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Tuesday, December 15, 2020

A Course In Miracles Workbook Lesson #114, Review of lessons 97 and 98


Lesson #114
Review of lessons 97 and 98

97- I am Spirit
98 - I will accept my part in God’s plan for salvation.

There are a few fundamental existential questions which all human beings struggle with. The most fundamental question of these existential questions is “Am I a Spirit in a body or a body with a Spirit?”

Today, A Course In Miracles answers this question unequivocally and teaches us that we are Spirits. Further, we are taught, if we would learn, that having recognized and acknowledged this fundamental reality, we have work to do in helping ourselves and others heal from the illusion that we have authored our own lives and are self sufficient unto ourselves.

In Alcoholic Anonymous we are assisted in accepting our part in God’s plan for salvation when we worked the first three steps admitting that we are not the author of our own lives, coming to believe in a Transcendent power which encompasses us, and deciding to turn our willfulness to call our own shots over to that Transcendent power to guide our lives.

In Unitarian Universalism we covenant together to affirm and promote the inherent worth and dignity of every person which emanates not from oneself but from the Source of our being.

Today, it is suggested that we start the day and end the day reminding ourselves that we are Spirit not a body and that this recognition is the part we are asked to play in God’s plan for salvation.

My Kind Of Church Music
Spirit in the sky by Norman Greenbaum



Sunday, December 13, 2020

A Course In Miracles Workbook Lesson #112, Review of lessons 93 and 94.




 Lesson #112
Review of lessons 93 and 94

93 - Light and joy and peace abide in me.
94 - I am as God created me.

One of the most anxiety inducing questions a person can be asked is “Who are you?”

Jesus asked his disciples, “Who do you say that I am?”

The answer, as taught by A Course In Miracles is “I am as God created me and light, joy, and peace abide in me.” 

In Alcoholics Anonymous, it is suggested in the eleventh step, to seek conscious contact with the Transcendent Source of our being for it is in this conscious contact that our sanity is recovered.

In Unitarian Universalism we covenant together to affirm and promote the inherent worth and dignity of every person. This principle, though, begs the question of from where does this inherent worth and dignity come? The Universalists taught that this worth and dignity came from the Unconditional Love of God, our Creator, and because of this, if we seek deeply we will find the light, joy, and peace within.

Today, it is suggested that we start the day and end the day reminding ourselves of these two lessons, and many times during the day as we desire.

During this advent season, it is especially relevant and appropriate to become aware of the light, joy, and peace within as it was incarnated in the baby Jesus and in all of us.

My Kind Of Church Music
Oh come, Oh come, Emmanuel song by Enya


Thursday, December 10, 2020

A Course In Miracles Workbook Lesson #109, I rest in God




 Lesson #109
I rest in God

First, after years of pursuing the idols of the ego expecting that their acquisition will make us happy, it dawns on us that we have been conned by the big lie. This contributes to a period of confusion, anxiety, depression, resentment, cynicism and hopelessness until it dawns on us that there must be a better way.

This dawning leads then to a search. We are seeking what will bring us peace, contentment, and joy. We learn that rather than seeking fulfillment in the world of the ego, we will find it in a willingness to listen and follow the will of God, our Higher Power. It is in this letting go of control and turning it over that we finally come to rest in God.

In Alcoholics Anonymous, this switch from willfulness to willingness occurs in the third step when we finally admit that by ourselves our lives are unmanageable and we turn them over to the care of God.

In Unitarian Universalism, we covenant together to affirm and promote the free and responsible search for truth and meaning and in this search we arrive at the understanding that every person has inherent worth and dignity and that we are just a part of the interdependent web of existence which is the Ground of Our Being.

Today, we are asked to take five minutes every hour and more often as we desire to remind ourselves that we are not alone but part of something much greater than ourselves which some call God in which we can rest.

My Kind Of Church Music
Lullaby by Tom Rush



Monday, December 7, 2020

A Course In Miracles Workbook Lesson #107, Truth will correct all errors in my mind.


 Lesson #107
Truth will correct all errors in my mind.

The slogan says, “The truth will set you free.” What does that statement mean? Free from what? In vulgar language we could say, “bull shit.” “The truth will set you free from bull shit.” What is bull shit? Bull shit is all the illusory beliefs in the things in the world of the ego.

