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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.

Going back to the bedrock teachings of Science of Mind, we revisit how spirit works through us, as us, in How It Works.

While the calendar year may turn over and is cause for celebration, practically speaking, the new year is just a continuation of what came before. And yet, after all the festivity and celebration that December holds, January ushers in a welcome quiet.

As we close out the year, we also close our December theme of Celebration. And, what a month it’s been! From Jingle Jam to Solstice and Christmas Eve services, it's been a magical season. And, when it's hard to find the light, amidst the festivity and celebration, we have tools to help us do so.

As we approach the Winter Solstice, we enter the darkest season of the year, at least by the calendar here in the northern hemisphere. And yet, everywhere we look, there's light. It's a curious and meaningful contradiction: when the days are at their darkest, we're called to make our own light.

Whatever this time of year holds for you, whether it’s celebration, contemplation, tenderness, or all of the above, I hope we can all embrace both/and and hang the lights up high. Little things matter.

Remember to find joy, even when just in moments. Joy helps us sustain and regenerate gratitude.

Gratitude isn’t just a nice idea. It’s a choice that shapes how we experience life.