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[00:00:28] right. Good morning. And welcome. I'm Reverend Keith, and this is our Soul Center meditation service. So, as those of you who are coming in, welcome. Come on in. And those of you who are just joining us on the love stream, welcome to those of you from around the globe. Trisha, Trisha and Dave, you were just here a couple, a few weeks ago in person, and now you're back in Malaysia, so good to see you.

[00:01:00] This is Steph and Michelle in Australia, good to see you. Everybody else, those of you here in person, Um, if you are sitting in this room, and, uh, you have a cellular device, we're gonna ask that you please go ahead and make sure that any electronic devices are either in airplane mode, or also known as meditation mode, or just off completely.

[00:01:25] That would be wonderful. And for those of you who are streaming it live, you might want to just put your device on do not disturb. A few other little guidelines as I welcome you to our time of meditation, which is basically communion with your own higher self, with the divine, with bliss, with peace, with the eternal frequencies.

[00:01:51] What you notice as you move into meditation, there'll be an evolution over The time in meditation over your practice where you'll see the dissolution of the temporal energies and you'll see the rising or the revealing of the eternal. So that's what we're doing. And there are many different meditation practices around the globe.

[00:02:18] They all have intentions built into them and then there's the intention we bring to them. I'm going to invite you to join me, if you like, with a couple of intentions. One of those intentions is that we will be undistracted. Nothing from the inside will distract us. Nothing from the outside will distract us.

[00:02:42] We will be in a place of absolute calm and peace. And, uh, When we move into meditation, you move into a place of high observance, where you can actually observe without engaging. That doesn't mean you can't engage, it just means that you can allow those temporal energies to waft on by. So, another intention is that you'll allow this to be the most Most delicious, most deep, most profound, most rejuvenating, most relaxing experience ever.

[00:03:24] Um, you're moving into a place where we're going to let go of efforting and we're just going to relax and rejuvenate. If you fall asleep, that's okay. If you hear every word I say, wonderful. If you don't hear a word I say, that's okay too. And, uh, we're also going to intend that all the channels, all the meridians of our physical, emotional, and mental bodies are wide open, attuning to the energy of your spiritual DNA.

[00:03:56] You have spiritual DNA and, uh, and it is bliss. With all that being said, I'm going to go ahead, I'm going to just center us. That's where we let, start to let go of the temporal world. We'll stay in the stillness for a little bit. And then we'll come out in a wave of prayer. If you choose to do this as an open eyed meditation, you're more than welcome to.

[00:04:19] You're probably just going to find one singular place to focus your eyes. If your eyes wander, your mind will wander. Otherwise, probably 95 to 99 percent of us are going to do this as a closed eyed meditation. I'm going to invite you to go ahead, and if you are, go ahead, you can close your eyes as we are ready to begin.

[00:05:01] Ah, and as always, we begin by first giving ourselves permission to relax. Just saying to ourselves in our minds, I give myself permission to relax, to rejuvenate, and to rest. We take a moment knowing our intention is to let go of all efforting, all seeking, all trying and searching, and open. To the eternal frequencies

[00:05:51] of peace and love, joy and beauty, harmony and tranquility, knowing we have no place to go, we have nothing to do. Sub surrender into the deepest states of serenity and clarity.

[00:06:27] I invite you to bring your awareness to your breathing. And solely through intention.

[00:06:39] We allow ourselves to expand the breath. No efforting. Don't change anything. Simply intending we are allowing our breath to become deeper, fresher, wider, all on its own. Every inhalation and exhalation. Surrendering into its natural circadian rhythm.

[00:07:18] We take a moment as you just witness your belly as it rises on the inhale and lowers on the exhale. Sinking. I

[00:07:44] invite you to bring your awareness to your chest and begin to notice how your chest expands and opens on the inhale and gently settles on the exhale

[00:08:05] as we return to the natural breath, sometimes referred to as the breath of light.

[00:08:18] For many have seen, as the inner eye opens, shimmering phosphorescence of color.

[00:08:31] Some notice a golden white light cascading down over them. An angelic vibration.

[00:08:43] Some see colors of violet purple, emerald green,

[00:08:54] sapphire blue.

[00:08:58] Some just see darkness.

[00:09:02] And feel tingles on their brow.

[00:09:07] Some see an eye with an eyelid open and look around. Whatever you see, whatever you sense, We take this moment to attune, Awaken the imagination to providence. It

[00:09:44] is the very energy that is breathing our breath and has never efforted,

[00:09:56] the same energy that is gently orbiting all the planets. And

[00:10:10] as it continues to go deeper and become fresher and wider, we let go of the temporal, the temporary energies.

[00:10:29] If there are any concerns, we allow them to release with the exhalation. As the inhalation continues to expand,

[00:10:46] a sense of tranquility.

[00:10:53] If there are any thoughts, any analyzing, or figuring, or projecting,

[00:11:07] we rise above it and let them go.

[00:11:12] As waves of clarity begin to flood the mind

[00:11:23] and we allow ourselves to let go of time,

[00:11:30] you begin to feel the energy of the past melting into the eternal.

[00:11:43] You can feel the future. Dissolving

[00:11:51] into the presence.

[00:11:57] You can even feel the presence

[00:12:02] fully merging

[00:12:09] with the divine. Becoming aware of your soul, your higher mind.

[00:12:22] And each cycle of breathing taking us deeper. And rising higher, as we simply open to the desires of the soul,

[00:12:43] and the rejuvenating impulse that regenerates, purifies, uplevels and uplifts. There is no efforting.

[00:13:04] And they're simply relaxing.

[00:13:13] And as you feel the angelic eternal frequencies expanding,

[00:13:22] you will feel all density evaporating. and luminosity

[00:13:34] as weightlessness and light expanding.

[00:13:44] And it's here that we allow ourselves to rest, observe, Rejuvenate and relax in the stillness.

[00:14:45] Every cycle of breathing. Taking this deeper

[00:14:53] into beauty, grace,

[00:14:59] and love.

[00:16:04] Feel the eternal energies. Fortifying, purifying, amplifying. The energy of innocence.

[00:16:33] The energy of faith,

[00:16:41] optimism,

[00:16:50] all the channels, all the meridians flowing with light,

[00:17:00] rejuvenating, expanding, homeostasis,

[00:17:38] a respiratory system filled with freedom and spaciousness,

[00:17:52] a circulatory system. Flowing with timelessness and beauty

[00:18:20] and nervous system. Fortified with vitality and divine strength.

[00:19:12] I invite you to bring your awareness to your heart. In the middle of your chest, you begin to notice your heart center like a starburst of emerald green and golden light becoming brighter and lighter. You

[00:19:40] begin to feel an increase, stretching the capacity to hold more joy,

[00:19:54] more self love,

[00:20:00] more peace.

[00:20:07] More harmony than ever before.

[00:20:15] Waves and ripples of light flowing throughout your entire physical body.

[00:20:26] Tingles flowing down through your lower belly and lower back.

