to pull us out of the doldrums.

Often we will hear teachers remind us of the power of our shadow and going into our own darkness. While these teachings are helpful for sure, ultimately if you look at darkness or chaos as a part of creation, or the void of creation to be more specific, then you will understand that journeying through a measure of darkness is a valid part of the process of creating our lives, and our divine identity. But just as the physical birth process and our time in the womb and passage through the birth canal is not the whole of our life experience, but in reality only the beginning, for our divinity is born through the passage through the valley of the shadow of darkness into the light in much the same way. Notice that it says the shadow of darkness. This could be interpreted as saying that when we are in the void or the unknown aspects of creation that if we are suffering, in pain or afraid that we may be in the shadow of darkness. As we ascribe our fears to this part of the creative process, it could quite possibly be reminding us that we are to bring light into the darkness in order to release the lie of the shadow.

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”  ― Martin Luther King Jr

Divine Light has the power to heal and empower our lives in ways that we may barely be able to comprehend. Lightworkers the world over are essentially truth workers, who by facing their own darkness, bravely shine the light and are willing to die the little ego deaths of negativity and distorted belief systems in order to be reborn into the light. This has a visceral effect on all life. For bringing in divine light is much more than a metaphor for the truth, though it is always brought forth through the vehicle of Truth. Spiritual Light is here for us to resource ourselves and remember ourselves in due course. It is a real and vital substance that we must learn how to summon and direct for the greater good of all. We must do this regularly and routinely in order to strengthen and awaken to the light of truth. Truth brings healing and redemption. Our task is to learn to trust in the process of creation.

“The Light is more than some abstract, unknowable energy force. Light is Truth. If Light is truth, then darkness must be lies. Each and every lie we tell to ourselves and others casts the shadow of separation upon us. Every time even the most minor deception is revealed and the truth is made known we are re-united with the Light. So, Let there be Light. Those are the words by which you can create your own magnificent world.” - Renee Bledsoe

Sunday Talks with Rev. Renee Bledsoe

December 06 - Divine Light

December 13 - Rebirth of Divinity

December 20 - White Magic: Creating with Celestial Light

December 24 - Christmas Eve Candlelight Ceremony

December 27- Purity of Heart

Divine Light Affirmations

I am a being of pure light..

Where I once created my life in darkness, I now create through the awareness of the light of my soul.

I refine my ability to create from love.

I create my life because of love.

I look for ever deepening enlightened expressions of  love.

I create and express the light of my soul.

I allow the light of my soul to be my guiding light.

I enter the darkness, knowing that all that lies outside of what is known to me is there.

Magic and miracles live in the unknown.

I courageously enter the mystery void of creation.

I reveal the light in all my dealings.

The truth will set me free.

The light resources me and gives me strength.

I turn the karma of my ancestral path into the light.

I heal and empower myself with the light of truth.

I am devoted to the Light.

Spiritual Light activates my soul.

My spirit is reborn in the flesh.

The divine mother within carefully tends my soul.

My mind is in service to my soul.

There is a saviour being born within me.

Moments of truth clarify my connection to my divinity.

I allow my divinity to be revealed.

The light of my soul reveals the purity of my heart.

I accept the light for my highest good.

I receive and activate the great spiritual light of the holy days.

I am conscious of greater depths of love.

My spiritual strength comes from the light of the creator.

Where there is truth, there is light. Where there is light, there is God.

Thanksgiving Feast & GiveAway Ceremony

Thursday, November 26, 2020
Thanksgiving Day - 3pm Dinner is served
Giveaway Ceremony begins at 5pm

All are welcome....

Church of Spiritual Light presents the 2020 Thirteenth Annual Thanksgiving Feast and Giveaway Ceremony. 

Please bring your favorite holiday dish to share, as well as a small gift which will be given away to honor a very special sacred ancient ritual to show gratitude for our blessings. The gift can be anything that has meaning to you, including feathers, stones, figurines or sacred objects. In order to honor the energy it should be something that you love and not a cast off item.

The potlatch is a festival or ceremony practiced among Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest most prominently. At these gatherings a family or leader hosts guests in their family's house and hold a feast for their guests. The main purpose of the potlatch is the re-distribution and reciprocity of wealth. The word potlatch comes from the Chinook jargon, meaning "to give away" or "a gift".

Help us coordinate our feast and call Rev. Renee at 239-560-6314 or facebook message. All are welcome!

Hosted by Church of Spiritual Light

1939 Park Meadows Dr. #1, Fort Myers, FL 33907

NOVEMBER 2020: Making Sacred

"Something opens our wings. Something +

 boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness." - Rumi

The time of the soul's renewal and restoration is upon us. It is time for the reclaiming of the sacred. The world is moving in such a way as to perfectly align with the timing of this re-birthing of our higher, deeper selves. We now have and actually have had, the support of the cosmos for the soul and consequently the spiritual emergence of our true being. We are rapidly becoming. And like all overnight successes, these changes within us have been hard won and a long time coming!

"You think the shadow is the substance. Every moment I shape my destiny with a chisel. I am the carpenter of my soul."- Rumi

But what does the new earth look like? How will we be different? What will change? The asking of questions is perhaps one of the most prominent hallmarks of the new age. The asking of a question is both masculine and feminine - perfectly balance if asked correctly and with true openness and humility. Once you start asking questions, you have truly begun to engage in the creation of your life through the power of your freed will. Honest inquiry is the first step to wholeness, with it's infusion of innocence and wonder, putting a crack of light into our linear thought patterns, know it all boxed in approach or just plain arrogance and ignorance. Questions are the key to the release of the ego's stranglehold.

