Unity Church of Clearwater

How's that Working 4 U Dieter Randolph So, I ask myself, “How’s that working for you?” Life is supposed to work! When I look for validation of this principle, I take a good long look at my own life. When I am focused on the good, only good can come to me. When I seek spiritual understanding above all else, everything else works out for my highest good. When I work for God – for the good of all – e...

Lovelution Leddy Hammock The whole point of living is to learn how to love. The basic rule is this: to find love, I have to be love. No matter how smart I am or what sacrifices I may have made, everything else fades: love is all that matters in my life.  Love cannot cohabit with non-love. My strength, my stability, my serenity, my joy, my happiness, my well-being,  life, are all about love: it is...

The Game of Life Leddy Hammock To play successfully the Game of Life, I train my mind to image health, wealth, and happiness, so these are the results I bring into my life. Life is not a battle. Love is the fulfillment of the law. The Christ within me – God’s image and likeness – has never failed, and always wins the Game of Life. I play fair. I trust in God as my unfailing supply and my good now...

Home By Dark Dieter Randolph What a gift to find a moment to feel at home in the presence of God all around me in my prayer time. What a gift to feel at home, safe in the Presence in my life, right now. What a gift to find a place in life where they know me, love me for who I am; a place that is home, free from fears, where all they ask is that I be home by dark.

So Far, So Good David Roth We welcome Unity favorite David Roth this Sunday, as we also remember and honor the words of Dr. Martin Luther King. “As we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.” “With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope . . . .” “With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together...

In the Shelter of Each Other Leddy Hammock   You will love the music for our service this Sunday! It will sing through the windows of your heart forever. Paul speaks of the spiritual unfoldment of the soul as a great race. He wrote, “Run so as to win” (Corinthians 9:24), and “Forgetting what lies behind but straining forward to what lies ahead, I continue my pursuit toward the goal, the prize of G...

Be Serene in 2013 Leddy Hammock How to be serene in 2013: I live without making demands. I am happy, just doing the best that I can. When I stop resisting, I get what I needed – and so much more. Rather than insisting on my own way, I open my arms in surrender. Since I made room for grace, I just stepped aside, and opened up a space. Now the blessings arrive every day, since I made room for grace....

It takes strength to surrender and courage to let go. “. . . Now we are released . . . from . . . what held us captive, so that we may serve in the newness of the spirit” (Romans 7:6). It takes faith to leave the path we know. “LORD; teach me your paths” (Psalm 25:4-5). Let God lead me. Let Spirit lead me, let love lead me home. “When the people of the land enter the presence of the LORD . . . no...

Make of my heart a manger, Lord, to receive the newborn Christ Child. Calm my fears, and give me peace, Lord, that I may witness the birth of the Christ Child in everyday experience. Give me a sign, Lord, that the Christ Child is born in the midst of the simple life. In steadfast, stable faith, Lord, I behold the newborn Christ Child in the manger of my heart. That’s what this season of love is ab...

Our Christmastime is filled with Light as we remember to give thanks for Baby Jesus, sent here with love. In our celebrations of this holy time, we laugh, we pray, we love, we dance, we sing out loud, and we forgive differences. We think of the moment when the angelic revelation came to the shepherds keeping the night watch with their flocks, and in this moment, all is well in the world, without a...

How many more shopping days until Christmas? How many more days are left on earth? Let’s count our days aright, dismissing worries about the Mayan Calendar and about all the days of our lives. Let’s pray this prayer, every day! Every day, the Spirit of the Lord leads us from darkness to light. Every day is a gift – a time to be merry and give thanks to God. Every day, let our hearts be filled with...

The Heart Sutra is possibly the best known text of Mahayana Buddhism, and is said to be the pure distillation of wisdom. This relatively short selection of ancient wisdom is part of the much larger collection of about 40 sutras composed between 100 BCE and 500 CE. As with most Buddhist scriptures, simply believing in the teaching of the Heart Sutra is not the point, for it speaks of a Truth that c...

