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Thoughts for June 2012

From Lucele Coutts, one of Unity Community Church's members-at-large.

After reading what I wrote in my previous June Thoughts about how the spring winds clean up things in the world, I positively set about dealing with a number of small challenges.

image: Ptolemy's idea of celestial winds

I've been skipping over a big health problem that has been definitely blocking me--a problem friends have survived having much more acute pain than I have had. I was really thinking I was doing all was needed to cure it, but it has been hanging around for 6 months, and has been very expensive.

Imagine!  It’s taken me over half a year for me to realize I have been coasting again, allowing my deep personal spiritual challenge of fear to creep back just as Myrtle Fillmore's did years ago.

Finally I realized that Divine Mind had decided I needed to have another “go” at it, spite of the fact I was working at it with no real progress.  I had a great number of excuses to avoid doing what the final challenge might be. 

But I finally had enough. I  have decided to at least be willing to think about that possibility with GOD IN CHARGE.   When I did, and like each time I have agreed before, my life has opened to do things faster than I believed they possibly could.  So I am ready, if necessary.

And so my TIP for this month is:

DON’T LET FEAR be in control, no matter how large or small it might be.  WITH GOD IN CHARGE, BE WILLING TO OPEN THAT DOOR=====AND LET’S DO IT.

P.S. -- The praying, but most of all being willing did it!  Lucele

P.S.S. from Malayna -  Maria Nemeth wrote about being willing in Mastering Life's Energies: Simple Steps to a Luminous Life at Work and Play.  She said, "Nevertheless, I am willing."

Blessings and Belief

By Unity Community web master, Malayna Dawn

As someone who likes to recycle, I keep my page-a day calendars to use as scratch paper. And since I usually have a calendar with positive messages of some sort, I get to be inspired all over again!  Today I was consolidating a few lists (I'm a list maker, too) and noticed a recurring theme - BLESSINGS.

These are from The Secret calendar, from a few years ago. The first one was for September 28th:

"The dictionary defines blessing as 'invoking divine favor and conferring well-being or prosperity,' so begin right now to invoke the power of blessing in your life, and bless everything and everyone.

Likewise with praising, for when you are praising someone or something you are giving love, and as you emit that magnificent frequency, it will return to you a hundredfold."

The next is from August 27th:

"Praise and bless everything in your life! When you are priaising or blessing you are on the highest frequency of love.  In the Bible, the Hebrews used the act of blessing to bring forth health, wealth and happiness.  They knew the power of blessing."

And finally, adding another layer, the page for July 4th:

"See the things that you want as already yours. Know that they will come to you at need.  Then let them come.  Don't fret and worry about them. Don't think about your lack of them. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your posession." - Robert Collier (1885 - 1950)

These ideas are not new to us in Unity, but a reminder is always nice.  And when serendipity seems to be sending me the same message repeatedly, I figure I'd be wise to listen!

So join me as I love it all, bless it all, praise it all!  Infuse your past, present, and future with "health, wealth and prosperity" and call it all good. I know it's all good!

Enjoy!

Commitments for May 2012

More positive and productive thoughts from Lucele Coutts for Unity Community Church in Reseda, CA, for May 2012.

For May 1 - 7:

Circles of life flow in intricate ways, playful streams tumbling over banks, sparkling over sunlit stones, for life is an adventure.  I can do the same, dipping into life’s plenty, grateful for God’s joyous adventure filled with blessings.

For May 8 - 14:

Life is a two-way street.  I can choose to go with the flow or against it.  Since I choose to go with the flow of good, I feel my energy grow stronger, and I feel  happier and I can see my life getting better every moment of the day.        

For May 15 - 21:

Do you think have nothing to share?  Try giving a smile to a store checker, someone you pass in a busy store, waiters in a restaurant . A cherry hello or a wave to a neighbor?  You might be surprised at what you get in return.

For May 22 - 28:

As an expression of God. Divine Mind speaks to you in many ways, but most of all with your Inner Voice.  It is quiet, often so quiet you can’t quite hear, but try listening each chance you get.  You might be surprised at what you hear.

For May 29 - 31:

If you have nothing you think you can win, improve or change in ways that others might want to do the same.  Try a smile at work.  You might be surprised when you get the answer.  A smile in return can be a starting friendship.

Image from Paper Studio Ink - and may be for sale!

Commitments for March 2012

More positive and productive thoughts from Lucele  Coutts for Unity Community Church in Reseda, CA, for March 2012.

March 1 – 6: When things go wrong, I sometimes forget that God has given me the freedom to make right decisions, too. So today, I will watch every thought, word and act, using only acts of kindness and caring, because I know that what I give always comes right back to me.

March 7 – 13: Though I think I have missed some of the loving seeds My Creator has sown for me, I know there are unlimited possibilities still within the plan for me.  So I open my heart, give thanks, and prepare to take all the right steps, at all the right times, and in Divine Order.

March 14 – 20: Life is a two-way street.  I can choose to go with the flow or against it.  Since I want my life to be even better, I choose to go with the flow.  Each time I do, my energy grows stronger. So giving thanks for my choice, I not only feel, but see my life getting stronger and better.

March 21 – 27: Even if I cannot at first see, detect, or even believe, the seed of prosperity has been planted for me. I know there is always a right outcome for every situation--a perfect result for every circumstance in my life today, and every day.  So I give thanks, and I get ready for it.

