Presented for a Love Offering 

A Love Offering is a term that you will frequently hear at our Spiritual Life Center. The vast majority of events and activities that are held here at our Spiritual Life Center are presented on a “Love-Offering Basis.” Considering the size of our spiritual community we truly have some awe-inspiring events.  When some compare the activities we sponsor and the quality of speakers and musicians we have to similar speakers and musicians and the fees charged at other locations, they are very puzzled.  Especially when they know the cost of bringing them to Oklahoma City.

When we pass “the love-offering baskets” at an event we ask you to consider how the message stirs in your heart and moves your soul.  At times the message shared may even cause you to want to shout with joy; it is filled with so much power.  We ask you to consider if the message has meaning for your life, and if it does, to allow the sense of gratitude to stir in every cell of your being; letting the joy and gratitude to over flow, and then give from that place of joy and thanksgiving that the message has created in you. 

When we pass the “Love Offering baskets” at an event we ask you to consider how much this powerful message could possibly mean to you, and what price could you put on it, if you were able to put just one idea, one discipline, to use in your life to overcome one challenge.  $100? $500?  $1000? Perhaps the inspiration would be priceless. The information shared at our services, workshop and classes, have the potential to transform the way you see the world and the way you show up in it. Well we ask that you give from a place that you are blessed and that you can afford, knowing that as you give you creates a ripple, even a wave, of good that goes out into the universe which is turn creates a vacuum that draws more good into your life.  That good is pressed down shaken together and overflowing in every area of your life. And we know the lessons we learn here today will be manifested in a much greater good in our life.

Some people ask, “Well I don’t know how much I should give?”  If you were to attend this same workshop at another church it might cost you anywhere from $40 – $60 up front at the door, before they ever let you in. But we want to reach as many people as possible, who may, or may not, be able to afford that price, so Rev. Patrick asks our presenters to offer the workshops on the potential and the possibilities of what their gifts might bring to you.  Normally a minimum of 60 % will be given to the presenter to help pay their travel expenses to OKC and back and to help them earn a living sharing their gift.  So as we ask you to share from the place of joy, thanksgiving and the awareness of infinite possibilities of good that is about to unfold for you, as you hold that love offering in your heart, in your mind we invite you to see it being pressed down, filled with love to overflowing, and shaken together, and we affirm “Divine Love, Flowing through me (us) blesses and multiples, All that I (we) have, All that I (we) Give, and all that I (we) receive, thank you God.”

The idea of Love-Offerings has deep roots in Unity. Charles and Myrtle Fillmore pretty much insisted on it as the way to do their work.  They believed that giving a Love Offering to what spiritually fed them was an acknowledgement of God’s Love and Abundance, which was part of their experience. The sharing of “a love offering” was part of their overall prosperity program. It acknowledged the Divine Flow moving through their life as health, love, and financial abundance by giving a portion of their income to the spiritual practices and programs that inspired their minds and moved their souls. (Many organizations call this tithing.)    

In Unity, we believe that God’s Sacred Life is ever-present, that we are immersed in an Invisible Matrix of Life and Substance.  It surrounds and enfolds us each moment of each day, just as fish are immersed in the ocean.   The way we realize and experience this Divine Matrix is to open our selves to Its flow, by sharing out of our abundance.  To realize that God’s Sacred Energy moves through us with each breath we take, we must exhale.  If we try to hold on to that sacred breath and possess it, we will suffocate. We must exhale to receive our next breath; it is a simple (yet unconscious) acknowledgement of Life itself.

Likewise, to experience God’s Love and Abundant Life in any area of our life we must exhale: we must give out of the Divine flow that we are experiencing  - spiritually, mentally and physically. It is simply the law of life. In this physical reality, if we are to continue the flow of electricity in our homes, or a flow of food into our cabinets, we must give out of the abundance we have, so that we can live in harmony with the world around us.

Spiritually, it is the same: in order to experience God’s Sacred Life and realize the spiritual nourishment we seek, we must open ourselves up, and share of the Goodness flowing through our life by giving to what spiritually feeds us. It is simply an acknowledgement of the Divine Flow always moving throughout our being and drawing more into our life.  If we try to hold on tightly to blessings moving through our life and possess every ounce, we will suffocate and restrict the flow of good. To experience God’s Sacred Life we must exhale to receive the next breath; it is a simple (yet unconscious) acknowledgement of Life itself.

Just as the Fillmore’s made it a practice to give to what spiritually feeds and nourishes, we invite others to experience the wonder of sharing a love offering to what spiritually feeds them. By acknowledging God’s Love and Abundance in this way, it opens the portals of the heart and mind to experience a greater good. So next time we pause to take a Love – Offering, consider how the service, workshop, or class inspires your mind and moves your soul, and share from the abundance in your life.  Consider what it costs to go to the movie, or out to dinner, or other wonders you experience in the physical, and ask yourselves if the benefits you received from the activities exceed those physical pleasures. Then go to that place of remembering that Spirit moving in you and must be released to be realized. “Divine love, flowing through me, blesses and multiples all that I have, all that I give, and all that I receive, and I am richly blessed, creating a greater and greater flow.”

Likewise if this web site blesses you, touches your heart, inspires your mind or nourish your soul in some way, please consider tithing to our ministry.  Our Spiritual Life Center is solely supported by the people we serve, people like you, and the other free will gifts of the universe. It is through the support of people like you that we can do the work that we do.

If you would like to sent a offering of love or a tithe to our ministry, you can send it to

Unity Church of Oklahoma City

5603 NW 41^st Street

Oklahoma City, Ok 73122

We also have the ability to accept credit charges, if you call 405/789-242

Bless you for your support.  Please visualize with us the growth and evolution of Unity Church of OKC as a center of Spiritual life.