[00:20:34] Through your hips, and legs, and your feet,

[00:20:43] everything is softening and strengthening.

[00:20:50] The energy rising into your shoulders as

[00:20:57] you feel a continuation of spaciousness and luminosity.

[00:21:06] Arms and fingers and palms.

[00:21:13] Fully relaxed

[00:21:18] and ready to embrace good.

[00:21:23] And the crown wide open to providence.

[00:21:34] You can feel the energy flowing through your emotional body. Fortifying and amplifying compassion. Love and divine strength. And the waves of light. Flowing through the mental body is clarity, insight, and illumination,

[00:22:09] and you can feel the energy rippling into your bliss body,

[00:22:16] your true self, your eternal self.

[00:22:29] We take a moment as we

[00:22:33] allow these energies to continue to develop and expand. Remembering that they are omnipresent.

[00:22:46] There is nothing that we have captured. We are simply remembering and bringing our awareness to what is.

[00:23:03] It continues to fortify, magnify, and expand, and you might begin to feel some gratitude, whether you feel the energy of gratitude in its vibration. Perhaps you see its color, or perhaps you remember things you are grateful for,

[00:23:36] to be in awe of the great truth, the great remembering, that back of all life, there is an omniamorous Intelligence. All loving, all knowing, all powerful. The power that births and collapses stars, that formed galaxies and solar systems,

[00:24:17] that soars the eagle and breaches the whale. It flows the rivers and the waterfalls.

[00:24:31] It blows the breeze and crashes the waves. Elegance, simplicity and power, beauty and goodness is the very nature of life eternal. It is here now, when we associate with our true self. We remember, as stated in every spiritual teaching and religion around the globe in one way or another, each of us formed and fashioned.

[00:25:12] And the image and likeness of the divine, the true self. Take a moment in gratitude knowing that no matter where we are, there's a freshness, there's a goodness, there's a newness, and an intelligence that always seeks to guide and direct, uplift and connect. I'm grateful to know that by relaxing and availing the tool.

[00:25:40] The presence. We simply return to the beginning. The beginning is the eternal. And we allow that to continue even as we come back into a lucid state of divine awareness. Grateful to know that rejuvenation and regeneration and expansion of good is the very nature of life itself. Therefore it is our nature.

[00:26:13] As we allow ourselves to bathe in this energy, allow it to fortify, I invite you to feel or sense or become aware Of that which we call chi, shakti, life force. Flowing and washing over you and through you. Down through your crown, shoulders, heart. Hips, legs, and feet. And imagine you are standing barefoot somewhere in nature.

[00:26:54] And about four or five feet, perhaps a meter beneath your feet. At the bottom of your own energy field, a starburst of light anchors your divine frequency of heaven on earth. Feel that energy make its way all the way down, grounding. As we embrace and allow it to be. You can feel the energy of benevolent satiation, divine fulfillment, desire, all mingling.

[00:27:33] All flowing, anchoring and grounding. And it is from a place of thanksgiving and gratitude that we allow it to come to fruition and be by saying, and so it is. Amen. Whenever you feel ready, if you haven't already, you can open your eyes and, uh, If you need a little extra balancing or grounding, you can take opposite hand to opposite knee.

[00:28:03] It's always a good way to give them a little squeeze. That'll bring you back. And, uh, I want to welcome all of you who are streaming back. We've got about a three to four minute break we're going to take between now and our music and message service. So for those of you here and online, if you want to take a bathroom break, a rest break, a snack break, go ahead.

[00:28:24] We will begin in about three and a half, four minutes. Two seats here. How do I get in?

[00:29:30] Look at them guys. Excuse me. Look at them guys. Which one's my spouse? I know. This is Maggie. This is Kate. Nice to meet you. Oh, hello. Hi. Where is she? You want to sit so we can get out? Yeah. So you want to sit here? Yeah. And then put, just put everywhere. Okay.

[00:30:08] Do you wanna sit on the end? Probably. Yeah.

[00:30:20] I don't know if you can hear me, but I'm going to play a little bit of the music. Uh, uh Oh my God. Uh, uh Uh, uh Good morning, Soul Center. Good morning, Jordan. Good morning. Um, who is having a hard time believing it is the last Sunday of January? Wow, I can't believe it. Um, we are officially really into 2025, which is kind of cool.

[00:32:01] Uh, so thank you for being with us this morning as we continue our anniversary month. Um, last Sunday of anniversary month, happy birthday Soul Center, 11 years. Um, I am Jessica Suselik, the co founder of Soul Center OC with my mom, Patricia Griffith, our angel in heaven. And, uh, we with our incredible spiritual director, Reverend Keith Horowitz, are bringing The teachings of Reverend Dr.

[00:32:26] Michael Beckwith and the Agape International Spiritual Center to Orange County. Uh, so thank you for being with us as we continue that vision and that mission. And let's stand up together, please, knowing, uh, let's say our Soul Center Declaration that is in your program. It is on your screen. Love streamers, it should be showing up on your screen.

[00:32:44] We say it out loud, knowing it for each other, the world, um, and of course, ourselves. There is one life. And that life is God. That life is perfect. And that life is my life now. I am here to receive the divine message for me. I am awake. I am tapped in. And I am transformed. You may be seated. Um, we have the incredible Chris Woods in the house.

[00:33:16] Thank you so much for being with us today, Chris. And, um, Chris is going to be leading us out. on vocals today, which is new and exciting. So we're really thankful, grateful for you, Chris. Uh, and of course, Jesse and Brian. And, uh, Angelina's got the rest of the announcements for you. So here's Angelina. Thank you, Jessica.

[00:33:38] Buenos dias, everyone. Um, please remember to silence your cell phones or put them on meditate. as Reverend Keith likes to say. Um, Happy Anniversary, Soul Center!

[00:33:57] It's lovely to see all of you, and especially our little grand baby over there, Soul Center's little baby over there. Lovely. As you know, we have a special fundraising raffle and just by being here present, we all got a ticket, a chance to win today. In addition, volunteers today, this is the last day, will also get a free ticket to win a raffle and we'll announce the winner right after service.

[00:34:29] Uh, in addition, um, there is still a chance to purchase, um, some raffle tickets. Five dollars each, or, um, five for twenty five dollars. Ten for twenty five. See, what a deal! And we'll pull the winners for that at, uh, Jessica's, uh, annual. anniversary party at her house. Details are at the welcome table. And it's this Friday night, and that's a potluck.

[00:34:59] That'll be a lot of fun. It's always a good time. Um, for those of us that attended the talent show, you saw it was such a great time. And we're already being asked, uh, about the next talent show, and I see some of you that sung so beautifully. I mean, I just, and we had comedy. It was just amazing. Brian played an amazing set of drums, and After service today, we're going to have our semi annual Soul Center State of the Center.

[00:35:30] It's a very special presentation after service. Join us to learn of the divine idea of Soul Center, its history and teachings. Find out what's going on in this wonderful community and our expansion plans and our progress. It's 11 years. We've come a long way baby. Yay. Um, there's a lot of yummy food, so even if you didn't bring anything, just please feel welcome to join us.

