Welcome to  GPCSL’s March BoT Spot!

“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.” ―Charles Dickens 

Welcome to the March BoT Spot! Have you found yourself between two places: warm, yet cold; peaceful, yet blustery; light, yet dark? The evidence of eternal life surrounds us this time of year in the season’s change:  the earth ever so slightly shifting from grey to green, the soil still firm but warming up and loosening to prepare for its next great growing adventure, and the angle of the sun offering up a different perspective and experience.

Our beloved Greater Philadelphia Center for Spiritual Living is living out its own sort of emergence. As you will recall, we decided to end our lease in the Paoli Corporate Center and return to virtual delivery of Sunday Celebrations at the end of January. This decision was based on in-person Sunday Celebration attendance and the flexibility meeting virtually and livestreaming has given us. By ending our lease, our expenses are better aligned to our 2022 budget as projected by the Intentional Giving Program (IGP). Our Center, as are all Centers for Spiritual Living, is self-funded. It is sustained primarily by its member and friend contributions, for which we are so grateful.

Now, you may be wondering…if we have no physical location…where does the money I give to GPCSL go? Contributions to GPCSL pay for basic operating costs that allow us to continue our mission of Creating a World that Works for All and sharing Spirituality that Works with our communities, near and far. Operating expenses include staff (bookkeeper, office manager, minister, livestream production), building/storage, and necessary services (telephone, website support, etc.). Your Intentional Giving dollars, and/or donations otherwise, are currently helping us to cover these costs as well as make in-person events (stay tuned for more on those!), marketing, and a new GPCSL home for our community possible. So, a big thank you for all you do and give to the Center…you are making a difference.

Please don’t hesitate to contact me or anyone on the Board if you have questions, comments, or suggestions. You can leave a message on the office phone at 610-695-0375. We love to hear from you!

In gratitude,

Edie Janik

President, GPCSL Board of Trustees, sqemj@hotmail.com

This awakening is a process of evolution, a little here and a little there, until the whole eye is opened, and we see that life is neither separate from God nor different from Good. Life is God, and Good is the only power there is, or can be.

Ernest Holmes, Science of Mind, p. 487

Although we spend a lifetime on our delightful, spiritual evolutionary paths, we do well to approach this process with gentleness, rather than any sense of hurry or worry.  My beloved teacher, Earl Barnum, shared with me this wisdom years ago: “You have all of eternity and not a moment to lose.”  This sweet suggestion has helped me to stay in the present, doing my spiritual work serenely and confidently, knowing I am approaching it at my own pace, and maintaining a tender touch for myself and others.

As Ernest Holmes writes, “Love is the sole impulse for creation . . .” and it is this divine experience of authentic love for ourselves that we are continually inspired to move forward smoothly into our experience of co-creation.  As we begin to see more clearly with the Eye of the Heart, our personal and global perspective changes to a higher vibration, and we see rightly, wisely, and lovingly.  Let’s walk along our path of awakening knowing we are never alone on the journey. In fact, our Beloved Spiritual Community provides the welcoming and inspiring environment for our continued awakening and celebration of Life.

Until we discover our new meeting place, we continue to be with you every Sunday morning online, as we live stream our Sunday morning Celebration to you via YouTube and Facebook. Join us each Sunday at 10:30 A.M. EST from The Inspiration Café, our temporary office at 360 N. Valley Rd., Paoli, PA 19301.  Simply go to our website, www.cslphilly.org and find welcoming music, prayer, uplifting messages, and a wonderful sense of communion with Spirit and connection with each other.

Do invite your friends to join us on Sundays or to visit our website and to view archived Celebrations and our Love Notes at any time.

On the Practitioner Page of our website a listing of our Practitioners and Intern allows you to become acquainted with these dedicated people, and you may select the one with whom you wish to work to enhance your life experience.

With great love and respect,

Dr. Maxine

Peace in the World . . . Now!

The Infinite Mind and Heart of God, fully present within all Its magnificent creation, is expressing in, through, and as me now.  I am the place where God shows up, the sacred instrument receiving the highest and most profound energies of Love and Wisdom, and radiating this consciousness of the Infinite Possibility of True Peace into my world.

Each beloved expression of Divine Life is also a conduit of the Power of Peace to heal, bless, uplift, and transform.  Through our clear, dedicated, intelligent intentions, confusion is resolved into Clarity, conflict to Compassion, fear to Faith, divisiveness to Unity, and doubt to Confidence.

I now speak my powerful word for true and lasting Peace in the world, cognizant of the Field of Infinite Possibility that instantly accepts my new truth and is already acting upon it. The transformational Power of Love is working in and through all world leaders, as Divine Wisdom guides all to wise decisions and appropriate actions for the greatest good of all sentient beings in this world.

There is nothing to deny this truth, for the Presence of God is the only Power that exists, and the underlying Harmony of the Universe now rises to reveal a greater truth for all.

