JULY 2026: Love One Another

"We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it." ~William Faulkner 

Sunday Talks with Rev. Renee Bledsoe 

July 05 - Love One Another

July 12 - What is Freedom For?

July 19 - Sacred Interdependence

July 26 - Divine Justice 

July Corinthians 13:7

"Love always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres." 

In our country the Fourth of July marks a very special milestone in human history: a collective acknowledgment in a new world for liberation from tyranny, injustice, slavery and anything that bars our pathway to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. 

Does anyone ever notice that our founding fathers put the pursuit of happiness right up there with life and limb? But how many of us truly honor and guard our pursuit of happiness as much as we do our very lives? Don't we tend to suffer as long as we can tolerate the suffering? Which for many of us is very long. Don't we say someday I'll be happy when... Don't we underestimate our need for deep soul satisfaction as being something that would be nice, but not necessary for our survival? 

I daresay our ancestors gave us alot more than a free country when they signed those documents. They gave us the true formula to properly prioritize the care and feeding of the human spirit. Isn't it fascinating that this powerful message comes forth in what is considered a political, secular document? In one of the greatest revelations of the power of the people the Declaration of Independence is possibly one of the most sacred documents in existence for our time, if you consider that God can speak through humankind. But freedom isn't free. 

We must be committed to our freedom. And if we are to remain free to be free, we must be willing to pay the price, to fight if need be not only for our right to be, but to be who we really are. After all while we may seek freedom, we are not free of our consequences. We must primarily fight our own inner demons, and that of our ancestral karma to be free of old patterns and programming. It is our birthrite to use the gifts we've been given to create ourselves by the power of the divine will that resides within each of us. 

This is our path to freedom, right through the center of our heart. Most of all we simply want to be free to love, to be love, to flow love, to receive love, and to create our world in love.. together. True interdependence is the greatest gift we can give to ourselves and to each other. Freedom isn't meant to be a bid for sovereignty over others. Freedom should foster a position of personal authority to be sovereign within our own soul and life path in accordance with our shared destiny. 

"Most people want security in this world, not liberty." ~H.L. Mencken 

"Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves." ~Nietzsche 

Love One Another Affirmations 

I am committed to the freedom of my spirit.

I allow my soul to soar.

I practice freedom in my life.

I allow others the freedom to be who they are.

I am free to love.

I am free to just be myself. I am free to discover who I am.

I am free to make new choices.

I give myself permission to express myself in different ways.

I am a growing, evolving spiritual being.

I have the higher vision of eagle within my being.

I am free to explore the possibilities of life.

My will to live is ignited and my love is the flame.

There is so much to live for and I am grateful for my life.

I am the intention of my ancestors, but I am ultimately made in the image of the creator.

I remember who I am. I remember all that I have been.

I activate stellar consciousness and witness the birth of this universe and all that is.

I am a Shining Star.

I am gifted and talented at____________________________________________.

I love to____________________________________________________________________.

Others think I am good at ___________________________________________________________.

My journey has been long, but I have never been alone.

I feel the supportive power of my people.

I experience God through my people and my family and community.

I call upon Archangel Michael, the mighty Eagle, to clear me of the imprints of the past.

I clear and purify myself and reset the future.

With great excitement and gratitude I step into my destiny.

I am free to choose life.

I am free for Love. 

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2026 Living In Love Sunday Series

Join us for this year long exploration into the enigmatic teachings of 1st Corinthians 

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Reiki Share Night

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.  ~ Shakespear

Reiki Share Nite is available to the community to allow practitioners and those who are interested in reiki and energy healing to come together and explore the world of energy medicine. Any reiki practitioner at any level is welcome to both give and receive reiki treatments. Members of the community who are not attuned to give reiki are welcome to come to experience the power of reiki first hand and to explore this powerful modality.

The Reiki Share Nite experience can be conducted in a seated position, or lying down on the floor. Blankets and pillows are available if you so desire, however, you may want to consider bringing your own for your ultimate comfort. Please dress comfortably, as well.

This is a wonderful opportunity for practitioners to practice channeling reiki energy, as well as a way for all to gain greater personal experience.

4th Tuesdays of the month @ 6:30pm

Hosted at Church of Spiritual Light, 1939 Park Meadows Dr. #1, Fort Myers, FL 33907

Donation to space: $10

For more information contact Rev. Renee Bledsoe 239-560-6314 or send email to info@churchofspirituallight.org

Sponsored by People Shine Project

JUNE 2026: Truth & Reconciliation

Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. - 1 Corinthians 6

June 07 - Truth & Reconciliation

June 14 - Ecstasy of Surrender

June 21 - The Wheel Makes It Real

June 28 - Soul Recovery

It has never been more apparent that there is much more going on in our lives, both inner and outer, than meets the eye. Somewhere in our heart and soul we know it. There is a mystery here, and it is begging to be solved. Our soul is trying to get our attention. And if we will sit with and be still and let our spirit communicate with us in language and symbol, rather than through our own bewildering behavior and polluted thoughts we will start to see an alternate and even a parallel reality...not in some metaphysical airy fairy way, but with our physical eyes and even our logical mind.

In the concrete levels of reality we may be just everyday people. We are doctors, lawyers, accountants, janitors, students, homemakers, technicians, life coaches, therapists, soldiers, teachers, self-employed or unemployed. We may drink, take drugs, get depressed, overeat, under eat, work too much, play too much, give too much, take too much, try to control everything, get cancer, steal, and make plenty of mistakes. But amidst all that even in the lower levels, the good, the bad and the ugly we are also lightworkers, angels incarnate, bodhisattvas, shamans, exorcists and alchemists. We are human. We are divine. Above all we are healers in whatever it is that we do, with the deeply innate capacity to rebirth ourselves.

