Christmas is Love in Action

MINISTER’S BLOG — “Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas.” ~ Dale Evans. Christmas is love in action. The birth of Jesus was love in action and the greatest gift ever given to humankind. Reflecting on his birth stirs a …

Perfect Vision: Seeing 20/20 Through a Spiritual Lens

MINISTER’S BLOG — Where there is no vision, the people perish. ~ Proverbs 29:18 ~ Each January comes with a major theme: close the door on the past and open it again to new hope for the future. The New Year enters with an air of fresh possibilities. It jogs …

Gratitude is the Heart’s Memory

MINISTER’S BLOG — Expressing Gratitude: I am gratefully and wonderfully blessed. Gratitude is the heart’s memory. — French Proverb Thanksgiving is fast approaching and some of us may be wondering how we can be grateful when life has been filled with challenge upon challenge this past year. Some have moved …

Volunteer Tribute

MINISTER’S BLOG — “Love cannot remain by itself — it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action and that action is service.” — Mother Teresa Every one of us has an innate desire to contribute to life in meaningful ways, to make life better for others and to …

Children are God’s great possibilities

MINISTER’S BLOG — This month we honor and bless our children as they begin a new school year. As the children return to school they face the excitement, the challenges, the potential successes and failures in the new academic year. They may happily reconnect with old friends and make new …

Being Present

MINISTER’S BLOG — Being Present: I live in the now and divine understanding is active in me. It is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing… ~ Galatians 4:18 (KJV) The poet Pablo Neruda wrote, “I want to do what spring does with the cherry trees.” There …

Our Community is a Sheltering Tree

MINISTER’S BLOG — A few weeks ago, I spoke about our church community as a circle of loving friends, where we help each other heal the past, live powerfully and authentically in the present, and awaken to unlimited possibilities for future good. Since that Sunday, I have experienced the truth …

What Purpose Chooses You?

MINISTER’S BLOG — Message by Rev. Teresa Curry — “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore” — Andre Gide, French author Summertime, Summertime, Sum, sum Summertime – Those lyrics from a song long ago ring in my mind for this amazing …

God is Not in a Hurry

MINISTER’S BLOG — The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it. ~ Arnold H. Glasgow Patience is required to support the full expression of the Christ potential within you. If you want an omelet, smashing the egg might work. But, …

We Are Easter People

MINISTER’S BLOG — Being Enough: I rise up and reclaim my true identity as a sacred being. Jesus asked Mary as she stood by his empty tomb crying, “Woman, why do you weep?” — Gospel of John 20:15 — Mary had no clue that Easter had come and that it …

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