Lightworks!
The Rodan Foundation's Publication for the Metaphysical Center of Enlightenment, May 2025
In 1981, Reverend Clarke Carraway founded The Rodan Foundation with the intention of creating a powerful, growing community of awakening beings who experience love, peace, prosperity, unity, healing, harmony, and revelation through learning and service. The Rodan Foundation, recognizing the Law of Cause and Effect, expresses gratitude for the many blessings it reaps from the community's experiences.
Welcome! Join with us in our dynamic weekly services where we discover our true purpose in an emerging world. Experience the revelation of our collective awakening to the power of love, the wonder of our multi-dimensional capacities, and the joy in reclaiming earth as our home. Sunday mornings provide the opportunity to celebrate life with like-minded beings and experience personal reassurance and empowerment through the spiritual messages of Reverend Carraway's mediumship. We look forward to your participation enhancing our community.
When we think of heroes, our minds often leap to grand gestures—leaping into burning buildings, scaling mountains, delivering dramatic speeches that shift the course of history. We picture capes, medals, and front-page headlines. But the truth is, most real heroes are quietly woven into the fabric of our everyday lives. You pass them in the street. You might even be one yourself. Heroism doesn’t always roar. Sometimes, it whispers.
It’s the nurse who stays a few minutes past her shift to comfort a frightened patient.
It’s the teenager who sits with someone who usually eats lunch alone.
It’s the friend who checks in when you’ve gone quiet, even though their own heart is heavy.
It’s the neighbor who brings in the bins, picks up groceries, or simply notices when something’s not quite right.
These acts might not make the evening news, but they are the glue that holds our humanity together.
In a world that often celebrates noise, power, and performance, it can be easy to overlook the quiet courage it takes to be kind, to care, to show up. But those everyday moments—the ones that may seem small, even invisible—carry enormous weight. They lift others. They change lives. Sometimes, they even save them. And here’s the thing: you don’t need to be extraordinary to make an extraordinary difference. You don’t need a title, a following, or a cape. All you need is to care enough to act.
In fact, some of the most heroic things you can do are often the simplest:
– Speak up when it’s easier to stay silent.
– Offer compassion when someone feels alone.
– Keep going when no one sees how hard it is.
There’s a quiet kind of bravery in all of this—a steady, grounded strength that doesn’t ask for applause.
So the next time you wonder whether what you do really matters, remember this: heroism isn’t al-ways about scale. It’s about heart. And often, it’s the smallest acts, done with love and consistency, that ripple the furthest.. Most heroes don’t wear capes. They sometimes wear tired smiles, and they carry full hearts and move through the world leaving it better than they found it.
Maybe that’s you. And maybe that’s more than enough.
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Calendar of Events and Special Offerings
MAY 4TH: PIANO SOLO BY MIA GOTTSCHALK. Mia Melody Gottschalk is in 10th grade at Aragon High School
and is trilingual in German, Japanese, and English. Studying under Ms. Sumi
Nagasawa's guidance, her piano studies, including music theory, are at the most
advanced level of the Music Teachers Association of California's Annual State
Piano Exam Program. Mia scored the best grades in all categories in the 2025
exam. Mia is a seriously passionate
committed ballerina in classical and contemporary dance. She actively
participates in various ballet competitions and has won prestigious awards. She
is a huge animal lover and volunteers at Peninsula Humane Society in
Burlingame. She has three rescue dogs and two fancy rats at home, and they are
best friends. Mia Gottschalk's solo piece is "The Montagues and the Capulets" from Episodes of
Romeo and Juliet, Op. 75 by Sergei Prokofiev.
Today Rev. Carraway will be lecturing on, ‘Spiritual Velocity.’
MAY 11TH: HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY! LEESA DILALLO WAGNER VOCAL CELEBRATION! Long time friend of The Foundation, vocalist Leesa has a
varied background in the entertainment field from MTV, Comedy Central to Max's
Opera Café. Leesa, first and foremost,
has dedicated her life to her children, working for over twenty years several
part time jobs to support her family. In
addition to also being a volunteer teacher, Leesa is currently working with
adults with cerebral palsy and brightening their days. Today she will be
accompanied by William Rogg, a very talented member of our musical
community.
