Prayer Chaplain Corner
Greetings from your Prayer Chaplain Team
Greetings to all of you sharing the wonderful Unity spiritual path! I am so honored to call you my companions as we find our way deeper and deeper into harmony and grace as we travel together.
Soon, upcoming, is the month of gratitude, so I would like to take some time to share some thoughts from the heart about thanksgiving, appreciation and gratefulness as we enter into this time of giving.
A wise spiritual teacher once pointed out to me that gratitude is not just a feeling or a kind of thought. Gratitude is a causative force in our lives. A force that propels us further and faster and higher into our greater good.
When we practice appreciation for even the simple things in our lives, we are blessed with more of it, and also an abundance of good in other areas. Lacking money for car insurance? Spend time and energy in gratitude for your grocery money. Short of funds for a nice dinner out on the town? Say a few words of appreciation for a trip to Taco Bell. Feeling a little unappreciated? Call someone and express joy and thankfulness that they are in your life. You will be amazed at the changes in just a few short weeks.
Many people keep a gratitude journal or list, each day writing down things they are thankful for. If list making is not your thing, you could sing it in the shower, or list it in your mind while you brush your teeth, or tell it to someone on the phone. Spirit does not care what form your appreciation takes, but it is magnified in your life when you activate it.
So I encourage you this month to take big steps on your spiritual and physical journey by practicing gratitude at a deeper level. Let your life be lifted into greater and greater good this month. Let me know how it goes.
Namaste,
Dana Martin, Unity OKC Prayer Chaplain Team
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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.