"Why am I seeking? I am the same as he. His essence speaks through me. I have been looking for myself. What you seek is seeking you." - Rumi

So now that you have truly begun an open inquiry, the call is to start listening, smelling and seeing... not just with the five senses, but with your spiritual senses, your intuition, your third eye and your deep insight. It is time to engage with the world through your multi-sensory self and activate the parts of you that can apprehend the hidden, magical inner workings of your own soul and the universe. Let the physical world begin a new kind of conversation with you. It is far more alive and responsive than you may truly realize, bridging both the spiritual/metaphysical and the physical worlds.  And when it begins to speak back to you, as you ask your questions, in ways that maybe only you can understand, you will be in awe of this living cosmos, as we realize that all things contain a spiritual essence.

"We are each others' search for what's between our mirrors. He is like a man using a candle to lood for the sun." - Rumi

Soon after this type of communication is engaged, you may find yourself struggling with your thoughts and mental powers and wondering where "what you think" fits into this new mode and way of being. While there is no doubt that spiritual message can come through your mind and your thoughts, the practice of listening through all the spiritual senses relieves your mind of its former burden of being your sole informant (no pun intended). Your mind can now become in service to your soul, instead of the other way around. Prove it to yourself how beautiful it is to live as your soul. Let your soul come home. Give your soul, your spiritual senses, other intelligences and divine will a chance to inform your life.

"God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one." - Rumi

Once you live in the magic, you won't want to go back to linear life. Once the joy, the beauty and the bounty of this universe is more fully revealed to you, you won't be able to unsee what you have seen. The time is here to let time work for us. We will no longer be working for time. As we come to deeper and more profound revelations about who and what we truly are the soul comes alive. And as the soul comes alive, the Spirit is made flesh... and as the Spirit is made flesh... Heaven is upon the earth....

And when Heaven is upon the earth...there is true Love...

Sunday Talks with Rev. Renee Bledsoe

November 01 - Making Sacred

November 08 - Calling Back Your Soul

November 15 - Coming Home - Rev. Maribel Figueroa

November 22 - Sacred Circle Altar - November 26 - Thanksgiving Feast & GiveAway Ceremony

November 29 - New Earth Values

MAKING SACRED AFFIRMATIONS

I open to the language of my soul.

I am filled with the Light of the creator.

I resource myself with breath and light.

I take care of my body as an extension of my soul.

I use the mirror of my relationships to discover and heal my soul.

I clear and heal myself so that I can stand before others and mirror wholeness.

My wholeness is my perfection.

When I totally accept myself in the moment, I am whole.

Wholeness leads to wellness.

I heal myself and this world through my perfect love.

Love is patient.

I am devoted to the Light.

I am devoted to my soul.

I express my soul's desires.

What I seek is seeking me.

I am a mirror for the Light.

I become transparent to negativity and suffering.

I see the world through the eyes of compassion.

I am a witness to my own wholeness.

All is perfect in this moment.

I am guided moment by moment along the path of liberation.

I am free to choose love.

I raise my vibration with music and positive affirmations.

I live in the magic.

I allow my life to teach me how to love.

I restore my soul with love and truth.

My soul is sacred.

Living from my soul makes life sacred.

OCTOBER 2020: Rhythm of Life

"Each individual is at once the cause for the whole and is caused by the whole, and what is called existence is a vast body made up of an infinity of individuals all sustaining each other and defining each other. The cosmos is, in short, a self-creating, self-maintaining, and self-defining organism." - Francis Dojun Cook

The Universe is alive, filled with life force, Qi, Spirit or energy. The rhythm of life has a breath, just as we and all living creatures do. As we are opening and creating space which ‘attracts’ and fills our life with new creations, in other ways we find we are then closing or restricting the space, which releases or transforms things in our life that are coming to a close. The Universe and we are continually flowing, flexible and moving.

The Tao Te Ching says: "Even the greatest storm eventually abates and peace and tranquility are returning." Notice that this doesn't say, "returns" which has an implication of finality to it. It says it is "returning", which recognizes and reconciles with the cyclical, circular nature of the Tao. Duality is transformed into the third thing, which is a direct result of the synergy of the two and in this way wholeness becomes realized as a living, dynamic creation.

The Tao begot one.

One begot two.

Two begot three.

And three begot the ten thousand things. 

Tao Te Ching - Number 42

With this concept of being part of the whole, while always transforming you will see everything and everyone in you…. and vice versa, you will see yourself in everything and everyone! Nothing, or no one is not a part of a greater story, any other thought or action is misaligned and goes directly against the understanding of the flow of Qi and Tao. The Cosmos does not discriminate or make things worse or better for one over another. It simply flows in balance and harmony. It is non-judgmental, bares no grudges and does not hold on to anything. It arrives and departs in its own time, just when and where it is needed.

"At the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit. And that center is really everywhere. It is within each of us." - Nicholas Black Elk

Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightment. 

Mastering others requires force; 

Mastering the self needs strength.

He who knows he has enough is rich. Perseverance is a sign of will power.

He who stays where he is endures. 

