Prayer Chaplain Corner 
Greetings from your Prayer Chaplain Team
Namaste my friends! I continue to be blessed and honored to serve this community as part of the Unity OKC prayer chaplain team. It is my great privilege to see your highest and best coming to you beyond your wildest dreams.
Lately, I have found myself in a position that requires exercise of my compassion "muscle". I will be honest and admit this has not been my strongest spiritual gift, but I have been able to learn a great deal over the years, and would like to offer you a few basic thoughts on compassion this month.
Many of us find compassion warm and comforting, but the truth is that it is actually very threatening to the ego. When we make a conscious decision to support and understand others, we find ourselves in the difficult position of looking at life not on our own terms. The first task at hand is to make a commitment to ourselves to relax into the uncertainty and unfamiliar territory of another's reality. We have to make friends with feelings and situations we are unfamiliar with, that may be uncomfortable or even painful. We must commit ourselves to willingly step into these feelings even if we don't like it.
Then, we must let go of our ego and trust our higher nature to step forward and beyond our personal and societal biases, prejudices, and fixed opinions, whether we like it or not. We have to let go of our resistance to change. We must trust that we are all inherently good, and that we have the fortitude to come from that truth when we face others who need our compassion.
We must then find that place within us where we can approach the other with a sense of curiosity and caring, looking for and finding decency and wisdom within them. As we work, we find within ourselves greater fortitude with which to face the edgy, raw, and unpredictable as we lean into our own groundedness rather than our own dread.
A path of fearlessness becomes more and more apparent as we release the feeling that the very survival of our own beliefs is threatened. We find ourselves deeper and more committed to the open ended and undefined field of infinite possibilities that is designed to benefit others as much as ourselves.
I would love to hear your heartfelt thoughts on compassion, and your ideas as to what sparks your compassion, and what about your practice brings you joy. I look forward to talking with you about it soon!
Namaste, Dana Martin
So how does it feel, to read and say it. Pretty amazing that it lift you up.
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Notes From a Skylark, By Schuyler Cronley
Who Do You Think You Are?
Many people have asked this question of one another a great many times and received many varied answers. If you want a real “Stumper” answer to this question the next time someone asks it of you, you could say, “I am a son of God” – Of course, there is only one catch to that, and that is that you have to live and act like one to prove it.
What Do You Have To Lose?
A short time ago in our newspapers, there was the story of a young woman who was told that, if after being hypnotized, she could arise from her chair and walk over to a small table and pick up a large sum of money lying there, she could have the money for her own. She was not able to do this, and of course she did not receive the money. Someone asked her how it felt to lose such a large sum of money, to which she replied, “It was not mine to lose!”
This is an old principle of Truth, but it bears much repetition and re-emphasis in our daily living. Nothing is really man’s in this world to lose, but he has everything to gain, provided he seeks such things for the purpose of using them with the knowledge that they are not his to lose and that his acquirement of them is not his gain, but God’s, who gave them. Even man’s life is not his to lose – that’s the reason Jesus Christ tried so hard to get man to do the things with his life and his body that would honor God and preserve life.
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Ever Thought about Being the Way of Love,
By becoming a Prayer Chaplain and opening your heart to allow the voice of the Divine to flow through you out to others. Have you ever thought about being a conduit of the Healing Force of the universe allowing the Living Waters to wash over your being and flow out to others? To learn more about being a Prayer Chaplain and allowing the healing Presence to flow through you and out to others, speak to Rene Holubec or RevDoc Patrick about what you might need to do and when the next training will be.
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