From the Minister's Desk

The holiday season is fast approaching. I’m getting out my decorations and making lists. I love the brisk cool air as I go about my errands. The choir is busily practicing their holiday songs with lots of fun and laughter. All this is good. I am happy. Then I found myself speeding up inside as I “should on myself” with all the things I felt I should do to make everything turn out right. This morning as I was running around the church, Leona English stopped me with a smile and said, “Slow down and breathe”.

She’s right. We are all spiritual energy beings moving through a human life experience. Sometimes our vibrations can get all mixed up, and we find ourselves vibrationally out of control. Have you in the past gotten so caught up in the “have to’s” associated with a holiday or any life situation that before you knew it you were not in a good place at all. The joy had gone.

Have you noticed that all kinds of situations seem to pop up during the holidays? I think that the stuff people have been trying to hold down all year just breaks loose at these times. And instead of moving into a panic vibration, it is important to remember that possibly the challenges that pop up, come up to be healed.

Maybe it’s time a relationship needed some honesty, love and compassion. Maybe it’s time a fear needed to be faced and gently taken out of a position of control in our lives. Maybe an addiction to negativity needs to be transformed. Maybe the boredom of a life lived in default is just catching up to us, and we want to creatively take it up a notch. Maybe life is good, but one feels it can be better.

I don’t know where you are right now in this mix. But today I stopped and breathed. Some stuff came up to be healed. I had a chance to remember that even in the midst of “stuff”, God is present. I had a chance to step back and know that love, compassion, wisdom, guidance are always present. We know this with our heads, but sometimes our gut doesn’t remember. Stop. Breathe. Smile. Open that valve to a willingness to be happy. Focus on self-appreciation or whatever your guidance tells you is a point of well-being. Hold those thoughts throughout the day. Shower your thoughts with love and compassion. And as you shift your thoughts, you shift your feelings. As you shift your feelings, you raise your vibrations, and you experience change.

An old Unity saying is “God loves you and so do I”. This holiday season, remember “God loves you and so do I”. Really.

In the One Love We All Share,

Rev. Lisa