To die but not to perish is to be eternally present.   

Tao Te Ching Number 33

This concept of allowing can be extremely challenging to understand, trust and accept for the western mind. We have been conditioned to be pro-active, set goals and use ‘force’ and personal willpower to make things happen in the way we desire. We have manifested many things by force and many could argue that it had to be this way. But we may never know what we lost out on by forcing our will, or what price we have paid as our lives become out of balance. We may not even know what it is that we truly would like to create, because we do not know ourselves. We may not realize how we have misaligned with Qi, and gotten in our own way causing the very things we are trying to avoid such as loss, delays and failure. Yet, the Tao returns an equal opportunity at every turn to the art of allowing even in apparent 'error".

Teaching without words 

and work without doing

Are understood by very few.    

Tao Te Ching  Number 43

The Tao is based in trust and allowing that the Cosmos/Universe will provide what is needed when it is needed. As we engage in this experience of manifestation, we find it to be a much more centered, joyful, richer, rewarding and collaborative creative process. As we enter this new age that holds such a tremendous potential for more peace, abundance and love than possibly at anytime in our human history, we realize on whole new levels the implications of the "journey being the destination". For as we open to the fullest experiences of this creation we find that we gravitate toward the fulfillment of our divinity through our oneness. The wisdom of the Way of the Tao will become the standard for living a whole, healthy, happy life.

In the universe the difficult things are done as if they are easy.

In the universe great acts are made up of small deeds.

The sage does not attempt anything very big,

And thus achieves greatness.  

Tao Te Ching - Number 63

"While I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; For I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being. And I saw that it was holy." - Nicholas Black Elk

Sunday Talks with Rev. Renee Bledsoe

October 04 - The Rhythm of Life

October 11 - Indra's Net: The Holographic Universe

October 18 - Cultivating Energy for Healing and Creation - Rev. Maribel Figueroa

October 25 - Sacred Circle Altar: Ancestral Healing & Honoring

TAO AFFIRMATIONS

I am one with all.

All is One.

I am peaceful.

I am flowing.

I allow the third thing that is wanting expression to come alive.

I see the perfection in all that is.

I practice the art of allowing.

I am enough.

I have enough.

I have all that I need in this moment.

Each moment brings something new.

I pay attention to the new that is constantly being born.

I breathe life, as life breathes through me.

Everything and everyone is a part of me.

I am a part of everything and everyone.

Peace and tranquility are always returning to me.

I am at one with the present moment.

I sit in stillness and experience the golden silence.

I open my mind to the way of the Tao.

I tap into the divine mind of the Tao to better understand myself and this creation.

I embrace the death, rebirth and renewal of my life's journey.

I experience new modes and ways of being through the beginner's mind.

I am willing to learn, un-learn and re-learn.

All is as it should be in this moment.

The way of the Tao is within me.

The universe expresses through me.

I am one with the rhythm of ife.

SEPTEMBER 2020: Illuminated Life

"Don't shine to be seen. Shine so that others can find their own way."

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." -Anais 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

Sunday Talks with Rev. Renee Bledsoe
September 06 - Illuminated Life
September 13 - Shine Your Light From Within

September 20 - Tools for Enlightenment
September 27 - Light is Truth: Dispelling Illusion

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.
I 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.
I shine my Light from within.

AUGUST 2020: Alchemy of Love

"You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing." - Author Ash

This is your life, your time to experience the opportunity to make this world to be drenched with light, filled with Spirit, overflowing with joy and abiding in love. The alchemy of love, to be changed by love and not driven and whipped along by our fears turns surving into thriving. This is the beautiful way of the new earth.

What a gift is this life, at this time. Like no other time in human history do we have the benefit rolling forward on the cosmic waves of the collective consciousness of humanity to be guided to the shores of Shamballa... to the otherside of life. We can do this. It's your life. If not you, then who? 

It is time to go for the gold, to grab that Golden Ring. The ring takes many forms, but the essence comes from the Light of your own Soul. The Golden Ring is your Halo. When the Light of your Soul, the indwelling presence of divinity, is made known to you, then all matter becomes spiritualized. If there is any capacity at all for it to be good, right, beautiful, functional, helpful, artful or inspirational, then it can be filled with Light, and it's essence can be real-eyesed. 

It's our job to shine the light, to put the good stuff in, to raise up, to rise up and use our energy for the glory of this creation. When you go for the gold, you elevate this existence.. when you elevate this existence in consciousness... you bring heaven to earth. Let the beauty of true love become your essential reality in all that you encounter, and all that you are. This is truly living. Let the alchemy of true love bring you into true life.

Sunday Talks with Rev. Renee Bledsoe

August 02 - Alchemy of Love

August 09 - Wholeness is your Gold

August 16 - Receive = Give & Take

August 23 - Dare to Be Your Beautiful Soul

August 30 - Do It For Them

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing about." - Benjamin Franklin

"I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." - Michael Jordan

"Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear." - George Addair

"Never be afraid to fall apart because it is an opportunity to rebuild yourself the way you wish you had been all along." - Rae Smith

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." - Confucius

The Golden Ring Affirmationa

I am surrounded by golden celestial light.

I bask in the warmth of the glowing light this is all around me.

I take care of myself body, mind, heart and soul.

I nurture wholeness within myself.

My wholeness is my gold.

I open my heart to good.

