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Hello, Welcome home to Unity, Whether it’s your first time here or your thousandth, each time is new. Every time we enter our sanctuary, we open to a new thought and each new thought is the next beginning. It is the next beginning for a realization of Love, Joy, Peace and Harmony. With these aspects of God active and present in our lives we stand a greater chance of health and healing in our mind and body. We increase our harmony. We increase our prosperity and we are able to see our world in ways where forgiveness is available for all.
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“Enthusiasms & Release for Higher Consciousness” Rev. Theresa Crisci @ Unity Center of Norwalk, CT (10/05/25)
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“Surrender” Rev. Yolanda @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (9/28/25)
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“Living our Values - Compassion” Rev. Arlene Meyer @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (9/21/25)
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“Awakening P.O.W. for Higher Consciousness” Rev. Theresa Crisci @ Unity Center of Norwalk, CT (9/14/25)
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“Living our Values - Spirituality” Rev. Arlene Meyer @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (9/7/25)
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“Living From Emptiness” Rev. Yolanda @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (8/31/25)
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“WWJD Rev. Arlene Meyer @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (8/24/25)
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"Punctuating Transitions: The Semicolon" Rev. Dr. Craig Rubano @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (8/17/25)
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"Spiritual Tools - Unity’s Fourth Principle" Rev. Robert Yarnall" @ Unity Center Norwalk (8/10/25)
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"W.I.L.L. of Highest Consciousness" Rev. Theresa Crisci @ Unity Center of Norwalk, CT (8/3/25)
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"Spiritual Authority – Unity’s Third Principle" Rev. Robert Yarnall" @ Unity Center of Norwalk, CT (7/27/25)
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"What Do You Really Believe?" Rev. Theresa Crisci @ Unity Center of Norwalk, CT (7/20/25)
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"Lessons Learned from Jesus" Rev. Arlene Meyer @ Unity Center of Norwalk, CT (7/13/25)
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"Owning our Goodness – Unity’s Second Principle" Rev. Robert Yarnall" @ Unity Center of Norwalk, CT (7/6/25)(6/29/25)
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"Practice makes Progress!" Rev. Theresa Crisci @ Unity Center of Norwalk, CT (6/29/25) http://www.youtube.com/c/UnityCenterNorwalk
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"What I Learned from Jesus" Rev. Arlene Meyer @ Unity Center of Norwalk, CT (6/22/25)
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"Only One Power - Unity's First Principle" Rev. Robert Yarnall" @ Unity Center of Norwalk, CT (6/15/25)
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"Mary - The Mother of All" Rev. Theresa Crisci @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (6/8/25)
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"Interdependence and the Five Principles of Unity" Rev. Robert Yarnall @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (6/1/25)
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"The Opposite of Love" Rev. Yolanda @ Unity Center of Norwalk, CT (5/25/25) on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/c/UnityCenterNorwalk
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"Now What?" Rev. Anne Hartupee and Rev. Carla McClellan @ Unity Center of Norwalk, CT (5/18/25)
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"Mary Magdalene - The Mystic andThe Mentor" Rev. Theresa Crisci @ Unity Center of Norwalk, CT (5/11/25)
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"Attending to Joy" Rev. Dr. Craig Rubano @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (5/4/25)
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"Asking, Receiving, Acting—Enlivening Our Choices" Rev. Nancy Napier @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (4/27/25)
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"Rising Above it All" Rev. Theresa Crisci @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (4/20/25)
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"Entitled To Miracles" Rev. Yolanda @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (4/13/25)
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Prayer for All Seasons and All Reasons - A Prayer for Unknowing
Rev. Arlene Meyer @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (4/6/25)
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Prayers For All Seasons And All Reasons "The Lord's Prayer" Rev. Arlene Meyer @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (3/30/25)
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"Einstein and Imagination" Rev. Robert Yarnall @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (3/23/25)
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"Surrender: Our Superpower" Rev. Theresa Crisci @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (3/16/25)
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"Keeping a True Lent - What exactly does that mean?" Rev. Theresa Crisci @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (3/9/25)
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"Building the Kingdom Together" Rev. Robert Yarnall @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (3/2/25)
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"Prayers for All Seasons and All Reasons" Rev. Arlene Meyer @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (2/23/25) The Serenity Prayer
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"What APPs are Running in the Background" w/ Rev. Theresa Crisci @ Unity Center Norwalk, CT 2/16/25
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"Be the Way - Faith & Strength" Rev. Theresa Crisci @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (2/9/25)You can see this talk and others on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/c/UnityCenterNorwalk
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"Jesus As Friend" Rev. Robert Yarnall @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (2/2/25)You can see this talk and others on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/c/UnityCenterNorwalk
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"The Universal Truth of Forgiveness" Rev. Arlene Meyer @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (1/26/25)You can see this talk and others on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/c/UnityCenterNorwalk
