VISION: A Center For Spiritual Living

Rev Diane Russell - "Always Has Been, Always Will Be"

You are enough. Nothing is required, because God is our Truth. The difference is awareness.
Going after accomplishments that try to prove our worth only set us up in a cycle of performance based actions that get us nowhere. We are free and enough, and yet free enough to see ourselves as bound.

Rev Patti - "Shall Set You Free"

 Freedom is our natural way of being, a deep call within each of us. We are bound by our freedom, free enough to create lack, limitation, disease and loneliness. It is by thought we increase the conditions around us. By focusing on what we don`t want, we make more of it.
This is because we`re living in our heads, which is where "the story" comes from. We must move to the heart, which can dream and imagine greater.

Rev Patti Paris - "Weaving our World"

 We live in a life of Universal, physical truths; mathematics, electricity, gravity- they work the same everywhere, for everyone. And crossing those Laws, are spiritual laws: Freedom, Joy, Love, Peace. Which also work the same everywhere for everyone. We use these laws to create our lives.
We are drawn to a life that is uniquely ours: some use beauty and creativity and transform the world with art and music. Others are open to levels of abundance and opportunity. We are always at choice. We awaken to our Truth and know that there is no condition greater than cause. And we are the cause of our effect.

Rev Patti Paris - "The Sun, The Moon and the Truth"

Fake it till you make it. We do affirmations knowing our Truth, regardless of any present "facts". We are narrating the story of our lives, and we can change it any time from a tragedy, or melodrama to a victorious triumph over incredible odds.
We start with affirmations because everything begins in mind. But it cannot stay there, our ideas must find expression in the affairs of our lives or they are nothing more than idle fancy. Divine intelligence knows what to do, and impresses that knowledge upon us as the activity that is ours to do.

Peter Bolland - "Fathering Energy"

The 5 Qualities of Inner Fathering are Courage, Quietude, Consistency, Competence and Kindness.
It takes courage to be loving and compassionate. quietude allows us to discover solutions in the silence, competence/ doingness- the opposite of helplessness, kindness is nurturing the best in others.
Are these qualities latent and hidden in our daily practice of life? Or do we embody them?

Rev Savanna Riker - "Sacred Amidst the Shadows"

How do we embrace chaos and challenge in the midst of conflict? We must be willing to look at it for starters.
Often we look outside ourselves for validation, which is ego validation. We must strip away the outer barriers of accepted "fact", and see the Truth.

Rev Patti Paris - "Spirit as Powerful You"

Spiritual power is our nature. As children, we had no doubt of the flow of divine energy in our lives. We were powerful, creative, energized and loved. Then, the Voice of the World crept in, with its critical, condemning obnoxious attitudes. And we built a wall to keep that stuff out. But at the same time, we often wall off our power, too.
We then fall into the habit of trying to control outside effects in order to regain what we believe is lost. But we don`t have to "get", or "find" anything- we simply have to unleash what is already the I AM of us!

Rev Patti Paris - "The Energy of Change"

We must engage in the energy of change, willingly participate in transformation in order to direct the change. It is going to change, that is guaranteed. Everything begins in mind. The energy of thought is then transformed into the activity of life.
Choices require us to surrender; we must give up all the other options, give up the idea of our plans, which give way to something beyond our current possibility.

Rev. Patti Paris - "Think Back, Look Ahead"

Be here, think back, but don`t "look" back; that implies we are focused in the past. Our power is here, tomorrow`s seeds are planted today. We observe the past to see where our consciousness was, what led to our current set of circumstances.
When we know our wholeness, there is nothing to hinder us but our own disbelief, which is a thought we can change. We affirm our good, our potential, regardless of the current situation.

Rev. Dr. Kathy Hearn - "Take Back Your Power"

Our essential beingness is I AM. We are unique. Nothing is broken, nothing is missing. We are abundant energy, perfectly expressing Divine Intelligence in all ways, on all levels.
Yet, we give our power away to lesser thoughts that do not support us. The 3 Ds: Death, Deficiency, Debt. The fear that life ends, that I AM not enough, that I owe, or am owed. We send our power away, and indulge in thoughts that do not support us. We are free, at any moment, with any thought, to change that idea, and reclaim our power.