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WHO I AM REFLECTS HOW I AM
Who we are on the inside reflects how we express ourselves on the outside. Relationships are mirrors that allow us to see that how we view the world reflects how we view ourselves. The more we can uncover our parts, remove our masks, and be authentically ourselves, the more we are able to see the divine in everyone we meet. What would my life be like if I was authentically myself in every relationship?
NO BAD PARTS
Ernest Holmes writes that our word does not restore wholeness; it reveals it. And yet, many of us do not feel whole. We tend to reject or suppress the parts of ourselves we do not like. What would happen if instead of rejecting them, we honored them? What if we asked: What would my life look like if I honored and loved all of my parts, even those I do not like?
THE HOLY WHOLENESS OF THE QUEER SPIRIT
Looking at the holy revelation of the Queer experience, we see life rooted in Divine curiosity and the sacred nonbinary nature of God. This message is a powerful invitation for everyone to embrace their most audacious, authentic self-expression, moving beyond the binary of “either/or” into the expansive “both/and” present in nature.
WHAT’S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT?
Love is our shared humanity, our collective traumas, our past missteps, and our way forward. This week we turn from the personal to the collective inner — the shared wounds and wisdom that live beneath the surface of our communities. We bring awareness to ancestral and historical dimensions of love: how it has been withheld, distorted, or reclaimed. Love has everything to do with it.
I WAS MADE FOR LOVING YOU
This recording features the Sunday Talk portion of the service. For the full service watch here. I Was Made For Loving You - Rev. Darrell Jones DESCRIPTION We were born to love all life. Sometimes it is not as easy as it...
I WANT TO KNOW WHAT LOVE IS
We all want to know what Love is. What if Love is more than what we have allowed? This week we open the month by exploring love not merely as a feeling, but as a living, expansive presence — available in the uncomfortable and the good, in the messy and the beautiful. The invitation is to begin expanding the container of love within ourselves, and to discover that we already are the fullness of what we seek.
DOUBT AS DEVOTION
In this closing reflection on the theme of Divine Doubt, we explore how uncertainty itself can be an invitation — calling us to release our grip, lean into trust, and return again and again to Love as our foundation.
COMMUNAL UNCERTAINTY
As a community, what doubts or uncertainties do we have, whether out in the open or hidden? This week we look at using our doubts to engage with wonder and curiosity as we continue to build webs of love and respect — both within Cityside and in the wider CSL community.
CARRYING OUR DOUBT TOGETHER
What power and possibility lies in our collective doubts? This week we turn to the collective inner experience — the doubts we share as part of our shared unconscious — and explore what transformations can come from carrying and examining doubt together.
