A Lesson we all must try to remember. Our Truth

Dear Spiritual Family
A Spiritual Lesson

THIS LESSON is important because it is not just a lesson for one day. If you are faithful in putting this into practice, it will be sufficient for the rest of your life. This lesson is the secret that brings happiness, joy, success, prosperity, and the ability to be of help to our fellow man throughout this world. First of all, whenever you are faced with any problem, whether it is one of health or one concerning your supply, or let us say one that concerns your relationship with other humans, here is your first step: Get comfortable; close your eyes; put your feet on the floor; and now remember that God is closer to you than breathing, nearer than hands and feet. Right here, where you are standing or sitting or playing, God is. You have only to close your eyes, get quiet for a moment, and God will solve your problem.

It may sound strange to you that you don't have to tell God what your problem is or that you don't have to ask God for any favors, and that you don't even have to make any statements or affirmations. That if you have a problem in your household or if there is some subject that you are not properly grasping, stop what you are doing for a moment, close your eyes, and realize God is right here, closer to you than breathing as close to you as inside your own chest. Wait for just a minute or two, and you will find that God, who is the divine Intelligence of your being, knows that you are coming to Him and what you are coming to Him for. It is God's good pleasure to give you the answer. In fact, it is very much like a radio station: God is always talking to you; God is always revealing the answer to every problem, whether it concerns your lessons, your health, or your human relationships; but you cannot receive God's guidance, direction, protection, or support unless you are tuned in to accept it. It is like your sitting here in this room and receiving instruction in spiritual wisdom. But suppose that you had your ears closed and weren't listening, or suppose you were outside playing, or suppose you were downtown at the movies, how then could you receive that which is so willingly offer you? The answer is: You couldn't.

You must give God obedience, attention, lovingness—not by loving a God whom you cannot see, but by loving the people with whom you come in contact. And why? In order that you may receive God's grace because, even though God is present with you, you cannot receive God's grace unless love, joy, and respect fill your mind and your Soul. Each one of us is responsible for himself. There is no God sitting up in a sky, looking down upon you and judging your actions; but there is a God-center within you that knows everything you do and which brings back to you that which you send out. Therefore, the love and the respect that you send out are the love and respect that you get back, and not only that, but they are pressed down and running over.

Have four periods a day where you do this as a daily practice—early in the morning, at noon, about dinner time, and before retiring. Close your eyes; put your feet on the floor; listen way deep down inside of yourself; and then remember that this day which lies ahead of you is now God-governed, God-protected, God-maintained, and God-sustained because you have consciously opened your consciousness to the presence and the government of God. I can promise you that if you do this every day, your life will be a success, and even more than that, you will be laying the foundation for a completely God-governed life. Remember too, if you do not do this every morning, you go out into the world just as a human being, subject to all the trials and tribulations of the human world, and without divine guidance. Thank you, God ~ And So it is!

Spiritual Burn Out ( how to prevent it)

