Rev. Dr. Kathleen Johnson
Spiritual Director
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Our Mission
The Center for Spiritual Living Delaware is a vibrant spiritual community grounded in unconditional love and dedicated to encouraging the highest and fullest Divine expression of all beings through the teaching of spiritual principles rooted in New Thought - Ancient Wisdom, spiritual practice, and sacred service.
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2017 Intention
The Center for Spiritual Living Delaware is a welcoming, vibrant, diverse, and thriving community. Unified in Spirit, we inspire, nurture, and support each other in transcending our life experiences through the teachings and practices of New Thought - Ancient Wisdom. We intend that we are expanding in the consciousness and expression of Love, sharing our gifts and talents in joyful service to the Highest Good.
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September Affirmation
Today I commit to creating my Brightest Future by knowing that all adversity dissolves with the constant conviction that the Pattern of Health, Wealth, and Love within me is greater and more powerful than any sickness, injury, or seeming lack or limitation.
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Join us every week for
Sunday celebration!
10:00 am
Meditation
Childcare
10:30 am
Service
Children's Fellowship
Center for Spiritual Living
Woodmill Corporate Center
5201 West Woodmill Dr. Suites 31 & 32
Wilmington, DE 19808
302-635-7316
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As you begin meditating and praying about revealing more of your True Self, it is important to understand what New Thought teachers call chemicalization. Your focus on being more loving or peaceful or financially abundant will cause all of the beliefs that block the way to come up. Things will seem to get worse before they get better. Even if you have been on the path of spiritual realization for some time, discouragement can set in if you see this very natural part of spiritual growth as being stuck. It is really a SIGN that your spiritual practice is working!
For example, if my intention is to be more compassionate or loving, I may begin to notice the arising of thoughts of impatience, irritation, and anger toward myself or another person. All judgments about life in my subconscious mind are being shown to me so that I may release and replace them with thoughts of love and acceptance. As I become more non-judgmental and kinder in my response to myself and others, things begin to change in my world.
Faith and confidence in the process of spiritual practice and in the Good of God will help us all to triumph. Keep up a spiritual practice and let us help you. You can join us in the Spiritual Practices class, a great way to deepen your own spiritual practice, learn, and receive support. Call me at 302-635-7316 if you are interested in signing up. Details on the class are included in the flyer below. This is the last week to join us.
Blessings on Your Journey,
Rev. Kathleen
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September 2017
A Life That Works Without All the Work
This Labor Day month we will take a fresh look at creating a life that works without all the hard labor. When we live from certain spiritual principles and spiritual practices and then leave the rest to the Divine, life really can flow with ease and grace. Each week, we look at this idea from a different angle and learn how to create a life that works without all the work!
September 17
Say 'Yes' to What W.O.R.K.s
What are you saying "yes" to in your life? It may surprise you to know that you say "yes" to a lot more than just what you would consciously choose to have in your life experience. Today, we say "yes" to the qualities that W.O.R.K. together to create a life of fulfillment.
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Sunday Messages ONLINE
Dan is back and the Sunday messages from the last two weeks are up online. Special thanks to Dean Banks for stepping up to man the audio visuals in his absence! You can hear Candace's lovely message of letting go and letting God, "
Celebrating Un-Labor Day," from September 3 as well as guest speaker Matt Jones' motivational talk "
Creating Your Brightest Future" from September 10. Get all caught up and ready to welcome Rev. Kathleen back this Sunday!
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Join us in knowing perfect love, harmony, and joy for Eric Pitts and his new wife Meghan. Congratulations!!
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Some Words to Live By from Matt Jones
Here are some nuggets of wisdom that Matt Jones shared in his workshop last Sunday:
Life is like riding rides in Disneyworld.
You choose the rides.
You choose which ones to keep going on over and over again.
* There's life or death in the power of a tongue.
* We are miracle manifestation machines.
* I'm too grateful to be hateful.
