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2024 Theme is A Grand Rising

December's Theme is: Sticking The Landing

Monthly Theme Summary: 

At the end of a gymnastics performance, after all the spins and twirls, the gymnast must land upright on their feet.

At the end of this year, having explored A Grand Rising, we land on our feet, grounded in timeless principles.

We’ll use both elements (air, fire, water, earth, and light) and the flow of consciousness (thought, feeling, form, wisdom, Spirit)

to wrap up this year and prepare for the next.

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TALK TITLES & SUMMARIES​

December 1st 

Weekly Topic Title: Standing on Solid Air

Everything is created twice – first in mind, then in form. Our thinking and our beliefs have a powerful influence on our lives.

Emma Curtis Hopkins declared “There is no matter” as her second denial. While we might disagree based on today’s scientific wisdom,

we do recognize that matter is an emanation of Spirit. The quantum physicist will tell us that things are nowhere near as solid as we perceive them to be.

What we call thought and form are both, ultimately, energy, being shaped by conscious expectation and perception.

Thus, we begin with the core beliefs of our SOM teaching, as the “solid air (thought)” upon which we stand

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December 8th 

Weekly Topic Title: Hearts Ablaze

IN-PERSON SERVICE!

We are feeling creatures who think – so says Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, in her book Whole Brain Living. We can have all the words,

all the information, all the intellect crammed full of facts, yet it is our feeling heart that is the true source of the power of the

One Source moving through us, animating our life. We can be worn down by what Howard Thurman calls “the dust and grit of the journey.”

(from The Moments of My High Resolve) We can get lost in despair, disillusionment, and even disbelief. But if we can catch the divine spark,

if we can let the holy invade the fog of separation, the Light within rekindles and blazes up with new vigor and inspiration.

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December 15th 

Weekly Topic Title: Flowing Ground

We think of our world as solid, but Holmes reminds us that “we are dealing with a fluent force.” We can learn to flow with liquid law

and not be stopped by appearances of solidity. It takes a shift of consciousness and a grounding in Truth Principles to look “solid facts”

in the eye and say, “You are not so real after all!” Just as we have come to understand that thoughts are things, we also become aware that

things are thoughts in form. Change the thoughts, change the things.

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December 22nd 

Weekly Topic Title: The Incredible Light of Being

IN-PERSON SERVICE! 

Speaker: Rev Rachael Dilling

This month, the darkest of the season in the northern hemisphere, has so many celebrations of light. December 8th marks Bodhi Day,

celebrating the enlightenment of the Buddha in much of the Buddhist world. The Wiccan tradition of Yule on

December 21st honors the passing of the shortest day of the year, remembering the return of light. Christmas celebrates the birth of

Jesus, the Light of the World in the Christian tradition. December 26th marks the beginning of both Hanukkah and Kwanzaa,

with the symbology of candles. And the season of Advent also uses candles to remind us of the light.

“Upon the night view of the world, a day view must follow.”

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December 29th 

Weekly Topic Title: Expanding at the Top

Speaker: Practitioners-Plugged-In

As we complete this year of “A Grand Rising,” we look forward to what’s next. How do we take all that we have learned this year and rise into the next?

We say that we are “open at the top.” It’s one thing to be open, it’s another to expand into that openness. There is an old Zen saying,

“When you get to the top of the mountain, keep climbing.” The principles – the mountain – stay the same.

Our relation to them expands as our minds, hearts, and wisdom expand. It is comfortable to stay with the old, tired, and true –

but growth does not happen in old comfort. Darn!  

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