Unity Connections

This Sunday will offer an opportunity to come together in community for a time of remembrance  and to hold all of grief that has fallen upon us, most recently in the past two weeks, with the tragic events in Buffalo, NY and Uvalde, TX. It is also an invitation for us all to remember those who we have loved and lost. A s a result of the restrictions of the pandemic,  many have had to endure the loss of loved ones without the shared community support that we are accustomed to. I hope to offer this time together, in sacred community as a way to support, love and steady each other and ourselves. What we love, we grieve. We all love and we all experience the depth of grief as a response to losing those that we love. It is so important to have community for all that we celebrate and all that we mourn in this human experience. We will also observe Memorial Day, (originally called Decoration Day), which was established as a National Holiday in 1868 in order to remember those...

  How have your thoughts been treating you? Have you noticed if they are grounded in the Truth of love and oneness, or in a belief in fear and separation?  Have your thoughts impacted your experience in a positive or negative way is another way to find the answer. The good news is that we have the power to choose the nature of our thinking, thought by thought. Last week we explored Unity Principle 3 which holds that human beings create their experiences through the activity of their thinking/feeling. Everything in the manifest world has its beginning in thought. It is useful to think of Principles 3- 5 as   practices that help us align more fully with the truth of the first two principles which are the basis for everything. Everything! 1. God is Absolute Good, always present. 2. Human beings have a spark of Divinity within them. Their very essence is of God, and therefore they are also inherently good. Principle 4 states that, Prayer is creative thinking that hei...

  As part of my Mother’s Day lesson last Sunday, I posed the idea that we are being called to grow up spiritually, in order to embrace the challenges of our times as opportunities to propel a quantum leap in our spiritual growth. Such a leap not only assures our own personal sense of well-being but also ensures that human evolution continues to flourish. I was inspired by Ellen Debenport’s reminder in book The Five Principles that the word ' bisha'  from the original Aramaic that was eventually translated as ‘evil’  originally meant immature, or unripe. Debenport concludes that, “We as humans are immature or unripe, not yet living from divine consciousness.” This moves the source of evil from a superhuman entity or force at odds with God, to the level human error that results from our immature understanding of who and what we really are! We misuse our creative power when we think and act from that level of immaturity, which is grounded in fear. If we believe, as Princ...

We are continuing with our series on The Five Principles by Rev. Ellen Debenport.   These are the main tenants of our Unity Teachings.   Principle One states that God is the Source of all that is, and the nature of God is Good.   This means that all of the natural world, including humanity derives its essence from the One Source, God, by whatever name you may choose to call It. The nature of that Source is good.   We use the word good in so many ways. Ice cream is good. We wish each other a good day. "Good" is the common response when asked how we are. When it comes to describing the nature of the Source of all that is, words are limiting. I have come to understand God as good to mean life giving and affirming, the creative intelligence that continually harmonizes all of life toward greater wholeness. The point is that this Source is not withholding, punishing or punitive. We may be, but God is not.   This is really the foundation of all that we t...