Center for Spiritual Living in Northern VA

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Would you like to be inspired about your life and it’s possibilities? CSL Metro welcomes you to join us on Sunday mornings and discover how we’re changing lives. We are a caring community that honors all spiritual paths and we’re committed to helping you live a creative, meaningful, and fulfilling life.

At Center for Spiritual Living Metro, you are invited to “be YOU with US!” We believe that every person is on a spiritual journey that will lead to their greatest good. Our goal is to help you along your individual path, in a loving community where you can grow in your awareness of the presence of God.

Wherever you are on your life journey, you are welcome at CSL Metro. We look forward to helping you express your unique and Divine individuality.

We are grieving lives that ought not to have been lost. George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, are the most recent in a list of countless unarmed African-American and Black people who have been murdered for the color of their skin over the past 400 years in the US. Too many generations have suffered and it has never been, and is not now, acceptable.

We denounce racism in all its forms: the starkness of unapologetic, intentional racism; the racism of silence in the face of injustice; the systemic racism inherent in our education, justice, income and opportunity inequity; and the racism that lies hidden in our individual hearts and minds.

We envision a world where personal responsibility joins with social conscience in every area of the political, corporate, academic, and social sectors. We value a community-wide climate of safety that arises from compassion, justice, mutual respect, and kindness. Therefore, we join our founder, Dr. Ernest Holmes, who, echoing the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., said "You and I should form the habit of taking definite time each day to contemplate and affirm peace with justice-for there is no peace possible without justice. But faith without works is dead. We should not only pray, we should act, each contributing the best [they have] to the common purpose, each willing to make any sacrifice necessary...[for] there can be no individual self-preservation without the preservation of all . . ."*

We call upon ourselves and the faith communities in the US to take action that shows we have heard the cry of suffering, and we own our responsibility for it. Whether that action is prayer, donations to organizations that promote racial justice, rigorous self-education, or active engagement, let not this moment in history pass unattended. May the actions we take be steeped in peace and respect for the sacredness of each life, knowing that whatever we do, individually and collectively, must be Divinely directed from a higher consciousness. When we apply our proven spiritual principles through rigorous practices and compassionate action, the desired results cannot fail to demonstrate.

by Dr Edward Viljoen, Spiritual leader of Centers for Spiritual Living and the Spiritually Motivated Social Engagement Committee

* Quote from Ernest Holmes' Spiritual Armament, found in The Essential Ernest Holmes edited by Jesse Jennings

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I know that whatever is going on in form around me, There is One Power, One Presence operating at all times and in all places. This One is Divine Creative Intelligence, Wholeness, Oneness, Peace, Joy, Abundance, and Love. And I know that I and everyone and everything in the Universe is a unique expression of this One. Therefore I know that I am a unique expression of Spirit; and that everything that Spirit is, I am, I am Creative Intelligence, Wholeness, Oneness, Peace, Joy, Abundance and Love. Thus I need never fear, be confused, suffer, worry, or shrink from action. I walk in Light and Divine Right Action. I shine my light wherever there is darkness, fear or a sense of separation. For I know the Truth: that we are all One in all of our wonderful diversity of expression. We each sing our individual notes in the awesome Song of Life. I am so thankful for knowing this Truth and for being able to speak my Word today. And so I release this prayer into the Law where it is already received and acted upon. And so I simply say, Thank you, God, and I let it be. And so it is. Sandy Minnesang, RScP

BE YOU WITH US!

BE YOU WITH US!

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