Spring 2010 - Now Is the Time!

06/23/2010 -

Now Is the Time!

Out of all the times throughout the Age of Humanity that you could have been born, you were born when you were. Out of all the families you could have been born into, you arrived with the one that was yours. Out of all the places you could be living now, you are living where you are. Out of all the spiritual communities you could have connected with, you are part of this one.

Wherever you are - at work, on the highway, in a meeting, out for supper with friends - you are there by Divine Appointment. Choices you made at the soul level have brought you to this place, this time; even the reading of this page right now was a soul choice. This is one of the most inspiring discoveries, to understand that there are no accidents, no random coincidences. We discover that only the perfect out picturing of what we believe brings us to where we are!

So, everyone in your community is here by right of consciousness. You are with exactly to people you need to be with to achieve the change, the growth, the transformation you have been seeking. At some level, you have already answered a call: to be part of this group. You have already started on the journey that will lead you to the next level of experience.

Life, it would seem, is a series of calls - some we answer, some we do not. Only we can decide what is the best path, what is the best role, what is the best way for us to be in this world.

Are you being called to take one of the classes that is being offered this spring? There are descriptions in the newsletter and on our Web site. Are you being called to offer time in service to our Center as a volunteer in one of our programs? There are many avenues for service, some ongoing, and some just once a year.

Are you being called to make a commitment to help this Center grow through your financial support? We are self-supporting, and are able to do our wonderful work thanks to your generous contributions. How is God working through you this year?

Now is the time - this is the place - and we are the ones we have been waiting for!

Blessings and Love
Rev. Linda

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Winter 2010 - We're Two Digits Now

05/19/2010 -

I remember the joy I felt in turning from nine to ten years old. My age had two digits! I wasn’t a “little kid” anymore. My grandmother would laugh and say “Any day now it will be three!”—but that’s another story!

So the century of two thousand is now moving toward its teen years—that place where we break away from the “kid” stuff and move into creating independence and change. Welcome to 2010. Anything is possible.

As I began contemplating what to choose as a theme for this year (last year was Lean Forward into Your Life. The year before it was A Year of Significant Living), it seemed to be building toward something.

When we live a life of significance, we live with meaning—what we do matters. We become conscious of the impact of our thoughts and words. When we lean into our life, we find ourselves fully engaged and striving toward our good. When I know that what I do makes a difference and has consequences, and I bring all that I am to what I do, I become ready for something great to happen.

I become ready to Answer the Call.

Joseph Campbell spent his life work on mythology—the story of human kind—what we tell ourselves about what things mean. The hero’s journey begins with a Call. You have the choice to answer or not—you have the choice to engage or release. It is in the answering—the engaging, that we begin to choose, as Mark Nepo says so wonderfully “living over hiding, being over thinking, participating over observing, thriving over surviving.”

This year, we will be deciding to respond to that “inner necessity that outweighs all consequences.” We will choose to reveal what is within us that has been awaiting our Yes. It is not simply to do something great, but to live close to Spirit - to share Life’s loving intentions for the world.

Each of us is a voice of Spirit—a cell in the body of the world—ready to play its role in the unfoldment of this thing we call Life. As we move out of 2009 and into 2010, let us Answer the Call and become who we came here to be. Let us follow the advice of Howard Thurman:

Don’t ask what the world needs.
Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it.
Because, what the world needs is people who have come alive.

Happy New Year,
Rev. Linda

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Autumn 2009 - Endings and Beginnings

01/02/2010 -

Endings and Beginnings

A Message from Rev. Linda Finley

In my life, I am always conscious of startings and stoppings—the last entry in a journal and conversely, the opening of a crisp, new book; the ending of a class with a group I have come to know, and the first day of a new class, with fresh new faces. Each calendar page turned represents a new beginning taking place, just as I relinquish the one left behind.

Here we are at the final quarter of 2009. Ninety days left in which to grow, change, live, laugh, learn. Ninety days all fresh and free and new with possibility. Ninety days waiting for us to declare how this year will be remembered.

In reality, there is no time—except for now. Every moment contains both its beginning and ending in the present instant. It is we who tell the stories that make any moment comic or tragic, profound or frivolous. We bring with us, in consciousness, the idea of how anything will be perceived and remembered.

