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And So It Begins...

2/6/2021

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​Happy New Year...as we all breathe a sigh of relief. And so it begins, a new consciousness and experience of a new year, 2021. As we know, the best part of turning the calendar over is we all receive a fresh start, to begin again. It's almost like erasing our past and moving forward in a more desirable direction of positivity. It's all good and all God. 2020 called our attention to more changes and shifts than most years, And what that requires of us is to know God is at the center of all of it. Life as we know it will continue to evolve, grow, and will call us to our higher consciousness and our highest good. In keeping with the January, -"theme" of And So It Begins..., I will be speaking about the first four chapters of our Science of Mind Text Book. This week it will be "The Thing Itself". This an opportunity for all of us to bring a friend or family member that has been curious about our faith and philosophy. Each week I will explain not just our understanding of God, but I will add our institutional history about our Founder, Ernest Holmes, and a little dash of my experience growing up in the church that was our first building, Founder's Church of Religious Science in Los Angeles. I look forward to sharing our teaching with all of you.
As for the rest of the year...I will be calling us to a higher consciousness of understanding and intuitively knowing the divine presence within us. It is an intimate relationship for each of us. By understanding how It works through us, as us, I will call upon our understanding of the global faiths. Each month, I will be talking about human culture, different religious cultures, and how the Science of Mind and the Metaphysical sciences (beyond the beyond) come together to create unification in our human existence. By understanding human culture within religious dogma we will have a better comprehension of how we can be one people, as one divine Mind. Many religions teach many saints or Gods, they are aspects of God, the nature of God, just expanded. In Hinduism, Ganesha is an aspect of God. The belief is he removes obstacles from our lives to know God is working for us. Similar to St. Anthony, he is the patron saint of lost articles, etc. As there are many others not just one, but many. 
I often think about how we here in America often do not understand the nomadic culture of Saudia Arabia, Turkey, Israel, etc. A long time ago, a man's value was his herd of sheep or cattle, to keep them well-fed, they would move them from oasis to oasis and this process took about a year. Eventually, they would return to the spot where they started. However, at times someone else with their herd would be occupying the oasis, "their" oasis. A battle would usually ensue, and the winner took all, women, and children, and the men were killed off of the losing tribe. Women and children were absorbed into the victor's tribe usually as slaves. What appears as brutal to us, is a way of life, the culture of the people that live in these desert areas. What I invite us to open to is learning about our cultural differences and practices, we will understand why the Jew celebrates Yom Kippur, Mulism Ramadan, Christians Christmas, Buddhist, Hindu, and others. We are one global human culture. Human science pronounced us separate, but in God's idea, we are a soul, under the umbrella of human experience. One human culture created in the idea of pure love and expressing living our lives in peace.
So dear friends, I look forward to our building bridges and the consciousness of living together as one...Imagine.
In love and gratitude - Rev Rhonda
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New Life versus our old life....

2/6/2021

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Hello Dear Friends,
Ernest Holmes our Founder wrote, "We can let it change our lives drastically and dramatically. We can look at this reflection and let it teach us a scientific method for changing our lives. We can let it change us, turn us around and face us toward the light. It can give us a reason and purpose for living and add zest to every experience. It can eliminate greed, selfishness, hypocrisy, hatred, fear, and frustration and be at peace with our God, our fellow humans, and ourselves. It can do this by eliminating poverty, illness, and unhappiness from our lives. We can see our problems as the dark side of the mood needing only the light of Truth, the truth of God within us to dissolve those appearances of problems in our lives into nothingness - the nothingness from which they came. And then that inner light can shine on our pathway more and more until sorrow and sighing, flee away and we have total awareness of our at one-ment with God and all life."   
Life in our experience can change in an instant, a phone call, text, email, whatever it is that comes as information will create a different unfamiliar experience of what was comfortable and familiar. I refer often to it as an AFGO - another fine growth opportunity. Not always is this AFGO invited but rather it drops in unannounced, creating a way of questions, and the "how do I do this?" mode. Ours is to simply accept and know, and forget about "the how". What? But, but, how is all of this uncomfortableness I feel going away?? How do I fix this? Why is there anything to fix? What if instead we allowed things to happen, and be the observer instead of rushing in with the band-aids to make it all better? This is where we find ourselves at the crossroads of our New Life and our Old Life. It is easy to take the safe road and continue on in our old life, old ways of thinking, and be in a safe environment. Then there is a new life, urging us to change our thinking, therefore, shifting our ability to now navigate empowered with the attitude of "bring it on!" Some of our old life will fall away, only to create a new way, new opportunities of growth and understanding the presence within us. When we understand everything is FOR us, and nothing is against us, We will always take the "new life" path. 
At the moment, I am sure we are all sitting in the question of will things continue to get better? Fear becomes a plague of the mind because we do not have any of the answers. So, what do we do? We allow ourselves to be open and trust the process. We get out of the "blame game" and step into "what is mine to do? To create peace, unity, and love?" I am sincere when I ask you all to ask this question of ourselves. There are so many times in my life I resisted change. Only for it to keep "nagging" at me. It did this because Spirit knows our highest good. Once I let it all go, everything shifted, in a good way. It was as if I was taking in my very first breath. It all felt strangely like a relief, I no longer carried the weight of fighting for what I believed was right. I began letting my "guard down", and living undefended. I owned everything I said and experienced. Nothing and no one was responsible except for me. I surrendered, and I let go and let God handle my life. I began to listen and everything began to shift. I now live in a state of constant gratitude. That is amazing when you shift to everything is a positive experience. Life continues to shift and change continually for my highest good. I will take the "New Life" road every time now...God is sooooooo good.
In love and light, Rev. Rhonda 

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