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Even when it appears that love is absent from all around you, you can choose to be the Love. This month Rev. Gina Milligan will explore a variety of ways to be the Love in every situation. Change your life; change the world!

December 22 – How to BE Love
There is no question for which love is not the answer. No problem for which love is not the solution. No cause for which love is not the means. When we know this, fundamentally, we’re open to hear and see our angel-moments.

December 29 – Love Is…
We have been trained to live from a place where we play silly games to keep others’ opinions of us high. In doing so, we become so busy in living for the acceptance of others, that we forget to live for ourselves. Put another way, we are in a constant state of calling out for love. But when we are calling out, we cannot truly, deeply BE the love that this world so desperately needs us to be.

January 5 – Much Love
The Burning Bowl concept is reintroduced as a reminder of how to release our disharmony so we can fully express our love. Continuing a look into how to be Love, Rev. Gina creatively uses her body as a metaphor for the interconnectedness of all that is and tells a beautiful story from the Kuan Yin Chronicles.

January 12 – Love Much?
Following the catastrophic week of heavy wind and fire devastating the Los Angeles area, Rev. Gina harkens back to recent sermons on living in the Now and slaying our fear dragons with a reminder that Love can conquer the fear and anger that many in the region may have.

When we allow our fear to exist within us as a destructive force, cutting us off from experiencing our full vitality, we surrender to the DRAGONS we’ve created. Over the next several weeks, join us as we transform our Dragons of fear into movement towards our greatest good.

November 10 – Fear Not!
Many in this country are expressing fear of the future and pointing blame at others over the results of the 2024 Presidential Election. Rev. Gina uses a guided meditation and insights from Jose Stevens’ Transforming Your Dragons to redirect that seemingly overwhelming feeling of fear into peace, empowerment, faith, and joy.

November 17 – Fear Ain’t Nothing But a Dragon
Rev. Gina introduces Jose Stevens’ seven dragons and reminds us, through storytelling, that running from our fears only makes them grow. To overcome our fears, we must face them, and when we do, they whither away.

November 24 – Gratitude For Dragons
The first two dragons, Arrogance and Self-Deprecation, are introduced in this third week of transforming our fear dragons. Stepping through the phases of life that developed our dragons, we learn what weapons can be used to slay the dragons. Acknowledging that each dragon has a positive and negative polarity, we explore how to transform our dragons into allies.

December 1 – Meet Your Dragons
Moving into the next two fear dragons of Impatience and Martyrdom, Rev. Gina continues to walk through the book Transforming Your Dragons by Jose Stevens. Sharing Stevens’ insights on how our dragons developed, what tools are needed to transform them, and ultimately how to slay them, the fear and upheaval present before the first Christmas are paralleled to current events.

December 8 – Dragon Pancakes
The fifth and sixth dragons, Greed and Self-Destruction, hit hard as Rev. Gina continues stepping through the next two fear dragons from Jose Stevens’ book Transforming Your Dragons. Both of these dragons tug at the heart-strings and remind us all that having a good support system is critical when working through your dragon.

December 15 – Slaay!
Wrapping up Jose Stevens’ Transforming Your Dragons with the final dragon of Stubbornness, Rev. Gina ties together all seven fear dragons just in time for the holidays and reveals the ultimate weapon that each of us possess that can slay them all.

After the last several weeks of heavy work – stepping into the now, overcoming judgement, separating from ego, and relaxing into forgiveness – Rev. Gina invites us to ascend into bliss by taking a break from the hard-hitting subject matters and invest time in play.

October 13 – Are You Comfy?
Rev. Gina shares her initial discomfort in being a first-timer at the Affiliated New Thought Network (ANTN) conference in Unity Village, Missouri. Tying in our work a couple months back, Rev. Gina came to the realization that her discomfort was coming from within. Working through Leonard Jacobson’s process, Rev. Gina found comfort in returning to the present moment.

October 20 – Happiness, as soon as…
Rev. Dr. Jerry Troyer joins us to share a message about happiness and how we often put our own happiness lower on the priority scale than pleasing others. He gives us permission to say “yes” to our happiness, even if that may mean saying “no” to others, through Being, Doing, and Having enough.

October 27 – Turn “Oy!” into JOY
Rev. Gina takes a closer look at, 1st Corinthians 13:11 which seems to imply that we must put away our childish ways. However, as she reveals in the sermon, this well known verse may be widely misunderstood and instead hold a closer tie to Jesus’ direction in Matthew 18:3. (Musical content by Buskin & Batteau)

November 3 – Totally Blissed Out!
Rev. Gina shares her thoughts on the pathway to bliss. When we’re in the practice of choosing joy, we can give joy to others simply by being joyful. When we start choosing simple moments of joy, without fearing how others will think or react, we’re actually giving joy away. This simple act of refusing to fall prey to anything other than wonder creates calm and peace for others.