Episodes
Wednesday Jul 03, 2024
Rev. Kim Andrews: Practicing Ebb & Flow - The Gift We Give To Our Essence
Wednesday Jul 03, 2024
Wednesday Jul 03, 2024
Life happens and, in the chaos, we forget that we hold the key to bringing peace into the situation at hand. Beloved guest speaker Kim Andrews guides you through the ways we can honor our true nature, enhance our awareness of the Divine, and bless every facet of our being.
Wednesday Jun 26, 2024
Acceptance, Change & Wisdom: The Serenity Prayer
Wednesday Jun 26, 2024
Wednesday Jun 26, 2024
This beloved prayer has been used in the recovery of countless people. It very simply helps us to remember what is ours to change and what is not. Then we can put our attention and energy into the places where healing is available— in ourselves, our outlook, our attitudes, our lives. Then we trust God to do God’s work and allow others the dignity of their own experiences and choices.
Wednesday Jun 26, 2024
Be The Message
Wednesday Jun 26, 2024
Wednesday Jun 26, 2024
The essence of the 12th step is that we pass our healing on and not try to keep it to ourselves. Unless we consistently practice these spiritual principles in every area of life, we’ll quickly forget and lose the progress we’ve made. Being of service and leading by example-- sharing our experience, strength and hope with those we would serve-- is how we continue to grow in serenity, in spirit, in evolution. We speak of what we were like in our suffering, what happened, what we learned and how we now live differently, in joy and freedom.
Sunday Jun 09, 2024
Center in Spirit
Sunday Jun 09, 2024
Sunday Jun 09, 2024
In order to maintain our newfound spiritual freedom, we must keep in touch with ourselves—our Higher Self, our Higher Power, however we understand that to be. Conscious connection keeps us from piling up more shame and blame and miscommunications and helps us keep ego in check. As we do this our trust in God increases, as we realize that letting Spirit rule instead of Ego always gets us to a happier place.
Sunday Jun 02, 2024
Clean Your Window
Sunday Jun 02, 2024
Sunday Jun 02, 2024
After we’ve taken a truthful, non-judgmental look at our lives, we clear the shame for what is not ours and take responsibility for what IS. We become willing to make any amends needed to clear the slate in our relationships—with others and within ourself. Then we take the action necessary to follow through. After that, we keep up daily in order to not let the junk pile up again. We move thru’ life more smoothly, freely; we cease fighting what is, and find peace within.
Sunday Jun 02, 2024
Ready for Change
Sunday Jun 02, 2024
Sunday Jun 02, 2024
Once we have a clearer picture of what in our life has served us and what has held us prisoner, then we’re free to learn to live differently, if we so desire. We ready ourselves through willingness and trust, and ask our higher power to help us to change what we can, even as we accept what we cannot change.
Sunday May 19, 2024
The Truth will Make You Free
Sunday May 19, 2024
Sunday May 19, 2024
Sunday May 19, 2024
Trust Something Greater
Sunday May 19, 2024
Sunday May 19, 2024
Admitting personal powerlessness allows us to activate a Higher Power in our lives. We can call that power by any name: God, Mother Nature, the Universe, the Sangha (group of spiritual peers), our Higher Self, the Buddha, or Fred. It doesn’t matter what we name it, as long as we are willing to call on it. To do so, we learn trust-- that it is good and for our good.
Wednesday May 08, 2024
Surrender
Wednesday May 08, 2024
Wednesday May 08, 2024
Step one: “We admitted we were powerless over _____, that our lives had become unmanageable.” This step is about letting go of the thought that we can control anything outside ourselves. We come to understand that in our humanness we never had “control” to begin with, so we only surrender our illusions, and have lost nothing at all.
Monday Apr 29, 2024
The Commonality of our Infinite Variety
Monday Apr 29, 2024
Monday Apr 29, 2024
At COOL our tagline is “Many Paths, One Spirit.” What does that mean? How can we all choose our own individual path, and yet come together each week in study, song, message, meditation, spiritual practice—in unity? How can people across worlds and cultural divides and varying belief systems ever achieve peace and harmony? For that matter, how can we even truly befriend someone who holds beliefs with which we strongly disagree? By finding the unity in the variety—the common threads that tie all of humanity. What are they? How can we activate them in our lives?