In Alcoholic Anonymous we finally admit, in the first step, that we have been sinking into and now are overwhelmed by bull shit. It dawns on us that the false promises of the ego will never make us happy, and even worse, continuing to pursue them and obtain them contributes to our destruction. This dawning leads to a search for a better way and this search moves us onto the path of truth which is healing and provides abiding peace and joy.

In Unitarian Universalism we covenant together to affirm and promote a free and responsible search for truth and meaning. UUs come to this covenant because they are tired of bull shit. They are looking for a more authentic and genuine spiritual life and they perceive that the path to this peace and joy is by finding and abiding in the truth.

Today we are asked to take five minutes of every hour and as often as it crosses our minds to go within and connect with the Truth from which we have emerged in this incarnation. We know when we have connected because of the sense of security and rightness that we experience.

My Kind Of Church Music
Let The Bad Air Out by Bruce Cockburn


Friday, December 4, 2020

A Course In Miracles Workbook Lesson #106, Let me be still and listen to the truth.




 Lesson #106
Let me be still and listen to the truth.

The truth, it is said, will set you free. To hear the truth we need to be still and go within and ask God what God would have us do.

In Alcoholic Anonymous, in step eleven, we seek through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God praying to discern God’s will for us and to carry it out. We can’t give what we don’t have, we can’t share what we are not aware is ours to begin with. How can we share the truth if we are not in touch with it ourselves?

In Unitarian Universalism, we covenant together to affirm and promote the free and responsible search for truth and meaning. Where is truth and meaning to be found? It is not to be found out in the world, but rather in our own minds which rest in the Oneness which is the Ground of Our Being. UUs need to recognize that salvation comes not from changing the world, but from changing our minds about the world.

Today, we are asked to take five minutes every hour and spend it with God asking for the Truth of God’s will. We say in the Lord’s prayer, “...Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.” The miracle is changing our minds from wanting the things of the ego world to the things of the Spirit.

My Kind Of Church Music
The Sounds of Silence by Simon and Garfunkle

Thursday, December 3, 2020

A Course In Miracles Lesson #105, God's peace and joy are mine.

 


Lesson #105
God’s peace and joy are mine.

When you give a gift does the receiver have more and you have less? For some people, giving a gift gives them great joy and delight. When they give a gift they have more joy and happiness not less. The gift giving is not depleting but enhancing.

In Alcoholics Anonymous, in step twelve, people are encouraged to give what they have gotten from AA to others. People in AA, who work the program, know that they get what they give, they learn what they teach, that it is in sharing that we are made whole (holy).

In Unitarian Universalism we covenant together to affirm and promote the acceptance of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth. UUs make a commitment to get by giving, to share the meaning and purpose which they have obtained by the practice of their faith with others. In the sharing, the sense of the meaning and purpose grows..

Today, we are asked to take five minutes of every hour and to remind ourselves that God’s peace and joy is ours. God’s peace and joy is ours only for putting aside the idols of the ego and looking within at our natural inheritance of peace and joy and rejoicing.

My Kind Of Church Music
Rejoice by Sinach

Wednesday, December 2, 2020

A Course In Miracles Lesson #104, I seek but what belongs to me in truth.


 Lesson #104
I seek but what belongs to me in truth.

It is beautifully written in the introduction to A Course In Miracles, “The course does not aim at teaching the meaning of love, for that is beyond what can be taught. It does aim, however, at removing the blocks to the awareness of love’s presence, which is your natural inheritance.” It is this love, our natural inheritance which we seek and belongs to us in truth.

In Alcoholics Anonymous, in step eleven, we seek through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understand God. Substitute the word “Love” for “God” and we have understood the meaning of  the lesson #104 for today.

In Unitarian Universalism we covenant together to affirm and promote the inherent worth and dignity of every person which belongs to us in truth but which is so often not seen due to blocks and obstacles we erect when we pursue the idols of the ego.

Today we are asked to take five minutes every hour, pause, and reflect on the idea that when we undo the blocks to awareness, we abide in the peace and joy of Love which belongs to us in truth.

My Kind Of Church Music
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, U2

Monday, November 30, 2020

A Course In Miracles Lesson #102, I share God's Will for happiness for me.




 Lesson #102
I share God’s Will for happiness for me.

Are human beings basically good or basically bad? Do we deserve punishment and suffering for our sins or happiness and bliss which is our natural inheritance? Today’s lesson makes the answer clear and asks us to make the choice for happiness which is God’s will for me.