These lyrics from Daniel Nahmod's song "Years to My Life" say it all. “I didn’t mean to forgive you for all the harm you’ve done. I didn’t plan to understand you, but against my will, I’ve begun. In searching my soul, I found that place. Now there’s no mistaking this calmer space. I never counted my blessings. I only saw where you failed, blinding myself to the lessons you taught in tender detail....

Let us pray in the consciousness of this prayer of gratitude, even when we feel that we are lacking, even when we feel lost, even when we worry that there is not enough, even when we forget that each new day brings blessings, if we will only open our hearts to receive them: A Prayer of Thanksgiving: Thank You, God, for Your never-failing generosity to me. Thank You for revealing a safe and direct...

Permanent prosperity comes through divine wisdom. Many wonders await in my mind’s eye. If I can conceive it, I can receive it. Knowing that God’s divine plan for me is good and only good, with great clarity, I claim my destiny. I pray the Prayer of Jabez from First Chronicles in scripture: “Bless me and extend my boundaries!” Beyond perceived boundaries lie infinite possibilities of good. Jesus ta...

Throughout the Old and New Testaments, the message is repeated over and over again: Live the Truth that you know and reap what you sow. As we hold to our highest ideals, in thought, word, and action, we tend to draw outcomes to ourselves according to our faith and willingness to receive. By the law of attraction, we are literally magnetized to our vision of what we faithfully express and what we f...

God sees us “without the masks” of seeming personality flaws, physical defects, past mistakes and present limitations. God see us as beautiful, worthy, and beloved. God sees us as inherently wise, whole, wealthy, and wonderful. In the midst of all the moods of life and all the “disguises” we may wear, we can see others with eyes of love just as God sees us as we truly are: miracles in the making....

I am an idea in the Mind of God. I let God’s idea express in me and as me. I am what I think. I am daily changed into a likeness truer to God’s image of me. God’s world is the real world. In God’s world I am loved as I really am. In God, I live, and move, and have my being. In me, God lives, moves, and has expression as my real Self.

God is with you now and has always been with you. Alone in the wilderness, the patriarch, Jacob, declared this realization: “Truly, the LORD is in this spot, although I did not know it!” (Genesis 28:16). God is nearer than the breath you are breathing. Rahab, woman of Jericho, also realized the omnipresence of God, declaring the God of the Children of Israel to be “in heaven above and on earth bel...

Jesus taught that it is natural for a good shepherd to leave the ninety-nine sheep in his fold in order to rescue one little lost lamb. Well versed in the Torah, surely Jesus knew the story of the brave little donkey who wisely turned from the angel in her path, though it was invisible to the prophet Balaam. By grace, we learn intuitive wisdom through animals. We all know the story of Daniel in th...

“I open my eyes, greet this new day, take a deep breath, and as I pray, I give thanks. I know that I am blessed. So, I expect the best. Right where I am, just as I am, all that I want, all I desire is now waiting here for me. The universe conspires to insure my happiness. So, I expect the best. I expect the best from every passing moment, every single day, I’m loving my life, living my dreams, los...

I trust in Spirit as my “GPS” – God’s Positioning System – and my journey is safe and sure. Traveling through a seeming “desert” in life, I am led to “oases” in God’s presence. I take the high road on my journey, for it is the way of joy and healing. Even when I cannot see the path before me, I know that God is with me, every step of the road ahead.

Let me be pure of heart, and see only God – only good – when I look upon others. I remember that what I am seeing is what I am being. So, instead of taking offense, I bless. If others point out my faults or disappoint me humanly, I learn not to take it personally. We are all growing. Seen through the eyes of divine love, we look divine!

I am a spiritual newcomer. I no longer stand in the shadows of former expectations of me. I make room for new Self-understanding. I release everyone else’s vision of who I should be, and I find my way home. I know that I can take my own road and feel a freedom I have never known. I am unlearning what was never true and unbecoming what I never was. I am coming home!

“ Only say the word” (Matthew 8:8), said the Centurion to Jesus, knowing that his servant would be healed instantly through Jesus’ spoken word of faith. The great tradition of positive affirmations in Unity follows this same line of thought. Take a deep breath and speak these affirmations, inspired by Florence Scovel Shinn, author of the New Thought classic: Your Word Is Your Wand : “Divine Love,...