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Unity Spiritual Life Center
September 18, 2013 ~ Weekly Update
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Sunday, September 22, 2013, 10:30 am
Lesson for Today:
Trusting Spirit
In Isaiah, Chapter 65, we read "Before they call I will answer, while they are yet speaking I will hear". Unity teaches that the Bible contains pkractical inspiration for us in our lives today. How can we understand and use the wisdom in this verse?
Special Music: Joyce McDonald
Childcare provided for the service
MEET & GREET follows the service ~
spend time munching and mingling,
as you greet old friends and meet new ones!
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PAULA'S PERSPECTIVE
COME ON PEOPLE NOW...
The tragedy in Washington, DC, at the Navy Shipyard is on my mind. Twelve people went to work Monday morning and most likely did not have one thought about not returning home that same evening. I thought to myself as I pulled out of my driveway this morning...what if...what if this was the last time I traveled to end of the driveway, under the cool shade of the oaks and pines...made a left turn onto 23rd Street, and started my day, not to return. What if? What if a flood took my home...or my life tomorrow? What if my body decided this was the day...the day that my heart stopped beating. What if?
Well, I've decided it's time for me to go beyond the pondering, questioning, and even the praying. It's time to make a change. It's time to quit judging everything and everyone as if I am in charge. It's time to wake up...and to realize that this is the one short life-dash I have. I want to spend my time doing and being the best that I can be. I want to be courageous, passionate, energized, and inspired. I want to make a difference. Do you?
I am committed to not letting one more tragedy pass before I am more kind and loving. If this is my last day on earth...I want it to be full of love. I want to feel joyful...no matter that I have a doctor's appointment today. I want to see beauty everywhere...not be frustrated that they forgot to pick up the recycle container on Monday. I want to notice people...acknowledge them, listen...and not just walk on by as if they weren't even there. I want to engage in life from a heart filled with love.
When we each finally start to act like we care...all the time...when we finally realize that every moment counts...when we finally understand that we don't operate independently of the whole...that is the moment when the consciousness in the world will shift. That is when we will make a difference.
I really want to pull back into my driveway tonight...but if I don't...it really matters most that I loved today.
Come on people now, are you with me on this?
Peace Always
Paula
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BUILDING COMMUNITY; TRANSFORMING LIVES
Don't Miss Out!
REGULAR EVENTS
* The Healing and Prayer Ministry continues to answer emailed or phoned prayer requests and is willing to make calls or meet for prayer at the Center. Prayer requests put in the Prayer Box are answered and sent on for Silent Unity at Unity Village. Ministerial calls are made to those who are hospitalized or otherwise "shut-in". Please contact our church office for information on contacting our Healing/Prayer team.
* First Friday of every month: 7 PM ~ Fun First Friday
SPECIAL EVENTS
MARK YOUR CALENDAR!
September 22 - After the Service, there will be a meeting with Paula for anyone interested in sponsoring a home book-study group. Curious? Come to the meeting and find out what this is all about. The home study will correlate with the Sunday talk series based on The Four Agreements. Please sign up in the back of the sanctuary so we can have books available in the bookstore.
September 29 - A home book-study using the book The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz will begin the week of the 29th. Sunday talk series on September 29 and October 6, 13, and 20 will be about these agreements.
September 29 - After the service, there will be a meeting of all who are interested in serving in our Youth Education Ministry. More details later.
SPIRITUAL ECONOMICS: On Tuesday's from 7-8:30pm, October 8-November 19, a 7 week class based on the book Spiritual Economics by Eric Butterworth will meet in the USLC sanctuary. Instructor: Paula Zabkar, MS, LUT. The class will be available for SEE credit. Love offering. Please sign the Sign-up Sheet in the back of the sanctuary or email Carla at cagnc@msn.com
October 12 - 9am-5pm. USLC Work Day. Please reserve this date! We will be cleaning and painting our facility to create the most inviting space possible. Bring willing hands and your own water bucket and paint brush or roller and roller pan. Lunch will be provided. Let's make this a community event...invite friends and family to join us. Many hands make light work! Please sign-up.
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We may face challenges of health, prosperity, disharmony in the world. In our private kingdom of the Spirit, we find the solace and energy to confront, embrace, and overcome any negative appearance. Once we enter our secret place of the Most High, eternal protection awaits us.
