VISION

Build a wall
To make American great again
Greatness comes with bridges
Not walls
It comes with unity
Not division
Loves sees one
Hate and fear see many
When separation disappears
God’s presence is visible
Oneness or separation
Love or fear
Goodness or hate
You choose to
Unify or divide
By the way your mind
Sees the world

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Unity is the light of the world. May we all stand in unity.

THANK YOU!

I have been sitting here today reflecting on the last seven years. It has been a crazy and amazing journey. So many different people have come through our doors. Some have journeyed with us for years, some for a few months, and some just came and left. Each in their own left a mark on me and this ministry. To all of you who have been a part of our journey and evolution, thank you!

I remember when I first started talking to someone about this vision and she said just start it and they will come. What has fascinated me most the last seven years is the messages and emails from people around the world.  I was not expecting that my writing would resonate with people from just about every continent in the world. It has allowed me to build relationships with people from places such as the Czech Republic, Liberia, South Africa, Trinidad and Tobago, India, Jamaica, Russia, and Ireland. There is something about knowing that there is a language that resonates with people globally. There is a blessing in knowing that people can come together and feel the presence of the Ultimate. It is a different kind of unity then I have been thinking about all month.

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Others may focus on divide and conquer. Let us focus on binding, bonding, and overcoming. Let's stop letting others divide us.

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When you are in unity within yourself, then there is nothing externally that can interrupt that feeling and that peace. Say goodbye enemies

THE WELCOME TABLE

I have been spending so much time thinking through my feelings about community. I know I like the idea of being part of a community, however, I grapple with the challenges of being a part of one. On the one hand, I appreciate the feeling of belong and being a part of something bigger then myself. On the other hand, I hate the feeling of never quite fitting in or living up to the communal expectations. It is feeling like you fit in when so often you feel like a round peg trying to fit into a square hole or vice versa.

I have spent most of my life feeling like I never quite fit in. The one place I feel as if I fit is in my relationship with you. It is in my relationship with you that I experience that unconditional love and acceptance. Perhaps that is because you never ask me to leave a part of me at the door. I have always known that you love for me is unconditional.

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

What would the world be like if we lived the lyrics to this song? Are you willing to join me in this dream of us being a hate free world

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Today let's live the lyrics to this song. Let's get together and feel all right. Let's experience what it is like to be in unity

Song of the Week

The lyrics from this weeks song of the week remind us to acknowledge the inequalities and work together in unity to make this world a peaceful place  https://youtu.be/PL28-RVO0_E

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

You may not always be aware of how interconnected we are, but we are like strands on the same spider web. Separate but connected.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Even when we think we are the only one who has gone through something, we are not. Others share those moments with us even if we are unaware

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Our power comes through our association and collaboration with each other. Together we can light up the world, alone, we are a sole flicker

AND GOD CREATED UNITY

Years ago, when I was in seminary, one of my professors Rev. Dr. Gail Ricciuti, challenged me to think about God as an artist. I fell in love with that idea, partly because it reminded me of one of my favorite children’s books by Martha Hickman called And God Created Squash. She tells the Creation story with a God who has an awesome sense of adventure, play and creativity talking to himself in the Garden of Eden about all that he wants to create. He envisions things and creates them by calling them into being. One inspiration leads to another. For example, God falls in love with the word squash. "I like that name . . . I think I'll use it again. Acorn squash. Butternut squash. Even zucchini squash. I might have a game and call it squash. Or put my hand on something and press down hard and call that squash." This creative process continues until God ends by fashioning some company for himself--something, "well, more like me."

This whole idea of God as an artist was the inspiration for one of my first sermons, called Divine by Design. Here I argued we are Divine by Design because we were designed by the Divine. If we had a label that we wore, some sort of trademark, it would say Divine Design.

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WHAT DO YOU SEE?

what do you see when you look at this painting by Fernand Leger? What does it say to you about unity? Let us know what you think

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

When we take time to learn all the lessons in an experience, we learn more about ourselves, each other, the world, and the Divine.

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Whatever it is I need, if i offer it to you, I give it to myself. When I forgive you, I forgive myself. When I bring you love, I love myself

UNTIEING THE KNOT

So, this month has certainly been filled with adventure and challenges. I have come to remember that achieving unity with someone is not always easy. Sometimes our ways of working towards the common goal are so different. This week a collaborator asked me to prayerfully make a commitment to do something. Reading the request left me with mixed feelings. On the one hand, I wanted to be able to say that what they wanted me to commit to would happen. At the same time, I realized that what they wanted me to commit to involved so many more people and situations then I had control over. I also realized I was feeling this pressure to do something from someone who had always said they would never pressure me to do that. As I repeatedly read the request, I realized the pivotal word in the request was prayerfully.

Prayerfully. That was what reminded me that you had the answer to all that I needed to be in unity with this person. So, thank you for allowing me to speak my truth in love. I know that in your time I will achieve the goal that we would both like to see me achieve, which is also a part of her goal. However, I also know that this is about you and your timing. So, I will continue to commit to being the best me I can be each day and know that you will continue to open doors and remove obstacles and create ways out of no way.

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

It is that one thing that we all know which connects us to each other. It is the feeling of the breeze, the water, the heat, the dirt. It is

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I am you and you are me and we are each other. When we focus on what we have in common, it becomes easier to see the reflection of ourselves

Song of the Week

in 1994, Queen Latifah performed a song called UNITY which spoke out against the disrespect of women in society, addressing issues of street harassment, domestic violence, and slurs against women in hiphop culture. This call for us all to work together to stop this violence is still important. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twv4PP4QSPM