This is a talk I gave at Columbine Unity of Boulder and decided I would be the first to start using this blog as place we can all share our Spiritual idea and lessons. From the desk of Mary Whiteflower on Spiritual Burn Out. I have been a follower of the Unity way of life for close to 40 years now. And I just received a wonderful healing, dodging the dreaded cancer, and wanted to share that first because some of you know I have been working on this healing.Praise be to God the Good.My blog today will be on Spiritual burn out.Because I am a teacher of the Tarot, I went to my Tarot to see if there was a card that described or held the essence of Spiritual burn out. Well it’s not a Major Arcane because it is not a state of understanding so it would be a Minor; a human condition or experience.So I would have to pick the 7 of pentacles because it talks about having worked so very hard gaining energy of some sort and before completion have a strong desire to rest to just sit on the idea a while before continuing because you are so exhausted.But that is the tarot and I’m hear today to share my personal experiences on the subject of Spiritual Burn out not teach tarot on this entry.Let me start by saying; I started my path toward enlightenment and understanding from the closest we can get to hell I am sure. Having come to the a sad conclusion in my youth that God; As it had been explained to me, was going to send me straight to hell, So nothing mattered because my only choice was hell.Mind you now I came from a good family, a Sweet Mom, and a Dad who took his responsibility seriously. Kind of like Ozie and Harriet, and they sent me off on a Sunday School Bus to learn about God. So I sent Myself to hell early as a drugged out lost soul by the sweet young age of 21.However Not liking there. By 22 I said my first desperate heart felt prayer and telling really begging spirit Or whatever IT was, if there was a god or any goodness it better show it’s self, because I was hitching a ride to anywhere until it showed. I was in California at the time. Well I found God in the streets of New York City. A little guru gave me a book and then someone told me about a free class while I was reading the book, and when I went there, it was the same little guru teaching that class. He told me truth for the first time in my life I wept with joy, and Set my feet upon the path of true understanding and enlightenment.Those first years I grew so fast it made my spin. The world no longer was a bad place that was sending me to hell, and I wanted everyone to hear and understood what I had been shown.Well not yet understanding what I do now,knowing about how we create our world by our emotional responses,The Old Ones if we haven’t cleared them,that that’s how we make our world by our thinking. Even though I found Unity in that first year.However trying to put my new learning in a mind filled with lies from my given social perspective lead to many burn outs of my spiritual learning.Now having been burnt out enough times on my own journey to be turned to ash maybe even too many times too confess to, but I know now time teaches, “once our feet are on the path, there is no choice but continue, to reach your total truth and the fulfillment of life.” Now I have concluded the reason spiritual burn out happens is when one stands on the edge of the alter fire of the heart, a place of seeing the need for great change and just stands there studying it and contemplating it and not taking that step of surrender into the fire. If we just set there in at the edge we burn, soon we are burned out; or if we take that steep in with only one foot stop and freeze in fear again we burn again burnout.But I’ve learned if I step in to the fire of my heart with a heart felt determined intention to step into the fire and be consumed by my commitment, and surrender, Truly surrender to the truth of my true Good God Self, and walk the walk not just talk the talk, I am truly reborn and the baggage I carried into the fire is gone.I know because it just happened after a burn out of well many years. 5 maybe 10 maybe more.Now I feel it is always our choice of how many life times takes to truly step into the kingdom. But we will have to step into the alter fires of our own heart, and forgive everything especially ourself, and allowing ourself to surrender to our own Goodness, or Godness in order to reach the true kingdom.I personally know nowI can see the joy in all times by seeing from my heart.Or if I refuse to see and feel the joy in life, be once again brought to my knees so I can truly look up into the eyes of truth.I have had to learn to Surrender to the good however it may appear, it is MY only salvation TO THINK ON THE GOOD, GOOD being the key word here,Good as in joy and beauty and things that make us feel blessed and just let all else just flow under the bridge of life.For myself I have had this path of emotional cleansing to walk (maybe because I am a Pisces), and I have had to face far to many kinds of exhausting challenges, time has truly shown me they truly are for my own pruning in order for me to make the choice of joy and more life each time, or give up and let this body die. So I have concluded each time, all else but the joy knowing the Good of God must be cut from my thinking or this body will die, Also know all trying needs to be let go of, as I surrender to Spirit within. No matter how long it may seem to take in what ever dimension I may be looking at. My job is to know joy and the goodness in life.(And that is different with every single person of course) So I say be not afraid of the fire of your heart and true commitment to surrender to the Good, the God Within. And you won’t have to endure Spiritual Burn out. Oh I too looked On the internet and I found this after I wrote my talk. Paraphrased slightly http://www.lastdaysministries.org/articles/spiritualburnout.html“Spiritual burnout can only occur where there is either a fundamental misunderstanding of the heart of the Truth, or a failure to apply it to our lives. A person who has dropped exhausted does so because he has believed a distortion of the Truth, or because he has forgotten the heart of the Truth he once committed to.”

HARNESSING THE POWER OF PRAYER AND TECHNOLOGY

Jensen Beach, FL March 18, 2009 - It’s no secret that where two or more are gathered, there are results. That is the premise behind Global Prayer Wake Up Call, a high-tech service created by Reverend Celia Filla and GlobalHeartSpiritualCenter.net . A two-minute daily message of affirmation and prayer, which is distributed via telephone at the same time to literally millions of individuals, the intent is to create an inspired outlook individually and globally. The service is being offered for free and asking only for donations, which are then used to pay for the basic operating expenses and to help run programs assisting communities and individuals in great need. The Global Prayer Wake Up Call is becoming successful beyond the founders’ dreams.

Reverend Celia, who began her ministry on the streets of Fort Pierce, Florida, mentoring, feeding and clothing her neighbors, started the Global Heart Spiritual Center in Jensen Beach, Florida two years ago in an effort to “demonstrate the presence of God with my actions in our community and our world.” With assistance from GlobalCallEnterprises.com, the state-of-the-art technology that handles the monumental task of providing millions of synchronized phone calls each and every day, along with help from members of her congregation that create web sites and handle publicity, Reverend Celia began providing the daily affirmation and prayer service in a ‘test mode’ six months ago. She says she has already seen dramatic positive changes in the lives of participants.

The process is simple and user-friendly. Participants sign up for the service for free, or by donation. Within one week of signing up, they will begin receiving a phone call at the hour of their choice. All they have to do is answer the telephone to receive the daily message delivered by Reverend Celia. The same message will be delivered to others subscribing to the service, helping to create a magnificent positive energy through prayer, creativity and commonality of purpose.

