Church of Spiritual Light is an all
faith, spiritual community. Our mission is to
provide a place where people who wish to truly
connect with the divinity within themselves,
within others and All That Is can gather
together and celebrate the sacredness of life
through pure spiritual connection, meditation,
reflection, ritual, prayer and song, embracing
and entering into the Mystery.
Our Sunday Service is not church as usual. It is
a joyful, fun, inspiring, sacred, and powerful
healing and empowerment ceremony, a truly unique
immersive experience for nurturing the Soul and
honoring Body, Mind and Spirit.
Please join us as we celebrate each Sunday
morning from 9:45 to 11:15 am. We are located at
1939 Park Meadows Drive, #1, Fort Myers, FL
33907. We look forward to gathering and
connecting with you! All are welcome.
Church of Spiritual Light also offers to the
community over 50+ classes, special events,
meditations, ceremonies and workshops per month,
that are designed to empower, enlighten and
enrich your life through the power of tribal
community, energy medicine and
bio-psycho-social-spiritual care through the
People Shine Project.
MANIFESTO OF LIGHT
I am conscious of living with the divine. I need
go nowhere special to access spiritual light and
wisdom, to experience eternity. Each moment of
my day is alive with spiritual energy because
the particles carrying that energy are present
in all that lives. Whether or not I am aware of
it, this truth still exists. If I wish to grow
and learn spiritual lessons, I will start by
paying attention to my thoughts, my feelings, my
environment, the circumstances of my life and
the state of my personal relationships.
My temple of worship is within me. And as I grow
in this awareness, I recognize that I am
surrounded by many other expressions of the
divine. I realize I am not alone, have not been
alone and can never be alone. And this knowledge
impels me to come into holy, sacred conscious
contact with my community, to celebrate the
body, mind, heart and soul of humanity and this
creation.
"Normal life is compatible with supreme
realization and ... direct mystical contact with
the Divine and can be sustained in any setting
or activity. This is a revolution, for it
dissolves all dogmas and hierarchies, all
separations between ordinary and spiritual life,
sacred and profane, humdrum and mystical. A new
spiritual age has dawned for humankind, an age
in which the Divine will be present intimately,
normally, consciously in all things and
activities."
~ Andrew Harvey
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The
power of prayer and intention in our
lives is all important to the
realization of our free will and to the
creation of a life of our choosing.
Prayer is the voice that we give to
these choices as we petition the higher
powers that be for the love, support,
protection and abundance that are not
only necessary to our physical survival,
but also our spiritual evolution. For in
the asking, we come to realize that all
is given, especially when we embrace the
shamanic nature of our being and become
the tracker in our lives.
“You pray in your distress and in your
need; would that you might pray also in
the fullness of your joy and in your
days of abundance.” ― Kahlil Gibran
When
we gather in community on the medicine
wheel we have milestones and markers,
which allow us to not only see the signs
and experience the synchronicities, but
to better interpret them, offering us a
way to ground, anchor and integrate the
knowledge, or to simply have more
patience as we build our own faith in
the process of unfolding. With these
spiritual eyes on the shamanic path we
can see the often subtle responses to
our prayers that will better allow the
omnipotent forces that we have invoked
to do their magic. And we can also
better hear the instructions of our soul
which can guide our actions and
decisions.
“The function of prayer is not to
influence God, but rather to change the
nature of the one who prays.” ― Søren
Kierkegaard
We
came here to create. We are creators, or
more aptly put, co-creators. First
through the protection of our ego we
acted out our lives and created in
unconscious ritual. As we learned more
about who and what we truly are, we no
longer act out only symbolically, but
with reverence and respect as we create
a new earth reality by taking these same
rituals and framing and containing them
in the story of our life under the
protection of sacred ceremony...
consciously and with positive intent.
“Let your intentions be good - embodied
in good thoughts, cheerful words, and
unselfish deeds - and the world will be
to you a bright and happy place in which
to work and play and serve” - Grenville
Kleiser
In
our unawakened state we may have found
ourselves relying a great deal on our
own steam and forgetting to pray. Or we
may have prayed, but only at times of
sorrow, angst or fear. Most of us were
plenty good at forming an intention, but
painfully shy of releasing it to the
Universe, which is actually what makes
an intention, a prayer. Ultimately we
want to integrate prayer and intention
and weave a practice of ritual and
ceremony into our lives that allows us
to dance our prayers, sing our prayers,
cook, clean and garden our prayers...
create art, or sit in silence and be one
with our intentions, certain of the
soul's purpose and the desires of our
heart, so that the very actions of our
life take on new meaning under this high
guidance.
“I may not have gone where I intended to
go, but I think I have ended up where I
intended to be.” - Douglas Adams
It's
been a challenging journey, as we've
experienced the knowledge of good and
evil, duality and the polarizations of
right and wrong doing. Now, unlike ever
before, we have the opportunity to come
to the center of our Self, the altar of
our soul and pray in ways that make our
whole life a sacred ceremony. When we
pray we are speaking to the Divine, but
when we wrap our prayers in ritual and
ceremony, we are speaking directly and
intimately to the divinity within our
own being. We are speaking to our own
soul and acknowledging that God comes
through the people, the earth and that
we are a great mystery. And as we leave
room, the magic of the universe begins
to respond back in spite of its
mysterious nature, we can communicate
meaningfully because we have framed and
contained our desires in sacred space
and surrendered them in complete faith.
“I am realistic – I expect miracles.”
― Wayne W. Dyer
Make
an intention to be listening with
humility and awareness to the whispering
of your soul. Then give a voice to
it...spoken and written. Place it within
the safe space of sacred ceremony.
Enlivened with symbology, imagery,
music... dance, drum and sweat your
prayers... Annointed with precious oils.
Activated with spiritual guides and
angels. Taken into the silence of the
void of your being. Align the Wills,
then surrender fully to your soul, and
to the Great Mystery. Watch and wait
with calm certainty that the
circumstances, the synergy and the
guidance for right action will come and
ultimately create something through this
kind of surrender that far exceeds any
meager wish that we can come up with on
our own. That is the true power of
prayer and intention.
“Heaven on Earth is a choice you must
make, not a place you must find.” ―
Wayne W. Dyer
Sunday Talks with
Rev. Renee Bledsoe
June 02 - The Power of Prayer &
Intention
June 09 - Activating Prayer Code:
Ceremony & Ritual
June 16 - The Role of Heavenly and Earth
Angels in the Fulfillment of Desire
June 23 - Sacred Circle Sunday -
Summer Solstice Celebration - Happy
Father's Day
June 30 - Let your Life be a Prayer
Click for June Affirmations
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Special Upcoming
Events & New Classes
Reiki
I, II and Master Schedule for Summer 2013
TBA
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