[00:35:56] It'll be a good time, and there'll be time for a q and a of all things Soul Center. Don't forget to visit Almond Garden for everything you need to promote a balanced and spiritual lifestyle. You'll find incense, candles, books, tea, snacks, delicious chocolate, and even lip balm. And remember your purchases do help support Soul Center and of course we, we want to continue thriving in this wonderful community.

[00:36:28] Um, you know, we're all getting closer and closer with each other and knowing that we're there for each other. for each other, um, whenever we need to, some support, or just to have some fun. Um, don't forget to volunteer your time and talents with us. Uh, no experience is necessary, just a willingness to help.

[00:36:48] You'll be surprised how just donating a little bit of your time makes a really huge difference. Please contact, uh, Colleen Lavoie, or Kathy Loquet, uh, or our welcome table, or send an email to info at soulcenteroc. com. Um, also our beautiful Angelina was lovely enough to donate a suggestion box, which, um, is out in the hallway.

[00:37:12] If anybody has any suggestions, please drop us a note. We love to hear from you. Um, and with that being said, we will do our congregational song. So thanks guys. That's right. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I don't want to be in the picture. I just want the baby. Yeah, everybody now. I release. I let go I let the spirit run my life.

[00:37:58] I am free in the spirit. Yes, I'm only here to die. In the morning, I woke up one night. In my face, I see the light. I am free in the spirit. Yes, I'm only here to die. I release, and I let go. I let the spirit run my life. And my heart is open wide. Yes, I'm holding you tight. No more struggle, no more night. With my faith I see the light.

[00:38:52] I am free.

[00:39:24] Remember my name, and my heart is open wide. It's time to go to New York.

[00:40:10] Fabulous. Sorry.

[00:40:15] We love you. Oh, we do love you. Yes. My heart is beating. That was so fantastic. Part beating fast. Wow. I'm just gonna take a deep breath.

[00:40:31] Good morning everyone. Good morning. My name is Lori Banks and our selecting reading. This reading is taken from the Indenburg Endure Lectures of Mental Science by Thomas Troward. The spirit is that which gives life and movement to anything. In fact, it is that which causes it to exist at all. The thought of the author, the impression of the painter, The feeling of the musician is that without which their works could never have come into being and it is only as we enter into the idea which gives rise to the work that we can derive all of the enjoyment and benefit from it which it is able to bestow.

[00:41:25] If we cannot enter into the spirit of it, the book, the picture, the The music are meaningless to us. To appreciate them, we must share the mental attitude of the creator. This is universal principle. If we do not enter into the spirit of a thing, It is dead, so far as we are concerned. But, if we enter into it, we can reproduce in ourselves the quality of life which called that thing into existence.

[00:42:05] Now, if this is the general principle, why can we not carry it to a higher range of things? Why not to the highest point of all? May we enter into the originating spirit of life itself, and so reproduce in ourselves as perennial spring of livingness. This surely is a question worthy of careful consideration.

[00:42:34] Let us turn within and pray. I'm just so grateful that our teachings allow for heaven on earth, no matter what chaos that the outside world is showing us, the illusion of chaos. I'm so grateful that our teachings are grace filled Vine and simple and elegant. I'm grateful that it allows us the experience of oneness, which to me is the ultimate experience.

[00:43:24] I'm so grateful that no matter what noise is going on outside in the outer world, that we have access to the wellspring of the divine. We have access to that wellspring of love. It is the thing behind the thing. The idea, the spirit that he mentioned in our reading. And that wellspring is God. That wellspring is consciousness and the energy of joy, love, peace, and beauty.

[00:44:03] And that well is in each and every one of us. It's in me, it's in you. Every person on the planet. And that well is accessible 24 hours a day. And it's full. And it's from that wellspring of love that I bless our service today. I bless our music, the message, the people, the purpose, the now, and the future. I see all of us.

[00:44:39] Bubbling with effervescent joy. And we're taking that joy into our day, our week, our year, and our always. And I release this prayer with total faith and knowingness. And so it is. Amen. Now it's time for our agape affirmations. Please rise, you'll find them in your program and coming up on the screen. I'll speak a line and then we'll all repeat them aloud together with sincerity and acceptance.

[00:45:20] God inspires thoughts, I'm sorry, God inspired thoughts eliminate my consciousness with absolute truth. God inspired thoughts eliminate my consciousness with absolute truth. The power of divine strength dissolves all fear, doubt, and worry. The power of divine strength dissolves all fear, doubt, and worry.

[00:45:46] Health, vigor, and vitality are the order of my day, every day. Health, vigor, and vitality are the order of my day, every day. The high vibration of principle and practice is top priority in my life. The high vibration of principle and practice is top priority in my life. I said I say yes in advance and meet my good everywhere I go.

[00:46:20] In all things I am grateful. And so it is, Amen. Okay, for those of you who would like to experience private individual prayer today, please come up here to the front by the gong after service, and you'll be directed to an agape licensed spiritual leader. So, we

[00:47:05] found out this morning that the main singer is homesick. That's why I'm leading everybody with my, um, not quite remembering the lyrics voice. But we are going to do a little instrumental here for the music inspiration. Um, this is for anybody that's That feels like they want a little bit more grace in their lives, a little bit more of God's love in their lives when things may seem chaotic, things are swirling around and you don't quite know where you're at.

[00:47:37] I went through my second divorce, uh, within the last year and I wrote a violin concerto. So it was like a full kind of spectrum of stuff happening. I've got two beautiful kids and I just practice gratitude and practicing being present. And that's what That's what I want to portray in this song right now.

[00:47:57] So if you want to sing along, you don't really need to know words. You can just kind of sing the melody, you can sing notes, you can imagine, to whatever degree you want. Just feel connected to the music. And this is Amazing Grace.

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[00:52:15] Um, uh, Woohoo! Woo! This was Ah! That Was Amazing! And, uh, so, just more love for Chris and LeMoyne and Brian and Jesse! Ah! That just really opens the cockles of your heart! Beautiful! And Chris, thank you for jumping in on the Was the, the, the thing in there. That was absolutely brilliant. Thank you. Good morning, soul Center.

[00:53:23] Good morning. That was a little lube warm. Good morning Soul Center. Good morning. Oh, there we go. Good morning. Love streamers. Welcome. I'm Reverend Keith. This is Soul Center. We are part of the New South Ageless Wisdom teachings that have brought forward the Agape International Spiritual Center. What does that all mean?

[00:53:45] It means that we are a transnational. interfaith community that believes in the golden thread that unites all life, all traditions, all people, everything everywhere through truth and those truth teachings which have been espoused in sacred texts from around the globe. They are, sometimes you need a secret decoder, you gotta get in there and you gotta understand.

