CENTER FOR SPIRITUAL LIVING – GRAHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
A Trans-denominational Celebration of Spirit
Celebrating twenty-five years in North Carolina.
BUDDHIST OR CATHOLIC, RICH OR POOR, BLACK OR WHITE, GAY OR STRAIGHT ...YOU ARE WELCOME HERE!
This is a church that blesses all churches. We respect whichever positive way a person chooses to worship or discover God. There is no one way to God, whether lighting a candle, burning incense, facing the east, uttering a mantra or lighting a menorah. Spirit has no denomination. Wherever you are on your spiritual journey, You are welcome here!
Sunday Celebration – 11:00 AM
In February, 2012, we will celebrate twenty five years as a New Thought church in Alamance County. We began as a Unity Church, and later affiliated with United Church of Religious Science calling our church Unity Church of Religious Science.
In order to portray a new identity that is more inviting, expresses our trans-denominational nature, and ends confusion with Scientology – delegates at the United Church of Religious Science annual meeting in March 2006 supported a new name for its’ 200 plus member churches. We are a Center for Spiritual Living.
IF YOU LIKE BOOKS BY ECKHART TOLLE, WAYNE DYER, AND ERNEST HOLMES, IF YOU LIKE THE VALUES OF OPRAH WINFREY, DEEPAK CHOPRA AND THE DALAI LAMA IF YOU LIKE THE DVD “THE SECRET”, YOU’LL LOVE US.
Rev. Sandra Lee Swift, Spiritual Leader /Ordained Minister
BELIEF
This week we are re-defining some commonly used terms:
God – not a super-person out there to whom we pray and beg for favors.
Rather . God is the entire life process in which we live.
Faith – is not believing in a theology about God.
Rather ..faith comes from living within and tuning into the divine flow that is always present.
Prosperity – is not created by saying affirmations to make things come to you.
Rather ..is it a response to what you actually expect from life.
The lesson is to stop wanting “things” and expand your own inner awareness of your wholeness.You are a spiritual being in a limitless universe.Your job is to build your own inner awareness of the Divine Source that already exists in everyone and is everywhere.
Eric Butterworth tells us ..”You do not receive what you want, and you do not receive what you pray for;You receive what you actually expect.
Blessings,
Rev. Sandra
SCIENCE AND RELIGION
I can think of no better way to discover “God” then right here in our own physical body and physical world.God is the Universal Intelligence; the Organizing Principle; the ever-present Essence that permeates all matter and all life.Look at a few examples of our amazing, inter-connected world.
Mathematics is our tool for understanding everything in the physical world, and the deeper we dig the more we find an astonishing coordinated universe.Phi – The Golden Ratio – 1.6180339887etc….discovered by Euclid ...is a ratio found throughout our world:The arrangement of an apples seeds, the over-lapping petals of a rose,the spiral pattern on a mollusk shell, the hexagonal shapes on a pineapple, the pattern in a sunflower’s seeds, the ratios in a hurricane and in spiral galaxies, and in the dimensions of the Great Pyramid of Giza, and in the Parthenon in Greece.
(ref:“The Golden Ratio” –Mario Livio, 1945)
Need more proof of the amazing power and intelligence inherent in our world?Take a look at genetics. Only 5-10 % of your genes are working.A 132 pound person’s body contains sixty trillion cells.A single human cell contains three billion DNA “letters” ..stored on spiral strands that weigh 1/200 billionth of a gram.These genes can be turned “on” and “off” by emotional and mental conditions, and by environmental factors.
Changing our mental attitude can actually activate positive genes. (ref: “The Divine Code of Life” – Dr. Kazuo Murakami, 1936).
God is not a Super Being “out there” somewhere.God is the principle of life inherent in every single aspect of all of physical and mental life.God is truly all there is.