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"Welcome and Surrender" Rev. Yolanda @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (1/19/25)You can see this talk and others on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/c/UnityCenterNorwalk
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"Wisdom of the Ages" Rev. Robert Yarnall @ Unity Center of Norwalk (1/12/25)You can see this talk and others on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/c/UnityCenterNorwalk
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"Burning Bowl & White Stone Ceremony" Rev. Theresa Crisci @ Unity Center of Norwalk (1/5/25)
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"Enlightened Leadership" Rev. Yolanda @ Unity Center of Norwalk (12/29/24)
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"The Trip to Bethlehem" Rev. Theresa Crisci @ Unity Center of Norwalk (12/22/24)
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"Embracing the Beloved" Rev. Theresa Crisci @ Unity Center of Norwalk (12/8/24)
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"Advent Season" Rev. Arlene Meyer @ Unity Center of Norwalk (12/1/24)
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"Always Remember: We are Living Expressions of Radiating Light and Love" Rev. Nancy Napier @ Unity Center of Norwalk (11/24/24)
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"Hero Within Us, Heroes Among Us Rev. Arlene Meyer @ Unity Center of Norwalk, CT (11/3/24)
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"Faith, the Music and Dance" Rev. Robert Yarnall @ Unity Center of Norwalk, CT (10/27/24)
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"Be Still & Know" Kenneth Gartman @ Unity Center of Norwalk (10/20/24)You can see this talk and others on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/c/UnityCenterNorwalk
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"The Greatest Thing in the World" Rev. Arlene Meyer @ Unity Center of Norwalk (10/13/24)
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"The Truth About Our Faith" Rev. Theresa Crisci @ Unity Center of Norwalk (10/06/24)You can see this talk and others on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/c/UnityCenterNorwalk
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"Guarding The Tongue" Lorraine Marino @ Unity Center of Norwalk (9/29/24)You can see this talk and others on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/c/UnityCenterNorwalk
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"God's Love in John 3:16" Rev. Robert Yarnall @ Unity Center of Norwalk (9/22/24)You can see this talk and others on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/c/UnityCenterNorwalk
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"The Gift of Acceptance" Rev. Theresa Crisci @ Unity Center of Norwalk @ Unity Center of Norwalk (9/15/24)You can see this talk and others on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/c/UnityCenterNorwalk
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"A Time To Change" Rev. Arlene Meyer @ Unity Center of Norwalk (9/1/24)You can see this talk and others on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/c/UnityCenterNorwalk
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"Re-Imagining Our Father" Rev. Robert Yarnall @ Unity Center of Norwalk (8/25/24)You can see this talk and others on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/c/UnityCenterNorwalk
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"The Courage To Be You" Rev. Anne Hartupee @ Unity Center of Norwalk (8/18/24)You can see this talk and others on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/c/UnityCenterNorwalk
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"Unity Herstory" Rev. Theresa Crisci @ Unity Center of Norwalk (8/11/24)
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"I Have Arrived" with Rev. Yolanda @ Unity Center Norwalk CT 8/04/24
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"Curiosity Enlighted the Cat" with Rev. Krista Erickson @ Unity Center Norwalk CT 7/28/24
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"Letting Go as We Swing Through Life" Rev. Anne Hartupee @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (7/21/24)
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"Fearless and Free" with Rev. Theresa Crisci @ Unity Center Norwalk CT 07/14/24
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"Saying "Yes" to Spirit: Being Lived into the Fullness of Your Potential" Rev. Nancy Napier @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (7/7/24)
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"Denials and Affirmations" Rev. Krista Erickson @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (6/30/24)
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"Don't Worry, Be Happy" with Rev. Arlene Meyer @ Unity Center Norwalk CT 06/23/24
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"What Next" with Rev. Becky Whitehead and Rev. Anne Hartupee @ Unity Center Norwalk CT 06/19/24
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"It's a New Day. It's a New Me" with Rev. Theresa Crisci @ Unity Center Norwalk CT 06/09/24You can see this talk and others on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/c/UnityCenterNorwalk
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"Restoring Ourselves When the News is Breaking" Rev. Robert Yarnall @ Unity Center Norwalk CT 6/2/24You can see this talk and others on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/c/UnityCenterNorwalk
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"Blissful Living" with Rev. Krista Erickson @ Unity Center Norwalk CT 5/26/24You can see this talk and others on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/c/UnityCenterNorwalk
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"I Rest in God - Wake the Sleeping Truth in You" Rev. Yolanda @ @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (5/19/24)
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"Giving Birth" Rev. Theresa Crisci @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (5/12/24)
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"Living With Paradox: Everything is One, Everything is Sacred" with Rev. Nancy Napier @ Unity Center
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"Planting Seeds" with Rev. Krista Erickson @ Unity Center Norwalk CT 4/28/24You can see this talk and others on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/c/UnityCenterNorwalk
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"Earth Day Celebration" with Rev. Rene Slataper @ Unity Center Norwalk CT 4/21/24You can see this talk and others on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/c/UnityCenterNorwalk
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"Healing, Health & Wholeness" with Rev. Theresa Crisci @ Unity Center Norwalk CT 04/14/24You can see this talk and others on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/c/UnityCenterNorwalk
