Rio Grande Center for Spiritual Living

09/17/2026

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Email from Rio Grande Center for Spiritual Living Spiritual Partnership with the Body Week of September 20, 2026 What if our bodies are not simply vessels we inhabit, but wise and intimate partners in

09/17/2026

09/16/2026

Rockin' the LOVE: The Joy in Relationships with Rev Gil and Robyn Rice Olmstead RScP 09/16//2026
This dynamic duo of spiritual teachers will help us explore a New Thought on relatonships....and MORE!
Today's show is LIVE from Las Vegas!

09/14/2026

🎶 LIVE MUSIC AT SOLID GROUNDS! 🎶

Join us Friday, September 18th for an evening with Rooster Blackspur an award-winning singer-songwriter whose music is as rugged and soulful as the landscapes that helped shape it.

Raised in the Alaskan wilderness and influenced by the high deserts of New Mexico, Rooster brings a unique blend of folk-roots grit and soulful Americana storytelling. Think Johnny Cash grit with a little outsider-revival preacher thrown in. 😉

📅 Friday, September 18, 2026
🕡 Doors open at 6:30 PM
🎵 Music starts at 7:00 PM
📍 Rio Grande Center for Spiritual Living
2404 San Mateo Place NE, Albuquerque

NO COVER CHARGE!

Solid Grounds operates on a generosity model. There is no set cover for admission and refreshments but donations are welcomed and encouraged. Your support keeps the music alive!

Come enjoy some great music, support local live music, and spend your Friday night somewhere a little more interesting than the couch. 🎸

https://SolidGroundsABQ.fun

09/14/2026

Recognizing Divine Right Order
by Nancy R Bowers, RScP

Appearances are seductive. They lull me into thinking my physical eyes have assessed the situation clearly and that what I am seeing is truth. They do not take into account the way my brain filters according to expectation and belief. They don’t consider the RAS (Reticular Activating System) which filters and prioritized sensory information. ignoring all the stuff that it has deemed irrelevant. I am not seeing the world as it is. I am seeing it as I am. When I, the self I think of as me when I am busy judging and creating hierarchy, am not aligned with my higher self, I am not in divine right order. Or rather, in a sense I am, because I cannot NOT be, since Spirit uses it all for my benefit, but if I am aligned with my egoic concerns, then I am causing my own suffering. I have forgotten who/what/whose I am. I am seeing through the lens of duality. I have overlooked the Oneness. I have forgotten God is all there is.

God is All and God is Love. God is Peace. God is Light and Laughter and Joy. These qualities of Spirit are my birthright. I AM all that God is. My failure to recognize it can’t negate that fact, but it can hide it from my awareness.

I turn within and quit blaming the world for my lack of peace. I return to Presence and notice the perfection of Life. I release ideas that I know what anything is for, and return to place on non-judgment.

“It is necessary for the teacher of God to realize, not that he should not judge, but that he cannot. ²In giving up judgment, he is merely giving up what he did not have. ³He gives up an illusion; or better, he has an illusion of giving up. ⁴He has actually merely become more honest. ⁵Recognizing that judgment was always impossible for him, he no longer attempts it.“ (ACIM, M-10.2:1-5)

To judge against is to treat what is as out of divine right order. It is the failure to see the gifts Spirit is offering me; it misses the Divine Right Order that is always present. It is to be caught up in the illusions of the ego.

⁷One of the illusions from which you suffer is the belief that what you judged against has no effect. ⁸This cannot be true unless you also believe that what you judged against does not exist. ⁹You evidently do not believe this, or you would not have judged against it. ¹⁰In the end it does not matter whether your judgment is right or wrong. ¹¹Either way you are placing your belief in the unreal. ¹²This cannot be avoided in any type of judgment, because it implies the belief that reality is yours to select from. (ACIM, T-3.VI.2:7-12)

I remind myself that to judge is to block my awareness of Love’s presence. “I do not know what anything is for.” (ACIM, W-25) I remind myself that it is all love.

How grateful I am to remember truth. How grateful I am to know I don’t have to figure anything out, I only need to turn it over to Spirit. I need only by willing.

And so I am. And so I do. And so it is. Amen.

https://www.riograndecenterforspiritualliving.org/recognizing-divine-right-order/

09/13/2026

Embodying Oursekves, Embracing Each OtherWe are able to live richer and fuller lives the more we embody our Spiritual understanding of the oneness of all life. As we are able to integrate our physical, emotional and Spiritual bodies in our understanding and our activity, we are able to witness the wholeness of others. This allows us to treat all with the dignity that is deserved.

09/13/2026

Entering into Gratitude
by Rev. Gil Olmstead, Spiritual Director

Today I enter into gratitude. How amazing that the Creator of all life set my life in motion that I would embody the full essence of Spirit. For as Spirit is, I am!

I stand in this truth today in awe of this life that I am living. I am blessed with access to the One Mind, access to all the power of the universe, access to the wisdom of the ages. For this is my life – the perfection of Spirit expressing as me.

Wow! How wonderful is this knowing. I am thankful in every moment for the miracle that is my life. In this knowingness and this gratitude I release this Word to the activity of the law. And so it is.

https://www.riograndecenterforspiritualliving.org/entering-into-gratitude-2-2/

09/12/2026

09/12/2026

Our Collective Connection
Alicia K. Hanlen, Practitioner Emeritus
Taos Study Group – Mile Hi Church

For it is only the finite that has wrought and suffered; the Infinite lies stretched in smiling repose. – Emerson

We have shared so much together in the collective consciousness: Our shared grief over September 11, our fear at the start of the Covid pandemic, our awe at the sight of the far side of the moon. Now let’s share our vision of the power of Love. – Alicia

In this perfect now moment, I accept and know that I am an individualized expression of the Universe, of Life Itself. As I allow that feeling to express itself through and as me, I invite each person who may be hearing or reading these words to connect with me in consciousness. And so we pray:

Divine Life, as me, blesses and multiplies every kind thought, word, and deed of Love. I see and know that this Love unites us all, irrespective of race, gender, or any other form of diversity. For I know that we are intrinsically One – equally a part of the whole and the oneness of Spirit. In this knowingness, I declare that the energy of Love has no boundaries, no limits, and spreads easily and gracefully among all people everywhere. This Love is greater than any human condition, and each heart is open to receive its healing balm. This Love is grander than any limitation, and all are readily available to both give and receive from their abundant true nature. This Love sees no differences and with open arms embraces all people everywhere. As I declare this ultimate Truth, I am overflowing with divine gratitude. I see it, I know it, I declare it to be so. And so indeed it is.

https://www.riograndecenterforspiritualliving.org/our-collective-connection/