There are times when life's circumstances seem to test the limits of our faith. Every seeming challenge has the seed of opportunity to practice faith at a deeper level. We will discover that in order to overcome obstacles, the solution is found in the silence.

When we become centered in the presence of the living God, our faith cooperates with the manifestation of prosperity in all areas of our lives. Each day, God reveals new ways to increase and use our unlimited gifts, talents and abilities, creating solutions to every seeming challenge.

As we pray for healing—for ourselves or for a loved one—our faith in God's wisdom, strength and love fortifies our prayers with spiritual illumination and brings us back to wholeness.

Through the spirit of the living Christ within, our minds and bodies express health and wholeness.

Abundant blessings,

Rev. Lori

“We begin our religious experience, our unity with Divine Mind, by having faith in that mind as omnipresent, all wise, all loving, all-powerful Spirit…Faith in the spiritual man quickens spiritual understanding.” From The Twelve Powers of Man by Unity co-founder Charles Fillmore.

It is extremely challenging for us to leap over or transform the walls of illusion and separation. We have been made to see the world as human beings; limited, disconnected, abandoned with a deep sense of unworthiness. None of that is true! But to find what is truly ours we have to be willing to consciously move into the Land of I AM, into the land of being, understanding and acceptance.

I love that the Disciple this month is Thomas better known to the masses as “doubting Thomas.” Jesus is said to have appeared to the Disciples at least twice. The first time created quite the stir to begin with but because Thomas was not there, he declares that he doesn’t believe and won’t believe until he can put his fingers in the wounds of Christ. And so Love personified returns to let him do just that, Yeshua (Jesus) appears again.

“We activate the mind power of Faith by affirming words of Faith, giving praise and thanksgiving to God. As we affirm; I have Faith in God; I have Faith in the Spirit; I have Faith in things invisible; these affirmations quicken the mind, making God visible to the mind and strengthens the Faith faculty. This action will bring forth the knowing of the Presence of God, to be received by the giving up of personal attachments and repenting or changing one’s mind.” Charles Fillmore Co-Founder of Unity of Practical Christianity.

There is a highly circulated portion of Da Vinci’s Sistine Chapel masterpiece that depicts the fingers of the hand of God and the hand of man almost about to touch. That stretch, that intensity and struggle typifies the orientation most of us have experienced in our relationship with God. It really is much easier than that but it does require willingness on our part. A willingness to re-orientate ourselves; to refocus our attention; to, in fact, take our attention off the way we see it and allow new “in-sight.” Let us get re-orientated and redefine our direct connection to the Presence that is everywhere present now, loving us and longing to love through us. That Presence waits for our yes to lift us in consciousness. Let us, like a child stepping on to the feet of a trustworthy adult, accept the invitation to glide and Dance through this year. Let us be willing to let Faith in Love lead the way.