Sunday's Message from Unity of Tucson

In a world full of color it’s hard to see black and white. “Word” is the agency by which God reveals itself. We’re not talking about language. The capacity for God to show up universally. The infinite must be limited to be understood, creating a paradox. There are no right words, only the right feeling tone. We make declarations into form. We write the unwritten.

To what might we dedicate ourselves? Our perspective determines how we see the light. What causes us to lose perspective and dim the light? Your light is entrusted to you. How do you choose to see and understand community? Forgiveness is the highest form of self-love. We are taught to need after a steady diet of “less than”. Step into a greater sense of knowing who you are.

If your thoughts only land on peace you can change the world. Explore what it means to embrace peace. Allow our common unity to inform your experience. Deepen into feeling. True community requires commitment and openness. Universal peace begins right where you are.

Hope is good, it is better than despair, but it is an unconscious compromise. Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. Unconscious faith: the things we don’t question. Cognitive bias can manifest as a distrust of others. Activate your awareness. Choose to be in the good work. Embrace conscious faith.

Are you going to decide to be happy? Or unhappy? The circumstances conform to your frame of mind. When an idea changes in mind the form always follows. Are you ready to wake up? How might we keep in circulation? By not identifying with our limitations.

God is. We are God. Your thoughts are creative. Spiritual practice. Prayer is communion between God and man. Between God and me there is no ‘between’. Prayer is not a supplication. It is a statement of authority. God is all there is. We are God. God is/we are creating. Prayer is purposeful. God is the only thing that is happening. The work of prayer is to convince ourselves.

What are you proud of? You are a divine being in physical form. You can create anything that you think up. What we think and feel defines us. We work with this question: What would I love to be, do, have, give? Learn to assume the inconceivable. Then, act, knowing things will fall in line.

Idealism and pragmatism. We seek the balance. New thought was never meant to be a religion. Reality is a mental construct. Our minds are creative. Reality is the experience in mind. We decide if life is magnificent, or if it isn’t.

The power is in the questioning. There is no destination. Are you willing to expand your image of God? God is the magnificence of who you are. No salvation or punishment. You are your own savior. God is the impulse - you express that impulse. How involved are you in your own life? Life wants to open.

The best gift you can give is your own emotional wellbeing. Work on understanding rather than forgiveness. Your goal is to have that good feeling inside. This is where God is. Your work is to heal yourself. Find God within.

Justice, not peace, is the opposite of violence. We come here seeking to understand something deeper. Spiritual self-sufficiency is personal. Tap into the inner self. Personal, Spiritual, Self-Sufficiency Technique. 1. Self-reflection. 2. Explore your beliefs. 3. Develop a practice. 4. Be willing to seek guidance. 5. Connect with others.

Who do you know yourself to be? That's where we begin today. It's Pride weekend in Tucson, and today's message was partially inspired by this quote: “Queer People don’t grow up as ourselves we grow up playing a version of ourselves that sacrifices authenticity to minimize humiliation and prejudice. The massive task of our adult lives is to unpick which parts of ourselves are truly us and and which...

What do you believe is impossible? Something has convinced you so. Nothing is impossible. Belief is an invitation to explore. In the exploration there are principles. God is the principle, the fundamental truth, the foundation. Principle is the “I am” in every person. We are the music of the divine. We have left out feeling, our heart energy. We are the warmth of God. We are the seed, the ordinary...

We seek the release of discord. Sometimes we need to be reminded. The intellect is not the causative factor. We use it to get to the quality (feeling) that is driving experience. So, change your feeling to change your life. We view falling ill as a failure. We must deepen into self-perception. Sometimes the cure doesn’t look like we think it should. We get to own our own magnificence. Life could b...

The first law of nature is order. We work hard at being at ease. We are conditioned to work hard toward something we already have. Remember who you are, and everything else flows. The choices we make today inform our tomorrow. The more we try to figure it out, the less we are in the flow of life. We complicate this process needlessly.

What is your core belief? How do you imagine your spiritual community? Core beliefs can include love, creativity, connection. At Unity we encourage and teach spiritually-based life skills. People come to spiritual communities seeking God. What they find is their authentic self. We are in a liminal space between worlds. We must co-create the next world. We are on a teeter totter between what was an...

When you smile you raise your “face value”. Find your embodied joy and allow that to bring a smile to your face. It’s all an inside job. Goals are met when we live our purpose. When we answer the question: “Why do we be?” Stay rooted in the being-ness. Show up happy. You just decide. Limitations feel safe. They give us something to overcome. But what if we got rid of all of it? What does spiritual...

What is more important in our experience of life? The spiritual truth, or the frames and structures we build? What comes first... the truth or the frame?

No matter what, our life provides. Life can split us up. You are invited into the creation and re-creation of community. Be the wholeness right where you are. Life is an exercise in the discovery of wholeness. Is there any aspect of you that is lacking or missing? How do we encourage belonging? Active and consistent sharing, free from fear. The space between us is an illusion.

In what ways are you infinite? True healing is the revelation of wholeness. The fundamental truth is wholeness. we are all mystics. Transformation is work, but it need not be difficult. It depends on your beliefs. Our realization takes the time it takes. It can be instantaneous—or not. How might you realize your wholeness? One tissue, or the whole box?

Where do you seek God? There is one unseen cause. We are finding God always and it is a decision to recognize it. We inhabit a tiny, pale blue dot in a vast universe. The whole would be lacking without you. Are you limited or infinite? If the universe could not exist without you, what would you do? Why do we allow suffering? We could decide to end this erroneous belief.

How do we move from intellect to embodiment? You are an extension of the power that created this whole universe. The field of infinite possibility. We begin to do things differently based on who we are being. We are invited to be love, not do love. You can be spiritual and challenged. Accept and grow through challenge.

How do you see the world? Are you in awe of what you see? You get to choose how you experience the world. If you’re not in awe, you’re not paying attention. Why try to fit in when you can stand out? Be FOR something and against nothing. We can only change our relationship to the conditions, not the conditions themselves. Create space, free from judgement, and choose to be FOR something.