In Alcoholic Anonymous, in the tenth step, we are encouraged to continually take our personal inventory and when we notice that we have been tempted or given into the idols of the ego, we promptly admit it and in step eleven through prayer and mediation regain contact with God praying for His Will for us which ACIM tells us is happiness.

In Unitarian Universalism we covenant together to affirm and promote the inherent worth and dignity of every person and the free and responsible search for truth and meaning which brings us ultimately to the realization that God’s will for us is happiness as we reunite with the Oneness and the peace and bliss experienced there.

Today we take five minutes every hour to decide to share God’s Will for happiness for ourselves. This may seem like an enormous leap of faith, too good to be true, and yet it simply is awareness of our essential nature and God’s Will for Us.

My Kind Of Church Music
Every little thing is gonna be alright, Bob Marley


Sunday, November 29, 2020

A Course In Miracles Workbook Lesson #101, God's will for me is perfect happiness.

 


Lesson #101
God’s will for me is perfect happiness

The worst thing that religion has done to human beings is socializing them to believe that they are innately bad, i.e. sinners, and deserve to be punished for their sins.

Little do people conditioned to this belief, like the people in Plato’s cave watching the figures dancing on the wall, know that this belief in their innate defectiveness and sinful nature is a scam perpetrated by priests, pastors, rabbis, imans, and other religious leaders to advance their importance as an intermediary to appease the wrath of a vengeful and punishing God. 

This belief in the sinful nature of humans is the Big Lie which the ego teaches to scam human beings into worshiping the ego’s idols which are mood altering and provide some momentary but ultimately unsatisfactory relief from the fear of punishment.

In Alcoholic Anonymous, it is suggested in the first three steps that we recognize this lie and then admit that our lives are unmanageable which have been based upon it and to finally turn our will over to our Higher Power whose will for us is to be perfectly happy.

In Unitarian Universalism we affirm and promote the inherent worth and dignity of every person the opposite of what conventional, historical religions have taught. UUs celebrate the Universal and Unconditional Love of God.

Today, we are asked to take five minutes of every hour to remind ourselves that God’s will for us is perfect happiness. God loves God’s creations unconditionally and would never have them punished for what they imagine are “sins” which is merely an illusion borne out of  regret for our mistakes.

My Kind Of Church Music
What A Wonderful World, Louis Armstrong


Saturday, November 28, 2020

A Course In Miralces Workbook Lesson #100, My part is essential to God's plan for salvation.



 Lesson #100
My part is essential to God’s plan for salvation.

Dan was standing in the dark when I walked into the room and his presence startled me. I said, “Oh, Dan, how are you?” And he said, not missing a beat, “I’m happy to be here.” His answer filled me with joy and made me laugh and I said, “And I’m so much better having you here.”

The Course teaches that we all are One. The metaphysics of the Course is based on the the concept of the  non dualistic Oneness of the Universe. This is an unusual metaphysics given that we are conditioned by our Aristotelian metaphysics to deconstruct things into their component parts to better understand what makes them tick. However, we have learned that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts and therein lies the mystery of the Universe and leads to the awareness in today’s lesson that my part is essential to God’s plan for salvation.

It is suggested in Alcoholics Anonymous in the eleventh step to seek this non dualistic Oneness through prayer and meditation turning our will and egos over to the Oneness to experience the power of the whole.

In Unitarian Universalism we covenant together to affirm and promote not only a respect but a love for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part. This awareness that we are a part of something far greater than ourselves fills us with great joy, peace, and contentment.

Today, we are asked to take five minutes at the beginning of every hour to reflect on the fact that our part is essential for God’s plan for salvation. Remembering that we are  one with everything is God’s plan for our salvation.

My Kind Of Church Music
Don't Worry. Be Happy Bobby McFerrin


Friday, November 27, 2020

A Course In Miracles Workbook Lesson #99, Salvation is my only function here.



Lesson #99
Salvation is my only function here.

“Salvation” implies that something is wrong, that there is something we must be saved from. What is this problem from which we must be saved? It is our choice for the world of the ego. We chose the ego instead of God. We chose fear instead of Love. 

Society has conditioned us to think that the idols of the world of the ego would make us happy and we were fooled, and in many cases, continue to believe this nonsense. We haven’t figured out yet that our choice of the things of the ego will never make us happy. We have been fooled by the lies, the deceit, the con, the scam, the illusions of the ego.

