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Second Saturday Community Coffeehouse

Saturday, March 12th, 6:00 - 9:30

Headliner: The Buckarettes

Opening: Anne-Marie & Robyn

MC: Anne-Marie Lax

Sponsor: New Mexico Music Awards

Sunday Service

March 13th, 9:30 am

Anne-Marie Lax

TBA

Board Meeting

March 13th, after service

Fancy's Home

Everyone welcome

Interfaith Social Action Opportunity @ Woods End Church

3^rd Friday, March 18^th, 3:00 pm - 6:00ish

Help distribute food to the hungry in our community. For more info, contact Eugene at geniejoe@earthlink.net or 286-4981

Sunday Service

Palm Sunday

March 20th, 9:30 am

Robert Spiegel

The Road to Jerusalem

Music Ministry - Second Saturday Community CoffeeHouse

Saturday, March 12th, 6:00 - 9:30

Headliner: The Buckarettes

Opener: Anne-Marie & Robyn

MC: Anne-Marie Lax

Sponsor: The New Mexico Music Awards

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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Inspiration from Unity

A New Perspective for the Lenten Season

Take a fresh look at your life during Lent. Now is the time to reevaluate and make some exciting changes! With our newest booklet you will experience:

A new, uplifting affirmation for each day of Lent
Encouraging messages to inspire you
Special messages for Palm Sunday and Easter

Get your copy of Lent 2016: Higher Ground to guide you through an insightful and rejuvenating Lenten season. You can either download a pdf immediately or ask to have a hard copy mailed.

Inspiration from Unity

The First Step in Spiritual Healing

By Robert Brumet

Robert Brumet is an ordained Unity minister. The following excerpt is from his book The Quest for Wholeness: Healing Ourselves, Healing Our World, the third book in the Continuing Quest series.

The first step in spiritual healing is to recognize our own needs for healing. With physical illness these needs may seem obvious. In other situations the needs may not be so obvious. Some conditions of suffering seem to involve other persons or external circumstances. If we are blaming other persons or circumstances for our suffering, then we are not seeing the need for our own spiritual healing. Spiritual healing begins with the recognition that "I'm the one who needs to be healed."

... Spiritual healing begins when we are willing to be changed. It will not occur if we want others to change or if we want circumstances to change, but are not willing to change ourselves. Other people in our lives may need healing as much as we do, but we will never become whole if we focus on their need for healing instead of our own.

... Spiritual healing begins as we turn to God for help. We turn to God first because our original nature is spiritual. As spiritual beings, we are expressions of God, never separated from our Source.

... We turn to God first and then to human beings as God guides us. Turning to God for help does not necessarily mean that we avoid human assistance. It does not mean that we refuse to change harmful conditions in our lives. We may need to turn to God for help and move our feet. God works through us but not for us. God is not a giant in the sky who will solve our problems for us, but God is that Giant within us who will guide us to right understanding and to right action.

Creating the Healing Vision
Any condition of suffering-physical, mental, emotional or spiritual-is a condition of disease (dis-ease). We define disease as "any departure from wholeness; any harmful or destructive condition; any condition of suffering." We begin the spiritual healing process by acknowledging our own needs for healing and then turning to God for help. The next step is to look at our responses to the experience of disease. Often our initial response is "Something is wrong; this shouldn't be happening!" We may feel resistance and anger. We protest. "Why did this happen to me?" "Why now?" "I did all the right things and now this happens; it's not fair!"

We usually view our suffering as something that happens to us. It may appear that we've become victims of some unwanted force disrupting our lives, liberty and pursuit of happiness. We are conditioned to believe that we are in control of our lives. When something unpleasant happens that seems beyond our control, we may feel like victims of some "evil power."

If you should find yourself responding in this way, do not become self-critical. That will only increase your suffering. Responding to a major disease with denial, anger or guilt is very common. These responses are ways that we defend ourselves against the more vulnerable feelings of intense fear or grief.

