Spiritual Solutions

One afternoon a few years ago, when we lived on Coffee Pot Bayou, there was a sudden storm, short but fairly severe. We looked out of the window and saw there was a little blue sailboat, just a very tiny one, out on the bayou. There was a man and a little child in the sailboat. It looked like the sailboat was in trouble and the man couldn’t get it where he wanted it to go.

I went down to the dock, and by that time he’d . . . Read More

Maggie Finefrock, a dear friend who was on my staff as the Director of Youth Education when I was the Director of Ministry Services at the Association of Unity Churches, was always such a fount of wisdom and had the innate ability to touch people’s hearts through little sayings. One saying she used often in talking to new ministerial students or newly ordained ministers just going out into the field was simply this: “Your ministry is at the end of your nose. So pay attention to that.”

The same thing is true of the guidance we seek in our own lives. Our guidance is . . . Read More

When Jesus talked to God, he aligned himself with God. He said, “The Father and I are one,” and “He who has seen me has seen the Father.” To differentiate in a simple way between prayer and meditation, we often say that prayer is talking to God, and meditation is listening to God. But for Jesus, prayer was talking to God in a special way. He prayed and spoke not just to God, but . . . Read More

Prayer is not just a one-time thing, it’s living in a consciousness of God’s presence, present with us at all times. Prayer is drawing us to that awareness; it opens us up to it. The words we use are simply tools to open us up to the flow which is God’s eternal willingness within to bring that eternal good, the riches of God’s presence, into our lives.

This is the abundance and joy that Jesus talks about. . . . Read More

Personal transformation means that you have the abiity to access the source of spiritual power and bring about positive and lasting change in your life.

You begin to look at your life from an awareness of your spiritual nature, with the realization that you are a spiritual being going through a human experience. And you find spiritual solutions to life’s problems and challenges.

The following three steps will help you to . . . Read More

ARE YOU READY?

Are you ready to move to a new level of awareness? Are you ready to move to a new level of consciousness?

Recently, a person in church said to me, “You know, I’ve been attending now for six years. I’ve sat out in the congregation and I’ve listened to the messages and I’ve heard the lessons and I’ve participated in many different activities, but I’ve never applied the spiritual principles to myself, to my life.” . . . Read More

Charles Fillmore, the co-founder of Unity, said, “Man is not the limited creation that he thinks he is, but he is the focus of an infinite idea.” A powerful statement indeed.

We are talking about faith. We may often talk about having faith, but Jesus said, “Have faith in God.” There is a difference you know.

You’ve had faith many times in your life. In fact, you’ve had . . . Read More

I feel quite sure that most of us are interested in prosperity. If someone should ask you “Are you ready to better your financial life?” you would probably hasten to say that you are. Most of us think we’re ready for prosperity. But I wonder if we are, really.

Now, it’s hard to imagine not being ready and willing to welcome with open arms the good things we desire from life. Who wouldn’t be happy to have a new car, or the kind of house we’ve always wanted, or a substantial increase in salary, or a promotion on the job?

But, says Unity minister and author Eric Butterworth, “simply wanting the benefits doesn’t mean that we are really ready for them. If we were, they would come to us. Make no mistake about it. The amount of prosperity that you have at any given moment is the exact amount you are prepared to accept.” . . . Read More

I’d like to share with you fifteen turning points in Truth that were written by that great Truth teacher, minister, and author, Dr. Emmet Fox. But before sharing them with you, I’d like to tell you one of the great stories about him and his special connection with the Unity movement.

In the early years of Unity after the Fillmores had started training and ordaining ministers, Emmet Fox wanted to become a Unity minister. But at that time, one of the requirements for acceptance was that a person must have completed a correspondence course in “Lessons in Truth,” which was available at that time. 

Emmet Fox, already a well-known and respected figure in the New Thought movement, felt it was unnecessary for him to . . . Read More