Unity Connections

This Sunday we will consider the fourth and final attribute of the Advent Season; joy. First, let’s just acknowledge that joy has not been the easiest to find this year. More commonly when inquiring how others are doing, I have heard the following: exhausted, fragile, anxious and depleted. Psychologists have been helping to normalize this experience as the natural consequence of having our sympathetic nervous systems be on alert for the past two years. Of course, this is in addition to all of the ‘normal’ bumps and bruises that we endure as human beings along the course of our lifetime. If we have lost loved ones, or are experiencing financial or health challenges, joy can feel quite distant. For that reason, the holiday season has become notorious for exasperating these difficult experiences with the implied demand to be joyous. The greater demand is really to be aware enough to allow ourselves feel what we are feeling, in order to learn and grow from the experience. We can trust t...

This Sunday, we will consider Unity’s metaphysical approach to advent as it pertains to the love of God reflected in the Christmas story. In order to understand the deeper significance of this story, we need to first recognize and claim it as our own. Our story begins with the conception of the idea that there is that within us that holds the same spiritual potential that Jesus the Christ so powerfully demonstrated. The Christ Consciousness that he so fully embodied is the same Divine Principle at work within each of us. Let’s clarify the metaphysical meaning of Christ, according to Unity Co-Founder Charles Fillmore: Christ is the divine man/woman. Jesus is the name that represents an individual expression of the Christ idea. Christ existed long before Jesus. Christ abides in each person as his/her potential perfection. Jesus Christ, the embodiment of all divine ideas, exists eternally in the Mind of God as the only begotten Son of God... and is the living Principle working in ...