VISION: A Center For Spiritual Living

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.

Rev Patti “We Rise Together”

The Oneness seeks to express Itself in uniqueness. There is no 'other', in Spirit. The Divine Intelligence holds nothing back: there is no loss, no lack, no limit to defend against.
We meet the other, and they become our friend, then they become "us". Our mind is a point within Universal Mind, and It knows what to do to create heaven on earth.

Rev Patti "The Shoes of Others"

We know we are One, so what gets in the way? When we fall in to judgement, rather than observation.
Our perspective is an outpicturing of our thoughts. When we think love, we get love. When we think hostility, we get hostility. Same world. It is ourselves that create the difference.

Rev Patti "Feminine Energy in Us"

The mystical marriage of the masculine and feminine energy is present within all. The feminine recognizes that which must be burned away and released, to make room for the new.
When we confront the outdated, the outgrown, the tradition and the status quo, we are fostering the divine feminine within.