Bask in the radiance of God’s unconditional love and extend it to others.

The extension of God’s Being is spirit’s only function. Its fullness cannot be contained, any more than can the fullness of its Creator. Fullness is extension. The ego’s whole thought system blocks extension, and thus blocks your only function. It therefore blocks your joy, so that you perceive yourself as unfulfilled. Unless you create you are unfulfilled, but God does not know unfulfillment and therefore you must create. You may not know your own creations, but this can no more interfere with their reality than your unawareness of your spirit can interfere with its being. T-7.IX.3:1-7

A Course in Miracles (p. 271). Foundation for Inner Peace. Kindle Edition. 

The Blues Brothers said that they were on “a mission from God.” The mission of God is extending God’s unconditional love into the world around you. You are a conduit. The gospel song’s title is “This little light” and the verse is “This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine.” The verse is a bit misleading because it is not “my mine” but Thine which I am simply extending by sharing.

In Unitarian Universalism some of us join together to affirm and promote the acceptance of one another and the encouragement to spiritual growth. We encourage spiritual growth by extending God’s conditional love to others.

Today it is suggested that you bask in the radiance of God’s unconditional love and then extend it to others.

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Weekly summary 01/08 - 01/14/23

It’s been quite a week on UU A Way Of Life with 6 posts about A Course In Miracle teachings which focused on the ideas that Truth is beyond belief and that we are here to extend the Truth. The Truth is that God loves us unconditionally and the Holy Spirit operates in the space between our belief in the world of the ego and the world of the Spirit to guide us to drop the ego and become one with Spirit.

On Thursday the post teaches us the idea that if God is with us and we are with God, what can be against us? When we realize that we are with God, we can then bless and no longer sacrifice.

The ACIM ideas validate many of the UU principles such as the inherent worth and dignity of every person, the awareness of the interdependent web of existence, the acceptance of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth, and the free and responsible search for truth and meaning.

The takeaways from this week’s ideas is that Truth is to be found beyond belief in the realm of Spirit and that we are here to extend the Truth of unconditional love of our Creator.

Questions for reflection/discussion:

1. What is the difference between Truth and belief?

2. What helps us discern the difference between belief in the world of the ego and the realm of Spirit?

3. What is our purpose here on earth?

4. In what does our strength and power reside?

5. Which of the UU principles exemplified in the ACIM ideas stands out for you?

Bless; don’t sacrifice.

Creating is the opposite of loss, as blessing is the opposite of sacrifice. Being must be extended. That is how it retains the knowledge of itself. Spirit yearns to share its being as its Creator did. Created by sharing, its will is to create. It does not wish to contain God, but wills to extend His Being. T-7.IX.2:5-10

A Course in Miracles (p. 270). Foundation for Inner Peace. Kindle Edition. 

As human beings, we yearn to create. Creating is different than sacrificing. Creating is an extension while sacrificing is a deprivation.

In Unitarian Universalism some of us join together to affirm and promote the acceptance of one another and the encouragement to spiritual growth.

Today it is suggested that we look for opportunities to bless and not sacrifice.

One for all and all for one and the peace of God.

Spirit knows that the awareness of all its brothers is included in its own, as it is included in God. The power of the whole Sonship and of its Creator is therefore spirit’s own fullness, rendering its creations equally whole and equal in perfection. The ego cannot prevail against a totality that includes God, and any totality must include God. Everything He created is given all His power, because it is part of Him and shares His Being with Him. T-7.IX.2:1-4

A Course in Miracles (p. 270). Foundation for Inner Peace. Kindle Edition. 

If God is with you, and you are with God, who can prevail against you? Nobody and no thing.

In Unitarian Universalism some of us affirm and promote the awareness of the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part. This awareness is the awareness of what some people call “God” which is the non dualistic Oneness of all creation.

Today it is suggested that we reflect on the power of one for all and all for one and experience the peace of God.

What would Love have me do?

Selfishness is of the ego, but Self-fullness is of spirit because that is how God created it. The Holy Spirit is in the part of the mind that lies between the ego and the spirit, mediating between them always in favor of the spirit. To the ego this is partiality, and it responds as if it were being sided against. To spirit this is truth, because it knows its fullness and cannot conceive of any part from which it is excluded. T-7.IX.1:4-7

A Course in Miracles (p. 270). Foundation for Inner Peace. Kindle Edition. 

The ego loves conditionally while the Spirit loves unconditionally. This is the faith of the Universalists and is a major understanding of the Perennial Philosophy.

In Unitarian Universalism some of us join together to affirm and promote the acceptance of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth. This acceptance is based on the unconditional love of the inherent worth and dignity of every person and the encouragement to look past the world of the ego to the world of Spirit.

Today it is suggested that we ask ourselves continually “What would Love have me do?” Ask the Holy Spirit for guidance as we discern the loving path.

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