* I'm too blessed to be stressed.
* Lighten up, don't tighten up.
-- submitted by Peggy Wicks RScP
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For 2017, we have enrolled 60 events state-wide - concerts, art shows, peace marches in Wilmington and Lewes, panels, speakers, interfaith dinners and discussions, movies, a coffee house, a radio show, events with rapper El Rod and spoken word by Delaware's Twin Poets. Events cover a wide range of peace-related issues - understanding others, understanding ourselves, racism, inner peace, community peace, global peace, women's issues, police / community relations, immigration, veterans, building safe communities and more.
All events are free, non-partisan, and non-sectarian. A few require pre-registration.
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Help in Hurricane Aftermath
Please continue to send prayers and treatments to our brothers and sisters in all rain-torn areas on earth!
As the Centers for Spiritual Living in Texas are stabilizing, focus now turns to supporting the other communities in the area. These efforts are led by Rev. Dr. Jesse Jennings from Creative Life and Rev. Dr. Michael Gott from Unity of Houston.
You can help those on the front lines by donating online utilizing this
link.
All proceeds will benefit the victims of Hurricane Harvey in the Houston area.
Other donation sites to help in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey and Irma include
the
Red Cross and
the
ASPCA.
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The class has already started. Next Tuesday, September 19, is the last chance to get in on it if you'd like to participate!
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Click
here to view a trailer of the program.
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We're creating our own CSL DE photo directory with the company Lifetouch. It won't be complete without you!
Click here to schedule your session on one of the two days:
Wednesday October 4, 1:30-9:00 pm
Thursday, October 5, 1:30-9:00 pm
Photo sessions will take place at the Center, and each will take about one hour. Individuals, couples, and families are welcome.
Watch a video of Lifetouch's work
here
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Volunteer of the Month
Jennifer Lyons
Jennifer Lyons has for several years been in service to our spiritual community. She is always willing to jump in and help where help is needed.
She is or has been a member of the Offertory and Congregant Care teams. She serves as a substitute teacher for the Children's Fellowship, as a Sunday reader, as a Light-bearer for after-service prayer, and on the Hospitality team. In the last several months, Jenn has reignited the practice of Lunch Bunch - congregants joining together for food and fun after service on the first Sunday of the month. It is a great opportunity for community building. We all know Jenn to have a kind and generous heart as well as a quick wit that keeps us laughing.
As a professional social worker, Jenn has worked for Christiana Care for many years and is now beginning a new venture with a group of mental health care providers. Please join me in celebrating and thanking Jennifer for all she contributes to our spiritual community.
-- submitted by Rev. Kathleen
Jenn
(second from the left) is always where the fun is!
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The late Bro. Wayne Teasdale, dear friend of the Association for Global New Thought, wrote in his book The Mystic Heart,
"Humanity stands at a crossroads between horror and hope. In choosing hope, we must seed a new consciousness, a radically fresh approach to life drawing its inspiration from perennial spiritual and moral insights, intuition, and experience. We call this new awareness Interspiritual, implying not the homogenization of religion, but the recovering of the shared mystic heart beating in the center of the world's deepest spiritual traditions.
Spiritual and religious belief systems shape worldviews that, in turn, determine cultural norms. We believe that discord between and among cultures is a symptom of human woundedness catalyzed by failed understanding. When compassionately understood, the diverse wisdom of our spiritual legacies give rise to healing. WE DO have a hand in determining whether cultures evolve or merely change.
Today, we're right in the middle of a planet-wide values shift. Its implications for religion, spirituality, inter-cultural healing, and personal development are profound indeed. At its very heart lie new understandings of peace and nonviolence, social / economic justice, human rights, and ecological sustainability."
This Sunday Candace will give a talk short talk on the Jewish faith as part of the Season for Interfaith/Intercultural Celebration.
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Please spread the word that CSL Delaware has space available to rent. Information is available on the
website. Thank you for your help!
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