Embrace the Vision of Living Out Loud

By Rev. Karin Wilson

Within Centers for Spiritual Living, we use as many opportunities as possible to connect with Spirit/Source/God to inform our next best steps. One of those ways is by bringing together a group of ministers and practitioners each year to practice visioning for the overarching and monthly themes for the upcoming year.

This work begins in January, when we are all energized with a felt sense of a new year, and it stretches the collective mind beginning 12 months out to see what Spirit wants to express.

The questions are simple yet profound, revealing something new every time. What is Spirit's highest idea? What is to be released for this highest idea to be made manifest? What is to be embraced? What must I become? Is there anything else to be known?

If you create a visioning process on the same topic repeatedly, then what happens is a refinement, a deepening into the rich voice of Spirit itself and, with that, an enriched understanding of ourselves. …

Through the collective visioning process, our overarching theme for 2023 emerged: Living Out Loud. What is new is the idea of embodying this teaching with a playful attitude, in conscious recognition that we are always co-creating with the Spirit within.

“We can know about our principles,” says Rev. David Robinson, who co-chaired the committee with me. “We can timidly apply our principles. Or we can stand up and dance, play and live our principles out loud.”

Equally, this year is about addressing the aspects of our humanity that struggle with the shadow. Rather than hide that under a bushel, where it festers and later inflicts pain on ourselves and others, this year we are being called to acknowledge and heal our wounds so we can continue the good work of living in harmony with ourselves and others in this deeply complex and rich time, knowing that this world is blessed with the Infinite through its diversity.

—Read more about CSL’s 2023 theme in the January issue of Science of Mind magazine.

We All Came From the One

By Rev. Dr. Marilyn Louise Leo

We began at a point, not in time but in consciousness, as cells. Heart cells produce heart cells, brain cells produce and multiply more brain cells and so on. Cantaloupe seeds produce cantaloupes, not broccoli. The heart cells know to reproduce heart cells only.

We began as a loving consciousness created from Itself, each having its own variety, color and size. Yet we are all from the same original, loving God-consciousness.

We continue to be that loving consciousness even though many of us are unaware. We may act in a non-loving way, not realizing who we really are or what we can experience. We might see others as separate from ourselves. …

It is time for a new realization. We all have come from the same original seed in beautiful, perfect varieties. With acceptance of each variation, there are new colors, tastes, sizes and ideas. Let us accept all as the loving presence of the One Creator. Let us be the kind, caring humans we are meant to be.

—Excerpted from the Daily Guide for January 8, 2023, as published in Science of Mind magazine

Enter a Newness of Life

By Dr. Ernest Holmes

I believe Divine Intelligence, which is the Mind of God, is guiding, guarding and directing my thoughts and actions. I believe God already knows the answer to this particular problem; therefore, I am letting go of the problem and I am listening to the answer as thought it were sure.

The answer to this problem exists in the Mind of God and is revealed to my mind now. Something in me does know what to do. I joyfully accept Its guidance. I am open to new ideas, new hopes and new aspirations. This which so recently seemed a problem no longer exists, for the Mind of God, which knows the answer, is quite flowing through my thought and feeling.

Great peace and joy come over me as I accept this answer from the Giver of All Life.

—Excerpted from the entry for January 1, 365: Science of Mind — A Year of Daily Wisdom from Ernest Holmes.