Observe CSL World Day of Service

Centers for Spiritual Living observes World Day of Service this year on Saturday, September 14, 2019. Now more than ever, it is important that we come together and be of service to our communities and the world.

The type of event you choose can range from advocacy on a local issue to hosting a book drive or joining a community-wide volunteer effort. You can join forces with other local service efforts or plan something of your own.

CSL has supporting materials to help you host an event in your own backyard. Find the Community Service Guide and a Facebook meme to promote your event on OurCSL.org, and be sure to share photos from your community outreach on the CSL Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/centersforspiritualliving/.

Taking an Unlikely Step

“Our world is aching for safe, invitational places, where we each feel seen, valued and welcomed,” Wayne Muller says in the September 2019 issue of Science of Mind magazine. “Doing that means we have to take that first unlikely step….”

In creating a program he calls “Nuns and Nones,” Muller had the idea to bring together nonreligious millennials and Roman Catholic nuns to see if they could find common ground on social justice activities. He wanted to explore what he calls “the magnificence of what we see and know when we collaborate.”

“I wanted to see if we could dream and wonder and feel the winds of spirit blow through us like wind through a flute,” he says. “To offer that to one another was almost effortlessly transformational.”

While unexpected and perhaps unlikely, the two groups began making immediate connections with each other. Their shared space is safe and inviting, a place where each is seen, valued and welcomed. The program is being replicated across the United States, even including a co-living pilot residence in Burlingame, California.

More information can be found at https://www.nunsandnones.org.

Honoring Walden Award Recipients

Congratulations to the 2019 Walden Award recipients, announced this month. For information or to see nomination requirements, visit unity.org/Walden.

I Hold Communion

—by Ernest Holmes

I sing a song of joy today, of praise and gratitude. …

Today I hold communion with the invisible Presence that peoples the world with the manifestation of Its Life, Its Light and Its Love. I withdraw the veil that hides my real self and draw close to the Spirit in everything and in everyone.

I anticipate everything that is worthy of the soul; I accept everything that belongs to the Spirit; I claim everything that partakes of the nature of the divine Reality.

— Excerpted from the entry for September 8, 365: Science of Mind by Ernest Holmes