Lent began on Wednesday and leads up to Easter Sunday. Unity chooses the practices of releasing and feasting. Releasing means letting go of thoughts, beliefs, and behaviors that block living peacefully, authentically, and purposefully. Feasting is engaging in thinking that fosters peace, gratitude, compassion, growth/transformation, and being of service to others. These choices enhance our physical, mental, and spiritual well-being. We are renewed and energized.

Listen to some words from Fr. Richard Rohr, a modern mentor to oodles of Christians. “Love is not really an action that you do. Love is what and who you are, in your deepest essence.  Love is a place that already exists inside of you but is also greater than you. That’s the paradox.  It’s within you and yet beyond you. This creates a sense of abundance and more-than-enoughness, which is precisely the satisfaction and deep peace of the True Self. You know you’ve found a well that will never go dry (see John 4:13-14.)  Your True Self, God’s Love in you, cannot be exhausted.”

As February begins, we focus on love. Our dear Susan G. will be inviting us to consider serving with love as a Prayer Chaplain (2/8). We have our Love In Action Fair Sunday (2/15) and Mary C. shares the opportunity to be a force of love with many others serving UCBA and beyond. We have the men showing love by hosting another Papa’s Spaghetti, followed by our talented members and friends singing their love in a Talent Show (2/20).  And then, on Teddy Bear Sunday, (2/22) we bring in the bears to donate to our policemen, making love visible and comforting during traumatic situartions.

Debbie Johnston and Gary Miles were featured on WTVR CBS 6's Virginia This Morning to discuss the upcoming Prosperity Plus III - Living Full Spectrum Wealth series from January 18th thru March 8th here at Unity Church of Bon Air.

Joy to you as you discover the nativity in your life. We are living expressions of this story.  Let’s ponder how to live as a human, divine One, awakened to infinite potential.

“There is One Presence and One Power active in the universe and in my life.”  I think of that power as Love and when I am awake to it, I know joy. It’s not always a jumping up and down joy; sometimes it whispers and feels like peace and harmony. Sunday morning felt electric with the music and the energy in the room. Sunday evening felt joyous, calm, and harmonious as Barbie and I hosted the new member dinner at my home.

‘Tis the season for faith, peace, joy, and love! We celebrate the Truth of the season. Christmas calls us to repeatedly give birth to the Christ of our true nature with more awareness and passion. The fullest life is the one which is committed to giving the Christ, the gift of your true Self, to the world. To do this, we grow in our understanding of being one with Christ consciousness and in how to express that daily.

When I think about faith, the thing that is challenging, is leaning into what my heart knows even when I can’t quite see the proof in the external world. I am looking with the spiritual eyes of vision rather than my physical eyes. It’s a spiritual practice to trust the Truth I know or have experienced rather than the external view. It’s an opportunity to lean into the spiritual principles and know that they ALWAYS work.