We can savor endings and relish beginnings in the middle of the day. We can cling to the past and fear the future at any point in time. We are always at choice in how we choose to see the canvas of life that lays before us.

In truth, we don’t need a diminishing calendar or ticking clock to motivate us to move forward. Nor do we require a brand new, empty journal to make space for our enlarging dreams.

Wherever we are is the right space for us to open to the dreams of our soul that call us to be who we came here to be. Whatever time we decide is the precise moment for the germination of the idea that is the I Am within us, taking shape as our life.

Let us celebrate a new year right now. Today is the day. Now is the time. We are the ones we have been waiting for. Let the celebration begin, because we declare a new dawn right now!

Blessings and Love,
Linda

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Summer 2009 - Where Are We Now?

10/28/2009 -

Where Are We Now?

A message from Rev. Linda Finley

Well, my friends, we are halfway through the final year of the first decade of the 2000's. I say that not to panic you, but to ask you to do a mental check-in to see if you are heading in the direction you had planned.

We set goals and intentions for ourselves each year - and many of us did the same at the millennium, so I wonder where we are with that. Have we moved forward? Backward? Are we still standing in the same spot waiting for permission to move?

In this teaching, we understand that we are co-creators with the Infinite. Each moment is an opportunity to begin a new experience with the limitless possibilities of the Divine on our side.

I remember hearing a saying, “It is never too late to become the person you might have been.” I love that it reminds us that we are never, ever stuck where we are. All we have to do to take that journey of 1,000 miles is begin by taking one step.

All we ever need do is take one step - physically or mentally - in the direction of our dreams to start a giant Creative Force moving things into alignment with us. It is in our willingness to commit to change that change begins to happen.

Quantum physics actually reveals that matter tends to show up based on our expectations. As the world of wave and particle - of spirit and form - responds to our expectations, we become mindful of where our thoughts are headed. When we expect the worst, we invite it into our experience.

It is time for us, both individually and collectively, to begin expecting the best for ourselves, our families, our Center and our world. We are the individualized expressions of the One. We are part of one another, and we live and move and have our being in God, the Creative Power behind it all.

We are on the backstretch of this year... and the homestretch of this decade. No matter where you are now, you can create amazing growth and personal evolution by beginning right where you are and claiming a richer, fuller, more abundant life - and then moving toward it.

Blessings and love,
Linda

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Spring 2009 - The Cycles of Creation

08/09/2009 -

The Cycles of Creation

A message from Rev. Linda Finley

Spring returns as it does each year with its message of renewal. And we keep forgetting that it does and it will. Through the decay of autumn and the starkness of winter, underground the elements of change have been at work creating the surge of energy that makes spring explode onto the canvas with its brilliant colors and promise of new life. And we keep forgetting.

It is a cycle that happens each year, and because we are removed from it, we forget. In bygone days, before people lived largely in cities and had electricity to artificially keep the night at bay, we felt the rhythm of nature —the cycles of the sun and the moon and the seasons. We were more firmly living as part of this planet, and were aware of the lessons of the world that surrounded us.

In Jewish mysticism, the Kabbalah tells us that if no scripture had ever been written, the living beings of nature would be all we needed to tell us how to live. We would remember, if we listened to the world around us. Everything happens in a cycle - the blood pumps and circulates through our body and returns to the heart. We breathe in and we breathe out, and our use of oxygen not only gives life to our cells, it creates carbon dioxide for the plants who feed on that and give us back oxygen.

Rain and snow fall from the sky and enter the earth and the rivers, flowing back to the sea, which gives rise to moisture which rises to the heavens forming clouds which bring us more precipitation.

The planets rotate on their axes, creating the impression of day and night, light and darkness, spring and summer, winter and fall. The earth’s shadow gives the moon its phases of fullness and dark.

How can anything not be like this? The macrocosm (universe) and the microcosm (individual) reflect one another’s cycles. As we look at what people are calling "recession" and "loss" and "lack" it would be wonderful if we would all see that this is merely a cycle, a re-birthing, a rearranging of the energy of life.

Can we see this as a winter, giving rise to something so much greater than anything we might now fear losing and tightly to hold on to? God, the Intelligence of the Universe, is truly all there is, and everything that we experience comes from that Source. So the opportunity for growth and expansion always dwells beneath the surface of any barren expanse.

