CSL-White Rock Sunday's Message

Who leaves his family voluntarily at 13 to attend a junior seminary on the other side of the country? Who, after many false starts, leaves a successful teaching and coaching career to become a New Thought Minister at 50? Who sells his home and pretty much all of his possessions and moves onto a 32 foot sailboat at 70? The answer is our beloved minister Rev. Terry Shea who served our community for...

This week we welcome Amanda Pope, RScP, as she concludes our topic for the month, Living Everyday Wonder with her talk titled, Prove It! Our organization is called the Centre for Spiritual Living (CSL), not Centre for Spiritual Navel-gazing. Living requires active participation, application, and practice. Life is an experience that must be experienced! Here at CSL, we practice Religious Science. S...

Awareness and appreciation of wonder can only happen in the Now. In fact, everything happens in the Now for there is no other moment. Author Mary O’Malley defines curiosity as the art of bringing our attention and our immediate experience together. In being curious in this way, by being present in wonder, we are transformed by coming into alignment with Life.

“What would life look like if we lived as if everything was a miracle?..."   In this talk, Rev. Champion explores "miracles as the logical and natural outcome of engaging spiritual laws through consistent spiritual practice. Through an everyday atmosphere of awe, wonderment, curiosity, and play-based thankfulness, we can live the life of our dreams. Together we can cultivate a miracle conscio...

This year fades into the new, as the night subtly yet suddenly becomes dawn.  As visionary leaders… What dawn chorus sings for the next journey? What magic does the sunrise offer? How are we now called to fulfill the promise of the vision? Hearts fill with gratitude and enthusiasm as the new day breaks, and we have a moment to collect ourselves before their journey continues.  In the Uni...

The sacred continuum cycles upward. What gifts do we offer as the expression of the greater yet-to-be? We greet It with joyful expectancy and awe, following our inner “Star of Wonder, Star of Light.” Check out the latest talk from Rev. Cassandra Rae.

In the stillness and surrender is time to pause, peruse, and plan the next descent and ascent, moving from glory to glory as we take in what we have become through this journey. When learning a new skill or undertaking an adventure, a critical step is sitting at the plateau to assimilate and integrate our experiences before finding “what’s next.” In this quiet space is time for deepening, steeping...

The journey comes to an end, but we know that is simply the beginning of another cycle and year. At each solstice is a stillness, a few days’ pause between the dwindling light and lengthening days to follow (or vice versa in the Southern Hemisphere). This is a time to sit and be with ourselves right where we are, listening to the still small voice as it speaks, giving ourselves over to the mystery...

As we get to trust Spirit and our use of the Law, we begin to feel more and more gratitude apart from or in advance of any demonstration, gifts from Spirit. We discover the power of gratitude in and of itself, what St. Paul was pointing to when he spoke about "giving thanks in all things".  Not for all things, IN all things. This Sunday we will explore the actual  generative power that c...

We all have experienced moments in our lives where our focus is so myopic on getting to the final destination that we miss the gifts in the journey towards it. Join Rev. Savanna Noelle as she dives in to the spiritual ramifications we receive when we are fully present to the process of change and letting go. It might just surprise you what you find.

Seeing the Beauty, Feeling the Grace is this week’s talk title from our very dear Tamara Rossander RScP. Sharing the description, she says: ‘We take another sacred pause to appreciate the beauty, grace, and feeling tone of the presence of Spirit within. We recognize that each point along this journey has brought us beautifully to this place of awakened grace.’

Where to now? This week, in their talk, The View from Here , Rev. Champion Fleming says, “When we acknowledge that we are living from an ever-expanding consciousness, we know that our ongoing growth and development is inevitable. What do you see? Let's breathe in the view and cast a new future together.”

On this, Rev. Cassandra’s last Sunday as spiritual director, you’re invited to join us for a very special gratitude service. Let us acknowledge and celebrate all that we’ve learned together as a spiritual community over the past two years. Affirmation: Goodbyes are not forever. Goodbyes are not the end. They simply mean ’ll miss you until we meet again!

