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April 23, 2014 ~ Weekly Update
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USLC Office Hours: Monday and Tuesday 10am-1pm.
Office Phone: 919-471-3504
Office Administrator email: cagnc@msn.com
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Sunday, April 27, 2014 - 10:30 am
UNITY THEME FOR APRIL: Create Balance
Affirmation: Centered in Spirit, my life is in balance.
Check out unity.org/resources.
LESSON FOR TODAY: TURN THE OTHER CHEEK
This is a teaching that may give you pause. Turn the other cheek? I was knocked to my knees with the first blow! How can this be the answer?
SPECIAL MUSIC: Sandy Hemenway
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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I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken. Ram Dass
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FUN FIRST FRIDAY every month at 7-8:30pm.
SPECIAL EVENTS
MARK YOUR CALENDARS
SOUP SUNDAY, After the Service, April 27th. Want to share your favorite recipe? Sign up to bring soup to share. Donation: $2 to support our General Fund.
OUT!RALEIGH, May 3, 11am-6pm. Do you enjoy festivals? Sign up to work for an hour or two at the USLC booth. Enjoy the many vendor booths, music, a carnival style KidsZone and more. Volunteer to work at the booth. Sign up after the service or contact Jeanie Rodgers at rodgers.jean@gmail.com.
ARMAND AND ANGELINA: MUSICAL SERVICE, May 7th, 7-8:30pm. Come and be inspired by Armand, musical minister, singer/songwriter, native American flautist and Angelina, classically trained vocalist and guitarist as they share their Age of Aquarius Tour, a fusion of music, humor, and faith. Invite your family and friends. $10 at the door.
FUNDRAISER AT THE OASIS IN CARRBORO, Friday May 9th, 7pm. Our Fun Friday event will take place on the second Friday in May. Join old friend and make new friends. USLC will be featured along with Armand and Angelina at the Oasis. Come out for community and connection. A portion of the proceeds from this event will benefit USLC.
NEW CLASS: JESUS AND HIS TEACHINGS, BI-802, begins Monday, May 12th, 7-8:30pm. This is a seven week course, ending Monday, June 23rd. Jesus was a Gospel-preaching, radically living, miracle working, disciple making, paradigm shifting, prayer warrior and salvation bringing spiritual leader. What do you really know about who he was, what he taught? How can you use what he taught to enrich your spiritual life today? Text: Bible. New Revised Standard Version preferred but any one will be fine. Love Offering. SEE credit available.
COMING SOON
DINNER AND DISCUSSION, Wednesday, May 21st, 6:30pm. Mark your calendar. Topic: How to practice forgiveness. More details later.
ONGOING
HOME PRAYER VIGIL, Sundays, 5-6:00 p.m. Please consider a quiet meditation at home during this time. Clear your consciousness of any lack or limitation and allow the flow of Spirit to pour forth from you. Our intention is to release any obstacle that is blocking our demonstration of prosperity in all of its forms. Prayer works!
PRAYER AND HEALING MINISTRY GATHERING. Healing prayer, guided meditation, and opportunity for hands on healing. Be still and know. Every 1st Sunday at noon and 3rd Monday at 7pm. Next meeting: Sunday, May 4th at 7pm in Filmore Chapel.
BOOKSTORE: Featured Books. Check out our Featured Book table for books referenced by Rev. Paula during Sunday lessons in March and April. Powerful writings to transform your life.
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PAULA'S PERSPECTIVE
This ancient story is worth repeating.
The Zen Master Hakuin lived in a town in Japan. He was held in high regard and many people came to him for spiritual teaching. Then it happened that the teenage daughter of his next door neighbor became pregnant. When being questioned by her angry and scolding parents as to the identity of the father, she finally told them it was Hakuin, the Zen Master. In great anger the parents rushed over to Hakuin and told him with much shouting and accusing that their daughter had confessed that he was the father.
All he replied was, "Is that so?"
News of the scandal spread throughout the town and beyond. The Master lost his reputation. This did not trouble him. Nobody came to see him anymore. He remained unmoved. When the child was born, the parents brought the baby to Hakuin. "You are the father, so you look after him." The Master took loving care of the child. A year later, the mother remorsefully confessed to her parents that the real father of the child was the young man who worked at the butcher shop. In great distress they went back to see Hakuin to apologize and ask for his forgiveness. "We are really sorry. We have come to take the baby back. Our daughter confessed that you are not the father."
