Center for Spiritual Living - Redding

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Experience Our Labyrinth

We at CSLR are very excited to share our labyrinth with members of our commmunity and the world at large. We are extending an invitiation to you to experience this spiritual practice at our Center.

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Center for Spiritual Living - Redding provides spiritual tools to transform our personal lives and help make the world a better place.

Center for Spiritual Living is a spiritual community and way of life that honors all paths to God and helps people to discover a personal relationship with God. When God is the focus of our spirituality, then other areas of our lives fall into place—we are happier, we can do more for others, be better stewards of the Earth, and bring peace and harmony to the world.

We extend a warm welcome to all people in search of a spiritual community where they are embraced, respected, and accepted for who they are and inspired and supported to grow to their highest potential.

No matter where you are on your spiritual journey, you are welcome here.

Are you feeling alone, lost, empty or disconnected? Are you in crisis? Are you lacking fulfillment, looking for answers, healing, and a spiritual home?

At Center for Spiritual Living, you will belong to a like-minded community, a spiritual home, where you can discoverpeace of mind, healing, and inspiration, and live with a personal relationship with God. We look forward to meeting you in person! »

January Peace Practice

“In the morning, bowing to all;
In the evening, bowing to all;
Respecting others is my only duty.”
Ryokan

As the New Year refreshes our enthusiasm to live a more Spirit driven life, we can pause to reflect on what has been. Here lies an opportunity to atone for the past. A simple practice of bowing humbles the ego. This gives us an opportunity to lighten our hearts by letting go. It is a gesture that awakens your understanding to the past and allows your heart to speak a greater truth into your understanding of who you are now. Just be sincere in the prayer of your heart as you practice...see what comes up for you. As it clears the way, peace be with you.

Blessings,
Rev. Sue MillerBorn

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January 2012
Pastors’ Message

A New Year, a New Organization

As we begin this great new year of 2012, in our time-keeping system, what looms large on our horizon is the completion of the integration of our two Science of Mind organizations, which will take place in February at our Leadership Conference in New Orleans. All leaders are invited to attend. It will be a new organization, called simply “Centers for Spiritual Living” with its headquarters in Golden, Colorado. Four of our International Centers for Spiritual Living staff from Spokane, WA, have moved there to be integrated into a larger staff of people to meet the needs of approximately 400 member communities such as ours in Redding. Many of us have been working towards this goal for decades. We are excited to see it come to fruition in such a loving, graceful manner.

Ernest Holmes, our founder, said, (and I paraphrase) that Religious Science would be the religion of the 21st Century, regardless of what it would be called. Ernest was first excited by New Thought ideas when he read a book of essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson as an eighteen-year-old.

We came upon these writings from Emerson (who in our humble opinion, seems to be predicting our organization): The explanations in parentheses are ours. America shall introduce a pure religion…..There will be a new church founded on moral science; at first cold and naked, a babe in a manger again, the algebra and mathematics of ethical law, the church of men to come, without shawms, or psaltery, or sackbut (musical instruments of old). Was never stoicism so stern and exigent as this shall be. It shall send man home to his central solitude, shame these social, supplicating manners, and make him know that much of the time he must have himself to his friend. He shall expect no co-operation, he shall walk with no companion. The nameless Thought, the nameless Power, the super-personal Heart (God) - he shall repose alone on that. He needs only his own verdict. No good fame can help, no bad fame can hurt him. The Laws are his consolers, the good Laws themselves are alive, they know if he have kept them, they animate him with the leading of great duty, and an endless horizon.”

We look forward to a great year with our enlarged spiritual community!

Love and Blessings,
Judith and Bob

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Visitors and newcomers are always welcome!
· Join us in the Social Hall after each service. Refreshments will be served and Nasruddin's Espresso Bar will be open.
· Watch us on TV if you can't attend
· Interested in becoming a member? Attend The Essence, a newcomer's orientation class, on the 1st Sunday of each month following the 10:30 service... meet at the front of the sanctuary.
· Pick-up a Friendship Packet at the Information Desk.
· Call our 24-hour recorded prayer line: 221-HEAL.
· Browse our Bookstore for inspirational reading and listening material.
· Call us at 221-4849 or email us for more information.

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