Center for Spiritual Living in Northern VA

Explore New Possibilities For Your Life In A Nurturing Environment

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.

November 1st - “The Power of Choice” with Rev Trish
You have the power to choose … and you get to live out the consequences (desirable or not) of your choices. It seems obvious that [...]
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November 8th – “You Are a Designated Beneficiary” with Rev Trish
Amazingly, you didn’t have to earn this status. It’s yours for the taking. A gift is not complete until there is a willing recipient. God [...]
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November 15th – “What Is Mine to Do?” with Rev Merry Shaver
Life/Love/God/Spirit is living out its perfect Life as us. It is knowing more of itself as us. The only way that Spirit has to bring [...]
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November 22nd – “One Mind, Many Outlets” with Rev Trish Hall
Dr. Holmes teaches in Science of Mind, “…each one of us has immediate access to the Intelligence of the Universe.” How are we putting this [...]
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November 29th – “Only We Can Limit Our Own Experience” with Rev Trish Hall
The Law of Circulation (of giving and receiving) is reciprocal. In Science of Mind, Dr Holmes states, “The Universe is impersonal. It gives alike to [...]
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CALENDAR

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 God is the Source of all that is. And I know that God is Infinite Creative Intelligence and Oneness. And I know that I am a living expression of the One Life of God. Therefore I know that I am Creative Intelligence and that my Life is One of Infinite Possibility. Therefore I now affirm that I have everything I need to be all that I can be, To express all that I am and all that I know. And since we are all One, I know that the Truth which I have to express and share will resonate within all others that are open to the Truth of Oneness. I need not fear how my gifts are received, for they are given in Love and Joy as gifts freely given. What others do with them is not my business; it is theirs. My purpose is to Live and Love and share the unique gift that is me which God has given to the Universe. It is my joy and privilege to share my gifts and my Truth. And so I give thanks for all that I am and for all that I have to give. And I release this Word into the Divine Law where it is already being made manifest. So I simply let go and say, “And so it is.” Sandy Minnesang, RScP

BE YOU WITH US!

BE YOU WITH US!

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