DONE WITH THE SHEDDING--OPEN TO RENEWING


"And when we realize that our true Self is one of pure potentiality, we align with  the power that manifests everything in the universe."

The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success,   Deepak Chopra

2025 is coming to it's end, 2026 is on the horizon, and it's time to look forward to a new year with positive eyes that are focusing through a new lens. The innate desire for observing a world that looks at humanity with just that, looking for new a way to honor all living beings with love, justice, equal treatment. Searching with a hunger for the diverse way that all people share heir talents with the world. It's time that we lay down our weapons, and find ways of enhancing our planet that assure its existence for a multitude of years to come.

Just last Sunday at our Center, we held a burning bowl ceremony. We wrote down some of the things we realized were no longer serving us that we wished to release. We wrote them down on flash paper and brought them up front to place in a burning bowl. It was a symbolic way to let  old ideas and habits be released, making room for renewal in the next year.

Traditionally, as the new year begins, we make resolutions for better ways of doing things, and I perceive that shedding the old ways do allow for life to progress. For me it means not just seeing what needs to be done in the world around me, but actually moving forward on it. It means being a participant in life, and inviting others to join with me in building a community, a state, a nation, our world--a world that works for all.

"Life is what you make it, or as we say in Science of Mind, life is what you think into it. But thinking isn't enough, follow through on the thought. Think and move your feet. To find what we need to move our feet about, in order to discover what that initial intention is, sometimes we need to go inside and talk to God."

Life's Garden Grows,                         --Sandra Lindsey Smith

What would you like to have more of? Clarity, using your voice to ask for what you want, new friends, connection with family, a better job/income? Perhaps a good start to achieving any of these things is to choose one and commit to it happening. Say an affirmative prayer for yourself, or ask someone to do one for you (the website you are on lists people who are willing to do a prayer for you). Find a faith tradition that you might explore,  take a class or look for an inspirational book. Whatever you decide to do, take a step towards renewal.

Love, Light, and laughter,

Rev Sandy Smith

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