GREAT MORNING BELOVED!!
Happy Father’s Day!
Father’s Day is a holiday for honoring fatherhood and paternal bonds, as well as the influence of fathers in our society. Founded by Sonora Smart Dodd and celebrated on the third Sunday of June officially since 1910 to celebrate the father figures in the lives of those we see as Father figures.
From Daily OM:
The idea of fatherhood is both personal and universal. We all have ideal concepts surrounding fatherhood, and we also have our real fathers — fathers who were there or not there for us, fathers who provided financial support for our families or failed to do so, fathers who loved or neglected us, fathers who were our role models or gave us someone to rebel against. Our father may have been there for us sometimes and not there for us at other times. The process of reconciling the ideal father that resides in our minds with the father that we actually have is a fertile one that can teach us a great deal about ourselves.
Our relationship with our father will often affect our relationships with the other men who will come into our lives. You may have learned to behave and think in certain ways because those were the ways that your father acted and thought. Certain talents that you possess may have been passed down to you by your father. There also may be personal issues that you inherited by virtue of who your father is. Understanding how your relationship with your father has influenced you can help you better understand yourself and the life that you have created.
In a time when mothers, the sacred feminine, and female energy are being honored, it is important not to forget the importance of fathers. Father energy and mother energy are the two complementary energies necessary to bring a healthy human being to fruition in the world. Many of the ideas surrounding fathers are changing in the wake of more modern parenting styles and the more egalitarian roles that are evolving between the sexes. More men are embodying the mother energy these days, and a woman can provide father energy for her children. Either way, we can all benefit from thinking about our fathers and how they have influenced who we’ve become and the ways that we walk through this world.
As has become my tradition to read “Love You Forever” by Robert Munsch for Mother’s Day, I thought I’d remind you that the last page of that book is about the son who has now become a Father and is holding his baby daughter, rocking her back and forth and singing “I love you forever, I’ll like you for always, as long as I’m living my baby you’ll be”. The very same song his Mother sang to him. What a great lead into Father’s Day.
Let us remember to honor our fathers.
You know, when I was a kid, we had children’s day too. It wasn’t about honoring as it was for Mothers and Fathers tho. I remember having to recite some verse and sing songs in front of the whole church and being very nervous.
The only good thing was a ride after to the Burger King near Harrisburg for a whopper (cheap way to feed 6 kids!) and then watch the planes land and take off at the Hershey airport (just a grass runway with single engine planes) and ice cream at Twin Kiss.
THAT WAS A DAY we all looked forward!
I hope you all take the time and give some loving to those in your life, alive or transitioned, who have given you support throughout your life. We ALL need a hand up once in a while, a smile of support, a hand to hold, a hug.
Thank you to everyone who has been that person for me.
WELCOME BACK!
It’s kind of a home coming this morning. What a wonderful morning to be back together, Thanks for joining us.
We all have experienced the trauma of the pandemic, for almost a year and a half now. And we all have scars of one kind or another. Please do not be hesitant to reach out to your Unity Family, your leaders, your Prayer Chaplains, your friends as we move forward to a new ‘normal’.
If you have been following as we have reviewed the 5 Principles, you know that we create with our thoughts, words and deeds. Lets all work together to make these next steps forward to an even greater reality for us all.
Now I think it is very appropriate to talk about our 5th Principle on Father’s Day. This principle is all about action, and isn’t that what these people have done for us throughout our lives?
So, the 5th Principle is “Knowing and understanding the Laws of Life, also called Truth, are not enough. A person must also live the Truth that he or she knows.”
We have these wonderful Principles, but we have to put them into our lives for them to work…”If you work it, it works!”
Comprehending the nature of God and humankind, understanding the power of the mind, and knowing how to pray will not stimulate spiritual growth unless applied to daily living.
It’s what we mean when we say, ‘put feet to your prayers’.
The whole idea of learning something is to then to apply it to our lives, either to make it happen as in a good thing, or to keep something from happening as in understanding the laws a gravity and not falling off a ladder.
If an endeavor is to become fruitful, there must be both spiritual and physical action.
4 of the 5 principles are about changing consciousness before changing behavior.
If we do not change our consciousness, the behavior we attempt will not be true…
Our part is simply to ‘move a little’ today in prayer; ‘move a little’ in thought, word, and deed, and let God take care of the rest. We use our inner faith and outer application and act accordingly.
… we are creating our experience with our every thought and feeling. Remember, the emotion behind the thought is very important.
The goal is to live consciously in that awareness and take action as we are guided by our higher self, by the inner Christ, by our Buddha heart.
When we are living the truth, any action we take will be from a consciousness of Spirit and oneness, from our integrity, with the ego at service to our soul. Our work is to learn how to wield our spiritual tools in our human experience.
Our 1st 4 principles are a checklist to #5
- Do I affirm divine intelligence and love in this situation?
In other words, do I believe there is only God, the good, omnipotent?
- Do I remember my own divinity and that of others involved?
That we are all of the Divine Spirit, the energy that makes up everything.
- Do I take responsibility for attracting this situation into my experience and know that its outcome for me will match my thoughts and feelings about it?
Have I recognized that I have free will and I choose what I am focusing on to make it happen, consciously or unconsciously?
- Have I aligned myself with God, the universe, the Good, and received guidance before I act?
In other words, am I placing feet to the thoughts and prayers behind the Principles that I believe?
Any action that feels forced, impulsive or emotional is likely not to be in principle. Acting in principle brings a reassuring sense of being on the right track.
Spiritual action does not demand marching in the streets against something. It means integrating our divine essence into ordinary, annoying, daily living with its drudgery, confusion, and difficult people—-how do we apply these principles when we are feeling ill, heartbroken, angry, etc.? How do we make the choices daily aligned with principle so we can create the kingdom of heaven on earth?
The first thing is to be connected to Divine-Mind. Then, listen to the guidance.
People who are practicing principle may choose different actions, whatever works to keep you in positive vibration. I might walk the dogs or at one time I would take a run. You might meditate or have a date night.
Remember-action includes the thoughts and feelings you contribute to the whole, the One Mind.
This is the example from the book, “The Five Principles” by Rev. Ellen Debenport: pg 119
So if we predict something bad will happen, and it does….what we focused on grows—positive or negative. Emotional energy packs more effect than we give credit.
Charles, “Pronounce every experience good and of God, and by that mental attitude you will call forth only the good. What seemed error will disappear and only the good will remain. This is the law, and no one can break it.”
The bottom line, put your energy, as in for equality for all and not anti-gays, or for peace and not against war.
When beliefs or attitudes are held by nearly everyone, they will inevitably erupt into the physical world. An energy shift always precedes physical changes: The fall of the Berlin Wall was the result of a shift in collective consciousness; the green movement to save the environment is the result of collective consciousness. When enough people begin to shift their thinking, we reach a tipping point in awareness happens, then outward physical change begins.
To bring peace to the world, be peaceful.
So, pray without ceasing. Keep your thoughts aligned with your heart.
Mother Teresa; “We feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean, but the ocean would be less without that drop.”
What truly matters is what’s going on in our hearts and minds.
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