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

Carol Helms, RScP

Affirming the Faith, Freedom and Feeling of the F’s of Spirituality

Affirming the Faith, Freedom and Feeling of the F’s of Spiritualityby Carol S. Helms, RScP I remember who I am and remain centered in the faith and freedom of Spirit; showing up in the world as the Faith of Spirit in action and the Freedom of Spirit expressing as me. I live, move and have my being in feeling Spirit nudge my spiritual intuition to join my physical senses for the greater good, the common …

Blind Spots

Blind Spotsby Nancy Bowers, RScP “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase ‘each other’ doesn’t make any sense.”—Rumi God is all-seeing, all-knowing and created us in perfect love. The things we made up that keep us from experiencing the Peace of God are not reality.  They …

A Gift of Spirit

A Gift of Spiritby Rev. Gil Olmstead, Spiritual Director Life is a gift of Spirit. Everywhere life is Spirit is. In the air, in the water, in the morning breeze in the trees bowing to the heavy wind of an afternoon. This life that is everywhere  is my life, it is your life, it is our life now. That one thing that is happening is happening as all of us. We are the One! Knowing …

Be an Open Heart

Be an Open HeartAlicia Kay Hanlen, Practitioner EmeritusTaos Study Group – Mile Hi We live in a sea of pure Spirit; we are immersed in an Infinite Good. – Dr. Ernest Holmes In this very moment, we breathe in the very breath of Life.  We are enfolded in this light that fills and expands our very essence.  And I just allow it to be central in my experience this day.  To see and know each …

Affirmation for Living Your Best Life

Affirmation for Living Your Best LifeSubmitted by Marilyn O’Leary, RScPFrom Frank Richelieu, Living Your Best Life I make a new contract with life today, — completely new. I delete theinsidious fine print that was subconsciously causing me trouble and drawup a new contract, acceptable to the spirit. I do not depend uponagreements I made with life ten years ago, or even a year ago. Today’sliving demands new terms, new conditions, and greater dividends. I updatemy …

Rev. Kamatara Johnson

Knowing that I Know

Knowing that I Knowby Rev. Kamatara Johnson, Director of Collaborative Ministries In these wild times that seem so confusing, I calm my flailing mind and breath into the stillness. I drop my shoulders from my ears and anchor my feet on the ground. I connect with my body and my breath, to feel my beating heart. In this space, I know that I am an expression of the Divine. I have access to all the …

Liza Kerr, RScP

Drink the Wild Air

Drink the Wild Airby Liza Kerr, RScP Live in the sunshine, swim the sea,Drink the wild air’s salubrity.  – Ralph Waldo Emerson I bought a friend a card the other day and it had a quote from Emerson on it – the quote was “Live in the Sunshine, Swim in the Sea, and Drink the Wild Air.” Being me, I had to look up the quote. It came from a poem called Merlin’s Song, by Ralph …

Celebrate!

Celebrate!by Greg Gardner, RScP As this day dawns and sweeps across the magnificence of the earthin this moment, I know that Spirit is here with me in every momentand every spot on the planet…and always is. I know that the lightcomes because it is ever present and wherever there is darkness, thelight will come and bring warmth, comfort and abundance. I know too, that this cycle of life has hills and valleys, twists and turns,and …

A Treatment for Perfect Health

A Treatment  for Perfect Healthby Marilyn O’Leary, RScP God is all there is. God’s essence fills the universe with love, health, healing, warmth, comfort, joy, delight, energy, stamina and light. I am One with God. God expresses in me as perfect health and well-being. My Oneness with God reveals my true nature, that I am already healed and that I am radiant health. I am filled with joy and well-being. There is nothing I need …

It is All God in Action/Todo es Dios en Acción

It is All God in Action/Todo es Dios en Acciónby Robyn Rice Olmstead RScP, ALSP, Emerita(818) 300-3911Centers for Spiritual Living Practitioner Council “Enlightenment is when a wave realizes it is the Ocean.”Ticht Naht Haan Closing our eyes and turning within, imagining the soft caress of a summer’s breeze on our cheek, the warm embrace of a long awaited hug, that gentle spray from the ocean’s playground and knowing that every movement is Spirit. It is …