March 28 – April 3: Today, without expecting anything in return, I make a point to give as many things I can, whether they may be only smiles, kind words, or helping hands.  Then at bedtime, as I go over my day, I will find that my heart is so full of love and joy, it will spill over while trying to hold it.

Seed Heart Image from Poems dal Veronica.

Bring It to the Now Moment

More positive and productive thoughts from Lucele Coutts for Unity Community Church in Reseda, CA for December 2011.

With every thought, word and action, I find it no effort to bring whatever seems to be needed at every 86,400 NOW MOMENTS of this day, because I know that God is in charge, guiding me right now.

 

Image:

"Healing Heart"

from a Healing and Prayer blog.

Healing Heart Energy

More positive and productive thoughts from Lucele Coutts for Unity Community Church in Reseda, CA for the third week of December 2011.

 

When I find myself in need, I open my heart to feel its healing energy flowing within me, washing away what I don't need, sending each breath of life with least effort, for my body grows stronger each time.

Image: Heart Healing from Co-Creating Our Reality.com, The Heart of Energy

 

Many Channels of Prosperity

More positive and productive thoughts from Lucele Coutts for Unity Community Church in Reseda, CA for the first week of December 2011.

With God as my only source, my prosperity comes through many channels. 

So greeting each with thanks, I'm for whatever is for me, because God’s grace comes at surprising times and places, and in right order.

 

Frozen Branches (from InfoGirl's blog)

Embracing it Like the Very Last Holiday Season

By Malayna Dawn, Unity Community's web-"mistress"

If the Mayan calendar is right, and the world is ending on December 21 2012, or even transforming dramatically, this could be the last Christmas and the last New Year.  At least, the last one we might recognize. 

Kinda a bummer, I know. But we Unitics (AKA Truth students, positive thinkers, Pollyannas) can make it work for us.

 Last year, we thought it might be the last holiday we could spend in our family home, so we did it UP!

We infused every aspect with appreciation and love, and lived it consciously and meaningfully. 

(P.S.--Thanks to the law of attraction and our attitude of gratitude, we didn’t lose the house!)

Let’s treat this holiday season the same way. Deck the heck out of those halls, and trim those trees to teetering!  Be good to yourself, and give to others from the heart.

If anything can stop the end of the world, it would be unfettered, unadulterated LOVE.  And if it can’t be stopped, we may as well enjoy it to the fullest, live in the moment and have no regrets.

Make the most of the Mayan prophecy and make this holiday season the best EVAH!

(And if it turns out NOT to be the end of the world, we can top ourselves next holiday season while we giggle.)

Love, Laugh, and Live it UP!

Also check out last year's Christmas cogitation: Symbolic Wishes for a Metaphysical Christmas

Mayan Santa image combines an image from the Dimension of Power blog and a Santa hat icon from Icon Archive.com.

Commitment to Gratitude for November

More positive and productive thoughts from Lucele Coutts for Unity Community Church in Reseda, CA for November 2011.

Click to see the story for each image included in "Thanksgiving is many circles of Love".

For Nov 1 - 7: Today I plan to be responsible, finding new ways of thinking, speaking and acting, opening new channels through which miracles just seem to happen. For when I AM using my unique God-given gifts and talents, I know I not only help myself, I am of loving service to others.
 
For Nov 8 - 14: On this day, I choose something I have been avoiding to clean up. First, I forgive myself for not doing it, and bless it, putting God in charge, for  I AM ready to listen with my heart, knowing God will show me the way, and best of all, I know God is always ready for the answers.

For Nov 15 - 21: For today, I give thanks for all the good I have received.  And I will bless everyone I think of, see, meet or speak to. As I enjoy every NOW moment, I know that God is always in charge of my life, so of course I AM being blessed in the most complete and loving way.
 
For Nov 22 - 30, and Thanksgiving: In this NOW moment I give thanks for every breath I take, and the food I eat, which energize and support me in health.  And as I feel that pure energy filling me, I give thanks, for I AM my Creator’s expression of health, being supported to be and to do all that I AM meant to be and do.
 
BONUS: When I learned that the Navaho word for "beauty" meant "Divine Order", I claimed the following: I AM beautiful, I see what is beautiful, I hear what is beautiful, and I claim only that which is beautiful in my life, for I know that I AM living only in Divine Order throughout this day and night.

Image shared under the Creative Commons License.

Thoughts for November 2011 - Appreciation for Thanksgiving

From Lucele Coutts, one of Unity Community Church's members-at-large.

It’s interesting how things keep coming around, the ones we need to learn to grow.

I AM very aware why we were guided to move to AZ at the right place, at the right time, and the right order.

And I have learned how to work with parallel activities without getting hurt when they came dancing in, but when health issues can hurt, so I choose to work on the fun things. 

Since my doctor, without my knowledge, spent secret hours in research to help me, even though fearful at first, I am following the exercises that often hurt, and I AM now better with my femur back in place. 

Since I was the one responsible for the problem, I have kept plugging, blessing and forgiving each pain, each strange adjustment, knowing my body is blessing me as Myrtle Fillmore’s did years ago to heal her. 

So I AM now better, walking easier, especially on steps and ramps, and I still have time for my sculptures, and when I added our special Unity blessing: "I love you, I bless you, I appreciate you", when I do any exercise or have a hurt, I find I am moving with LEAST EFFORT.  

So my tip for this month is:  Do whatever you have been avoiding in a prayerful way, and watch how God gives you a hand.

Image shared under Creative Commons License: "Walking Through Fall" by Tom Cochrane