We need to recognize and honestly acknowledge our responses to the condition without guilt or apology. We must have compassion for ourselves or else we add to our suffering. After becoming aware of and accepting our initial responses, we may then ask ourselves, "Is there another way to see this?" Often we respond to a disease the same way we would respond to a flat tire: "Let's get it fixed so that I get on with my life." We may see suffering as a major inconvenience that is getting in the way of our plans. We usually see a disease as a "stumbling block," as something that blocks our conscious desires and intentions. Spiritual healing begins when we are willing to see our suffering as a stepping-stone rather than as a stumbling block. Healing begins when we can open ourselves to the possibility of a hidden gift within the suffering. There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands.

An oyster's first experience of a pearl is that of an irritating grain of sand that shouldn't be there. Just as the pearl forms from an irritant in the oyster, we can discover great pearls of wisdom from those conditions that irritate us. The potential wisdom is already within us, but it may take an irritant to bring it forth. In dealing with our irritants skillfully, we discover something within us that we never before could see. Who would believe that the lowly oyster could produce such a great prize as the pearl? Within us lies the potential for the "pearl of the great price." This pearl is the priceless wisdom, power and freedom for which we would gladly have given all our possessions.

A Course in Miracles

Our Movie Screening of A Chorus in Miracles went very well. After the movie there was a discussion about starting A Course In Miracles Study Group. If you are interested in this, please email Fancy at admin@unityemtns.org. No details have been decided and we are going to use email to set a date and time that works for all.

This is still on the To-Do list. In the meantime, check out A Chorus in Miracles, The Musical Experience where you can get the text with music (paid item) or the Workbook with music (free item).

Thank You Shoppers!

Thanks to those of you who start your online shopping on the Impact Shopping/USCEM page. This month we received a payment of $32.31 at no extra cost to you. Be sure you bookmark this page and always start your online shopping there so we can earn some passive income. Put it in your bookmark bar and click it before you go to Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart.com, and more! Just always click it and then put your store name in the search on the page. Thank you!

Community

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 from 5:30 - 6:30. Contact Kimberly Woodring for more information (or call 575-749-0025).

Massage Services for Members:

Licensed massage therapist Kara Skeberdis is offering massage sessions at her studio in Cedar Crest. Hour and half hour sessions are $40/$25 for church members and friends, and $50/$30 for the general public. Please call Kara to schedule your session at 443-745-0406, or email her at shiatsu.Kara@gmail.com. Kara has over 25 years of experience and specializes in relaxation, deep tissue and acupressure techniques.

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).

Prayer


Please add the following people to your prayer/meditation practice: (updated weekly) USCEM Jeannette P. (healing) David L. (healing) Tyler (guidance) Anne B. (peace & comfort) Deborah F. (healing & peace) Anne-Marie (perfect employment)	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. Bookmark this URL and always start here. Then go shopping. http://impactshopping.com/USCEM/ So far we've earned $32.31 in 2016! We didn't earn anything in 2015 - although we earned $94 in 2014. It's probably because people weren't starting at the shopping page. Please do this - it costs you nothing extra and is an easy habit to adopt. Go to the USCEM Shopping Page	The Law of Giving and Receiving By Ernest Holmes Everything in Nature moves in circles. What goes out must come back. Unless the seed is sown it cannot bear fruit. There must be a planting time for every harvest. Who gives all receives all. Who refuses to give, limits the possibility of the greater good returning to him. Love and you will be loved. Extend joy and you will become more joyful. The ancient Talmud says, "God will doubly guide the already guided" and Jesus, the greatest of the great, said, "Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again." (Luke 6:38) We do not give because God needs the gift but because the giving increases, broadens and deepens the life of the giver. Nor shall we give from the standpoint of duty. The universe refuses to bargain with us. It already has given us everything it has. But it also has provided that the gift of life can be received in its fullness only as it flows through us to the fullness of others. How wonderful is this exact balance which God and nature keep; how perfect is the law of God and how glorious the opportunity to join with the infinite Giver in the givingness of the self to the joy of life! Letter to Members & Friends Conscious Giving Guide Conscious Giving Commitment Card

Thanks for Reading!

Have a great week!

In love and gratitude,

Fancy Ruff-Wagner
Your Newsletter Editor

505-286-1203
admin@unityemtns.org

http://www.unityemtns.org

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