Sometimes we may feel like we have fallen into a hole and just cannot get out of the situations we find ourselves in.  When we use Spiritual principles we can return to wholeness and begin to live the transcendent life we were intended to live.  Join us this Sunday at Unity of Divine Love, Chandler's Celebration Service at 10:00am and learn some tools on we can begin to rise above the mundane, everyday world into our God-intended magnificence.

“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.

Every Christmas we commemorate the Birth of Jesus. But the real celebration comes when we allow personal recognition of the Christ nature to be born and grow Itself within us. Thank You For The Gift You Bring! The Christ knocks at the door of our Being constantly that we may open up, even more, to the power endowed by the Creator. Thank You For The Gift You Bring! The nature of the Christ teaches us how to allow power to flow through us and create lives so fulfilled and abundant we can’t even imagine. Thank You For The Gift You Bring! However every once in awhile, because of Grace, we get a glimpse of the greater reality.

While the exact date of Yeshua/Jesus’s birth may be questionable, the impact of His coming is profound, beyond a doubt. This Christmas let the gift of the Christ be born/renewed in you. That, raises the vibration of the Gifts We Bring! It is Time Beloved!

And Now may Sacred Unity and the Grace of the Christ be made manifest in us all!

Crucifixion, Resurrection, Now What??? We’ve just passed through the Easter season and experienced, hopefully, the resurrected Christ within each of us. Did you feel something?

Often when you go through a crucifixion experience, otherwise known as a challenge or major issue, you can have a resurrection, an awakening, a re-vitalizing moment - one that gives you juice and a feeling of spiritual victory. Then what sometimes happens is a let down feeling - so the question comes...how do we maintain the resurrection experience, how do we maintain the awakening, the opening and how do we continue along our journey without going back to sleep.

Did you allow the Easter season to transform you this year? Either way, if you did or if you didn’t, now that Easter has past, now that Jesus has been resurrected again, now what? How will you be different, changed? How will you stand in the upcoming weeks and months? Does the fact that Jesus resurrected mean something to you personally?

There are two times a year when light, love and spiritual awareness are at their highest: Christmas and Easter. There is the Christmas season when everyone is filled with cheer and love for one another. Christians are celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ. Then there is Easter which begins with the celebration of Palm Sunday and ends with the Resurrection of Christ.

It is interesting to note the activity of the crowd of people in scripture who surrounded Jesus on Palm Sunday and later at his trial before Pontius Pilate. John, a disciple of Jesus Christ, writes about this crowd and gives an account of their behavior:

The next day, the news that Jesus was on the way to Jerusalem swept through the city. A large crowd of Passover visitors took palm branches and went down the road to meet him. They shouted, 'Praise God! Blessings on the one who comes in the name of the Lord! Hail to the King of Israel!' John 12: 12-13 (NLT)

One might say the crowd consisted of different people; I would argue that they are one in the same. Different people may have moved in and out of the crowd; but the basic make up of this crowd consisted of the same people. The crowd started out believing Jesus was the Messiah; but then changed and wanted Him crucified. What happened? In general, the crowd had one thing in common; it is referred to in the scripture as “unbelief”:

But despite all the miraculous signs Jesus had done most of the people still did not believe in him. John 12:37 (NLT)

Today, instead of saying “unbelief” we would probably use terms like negative thinking. The crowd also had something else in common, fear. With this deadly combination of negative thinking and fear, whatever amount of faith they had was destroyed as evidenced by them crying out “crucify him.” So how does this apply to us today.

Each moment we are surrounded by a crowd of negative thoughts, thoughts of unbelief and fear. This crowd does not necessarily exist outside of us, but in our mind. It is our personal crowd consisting of thoughts of doubt, disappointment, disillusionment, fear and downright stinkin thinkin. This is the crowd that cries out to crucify the positive thoughts, crucify our hope and faith.

This crowd causes pain and challenges our faith. How are we going to deal with this crowd?

Jesus, the Christ, was a non-violent revolutionary living through one of the most violent times in human history. No other being in all of “human-hood” has touched and transformed the lives of so many for good.

Emanuel, God with us, walking the earth, first as a man, became the Christ! Yeshua ben Joseph, Jesus the Christ demonstrated Life without limitation, “I came that you may have life and that more abundantly. We’ve all heard the stories of how death was overcome; death has been swallowed up in victory” to be exact! Spontaneous healing occurred and multitudes were feed. We were told, we could do the same but the fear that if we do what he did, we will get what he got……Crucified! There is a reason you feel that way.

The raw material to nurture the teachings of Jesus is within us. The transforming power of Love, the real Love message, miracle making power and sheer illumination of Grace has been cloistered in manipulation for control from the beginning of the early church…and yet truth has been there all the long.

In honor of the Truth that sets us all free, the Easter season, support for our inner work and our outer lives, we’ll briefly examine some of the teaching, historical impact, practice and our practical application. Don’t worry among the aah haas they’ll be plenty to laughs.