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Unity Spiritual Life Center
October 9, 2013 ~ Weekly Update
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Sunday, October 13, 2013, 10:30 am
Lesson for Today: Don't Make Assumptions
Making an assumption is the act of taking something for granted...taking something as truth without evidence. When we make assumptions about people or situations we use a little bit of information to create an entire story or maybe just one BIG un-truth. There is a practice that we can use to help kick the habit of making assumptions. Find out this Sunday.
Special Music: Gregory Blaine
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
Not to Worry
"Worry is based on the belief that some undesirable condition already exists. Worriers vividly picture in mind the undesirable condition they are worrying about."
Eric Butterworth, Spiritual Economics
Our thoughts have energy. Think about how you can feel someone staring at you from behind or from across the room. You don't see them, but you can feel the energy of their attention. Some people can feel this energy across space...have you ever had someone on your mind and they called or texted soon after? Our thoughts are energized by the feeling and emotion behind them...and they influence outcomes.
We can use our thoughts powered by feelings and emotions to visualize anything. We might see ourselves riding a zip line through amazing fall colors, smiling all the way...easily passing a difficult exam...conquering our fear of public speaking...confident and at ease about our up coming surgery...singing with perfect pitch at an audition. If we use our thoughts, feelings, and emotions in this way, we influence our experience positively. When we anchor what we want to experience in our consciousness...we believe it is possible before it happens.
The idea of worry is energized by the emotions and feelings of doubt, fear, mistrust, sadness, lack and dis-ease. Worry is using the power of thought to influence an outcome and an experience that we don't want. We see all of the hardship, struggle and pain in our mind...it comes true...and we say "I told you so!"
Luke 12:25-26 says: And can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life? If then you are not able to do so small a thing as that, why do you worry about the rest? Decide today not to worry...to not waste your precious and powerful consciousness on seeing exactly what you don't want. Take a deep breath, be still, and see what it is that you do want.
Your life will change if you do this one simple thing...don't worry.
Peace always
Paula
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REGULAR EVENTS
* The Healing and Prayer Ministry answers emailed or phoned prayer requests and makes calls or meets 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 Center office for information on contacting our Healing/Prayer team.
* First Friday of every month: 7pm - Fun First Friday
SPECIAL EVENTS
MARK YOUR CALENDAR!
Home Book Study Groups - Three groups have been established for our first home book study to discuss The Four Agreements. Two groups will meet on Thursday evenings at 7pm, one will meet at the home of Jeanie Rodgers (Stone Hill Estates) near Wake Forest Road and Mineral Springs Road (919-237-1998) and the other will meet at USLC. On Wednesday evenings at 7pm, another group will be meeting at USLC. You are welcome to join any group. Pick up a guide sheet on the table at the back of the sanctuary. The book is available for $7. The second meeting of the groups will be on the 9th and 10th.
OCTOBER 8 - Spiritual Economics Class. 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. " If you want to change your life, you will have to alter your thoughts." Eric Butterworth is a master teacher of Unity Truth. He presents for us a program of personal practice and discipline so that we can develop a rich mentality that will be impervious to fluctuations in the economy...and indeed life itself. Make the decision to change your life now...and join me as we re-discover the principles and process of True Prosperity. Instructor: Paula Zabkar. The book is $10; a syllabus and sign-up sheet will be available at the back of the sanctuary.
OCTOBER 12 - USLC Work Day. Saturday 9am-5pm. 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, 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 if you plan to join us.
Nominating Committee: Two new Board members will be elected at our annual meeting in February. This committee is responsible for identifying potential candidates. The requirements for Board service are: member for one year, attend Board training, regular attendance at Sunday service and practice tithing. Contact Renee Piere (Renee@reneepiere.com) if you are interested in serving on this committee.
Christmas Choir is Forming. Practice starting soon. Contact Patricia Skinner at healingtc@aol.com.
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"There are three words that convey the secret of the art of living, the secret of all success and happiness: ONE WITH LIFE. Being one with life is being one with Now. You then realize that you don't live your life, but life lives you. Life is the dancer, and you are the dance."
Eckhart Tolle
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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
(Childcare available) | | |
Directions: Exit 175 off of I-85. Turn NORTH on Guess Road; Turn right onto Carver Street. Go approximately half a block; USLC is located in the small business park on your left. |
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COMMUNITY ZONE
BIG THANK YOU!!!
...to all who are participating in our USLC Work Day on Saturday. THANK YOU! Your willingness to give of your time with an open heart is truly appreciated.
Closet Cleaning! We have been cleaning out our closets to make room for the new here at USLC. We are planning to donate items we no longer use to a local non-profit. Before we do...please take a moment after the service on Sunday, October 13th to see if you can use any of these treasures. All items are in the Fillmore Chapel. Love Offering
Sandy Hemenway would like your help with several creative endeavors:
1) If you have ever had the inkling to write New Thought lyrics, Sandy has a lot of music and not enough words and would love to work with you.
2) Sandy is also writing a New Thought book and looking for people to review, critique, and discuss his ideas with.
3) Sandy has a vision of doing a series of New Thought concerts and would like to work with someone to create a poster for these concerts.
If your're interested in joining Sandy in any of his creative endeavors, email him at FIREMANE@ nc.rr.com for more details.
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
Interspirituality
Interspirituality is the heart space of all religions and spiritual traditions...of humanity itself. It is an exploration of ourselves so deeply rooted in unconditional love that any creed, belief, background, or history that could cause separation between human beings and within a human being, dissolves.
It is the next step in our evaolution which includes the profound understanding that we are simultaneously independent, interconnected, and interdependent. What emerges is an unmistakable experience of wholeness and oneness that makes room for all of us, all of each other and all that is unfolding.
Therefore, interspirituality naturally embraces the deepest practices of wellbeing...love, compassion, tolerance, forgiveness, charity, freedom...and is, in and of itself, a dialogue of deep connection among all people and all nations.
Rev. Jody Lotito-Levine
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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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