Upcoming Events This Fall at RGCSL

RGCSL Homecoming Sunday October 16, 2016 – Both Services 9 and 11am! Calling all Religious Scientists to “come home” to the Rio Grande Center for Spiritual Living!  In addition, our band will begin playing both services! Ancestor Blessing and Potluck, November 1, 2016 at 6pm Annual Thanksgiving Community Lunch, November 24, 2016 at 12pm

Showing Up for Love

Showing Up for Loveby Nancy Bowers, RScP As humans, we love specialness, so Valentine’s Day is an opportunity to celebrate that.  It is not the celebration of Divine Love.  Divine Love is unconditional.  Forgiving.  Complete.  No, today we celebrate human love with all its complicated messiness.  With that in mind, I offer you this quote by Courtney A Walsh: Dear Human Dear Human: You’ve got it all wrong.You didn’t come here to master unconditional love.That …

Find Peace in an Insane World

Find Peace in an Insane Worldby Nancy Bowers, RScP “We can do nothing to change the appearances that show up in our lives unless we change the premise in our mind.” – Danet S. Palmer “As a man thinketh, so does he perceive. Therefore, seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world. Perception is a result and not a cause.” – A Course in Miracles “Take the first …

From Broken to Whole

From Broken to WholeAlicia Kay Hanlen, Practitioner EmeritusTaos Study Group – Mile Hi You should take time daily to rise above any sense of confusion.  As you do this, you will feel a stillness at the center of your being.  – Dr. Ernest Holmes My mind quiets; my body stills, and . . . I remember.  I allow the impulse of the Divine to wash over me, cleansing, soothing, and comforting me in every and …

Our Gift for These Times

Our Gift for These Timesby Marilyn O’Leary, Practitioner Emeritus How can we love ourselves as a child of God, as perfect while being a human imperfection, when we allow our devices to tell us how we should be? Especially when we listen to people no one knows, and believe they know more about us, what we want, who we are, than we do. Our first act of empathy, for attention, should be for ourselves – …

Rev. Kamatara Johnson

In the Quiet of Winter

In the Quiet of Winterby Rev. Kamatara Johnson, Director of Collaborative Ministries In this quiet time of Winter, the barren trees are still flowing with Divine Energy unseen in the roots.  I too am still and quiet, stripped down to my Essential Self in this time of reflection, rooted in the Divine. As I enter into the stillness, I know who and what I am: an expression of the One Loving Source in the here …

Present Moment

Present Momentby Rev. Deb O’ConnorDirector of Spiritual Growth and Consciousness Groups Like so many of us, I believed that my happiness lay in outer things. When I accumulatedenough, accomplished enough, even met the right person, happiness would be waiting for me.But then I learned that happiness was right where I was. If I could become present, Spirit wasthere waiting for me, supporting me in every needed way. Now, in the stillness of my being, I …

February

February by Greg Gardner, RScP Tis the month of love. Just ask St. Valentine. Tis a time of preparing for spring. Just ask any farmer. Tis a month of recharging. Just ask any travel counselor. Tis a month for gratitude. Just ask anyone. Pay attention! Do the work. Quick before this brief month flees into the magnificence of spring!

Ernest Holmes - One with God

Abundance is Everyone’s Right

Abundance is Everyone’s RightDr Ernest Holmes, Our Founder I am surrounded by pure Spirit, by God, the Living Spirit.  My thought is God thought, and it is the law unto that thing where unto it is spoken.  Everything that I do shall be a success.  I am led, guided and inspired by the Living Spirit of Love and of right action.  I am compelled to move in the right direction and to always know what …

Abundance is Everyone’s Right

Abundance is Everyone’s RightDr Ernest Holmes I am surrounded by pure Spirit, by God, the Living Spirit.  My thought is God thought, and it is the law unto that thing where unto it is spoken.  Everything that I do shall be a success.  I am led, guided and inspired by the Living Spirit of Love and of right action.  I am compelled to move in the right direction and to always know what to do, where, …

The Word of Power

The Word of Powerby Dr. Ernest Holmes Excerpt from the Teachings of Jesus in the “Science Of Mind” by Ernest Holmes, Page 475-476: The Word of Power (John 5:26) As the Father has life, so the son has life.  Again we have the teaching that there is but One Life, Mind or Spirit. This Life is now our life, and manifests through us as we believe in It. When our word is spoken in this …