[00:54:10] Most scripture, most sacred texts from around the world is written in metaphor. It is written in a way that the people who wrote them thousands of years ago, they understood the idiomatic expressions, but today we don't necessarily understand the idiomatic expressions. And that's why you have scholars who go through, you have people who know how to read sacred text, and demystify and then re mystify.

[00:54:37] That's what we're here to do in life actually, is to demystify life so that we can make it practical, understandable, that we ourselves can apply the principles back of all life, there are spiritual principles back of all life, and then we re mystify it because life is mystical. It is magnificent. And our truth teachings reflect that.

[00:55:00] Universal truth teachings are kind of somewhat along the lines of gravity is gravity. It doesn't matter who you are, what your background is, what your nationality is, gravity applies the same to everybody everywhere. That is the same for the principles of an omnipresent life force. Right now there is a life force.

[00:55:22] There's no denying it. It's breathing your breath right now. It is circulating your blood. It knows how to digest your food. There's an intelligence in your body. There's an intelligence. Did you know every organ has a brain so that that organ knows what to do? That intelligence, where did that intelligence come from?

[00:55:41] There's an intelligence right now that is orbiting planet earth in such Precision around the sun at 40, it's spinning on its axis at 1, 000 miles per hour. It is orbiting around the sun at 40, 000 miles per hour. Although it seems like, oh, we're just sitting here having a chill time at Soul Center. All of this is happening from an omnipotence, and an omnipresence, and an omni omniscient wisdom and intelligence that knows how to choreograph how we can move through seasons, and things can mulch and turn into nutrients and rise up in trees and reformulate themselves.

[00:56:22] This is all part of the mystery. It's the mystical nature of life that we can see with our temporal sensorium. Our temporal sensorium, the five senses, seeing and hearing and smelling and tasting and feeling, all of that. But you have divine sensorium. And so we're here to explore that, whether you know it or not.

[00:56:42] Some of us come and we forget. We forget that there is a, uh, a life action plan that's been assigned to you by your soul. What is a life action plan? A life action plan is simply following your destiny through a questening to return to who you truly are. Some of us along the way, we kind of get like, oh my goodness, and we start identifying with who we're not.

[00:57:11] We're here to identify with who we are, and in our spiritual teachings, we ask, we invite, we encourage, but never push. That you have a direct experience of the divine that is tangible and relatable and experiential through you. We're not asking you to do dogmatic practices that are rote and have no feeling.

[00:57:36] Like it's said in the reading, there's an idea. behind the creation. That's where creation starts. There's a holy idea, a holy frequency of that idea. There's an idea of you. There's an idea of your life. Now if you look at it in the practical sense, companies and corporations and businesses have been utilizing a temporal version of this for hundreds of years.

[00:58:02] What is our mission statement? What is our vision statement? What is our goal? What is our intention for this company? To bring forward the best technology ever. To bring forward the best entertainment whatever. Whatever that may be. What is your life action plan? Many, you're not going to believe this, have come to planet earth.

[00:58:22] And take in form, and move into a distraction plan. A life distraction plan, where I'm going to be distracted by the baubles of things that are going on in life. Well, we're here to say, to be in consideration, this is the topic for today, to be in consideration of God. Another way to put that is to be in consideration of your true nature, to be in consideration of the absolute truth.

[00:58:49] What is it to consider? To consider is to take time and to contemplate and to be with and experience. Explore all of the attributes. Now from a temporal perspective, I might look at that as looking at pros and cons and using my intellectual mind. Oh, should I do this or should I do that? And I lose sight of higher inspirational illumination.

[00:59:16] When we move into a divine eternal frequency, Which we do through meditation. I know for some of us that might sound like a four letter word. But meditation is simply returning to who you truly are. It is something you do on a regular basis, even if you don't know it. People go into meditation all the time.

[00:59:35] Have you ever been in one of those things where you're just like, Mmm, somebody's like, Hello, hello. Oh, yeah, yeah. You've gone, you've drifted off into the zone. Um, sometimes when you're exercising, you go into meditation. So, just using that as a way to let go. There's no such thing as I can't meditate. It's too difficult.

[00:59:53] No, sometimes you bamboozle yourself into meditation when you allow yourself to just get lost in the zone. But when you move from unconscious meditation into a conscious awareness, you begin to open your own door to your destiny. Make no mistake about it. Every one of us shares the same destiny. You shall awaken to who you truly are over the course of life.

[01:00:22] But whether that life is this lifetime or the string of lifetimes that it may take, some of us have really gotten on the karmic track and we're allowing ourselves to learn through life lessons. What are life lessons? That is when the world, when I'm letting the world. tell me what's going on, instead of me telling the world what's going on.

[01:00:45] Me telling the world what's going on is not about control, because I know as a recovering uh, control freak, perfectionist, I was like, oh, I gotta get in there and I gotta like make sure it goes this way, and if it doesn't go this way, uh, no, we're not talking about that. We're talking about Moving into a space of dominion.

[01:01:05] And when you move into a space of dominion, that means you start to observe from your higher consciousness what's going on in your life. And there are subtle energies. Whenever you move into the mystical, you're going to enter into the subtle energies. Subtle energies are subtle. Soft and gentle, but make no mistake about it, they are the power of creation.

[01:01:32] There's a soft, gentle energy. Imagine, have you ever, I don't know if any of you have ever driven down the freeway and maybe you've gone just like a little bit over the speed limit. Maybe the speed limit was 65 and you may have been going 85. Whatever, maybe if you've ever been, especially now, some of the EVs can really take you on a jolt.

[01:01:54] But imagine you're driving. I'm driving down the highway at maybe a hundred miles an hour, you know, and right now, just 40, 000 miles per hour, the earth is orbiting around the sun, a hundred thousand miles per hour, the solar system is moving through the galaxy. That kind of energy is available to us. That is the energy and the power of creation.

[01:02:18] That's why we call it omnipotent. It is everywhere. All of the eternal energies are everywhere, all the time. They're never not existent. When we're here They're here. When we transition, they're here. Meaning, in all dimensions of all incarnations, there is no escaping them, and they are bliss. They are nirvana, and they are good.

[01:02:42] One of our principles, which we're going to go over at the State of the Center today, and I'm inviting you, if you have questions about anything, who we are, what we do, life questions, we're going to have a Q& A at the end after we go over an introduction. That's our state of the center, um, that I'm going to invite you to.

[01:02:58] But what I'm here today to do is to invite you to get out of a life distraction plan and get into your lap plan. Your lap plan is your life action plan. What is it that I'm going to do in life? There was a gentleman that I was working with not too long ago. And, um, he just, he retired. And, uh, when he went into retirement in his, uh, mid sixties, he, um, noticed that he started feeling all this anxiety, and he's, like, feeling like he didn't know what to do, there was, like, a little bit of depression, as though these things came out of nowhere.

[01:03:35] And, um, I'll tell you one thing. In general, there's no such thing as something that comes out of nowhere. Anything that all of a sudden rises up in your life has been broken. Brewing based on an idea. There are temporal ideas that if you give your attention to can come into form and there are eternal ideas that if you give your attention to will come into form the eternal ideas, which is the inspired cognizance of your.

