Hello
Friends and Colleagues,
I am back home in San Diego after a most wonderful and life-changing week at
the Integration Conference. I just want to take a moment to thank each
and every one of you for this beautiful evolution in the life of Religious
Science, whether you, at any time…
-
thought
integration between ICSL and UCSL was a good idea, or
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held
the coming together of our two organizations in your heart, or
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prayed
for this result, or
-
said
affirmative words out loud about it, or
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served
on a committee regarding integration, or
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attended
regional meetings and/or teleconferences, or
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served
on module teams, or
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attended
the Integration Conference, or
-
served
at the Integration Conference, or
-
did
anything else or any combination of the above, or
-
you
questioned the whole thing, or
-
you
still question the whole thing.
We have each had our place, our role, and our
contribution to this new beginning. Thank you!
The next year will be another powerful and
important one. The three documents that were so overwhelmingly passed describe
the “What” of our new organization. Now we work on the
“How” through the development of Policies and Procedures. We have the wonderful opportunity of crafting the functioning of our new organization in alignment with the vision, values, guiding principles and intentions that were just accepted in the Organizational Design Model.
“How” through the development of Policies and Procedures. We have the wonderful opportunity of crafting the functioning of our new organization in alignment with the vision, values, guiding principles and intentions that were just accepted in the Organizational Design Model.
As the energy, magic, jubilation and
sense of infinite possibilities generated by the Integration Conference settle
into deep feelings of appreciation and forward looking, I am reminded of Howard
Thurman’s famous poem:
When
the song of the angels is stilled,
When
the star in the sky is gone,
When
the kings and princes are home,
When
the shepherds are back with their flock,
The
work of Christmas begins:
To
find the lost,
To
heal the broken,
To
feed the hungry,
To
release the prisoner,
To
rebuild the nations,
To
bring peace among brothers,
To
make music in the heart.
In
a way, we have just had our own special holiday, and very soon will turn our
collective attention to the work that is at hand and the work we have been
called to do. I am very grateful that we have completed yet again a very
old conversation -- this one about whether or not our two organizations
would ever come back together. Never again will a student in a New Member
class have to ask, and a minister answer, “Why are there two Religious Science
organizations?”
There is soon upon us a wonderful release of energy that now can be turned
toward doing the real work of our spiritual movement – extending the principles
and practices we love more fully in the world and touching and transforming 100
million lives and more.
I honor you and feel very grateful that I may
serve this unfolding idea for another year. I invite you to take a few
conscious moments to bask in the joy of our collective and collaborative
attainment of something long desired and now made real.
In
Love and Peace,
Dr.
Kathy Hearn
Community
Spiritual Leader
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