Prayer Chaplain Corner
Greetings from your Prayer Chaplain Team
First off, I want to express gratitude for all the blessings that have come my way over the years. There are too many to mention here, but I can tell you that I am very blessed!! Thanks to everyone in my life who has helped me along this journey! I also want to share how grateful I am to be part of our AWESOME Prayer Chaplain Team.
You see me renewing my commitment year after year. I do this because I have seen my life changed in so many positive ways by prayer. The work I do for Unity is meant to serve others. This has truly transformed my life. Through Faith, I will keep this transformation going.
When my turn comes to write a Prayer Chaplain Corner, I‘ve decided to slowly go over the 12 powers. I am going over the power of Judgement/Wisdom and the power of love. I hope you enjoy!
The power of Judgment/Wisdom is yellow and is located in the pit of the stomach. This power is represented by James. This power expresses our ability to judge, evaluate, discern, be wise, appraise and apply what is known. We use judgement to discern how to discern and how to apply what we know in order to be the best person we can be.
Love is the ability to feel affection for and desire, attracting oneself to harmonize and unify. The color of love is pink and is represented by the apostle John. The power of love is located right behind the heart. Jesus said, “thou shall love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with thy soul and with thy mind. This is the first and the greatest commandment.” And a second is like unto it, “Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself.”
I truly believe that with a little faith sprinkled in, we can live our very best life when the twelve powers are embedded into our lives.
I will close by simply saying that Unity has changed my life in more positive ways than I can count. I am grateful for this, and for all who have encouraged me along the way. I thank each and every one of you. I am sure you know who you are.
Namaste,
Mark Laverents
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A Penny, By Schuyler Cronley
There is a book of philosophy and English history that is well-known and loved the world over, called “Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes”. One of these rhymes concerns a Simple Simon who met a Pie Man and wanted to taste his wares. Said the Pie Man to Simple Simon, “Show me first your penny.” There is a universal law of compensation and equilibrium that can not be ignored. Emerson makes note of it in his essay entitled “Compensation”. The truth student meets this law quickly and sometimes, startlingly, but if he’s smart, he learns quickly, also, ,that the penny God demands, and which he so often refuses to spend, is the effort of his own heart and mind in knowing God. The author of Proverbs (Prov. 23:23) puts it like this: “Buy the truth and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction and understanding.”