[01:04:05] soul. When your surface mind and your higher mind merge. The perfect blend. This is what I want you to be aware of. The perfect blend of intellect and inspiration. That's what we're looking for. Where inspiration informs your intellect. Not fears, worries, doubts, anxieties. So he was going through this time after he went into retirement, and all the stuff that he had distracted himself, he was one of those career guys that stayed with the company for like, probably 40 years or something like that, really, and, and really kind of self identified as a little bit of a workaholic, and um, sometimes got the bad rap of, Honey, you're not around enough.

[01:04:51] Hey, why can't we go do this more and do that more? And um, so he got a little bit of that bad rap, and um, all of a sudden, when all this time opened up, He didn't know what to do with himself. And that's where some shimmers and quivers, and that's where some anxiety and some stress started showing up.

[01:05:08] Because there wasn't a life action plan, and the distraction plan had been suppressing the nervous system's anxiety. When we have anxiety, when we have stress, when we have anything that isn't feeling good, that is your body, your emotional body, and even your mental body's way of letting you know Something is off.

[01:05:31] I'm being distracted, and I'm moving from listening to my soul and being illuminated and I'm listening to worries, doubts, and fears, and kind of being incriminated, um, because I'm allowing certain ideas to indoctrinate into my consciousness, into my psyche, and then I'm going to do what you don't want to do, you're going to formulate a belief.

[01:05:56] And when you formulate a belief, you're going to tuck that way in your subconscious, and now you're going to experience that belief in varying degrees. Some of us have small little death bunny beliefs, like, oh, you know, things don't always work out with such and such and so and so, and some people have, like, I never get a good parking spot.

[01:06:17] Or I always, every time they, they cross me over, whatever it may be, you start hearing people and you'll hear in their vernacular what people are starting to believe. We want to make sure that you become aware with your life action plan. That you are going to choose to align with your self, your higher self.

[01:06:38] We go back and forth and interchange between the divine and yourself. One of the things that we're keenly aware of in our community is in the four stages of human evolution. The first stage is what we call the lowest stage, the lowest vibrational frequency. It's called victimization. That's when things are happening to me.

[01:06:59] So and so did this to me and it ruined my day. You Gave me a dirty look and it ruined my day. Whatever had happened is going on. I'm being victimized. Most of us, we go in and outta victimization. Uh, some people really like, oh, I'm gonna be a victim no matter where I go, oh yeah, oh yeah. And they start to, the walls start to close in.

[01:07:19] If you really go deep into victimization, the next is you start to kind of awaken. You become aware of the law of attraction. And you start to know, oh, I can use affirmations, for example. And I can affirm things, and I can start to manifest things. I'm going to manifest good parking spaces. I'm going to manifest my lover.

[01:07:38] I'm going to manifest whatever it may be. Um, we want to make sure that we understand the dynamics. This is where we start to take our principles. And we apply them. Now, you know, somebody asked actually recently, like, you know, you know when we do affirmations here on Sundays? Like, why do we, that seems kind of weird, but we all have to get up and repeat them.

[01:07:59] Um, our affirmations are directly correlated to principle. So what we are doing is we are affirming in a spell, because what, in our vocabulary, in our vernacular, affirming means aligning with the divine frequency. You'll always notice whenever we put up affirmations, they're not like, oh, I'm so happy, I'm, they're not temporal affirmations, they're eternal affirmations in order to align you with your primordial frequency.

[01:08:28] That's why we say our affirmations, it's like, oh, because it will start to wake you up. When you start waking up, you'll start having ah hahs. An ah hah is not something you're learning from your intellectual mind. Your ah hah is something you're remembering from your soul. When you're like, oh, when you know that you know something, and you don't know how you know it, that's when you're moving into revelation.

[01:08:55] That's when you're moving into the ah hah. You want to set a trajectory for your own ah hahs. That's not a random happenstance thing. That's something that you are going to cultivate. What we ask of our people in our community, again, no pushing, just a little encouragement, invitations left and right, encouragement is you find your way to your divinity in a way that is delicious and good and comfortable for you.

[01:09:22] We have a potpourri of offerings that will help you have a direct experience of the divine with you, as opposed to, again, Those dogmatic things, do this, do that, we know that God is good. There's no earning your way into heaven. There's aligning your way into a heavenly experience. Heavenly experience not as a place somewhere that if you do things right, you dot your carnal I's and T's, even though, because this is where people, you cannot fool the universe.

[01:09:54] have you ever met somebody who's like, Oh, I forgive you. Oh, I can't stand them. And they walk away. Okay, and there was no forgiveness there, so if there was some, dictate that said you must forgive seven times seven, and you pretend to forgive, oh, I'm going into the kingdom of heaven. No, the universe operates on vibration.

[01:10:17] You must envelop yourself in the vibration. It is humbling. I have gone through forgivenesses. I didn't want to do it, but I said you know what? You know, you've heard some of the stories before, the betrayals, the hurts, the things that have happened over the course of my life where I was justified. I'll tell ya, if there was a court, and I went to court in the temporal world, I would win my case on being victimized by people.

[01:10:45] I might even, there, this is a true story. True story, when I was in the corporate world, and I, I, I, I'm sure he's not watching. But, um, when I was in the corporate world, my boss was a bipolar, manic depressive, misogynistic, Napoleon complex control freak. And that's kind of putting it mildly. Um, and, but he was a great guy at the same time.

[01:11:11] And the reason is because, you know, people, they slip in and out of, you know, their heart space. And so, anyway, for many years, for a good ten years, because I was in victim consciousness, I am Allowed all of this to happen, not waking up to oh, what are my intentions, what am I going to do, how am I going to pray, how am I going to up level, how am I going to uplift, without demonizing someone, without making them wrong.

[01:11:38] Now I know those labels and titles I just gave you a moment ago might sound like, oh, I'm judging him. No, those are just to kind of give you an idea of what I was dealing with. From the, what ended up happening is when I got into this world of spirituality and I started to apply the principles and practices, prayer and meditation and being of service and spiritual education and really nurturing myself, I was like, oh my god.

[01:12:02] And I started to look at my life and a little bit overwhelmed with things and I had to, because that was fresh in my face at the moment, um, and I was like, you know what? I am going to evoke healing and truth and I'm going to bless this guy, even though I don't. It's a whole litany of things. I probably could have walked away, based on what happened to me, with a pretty substantial award from what, uh, happened.

[01:12:27] Some of the things you've heard in the news over the past five, ten years kind of pale in comparison to what we had to deal with. Um, regardless, we are moving from, you've moved from victimization, then you start to move into an empowerment stage. But beware the temple temptations of power. I'm gonna make it happen.

[01:12:47] That's where the ego is trying to control things, the personality is trying to control things, not because it's bad or wrong, we never condemn the ego, the ego is just a compilation of your beliefs, and if I believe things are out to get me, my ego is going to try to protect me, that's what the ego does, but when the ego assimilates into the vibration of your soul, where you dissolve the illusions of separation, you dissolve the illusions of victimization, then you move from things are happening by me now and I'm making them happen, to things are happening through me.

