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5326 SPRING-STUEBNER ROAD • SPRING, TEXAS 77389-4574 • [email protected] • CREATIVELIFE.ORG • (281) 350-5157

CREATIVE LIFE SPIRITUAL CENTER • SINCE 1985 • “I NEVER KNEW THERE WAS A PLACE THAT TEACHES WHAT I’VE ALWAYS BELIEVED!”

SUNDAYS • 9:30am meditation & talk, 11am music & talk

WEDNESDAYS • 7pm

T he world is saturated with

Divinity, immersed in Reality,

and filled with Possibility.

We must take this Divine Possibility and mold it into

a present Actuality in everyday experience.

This is the way to freedom, the

pathway to peace and happiness.

ERNEST HOLMES

It’s an evening of group dance fitness, including dance fusion and Zumba® for beginner, interme-diate and advanced students, and those just looking for a fun musical fitness adventure! Several certified dance fitness instructors will teach you all you need to know to enjoy and benefit from this experience. Doors open 6pm. Admission is $10 at the door, no advance purchase necessary, and all proceeds benefit CLC/MCFB Mobile Saturday Market food events.

More info: [email protected]

Your Brain and Its Relationship to Mind and Body with DR. JONI SAMPLES, RScP • , 8, 1:00-3:00 • suggested donation $20

This workshop will focus on the basics of the brain and how it works. It’s an amazing organ so knowing what it does helps you to understand why you think like you do and why your body may respond in the way it does. We’ll look at how all that works together. Sometimes it works for you and sometimes, you may be surprised and it all seems to work against you and often in spite of you! Spend some time with me and it helps to bring your brain with you! Topics covered include The brain and how it works: Parts of the brain: brain stem, limbic sys-tem, neocortex • How each of those develop • The function of each of the brain parts • Things that happen and your subconscious • Your mind or the way you think: Where memory is stored • Why you remember what you do • Were there any traumas or large events in your life • Why you might be activated by those events/traumas

today • How those events might activate you and why. • What your body can tell you: Your brain and your body have registered all these events • What happens in your body when you are triggered by an old thought/event • Your body can tell you when something is amiss • What does this all mean for you: What is neuroplasticity and can I use it? • How can you make any difference to a brain, mind and body that have already stored a bunch of memories-make and store new ones! Dr. Joni is currently Chief Academic Officer for Family Friendly Schools and the author of eight books on parent/school connections as well as brain development in children and how it effects adulthood. She’s an internationally known speaker as well as a Practitioner for Science of Mind. Her workshops and coaching make a significant positive difference for schools and families. Joni is a career educator. She’s served as teacher’s aide, regular education and special education teacher, administra-tor, and finally superintendent of schools. She also holds an EdD in Curriculum and Instruction, MA in education and a Bachelor of Science degree. More info: [email protected]

The Power of Eight experiential group

“When individuals in a group focus their

intention together on a target, a powerful collective dynamic emerges that can heal long-standing conditions, mend fractured relationships, reduce violence, and even

rekindle a sense of purpose in one’s life….” —from The Power of Eight by Lynne McTaggart

But the greatest discovery of McTaggart’s experiments is that group intention has a reciprocal “mirror effect,” not only transforming the recipient but also reflecting back on the senders.” Franc Cavazos, CLC member and longtime scientific/spiritual seeker, invites you to come “tap into your extraordinary human capacity for healing, using the miracu-lous power of group intention and its positive mirror effect,” as we continue the experiential activities from The Power of Eight. Eight , 6:30-8 , starting 7. Appreciative giving. Please sign up in Builders’ Hall.

[email protected]

Join Natalie “Fox” Maisel and our CLC Ritual Tribe as we build community in magical ways through ritual, meditation and

sacred circle, on , 29 at 9:30 . This day we celebrate Ostara/Spring Equinox and new be-ginnings! Our time will include: grounding, meditation, lore, invocations of the elements and directions, Gods and Goddesses and ritual activity. CLC member Natalie has been leading Pagan cir-cles for 20 years. She considers her-self an eclectic Wiccan and her groups are open to all men and women. She currently leads half-day Goddess Immersion Playshops in the Montrose area for each sea-son and hosts a co-ed group called H-Town God/esses for the eight yearly sabbats. She’s traveled ex-tensively to sacred sites all over the world and has guided audio rituals on Amazon. Blessed be!