Author of the well known book, Saved by the Light, Dannion Brinkly says, “Prayer, whether used in religious contents or as willful conscious intent used scientifically, steadfastly remains the true model of harnessed spiritual might of directed thought.” The Global Prayer Wake Up Call is a sign of the times and sets a new paradigm of unity and diversity because it brings together a wide variety of faiths, backgrounds, cultures and belief systems in a shared desire for peace, prosperity and the choice of a positive attitude within ourselves and our community.

To subscribe or learn more about the Global Prayer Wake Up Call, please visit www.GlobalHeartSpiritualCenter.net. Peace and Blessings

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Please feel free to forward this to everyone! Let us get the word out!

From Mary

Hi all: I have taken down phone numbers as this is too public a place for most to be comfortable having their phone # up on the web. So if you need me or anyone else to have anyone's phone number please email it to me or to them. Also please feel free to write any thing you would like put up; like poems or ideas or thought about Unity living. About truth or your study of it. I would like to thank every one for their warm welcome yesterday after I spoke. Your appreciation meant a lot to me. Thanks So Much and remember. :Ring the bell that still can ring. Forget your Perfect offering, their is a crack in everything, that's how the light get in. " If anyone would be interested in attending a work shop of mine let me know I will post the next one I plan on this blog, it will most likely be in late April or the first part of May. Thanks again please make use of this blog as place to share your thoughts. Off to the side I will place links to my sites and if any one else wants their sites posted here send me their links and I will put them up. my email is whiteflower909@me.com Thanks

Hi Everyone

Hi Everyone: We the speaker committee will meet after church on Sunday the 8th. It will be a short meeting about 20 minutes to discuss strategy. Take heart we will do well with this project. All is well and everything is perfect. See you all Sunday tomorrow. Mary Whiteflower

Planning for Sunday services

Mary,

Thought I would give this a try with giving you additional information re suggestions for planning the sunday services. We will see if I am doing this right/if this will be received.

#1 Others who indicated that they are interested in helping with speakers for sunday services on the form that Alice created:

#2 YOU will NOT be doing the service on the 15th as they will be at youth rally that weekend. Thus we will need a speaker for that Sunday. They have asked to do the sunday service on the 29th of March. Judy Talley and are your contacts for YOU.

#3 Possible speakers: Micheal Betz(# is above) ;Donn King has spoke in the the past and is well liked,gives excellent lessons; Micheal Buckner, M.Div., Ph.D., local psychologist and hypnotherapist, Knoxville Hypnosis Center
I suggest that you make an annoucement this Sunday that anyone who would like to be a speaker or participate in a "sharing sevice" as what Unity means to them, what Unity has given them, any spiritual sharing etc OR knows of someone who would be willing to be a speaker/is a good speaker and such. That they should give you their information, phone #s etc.

#4 To get things started I suggest that you pick a date and time for all interested to meet with you and brainstorm together.

#5 I have to put 865 and then her phone # for the call to go thru from my home) has agreed to coordinate the format for the sunday service: choose music, arrange for musicians to perform, who to do the meditation, worship assistants etc etc. Yall will need to work together as you will be taking care of different parts of the sunday service. I suggest you ask her to come to your first meeting. Alice will be a good resource person for you as coordinator of speakers for sunday services. Also in the office will be working closely with Alice and with you as she is the one who will type up the bulletin/order of service.

This is all I can think of at this moment. Please call me if I can be of any assistance.

Affirming Love, Peace, Harmony and Divine Order,

Linda Green

Hi All,
Here is what I did to get here. First I made up my profile page. Follow the link until you get to the actual BLOG. Then click on the POST in the upper right hand corner and that will take you to a page that will allow you to type your post, preview it and then post it as you would like. You can customize it with all of the colors or pictures that you would like.

I would like to thank Mary for providing this for us and I think that we can use it as a great tool for communication. It was unfortunate that the meeting went as long as it did this morning. I think we were all getting hungry and perhaps a little emotional. We are going to have to allow ourselves a little time to regroup with everything and to allow ourselves time for adjustment. I am looking forward to working with all of you.

Hi Everyone

This is to help us stay in touch and keep a communication flow. So everyone please leave your ideas hopes and dreams for our church community here in Knoxville. If you wish to be on the author list and go to church at Unity of Knoxville, and have not received an invitation to do so please email me at whiteflower909@me.com and I will send you an author invitation. To author well require setting up an google account, it's free, it's easy, just follow the instruction in your invitation.

The meeting to day was long and and a little painful for us all, so this will afford everyone time to think and give suggestions and idea as to what we want the future of our church to look like. So please everyone participate and share. There are no wrong ideas. The Board of course will make any finial decisions concerning budget and church expenses. But this is a place we can all share ideas and direction.
Thank You Mary Whiteflower