Life's Loving Memories

SPIRIT IS KINDNESS, PEACE, AND TRUTH  How do we create a life of harmony, laughter and love? It's an inside job. It starts on the inside and spirals out. We must express it in our own individual lives, and then send it out into the world." Life's Garden of Weekly Wisdom,                          Sandra Lindsey Smith There are many paths to God, but they are all paths to the same ideals. Love, Wisdom, Truth, Light, Prosperity and Joy are all very specials things that all faiths possess. Any Spirit loving soul wants the best life for their family and friends; all want to be treated with fairness and kindness; most would agree that stealing, and killing are not anything to take lightly. There is a Creative Intelligence behind all things created; humans, animals, plants, our Earth's gifts, and the solar system that surrounds them all. Life is a real life miracle that we are born into and out of. "Each day is a gift, that'...

 THE PRESENT MOMENT "Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference." --Winston Churchill Living in the present moment is such a gift. The past has gone by and there is no way to change it. The future is yet to come and we may plan for it, but it doesn't always turn out as it was planned.The only time we can knowingly change something, is in the present moment. You may think that something terrible has happened in your life, that you can't do something, or that your life is one mistake after another. My answer will always be the same, "up until now". It is a real life miracle to think about what can be changed in your life, and not worry about the past. If you feel you need some help in making a change, ask someone at Las Vegas Center for Spiritual Living to listen to you, and then have a practitioner do a Spiritual Mind Treatment for you. You could also sign up for Rev. Frannie's Power of Decision class starting Saturday, April 27th, 9:30 to n...

 SPRINGTIME, A REMINDER OF RENEWAL "No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world."  Robin Williams This time of year reminds me of resurrection, or more simply put, renewal. Each day when we wake from our slumber, we resurrect to a new day. Every day as I awaken, I treasure another day of seeing what life has to offer for the new day. As I look at all the events  that I have been blessed with in my life, I can see the positive renewal that has occurred. From acting in plays at an early age, through gaining a degree in Theatre Arts, and then teaching Drama for thirty-two years; to going through a divorce, discovering Science of Mind, becoming a minister, surviving colon cancer, remarrying; and along the way, moving to new homes eighteen times. I have been resurrected into a new experience each time. Every time we get a new job, find a new home, release an old relationship, get married, have a baby, or recover from an illness or accident, we are bein...

 SPRING HAS SPRUNG "The best way to garden is to put on a wide-brimmed hat and some old clothes. And with a hoe in one hand and a cold drink in the other, tell someone else where to dig." Texas Bix Bender,                    - -Don't Through in the Towel This is the season of flowers and fresh clean air, of jumping and enthusiasm, and knowing that positive change is in the air. Growing up for me, when Easter was around the corner, I got a new dress, new shoes, and it was a time when family got together to celebrate. Today I still look forward to seeing friends and family during spring. Yes, there are things happening in the world that are not to my liking; but there are still things to be thankful for and to celebrate, relax and remember the blessings. Just as we tend to the garden during springtime, be it vegetable or flower, the love and kindness we put into its care is reflected in the type of harvest we reap. This is true with p...

 NOW IT'S UP, NOW IT'S DOWN--NOW IT IS, NOW IT ISN'T "Relax into the knowing that inspiration brings ideas that allow us to be on purpose, to love, to help, to serve."                           --Raymond Charles Barker                                                                           Are you as disoriented as I am? Will normalcy ever return? Does Truth seem a bit hazy? Is it starting to look like an everlasting April Fool's Day. Let us pray, every day for our Nation to get back on it's regular democratic course. You have probably heard the old Indian tale of a young Indigenous boy talking to his Grandfathers and he says, "Grandfather, in our world today it seems as if two wolves are fighting. Which one finally wins?" A...

 LET WISDOM LEAD THE WAY “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”                                                                               ―  Maya Angelou I read a wonderful blog by an old friend from Kennewick, Washington. She spoke of the Wisdom that comes from aging gracefully. She said something that I totally agree with, "They are not grey hairs, they are wisdom highlights."  Something that I have always said, is that as I age, I find that I have less to worry about. Things I worried about in my twenties and thirties, seem to drift way as I enter into my forties, fifties, sixties, and now seventies. It seems that the really important things rise to the surface, friend...

 ONE SMALL  LIGHT DISPELS THE DARKNESS "To think only of the best, to work only for the best, and expect only the best." Christian D. Larsen,                               --From " The Optimist Creed" Another morning dawns and I still keep America in my prayers. I pray for all who have been displaced; for all people who have lost their jobs; and for those whose lives are threatened. May there be a wake-up call to release the chaos and and replace it with Love and Humanity and Understanding. May we practice Kindness and Compassion, creating a contagion of Goodness and Justice and Unity. Many of us have friends, neighbors and relatives that are touched by the conditions in our nation today. Shower the world around you with kindness and compassion. Write some postcards to share you views with local politicians. Remember it is a wide variety of cultures, ethnicities, genders, who are the human beings w...