In Alcoholics Anonymous, in step three, we finally decided to turn our will over to the care of God (Love) and that has made all the difference. We have learned that in choosing Love we are saved from the lies and illusions of the ego which seduces us with its false promises of mitigating our fears. It finally dawns on us, that deep down, there is nothing to fear because Love is our natural inheritance.

In Unitarian Universalism we covenant together to affirm and promote the inherent worth and dignity of every person. This inherent worth and dignity flows from our essential nature which is Love from which we have emerged in this incarnation. We can continue to pursue the illusions of the ego trying to obtain the idols it presents to us or we can decide that salvation is my only function here and ask ourselves in any given moment, “What would Love have me do?” It is in asking this question, patiently awaiting its answer, and that acting accordingly that salvation comes.

Today, we are asked to reflect on the fact that salvation is our only function here the first five minutes of every hour and whenever else during the day when we are tempted by the false promises of the idols of the ego.

My Kind Of Church Music
All You Need Is Love, The Beatles



Thursday, November 26, 2020

A Course In Miracles Workbook Lesson #98, I will accept my part in God's plan for salvation.


 Lesson #98
I will accept my part in God’s plan for salvation.

Well, you can if you want to but you don’t have to. Should I accept my part in God’s plan for salvation or go my separate way? Up to you. See how things work out for you.

In Alcoholic Anonymous, after we realize that our life is unmanageable and we don’t know what else to do, it dawns on us that maybe there is a better way and that better way is turning our lives over to God and accept our part in God’s plan for salvation.

What is that way? It is based on forgiveness. Forgiveness of ourselves and others for our mistakes in thinking the things in the world of the ego could ever make us happy.

In Unitarian Universalism we covenant together to affirm and promote a free and responsible search for truth and meaning which leads ultimately to accepting our part in God’s plan for salvation realizing the inherent worth and dignity of every person and the interdependent web of all existence of which we, of course, are a part.

“Eeesy Peesy” as little children say. Why fight it? Why wilfully insist that we can do it ourself. Don’t need no Higher Power thing. I am just fine myself. Thank you very much.

So, today, lesson #98 suggests that we accept our part in God’s plan for salvation and that we take 5 minutes at the beginning of every hour to curiously ask that God has in mind for us. 

Listen. 

Don’t talk. 

Let God whisper in the silence. You can only hear God’s voice if you are quiet.

My Kind Of Church Music
Sounds of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel.


Wednesday, November 25, 2020

A Course In Miracles Workbook Lesson #97, I am Spirit.


 Lesson #97
I am Spirit

Are you a body with a soul or a soul with a body? Today’s lesson gives us the answer: “I am Spirit.” Spirit is what you are, part of the Divine Flame that fuels the Universe.

In Alcoholics Anonymous, in step eleven, we are encouraged to remember that we are Spirit by engaging in prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with our Higher Power and in step twelve, we are encouraged to share it with others which only enhances the spiritual well being of the whole world.

In Unitarian Universalism, we covenant together to affirm and promote the love of the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part. We come to realize that we are conduits of Unconditional Love to the world. In doing so, salvation comes to the world.

Today, we are asked to take five minutes at the beginning of every hour and remind ourselves, “I am Spirit” and God and I are a dynamic duo. This awareness can make our experience of the world holy.

My Kind Of Church Music
Wholy holy by Marvin Gaye



Tuesday, November 24, 2020

A Course In Miracles Workbook Lesson #96, Salvation comes from my one Self.


 Lesson #96
Salvation comes from my one Self

In today’s lesson we are asked to choose between the way of the ego or the way of Spirit. We make life so complicated, but it is really very simple. Do we choose fear or Love? Fear drives us to the idols of the ego while Love is the Source of our salvation.

In Alcoholics Anonymous we are asked to admit that we are powerless and that our lives have become unmanageable. Many people balk at this idea and say it just isn’t so and continue on until they hit bottom. When they hit bottom, they become desperate, and finally realize that to  turn their will over to their Higher Power seems to be their last ditch possibility for salvation. It is in accepting  the Love of our Higher Power instead of our own ego that our lives miraculously change.

In Unitarian Universalism we covenant together to affirm and promote the free and responsible search for truth and meaning. This search is inward and upward not outward and downward. As Leonard Cohen tells us in his great song Anthem that the crack is where the light comes in.

