Lightworks! 

 The Rodan Foundation's Publication for the Metaphysical Center of Enlightenment, December 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. 


THE MAGIC OF WINTER SOLSTICE:

  A PATH TO LOVING YOUR LIFE 

 
 

From the time I was a little girl, I felt the innate magical quality of solstices and equinoxes. In my mind, the mythical Mother Nature turned a special dial to officially change the season. I still feel that magical pull from those days. As I’ve aged, I’ve learned that my childhood view of magic has allowed me to harness the belief that there is magic to be found all around us. When I chose to begin living a more conscious life, I found traces of magic in the everyday.  There’s lots of love ahead for you with a dash of truth. If you want a life that you love, you have to be willing to do the work to create it.  Want to love your daily life?  Then you need to get clear around what you want (and what you don’t).  You create a big picture view of what you want life to look like.  Then you follow through and put supportive routines into place to help keep you on track. This includes tasks like daily writing, meditation, exercise, prayer, adequate sleep, and good food for your body.

The paradox of conscious living is that you also have to be willing to surrender when things don’t go as planned. It’s part of the human condition that unexpected stuff pops up. We have a flat tire or get an unexpected visitor. A perfectly planned day goes sideways due to a client emergency.  We have to be willing to bend and be flexible.  And we also have to recognize that some of our goals are unmet by the time we had hoped to achieve them. Now, before you begin to ponder ways to get out of doing the work and blame them on flexibility and serendipity, let’s be frank:  there’s a difference between serendipity and outright distraction.  

The reason I brought up the magic of solstices and equinoxes is that we are approaching the Winter Solstice.  What this means in general terms is that, in the northern hemisphere, it’s the shortest day of the year. What this means for living a conscious life is that I choose to harness the inherent magic of the solstice to take a good, hard look at my daily routines, personal rituals, and hone in on what I want to create in the months ahead.  But one thing to really remember about the Winter Solstice is that it marks the return of the light. A time to inspire hope.

Though I love goals, I don’t make resolutions for the new year. Yes, it’s semantics, but semantics are important when it comes to living a life that’s loving and nourishing. Besides, most New Year’s resolutions are broken before the calendar page is flipped to February.  Instead, I choose a focus or “guiding light” word to serve as my guide for the year. It’s like creating my own theme song. And, as I make those big and little decisions in the process of work and play, it keeps me on track and guides me towards what my heart truly desires.

The time around the Winter Solstice is the perfect time to choose my touchstones. Sometimes, those words have come to me like an angel’s whispers. Sometimes, it feels more like prying their little angel lips apart and begging them to speak.  Celebrating the triumphs of the year – on paper – is super important to the process of living consciously. It forces you to look for the successes while you’re acknowledging where you fell short.  It’s also a good way to bring gratitude into the process.  I look ahead to what I desire in the coming months. Who do I want to be? What do I want to create? What do I want to stop tolerating? Since I’m a planner by nature, I usually do some of my business planning around the time of the Autumnal Equinox. After I close out the previous year, I tweak the business stuff and lay a nice foundation of my personal desires into the mix. Yes, I set some goals, but goals are different from resolutions. 

Then, it’s time for the important parts: how am I going to bring my dreams into reality?  It begins with the details of daily existence.  Are my daily routines supportive of what I want to create? Are those actions not only nourishing, but do they also reflect the heart of my touchstones? Where am I slipping into autopilot actions? What do I need to ditch? What do I need to add?  I see where I can bring more ritual into my routines. This changes seasonally, which is another reason I pay attention to the solstice and equinox dates.

As we approach the Winter Solstice this year, I find myself leaning into new routines and craving more sacred moments in everyday living.  I’m adding a lot of candlelight to both the beginning and endings of my day because, not only does it nourish me, but each candle flame is like a little prayer connecting me to the sacred.  It also means a little less screen time and a lot more time focusing on the beauty around me, like sunrises and sunsets and the soft moonlight on fresh snow. I’m spending more time with my journal and my books than I am with my computer.

