A Recap of Our Journey and Our Next Steps
In August 2024 a conversation began with the leadership of Center for Spiritual Living Greater Baltimore exploring ways to collaborate and share resources between our small neighboring communities.
In the February of 2025, the Board of Trustees and the membership of Center for Spiritual Living Greater Baltimore made the difficult decision to close it's doors and transfer it's remaining resources and membership to Center for Spiritual Living Columbia.
In alignment with our Vision, Mission, Identify and Community Value of Inclusion, we recognized that bringing these two communities together created a whole new community, that joining the two under under either of our previous names would be assimilation rather than true inclusion, and we embarked on our journey to reveal Spirit's name for Itself AS this newly formed and expressing Center for Spiritual Living community.
We opened the floodgates of our imaginations and you poured forth 180 possibilities. Over the months that followed we met in Town Halls narrowing the list by the practice of consensus until we we had a more manageable list.
We then moved to the spiritual practice of :
1. Pray: “I affirm that Spirit’s perfect name for Itself as our spiritual community is already known in Consciousness and since I am Consciousness expressing in form this name is already present in me. I choose to be aware of it now.”
2. Sit in the silence until you feel compelled to look at the list.
3. Allow your awareness of Consciousness expressing its perfect name as our CSL community to select the name that most resonates as “THIS ONE” when you read it.
We went through this process numerous times allowing for each participant to add any additional names that came into awareness through the process finally arriving at a list of five names.
Again, in an effort to be as inclusive as humanly possible, we engaged in our final prayerful practice of Spirit revealing It's new name throughout the month of November, well at least the first 28 days of it.
Spirit revealed It's new name as
Center for Spiritual Living Common Ground.
NEXT STEPS:
Now that the new name is revealed, there's a few steps we have to take BEFORE putting it to use, legally.
STEP 1: We will file the necessary paperwork with Centers for Spiritual Living (CSL) on Tuesday.
STEP 2: Following CSL approval we will apply to the State of Maryland for a new Doing Business As (DBA) name, secure a new website domain name, begin making the necessary changes in our Google Account.
STEP 3: Following issuance of our new DBA, initiate banking changes... at this point we will change how checks are written to the Center... WE WILL LET YOU KNOW!!
STEP 4: Update ALL remaining business accounts.
We will keep you updated every step of the way and if you have ANY questions/concerns please reach out to Rev. Rafe (revrafe@columbiacsl.com) or Zita Johnson-Betts (zjbetts@gmail.com) - Board President.
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