GUEST LECTURER: MR. KEN ARMSTRONG. Ken has been an Aquaponic farmer for the past 12 years, running one of the oldest facilities in the US. A world traveler, he has visited 57 countries and all seven continents, exploring the myriad expressions of culture and consciousness around the world. Today Ken will be lecturing on, ‘The Ontology.’
TESTIMONIAL CIRCLE: After the service, everyone is invited to join an informal testimonial circle, where participants share how they are living positivity and love in their daily lives. Bring miracles, large & small. Or just come and be present in the sharing.
MAY 18TH: PIANO SOLO BY PAIGE LEUNG! Paige Leong is in her Freshman year at San Mateo High School, studying piano under Ms. Sumi Nagasawa and trumpet with Mr. Eric Leong. Paige plays trumpet in her school's jazz band and manages a separate band outside of school. She is on the school's varsity tennis team and enjoys playing the game. Paige has become a part of San Mateo’s YAC (Youth Activities Council), where she plans events for the San Mateo area for the youth program. Paige is appreciative of the opportunity to play music and grow through The Rodan Foundation's beautiful people's thoughtful support. Today Rev. Carraway will be lecturing on, ‘The Desert of Deconstruction.’
MAY 25TH: MEMORIAL DAY. MEMORIAL DAY is a day of remembering the men and women who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces. Formerly known as Decoration Day, it originated after the American Civil War to commemorate the Union and Confederate soldiers who died in the Civil War. By the 20th century Memorial Day had been extended to honor all Americans who have died in all wars.
NATIVE AMERICAN DRUMMING ENSEMBLE! Our drumming circle is a spiritual tool for
unity where we empower each other in the act of celebrating community and life
through rhythm and music. Bring an
instrument and share your rhythmic spirit!
The drum’s sound has the power to move our spiritual bodies, hearts, and
minds closer together to a sense of oneness with all that is.
Today we will show an earlier lecture by Rev. Carraway :
‘.Solitude. ’
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COMMUNITY OFFERINGS:
Healing Community: Beginning at 9:45 during our meditation, please tune into your realm of perfection and release your concerns and receive the benefit perfection has to offer you. The Rodan Foundation holds prayer for our List of Divine Fulfillment, a list of recognition. It is so named because our community praises and recognizes the outpicturing of love and perfection in the lives of those on the list. If you wish to participate with our List, we invite you to place the names & situations for which you desire help in our healing basket on our greeter’s table.
Testimonial Circle: On the second Sunday of the month, everyone is invited to join an informal testimonial circle, where participants share how they are living positivity and love in their daily lives. Bring miracles, large & small. Or just come and be present in the sharing.
The Haven: The Spiritual Evolution Class: Channeled through the mediumship of Reverend Carraway, the Tuesday evening class provides an in-depth opportunity to experience expanding awareness of self and life. It is an ongoing flow of revelation designed to promote personal awakening and responsibility, transformation and empowerment. For more information, please speak with Reverend Carraway after the service.
The I Love Me Meditation Series: is now available on Insight Timer – a meditation website and app with millions of meditations available to listen to for free! Every time one of our meditations is played, a donation is sent to The Foundation. You can give financially to The Rodan Foundation, just by listen-ing to the meditations. Sounds like a win-win for sure! You can also greatly support us by giving us stars, and commenting, and sharing the meditations on social media. Please Spread the word and share with others.** https://insig.ht/MMX7e6KBtub
Our Community Love Offertory for the Month of May
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Reverend Carraway is available for spiritual counseling, Jin Shin Do sessions, as well as for ceremonies marking mile stones in life. For more information, please see him after the Sunday service at The Metaphysical Church of Enlightenment or contact us.