In the community of Gaviotas in South America, they have spent years working on sustainable living. One of the projects they began was planting seedlings in an attempt to provide a new forestation in the pampas. Something amazing began happening as the seedlings grew into saplings and trees. Shrubs and flowers not planted by the workers began to appear. The ground held dormant seeds that came to life when the trees began to provide a new environment.

Within each of us in this community and this nation are the dormant seeds of the new tomorrow we have been yearning for. Each of us is a force for change in the world, and we can build what we want, if we are willing to look at possibilities and stop crying about the fear of loss. Each of us is the Spring we have been seeking. Each of us is the solution. Each of us is the Divine in expression.

Let us join together in consciousness and build a new dream for our lives, for our Center, for our Country. We can do this when we work together.

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January 2009

04/25/2009 -

 Let's Start at the Very Beginning

There is a space in each of us that yearns for fresh starts and new beginnings. We want a "do-over" or Mulligan. So, we love birthdays, anniversaries, and the New Year. Each of them promises us that we can start afresh – that the slate is clean and we can begin anew to build the life of which we have dreamed.

 When I was little, my Mom and I used to visit Oscar and Marjorie Moon - they were surrogate grandparents of a sort, and I loved our trips to see them. Oscar was retired, but he still puttered around in his shop, making wondrous creations, and one of them was a chamois-covered chalkboard eraser. It was a good 15" across, with handles on the back, and you could clean a wide swath across the chalkboard in just a single motion. It picked up chalk dust much better than the standard felt ones, so the board came out looking almost new.

I used to love helping my Mom in her classroom at the end of the day, and the chalkboards were my favorite chore. It was so great to see all the marks and shadow images removed when I used the big eraser. Her board always looked so much better at the beginning of the day than most of the other teachers’ boards. It felt like you could learn better with a clean board like that - no old stuff hanging around from yesterday - or last week!

The New Year reminds us that we can clean away the dust and shadow thoughts of the past. Our minds are the chalkboard, and our consciousness is the eraser - if we choose to use it well.

A hundred years ago, Judge Thomas Troward reminded us that "Principle is not bound by Precedent." What he was saying was that the creative force of the universe does not care what happened last year, last month, or even yesterday. It doesn’t matter what dust or ideas preceded this moment. This moment - right here - right now - is new. There has never been another one like it. There will never be another like it.

Each fresh and new moment is waiting to be lifted up into the miraculous by our fresh and new attitude about what is possible. We are the chooser, whether it is January 1 or August 20. We decide what good will come, by determining to live more fully and more presently in each moment.

The theme for this year is "Lean Forward Into Your Life." When you are present to the moment - when every moment is new - when you have no idea what the exact outcome will be - you start leaning forward with anticipation and expectancy. Let us engage this year with the passion and joy that it deserves.

Whatever has gone before, whatever the last year gave or took, right now is the only time you have to live. Right now is your chance to choose the life of your dreams. Attend a service. Take a class. Make a friend. Volunteer to help. Your life will be richer for it.

Blessings and Love ~ Linda

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Autumn 2008

01/01/2009 -

There is a quote by Anais Nin that has touched my heart for years. It is "there came a day when the risk it took to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

I think that my life may be at that point now. I think, for many of you, your life is also at that point. I know it is true of our Center.

When I arrived here almost two years ago, I could sense that this place was on the verge of something amazing. I know that is true now.

Our entire international organization is on the cusp of an amazing transformation, and we are prepared to be swept along with it...

But first, let’s talk about you and me.

You have heard me say many times that we can only get out of something what we are willing to put into it. We can show up on Sunday and listen to the message and say hello to our friends and talk about how great this teaching is – but if that is all we are willing to invest in it, we won’t get a very good return.

It is living this teaching day by day that brings the rich and abundant blessings of Life to us. Our role is to test this teaching; to put the lessons to work; to study what it means to practice the Presence. Our lives become rich and full only when we invest our selves in the growth process.

The real way of learning how to utilize this teaching is to take the classes. It is in the classes that the practical experience of applying the lessons is clarified. It is in the classes that new friendships are forged. It is in the classes that our limits are stretched and our growth defies our expectations.