Have you ever worked really hard to achieve a goal and at some point it gets really hard and you want to give up? This is called the Quitting Zone and it often happens right before a big breakthrough. While it’s a natural part of life as a human, how do we know when it’s time to truly let go or dig deep and keep going?   Affirmation: As we go and grow further, the world brightens

An African proverb reminds us “alone we can go faster, together we can go further.” Ubuntu is a part of Zulu life philosophy meaning “I am because we are.” In community, we embody a gestalt of consciousness - a whole that is greater than the mere sum of its parts - and each individual is uplifted because of the support of the group. How do we dedicate ourselves to the collective while maintaining...

Rev. Champion Fleming is a minister, organizational development consultant, and leadership coach working with national non-profits and labor unions committed to anti-racist strategies that lead to cultural and political change. Champion has worked for decades on LGBTQIA issues, AIDS awareness, poverty and racism.   Check out Rev. Champion's latest talk: "Share the Dream".

Dr. Martin Luther King spoke often of the “Beloved Community,” a world in which all people share the wealth of the earth and violations of human decency are not tolerated. How do we apply spiritual principles to the collective well being of humanity? And what is the role of spiritual community in social change and social justice? "I am a presence of Divine Love wherever I am."

In spite of the discomfort and obstacles, we persevere and rise. Perhaps, what is in the way is the way, and that we rise not in spite of our challenges and discomforts, but because of them. There is that within us that continues to call us forward and upward on our journey of awakening, that calls us to a greater understanding of ourselves, our relationship with the Self, our role and purpose in...

When we push past our comfort zone, we are often faced with challenges to our old ways of being. Life can feel uncertain and our footing somewhat unstable. What are the Universal Truths we can lean into and deepen our understanding of to help us find our footing and new handholds for this part of our evolutionary journey?   “This moving away from comfort and security, this stepping out into w...

Rev. Savanna explains:  “When we commit to something fully, everything unlike it shows up for us to heal, learn from, reveal, or shift. What would life look like if we harnessed the power of our commitment to bring about greater possibilities, healing, and transformation in ourselves and in the world?”  Check out rev. Savanna Riker's Talk.

Our talk this week was delivered by our first-time, guest speaker, Rev. Dan Granda. As the Centers for Spiritual Living global organization continues its journey through this time of pause and reflection, we are invited this week is to rise and re-emerge through restoration,integration, self-care and evolution. This is the final step in our “Pause for Guidance,” taking what we have learned about o...

Have you ever noticed how easy to focus on what's missing? Do you catch yourself or others talking about how there isn't enough both inside and outside of you? While scarcity thinking is common and contagious, enoughness is a given as our Divine birthright. Check out as we explore how to know and feel the spiritual concept of wholeness with Rev. Cassandra Rae.

“Although mental and spiritual sovereignty are our true nature, humanity has tragically forgotten its inner spiritual core. Therefore, we need wisdom reminders.” - Archarya Shunya The spiritual path of awakening is one filled with all the things - nothing in life is excluded. Every experience and emotion can be a part of the awakening and not just the good-feeling-ones. While it might be part of o...

Are you feeling zoom fatigue? Are you tired of not knowing what’s going to happen next? Do you just wish things would go back to normal?! So many of the external circumstances that used to provide us with an inner sense of safety, security, and predictability are not available. This is the perfect opportunity to draw upon the spiritual qualities and power inside the Self with a capital ’S.’ Check...

Rev. Cassandra Rae and Rev. Champion Fleming will join forces this week and here is what they have to say about PRIDE Sunday : “You’re invited to join us for a very special Sunday gathering in honour of the LGBTQIA2+ folks in our community. LGBTQIA2+ stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning, intersex, asexual or ally, two-spirit, plus. As a spiritual community, it is vi...