I receive good in order to share good.

I receive love in order to share love.

I am in service to God's love.

I promise to always reach through any judgment and find the light.

I step through any fear or doubt with radical self-acceptance.

Self-acceptance is the key to compassion.

Compassion is the key to unconditional love.

Everything I do, I do from the golden light of my soul.

Wisdom and understanding easily come to me when I see what God sees.

Love and forgiveness come through understanding.

I allow God's love to permeate every aspect of my life.

I heal my relationship with my Higher Power.

I see my prayers answered in divine timing.

I allow the omnipotent forces of the Universe to work for me and the greater good.

I am motivated to make my life beautiful for the All.

My unique gifts and strengths illuminate this world.

My entire life is a benediction and a prayer.

I am blessed.

I am illuminated with God's love.

I bring that love to the world of form in many ways.

Everything I do, I do for love.

I dare to be my beautiful soul.

I risk being real.

I am authentic and vulnerable to let love live through me.

I reclaim my divine essence and restore my sacred innocence.

I am a light unto this world and all my relations.

I heal my relationship with money.

I see money purely as a tool to work the Divine Plan.

I receive all the money, support and resources necessary to do my part.

I engage in the sacrament of tithing to give back to God for all the unseen blessings that I am receiving all the time.

I pray for the eyes to see the extent of the bounty of this creation.

I go for it, and I do it for them.

As I grab the golden ring, I receive the fullness of the love of the Creator.

I give birth to the golden child within.

JULY 2020: Time for Change

"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

The time for change is now. The new earth is here. We stand at the brink of momentous realization that heaven on earth is possible. We also are coming to realize what that is and how that looks, not as innocent children, but as breathing, living, maturing human beings who understand the potential and power of this creation. We start to take greater personal responsiblity and that brings us wake-up calls, but it also shows us the way to our higher power. As that power is realized, and our esteem and knowledge of self grows, not only do we learn about ourselves, we learn about the power of everyone and everything. We see and experience the interconnectedness of all that is viscerally and 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. But we also know we must do it together as a collective. Some of us have figured out that we, together, are the garden.

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

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.

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

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 world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” ― Albert Einstein

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!

“Grief does not change you. It reveals you.”  ― John Green

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!

Sunday Talks with Rev. Renee Bledsoe
July 05 - Time for Change
July 12 - The Soul's Emergence
July 19 - The Power of Story
July 26 - Unity in Diversity


Time For Change Affirmation

I take 100% responsibility for my life.

I allow myself to be supported so that I may Grow.

I allow myself to change.

I grow up and into greater levels of love and responsiveness.

I reclaim all the lost parts of my soul.

I call back my energy.

As my soul gathers power, I become that which I am destined to be.

I have the ability to respond to my own pain.

I am transforming all pain in my body and in my life into love.

I have the ability to respond appropriately to the pain of others.

I trust the Great Spirit will give me the experiences I need to release hidden trauma.

I ask for ease and grace in my challenges.

I ask for graceful closure on chapters of my life that are over.

I am free to love and to choose life.

I release all lower level attachments.

The clearing of addictions and attachments is the process by which I claim my free will.

As I stand and face my fears, the hunted becomes the hunter.

I say what I need to say with love and non-judgement.

I hold sacred space within my heart for the healing of the world.

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.
I am the change I wish to see in the world.
It is time for change...

World Invocation Day 2020

World Invocation Day

World Day of Prayer, Invocation and Meditation

Friday, June 5, 2020

The Goodwill Festival of Unification

Celebrating the Spirit of Humanity

Since 1952 the full moon of Gemini-Sagittarius has been observed as World Invocation Day ~ a world day of prayer when people of every spiritual path join in a universal appeal to divinity through use of The Great Invocation. Together they focus the invocative demand of humanity for the light, the love and the spiritual direction needed to build a world of justice, unity and peace.

On the day of the Goodwill full moon, groups and individuals are invited to hold a meditative focus and for 24 hours, to sound The Great Invocation on the quarter hour over a period of time while spending the 15 minute interval in prayer or meditation focusing on goodwill and building the will to good.

The Great Invocation, given to humanity in 1945, is an integral part of the three Spiritual Festivals of Aries, Taurus, and Gemini. The massed intention reaches its highest point each year during the period of the three major planetary Festivals ... at The Festival of the Risen One in Aries and celebrated in the Western part of the world as Easter; a month later at The Festival of The Wesak, The Festival of The Buddha and widely celebrated in the Eastern world; and climaxes a month after that, with World Invocation Day during The Goodwill Festival, known as The Festival of The Christ, with the keynotes of Goodwill and Humanity.

2020 marks the 75th anniversary of The Great Invocation we use

(first version, given in 1936)

World Invocation Day has three central features:

First, the use of The Great Invocation, the world prayer which expresses truths central to all the major religions of the world.

Second, the spiritual cooperation of people of goodwill of every faith, joining in a united act of invocation of Divinity.

Third, the distribution into human consciousness of the spiritual energies evoked during The Easter and Wesak Festivals.

Will you join us in observing World Invocation Day through the united use of The Great Invocation, and will you help to make this day widely known?

JUNE 2020: Jewel in the Heart

Om Mani Padme Hum - "The jewel is in the lotus." 