The Science of Mind is both a philosophy and a way of life. It asks us to see everything and everyone as sacred. Everything. Everyone. No exceptions. It asks us to become conscious of the things we say and think, because the universe has no choice but to mirror back to us our beliefs.

When we really get this, we can’t remain tight in the bud any longer. We are compelled to burst fully into the blossom of who we came here to be. We are moved to express to the world the limitless possibility inherent in our very being.

There is a segment of the population known as Cultural Creatives. They cross gender and age boundaries, and they comprise 25% of the world population. These people believe in the sacredness of the planet, in equality for all peoples, in a family of humanity that is one. And, for the most part, they have no idea that anyone else feels the same way. They are hungry for what we are teaching, and we are prepared to feed them!

Through the work of our organization, the possibility of changing our names nationwide has finally become a reality. The people who have been afraid to check us out because they were confused by the words Religious Science, will not have that roadblock, as Religious Science International is now International Centers for Spiritual Living.

We will be having a special Global Growth Sunday on September 7, where you will get a chance to hear about how we are growing around the world, and what impact that has on us here in Eugene. We will have an international-theme potluck after the service, followed by a Town Hall Meeting.

At the Town Hall Meeting, we will share with you the findings of the branding research that has been done on our faith, and share some exciting opportunities for our center to reach into the community.

We will no longer remain tight in the bud. Not as individuals, not as a Center, and not as an organization. The world is ready for us, and we are ready for the world.

Take a class. Come to the Town Hall Meeting. Bloom!

Blessings and Love,

Linda

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Summer 2008

08/21/2008 -

Mid Year Course Correction

Can it be that we are really at the mid-point of our year? How quickly the time flies; or so it would seem.

This is our proclaimed "Year of Significant Living." It is our intent this year to begin creating the space in our lives for powerful growth and the revelation of our essential nature. What we truly have set forth is the idea that who we are, authentically, is more important than anyone else’s idea of us.

Metaphysical teacher Eric Butterworth often spoke of "releasing our imprisoned splendor," and that is just what we have set about to do this year. There is a wonderful gift in each of us, something that is ours to do and to be, and we are stating our willingness to let it come forth.

So, perhaps this mid-point in the year would be a good place to look and see if we are on track to create the change we have yearned for in our lives.

Early in the year, we looked at the questions we could ask ourselves to help us remained centered. Whenever "stuff" comes up, can we stop, take a breath and ask:

Can even this be God?

Do I need to carry this with me any longer?

Who am I being called to be right now?

Wouldn’t it be great if (fill in the blank) were happening right here?

We are asked to accept and embrace the mystery of God in all things. The fact that anything exists at all is truly a miracle, and we remind ourselves to experience that delight, as a child would.

We are asked to begin putting our faith into action, by turning within, to God FIRST, before we step in to "fix it" – whatever IT might be! It is about moving our focus to what we want to experience, instead of trying to fix what is. Because ultimately, as Dr Holmes has reminded us, our task is to be "for something and against nothing."

This does not mean that we are not doing anything. It means that we stop wasting our time fighting with current conditions and have the boldness and daring to imagine NEW ways of living and being in the world.

We are the ones that we have been waiting for. We have the tools, and now is the time. I know the remainder of this year is going to be an amazing and wonderful experience for all of us, as we hold our vision of what CAN be.

Blessings and Love

Linda

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March/April 2008

05/28/2008 -

The arrival of spring is fast upon us. I have been observing the robins and blue jays gathering in yards for the past few weeks, resplendent in their bright spring colors. The crocus are popping up everywhere, and tips of other spring bulbs are cresting green through the soil.

Everywhere we are reminded that the barren times of renewal are followed by the rebirth of life and the promise of a new harvest coming down the road.

Virtually every culture has some sort of spring festival marking the movement of the sun to the point of equal daylight and dark. Virtually every culture honors the awakening of the plants and the hibernating animals as they shake off their winter rest time. Virtually every culture asks us to look beyond the surface of things as they are to see the messages that they hold for us.

The Kabbalah is the study of mystical Judaism. It tells us that if there had never been a book of spiritual laws written we would still be able to know how to live, because the Creator provided us with plants and animals and tides and seasons. The fullness of creation is a guide to us.

