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Our thoughts shape our world, and our automatic thoughts and responses may be limiting. How do we become more conscious of our automatic thoughts, so that we can be and bring love to everything we do? How can we change our response to effectively heal the world by healing ourselves?

Love isn't something that arrives when conditions are right. It's a force — Martin Luther King's word — and an active one. SOM founder Ernest Holmes said it would be difficult, if not impossible, to find any situation that doesn't respond to love's creative and healing power.

Rev. Michael Auch kicked off our June Higher Deeper Love theme on Sunday with All the Love We Cannot See, reminding us of a fish named Fred—intro'd to us by Rev. Larry—a fish on a lifelong quest to find water. Fred had no idea he was immersed in, swimming through, and sustained by water. That’s what love is. When we talk about love in Science of Mind, we aren’t talking about romantic love, or as Rev. Michael described, loving a person, a thing, or idea. Love is the energy tha

Some of us likely grew up in an environment where questions weren’t welcome. Whether that was school, family, or church, we learned that toeing the line, not asking questions, and not talking back were the correct behavior. We were expected to believe what we were told (how many heard our parents say, “because I said so!”?). For some of us, that didn't sit well. If we’ve learned nothing this month, talking about doubt, it’s that doubt isn’t the opposite of faith. It’s an impe

Doubt isn't divine; doubt is human-generated. Doubt starts with comparison, looking outward. We create our own constriction to our flow of good, and we don't have to. Spirit always says yes; it's our source, substance, and supply, and always available if we're open to it. Listen for guidance; if you're on the threshold, the only right answer is yes.

I just came back from ten days away with no computer (and I limited my phone use). Re-entry is always an adjustment, and I know it's been a good reset when everything I do requires me to stop and think before doing. That could be why my weekly mindset reset (Sunday service) mattered even more this week, because Rev. Jim Boone's talk was exactly what I needed to hear on my return (caught the YouTube replay). Continuing with our May theme, Divine Doubt, Rev. Jim, one of our awe

What to do when doubt shows up, especially self-doubt, and how to transform it.

How can you use doubt as a doorway to greater awareness and a better life experience? Rev. Gary shares ideas about how to make doubt our friend rather than foe, how to use it so it no longer stops us from creating the life we desire. When we reframe our interpretation, we shift our mindset.

It may sound cliche but love is all around us. It's everywhere, all the time, all at once. When we see love as a way of being, rather than a feeling, it gets easier. It's all part of Oneness, the universal expression of divine connection. We just can't always see it, with so many distractions and active efforts to divide us. And yet, if we act from a place of love, we become love. We are love, at our core.

Where else can you go on a Sunday morning for a meaningful mindset reset and hear our own local superstars belting the venerable Rev. Al Green from the stage? One more reason I love this place. Mercy, mercy me. That opening set the tone, soulful and grounded, for this pre-Earth Day Sunday. Followed by Joni Mitchell's Big Yellow Taxi, another favorite, and also, sadly, the perfect Earth Day song for all the wrong reasons. And, our talented team more than did the music justice,

Cindy Clay talked about healing, revealing, and the power of vulnerability and sharing our stories to become who we're meant to be. It's how we surrender shame and blame and become our true, authentic selves. It's important to only share with those who deserve to hear them.

What to bunnies, eggs, and presence have to do with each other? Easter is filled with symbolism and Rev. Jim Boone brought all these home with his talk, Living with Presence and Deep Awareness. Kicking off with Oh, What a Beautiful Morning, sung by an amazing group of humans, we kicked off Easter joyfully, mindfully, and with practicality.

Closing our 5-week "What If?" series with a service that brought the house down, we're challenged us to be "possibilitarians" — see possibility even in dark times and dare to act from love. Themes were co-creation, courage, and transformation, the spiritual reset we need right now. If you're looking for a spiritual community that asks you to think, question, and dare — come find us.

Want to change the world? Be a beetle. Say what? Rev. Larry took us on a journey through the jungle where bioluminescent beetles light the way. What does that mean for us? You don't have to be special to light the way for others; do what lights you up.

What if imagination is one of the most powerful tools we have? In the context of SOM philosophy, it's what gives us power.

What if possibility is already here? What if we continually ask ourselves what if? What if we break through fear, blocks, or other barriers, just by asking what if?

We're exploring the edges - how to stretch and grow beyond what we already know. We're living in a time of extraordinary complexity, with overburdened systems and ineffective narratives. That's why sitting with silence matters. We can't solve today's problems with yesterday's thinking, and the only way through is through silence.

Rev. Don Beaty took us to the edge on Sunday - not in a cliff-hanging way, but in a quiet way that asks for contemplation. What do we do and value that's worth the "calories" we spend? IF we take nothing away from last week's message, take these three words: courage, compassion, and curiosity. Then add calories - as in, how do we spend the energy we have in ways that matter?

Conscious practice can help us make sense of the world, or at least navigate through it with our sanity intact.

What makes up the best day of your life - today? With daily spiritual practice, your life can be close to perfect.