We've had quite a journey this year and it is difficult to believe that we are approaching the halfway mark of 2020! Time is taking on new meaning for many of us. As we move toward the new aeon that, in fact, is what will be shifting the most for us: the perception of time. We are stepping out of time. And not in some airy fairy, ungrounded way. In a very real way, clock time is already beginning to lose its grip on our lives.

"How we spend our days, is, of course, how we spend our lives". Annie Dillard

As we move deeper and deeper into the information age, more and more people are finding and following the rhythm of their own heart and leading their lives from this space. Ironically, this place moves so quickly that it affords us the ability to SLOW DOWN and live our lives from the heart, and not just the head.

"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else." . Emily Dickinson

As our values change, so too will the focus and pace of our lives. As we reorient our lifestyle to accommodate the things we hold dear, such as peace, health, joy, love, creativity and connection, we begin to savor life. This allows us to experience the now and the beauty of eternity through a much longer strand of magic moments.

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

This month, June, is about accessing the Jewel of the Heart. We will be exploring all the paths that lead to the discovery of this precious treasure within us all. And that path is traveled through all of our relationships. This entire month will be devoted to the exploration of all our relations, with our Self, with the world, with our creator, with our families and our significant others.

"The jewel in the lotus has many meanings, but the most profound meaning is that your own authentic buddha nature is the jewel. You are in the center of the mandala of your universe of experience. No matter where you go, you are in the center of your universe. Deep in your heart is the indestructible drop of consciousness which is the individual mindstream that leads to Buddhahood. May you speedily and joyfully realize your own Buddha~nature and be forever free from suffering and never be apart from true happiness."

Sunday Talks with Rev. Renee Bledsoe

June 07 - Jewel of the Heart

June 14 - Be Kind to Your Mind - Rev. Maribel Figueroa

June 21 -  Entering Eternity

June 28 - Think with Your Heart

Affirmations

I open my heart to love.

I am a living expression love.

I lead with my heart and follow my bliss.

I connect my head to my heart and my heart to my hands.

My hands are an extension of my heart.

I am one with all my relations.

I am one with the creator.

My heart blossoms like a lotus.

I activate my high heart energy.

I am devoted to serving in the light.

My heart is the gateway to my soul.

I am one with my soul.

I take only good things to my heart.

I seek wisdom & understanding in all my relationships.

I honor relationships as the collective soul.

I express love in all my relations.

I activate the power of true love.

The Father strengthens my soul

The Mother is my heart.

I am the Father, mother and child in one.

I am a threefold being of light.

The energy of the sun lives in my heart.

I see and feel my connection to all that is.

I experience God through my relationships.

This is God’s journey – May we walk it well.

I am, that I am.

MAY 2020: The Currency of Love

“You are truly wealthy when you have something that money cannot buy." - Unknown

Many think only of money when pondering abundance and prosperity. But few would disagree that the first abundance is love. But what do most of us really know of the true nature of love? Many have spent a lifetime learning what love is not. Now the challenge is on to really take ourselves individually, and as a whole to the next levels of love. Our poverty will not uplift, enrich, support or create life. But our poverty observed has the potential to enlighten and teach us, and help us transcend belief systems surrounding lack and limitation, and allow ourselves to receive and create a life of true abundance, filled with love and blessings of all things needful.

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Sunday Talks with Rev. Renee Bledsoe

May 3 - The Currency of Lovee

May 10 - Mother's Day Celebration - All Abundance of the Goddess

May 17 - Soul Power with Rev. Maribel Figueroa

May 24 - Prosperity Consciousness

May 31 - Desire to Receive in Order to Share

“Life in abundance comes only through great love.” ~ Elbert Hubbard

Throughout our lives love takes many forms, assumes many faces, and takes us places both inwardly and outwardly that stretch and grow us. Always opening us to experience the unloveable, to allow us to create the space for true love and true abundance to enter our hearts, and infuse our lives.When we realize and truly open to the absolute abundance of love, it has no choice but to outpicture in our lives. 

"Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into." - Wayne Dyer

As we fill our daily existence with more expressions and opportunities to show love the universe responds. Lack is released and old belief systems about love, spirituality and religion, divinity, sexuality, partnership, friendship and prosperity start to shift and move, quake beneath our feet.

"Whatever we are waiting for – peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance – it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.” ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

As we come to the realization that we are love, by practicing the art of love, new ideas and needs come into play that support the desire to release limiting beliefs, most especially about money. Money seems to be the paper equivalent of dynamite. If we hold and handle it correctly, with consciousness, care and respect, it can be utilized to great effect... but one false move... and boom.... total devastation. As with all things of great power this is true. Yet, if we kill the messenger, we never get the message. So what is the message of money?

“People with a scarcity mentality tend to see everything in terms of win-lose. There is only so much; and if someone else has it, that means there will be less for me. The more principle-centered we become, the more we develop an abundance mentality, the more we are genuinely happy for the successes, well-being, achievements, recognition, and good fortune of other people. We believe their success adds to…rather than detracts from…our lives.” ~ Stephen R. Covey

As we heal our relationship with money, and understand the energetics behind the paper and metal, we realize that we have been practicing with real world playthings that allow us to see how we are handling our dynamite... before it could blow us to bits. And some of us do get blown to bits, and in the process are released from the stranglehold of the little ego and the cosmic belief systems that have come to be attached to the money wound.

