There was a stretch of my life when I mistook control for faith. I prayed with my hands closed, certain that if I only gripped the outcome tightly enough, held the plan firmly enough, and watched each moving piece closely enough, then the life I wanted would be forced to arrive on schedule. What arrived […]
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He’s teaching New Thought to an audience that would never call it that, and I’d be remiss not to point you there. The clearest statement of our own teaching I have encountered in months did not come from a New Thought pulpit, or a Science of Mind class, or any of the platforms we have
The Most Dangerous Truth Isn’t Political. It’s Personal. Read More »
Some words are meant to be spoken out loud. A commitment is one of them. It is a word you say with your whole self, and something in you begins to organize around it the moment it leaves your mouth. This is the quiet power we gathered around this month. Seven commitments, spoken line by
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Before there was a document, there was a decision. Before there was a signature, there was a knowing. Every visible thing you can point to, a piece of paper, a set of keys, a new address, arrives after the fact. The fact itself gets settled somewhere else first. Two hundred and fifty years ago, a
It started on a Sunday, somewhere on the Kansas plains, with an engine light. I was in the middle of a housing transition — searching for a new home in Colorado, holding the vision, doing the inner work, trusting the outcome — and I was on the road when the dashboard offered its first quiet
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We talk a great deal about transformation. We have built entire traditions around the mechanics of becoming: the affirmations, the visioning, the willingness to release what no longer serves. And most of that work is genuine and necessary. But there is a question that transformation eventually forces on every serious practitioner, a question that our
The Courage to Be Rooted: On stopping the striving and standing in what you’ve become. Read More »
There is a quiet frustration that many people carry, even in the most sincere and committed spiritual communities, and it is rarely spoken out loud. It is the feeling that we have heard so much, learned so much, understood so much, and yet something in our lives has not fully shifted. We can speak the
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This Sunday, March 22nd, we gather again for what has truly become Boulder Valley’s best potluck and spiritual open mic night, an evening filled with connection, creativity, and the joy of shared expression. Last month, our annual business meeting invited us into important reflection and shared vision, and now we return to something equally sacred
Not every spiritual community is called to become large. Some are called to become steady. In a culture that equates vitality with numbers and visibility, it is easy to assume that growth means expansion. Yet there is another measure that runs deeper and lasts longer. It is the measure of capacity. How much honesty can
Capacity Before Scale: Strengthening the Community We Already Are Read More »
Love has always been easier to speak about than to practice, especially when the world feels frayed, loud, and unsteady. Many of us know how to be loving when life is calm and predictable. Far fewer of us feel confident about how to remain loving when headlines feel relentless, conversations feel brittle, and the social
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