Today we are asked to take five minutes at the beginning of every hour and relax and look inward for the crack where the light comes in  and in so doing we realize that salvation comes from our Oneness with the All.

My Kind Of Church Music
Anthem by Leonard Cohen


Monday, November 23, 2020

A Course In Miracles Workbook Lesson #95, I am one Self, united with my Creator.


 Lesson #95
I am one Self, united with my Creator.

The initial shock of learning that I am not my ego, my self with a small “s” seems, at first, unbelievable. However, sitting with this awareness, overcoming the primal fear we experience, leads then to an awareness that we are a part of something far greater than just our ego, a transcendent whole, what the Course calls the Self with a capital S because this Self is God.

It is shocking to learn that we are God. We can only become aware of this reality if we are willing to give up the ego, the small self.

In Alcoholics Anonymous, we are encouraged in step three to make a decision to turn our self over to our Self. Some people call this “surrender.” Some call it “letting go.” In the Course it is called “forgiveness” which facilitates the Atonement. This corrected perception from the world of the ego to the world of the Spirit is what the Course calls the “miracle.” In AA, for those who apply the steps of the program, miracles occur on a regular basis, every day, many times a day.

In Unitarian Universalism, we covenant together to affirm the inherent worth and dignity of every person which emanates from  the Self, which Emerson, the Transcendentalist, called the “oversoul.” UUs also affirm and promote a respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part.

Today, it is suggested that we take 5 minutes at the beginning of every hour to remind ourselves that I am one Self, united with my Creator. We are not bodies, but Spirits. The body is merely the communication device, like a radio, which transmits the Divine and ethereal vibrations of the Self.

My Kind Of Church Music
In The Air Tonight, Phil Collins


Sunday, November 22, 2020

A Course In Miracles Workbook Lesson #94, I am as God created me.




 Lesson #94
I am as God created me

The lesson today asks us to set the idols of the ego aside and get back to fundamentals. The basic question all human beings are challenged by is “What and who am I?” The answer, according to A Course In Miracles, is “I am as God created me.”

In Alcoholic Anonymous, in step eleven, we are encouraged through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with the Source from which we have emanated. This Source, as the mystics tell us is the “ground of our being.” This Ground of our Being is pure and uncorrupted by the nonsense  which has buried our awareness of it by the insanity of the ego.

In Unitarian Universalism, we covenant together, hopefully with sincere commitment, to affirm and promote the inherent worth and dignity of every person. This worth and dignity was bestowed on us when God created us and God loves God’s creatures, as the Universalists have taught, unconditionally.

Today, we are asked to take 5 minutes at the beginning of every hour and remind ourselves that “I am as God created me.” We then are to wait expectantly for the light, joy, and peace to fill us with bliss.

My Kind Of Church Music
Hallelujah sung by K.D. Laing



Saturday, November 21, 2020

A Course In Miracles Workbook Lesson # 93, Light and joy and peace abide in me.




 Lesson #93
Light and joy and peace abide in me.

If we imagine a person like an onion with layer upon layer upon layer of sludge, dirt, and detritus burying a brilliant, glistening, luminous diamond at our heart, we get a sense of what today’s lesson is conveying. Light and joy and peace abide in me although I may not see it yet, or be aware of it yet. But it’s there whether we see it and are aware of it or not. That brilliant diamond in our heart is the Divine Spark from which we emerged in our incarnation and which is part of us eternally.

In the third step of Alcoholics Anonymous, we make the decision to set all the sludge and dirt and detritus aside and focus on the brilliant diamond within. In the eleventh step we decided to seek through prayer and meditation our conscious awareness of the Divine Spark within where light and joy and peace abide.

In Unitarian Universalism we covenant together to affirm and promote the inherent worth and dignity of every person which emanates from the light and joy and peace which abide deep down in our minds and which our faith tells us is there even though it often seems buried so deep that we might doubt its existence.

Today, we are asked to remind ourselves and reflect for 5 minutes at the beginning of every waking hour that light, joy, and peace abide within. Connecting with this Divine Spark we can sing, “Joy to the world.”

My Kind Of Church Music
Jeremiah was a bull frog, Three Dog Night


Monday, November 16, 2020

A Course In Miracles Workbook Lesson #88, Review of lessons 75 and 76


 Lesson #88
Review of lessons 75 and 76

75 - The light has come.
76 - I am under no laws but God’s.

