VISION: A Center For Spiritual Living

What are easy ways that you can connect with God, Spirit, The Presence ? Listen in as Tracy Smith, RsCp shares practical tips to slow down, and listen.  Practice the Presence can also be found on YouTube, and includes slides that accompanied Tracy's talk.

Continuing this month's theme "Practice Makes Imperfect" Rev. Patti deeply explores the saying "Try Try Again." Visit us some Sunday at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time for the joy of our Sunday Celebration!

This month's theme is "Practice Makes Imperfect." Rev. Patti gives a thought provoking talk "Throw Out Perfection" Listen in, and tell us your thoughts on this month's theme.

What is your next bold move? Maybe there's a voice inside of you telling you that you're too old? Why are you listening to it? Check out this inspiring podcast of ways to "Launch into Life."

Is there something you want to change but it's just not happening?  Listen in as Rev Patti talks about why change might not be happening and how to use the Affirmative Prayer Process.

This month's theme is "Holy Boldness" and Marcus Gilliland RScP shares his thoughts about what Spiritual Tools can be used to truly be Unstoppable in creating a bold life. 

We are in the month of Holy Boldness. This talk is Wholy, Holy, Whole meaning totally sacredly complete. Listen to this fascinating talk about how God is all there is, meaning God = Energy.

We're in June, and the theme for the month is Holy Boldness.  Are you being bold in expressing yourself as the individualized expression of the One? Listen is for Rev. Patti's take on the them in her talk "Bold is Beautiful."

We end this month's theme "From Good to Great to Grand" with Rev. Patti's Birthday - and Billie Francis receiving a round of applause for a duck joke.  Listen in...

Are you blocking your flow of Good?  Rev. Audra Nicole tells a couple of great stories that are examples of seeing that you're blocking your Good and then opening up to it.

We continue this month's theme "From Good to Great to Grand" and we learn that there's a greater Good in the Universe and we ought to have it!

The month's theme is "From Good to Great to Grand" and Vision also celebrated Cinco de Mayo!

We're finishing up this month's theme "Giant Gentleness" with Rev Patti's talk, "Quiet Power."  If we want Spirit to guide us, we must tell our ego to take a back seat.  Join us to hear more about how to truly feel your "Quiet Power" and ways to hear it's direction.

Brother Ishmael has devoted his life to the transformation of human consciousness through the principles of nature. He joined us at Vision on 4/21/23 and gave a talk "The Master Artist" which he beautifully aligned with this month's theme of "Giant Gentleness."  

This month's theme is "Giant Gentleness." What does it mean to be gently strong? Rev Patti talks about GAP - God's Area of Preparation and how we can grow the "gap" and be able to respond and not react.  

This month's theme is "Giant Gentleness." What comes to your mind when you think of that theme? Rev. Patti talks about Teddy Bears, Blue Whales, Elephants and Big Love. 

This month's theme is "That's the way we've never done it." And Rev. Patti explores how we might take lessons from Easter and use them in a new way.

How do you start something new that you've never done?  Rev Patti gives tips and tricks on getting started and the mind set you may want to try out.

Going green might not mean what you think it is! There's a popular image in positive psychology. It's a circle and on the left side is the comfort zone and on the right side is the growth zone.  The comfort zone is red and the growth zone is green.  How do we get out of the comfort zone? We'll need to go through the fear zone and the learning zone first.  Listen in to hear what Rev. Patti has to say about it!

We continue March's theme "This is how we've never done it."

This month's theme is "That's how we've never done it." If you look at a new approach, a new idea, a suggest for newness, from a place of curiosity it may just allow us to experience a sense of renewal.  Listen in to hear more about Rev Jeanne's wisdom on the topic.  Remember you can go to visioncsl.org to find out what's going on at Vision Center for Spiritual Living.  Join us!

Rev Diane wraps up this month's theme "Divine Discomfort." Her talk, "So What Now?" explores the next steps that we can make in creating a world that works for everyone.  Are you fighting for rights? Or are you standing for rights?  It makes a difference!  Listen for more!

"We journey home every time that we remember who we are.  We journey home every time we stop instead of barreling into reaction." Rev Patti Paris Listen in as we continue this month's theme "Divine Discomfort" and find ways to journey home to the part of yourself that is whole, perfect and complete. 

Rev Patti continues the theme of "Diving Discomfort." Listen in as she shares how we can be a part of transforming our world by practicing peace.