Wisdom of the Universe weekly discussions

We are studying the confluence of metaphysics and science to help us better understand how the world of consciousness gives rise to our world of form. Using books, speakers and various media, we bring current infor-mation forward for open discussion. We meet 12-2 , led by Denese & Dick Schmelzkopf, who also teach at the Lone Star College/ Montgomery Academy of Lifelong Learning. All are welcome; join anytime. Appreciative giving. Info:

[email protected]

Join us at ToastmastersWe invite you to join us as we sponsor a Toast-masters program to build communication and

leadership skills here at Creative Life. Toastmasters is a global organization that specializes in empowering individ-uals to become effective communica-tors and leaders through experiential learning. Meetings are 6:30 1st and 3rd ( . 2 & 16 are next). More information: Elly Hard at...

[email protected] or toastmasters.org/pathways-overview

Booster Buffet monthly Sunday brunch

Dainill Mercadel and Sarah West-brook present, with your help, a first-of-the month potluck brunch and social experience on , 1 and

5, after the 11 service. We serve a wide array of tastes—and we always can use more salads and main dishes. Vegan, vegetarian, and gluten-free dishes are especially appreciated, but we’ll devour and enjoy whatever you bring. A $5 per family donation is asked. To help: [email protected]

A Course in Miracles weekly discussions

A Course in Miracles is “a unique, universal, self-study spiritual thought system that teaches the way to Love and Inner Peace is through forgiveness.” (acim.org) The Course states, “...seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.” This long-time group is led by Bill & Cathy MacKenzie, 7

in Katherman Hall, upstairs. All are welcome; join anytime. Appreciative giving. For more information, please email...

[email protected] • [email protected]

TransAlliance of Spring support group

Courtney Fleming and Kole Kerr present TransAlliance of Spring, a support group and safe space for all Transgender, Intersex and non-binary individuals. Adults 18 and over— and minors 14 and up with signed permission from a parent or guardian, who must attend first meeting—are welcome, as are allies. , 7:30-8:30 in the Quimby Room, on the first floor of the Learning Center. Info: [email protected] or text to (713) 416-1477.

CODA open meetings Codependents Anonymous is a fellowship of people seeking recovery, and meets 5-6 , upstairs in Katherman Hall. More info is at...

[email protected]

The Alchemist book club discussion

Join practitioner Sarah Westbrook for a book club discussion of Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist, This is a one-night event

, 10, 6:30-8:30 and participants

are encouraged to complete the book in advance of discussion. The Alchemist has inspired a following around the world. This story, powerful in its simplicity and wisdom, starts out as a journey to find worldly goods but turns into a discovery of the treasure found within. Copies of the book are available in our bookstore. Please sign up in Builders’ Hall so we’re sure to have ample copies on hand, and for more information, email...

[email protected]

what we do

The CLC Children’s and Youth Services Department is devoted to celebrating the spiritual develop-ment of each child we teach. All age groups are involved in various activi-ties, workshops, and special projects incorporating the teachings of Sci-ence of Mind. We strive to create an atmosphere of love and kindness in our words and actions toward each other and to recognize and honor the diversity of every person.

• Toddlers (18 mos. to age 3) are lovingly cared for by our toddler teachers. In their very artistically designed Discovery Room, the children are encouraged to interact and experience their world as only a toddler can. They are offered games, toys, books and other age-appro-priate activities in a safe, secure and loving environment.

• 4-6 age group. Beginning around the age of 4, our toddlers are moved to the Ingenuity Room. This group begins to learn the basics of treatment and the value of giving a smile and a kind word. Our creative teachers provide age-appropriate instruction and activities.

• 7-12 age group are in the Quimby Room, regularly practicing the steps of Treatment presented in a manner appropriate to their age group. The teachers provide learning tools, creative projects, workshops and other teaching methods to en-gage each child’s learning of the principles of Science of Mind.

