April 24, 2021

From the Desk of Pastor Robert
 
 
Dear Church Family,
 
The saying goes, “What goes around, comes around.” It is an expression about Karma. Karma usually refers to actions we took in a previous life that return in some payment or manifestation in another life. Unity does not teach karma per se, we believe that our Master Teacher, Jesus Christ, came to this world to demonstrate the forgiveness and grace of God’s love erasing any past.
 
However, we teach that thoughts are things – our thoughts create our experience. Therefore, we are accountable for how our world unfolds through our thoughts. Most of us consider ourselves blessed. And we enjoy the comforts & opportunities of the blessed thoughts we project in the world. We hold ourselves accountable for our responses and interactions with the world. And we believe others are accountable for their view or results, too.
 
This is no small feat, because we live in a culture that is prone to blame others for their experience of lack or incompleteness. I have had my moments of blaming others for the appearance of lack in my life. There was a time when I blamed my parents, society or even “the Man” for any appearance of lack in my life. (This is not to discount our growing awareness of the need to change our collective consciousness towards equality of all peoples. If we did not most of us would have limited protections.)
 
Applying Truth Principles helps us understand we oversee our emotional, physical and mental well-being. Knowing that the only reality is God the Good Omnipotence reinforces our accountability. Everything else that appears to stop us from our good is error thought. I hold this in mind when the appearance is others have control over me. Or when someone else wants to pass the blame onto someone or something else.
 
People ask me from time to time to address a particular topic or event in our human world. They ask the question, “How does Unity view this….?” Unity is based on Truth Principles and acknowledges that each person is on their spiritual unfolding of consciousness – and believes that we create our world of experiences through our thoughts and feelings. We believe each person is accountable for their thoughts, feelings and actions.
 
And Unity supports the unfolding of our collective consciousness that assists in our spiritual evolution. We are evolving at a rapid pace so that genders, races, and communities are being recognized, uplifted and brought to the table. Currently we are in time when it is reported and appears there are great divisions. I see it as acceleration of our great unfolding – we are moving from point to point so fast that it provokes fear in most. So, if you are nostalgic for the good old days or dreaming of the better world you hope to create through change there may be a lot of moments of fear along the way.
 
And when that fear arises, I invite to you come back to the original Truth. There is only one Presence and Power active in the Universe, God the Good Omnipotence. This is our home.
 
Many Blessings,
Pastor Robert