Many of us may have started to notice that the vanquishing of one addiction or crisis point leads to ever increasing levels of sobriety in multiple arenas of our life. As we become tempered we may be staggered at the sheer volume of layered and hidden addictions and negative patterns that have been covered in "goodness" and repression. As we bravely continue to face our darkness, some can see the addictions peeling away often in quantum leaps as we excavate our soul and bring in the Light. And this is where our treasure is buried.

Soul recovery is the path of the earth/spirit warrior. This unfolding is part of why we came here. It has taken us thousands of years to even recognize and understand our "foe". All darkness and negativity arises out of the addictive process of entrenched patterns. We walk into this battle in spite of our fear, not because we don't feel it, but because we know that who we really are and what we can evolve into makes it necessary to engage with our own personal Armageddon. 

Some of us have seen what is on the other side of our pain and fear, and we have been forever changed because of it. We have taken our base metal, our base nature, and allowed it to transform us into something very precious. We have transmuted our darkness into golden light. We emerge victorious in ever increasing freedom and remembrance. We are freedom fighters of the highest order, but we do not resist our enemy. We turn it to the Light and use it against itself. We tune the frequencies of addiction, avoidance and codependency into their opposite spectrums of devotion, sacred ceremony and unconditional love. We see the interplay of shadow and light and we honor our personal paths to freedom. 

Our mission, quite simply, is to free our spirit and soul to manifest on the physical plane, and to evolve into our full human potential to create a life worth living. Addictions are simply pointing out to us how much freedom we are willing to allow ourselves to accomplish this. Addictions whet our appetite for true freedom and make us hunger for something more. They give us a peak at our capacity for passion, devotion and true love. Addiction is the ringbearer of our soul, cavorting down the aisle, maybe shirt tail askew, but nevertheless, bringing the ring. And in the marriage lies the paradox, for at the moment of joining and commitment something new is born self to Self, like Beauty and the Beast. Something so grand, so magnificent that it remains unnamable until that very moment. And that something is a new version of our former selves that may be barely recognizable to our own earthbound eyes. 

Once this fight for true freedom, not just sobriety is engaged, the mundane ceases to exist and the exhilaration of the true nature of the heart and soul begins to take root. So when we reach this place, and make our way through hell and back we see what awaits on the other side of addiction and crisis, and we are transformed. We become freedom fighters who come back to run rescue operations on those who still suffer. And we come back not out of duty or obligation, but because we have been re-programmed through the circuitry of our heart and soul to assist others on their journey to the other side. Because what we have seen, what we have become, what we carry back with us is amazing grace which now clings to our body and soul like a new garment.

We know that if nothing more than through a smile, a kind word, a hug, a listening ear we carry within us the unspeakably rare and precious antidote to all addiction: compassion, forgiveness, unconditional love and self love. This is love incarnate. Many of us are invisible warriors, no longer engaged in codepent "fixing". We understand the art of doing without doing. We understand power versus force at its truest essence. For us, a smile is no longer just a smile, but a way to set body chemistry aright, to shine a ray of love out into the world and a sign of affection for its witnesses. It is a beam of love projecting and connecting to sources by most unseen, triggering an avalanche of support and energy. 

As we unveil our power the implications of this at first looms large. For we now know that we are a healer and a lightworker. We now know that this is what we have resisted all along. We know that this is what was being born within us, honed and crafted in the womb of our soul. Finally, we begin to see the power and the glory of the kingdom accessible through our spirit made manifest in the flesh. And we now know without one shadow of doubt that we are divine.

Before these words were at best allegory and at worst not applicable, now this concept is self-evident because it has been cross-stiched and interwoven into our experience in a manner as radiant and dependable as the rising sun. And what's more, because we know who and what we are, we now know that human...all humans....even those we deem unworthy are divine. We know that even when WE were at our worst we were still divine.

Our soul starts to tickle us with inklings of the limitlessness and the possibilities. And when we realize that we have tracked our personal mystery down and jumped into an alternate reality, something clicks inside of us and life becomes an amazing adventure. Pain and suffering no longer have the bite they once had, perceptions are clearer, thoughts are purer and love is truer. Life is good, even when weird things are happening. Being human isn't what we thought it once was at all. And we are sobered to realize that there is always going to be more. And the knowledge that we are standing on the shoulders of the way we used to be brings us tears of gratitude. And the knowledge that one day we will stand on the shoulders of the way we are now gives us the three things we cannot be without: Faith in what we cannot now see, Hope that there is an eternal will to good at work in the world, and Love and appreciation of all creation, including and most especially ourselves. And this changes everything, even as it changes nothing.

This is the journey of soul recovery, a sacred pathway to healing, enlightenment, empowerment, wisdom and awareness. We find that this dirty, humble road we've been traveling has been swept clean to reveal just below the surface a street of gold. The wheel comes full turn, the snake is eating its tail and worlds are without end. Kingdoms and places in the soul as yet to be discovered beckon us on to adventure. The process of addiction and crisis has alchemically changed our soul. Quite simply our addictions have helped us give birth to a new consciousness and opens the door of everything that has been waiting inside of us. It activates our ability to create the reality of heaven on earth. This is the Truth and Reconciliation of the Alchemy of Addiction.