It is good to remind ourselves that in the end, when it’s all said and done, we are under no laws but God’s. How easy it is to forget this when we believe in and pursue the idols of the ego. When we hit bottom, it dawns on us that there must be a better way and with this realization our search begins within instead of without and the light has come.

In step two in Alcoholics Anonymous we come to believe that a Power greater than ourselves can restore us to sanity.

In Unitarian Universalism we affirm and promote a free and responsible search for truth and meaning. This takes courage. It takes a willingness to march to no drummer but our Higher Power which UUs call Love. One of the memes of UU is “being on the side of Love.” When we take the side of Love the light has come.

Today, I will take 2 periods of 10 - 15 minutes and settle in and await the light. It comes when we turn our willfulness over to the willingness to align ourselves with God’s will. “Let go and let God” as they say in AA.

My Kind of Church Music
It's a great day to be alive by Travis Tritt


Sunday, November 15, 2020

A Course In Miracles Workbook Lesson #87, Review of lessons 73 and 74


Lesson #87
Review of lessons 73 and 74

73 - I will there be light.
74 - There is no will but God’s.

Darkness and evil surrounds us on the path of the ego. “There’s always something” as the Jewish mother, the Irish mother, the Italian mother is said to have said. And yet the problem is not the upsetting “something” but what we want to make of it, how we take it, the interpretation of the meaning of the “something” that upsets us. We can be reactive or responsive. It’s up to us once we are aware of what is upsetting us. Today we are encouraged to will light and not darkness. In the process of willing light we relax, turn our will over and realize that there is no will but God’s. Trying to force my own willfulness is a losing proposition. Being willing to surrender to the will of God brings peace and joy.

In Alcoholic Anonymous, the slogan is, “Let go and let God.” We are asked in the third step to make a decision to turn our will over to the care of God as we understand God. We admitted in the first step that our life was unmanageable. Our willfulness has really screwed things up. It dawned on us that there must be a better way and we sought help. It was in the fellowship where we learned the steps that enabled our lives to embark on a better path. We decided to set the ego aside and follow the call of Spirit, our Higher Power.

In Unitarian Universalism, we covenant together to affirm and promote the inherent worth and dignity of every person from which the light emanates. We further affirmed and promoted the acceptance of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth by engaging in a free and responsible search for truth and meaning that takes one within and not without.

UUs will there be light and recognize that Love is the way when we respect the interdependent web of all existence which is summed up in an awareness of the non dualistic Oneness which is the Ground of our Being.

Today, we are asked to take 10 - 15 periods twice to reflect on the desire for light and to do God’s will. In addition whenever we find ourselves angry, guilty, fearful, we will remind ourselves that we choose to focus on light and God’s will. We choose to follow the path of the Spirit and not the path of the ego.

My Kind Of Church Music
Eagle's Wings 


 

Friday, November 13, 2020

A Course In Miracles Workbook Lesson #86, review of lessons 71 and 72


 Lesson #86
Review of lessons 71 and 72

71 - Only God’s plan for salvation will work.
72 - Holding grievances is an attack on God’s plan for salvation.

Human beings, being conditioned by society, are willful, but we learn, as we mature, that willfulness will not get us into heaven. We learn, sometimes with great pain and anguish, that it is willingness that gets us into heaven not willfulness. Are we willing to align our will with God’s will for us? The stoics call this “amor fati” which means “love your fate.” In other words we should lean in not lean out.

In Alcoholics Anonymous we are asked to make a fearless moral inventory of ourselves. Do you notice that the step is not simply “make a moral inventory” but a “fearless” one? What are the mistakes we have made in our life? What do those mistakes have in common? It is our willfulness. We have not listened to God’s will for us. We have not listened to what Love would have us do.

In Unitarian Universalism we covenant together to affirm and promote a free and responsible search for truth and meaning. Do you notice that the principle calls us not just for a free search for truth and meaning but for a “responsible” search for truth and meaning. What does this responsibility entail? It entails searching for what Love would have us do not just our own will.

Today, we are asked to take 2 10 - 15 minute periods to do a fearless moral inventory and to acknowledge that only God’s plan for salvation will work. God wants us back with the Oneness and not separated egos. Whenever we indulge our ego by holding grievances, we are on the wrong track and not following God’s plan for salvation which is to follow the path made up of what Love would have us do.

My Kind Of Church Music
Don't Give Up by Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush



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