"Abundance doesn't follow giving until giving becomes its own reward." -Jan Denise

Money, like all things of great potential  tempts and calls us out like nothing else, with the exception of sex. Yet, we cannot blame the temptor. For if we do, we fall prey to the perpetuation of the old belief systems that say that money is bad, sex is bad and as Neale Donald Walsch says.... having alot of anything is bad. Inherently this is both true and false. It is a paradox. For we are really handing it to ourselves, testing ourselves and working with our ability to release our selfish separate selves that are driven by lack.

"The universe operates through dynamic exchange… giving and receiving are different aspects of the flow of energy in the universe. and in our willingness to give that which we seek, we keep the abundance of the universe circulating in our lives." ~Deepak Chopra

Our soul's are stalking us. The different aspects of ourselves are weighing in, counterbalancing and allowing us to attenuate the expression of our soul in the physical. So the truth is that while you are lost in lack and fear, you may well stay there... or by sheer force of will manhandle your way to apparent wealth. But the underlying energies of lack will remain no matter what has outpictures. For we do have the ability to work our will through the distortion of whatever belief system we are running it through.

“The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car… a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little.” ~ Ben Sweetland

As we continue to learn our lessons about proper energy management, and continue to open up to the glory of our own soul, we will ultimately begin to find our place, amongst our people, the world, and the entire cosmos. When we open up to the limitlessness of our souls, we find that the soul and the spirit are not bound up in lack. Yes, the soul may throw limitation your way, but it is largely for purposes of exploration and learning. When the soul's expression comes to meet the desire to receive in order to share, a very big portal and vortex of power begins to open within the mind, body, heart and soul connection to Spirit. And suddenly one day through this new, high and vital energy our perception shifts, and we realize that the Light, God or Higher Powers, Love and Money are all connected.

“To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.” ~ Buddha

As the realization unfolds and we actually perceive this not only inwardly, but outwardly, as well,our earthly possessions of all forms, including our money, our talents, our work, our energy, our light and our love go back from whence they came, and our absolute desire is to use the great gifts we've been given, in service to the Light and to bring even more love, joy, abundance and peace, creativity to the planet.  Furthermore, we come to the realization that our abundance was always there, and that all we have done is released the belief systems of lack and limitation, not because we've been wrong... but because we are ready to do more, take on more response-ability to bring love, and to allow ourselves to belong to the world.

This is true love... and that is true abundance. We do not attract what we want, we attract what we are. The power that is within us is beyond our conscious grasp, early in our human development. But when it is time to fly and we find our compassion and love for life has given our heart wings.

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AFFIRMATIONS
I see all the blessings that are bestowed upon me.
When I can see my blessings, I am grateful.
I do the work to see the light in my life.
It is my hearts desire to connect with the light of my soul.
The light of my soul guides me to my true calling.
My true calling knows no lack or limitation.
I no longer see limitation as lack.
I fill my heart with love and peace.
As I create with my hands my life is infused with creativity.
My creativity allows for positive expression.
I send blessings for the abundance of the world.
I am happy for others who are abundant.
I feel abundant in the Spirit.
I allow the abundance of Spirit to enter my heart.
As the abundance of Spirit enters my heart I am overflowing with love.
I open to more creative and responsible ways to express my soul and serve the world.
I am a New World Server who brings the Light and the Love of Creator to the earth.
As we formulate, invent, and create new energy becomes available to us all.
Our creations are connected.
When I am creative, I silently give others permission to create.
I am abundant in all things needful, both spiritual and material.
I am open to receiving what is necessary to continue in my life's mission.
My life mission and my purpose are important to us all.
As I step into my life purpose, I am instantly abundant.
I give to others that which I value in my life.
I activate the desire to receive in order to share.
I turn my physical bounty into spiritual gold.
As my purpose is realized I become responsive to the needs of my mission.
Generosity of Spirit and Gratitude for life is my True Abundance.
My abundance is backed in spiritual gold.

The currency of love is true abundance.

APRIL 2020: The Great Web of Life

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

No one is an island. We are all in this together. We are connected. 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.  For we are very busy blaming other people for our relationships 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 1% or 3 dimensional/ physical aspect of our lives is giving us clues about what is going on in the 99% or unseen aspects. 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 come from loving humanity and this creation 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.

“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 true 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 tribal community every day here. True community is about much more than getting together and beating 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.

“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
April 05 - The Web of Life
April 12 - Easter Service: Awakening the Christ Consciousness - Celebrating 12 Year Anniversary of CoSL

April 19 -  Spiritual Partnership with Rev. Maribel Figueroa
April 26 - Heirarchy of Light

Affirmations

I am an integral part of my spiritual community.

I have something unique and precious to bring to my people and the world.

I allow myself to risk for love by being love.

If loving is my aim, then the very act of risk is the accomplishment.

I dare to love with my whole heart.

My love is my protection.

Divine love is my guide and my glory.

When I am truly loving, it is easy to allow others to be free.

My true community comes together on all levels of being.

My true community provides a safety net and a support structure so that each of us can flourish and evolve.

As I evolve, the love of my people slows me down and helps guide my choices for the highest good of all.

I trust in the light of my soul to guide us all to our greater good.

I am the light of my soul.

Spiritual partnership brings me onto the path of love.

I step fully onto the path of love and learn my life lesson through love and creativity.

I desire to receive in order to share God's love.

True community brings absolute abundance in all things.

