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The title for this Sunday's talk may seem a bit of an overstatement, but it is possible! In fact, feeling excited and ready for change is the result of applying the spiritual tools we have been exploring during this entire series on Change.

Sunday Service

September 27th

Anne-Marie Lax

Feeling Excited and Ready for Change

Sunday Service

October 4th

Robert Spiegel

The Gnostics -- Unity's Ancient Counterpart

Music Ministry - Second Saturday Community CoffeeHouse

Saturday, October 10th, 6:00 - 9:30

Laurianne Fiorentino opening for Richard Martin

Sponsor: We are looking for an individual, family, or business to sponsor this evening for $25.

Join us for this great night of music and fun!

Come on down for coffee or tea, treats, and a wholesome family night in a listening room environment where new and seasoned performers can offer up their songs and stories to an attentive, all-ages audience. The House opens at 6 pm, music begins at 6:30.

FREE! Love Offerings will be accepted.

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September - Discover Zeal

Visit Unity's September page to read articles by Richard and Mary-Alice Jafolla or to answer reflective questions and share your prayer request with Silent Unity.

Community

Save Your Photos Day

Save Your Photos Day is an international event created to educate the public about the importance of safeguarding and archiving photos, documents, and other precious items. Currently, there are more than 40 events planned in the United States with events also planned in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Fancy's Photo Solutions is offering a free SYPD event to the East Mountain Community at the church on Saturday, 9/26. The event will run from 11 am to 3 pm and Fancy's Photo Solutions will offer free scanning of up to 50 photos per person (up to 8x10) as well as an educational presentation on the importance and process of being prepared for a natural or technological disaster. The presentation will be offered twice - at noon and 2 pm. There is no cost to attend the presentation nor to have photos scanned and digitized.

ESSENTRICS

Essentrics is a unique program that rapidly changes the shape of your body through simultaneous stretching and strengthening exercises. This workout develops strong and flexible muscles with immediate changes to your posture. ESSENTRICS is even smarter than that - it goes beyond changing just the look of your body; it also cares about how you feel in your body. With a combination of dynamic and fluid movements, ESSENTRICS improves circulation, promotes rehabilitation, and unlocks tight muscles. If you want to feel energized, positive, and healthy, then ESSENTRICS is for you. Meets at the church M/W/F from 5:30 - 6:30. Contact Kimberly Woodring for more information (or call 575-749-0025).

Monthly Massage Services for Members of UUCEM &USCEM:

Licensed massage therapist Kara Skeberdis is offering monthly massage sessions at the church building. 1-Hour and 30-minutes sessions are $40/$25for church members and $50/$30 for non-members. Please call or email Kara to schedule your session at 443-745-0406 or Kara@gmail.com. Kara has over 25 years of experience and specializes in relaxation, deep tissue and acupressure techniques. The next date is October 13th.

Interfaith Social Action Opportunity @ Woods End Church

3^rd Friday of each month 3:00 pm - 6:00ish

Help distribute food to the hungry in our community. For more info, contact Eugene (or call 286-4981).

UU Dinner & Movie Night @ Church

First Tuesday of each month.

Potluck at 6:00pm, movie at 7:00pm.

Prosperity

Spiritual Economics

September: The Money Enigma

The Money Enigma:

"It is simply that when we place the emphasis on outer things, we miss the whole meaning of life. Life is for expressing, for growth and expansion," Eric Butterworth.

The Webster's Dictionary tells us that an enigma is something that is hard to understand or explain. This is very true when it comes to truly understanding or explaining our relationship with money.

The University of Michigan conducted a study about how money affected people's lives. Three findings below stood out above all the rest:

1. What do people worry about most? Money

2. What makes people most happy? Money

3. What makes people the unhappiest? Money

You may think these results do not include you, for your mind is stayed on God as your source, but you still have bills to pay and that takes money.

Our thinking, feeling, and actions around money have a direct effect on our prosperity. Money represents different things to different people and is clouded with "not enough" thinking. Money is nothing more than a piece of paper that allows us to trade it for the things in life that we think we want or need. As a monetary exchange, it is indispensable, but when we allow it to become our obsession, it drains us mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. As long as you have impressed on your money the thought of insufficiency, it will continue to misrepresent you in your time of need. But if you contently infuse your money with the idea of abundance, it will begin to work for you in positive ways.

Charles Fillmore tells us, "Watch your thoughts when you are handling your money, because your money is attached through your mind to the one source of all substance and all money. When you think of money, which is visible, as something attached to an invisible source that is giving or withholding to your thought, you have the key to all riches and all lack."

Money is a symbol of the currency or flow of universal substance. How we think, feel and interact around money can become the object of life's search for meaning.

Determine for yourself that money will always be a symbol of abundance, not limitation, not the goal of your life. Doing this will firmly establish balance in your spiritual well-being and will allow you to experience life more abundantly.

