I sat on the beach basking in the warm, spring sun. My five year old collected rocks. Beautiful rocks. Black ones. Flat ones. Round ones. They caught my attention and I decided to stack them like the cool rock towers I see when I Google images of “rock towers.” The first few minutes of stacking…
As a parent it is easy to find life being all about the kids. When our two children were young preschoolers their father and I would strive to balance our lives around the very important issues of sleep, play dates, parenting classes, parenting books, the parents of our kids friends, and oh, ya work!…
Learning to honor where you are in your spiritual development is an important part of the process. Do you find a way to add extra pressure unto yourself for not being at the place of enlightenment as you “should” be? Many make plans at an early age for their lives only to change these plans,…
You are today where your thoughts have brought you;
you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
James Allen
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This month’s theme of Balance at our center came at a perfect time in our families’ life. We are in the process of moving and looking for a new place to live, staying in the same town. Our two girls are old enough to have a say, or an opinion at least. Which makes things even…
How often do you get a chance to experience what it’s like to be a teenager again? I was so blessed to have that opportunity. Today, I attended “A Day At Camp,” which was facilitated by the In-Flight Teens at the Center for Spiritual Living Capistrano Valley, and it was amazing! Having three children who…
Have you ever denied your identity? When I watch one of my favorite musicals, Les Miserables, I am always moved by the goodness of the protagonist, Jean Val Jean. He was a man who was cruelly and brutally incarcerated for stealing a loaf of bread. Released from prison after nineteen years of unjust punishment, he…
In our Science of Mind class, “The Essential Ernest Holmes” this past week, I couldn’t stop thinking, “Oh! That would be an amazing blog post!” I should just say, that until one sits her booty down in a SOM class, she will never grasp how profoundly transformational these classes are. When all I can jot…
We are one with all. Allow me to shine my light into the darkness. I am a student in Dr. Heather’s “The Essential Ernest” class, which takes a deep dive into the principles of Science of Mind. In the two years I have been in classes, I can honestly say, that I have experienced a…