April 24, 2008 Africa , Bali , Blackberry , Center for Spiritual Living , Center for Spiritual Living Santa Rosa , Inspiration , Meditation , Spirituality , Travel

Santa Rosa meets Dallas

Dear friends, On Sunday night (for a flight on Monday morning in the wee hours) I am headed to SFO to fly to Bali where I will meet peopl...

Dear friends,

On Sunday night (for a flight on Monday morning in the wee hours) I am headed to SFO to fly to Bali where I will meet people from Sant Rosa AND Dallas with their Community Spiritual Leader, Dr. Petra Weldes. This cross-community collaboration is such a blessing to us. Thank you Rev. Michael's for suggesting getting communities together (now we just have to get him to agree to travel with us).

The Dallas folk are excited to embark on their first community travel and I am for them because I know in advance how the entire home group will be blessed when they bring Bali back in their consciousness.

I will be posting daily travel notes and fotos so that you who are cheering us on from the States can enjoy a live connection to the group.

Please visit www.edblogword.blogspot.com daily to see what we are up to, and feel free to share the link with friends and family.

By the way, there is a new slide show on the link featuring Larry Shmier's photos of Africa 2008.

I will be disabling the 'call me' button on the blog because of the time difference and will turn it back on when I get home!

While in Bali, the group will be using daily focus material from Spirit is Calling so that we can continue to be 'literally on the same page".

This trip is positioned appropriately in the month when our focus shifts to Activating Community! While we're doing so in Bali, Santa Rosa will be doing so at home with a workshop from Rev. Lynn Johnson "Embracing the Other", and preparing for our community retreats, Womanspirit, Manspirit, and Spiritcamp. Also, we'll be bringing into our awareness the opportunity to embrace a larger community through our "soles for souls" outreach program - putting shoes onto hundreds of children in Sonoma County!

I look forward to your comments on the blog!

Warm Regards,

Edward Viljoen
Center for Spiritual Living, Santa Rosa

www.edblogword.blogspot.com

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Spirit Is Calling
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