What the Bible says:

"For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, and in their eagerness to be rich some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pains." 1 Tim 6:10

"Whoever loves money never has money enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with his income." Ecc 5:10

"No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money." Mt 6:24

What Unity says:

"Money is a means to an end, not the end itself. You cannot eat money, and it cannot keep you warm or cuddle you at night. Simply having money is not the goal. The goal is to use it to do whatever your heart leads you to do and to do that which fulfills your divine purpose." Edwene Gaines, The Four Spiritual Laws of Prosperity

"Money is good to the man of sense perception: but when he allows himself to become enamored of it and hoards it, he makes it his god." Charles Fillmore, Christian Healing

"Money is divine, because money is God's good in expression." Catherine Ponder, The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity

"When money is relegated to its rightful place in life it becomes an outer symbol of God's abundance...it is God's defense against lack and limitation. Like all good it must be kept in circulation." Georgiana Tree West, Prosperity's Ten Commandments

Ideas for practice:

Take time with your journal and write about your story of "If Money Were No Object to Me Having My Dreams." Make a list of what you would do. Then choose one and do it as if money were no object.
In your meditation time, consider, "Is money a tool I use for my highest and best, or is it my hard task master?" Ask God to show you how to use it or how to eliminate this taskmaster.
With your prayer triad talk about how money has shown up in your lives. Together bless your money. Send it forth with joyful positive energy. Take time to support each other when times of lack show up.

Prayer


Please add the following people to your prayer/meditation practice: (updated weekly) USCEM Jessica Kraf's family and friends Joel (healing) Tyler & Cheryl (healing, guidance, and prosperity) Anne-Marie (perfect employment) Jessica R. (healing) Jeannette P. (healing)	uPray uPray, a free prayer app from Silent Unity, is now available. uPray is available for Apple iOS 7.0 or later and Android 2.3.3 (Gingerbread) or later. With the app you can submit a prayer request to Silent Unity, listen to the month's meditation and the Prayer for Protection, and read affirmations across a broad list of topics. Click the photo above to see all the ways you can get the Daily Word!	"Silent Unity. How may we pray with you?" Do you have a prayer request? There are several ways to contact Silent Unity, the 24/7-prayer ministry: Call: 1-800-NOW-PRAY (669-7729) International: 01-816-969-2000 Write: Silent Unity, 1901 NW Blue Parkway, Unity Village, MO 64065-0001 Or use our online prayer request form.

Support Your Spiritual Center


Smith's Community Rewards Smith's Community Rewards makes fundraising for USCEM easy...simply by using your Smith's Rewards Card at any Smith's! There is no cost to enroll, and enrollment will not affect your fuel points or coupon discounts. You must have a registered Smith's Rewards Card to participate. If you do not, you can apply for one at Customer Service. If you don't know your number because you use your phone number at the register, you can call 800-576-4377 and select option 4. You must link your card to USCEM online. If you have an online account already, go to the website below, sign in, and click on your name to go to your account. Scroll down and edit the Community Rewards section. Enter our NPO number or our name and select us from list and click on "Enroll". If you don't have an online account, you must click "Register" in the upper right corner on the website. Sign up for a Smith's Rewards Account by entering your email address, creating a password. Enter your zip code in the "Your location", then by selecting your favorite store, and agreeing to the terms and conditions. A message to check your email inbox will appear, Check your email account, you must click on the link within the body of the email. Click on "Sign in" located in the upper right corner and use your email address and password to proceed to the next step. Click on your name to go to your Account. In Account Summary click on "Edit" Rewards Card and input your Smith's rewards card number. Confirm your information. Scroll down and edit the Community Rewards section. Enter our NPO number or our name and select us from list and click on "Enroll". Go to Smith's Community Rewards to Enroll or Register/Enroll Our NPO number: 24564	Let Your Online Shopping Support Us Whether you shop at Amazon, Walmart.com, Itunes, or many other online retailers, your purchases can help support USCEM. Always start on the USCEM Shopping Site. From there you go to your favorite retailer and a percentage of your purchases will be sent to us later - at no extra cost to you. The average amount paid to us is a little more than 5% of your purchases. NEW INFO: The Reminder App is being discontinued as of July 1st. Please UNINSTALL it if you have it (contact Fancy if you need help with this). If you don't uninstall it, you may end up supporting other causes such as sports teams, etc. We are looking at other ways to automate this system. In 2014 we earned $96.49 through Impact Shopping. Let's beat it in 2015! Go to the USCEM Shopping Page	Stewardship Unity is a center of spiritual light. We are dedicated to letting this light shine so brightly that people become more aware of their spiritual nature and express it in their daily lives. We address physical, mental and emotional needs through affirmative prayer and spiritual education. We serve those who seek inspiration and prayer support as well as those who use Unity teachings as their primary path of spiritual growth. We ask for your generosity in sharing your time, talents, and treasure with USCEM so that we can share this light with many. We affirm that God is the source of our supply and that we all are good stewards of self, family, community, congregation, and the Unity faith. Successful stewardship involves not only protecting the resources that exist, but also nurturing growth to ensure the future. Stewardship invites each person to balance spiritual development with good works in the wider world, enabling us to put our faith in action. 2016 Stewardship information will be here soon.

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Fancy Ruff-Wagner
Your Newsletter Editor

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