There is always someone in my community who is willing to lend a hand.

I am of service to my community, as my soul's work is revealed.

I learn about how to be of proper service in true community.

I take my own council first through writing and meditation.

After I take my own council, I am open to receiving the wisdom of my community.

The small medicine wheel gives me the forum to receive the council of my community in a safe and sacred manner.

The small medicine wheel allows a holistic, synergistic message to emerge through the power of our kindred spirits.

I am victorious in love.

I am learning how to love like God/dess loves.

I am listening to my soul, even as it slowly and silently emerges.

The divine I AM presence within me comes forth more easily, as the oversoul of my spiritual community is revealed and strengthened.

I see my place in this world and am willing to take this rightful place.

I die the little ego deaths everyday if necessary to come into oneness with my tribe.

We are all connected by the creators love.

I see that love is the great connective force of this creation.

I am a loving, harmonizing force for good in the world.

I am connected soul to soul with all life.

I am awakening into Christ Consciousness.
All is my relation in the Great Web of Life.

MARCH 2020: Making Miracles

“I am the miracle.” ~ Buddha

Where do miracles come from? What is happening when everything aligns and what you want materializes right before your eyes? What's happening when it doesn't? Is it a miracle or is it some unknowable force driven simply by laws of manifestation? Having the answer to these questions, learning about the law of attraction and the other laws of manifestation will only take us so far. Having knowledge is important. But what is absolutely vital is for us to setup our lifestyle so that we can explore, discover and honor the desires of our heart and soul.

"That's the thing with magic. You've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible to you." ~ Charles de Lint

All the manifestation in the world of material items, won't ultimately satisfy and fulfill us if we are not using the laws of manifestation to give ourselves what we really want. Many of us don't know what that is. And that's what our journey is revealing to us. But we can use the laws of manifestation for anything, including the revelation of our life's purpose and to come to know ourselves more intimately so that we actually want what we manifest. I dare say, when we were born, that this is part of the master plan!

There are things that our soul wants to create that cannot be bought or purchased at any price. They are intangibles, such as love, peace, joy, friendship, community, synchronicity, cooperation, support, creativity, affection, time and bliss. Certainly the focus on manifesting money can appear to foster these things. But the truth is that we can manifest these priceless, miracles of life without money. And in fact, trying to make these things happen through our own force of will, usually ends up in heartache and disillusionment.

Miracles are natural. When they do not occur something has gone wrong.” - Unknown

Conversely enough, when we begin to understand that we ourselves are the portal through which miracles are made manifest and the power behind our magic is our ability to reveal the Light from within, we will see all of the above magnetizing to us our heart's desire and all the resources, energy, cooperation, time, support and funds to see it so. We are the magical miracle makers. Come and join us this month, in revealing the Light of the Magician within so that you can tap into your heart of hearts!

"Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.”  - Saint Augustine

Sunday Talks with Rev. Renee Bledsoe

March 01 - Making Miracles

March 08 - The Power of Intention

March 15 - Manifesting Your Destiny - Rev. Maribel Figueroa

March 22 - Sacred Circle Altar - Spring Equinox - New Life

March 29 - The Beautiful Way

MARCH AFFIRMATIONS

I embrace life and all it has to offer.

I take responsibility for my life.

I create my life now through the power of love.

I tap into my own creative life force to bring forth my bliss.

There is something unique about me that others want to experience.

I have many purposes for being and am open to harmonizing and synthesizing them into my life experience.

My life is a masterpiece of love and creativity.

My purpose is not to suffer, but to release suffering.

The release of suffering for the planet, comes first through my love and compassion for myself.

As I release myself from the path of suffering, I turn toward the path of love.

Everything I think, say and do is a manifestation of love.

Love is my reason for being.

Whatever I create opens the way for more love.

I allow myself to be loved.

Through me miracles are made manifest.

I allow love to live through me.

I acknowledge the magician within and take responsibility for my creations.

I am a creator God and Goddess in the making.

I am a co-creator with the Divine.

It is up to me to bring divinity to humanity through love, respect and kindness.

Whatever is physical is already whole, therefore, the only healing is the realization of this perfection.

I am a Master at the practice of Love.

All of my dealings are guided and protected by my love.

What I want, wants me.

As above, so below.

I am a miraculous, miracle maker of Light

FEBRUARY 2020: Love is Life

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” ― Rumi

The overwhelming urge to take stock of ourselves at the beginning of a new calendar year can often find us casting a harsh eye upon our lives. Often we are moved to make resolutions and enact new life plans and goals that will get us the results we are looking for because we are fed up or disgusted by the way things have been. And while it is true that discontent and discomfort are great teachers, it is also important to think about how we can open up to more love, more prosperity, more peace, more respect and more personal power from a creative, empowered, energized and loving space.

“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.”  ― Rumi

First of all, it is important to understand that anything outside of us cannot truly give us those things that we are seeking in a way that is whole. It is an inside job. If respect is won because we invoke fear in others, that negates the other things that we need and want such as love and peace. If peace is won as a result of denial, the cost might be our own self-respect and a decrease in personal power. Force and the use of personal willpower carries with it a great price. Love and allowing opens the energy for all of our human needs and heart's desires to cohabitate and harmonize. This is an opportunity for our inner team to learn how to play together, to balance and synthesize sometimes what appears to be conflicting needs, through our higher power.

“Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.” ― Rumi

We must first bring into our field the energy of what it is that we want. If we want more love, we must be more loving... right now... not when we get a new partner... but now. The things that we do, the goals or intentions that we make, if done because we want to create love or peace or prosperity, become more of an allowing. Once the intention is made, and it is surrendered to the powers that be, in love, we step aside and get out of our own way. This is truly using the powers of creation as they are intended.This is Doing Without Doing, and engaging in the Art of Allowing.

“What you seek is seeking you.” ― Rumi

This allowing surely is not accompanied by motionlessness, but rather an acknowledgement that we are working with subtle and profound energies called love and light, and that these forces don't need our constant nagging or pleading to come into effect. After all, these are omnipotent powers that respond according to universal law. If anything appears to be arbitrary it is because there is another belief system that is over-riding it... or something that needs to be released in order to allow the new in. The laws of the universe tell us that if we ask, then we will be given. Yet my question is, Do we receive what is given? Do we notice how the universal powers are trying to deliver our desires to us?

“Knock, And He'll open the door. Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun. Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens. Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.”  ― Rumi

As we start to think and feel more into what we would like to create from love, we find the need to focus less and less on what we do not want. This is a turning point when this begins to happen regularly. In unconditional love, there is supreme wisdom. For it is not bound by the desire for a specific result, which holds the objectivity that can help us to break out of old patterns and see new solutions, ideas and opportunities. As we allow our creations and relationships this sacred space, there is so much love, that the beloved, whatever or whoever that might be, is afforded the room to grow even potentially beyond our wildest dreams, and blossom into something we wouldn't even have known to ask for.

“A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.” ― Rumi

In love, we become fluid, like water.... and once we are set in motion... love is an eternal abiding action, like the waves of the ocean lapping the shore, even if we are apparently waiting or holding still. The river of love within continues to flow out, much like the energy that patiently coalesces within the seed, as it sprouts later for all to see that there is a period of silence, which will produce something tangible. Love was at work during the entire process, we find out after all.

“Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.” ― Rumi

Learning to love the process, the journey is what love is all about. It is not love if we are sending negativity to some aspect of ourselves, or if we have an "if/then" mentality. The universal laws do not support these hard lines. Sure, we can make things happen and it might appear that we have outrun these laws, but we end up with the unending job of controlling our lives, and instead of commanding our ship, we end up holding the bag on everything. This gives us little energy, inspiration and time for true creativity.
“Be empty of worrying.Think of who created thought!

Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open?” ― Rumi

As we open up to greater love and oneness, we understand that there are parts of ourselves that we have barely given a voice in our life, namely our own soul. As we begin to make conscious contact with our soul, a world of wonder awakens within us. And we are moved. For love that comes through the soul moves us to take action, even if that action is to be still and know that God is within us. Even if that action is listening, praying, and meditating. Being still and doing nothing are not the same thing. And so it is through these small silent acts that we can hear the voice within that holds the greatest wisdom and insight of all... our higher self.

“The minute I heard my first love story,I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.”  ― Rumi

It is from this space that we can begin to hear and actuate the whispers of our own soul and bring ourselves truly alive. For love and light are our animating forces, what scientists call electo-magnetic energy. The truth be told, no matter what we call these forces within, so long as we recognize that all that we experience is a dance, a flow of energy, a juxtaposition of these two, we will have the understanding that will open us to the next levels of love. If Love is a verb... what do you love? And How does love move you?

“This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.” - Rumi

Sunday Talks with Rev. Renee Bledsoe
February 02 - Love is Life
February 09 - Sacred Altar Church in Circle - Languages of Love
February 16 - Love, Compassion, Understanding & Forgiveness
February 23 - Let Go, Let Love

Affirmations

I allow myself to feel my feelings.

As I acknowledge my feeling I break with denial and shatter illusion.

My feelings and thoughts are messengers.

I let go of what I think about how I feel.
I honor the sensations in my body and listen to their message.
I continue to purify my mind so that I can properly interpret and honor my feelings.

My body is a sensitive instrument designed to express love and to create.
The unloveable need love most of all.

I love and accept the unloveable parts of myself.
As I accept all of myself, I am healed in the light.

My job is to gather the realization that I am perfect and whole.
I have taken the burdens of my family and humanity's karma to turn to love.

I now let go of the past and allow the flow of love to be restored.

I am strengthened by my love.

What I love is strengthened by my love.

Love is a beautiful gathering of energy.

As I build the energy around something, I create love.

I protect my love in sacred space.

I allow love to move me, touch me and fill me.

True love results in devotion.

Devotion is commitment through free will and love.

Love is Free Will.

Let the Light reveal Love in my life.

May my languages of love expand and grow.

May I receive love from all directions.

Love lifts me up, energizes and inspires me.

Unconditional love has no agenda other than to be love.

I unconditionally love myself.

I apply love and compassion first to myself, before I can truly give it to others.

Love and compassion are a part of who I am.
As I allow love to live through me, what I offer to the world is filled with light.

Love and light dance within me, each revealing the other.

Love is the container for my brilliance.

Love is the great equalizer.

Let my love be as great as my light.

I am in service to the light of my soul.

There is a great love that has given us life.

Life is Love.

As I remember more of myself, I remember the love.

I extend love and kindness to all.
Love moves me to create good in my life and for the world.

I am love in action.