[01:13:22] You start to feel the universal energies and presence of the divine. Soul, life force flowing through you. You'll start to get the inklings of the divine idea and then you'll realize it is not me that is going to make this happen, it is me that is going to embrace and allow it to happen. Oh, there's a divine idea of a sacred holy relationship for me and it embodies this, this, this, this, all these high vibrational qualities of reverence and respect and kindness and goodness and love and generosity and mutual magnificence in a complimentary, serendipitous, synergistic way.

[01:13:58] I'm allowing it to happen through me. I'm not making it happen. When you do this, this is what happens. This is what happens with the couple. You need to understand. You need to know that when you do this, I feel really bad, so you need to stop doing that. Well, there's a little bit of credence there. But mostly The spiritual warrior is going to say, Oh, when that happens and I feel bad, I'm going to take responsibility for my life, and I'm going to release whatever makes me feel bad.

[01:14:27] Any parents in this place, if you're a parent, you know that when your little one is having a hissy fit, I hate you. And why can't I have my candy bars? I want to eat all my Halloween candy tonight before I go to bed. And you know they're going to wake up like, probably not even go to sleep if they eat all that sugar.

[01:14:45] So you tell them they can and then they have a breakdown and they yell, they scream and all that. Well, we have those little child life tantrums all the time. Except we make them more real. No, no, well that was a tantrum from a five year old, but my tantrum is real because I've been victimized. Things start happening through you.

[01:15:03] All of this to take it to the plate. This is where I'm headed for. Fourth level of consciousness is when things are happening as you. As you, consciousness, is the level of I as a divine emanation am in absolute alignment with my holy self, higher self, the divine at large. Now remember, we keep this in perspective.

[01:15:29] You are a microcosmic experience. of macrocosmic magnificence. This is why the great teacher, Yeshua ben Joseph, also known as Jesus, got himself, well he didn't get himself into trouble. What got him in trouble was the misinterpretation of saying I am the divine. He was speaking in microcosm, but people thought he was speaking in macrocosm.

[01:15:53] And how dare you say that you are the Lord and Savior of the world, and that's where trouble ensued. But every one of us, and if you take a little bit more of his teachings, these and greater things ye shall do, that means you will cultivate within you all the mass from all of the traditions. Doesn't matter which lineage, whether it's Islam, Judaism, Christianity, whether it's Buddhism.

[01:16:19] Whether it's Hinduism, Shamanism, all of them have, if you were to do a compario compario compario yeah, compariology, I'm just gonna say. Um, you would notice, you're gonna find the same stories, and because of this agape minister, when we go through four years of ministerial school after four years of prerequisite, um, we study all the religions.

[01:16:41] And you start seeing, oh my god, everybody's saying the same thing. And then you start to see, you start to see where, you know if you ever watched one of those movies, I think it was the um, the something code, I can't remember what it was, Da Vinci Code. And you see the scene in the movie where they're looking at like some sort of sacred text, and then all of a sudden some of the code starts rising up and glowing from the, you know, special effects.

[01:17:05] And you start seeing where, like, oh, there's the code. That's kind of what happens when you start to become aware of scripture. Now, we, in the New Thought Ages with the teachings, that have been around for about 400 plus years, our forefathers and mothers We're able to take those teachings and decode them, and that's why we have, do we have scriptures?

[01:17:24] Well, we probably wouldn't call them scriptures, but we have sacred texts. The Science of Mind is one of our sacred texts, and it actually is a very eloquent way of understanding how life works. And so, these teachings are what we bring forward. And all of our classes are not about learn this in an intellectual way.

[01:17:43] All of our classes are about what gives rise to you? How is the intelligence within you going to rise to an association with these principles and truths? That's what we're calling forward. So as we come up with a life action plan, that means you're going to be intentional. You actually want to make sure that you look at the different areas of your life.

[01:18:04] What is my life action plan for my body temple? What is my life action plan for body temple? my relationships, period, or maybe my relationship with so and so. What is my life action plan for career and prosperity? What is my life action plan for spirituality? What is my life action plan for being of service?

[01:18:23] If you had zero issues, no issues whatsoever, you were enlightened, but still in the world, not off to shuffle off the mortal coil. If you are staying in that ceaseless state of holy awareness with your true self, And all needs are met, you never, never, you never, you never once, it does not even cross your mind, you never think about money, you never think about nurturance or support, you never worry or are concerned about health or vitality, all systems function, you only crave what's good for you, you only yearn for what's good for you, you only, you never are concerned, you never discord, never disrespect, never irreverence, in any relationship ever, you never are.

[01:19:06] You always are in a holy space of alignment. So, I think I'm losing some of you. Because it's like, oh, I don't know about tea's drinking. But, um, that is actually where we're headed. That's the destiny. The questening, that's your quest. My quest is to follow my destiny. And there we get the questening. The questening is to allow yourself to participate in the unfoldment.

[01:19:32] Consciously, which means I'm going to say, Oh, first step is become aware of your thoughts. Become aware of your beliefs. Become aware of maybe your attitudes and your actions. I get it. Sometimes something happens and I feel overwhelmed with frustration or sadness or anger. And maybe I'm going through the five stages of grieving.

[01:19:57] Perhaps that's what I'm going through. There's a conscious way to go through that. I don't know. That all it takes, and as we have that amazing version of amazing grace, grace, that's the energy you're after. Grace is nurturance, it is providence, it is kindness, it is love, it is empowerment. Grace is what allows you to get through the worst of situations, where you go, oh, phew, wow, I thought that was gonna do me in.

[01:20:28] But grace requires a choice. It requires activation. It requires evocation. I gotta call it forward. So we call it forward and then we start to look. We look at our life. We're moving from being reactive to being proactive spiritually. We've looked out in the world and we see with some of the disasters that have taken place and people are pointing fingers and, oh, the politicians, they were so reactive, they knew this was coming, and then the temptation to get lost in the blame game, they're bad, they're wrong, and it's like, oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, hold on.

[01:21:03] Let me start to anchor in. You don't get irritated about anything unless something's going on in your cosmology that needs a little fine attunement, a little adjustment. And, uh, so if you're in that place where you never get irritated, imagine never getting irritated. Nothing, nothing! Not the, you know, little tapping of the fingers, not the little, like, whatever the person does that annoys you.

[01:21:27] That never happens. You are just as the saints and sages, not because they're pretending, not because they're like, they're like, oh, it's really bothering me, but oh. No, that's not happening. You're moving into a place where you're not irritated. Because. Because you've embodied your true self and in that place you're going to be of service.

[01:21:47] You are all, all you're going to do is, you're going to create, you're going to allow ideas that come from the mind of the divine through your soul that are unique to you to come to fruition gloriously and then you're going to serve other people. When, you know, this is one of the things, a lot of times when people, you know, go into their golden years.