• 13-17 age group meets on the second floor of the Learning Center in the Hopkins classroom. They are engaged in special projects, work-shops, have guest speakers and are involved in several volunteer service endeavors at CLC. The teachers work-ing with this group encourage their talents, keep them engaged in learn-ing Science of Mind principles and we throw in some fun along the way!

teach our children well... We teach our children that God is Life—the Life within each of them and in all Creation—that all people are children of the One God, and therefore, are all brothers and sisters. • We teach that God is all-inclusive and we are each created in the image of God—Good. • We teach that God is Love, and we honor God-in-all through love, not fear. • We teach that sin is simply a mistake and when we make mistakes, we are educated by them, not punished by God. • We teach that God is Spirit and present everywhere, that this Spirit is within us and speaks to us through our minds when we are willing to listen. • We teach that there are spiritual laws that must be understood and followed, just as we follow human laws. • We teach that religion is something to be used every day, not just on Sundays. • We teach that Religious Science is a religion that can be used at home, at school and at play; that since God is within us, heaven is also within us, that is we learn to live our lives in harmony with God’s Law, we live in heaven now. • We teach that keeping the mind focused on good causes a richer experience of life. • We teach that God is truth and beauty, peace and harmony; that as we grow to be more like God, our lives will be filled with health, happiness and success. • We teach that nothing is too wonderful to happen, nothing is too good to be true: everything is possible to God through me and you! —adapted from a work by Dorothy Quigley

Sunday circles Children begin their learning adventures in the registration area in the youth foyer, 10:15-11 on , then move to their classes, to be reunited with their

parents in the Great Hall in time for the closing song. Some Sundays we offer special theme workshops for the kids, too. Age-appropriate prayer/treatment opens all the clas-ses, and for each class there is age-appropriate discussion of the month-ly theme and creative projects to enhance the learning. Just after noon all the teachers and children gather in the reception area of the Learning Center for our closing prayer circle. Then the teachers bring the children to you in the Great Hall. Please remember that no youth are to roam the Center grounds unattended, and that we have service audio in the babies’ room at the rear of the Great Hall. Leading the youth is Rev. Mar-sha Lehman at [email protected], assisted by practitioners Linda Cles-son and Marissa Mijal. Our youth chaplain is Rev. Debra Morwood at [email protected].

At 11 on Easter Sunday, CLC kids will enjoy a holiday

party just for them! To help plan and decorate,

see Rev. Marsha, [email protected]

Sunday talks online Watch talks on our YouTube channel(enter “Creative Life Spiritual Center”) and archived audio is here:

creativelife.org/sundaytalks.html

We’re grateful for... ♥ Sean K. Connelly, Dan

Francis, Brian Schwanitz and Richard Stromatt, for all their amazing maintenance and tree-clearing work... ♥ Dainill Mercadel and Sarah Westbrook, for staging February’s first-Sunday brunch, assisted by Ana Kimball, Steve Temple, and many others... ♥ Special Wednesday speakers Rev. Marsha Lehman and Nicolle Zultowski... ♥ The Imbolc ritual team of Natalie Maisel & Joe Machado, Abby & Greg Buchold, and Monika Bauer... ♥ Service musicians Melody Berryman, Nancy Bonilla, Barbara Haden, Georgie Holbrook, Kole Kerr, Mary Radspinner, Brian & Marylinn Schwanitz, Melodie Tipton, Peter Trout, and Geoffry Oshman... ♥ Science of Mind class assistants Revs. Marsha Lehman and practitioner Monty Wilson... ♥ and everyone who worked the February 29 mobile food event, to be listed in the April newsletter!

CLC Board of Trustees

Dainill Mercadel, Chair [email protected]

Sarah Westbrook, Vice-Chair [email protected]

Deb Barnes [email protected]

Kole Kerr [email protected]

Carthel Smejkal [email protected] Debra Morwood, Treasurer

[email protected] Jesse Jennings, Secretary [email protected]

CLC singers now rehearse

SUNDAYS 9:45AM in Katherman Hall

[email protected]

Gary Kindy, member of the original study group that grew into this Center, passed into Spirit on December 29.

