Daily Word 1/24/2012

I am alive, alert and enthusiastic about life!

My mind and body are in an ongoing conversation.  My body responds to my thoughts, and my mind continually receives messages from my body….

As I bring my spiritual awareness into the conversation between mind and body, I keep myself in balance….with Spirit-centered thoughts, words and actions, I claim my true identity as a whole and healthy expression of God–mind, body and spirit.

Unity Worldwide Ministries

Life is for Living Series

Ten Golden Moments

Life is for Living, by choice–not default.  In James 1 we are told to be doers  of the Word, not hearers  only, because it is only in the doing that we truly learn and grow in spiritual wisdom.  It is through our thoughts, words and actions that we grow from seeker to doer.

Lenten Study Guide

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Life is for Living Series

Mindfulness

We love to sing our affirmations, filling our entire being with powerful vibrations of truth and hope and joyous anticipation.  This morning’s praise song, This is the Year, by Kemp and Provost is a wonderful example:

This is the year you find Christ within. This is the year you are glad to live; This is the year you have much to give.

But what does that really mean–This is the year!–and how do we get from here to there?  This is the year and this is the time and this is the place because we choose to make it so.  When we truly desire to change, the whole universe is behind that desire.

Life is for Living Series

Life is for Living!

Unity teaches that God is the creative force behind all of life, that God is everywhere equally present and that His will for us is absolute good.  Believing this allows us to see a world full of possibility and promise.  In the book Life is for Living,  Eric Butterworth wrote:

Things may happen around you and things may happen to you, but the only things that really count are the things that happen in you.

New Years Day 2012

New Beginings

We have all heard the phrase Today is the first day of the rest of  your life.  A cliche, but one founded in spiritual truth.  New Years Day provides a perfect opportunity for releasing the old and stepping up to new opportunities.  In our Burning Bowl Ceremony, we begin with forgiving and letting go the past as the first step toward choosing a new vision and claiming the good which is our birth right.

Burning Bowl Ceremony

Burning Bowl Ceremony

New Years Day

2012

We lovingly release that which no longer serves our highest good, thereby clearing the way for spiritual growth in wisdom and understanding.  As the New Year unfolds, we claim all the good our hearts can hold.

Christmas Day 2011

Love Came Down

I believe that Christmas with one’s own small child is one of the greatest gifts of God.  And though  we celebrate the birth of the Christ Child on Christmas morning, as long as we view that birth as an event distant in time, we completely miss the greatest gift of all.  This moment, not an event frozen in time but this very moment, is when joy and love came down into the world. The true gift of Christmas is the birth of the Christ light in each one of us.

Christmas Day Service

                                          Christmas Day Service                                                                             December 25th at 11:00 a.m.    

Advent Series

Fullness of Joy

The Advent journey we began just three short weeks ago is nearly complete, as we follow the star to our heart’s center like the wise men of old.

Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, saying, “Where is He who has been born King of the Jews?  For we have seen His star in the East and have come to worship Him.”