 Special Guest Speaker - Mzee Kadumu Moyenda - shares the origins of Black History Month.

The theme for February is "Divine Discomfort." There is an uncomfortable gap between where we are and where we'd like to be. Tune in as Rev. Patti talks about how Spirit as us wants to experience all of life, even this discomfort.

Join us for another great talk by Rev. Patti.  Do we treat and move our feet?  What is our relationship to action and manifestation? 

Renowned music duo Jan Garrett and J.D. Martin share a series of captivating songs intertwined with profound discussions about embracing both light and shadow in our lives. Bringing a combination of music and introspective talk, they explore how these contrasting elements form a significant part of our existence. Join the very talented Jan Garrett and J.D. Martin in this musical and philosophical journey. They astound listeners with the music they've written and crafted. Their melodious voices inspire us to take a balanced approach to life's highs and lows.

What is the definition of courage and how can you use it in your spiritual awakening?  Tune in as Rev. Patti gives a meaningful talk on facing conditions with courage and opening to a greater reality.

The theme for January is "A Grand Rising" and as we adopt a daily practice of Science of Mind Teachings me live in a way that "God as me is love; God as me is abundance; God as me is peace" there is no separation. Tune in to hear Rev. Patty's acronym for FOCUS, it's another great tool to practice practical spirituality!

In her last talk of 2023, Rev. Patti talks about our wholeness and asks whether or not we've been living from it.  There's also a fun and powerful exercise that she goes through to set our intentions for the new year.  And Rev. Patti reminds us that we can do this any day of the year.

In this special Christmas Eve talk, Rev. Patti speaks about ancient wisdom.  In particular how Jesus came to teach us how to run the cosmic engine - Christ consciousness.

We begin this podcast with JohnnieRenee Nelson reading a beautiful poem from her book "Classic Kwanzaa Poems."  Next Rev. Diane talks about Mary and Joseph from the Christian Gospels; baking; and generosity and somehow she ties these three disparate topics together!

Jennifer Hough is the President of The Wide Awakening, Author of the new book UNSTUCK and Founder of the Largest Integrative Nutrition Practice in Canada. Tune in to hear more about how many Universes we have in each of our bodies and how to get out of our own way! (Or the Universe's way)

Ram Dass once said, 'We are all just walking each other home.'

Gratitude is not a time of year, it's a lifestyle.  Give a listen and find out some tips on making gratitude a part of your daily life.

This 45 minute meditative service features our 5 step Affirmative Prayer.  Vision was inspired to use the Taize style for the service.  Taize is a movement started in Taize France. It encourages others to live in the spirit of kindness, simplicity and reconciliation.

Wherever we go, whatever we do, we are never outside of Spirit, whose power and presence is equally present everywhere.  In her talk "It's All God" Rev. Patti tells us about teachers like Zarathushtra, born around 200BC, whose teachings emphasized one God and influenced Christianity. Listen in to hear more about the core concepts of Religious Science and the many other teachings that it draws from.

This month's theme is "Mundane Sacred Profane." Reverend Patti Paris gives a powerful talk about "No Sacred Cows" and how our ability to question everything and accept that we are one is important. "We're here to know the truth. And I love this Carl Sagan. Allegedly. I couldn't cite it for sure, but Carl Sagan said 'If something can be destroyed by the truth, it should be destroyed by the truth.' And this is what we are doing. We are here. To know truth right to earn his homes like. No, no dogma, no duality, no superstition. So we're here to know the truth."

This month's theme is Playing with Paradox. we get to look at the paradoxes of the human experience and hold them up to the light of Truth.

Rev. Patti explores the paradox of letting go and receiving.

Rev. Jeanne Phillips jokes about her favorite paradox "the only constant is change" and explores a Third Way to heal the world.

If it were up to Rev. Patti, this month's theme "Playing with Paradox" would be called "Wrestling with Paradox" because it's not feeling like play.  Yet, she's got a great talk about "Paradox of Our Age."

Welcome to October 2023 and it's theme "Playing with Paradox." Examples of paradoxical statements might be - Save money by spending it. If I know one thing, it's that I know nothing. This is the beginning of the end. And there are many more.

"By practicing the principles we move from knowledge, the book learning, into wisdom." Listen in to hear more of Rev. Patti Paris's wisdom and inspiration about allowing Spirit to flow through us.