Roberta Celeste “Bobbie” Giachini, RScP Emerita, longtime friend and then member of this Center, gradu-ated into larger life on February 3. She led a charmed and rich life, as an actress, painter, lawyer for a major Hollywood studio, bank director, and competition ballroom dancer. Her internal life far outstripped the physical world. Her true love was the Science of Mind, where she rose to be a Practitioner Emeritus at Creative Life. She was born in Chicago and studied acting at Northwestern University. She next took her law degree from Columbia and became an entertainment

attorney. Her early adulthood was divided between New York and Europe. In the Sixties she began residing in Houston to be with her sister Gail. She also took a degree in bank presidency and sat on the board of a Chicago bank. Bobbie’s main passion was acting and she appeared in hundreds of communi-ty theater plays, mainly at Theater Southwest and Theatre Suburbia. She grew hibiscuses by the hundreds and painted them in chalk. Close friend and confi-dante Minnie Partida and paramour Jack Hunter will always keep her in their hearts. Her life was celebrated in a service on February 11. The Creative Life community mourns the passing of this absolute giant in consciousness, and surrounds Jack and all Bobbie’s loved ones in comforting and upholding prayer. What stories she’ll have when we meet again in eternity!

Come sing along to your favorite folk tunes!

Potluck desserts, coffee, teas • Doors open 6:30pm

Read Jesse’s Q&A column in every monthly issue of Science of Mind

on sale here and at Barnes & Noble

Support for Roatán, Honduras

This project has now grown into a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization called Roatán Support Effort, to allow even more ways of giving, and now with a tax-deductible status. This initiative helps by transporting essential supplies to the clinics, youth soccer league, animal shelter, community outreach program, and soup kitchen on the island of Roatán,

Honduras. All donations are used to help the island and all administrative duties are volunteer. Also needed are soccer shoes and uniforms, and children’s and adult shoes, to be placed in the bin by the copy room door. Please email Lynn Rippelmeyer at [email protected] or call her at 281-799-9866, and visit roatansupporteffort.org.

Rev. Morene Barker-Morris, RScP [email protected] • Rev. Myokei Caine-Barrett, RScP Honorary

[email protected] •Jim Canter, RScP

[email protected] •Ruth Catalogna, RScP

[email protected] •Linda Clesson, RScP

[email protected] •Rev. David Dewhurst, RScP

[email protected] •Darlene Everitt, RScP

[email protected] •Jayne Leopold, RScP

[email protected] • Dainill Mercadel, RScP

[email protected] • Sharon Mignerey, RScP

[email protected] • Marissa Mijal, RScP

[email protected] • Rev. Debra Morwood, RScP

[email protected] •John Rennie, RScP

[email protected] • Ann Richardson, RScP Emerita

[email protected] • Rev. Lisa Ryan, RScP

[email protected] •

Thomas Ryan, RScP [email protected] •

Shirley Sandlin, RScP [email protected] •

Sarah Westbrook, RScP [email protected] •

Monty Wilson, RScP [email protected] •

In Memoriam Bobbie Giachini, RScP Emerita (1936-2020)

Give clothes & more

Please select items that your own family would feel comfortable wearing having — clean, gently

used, and bagged — for the Some-thing Special resale store. From the sales proceeds of donated items, Montgomery County Women’s Shelter residents and their children receive shoes and clothing since these items are generally left behind when fleeing domestic violence. Transitional housing apartments are fully furnished with donated furniture and housewares helping shelter residents rebuild their homes and lives. Please use the collection bin by the copy room. For more info...

Meditation & Prayer support Thursdays via phone

Experience a half hour of personal affirmative prayer by licensed practitioners, led off by a guided

meditation, all from the comfort of your home. Just call this telebridge number and tap in the access code: 605-475-4847 and then access code 472220#. You will be heard but not seen. This 30-minute confidential call is led by CLC practitioners Marissa Mijal and John Rennie, every

at 7:00 . Appreciative giving is welcomed. For more info...