We are told that "to everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven." The lessons we receive from nature are rich and abundant:

The waning and waxing cycles of the moon remind us that there is a time to go within and plan, and a time to work towards the fruition of our plans.

The movement of the tides tell us that there is a time to advance and a time to withdraw.

The bulbs and perennials and deciduous trees tell us that even though things may appear over and done with, life still exists at the core of things, ready to take shape at unexpected moments.

If I could ask you to focus on one lesson this season, it would be that there is a Law of Circulation. Our breath circulates oxygen. Our heart circulates blood. Our body systems circulate chemicals and healing energy to areas of infection or injury. Circulation keeps us alive.

You have heard what goes around comes around. As you sow, so shall you reap. It is said in so very many ways, and it all comes down to this – If we want more of anything in our lives, we must move it around, circulate it. Whatever you would have more of in your life, learn to give more of it. Our world is a system, and each part supports the other parts. If you want to receive support, you must give it. If you want to be in the game, you have to play.

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January/February 2008

05/28/2008 -

The old year ends and the new one begins. The old calendar comes down from the wall and a new one goes up. I recently attended a marvelous movie, Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium. It begins with the narrator saying that no story ever can end without a new one (or more) beginning.

Life is but a series of endings and beginnings, deaths and births, falling and rising up again. It is in coming into synch with these cycles that we find our rhythm of life.

There are endings that we mourn - and those that we celebrate. There are beginnings that we anticipate, and those that we dread. The tide comes in, the tide goes out, and still, life moves forward, with or without our consent.

Where were we all this time last year? Could you have predicted everything that has transpired this year? I am sure I could have guessed a couple of things, and I know there are things I would never have imagined possible. Life simply moves through the beginnings and endings, and we decide whether we will fight or embrace the experience.

It has been said that pain is inevitable. While I am a practicing Religious Scientist and know that I create my reality, I have to admit that my experience of life has been that, like it or not, pain really does show up from time to time.

What makes the difference between pain that heals and pain that turns to suffering is how I respond to THIS particular ending or beginning. If I fight what is– if I rage against the injustice of it all– if I use my current experience as "proof" that nothing is fair in this world, then suffering is pretty well guaranteed. That’s the option I have selected.

If, however, I step into the experience of the pain and say, "why is this happening FOR me?" and "what can I learn from this that will move me to where I want to be," the pain - the obstacle - becomes the doorway to transformation. It becomes the beginning of the new story, filled with potential and possibility.

In the Jewish mystical tradition of Kabbalah, every obstacle in our path is considered a pathway to God. It is in those things that appear to block us that we find the healing we have been seeking. But only by welcoming the experience do we gain this benefit.

Next time you find yourself resisting a change - be it beginning or end - try surrendering to the experience; follow the path all the way to the heart of God. You will be blessed in more ways than you can imagine.

Blessings and Love

 Rev. Linda

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November/December 2007

05/28/2008 -

Nature tells us it is time to come home early, sleep in, and stay by the hearth. At the same time, the world declares a set of holidays, demanding that we stay out late, dress up and over-extend ourselves physically and financially. What’s a person to do?

Perhaps this year we can declare our own rules for what works for us during the year-end season. Historically, this is the time to "evaluate the harvest." What worked? What did not? What do you wish you had ‘planted’ instead of what you did?

Each of us can take a look at the actions of this year and see what we would like to replicate in the coming year, as well as what we would like to avoid, and what we might still be able to salvage. It is not about guilt or remorse - it is simply about an honest assessment of what’s been going on.

I heard a line some years ago, I think it is from George Eliot, that said "It is never too late to be who you might have been." It is not too late right now to make this year a good one. To plan the coming year. To see where you want to go with your life.

Is attending one more holiday party going to enhance your life? Is giving one more "little gift" going to enrich the recipient? What would be the best use of your time and resources right now? Only you can make that decision. Only you can know what would serve your soul the most.

This is not about getting anybody else to change - it is about doing what feels right to you. It is letting the silence inform your thinking and then your actions. There is a Power for Good in the Universe, that is greater than you are, and you can use It.