"Is that so?" is all he would say as he handed the baby over to them.
There are many layers of wisdom in this tale. You might see yourself as the daughter, the parents or the Master. You might notice the suffering associated with attachment and the possibility of freedom from non-attachment. It doesn't matter if this story is true or not true. In it is the great secret to living above the weeds...above the tangle of fear, un-forgiveness, holding on, worry and judgment.
The secret is this: our self worth rises from within. It is so.
Peace always
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WOW!
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BELIEF
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many, or merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason, then accept it and live up to it.
Buddha
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10:30
Celebration Service & YOU/Uniteen classes
(Childcare available)
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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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YOU CAN HELP USLC GET FREE MONEY!!!
Pick up a gift card from Carla; $5 is already on it to get you started.
Take the card to Kroger Customer Service Desk and put your grocery money on the card. (Be sue you do this at least 12 hours before you plan to use it. It takes time for it to be put in Kroger's system.)
Do your grocery shopping with the gift card. This does not affect your regular rewards from Kroger.
Every time you use your card to by groceries or gas at Kroger, the amount is credited to USLC toward a 5% reward when our total reaches $5000...that's $250 for the Center.
NOTE: You continue to recieve all your regular Kroger rewards.
Encourage friends and family to join our fund drive.
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Join us on Meetup.com
And forward this newsletter to your friends!
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COMMUNITY ZONE
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
President: Ginny Brendlen
Vice President: Janice Escott
Treasurer: Jeanie Rodgers
Secretary: Mary Lea Richards
Member at Large: Jim Kimbrough
Volunteers Needed
Help us provide light refreshmens for the upcoming Armand and Angelina musical service on May 7th. See the sign-up sheet at the back of the sanctuary for details. Thank you!
SERVICE PROJECT: The Prison Books Collective
is a Chapel Hill based group whose purpose includes "getting reading materials into the 'gulag archipelago' that is the US prison system". Our April/May Community Service and Social Action Project is collecting books to support their Free Books Program that reaches prisoners in Mississippi, Alabama and North Carolina. All adult books are welcome. High demand books include: dictionaries, African American/Latin American history, politics and biographies, how-to books on carpentry, art and other trades, running your own business, yoga, spiritual, meditation and others. Check out their website (prisonbooks.info). Bring in books before May 26th.
Workshop: Healing the Past, Building the Future, April 26, 9am-4:30pm. Popular A.R.E. speaker Peter Woodbury, MSW, will explain Edgar Cayce's concepts of karma, grace, and reincarnation, as well as discuss tools for forgiveness from the Cayce readings. Attendees will experience guided imagery and past-life regression, leading to understanding the soul's purpose and the limitless potential of your incarnation in this lifetime. Commons Room, ERUUF, Durham. $50. Scholarships available. Registration: Linda 919-790-9130.
Food & Fellowship. Sign up to provide a snack for our time of fellowship after the service. A great way to build community and support your spiritual home.
CD's of Sunday Lesson available for $3.00. Check at the Sound Booth after the service.
Financial Report
Income March $6,879
Expenses March 6,771
Profit (Loss) $ 108
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
YOU ARE LIMITLESS
To finally understand what being co-creator of your life really is produces a feeling of wonder. You find you are not out there alone, doing it all by yourself, nor is God out there doing it all without you. There is a harmony in the coming together of your own 'separate,' delightful, expansive destiny, mingling and alive within the Divine power that is constantly urging you toward greater understanding of who you are. What makes your life so enjoyable is your sense of participation in the co-creative wonder in which you have choices. Co-creation is vision-making.
How do you align with the part of you that knows no limits? Constantly permeating your consciousness is an energy field with a vaster sense of things, that longs to blend with your limited view to help create something excitingly wondrous for your life. Your job is to keep asking for that Vaster part of you to bring Light to what you are thinking, feeling or doing. Ask it to guide you. When it does, fear is no longer relevant because there is a sense of knowing that whatever is before you can be instantly experienced as something appropriate. You don't have to get rid of anything. You don't have to throw out any part of your life. With whatever is present, that Power and you, in wonderful co-existing collaboration, have the ability to blend, create and bring to your conscious mind the knowledge that in your awareness is the knowing that all is absolutely as it should be. All things can be used to bring you into the moment to allow you to experience who you are. Now, as you are, you are what you seek. You are of the One. Now!
Bartholomew, Awakening from the Dream
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