Our Creative Life practitioners are outstand-ing spiritual support persons, available to lovingly and confidentially assist you. Each has spent hundreds of hours in training, to direct natural compassion into helping you through listening, caring, and using spiritual

mind treatment — affirmative prayer — to reveal the truth of you that is greater than any apparent limitation. Each is licensed by the Centers for Spiritual Living, and engages in ongoing study and spiritual development. Have a new goal, an old problem, or a question about applying our teaching? Work with a practitioner and watch what happens!

• At prayer circles after each service in the Garden Room, with the Practitioner-of-the-Day.

• By telebridge on evenings. Call 605-475-4847 at 7:00 and enter code 472220#.

• By appointment, on an individual fee basis, for a one-hour session of spiritual support and treatment.

• Prayer anytime. The CSL World Ministry of Prayer responds to urgent requests at 866-306-5546.

SERVING THE PEOPLE OF TAMINA & OAK RIDGE AT THE OAK RIDGE HIGH SCHOOL NINTH GRADE CAMPUS 27310 OAKRIDGE SCHOOL RD., CONROE TX 77385

Feeding up to 200 households,

• 9:30A Musical service • 11A

The Divine Will and the Soul of Nature

speaking today, minister JESSE JENNINGS

PRAYER CIRCLE • 10:30A/12P CHILDREN & YOUTH • 11A

HEARTFELT LIVING CLASS 8 OF 10 • 1P

DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME

Meditation service • 9:30A

Musical service • 11A

What Spirit Wants:

Enjoyment in Creation

speaking JESSE JENNINGS

PRAYER CIRCLE • 10:30A/12P

CHILDREN & YOUTH • 11A

BRAIN/MIND WKSHP • 1P HEARTFELT LIVING CLASS 6 OF 10 • 1P



Reaching Our Goals Through Quiet

Expectation

speaking today, minister LISA RYAN

PRAYER CIRCLE • 10:30A/12P CHILDREN & YOUTH • 11A

NO HEARTFELT LIVING CLASS TODAY

TREATMENT & MEDITATION CLASS 9 OF 10 • 10A

CODA MEETING • 5P

THE ALCHEMIST BOOK DISCUSSION • 6:30P



What We Contemplate,

We Become


PRAYER CIRCLE • 12P



WISDOM OF THE UNIVERSE DISCUSSION • 12-2P

TREATMENT & MEDITATION

CLASS 8 OF 10 • 10A

EVENING CELEBRATION How We Specialize

Universal Principles speaking tonight, minister JESSE JENNINGS • 7P

MEDITATION & PRAYER SUPPORT

7P • CALL (605) 475-4847 ACCESS CODE 472220#

A COURSE

IN MIRACLES DISCUSSION • 7P

TRANSALLIANCE SUPPORT GROUP • 7:30P


CODA MEETING • 5P


CODA MEETING • 5P

SPRING EQUINOX

MEDITATION &

PRAYER SUPPORT 7P • CALL (605) 475-4847

ACCESS CODE 472220#

A COURSE IN MIRACLES

DISCUSSION • 7P


MEDITATION &


ACCESS CODE 472220#


DISCUSSION • 7P


EVENT KEY

Celebration service

SOM certificated class

Other class/group/event

Meditation/prayer/ritual

Music & arts event

Social/service/business

Youth event


NO TREATMENT &

MEDITATION CLASS TODAY

EVENING CELEBRATION Applied Christianity

speaking tonight, minister DAVID DEWHURST • 7P

TOASTMASTERS CLUB MEETING• 6:30P

ST. PATRICK’S DAY




EVENING CELEBRATION Standing Strong in

the Winds of Change

speaking tonight, minister MARSHA LEHMAN • 7P

Creative Life Spiritual Center 5326 Spring-Stuebner Road Spring, Texas 77389-4574

[email protected] • creativelife.org (281) 350-5157


CODA MEETING • 5P



When We Don’t Know Where to Begin


PRAYER CIRCLE • 10:30A/12P


BRUNCH • 12P


TOASTMASTERS CLUB MEETING• 6:30P




EVENING CELEBRATION We Don’t Make the

Power, We Receive It

speaking tonight, minister JESSE JENNINGS • 7P

MEDITATION &


ACCESS CODE 472220#


DISCUSSION • 7P


TIME CHANGE

TONIGHT!

6:30P • $10 DONATION

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