At the first of December, I will have been with you a year. For me this has been a marvelous time of getting to know you and deepening my sense of my ministry, and I am blessed to be here. Please consider what would make the coming year richer, fuller, more satisfying to your soul - then let’s come together and make it happen right here at the Spiritual Growth Center. Volunteer to serve, take a leadership class, join a visioning group, let your soul guide you to your next right step. I look forward to being there with you.

Blessings and Love, Linda

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September/October 2007

05/28/2008 -

Even though it has been years since I have attended public schools, September still brings to mind the energy and excitement of returning to the classroom for a new year. With new book covers and binders, new clothes and shoes, and new stories about what happened over the summer, it was always a treat to be there that first day and to see all my friends again.

Maybe I feel this way because in Science of Mind we still structure our accredited classes around the standard school year. Maybe it is simply one of those thought patterns that is planted so deeply I haven’t given any thought to releasing it - I assume it is simply "the way things are!" For whatever reason, I truly relish the return of September and the promise of autumn coming quickly on its coattails.

Our spiritual community continues to grow and expand in so many ways, and gathering on Sundays is just one of them. Our wonderful curriculum of accredited classes is designed to help deepen and enrich our spiritual experience of this teaching.

Our Sunday message gives you ideas to ponder and tools to use in the coming week. It is designed to open you up and help you connect to the Truth. The classes we offer are set up to help you take those ideas to a whole new level of understanding. You could liken Sunday to the topping... it is certainly pleasant, but you have a sense there could be more; while the classes offer the actual slice of cake - giving you more substance and a better sense of satisfaction.

I love the "a-ha" moments in class discussion, as people begin to get the understanding of how to create deeper and richer lives for themselves. I love the friendships and connections that are made as we share deeply in class and learn how much all the other people have so many of the same experiences that we do. More than anything, I love the fact that every time I teach a class, I learn as much or more from the students as I do from the material!

Maybe this is the year you decide to see what these classes are all about. Maybe this is the year you take the leap and go deep with Spirit into the Truth of who you are. Maybe it’s time to start rediscovering the beauty of learning just for the sake of your very own soul.

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Summer 2007

05/28/2008 -

"Summertime, and the livin’ is easy." Or so Mr. Gershwin told us. I have loved almost every version of that song that has ever been recorded... maybe because I finally began to realize (later than I might have) that living is as easy as we are willing to make it!

Most of my Summertimes were spent in Nebraska, visiting my grandparents and cousins. My mom taught school, so we had the whole summer off. That is where we went every year until I graduated from high school.

My grandfather and uncle were both farmers, so for me, July and August meant family 4^th of July picnics at my uncle’s home, complete with fireworks... County fairs where my cousins got blue and purple ribbons for raising and showing sheep... making food for the harvesters who came through to thresh the wheat fields... sweet corn ripening, and whole batches of family gathering, shucking, cleaning and blanching sumptuous golden kernels to put in the freezer.... and birthdays! Three of my cousins and I, along with one aunt, all had our birthdays within a week of one another.

Each of us has memories of summers that bring smiles to our faces. We like to think that things were so much simpler back then, but the truth is, things are as simple or complicated as we make them.

I hated the corn harvest day as a kid - the weather was unmercifully hot and muggy; the boys were always dangling corn worms in your face; and when we finally finished and ate from the banquet lunch of country cooking that all the women had brought to share, we had to snap beans, as well! The payoff was that when we finished all that, they would drive us into town so we kids could go swimming at the city pool for about an hour.

It’s funny. I don’t remember anything about those swim trips, but I remember so many details about the work days. And that is the part of the summers that I miss. Mowing a full acre of lawn around my grandparents’ home once a month. Going to the church to do yard cleanup. Helping move irrigation pipe from field to field. Those are the things that bring me smiles and make my heart yearn for those "golden times."

I have lots of good memories of play times, but I have deeper, and more satisfying memories of times spent in service to my family, doing chores and tasks that contributed to our homes and our lives.

Seva is a Sanskrit word meaning selfless service to God. In our teaching, we know God is all there is - each of us is an expression of that One Life, so each of us is God expressing. Therefore, when we serve one another, we are serving God. It is truly in the giving that we receive.

May your summertime be filled with blessed opportunities to give and receive the ease and blessedness of this season.

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