VISION: A Center For Spiritual Living

Rev Patti "A Life Worth Living"

What makes life worth living? What gives life meaning? When we focus on the outer conditions, we are blown like a leaf on the wind.
We must go within, discover, uncover and explore, the truth of our own being, and live from there.

Rev Patti "Mustard Seed Faith"

When we don't "get" what we want, we think there is something to "do". Ego wants results. It has an agenda.
Faith is the trust that lets us let go of the illusion of control and accept the ambiguity of the moment, knowing Spirit is at work.

Rev Patti "Messes or Majesty"

Often we react to the effect, rather than respond by altering cause. We act as if this thing we have co-created is somehow greater than we are, that we cannot change it.
We must engage in a daily practice of directing our minds, and the law of life, in the direction we would have it go. We are not blown by the winds of chance, we are co-creators of our experience.

Rev Diane Russell "Free to Be"

The look of Freedom is infinite. One person's freedom is another person's curse: a desk job may mean the freedom of security for one, and tedium to another.
We must know who we are, what we want, and be aware if we are making choices based on twenty year old thinking.

Rev Jeanne Phillips "What's Your Story?"

How we define our lives, is how we direct our lives. It isn't the definition of terms, but the feeling behind the words that makes a difference.
Are we telling empowering, or limiting stories about our future? Are we telling healing stories? Or stories we don't need to give power to?

Rev Dr Sharon Hudson "Nurturing Empowered Consciousness"

We collect issues and opinions about ourselves and the world. And these muddy the water of our consciousness until we are clogged with false belief.
We are powerful, magnificent beings, capable of changing the world! And the place to start, is right where we are.

Rev Patti "Thoughts and Thanks"

We are empowered by gratitude. It focuses us on what we have, not what we perceive as missing. It keeps us in the now, where we have power.
Gratitude and fear cannot coexist in the same brain, they are incompatible. Let gratitude tame the fear, process it, and eliminate it.

Peter Bolland "Rebuilding Connection"

Connection doesn't always mean communication. Some things are beyond the limiting function of words.
There is a part of us that knows we do not create connection, we discover it, we allow it. And we find a source of that connection in our own unique ways.

Rev Patti "Building Blocks of Life”

Our thoughts are the currency of our experiences. So what are we "paying" attention to? Turn away from that we which we do not desire, and focus only on the good we would have.
We seek better for ourselves, and by default, we create better for those around us, and those around them. We must not be afraid of speaking our power and our dreams into manifestation.

Rev Patti "The Consciousness of Creation”

The Oneness from which all emanates, returns to It. There is only one energy, one activity. If we don't like what is before us, we are free to change our receptivity and create something new.
Spirit always has a bigger idea for us. There is always something for us to grow into. It is for us to do the work.