[01:22:08] Um, when they retire, as this gentleman did, all of a sudden they start looking for something like, I'm gonna, you know, go be a docent somewhere. I'm gonna go volunteer somewhere. They start, inadvertently, doing those things because it's our, it's coded in our spiritual DNA to serve others. Don't, you don't have to wait.

[01:22:24] You don't have to wait for that. You want to create spaciousness and you want to be aware of your excuses. Oh, I don't have time. I don't have time to meditate. I don't have time to donate. I don't have time to serve. I don't know. Oh, I don't have time. I'm busy, busy, busy. Then that means, if you're busy, busy, busy, that means you gotta make time.

[01:22:43] You gotta make time. You are a mystic. You make time by expanding time and becoming deliberate and intentional. And when you bring your deliberateness and your intentionality, you will start to experience the mystical nature of life. One of the best things, oh my God. Years ago I was working with a mom and her daughter and when the daughter started coming to me, I think she was about She was about 11 or 12 years old, and she was having those issues you have when you're going from, you know, elementary school to middle school.

[01:23:14] And, oh, and she said that, and they did this, and, oh, I'm not popular, and blah, blah, blah. And, uh, we started working on it. She wanted to embrace spiritual principle. And say she wanted to move out of victimization at that age. It's really difficult sometimes at that young age to believe that you can transcend.

[01:23:32] But we started, you know, sometimes I can bamboozle people into aligning with their true self. Um, and I said, just, just humor me. Let's, let's set some intentions. What would it be like if it was good? And she started talking about how things would be good and blah blah blah and reconciliation with so and so and such and such.

[01:23:49] Anyway, ended up working with her all the way till she was 20. And it was just, oh, incredible to see a young one all of a sudden, oh, She was steeped in the principles, steeped in the alignment, and by the time she was at college, it was like there was no stopping her. She was in alignment with the call. She wasn't just doing some program and getting some degree because that's what you're supposed to do.

[01:24:14] She was aligned with that which makes her heart sing. She was aligned with the divine idea of her life. And things were serendipitously falling into place. You know, still had a little bit of work to do because, you know, you don't know every time what's going on in your own subconscious, your own cosmology.

[01:24:28] But it is brilliant. And the good thing is, in God all things are made new, so it doesn't matter. There will be no regret. There will be no, oh God, I should have done that in my twenties or my thirties or my forties, whatever. None of that. There's gonna be now is now. When you're in the now, everything is like, whoa!

[01:24:46] It's like, oh, it's timeless. And when it's timeless, you won't care how old you are. You will just rejoice in the deliciousness of life because time's constraints dissolve. So we're gonna allow those constraints to dissolve. We're going to allow ourselves gently with fun. So here's the intention. You hear me every day on the Daily Affirmative Prayer.

[01:25:06] We heal, grow, and expand benevolently, dynamically, profoundly, immediately, immaculately in holy grace filled, graceful, joy filled, joyful ways. That's a, that's an intention for the intentions. We want to have the intention for the intentions because you want to start setting a tone. If I've been healing in arduous, cathartic, and even in ways that have taken me down because they didn't go very well.

[01:25:30] I want to shift over and like, no, I'm going to heal in benevolently profound ways. It will show an improvement in the way things start to heal or expand. It might not be to the degree that you want immediately, but you will see an improvement. And then it will start to snowball and get more and better.

[01:25:49] Because as you heal, the exponential effect is Things get easier, but you're never gonna rest on your laurels. You're always going to seek to expand even more because you're going to the as me level of consciousness. Now, there's no competition. There's no race. There's no hurry. As a matter of fact, if you feel like there's a hurry, if you feel like there's pressure, uh, that's what we're gonna heal right now.

[01:26:10] We're gonna go to a deeper, higher experience of a living in the world, but not of the world. We're gonna make sure that we stop chasing our taunts and wants. The taunts and wants Wants. Those are like things that bother me. Oh, I gotta control them. The wants are like, oh, these inauthentic desires, and we're gonna make sure that we don't fall for the click bait in life.

[01:26:31] The click bait in life is, you know, doesn't, did you just hate that? You're scrolling through. Oh, what's that? Oh, should I click on it? Oh, I know, I know it's gonna not be good. Oh, and then you click on it like, don't fall for the clickbait. The clickbait in life is so and so is gonna try to convince you that such and such is bad and wrong.

[01:26:52] In our community, you know, we, we don't gossip. We spiritually gossip, which means we'll talk praise and goodness about people. But we will never, we don't condemn. We don't make people bad or wrong. We're not gonna see like, oh, they're, you know, a little grisly. No, that's not where we go. We go into a place where we hold high consciousness no matter what.

[01:27:12] Just like a parent would do with a little one. We hold that consciousness. And, um, and sometimes, sometimes There's some challenges. And when you apply this to the challenging situations, the exponential effect will rise you. And it is good. So we're all in agreement that we're going to come up with our life action plan.

[01:27:31] Our lap plan, yes? We're dumping life distraction plan. We're moving into a life action plan. We're going to gently Allow ourselves to open into, um, into our good, yes? Yes! Alright. So today, um, is, we're gonna, I'm just gonna say it's backwards day, because normally we do this at the beginning of the service.

[01:27:55] But today, we're going to do it right here, towards the end. Is there anybody who's here for the very first time? Oh, we got a few. Okay, so if you wouldn't mind, if you're here for the very first time, I'm just going to ask you to stand up and we're going to bless you. We're not going to ask you to dance, we're not going to ask you to audition for our talent show.

[01:28:11] We're just going to invite you to receive a blessing. And what I'm going to ask of you as you stand up is, you're just going to open into a space of divine receptivity that you can receive being blessed. This is something we have to get used to if you're streaming in live. Live in your first time. So please stand up and when you come here in person, you'll do the same.

[01:28:29] And just let us do this for you. We're going to extend our heart, our prayers through our hands, and we're going to say this. Welcome to soul center. We know who you truly are. You are a divine nomination of love, power, beauty, and intelligence. You are a divine nomination of love, power, beauty, and intelligence.

[01:28:55] Are loved and adored. You are loved and adored. You are appreciated beyond your wildest dreams. We were appreciated beyond our wildest dreams. We love you. We love you. We thank God for you. Thank you. Welcome to Soul Center. Welcome to Soul Center. Alright You.

[01:29:15] And that's exactly a perfect way. You know there's no mistakes how things unfold here at Soul Center, that the blessing come in right at that particular moment. Because, uh, we have heard a mouthful here today and I'm going to invite you to not intellectualize it. I'm going to invite you to just be like, Ah, I let my soul inform me.

[01:29:37] I will be guided, directed by the providence of my own true self as I enjoy my bevolution, which is a benevolent evolution on planet Earth. That's what we're here to do. That's what we're going to do. And I'm going to invite you to join me as we move into prayer. Oh, how good it is to just take this moment outside of moments.

