It’s easy to talk about unconditional love but it’s much harder to practice it. The truth is that all of our love relationships, whether with our family, our partner, our friends… begin with us. Our experience of them is filtered through all of our life experiences. Join us this Sunday as we begin to explore what Real Love is and how to create a Path within ourselves to experience greater love for self and others.

There is a power, a resonance when people gather together in community.
Here at Cityside we feel the power of that love during our Sunday services
and in our classes and small group encounters. Join us as we discuss the
power of this love and our proposed Community of Care, which will provide
us a way to offer and receive help from our fellow community members. We
will also begin the conversation about how we can be available to others
who are going through mental health challenges that could include
thoughts of suicide, which will be continued after service by the Hope For
The Day organization as they present The Things We Don’t Say
educational program. We hope to see you for both.
“The jewel of community, the Sangha, is to be held equal to the the Buddha
and the Dharma. Indeed, the whole of the holy life is fulfilled through
spiritual friendship.”

There is a power, a resonance when people gather together in community. Here at Cityside we feel the power of that love during our Sunday services and in our classes and small group encounters. Join us as we discuss the power of this love and our proposed Community of Care, which will provide us a way to offer and receive help from our fellow community members. We will also begin the conversation about how we can be available to others who are going through mental health challenges that could include thoughts of suicide, which will be continued after service by the Hope For The Day organization as they present The Things We Don’t Say educational program. We hope to see you for both. “The jewel of community, the Sangha, is to be held equal to the the Buddha and the Dharma. Indeed, the whole of the holy life is fulfilled through spiritual friendship.”

So what’s your new Design for Living? Where to begin? Well let’s take a look at the practical side of things. What is the first actionable step you can take right now? You don’t need to leap the whole mountain in a single bound, every step leads forward, one summit at a time. It’s so exciting and wondrous to know that things are accomplishable and real change is present in your life.

There is a concern among science fiction fans that if time travel were possible, someone might go back and, by making one small change, forever alter the present. So let’s consider making one small change in the present and creating a future that expresses a consciousness of peace, love, and abundance. Continuing our study of A New Design For Living by Ernest Holmes, we’ll examine what changes we need to make and how we can create that beautiful future for ourselves.

Relationships can break, work may stop, our body systems may even shut down but our mind and awareness are always working in partnership with the creative law of life. What is created on some level is less important initially than realizing the law works with the mind period…and never breaks down. Since this is always working, it falls on you, and you only, to own the responsibility that is only yours, knowing what is in your mind. How do we stay on top of this? Kindly, compassionately and committed to the work as frequently as you eat in a day or wash your hands.

Instead of setting New Year’s Resolutions, we encourage opening through spiritual practice to receive the Vision of what Spirit is wanting to express through you. Then your “work” is to reconcile how you are being right now with how you must be in order to embody the Vision. Join me this Sunday to explore how this relates to Ernest Holmes’s fundamental ideas on Spirit and Designing Your Life.

It’s the end of a year and the start of a new year. It is a unique time when the past, the present and the future converge for just a moment. We can reflect on what was; we can process and release what is ours to shed; celebrate the Love that showed up for us during the year. We can be in the present moment – be in connection and gratitude. We can look to the future calling in even greater good that is simply awaiting our acknowledgement. The Burning Bowl ceremony is a powerful ritual that guides us through this process and gives us space to set a new or renewed intention. It is the collective consciousness that holds the magic. We are that magic. Join us in releasing the old and welcoming the new. For those that are joining us online we invite you to have a lit candle, paper and pen to be able to do the ritual from where you’re viewing.

Many spiritual traditions celebrate the coming of the light during the holiday season. Swami Muktananda teaches that by whatever name we call God/Spirit it is the same on all paths and the divine light lives in each person. Join us this Sunday as we explore this light within and share in a solstice ritual of light. Please come dressed in your personal holiday celebration garb (whatever you wear to celebrate this time of year) and bring some food to share for our holiday potluck and party afterwards.

Join us as Rev Aimee Daniels & Rev Judy Ranniger-Meza lead service.