VISION: A Center For Spiritual Living

Rev Patti "Face Everything And Rise"

Our fears are meant to be conquered, not collected. Fear keeps us small. We run into our leading edge, and we detour off into coping behaviors that keep us from pushing through.
We are here to experience all of life. The only healing of our fears comes from a restoration of our faith. Pray, meditate, take a class, call a Practitioner. Unleash your inner superhero, and conquer what is holding you back.

Karen Drucker "One Heart at a Time"

We need to check in with our heart. Being true to ourselves means being present.
We must reach beyond our comfort zone and connect with others. Not in an intrusive, uncomfortable way. But in simple acts of acknowledgement and being present.

Rev Patti "False Evidence Appearing Real"

Fear is a belief that God is not present, that we are alone, and must defend our lives and our bodies, alone.
Fear can be healthy. Fear keeps us from getting hurt. But fears are meant to be overcome, not collected.

Rev Patti "Forever and Ever"

Today is all we have. The eternal moment, unfolding forever. Spirit is engendered and embodied in all we see, do and think. Everywhere is holy ground. Every interaction is sacred.
We cannot withhold our light, our good, and expect not to suffer for it. The circulation of the love of God is the life blood of the Universe.

Rev Patti "All the Time"

We are surrounded by good in the high times, and the challenging times. Life is not a series of hills and valleys. It is railroad tracks, positive and negative. Our focus defines our experience.
The stories we tell about our lives are the affirmations of our lives. We become stuck in a narrative of our own creation. And we are at choice, in every moment, to change the course of the story.

Peter Boilland "Fundamentalism vs Spirituality"

We must understand the consciousness of our perspective. Are we looking back, or looking ahead? Rooted in fear, or rooted in faith? Is this a universe of winners and losers? Where God has favorites?
We must beware of the idolatry of certainty. To look for enemies, to long for a past that never existed. These are the paths that lead to exclusion and Us vs Them thinking.

Rev Patti "God is Good"

We say 'God is good', but often that's conditional; it's good when it's going our way. When things go badly, we get to blame God.
We need a higher perspective. That God is the goodness. Not an attribute of personality, but the embodiment of life.

Rev Patti "Living in the Now"

Being mindful is being conscious of the moment. Not lost in the past, or drifting in the future. Both can have positives; lessons learned, intentions and goals. But when we forget to return to the moment, we lose the power.
Mindfulness does not involve the ego. Not trying to control, push away or make something linger. It is about being present.

Rev Patti "Living in the All"

There is nothing outside of us, away from us, separate from us, to "get". We have, and are all that is. It is the degree to which we embody and express life that It shows up for us.
Prayer does not change God, prayer changes us. It enlarges our mind, aligns us with our good and propels us forward.

Rev Patti "Consciousness of Abundance"

We are expressing the One Life of spirit. We are made in "the image and likeness", the essence of Spirit. All that It is, we are. And it is for us to live the biggest, grandest life we can.
We do not "want" or "need" anything, this implies it is separate from us. The Universe is already abundant, we don`t have to make it- we have to align with what already is.