The revelation of Heaven on earth is the mighty workings of the generosity of Spirit through the accurate and dependable Law of Mind, and each of us is the means through which this “miraculous” activity of Creative Power is unfolding now.

With deep gratitude for the generosity of Spirit, the dependability of the Law, and my confidence in the Word, I release this divine intention to the Creative Intelligence which is already bringing it into fruition.

And so it is.

Rev. Dr. Maxine Kaye

“Now it is high time to awake out of sleep.” The belief in a life apart from Good is a dream from which we must awake, if we are to taste the waters of Reality, which flow from the Source of Life. Ernest Holmes, Science of Mind, p. 487

In Genesis, the first book in the Old Testament, (or Hebrew Bible) we read,”. . . and a great sleep fell upon Adam . . .” The name, Adam, we perceive as “generic man,” or humanity’s early consciousness before becoming aware of its divinity.   In Romans, much further into the New Testament, we finally read, “Awaken, thou that sleepest,” indicating the higher consciousness that develops through our spiritual evolutionary process.  This is a step-by-step process for the individual, as well as for our entire human race.

The more conscious we become as individuals, inviting the Light of God to shine through our thoughts and feelings, the more awake to its Divinity humanity comes. We cannot expect the human race to evolve without each individual shining the Light to all the world.  Our current global events can and must respond to a growing awareness of Unity beyond separateness, Compassion instead of aggression, and Peace, rather than conflict of any kind.  Each of us has an important part to play, as we awaken to the Infinite Possibilities that exist for each of and all of us and bring a consciousness of Light and Peace into the world. Our message of Spiritual Truth is essential to all.

We invite you to join us each Sunday at 10:30 A.M. EST, as we are live streaming exclusively until we find an appropriate house for our Home. The Inspiration Café is our temporary office at 360 N. Valley Rd., Paoli, PA 19301, the address to use for correspondence during this transitional time.  When you go to our website, www.cslphilly.org, you will find a welcoming musical prelude, opening our hearts for the experience of our morning Celebration. We enjoy an hour of prayer, music, and uplifting messages and invite you to invite your friends to join us on Sundays or to visit our website and to view archived Celebrations and our Love Notes at any time.

We are so grateful for your continuing contributions to GPCSL, as we move through this amazing time of change, to cover our ongoing expenses beyond the costs of our former location.  Pastoral and Administrative expenditures continue, plus the amounts for producing our professional live streaming and website and reduced rent and utilities. Our amazing staff now includes our Executive Producer, Jeff Masino, and we are deeply grateful for his expertise, as well as for the dedication of volunteers like Payson Burt, who commits his time and talent in creating a masterful production.

Please go to the Practitioner Page on our website to select a dedicated Practitioner or Intern ready to work with spiritual tools to enhance your life experience.

With great love and respect,

Dr. Maxine

A human being is part of the whole, called by us “universe,” a part limited in time and space.  He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest – a kind of delusion of his consciousness.  This delusion is a prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.  Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.   ~ Albert Einstein, in Creating a World That Works for All, Sharif Abdullah

As we awaken from this “dream” of separation from our Source and from one another, we begin to understand that every sentient being, created in the image and likeness of God, is imbued with divine qualities, and connected in Oneness with all.  We do live in the Heart and Mind of God, becoming more and more aware of this precious Unity with all Life. It is this open-hearted experience of true belonging that allows us to recover from the restrictive beliefs in separation and lifts the world consciousness to a higher vibration of Truth.

Remembering that the Divine Life that animates us is the same that motivates everyone and celebrates Itself within us all, it becomes possible to heal hurts, release judgment, and enter more deeply into mutual respect and appreciation.  God is alive within each and every one of us, nurturing, guiding, and sustaining us as we turn to this Holy Presence within.  This last Sunday in February, I’ll be speaking about, “It’s in Every One of Us,” and my intention is that we open more completely to the experience of the Global Heart, as we do our part to bring it to fruition in our world.

As we are now completely virtual, we invite you to join us each Sunday at 10:30 A.M. EST, live streaming from the Inspiration Café, our temporary office at 360 N. Valley Rd., Paoli, PA 19301.  As you go to our website, www.cslphilly.org you will find a welcoming musical invitation, preparing for our morning Celebration. Please enjoy the many aspects of this precious hour we share together: prayer, music, and uplifting messages, then consider informing your friends about the Celebrations archived on the website and open for viewing at any time.  Thank you for your continuing contributions to GPCSL, as we move through this amazing time of healthy transition, focusing on our beautiful Vision of a Beloved Spiritual Community that is wholesome, creative, and making a difference in our lives and in the greater community.

Whenever you may be experiencing a temporary human challenge, please go to the Practitioner Page on our website where you will find compassionate, well-trained Practitioners and Practitioner Intern ready and willing to work with spiritual tools to lift your consciousness and enhance your life experience.

With great love and respect,

Dr. Maxine