New Beginnings by Rob Geyer Do you remember your first day of kindergarten? Was yours an exciting and anxious time? Did you feel ready for the unknown? Right now Maureen and I are experiencing this through the eyes of our five year old granddaughter, Kirsten. We see and HEAR the unbridled enthusiasm in her face…
…and Ripening Fruit by Heather Diddel About five years ago, I said to Rev. Jim, “Don’t ever leave.” I may have said it in a joking manner, but I was dead serious. Even as I knew it was wishful thinking. In getting to know Jim and Kay as I discovered Unity truth teachings, I found…
…Let me count the ways By Roger Mock Well, apparently there are four possibilities. At least in ancient Greek there are four words given for love. They are: storge to describe familial love, philia to describe love for a friend, eros for sensual love and—the word for love we hear Jesus use most often in the New Testament—agape. Agape can be seen…
… your whole body will be full of light by Roger Mock This is one of the slightly more enigmatic sayings of Jesus in the New Testament. Here is the whole passage from Luke 11.34-36: Your eye is the lamp of your body; when your eye is single, your whole body is full of light;…
by Rev. Jim Fuller “I am willing to change.” This is a truly powerful statement if it is meant and if it is offered to our Source (to God) rather than to our egoic self. To the ego or human personality change typically means rearranging the same old living room furniture in the same old…
by John Daubney The old spiritual adage that proclaims: “If you want to keep what you receive, it’s vital to give it away”, is as important today as it has ever been. It seems the universe works that way. Ernie Klemm listened to his inner voice; was inspired by the example of others who gave…
by Rob Geyer HOME. That’s the word I’ve heard most often when folks talk about Unity Church in Albany. That it feels like HOME. A place they’ve needed and wanted and at last, finally found. A place for their spirit to feel at peace, but also a place from which to grow and expand into…
by Roger Mock The other morning, while looking through some pieces of music I had collected for possible future use, I came across an amusing little round for four voices with these lyrics: “Though I know my voice is only mediocre, I will sing to the Lord, because they say with God it’s the thought…
by Rev. Jim Fuller Dear Friends, Our friend the Buddha offered many helpful insights for developing deep spiritual wisdom; among these was the teaching of impermanence. His teachings on impermanence remind us of the temporary nature of things and conditions in the physical/phenomenal world. Things come into being. They last a while, changing as…
by Roger Mock Songwriter Bruce Cockburn, (who, you may notice, I have a habit of quoting) has a song with the chorus, “The trouble with normal is it always gets worse.” His song addresses the political realities that cause the rich to get richer and the poor to get poorer and to remain mostly…