Creating a life you love is about big things, like a plan and touchstones. And it’s also about the little things, like Christmas China and candlelight dinners and sitting on the porch in the freezing cold to watch the sun rise.  It’s about everyday magic. It is about faith and belief. It’s about love. It’s about choosing yourself and keeping your deepest desires as priorities.  What about you? Do you see the magic of the season? What do you want to leave behind this year, and what do you want to celebrate? How can you choose yourself in the coming months? Are you ready to harness the power of this winter solstice to support you in making 2026 your most amazing year and self?                       dsmouse.com   


                                                   Calendar of Events and Special Offerings

 
 

DECEMBER 7TH:  LIGHTHOUSE STRING BAND!   Ellis Back by popular request! Join us for an uplifting musical experience with The Lighthouse String Band, a group of talented musicians from all over the Bay Area, playing mostly Scottish and Irish music through a wide range number of exciting instruments, from violin to mandolin, fiddle, guitar, to accordion.    

GUEST SPEAKER: MS. KELLY CHESSEN: After receiving a bachelor’s degree in psychology, Kelly knew there was a different path for her life than being a traditional therapist. She both volunteered and managed a Suicide Prevention and Crisis line before moving to corporate as a Data Crisis Counselor. She then discovered NLP and hypnosis in her own need to heal her traumas. Kelly went on to get certified in NLP at the NLP Institute of California and as a Certified Hypnotherapist at the HCH Institute. She then realized that after years of helping people through their moments of crisis, she wanted to reach people on a deeper level. She now helps people shift into a better version of themselves using solution-focused hypnotherapy and NLP.                                                                                                                    KELLY WILL SPEAK ON: PERMISSION TO GRIEVE.

DECEMBER 14TH:  HAND TO HAND, HEART TO HEART SOUND MEDITATION.  Virtually everything on Earth vibrates.  Today’s sound meditation, introduced by Spirit years ago in our classes, has been adapted by Arin Wiscomb, Mariya Mironyuk, and Vanessa Stubbs.  The Hand to Hand, Heart to Heart sound meditation involves focusing on our heart’s rhythm and sound to cultivate love, healing, and peace.  As we do, by combining breath and focus, we have the power to center our awareness in our hearts and connect with one another in love while being fully in the present moment.  Join us as we activate our heart sound codes!                                                                                                                                          REV. CARRAWAY WILL SPEAK ON: “LET IT GO.”  

TESTIMONIAL CIRCLE: After the service, everyone is invited to join an informal testimonial circle, where participants share how they embody positivity and love in their daily lives.  Bring miracles, large & small.  Or just come and be present in the sharing.     

DECEMBER 21ST: WINTER SOLSTICE, the beginning of Winter, the shortest day occurring at 7:03 a.m. PST.  

DECEMBER 21ST:  WINTER HOLIDAY CELEBRATION!   Join our celebration of the magic of the season! Renee Kwan, a 6th grader at Khan Lab School in Mountain View, will be playing our service today.  Renee has always had a deep love for music, and from a young age, would instinctively dance to the music. She began her piano journey under the guidance of Ms. Sumi Nagasawa and has since participated in numerous recitals. Renee enjoys watching various cooking shows and is interested in digital arts. She can spend endless hours working on a piece of art until she is satisfied. 

Today, Reverend Carraway will channel Dr. Robert Foster, his primary Spirit teacher, who will deliver a Seasonal Message.   This will be preceded by the special holiday brass ensemble, trumpet and trombone, provided by Sumi Nagasawa and Eric Leong’s talented students.     

 NO SERVICES DEC. 28TH.  CHURCH SERVICES RESUME JAN. 4TH

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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 benefits 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 in 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 listening to the meditations. Sounds like a win-win for sure! You can also greatly support us by giving us stars, 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  December   

Supports Chronicle Season of Sharing Fund  

             

“For families and individuals, there are the everyday setbacks that can spin normal life into poverty and homelessness. In these cases, a small donation can make a difference. This has been the approach of the Season of Sharing since 1986.  Over the years, nearly $219 million has been donated, 63 million meals have nourished families and individuals, and 185,000 households have been helped.  All those dollars have been distributed to provide direct assistance in nine Bay Area counties.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 

            

                                   

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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 Center of Enlightenment or contact us.