Prayer Chaplain Corner
Greetings from your Prayer Chaplain Team
Namaste friends along the spiritual path! I am so happy to be walking beside you again this month, and send wishes and prayers for your highest and best. This month, let's talk about the spiritual nature of love.
In general most of us speak of love as a feeling, as if it were something we "fall" into, or try to hold tightly to, or sometimes struggle to understand. But from a metaphysical point of view, love is much more than an emotional state. It is a spiritual gift, a spiritual power.v Love is the expression of divine presence flowing within all of life. It is Spirit itself, expressing in us, as us.
The higher expressions of love bring us beyond and past the human experiences of fear and judgement. It moves us beyond our sense of separation and calls us to rise above human instinct, and to recognize our sacred connection with all of life. Someone once said, love points the way, spiritual law makes it possible (Earnest Holmes?)
Love is not only sentiment. It is a disciplined spiritual practice. We choose to act and think from a loving attitude as a spiritual discipline. We choose to answer the call to move beyond the traditional understanding of conditional love. We are invited to find a love that is rooted in spiritual understanding and filled with grace and compassion, self love and forgiveness.
As we allow this spiritual practice of love to deepen within, compassion emerges and thrives. Peace presents itself more often and we find our capacity for love ever expanding.
This month, I invite you to look for places where you can love more deeply. Where can you rise to a higher expression of love to demonstrate in your thought and behavior? Where can you rise to a higher expression of divine love? When we see the divine in others and in ourselves, love changes everything.
Namaste!
Dana Martin
Unity Prayer Chaplain Team
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Myrtle the Mystic and Her Understand of Prayer
Myrtle Fillmore, co-founder of the Unity movement was a mystic, someone who had an intimate experience of God, and was empowered to heal her body of tuberculosis when there was no cure. After wards she maintained a powerful practice of prayer, which helped millions of people heal their bodies as well. Myrtle had a sense of humbleness and sensitivity to the Divine Energy of Life working through her and throughout the universe. You can learn about her process of prayer and more Step up into an awareness Presence of God, the Divine Life Force wherever you go, just as Myrtle did. In her writings you can see the loving nature of her experience with God. Myrtle’s letters clearly express her warm, caring nature and how she openly shared herself with others.
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Unity’s Used Book Store
Did you know we have a used book store in the Fellowship Hall, Hard cover books are just $2 and soft covers are $1. Wow, there is a wide selection of books in this used book store! It’s not our lending library, but the over flow of books from the Lending Library! Take a peek you might like what you C
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Unity’s Used Book Store
Did you know we have a used book store in the Fellowship Hall, Hard cover books are just $2 and soft covers are $1. Wow, there is a wide selection of books in this used book store! It’s not our lending library, but the over flow of books from the Lending Library! Take a peek you might like what you C
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You Know This - Words of a Skylark
Apples come from apple trees. Roses grow on roses bushes. If a gardener wants carrots, he plants carrots seeds and not radishes or onions. All through life it has been proven that there is a spiritual and a natural law of life that causes all things to produce after their kind. Although Jesus Christ taught it a couple of thousands years ago, man is only now, at first regretfully and then joyfully, discovering this Truth. He discovers that each thought he holds, and each word he speaks, is governed by this very same law. Words of love and kindness never produce hate and inconsideration. You are the boss of your life, if you really want to be.