[01:29:59] To allow ourselves to rise above, not get rid of, but rise above space and time. And allow eternality to fill and thrill our bones and beingness as we remember the truth. That there is one power, one intelligence, one presence, it is omniamorous. We call it God, we call it the universe, we call it the One.

[01:30:19] Some call it Hashem, some call it Allah, Dios, the Great One, the Creator, Yahweh. We open to that. And we know that that power, that presence is omniamorous and only loves. It has never judged, it has never condemned, it has never withheld anything. Life is all giving, all powerful, all loving, all the time. And we, each and every one of us, formed and fashioned in its imagination.

[01:30:46] We say, yes, I remember who I am. Beyond gender, beyond personality, beyond race and nationality, there is a holy, angelic spark within me, and it is seeking to express its magnificence. And it is seeking to be met by the world with praising, raising, lavishing, nourishing, flourishing goodness. We open to this today.

[01:31:06] We say, yes, I will allow things to be made anew, fresh, brand new, brand new ideas. And I will allow myself to be filled with the faith. A belief and a compulsion of devotion that effortlessly and elegantly allows me to simply align with the divine idea of my life now. We allow it of course to be benevolent, we allow it to be efficient, for that is the nature of life, that is the nature of the soul, and we simply agree to allow it all to be good and now, retroactive and proactive, by saying, and so I let it be, and so it is.

[01:31:42] Amen. Amen. Amen. Amin. Amein. Ashein. Aho. Mahalo. Shalom. Hotep. And hallelujah. Alright. Is that ushers? I think it's ushers. Woo. Sometimes the energy just kind of takes you. Um, these are our beloved ushers and, uh, right now it's our time of conscious giving. Woo. And. And, uh, there's different ways you can support our community if you would like to support our community.

[01:32:21] We call it tithing, we call it investing in the community, we call it donation. We are a non profit organization, which means that's where we get our funds from. These are the different ways you can use your phone if you're here. You can also do it online with the QR code, mailing a check, Venmo, etc. And, uh, ushers are going to go forward if you want to use checks or cash.

[01:32:42] I'm going to let you go ahead. And if you see somebody put a blue butterfly, that's not because they're decorating our basket. It's because they're part of our Autotype Program. So ushers go ahead and circulate, and Chris, take it away. Alright everybody, for our second song, this is gonna be a sing along, okay?

[01:33:00] So I wanna hear y'all sing as loud and proud as possible. This is gonna be a Ricky Byers tune, The Spirit of God is Upon Me. Everybody stand up, I want you to clap, I want you to feel the energy. Whatever emotions you have, whatever you're feeling, I want you to feel it and let it out. Uh, here we go. Okay, sing as if nobody can hear you.

[01:33:32] Come on, here we go. Whoa oh oh oh You can't find it on me Whoa oh oh oh Whoa, the spirit of God is upon me. Whoa, the spirit of God is upon me. Whoa, the spirit of God is upon me. Whoa. Oh oh Yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah Oh Come on, everybody! Whoa oh oh oh oh The spirit of God is upon me Whoa oh oh oh oh The spirit of God is upon me I can't hear you!

[01:35:03] Whoa oh oh oh oh The spirit of God is upon me Whoa oh oh oh oh The spirit of God is upon me How about some guitar? Yeah! Yeah!

[01:35:48] Everybody now Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, Who we are, God is looking after, Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, Who we are, God is looking after. Oh

[01:36:48] Ooooooooooo! Woo! One more time!

[01:37:48] Woah staring at our bodies, that's my me Woah staring at our bodies, that's my me Woah Woo! Love that! Alright! Wow Chris, you are just awesome Of course! This is Brian and Jesse. I love you. You've been the love of my life, of course. And um, I know I left you with a little cliffhanger. The uh, the gentleman I was speaking of in his 60s, you know it'd be a bummer, you'd like finally make it to a retirement and then all of a sudden the anxiety will go up.

[01:38:33] Um, but, as he started to come up with his live action plan, guess what? He started to release the anxiety, the stress, and started to really live. So that's when you apply principle, what happens. Ushers, please come forward.

[01:38:50] Ah, I'm just going to invite you to join me as we offer a blessing. I'm going to put you to work to extend your prayers through your heart and hands. You don't have to do anything. I'll do the hard lifting. We take a moment as we once again know there is one source, one supply of all good and only good.

[01:39:06] And it comes right from the living presence of that which we call God. God is all knowing. Powerful giving, all supplying. We open to that infinite supply and as this offering comes forward today, we know that all needs are met individually and collectively. We return to knowing that we are never giving away from a finite supply.

[01:39:28] We are allowing an infinite supply to circulate its way through our beingness and our lives. Benevolently, elegantly, prosperously, we bless it as good and we allow it to be good. All needs met. All benevolent and so it is. Amen. Thank you, ushers. And, uh, we're gonna have the children's community come on in.

[01:39:53] They're waiting for the signal. Ah, we love our children's community as they come on in. And as always, young ones, we're gonna, little ones right up to this line right here and the taller ones just right behind me. Oops. Good morning. Hi. Hello. We have all of our kids here, in the kids village. Good. Cash, you okay?

[01:40:31] So today we talked about divine courage. And divine courage is, is more than courage, because when we know that God goes before us, we don't have to be afraid. But we can still have courage and try something new, and trust. Right? So we made some paper airplanes, we played some trust games. And Kyra is going to share what courage is to her.

[01:40:57] Courage is to help people.

[01:41:04] And parents, um, you know, each child drew a courage card, a challenge for this week. Try like trying a new food or something like that. So make sure they show you their courage card. All right.

[01:41:18] And now we're going to sing the peace song. Are you ready to join hands?

[01:41:27] The words are going to come up on the screen. They're also on your program.

[01:41:34] Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um.

[01:42:22] Oh, how good it is to allow the eternal frequencies and energies, peace, love, beauty, harmony, joy, we are one. We allow them all to come forward. We call that goodness. We call it God. We allow the omnipresence of this omniamorous light to shine itself to, through, and as our bones and beingness for it is who we truly are.

[01:43:07] We are aligned with the One. We have it coursing through our spiritual DNA. We allow it, right here, right now, knowing something magnificent has been ignited, a contagion of passion that only emanates from enthusiasm. Oh, from inspiration. We allow that to be. We only allow inspiration to motivate us throughout the rest of this day, week, month, year.

[01:43:30] We let it be good. We simply agree to allow it to be by saying, and so it is. Amen. We have a

[01:43:42] prayer call tomorrow at 9 30 a. m pacific time and anybody who wants to experience private individual prayer you can come up to talk to or be with a practitioner or prayer chaplain. They will meet you right up here.

[01:43:59] Time out. We're doing the raffle. Oh wow, we've got some. Amazing. So, um, the box is going to come up and we are going to be calling out some ticket numbers for our raffle. Where's the box? I did. The State of the Union is, I mean State of the Union, State of the Center is going to be in about 45 minutes.

[01:44:33] There's going to be lots of food to nourish you if you want to stay for our