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Create a Covenant and Become a Member
Making a commitment to your spiritual growth is a rewarding endeavor, and a journey of the heart. That’s precisely the reason why, each year, one can create or renew their commitment to spiritual growth through a ‘CTH Covenant‘.
A CtH Covenant is a document that’s used to capture your spiritual goals and intentions for the upcoming year. We set a date every year to share them together, in a supportive group setting and celebrate current accomplishments.
Some of the gifts it yields include: Finding deeper meaning in your life, strengthening your connection to God and all that is, and building healthier and more satisfying relationships.
Completing a new covenant every year is not only the way to renew your membership at CtH, it creates an opportunity for you to move beyond limitations and unlock your soul’s desire and potential. But you don’t have to wait until our end of year meeting, download one below, and start now!
Do you have anything in your experience that is holding you back? Taking time to reflect on what you want to change in your experience from a heart-centered space is a great place to begin. In our annual gathering, we reflect on what we accomplished and then release our current covenants to make room for what’s new and what’s next.
This is a deeply personal and unique process. If you need ideas to ignite your inspiration, you’ll find them in our caring community.
Contemplating Your Spiritual Growth
What is a Covenant?
Covenants are intentional agreements creating a relationship of mutual commitment. Writing a covenant of personal intentions and sharing with the spiritual community of Christ the Healer is how you become a member or a Member in Spirit for the year.
The essential purpose and collective covenant of Christ the Healer UCC is to help persons grow into the image and nature of God demonstrated by Jesus as the universal Christ among us.
To do this, we seek to love God and one another in a transformational healing community. All members embrace and are embraced by our collective CtH covenant: by waking up, cleaning up, growing up, and showing up for the kin-dom of Heaven on earth.
As the embodiment or body of Christ, we mean to love, respect, and affirm one another (and ourselves) before understanding is reached; then make the effort to understand each other.
Preparing the Way – Ideas to help you develop your spiritual goals
1. Ask yourself how your soul wants to shine forth in the new year. Breathe into you heart, and lovingly let go of thoughts from the mind. Exercise curiosity, close your eyes, and with good breathing, focus on listening within for between 10-20 minutes. See what emerges in your experience and write down any emerging thoughts in your covenant.
2. Do you experience unconditional love? How would it feel like to be supported by a grace-filled community? Is there anything standing in your way of receiving and giving love? Whatever emerges, write it down in the covenant.
3. You are uniquely you – we invite you to share your gifts with the community. How can your energy and effort support other’s in the our Community? We love one another, first- then seek to understand.
We are open, curious and experimental about the many ways we may develop and express expanding love for all creation, and give ourselves permission to constantly change and grow in community. We hope you’ll join us.
Christ the Healer United Church of Christ is a registered peace church encouraging and supporting its members in conscientious objection to war. We welcome everyone, including persons of any and all sexual and gender orientations, into our “walk together”.
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