Unity Connections

  Last Sunday I shared the idea from Unity Minister Frank Giudici that “all problems and challenges stem from this one basic problem, the inability to love ourselves totally and unconditionally.” From a spiritual standpoint, we might ask, why is it so difficult to love ourselves?  If we know that the Truth of who we are, is an expression of Divine Intelligence, a perfect idea in Divine Mind, then why in the world is it so hard to love ourselves?   The short answer lies in the word, world .  We are spiritual beings contained for this time in a physical body, in order to navigate the physical world. As such, we have been conditioned by the world , in various ways.  Very little of our conditioning centers on our true innate value and worth. Nor does it tend to support the plethora of ways that we might express ourselves, if we were not conditioned otherwise. And, the more that our identity varies from the agreed upon social norms that inform our conditioning, the more destructive that co

  We will wrap up our series on The Five Principles this Sunday. However, the implementation of the practices that support our expanded understanding of God and our oneness with It, is a lifelong quest. I believe it may be the most worthy quest, and one that is calling to more and more people each day! The first Principle alone requires us to release our outgrown understanding of God that greatly limits both God and ourselves. Thankfully, it can also begin to remedy and heal some of the abuse and egregious misuse of power to control and harm people, in the name of God. The following quotes from Emilie Cady is helpful grow such a mindset: "God is not a being or person having life, intelligence, love, power. God is that invisible, intangible, but very real something, we call life. God is perfect love and infinite power. God is the total of these, the total of all good" ( Lessons In Truth, 18 ). "God is the name we give to that unchangeable, inexorable principle at the s