Daily reflections, Day Twenty three, Focus on the Divine Spark within every person you meet.

Day Twenty three

Focus on the Divine Spark within every person you meet.

“Miracles reawaken the awareness that the spirit, not the body, is the altar of truth. This is the     recognition that leads to the healing power of the miracle.” ACIM, T-1.1.20:1-2

Are you a body with a spirit or a spirit with a body? This is not cute wordsmithing. This question and your answer makes all the difference in the salvation of the world.

The answer, according to A Course In Miracles, is that you are a spirit with a body, and it is in the mind that miracles occur not in the body.

The body is constantly changing and is not permanent, but the mind is eternal and lives for ever in its unification with the Tao, the Oneness that some call the God Force, the Ground of our Being.

At Unitarian Universalism: A Way Of Life we teach that the Holy Spirit resides in the relationship when people join together in a common purpose of becoming aware of their holiness and the holiness of all. It is this joining that Jesus is referring to when He says that people will know His disciples by their love for one another.

The first principle of Unitarian Universalism is to covenant together to affirm and promote the inherent worth and dignity of every person. This “person” is not the body, but the Spirit, the Divine Spark within every human being and all living things.

Today I will apply the advice of Peace Pilgrim who said that when she meets people she looks for the Divine Spark within them and focuses on that.

Religion in the public square - Chrisitanity Today magazine editorializes that the Trump Administration is immoral.

Will the UU World take a similar editorial position?

Evidence Based Social Policy Advocacy - Criminal Justice, wrongful convictions.

Is the criminal justice system in the U.S. racist?

Of the 367 exonerees of the Innocence Project since 1989 cleared with DNA evidence:

225, 61% were African American

110, 30% were Caucasian

28, 8% were Latinx

2, 1% were Asian American

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What racial group in the United States is most heavily impacted by wrongful convictions?
Why would this be?

Actions:

1. Find out how many wrongful convictions have occured in your church's jurisdiction in the last 10 years.
2. Identify the contributing factors to these wrongful convictions.
3. Identify remedies for the criminal justice practices in both policing and prosecution to minimize, if not eliminate wrongful convictions in your jurisdiction.

Ask Alexa - How do we create heaven on earth?

Alexa: How do we create heaven on earth?

Simple but not easy. We have to erradicate the blocks and obstacles to our awareness of Love's presence which is our natural inheritance.

Alexa: Did you hear that Humpty Dumpty was out of sorts in the spring, and by summer he had clinical depression?

Yes, and his psychatrist predicted that he was going to have a bad fall.

Daily reflections, Day Twenty two, "I am One with God and the Divine Nature of all humanity"

Day Twenty two

“I am One with God and the Divine Nature of all humanity.”

“Miracles make minds one in God. They depend on cooperation because the Sonship is the sum of all that God created. Miracles therefore reflect the laws of eternity, not of time.” ACIM. T-1.1.19:1-3

While the teaching of A Course In Miracles is very simple, its metaphysics can be quite jarring because it is so counter-cultural. Once a person understands the metaphysics of the Course, the application of the ideas of this metaphysics takes repeated reminders and practice.

Miracles remind us that we are One with God. God and God’s creation are all One. Our human dilemma occurred with the separation from the Oneness of God when we were born. We then became conditioned and socialized by our families and society to become a separate ego. In this process, we lost our innocence, and life is about regaining it and finding our way consciously and willingly back to the Oneness of God.

To become One we must cooperate with the creative :Love of God and with our fellow humans and all of what we call Life. On the ego plain this takes time, but in eternity before the separation there is no time. When we remember our Oneness we enter into a flow state where time stands still and has no meaning.

The Univeralists taught that God is Unconditional Love and that humanity is the Body Of Christ. These ideas are articulated in many of our Unitarian Universalists principles.

Today, I will give up making other people and situations responsible for my unhappiness and feeling and acting like a victim. I will remember that I am not a victim, but the Beloved Extention of God’s Love in the universe..

Religion in the public square - Testimony from Nancy Pelosi

I was raised as a Catholic with a heart full of love and I don't hate anybody!




Editor's note:

As a Roman Catholic Unitarian Universalist I am very inspired by the witness and testimony of Nancy Pelosi, United States Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Being Muslim in America