I must share a bit more about Myrtle Fillmore, because she remains quite an inspiration. She was loving, brilliant, well-read, well-educated and was a deep spiritual thinker. She believed that women could take responsibility for their lives and choose their thoughts and actions. She broke through the boundaries of her day not because she was rebellious, but because she followed her inner wisdom and intuition.  

I discovered this very moving poem this week. We continue to create a place of Beloved Community here at UCBA. This means it is safe to be your authentic self. This requires us all to show up as the love we are and to behold it in one another. We are sharing, teaching, and planting so that we may express the truth within, the Christ presence. We are giving this precious gift week after week to one another.  When we cross the veil, we will

I want to share with you the lovely view I have so often of this church.  It can bring me to the edge of tears. I watch people showing up as angels – as messengers of God’s love, grace, and peace.

Two members just spent a couple of nights with two different members immediately after surgery. What a gift after such a vulnerable experience. It makes a big difference. I know angels who show up with food for people who are experiencing a difficult time, whether it is the loss of a loved one or a health challenge.

We need a major shift in consciousness to create world peace. Eight children were killed and two women were wounded in Louisiana on Sunday. Too many countries are at war around the world – heartbreaking.  People believe we are separate. Yet the truth that we are one dwells in our hearts at Unity. We believe that no one and nothing is against us, that we are spiritual beings.

I am inviting everyone to get the book by Edwene Gaines, even if you are not in the class.  It is a treasure!  Here is a prayer from the book that is beautiful. Read it morning and night. Enjoy!

One of my teachers, Rev Kelly Isola, posted this on FB. It went straight to my heart.

Our new Lenten devotional starts with the affirmation – I release mortality. We are reminded that we are both spiritual and physical beings. We are reminded that death is an entrance into a different way of being. It is why we feel both sadness and relief when a loved one who has been suffering lays down the body.

Lent began on Wednesday and leads up to Easter Sunday. Unity chooses the practices of releasing and feasting. Releasing means letting go of thoughts, beliefs, and behaviors that block living peacefully, authentically, and purposefully. Feasting is engaging in thinking that fosters peace, gratitude, compassion, growth/transformation, and being of service to others. These choices enhance our physical, mental, and spiritual well-being. We are renewed and energized.

Listen to some words from Fr. Richard Rohr, a modern mentor to oodles of Christians. “Love is not really an action that you do. Love is what and who you are, in your deepest essence.  Love is a place that already exists inside of you but is also greater than you. That’s the paradox.  It’s within you and yet beyond you. This creates a sense of abundance and more-than-enoughness, which is precisely the satisfaction and deep peace of the True Self. You know you’ve found a well that will never go dry (see John 4:13-14.)  Your True Self, God’s Love in you, cannot be exhausted.”