January 2021 Timeless Wisdom, Evolutionary Vision

Each month, our Spiritual Leader Rev. Dr. Edward Viljoen films a video to introduce Centers for Spiritual Living’s suggested monthly topics and themes.

January’s theme and the theme for 2021 is Timeless Wisdom, Evolutionary Vision.

The suggested topics for January are:

· (1/3) Timeless Wisdom, Evolutionary Vision

• · (1/10) Grounding Beyond the Beginning
• · (1/17) Here and Now
• · (1/24) Looking Ahead
• · (1/31) Looking Above

To see the video on Vimeo in English, click here or scroll to the bottom of this message.

¡Saludos!

Cada mes, nuestro Líder Espiritual, el Rev. Dr. Edward Viljoen, filma un video para presentar los temas mensuales sugeridos por los Centros para la Vida Espiritual.

El tema del mes de enero y del año 2021 es: Sabiduría eterna, Visión evolutiva.

Los temas sugeridos para enero son:

• (1/3) Sabiduría eterna, Visión evolutiva
• (1/10) Enraizado más allá del principio
• (1/17) Aquí y ahora
• (1/24) Mirando hacia el futuro
• (1/31) Mirando hacia arriba Vea el video de enero de 2021 haciendo clic abajo:

(10) Video para el mes de enero del 2021: Sabiduría eterna, Visión evolutiva - YouTube

Global Themes January 2021 English from Centers for Spiritual Living on Vimeo.

Making Magic / Haciendo Magia

Think of each day as a holy opportunity to celebrate. Particularly in a month like December, when there are so many sacred days from various spiritual traditions. The idea of making every day worthy of honoring spiritual inspiration seems apt and even significant, even the days that are not ‘red-inked’ on our calendar.

Every day, it turns out, can be made to be significant.

December 2020 Monthly Theme: Celebrating Divine Truth
December 27, 2020 – Making Magic

Tema del mes: Celebrando la Verdad Divina
Semana 4: Haciendo Magia

Cultivating the Light / Cultivando la luz

It is interesting to me that Light plays such an important role in touching our hearts…

• Whether a candle on a cake,
• A fire in the darkness
• Or the glow on the face of a saint…

Light has marked occasions of human significance since time began.

• Bonfires celebrated winter solstice rites..
• In Praise of ancient Gods, fires were lighted:
• At Hanukkah, Jews lighted, and still do, candles in a menorah in memory of the miracle of many centuries ago...
• Christians, as a sign of the presence of holiness.

If you like, you might even use a candle to help the process. Light a candle every morning. For five minutes be still and look at it. And in your mind state FIRMLY Spirit is the light of intelligence in my life.

December 2020 Monthly Theme: Celebrating Divine Truth
December 20, 2020 – Cultivating Light

Tema del mes: Celebrando la Verdad Divina
Semana 3: Cultivando la luz

Preparing the Way / Preparando el camino

Whether you are in a northern or a southern climate, you know that during the winter months, the nights get longer and colder and it is not unusual for people to look forward to the return of the light and its warmth. The winter months, associated in some climates with hibernation and renewal, can be an opportunity for spiritual practitioners to go within, rekindle their inner light, and prepare the way for another spring.

December 2020 Monthly Theme: Celebrating Divine Truth 

• December 13, 2020 – Preparing the Way

Tema del mes: Celebrando la Verdad Divina

• Semana 2: Preparando el Camino

Videos - December 2020 Monthly Theme: Celebrating Divine Truth / Celebrando la Verdad Divina

December 2020 Monthly Theme: Celebrating Divine Truth
December 6, 2020 – Welcoming the Shadow


Tema del mes: Celebrando la Verdad Divina
Semana 1: Dando la Bienvenida a la Sombra

Jacob Liberman wrote that “A shadow is produced when an object blocks light. Whenever we block the light guiding our life, we create a shadow. Only when we are transparent and in alignment with the source of light, as when the sun is directly overhead, does the shadow magically disappear.”

In our spiritual culture, one of the ways we explore both the shadows and the light is through one-on-one spiritual coaching with licensed practitioners who have been trained to work with clients to identify blocks and provide spiritual mind treatment to address them. If you are not in an area where a licensed practitioner is available, you may consider visiting our world ministry of prayer where you can submit a request for spiritual mind treatment.

November 29, 2020 - The Grateful and Cheerful Receiver - El receptor agradecido y alegre

Giving and receiving connected; you might even say they are the same thing. We can’t have one without the other. So good cheer is as essential in receiving as it is in giving.

Here’s the thing, some of us are better at giving, and others are better at receiving. Some of us practice being good givers to hide the discomfort we feel around receiving. And others of us receive in a way that – well, to be frank – is more like demanding or taking. The point is, if you are like me and everyone else, there is probably an area in your giving and receiving where you can do better, and good cheer is a clue.

To bring good cheer into your receiving, consider the practices suggested in this week's video.  Follow the links below to view them in English or Spanish:

• November 29, 2020 –  The Grateful and Cheerful Receiver
  
  
• Semana 5: El receptor agradecido y alegre

November 22 - Are You Motivated to be a Compassionate Conduit?

A conduit is a channel that carries something like water or electricity.

The conduit is not the source of the water or electricity; it is the channel through which the water or electricity flows.

Thinking of electricity as an illustration of the Divine is very helpful to me in my studies of Science of Mind. Electricity is inherently neutral. It has no regional, religious, racial, gender bias. It respects no person more than another, no being more than another. It just is. 

I think of electricity as being everywhere, and it always was everywhere, but not visible, not useful, until it was channeled and directed for a specific purpose. And of course, using electricity requires an understanding and respect for the laws that govern it.

To see this week's videos in English or Spanish, follow the links below:

• November 22, 2020 – God is Not Motivated if You Aren’t 

• Semana 4: Dios no está motivado si tu no estás

November 15 - How Engaged is God as Us? ¿Qué tanto está comprometido Dios con nosotros?

Whether I am aware of it or not, I am a spiritual being, and the Divine is 100% ready, willing, able, and available to express through my words, to create through my actions, to love through my heart.

Maybe you can think of a time when you were less engaged in your spiritual life? I can. And maybe you can remember a time when you turned back to that spiritual something that lives in you? I can. And when I did, the miracle of miracles is that It, the Divine, was exactly where it always was, in the same state it always was, 100% ready, willing, and able to flow through the channel I opened in me.

To see this week's videos in English or Spanish, click the links below:

• November 15, 2020 – How engaged is God as us?

• Semana 3: ¿Qué tanto está comprometido Dios con nosotros?

November 8 - What is God Giving You? ¿Qué te está dando Dios?

Imagine with me a scene in which you become annoyed by something that happens. A good example that triggers me is someone who cuts me off in traffic. 

When I've been annoyed by such a situation, I believe my justified annoyance comes from the inconsiderate driver, which may be the case. Still, if I can pause in my thinking while driving safely, I may notice that my annoyance arises without complete knowledge of what is happening in that other car that cut me off. 

My annoyance arises from what I make the situation mean. And at that moment, I find myself disconnected from a greater possibility that Life Itself produces. Would I have the same response if I knew the driver was hurrying to take a pregnant person in labor to the hospital? And, because I don't know the driver's heart and motive, why am I choosing the meaning that leads to annoyance?

To see this week's videos in English or Spanish, follow the links below:

• November 8, 2020 – What is God giving you?

• Semana 2: ¿Qué te está dando Dios?