Rev. Allen Liles, Unity Minister
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MINISTRY NEWS
The CHILDREN AND YOUTH MINISTRY is in need of teachersfor the youth program. We now have several age groups attending on Sundays. We have a regular assistant on Sundays for the nursery. The immediate need is for four volunteers, each to assist with the children one day a month. We also need a Teacher/Assistant for our children in the Unikids group. All lesson plans will be provided for you. Please contact the office if you would like to volunteer for this very important Ministry. For information please contact Elise VanBuskirk at elise1128@gmail.com or 908-892-7341 or Annie Whitney at annie.g.whitney@gmail.com or 919-416-1863.
Please remember to sign up in the back of the sanctuary to bring goodies one Sunday. Cash donations are also welcome anytime!
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Resolve to Serve!
Put your talents to work. Review the following opportunities and see which ones will be a good fit for you in 2013.
- Platformers needed~ Want to help keep our services going? Consider becoming a platformer. Scripts and training are available. Contact Renee Piere to sign up
- Greeters needed~ Sign up in the back of the sanctuary to become a Greeter- welcoming members & guests to our Sunday service, providing name tags, bulletins, and general information about USLC.
- Loving childcare and youth teachers needed~ See our Ministry Director, Jill Lewis, if you are interested in working with any age group.
- Prayer Partners needed~ If you feel that inner urge to deepen your prayer life, become a member of our Prayer Partner Team. Training is available.
- Hospitality~ Remember to sign up to provide goodies for our Sunday Hospitality table.
- Daily Word - sign up to read the Daily Word during our Sunday services.
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9:30 Silent Meditation
Fillmore Chapel
10:30
Celebration Service & YOU/Uniteen classes
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COMMUNITY ZONE
Congratulations! Jim Kimbrough and Judy Strickland will be celebrating their 7th Anniversary on September 23.
Coming soon...
We are getting ready to release the 'stuff' in our closets that we no longer use. We are making room for what we desire. Keep an eye out for the time and date when we will be having a yard sale, give-away or other event to put our stuff back into circulation.
If you love THE 12 POWERS, check out this 7-day Retreat! Held at Unity Village, sponsord by Awaken Whole Life Center, the new holistic healing center located in the renovated Unity Tower at Unity Village. Revs. Drs. Bil & Cher Holton will be facilitating this incredible, experiential retreat.
Check out everything it includes: workshops, group activities, meditations, labyrinth walk, tour of the new 12 Powers Sculpture Garden, material grounded in Positive Psychology and neuroscience, together with Unity principles, opportunities for self-care treatments at Awaken Whole Life Center...and food, fun, and inspiration. Located at Unity Village with an all-inclusive price, staying at the Unity Inn Hotel & Conference Center!
Greetings My Unity Family, I am writing to share some exciting news. I have been accepted into a 10 month program to receive my certification as a Spiritual Life Coach. It is through the Institute for Spiritual Development founded by Iyanla Vanzant. Unfortunately, financial aid is not available and I am in need of support in order to meet this financial obligation. I have created an account on Go Fund Me to campaign for scholarship funds. Take a look at the link below and support my cause if you can. www.gofundme.com/LifeCoachScholarship
Love, Light, and Liberation: Sandra Dubose-Gibson
KEEPING UP: What's happening in your neighborhood? Are you traveling, hosting visiting friends or relatives, having a yard sale, announcements, other activites? Send your information to rodgers.jean@gmail.com by Tuesday of each week.
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FEATURE ARTICLE
Daring to Live an Authentic Life
In order to live fully in the face of death and to love fully in the face of life, how will we enter our time on earth? This of course leads to other questions: How will we know and be known? How do we hold each other as we tumble along in the story of our lives? How will we care for each other?
This authentic unfolding is the journey of transformation, the very work of being human, the work of staying close to what is sacred. Since everything is sacred, staying close to what is sacred is a matter of presence and attention, more than travel to a secret place. And the exquisite risk is a doorway that lets us experience the extraordinary in the ordinary.
Explore the practice of inner courage, the journey of deep listening, the gift and challenge of standing by one's core, and the art of being a spirit in the world.
Mark Nepo, best-selling author and lecturer
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USLC Kroger Cards!
Please consider a USLC Kroger gift card for yourself or for gift giving! They are a great way to say "thank you" to a teacher, neighbor, or family member, to give to a needy family you may know, or to donate to a local shelter.
To get USLC Kroger gift cards, contact Carla Garcia to order them and they will be available within a few short days. As always, you can purchase them for an initial startup amount of $5.00 and load any additional amount you would like at your local Kroger store.
It's easy gift giving and a great way to support USLC for no additional cost to you!
Please remember to recharge your Kroger card each month so we can reach our $5,000.00 goal in order to be eligible for our 5% bonus.
Questions? Want to get a card? See Carla Garcia!
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