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WE ARE OPEN FOR IN-PERSON SERVICE AND ARE ALSO ON ZOOM & FACEBBOOK LIVE
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We are holding virtual live services Sunday mornings on Zoom and Facebook Live in addition to our in-person services. We also offer short mid-week Spiritual Vitamin meditation and prayer gatherings 3 times a week on Zoom only. Click HERE for instructions and links. The services are recorded and posted on our website HERE and on our YouTube channel HERE. Direct links are emailed in our newsletter every week. Enter your email address in the form to the right to subscribe.
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June Theme: Living Everyday Wonder - Body
This month, we will explore how to live everyday wonder through the magnificent and magical creation that is our body. The body you have, right here and right now, is an expression of God. By loving it, learning about it, and listening to it, we come closer and closer to the Divine.
The body is the one thing in this world which is completely and intimately ours. Rather than engaging in a spirituality that denies the body, we can move closer to an experience of God here and now by fully engaging with the body. Our bodies are magnificent and magical conduits between God and our individual consciousness, and ought to be celebrated for the way they allow us to experience the world in which we live. All bodies are good bodies, and the body offers a direct and clear path to the Divine experience, if we will allow it. By loving the body, using it to connect to our minds and hearts, and listening to its wisdom, we celebrate its magnificence and awaken to this everyday wonder.
The body is the one thing in this world which is completely and intimately ours. Rather than engaging in a spirituality that denies the body, we can move closer to an experience of God here and now by fully engaging with the body. Our bodies are magnificent and magical conduits between God and our individual consciousness, and ought to be celebrated for the way they allow us to experience the world in which we live. All bodies are good bodies, and the body offers a direct and clear path to the Divine experience, if we will allow it. By loving the body, using it to connect to our minds and hearts, and listening to its wisdom, we celebrate its magnificence and awaken to this everyday wonder.
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Sunday, June 5 “Welcome to the Temple”
Today, we begin to explore the concept of living everyday wonder through the magnificent and divine creation that is our body. Most of us have likely grown up with social messaging that our bodies are not acceptable for one reason or another—too fat, too thin, too short, too tall, too brown, too black, too white, too one thing or another. We may have an ideal image of how our body could look or operate, and in feeding that image we tell our body that what it is right now, in this moment, isn’t acceptable. By learning to love our bodies as they are, we open to the opportunity to heal these and other wounds or traumas that “hide” in our physical selves. By opening to feeling how the body feels without judging it, we open to the opportunity to receive insight and wisdom through this miraculous and wondrous thing. Sunday, June 12 “Loving This Body”
The best body is the body that is present, here and now. We can use our bodies to experience deep emotions and big feelings. Often, we are taught to hate our bodies or apologize for them, trying to force them into acceptable and narrow social ideals. At other times, we may ignore our bodies and think of ourselves as spiritual, not physical, as though the two were mutually exclusive. We come closer to and love Source by coming closer to and loving ourselves, including our bodies. Sunday, June 19 “The Body Remembers”
Unprocessed, unhealed emotions can hide in our bodies. Over time, this can cause problems ranging from headaches and fatigue to serious medical conditions like heart attacks, anxiety/depression, and more. The body is more than a biochemical machine, walking our heads from room to room. Engaging with our bodies in a richer, more meaningful way opens the door to resolve what is unhealed and live more open, authentic lives. Sunday, June 26 “The One Body”
The body is a powerful tool for the Divine, manifesting whatever is imprinted in first cause. We can work both top-down (from mind to body) and bottom-up (from body to mind) to experience the reciprocal relationship with God through the body. Your body is a communication device with your inner thoughts and God, use it. We can use our bodies to feel into the holy moment before us, becoming completely present to the here and now. Our bodies are more than containers walking our consciousness around, they are the exact point in space and time where we are pressed from limitless possibility into perfect and precise expression. |