Sometimes it's easy to take a lesson from Nature. This Sunday marks the longest day and shortest night of the year, when our hemisphere is tilted all the way toward the Sun. It's a great opportunity to look at our own lives, and which way our hearts and minds are leaning.us power of intentional creation with practical application.

Rev. Bill Marchiony

New Thought Philadelphia - June 21, 2015

Intention is a powerful tool we all use to set our course. But a “set it and let it” attitude is only part of the equation. Rev. Dave explores aligning our enormous power of intentional creation with practical application.

In back of everything there is a Power and a Presence. Our lives don't go well or poorly based on special favors we've been granted because we've been obedient, even if it sometimes seems that way. Rev. Bill Marchiony explores the Universal Principles that are at work, and how we can work with them to create the life we choose.

New Thought teaches that Life is an inside out creative process. Wherever you are staring from, you can begin to use Spirit’s limitless power to shape a better life of more love, more good, and more joy. Rev. Dave explores how the Universe responds by corresponding to our inner desires.

Technological breakthroughs bring huge new opportunities, along with the challenge of new ways that things can go bad. Thomas Midgley, Jr. is not widely known outside of his area of expertise in the chemical industry, but his is a cautionary tale of a pattern that's been repeated too often throughout history, and is still going on. Rev. Bill Marchiony honors Dr. Midgley's birthday (May 18, 1889) and rejoice in the fact that he lived only 55 years - any longer and he might have completely wiped us out.

New Thought is a powerful technique for creating the life we desire. There's a dynamic balance between the understanding that our new life begins with a new thought, and that we receive only as much as we can accept. Rev. Bill Marchiony talks about a powerful way we can stretch ourselves to allow more of the good we want.

More than 25 years ago, Robert Fulghum's bestseller "All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten" reminded us that the most basic aspects of life bear its most important opportunities. In today's chaotic, more challenging world it's more true than ever. Rev. Bill Marchiony looks at the spiritual aspect and how the first step of a Practical Prayer is as powerful as beginning with "Simon Says".

In the beginning was 'the Word', which is then described as the one Creative Power which brought everything into being. We use words, too, and continue to use that Power to co-create our lives. Sometimes, we use big, powerful words to create bold new things. Other times we let the little words take control, unwittingly surrendering our power and inviting something less. Rev. Bill Marchiony leads an investigation into the big deal about the little words, and how we can choose to use the ones we want.