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From Near Death to Sweet Thoughtless Love w/ Rev Dr Laurence Brock @ Unity Center Norwalk CT 4/7/24You can see this talk and others on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/c/UnityCenterNorwalk
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"It's a New Day. It's a New Me" with Rev. Theresa Crisci @ Unity Center Norwalk CT 03/31/24
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"We Are The Hero In Our Life's Journey" Rev. Arlene Meyer @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (3/24/24)You can see this talk and others on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/c/UnityCenterNorwalk
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"Being Useless" Rev. Krista Erickson @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (3/17/24)You can see this talk and others on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/c/UnityCenterNorwalk
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"Going Up?" Rev. Anne Hartupee @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (3/10/24)You can see this talk and others on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/c/UnityCenterNorwalk
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"Prayer, Meditation and Wholeness" Rev. Theresa Crisci @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (3/3/24)
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"Prove It!" Rev. Krista Erickson @ Unity Center of Norwalk (2/25/24)You can see this talk and others on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/c/UnityCenterNorwalk
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"Healing: forgiveness and suffering" Rev. Janet Dunn @ Unity Center of Norwalk (2/18/24)You can see this talk and others on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/c/UnityCenterNorwalk
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"Being in the Forever Now" Rev. Theresa Crisci @ Unity Center of Norwalk, CT (2/11/24)You can see this talk and others on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/c/UnityCenterNorwalk
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"Building Compassion" Rev. Rene Slataper @ Unity Center of Norwalk, CT (2/4/24)You can see this talk and others on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/c/UnityCenterNorwalk
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"commUNITY" Rev. Krista Erickson @ Unity Center of Norwalk, CT (1/28/24)You can see this talk and others on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/c/UnityCenterNorwalk
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"Frequencies, Entanglement, and Interbeing" Rev. Nancy Napier @ Unity Center of Norwalk, CT (1/21/24)
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"Back to Basics: The 5 Unity Principles" Rev. Theresa Crisci @ Unity Center of Norwalk, CT (1/14/24)
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Make a donation to Unity Center of Norwalk"The White Stone Ceremony" Rev. Theresa Crisci & Rev. Krista Erickson @ Unity Center of Norwalk, CT (1/7/24)You can see this talk and others on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/c/UnityCenterNorwalk
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"Divine Life" Rev Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (12/31/23)You can see this talk and others on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/c/UnityCenterNorwalk
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"Divine Renunciation/ Elimination" Rev Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (12/24/23)You can see this talk and others on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/c/UnityCenterNorwalk
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“Divine Strength” Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (12/17/23)
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Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
“Your Bottom Is When You Stop Digging”
How many of us have stopped digging to reach the bottom of our misery? I’m not writing this to make any of us guilty. Remember, guilt is not redemption.
Some of us have reached the depths of misery that we never thought possible and yet still we keep digging the hole deeper. Some are better at masking it than others. Some of us live in squalor in our minds or in our homes and because we put on a clean shirt when we leave the house (if we leave the house) we think no one sees us and what we think of ourselves.
These are extreme examples here: the alcoholic who is still functioning, the drug addict who has to cover their arms, the hoarder whose home is infected with insects and vermin, the rageful individual who yells at strangers in the streets when they think no one is watching, the debtor who has no idea of how they will ever pay their debts, the gambler who always knows the next lucky streak is around the corner and yet that corner doesn’t seem to be nearby. The one whose shame is so great that they make everyone else that attacker while they are attacking everyone. And all of these God-beings keep doing it even though they know it doesn’t work and that joy is possible if they would just change their mind and take a different action into the unknown. STOP DIGGING! Decide now that this is your bottom and whatever God is, it doesn’t need you to be miserable or afraid or addicted to thoughts and behaviors that don’t work.
Whatever God is, it has a life rope to pull you up out of the hole you have been digging no matter how long or how deep the hole you are in is. Surrender that this old way no longer works and surrendering is your luck break.
If your bottom is as deep as some of the ones I have described or if it isn’t nearly as severe as some of these but it is still your bottom, give up and give in. Hand your misery over to Love and stop digging. So many have healed before you so we know it is possible. I am one of those people who has had several fantastic healings because I began to want to know God more than I wanted to keep being frightened and alone. I didn’t want to keep thinking the thoughts I was thinking.
Healing is available in obvious and not so obvious ways. However, healing is available for our minds, our bodies, our relationships, our homes, our money, our world. We just have to start climbing up for the solution. Remember, once you’ve reached bottom, stop digging.
All the Best For Today,
Rev. Shawn
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“Divine Order” Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (12/10/23)
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Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
"A LOSS OF MIND"
What do you do when someone you love seems to have lost their mind? I’m not speaking of dementia or Alzheimer’s disease. I’m speaking of when someone completely forgets who they are and what their spirituality is, and they have done what seems to be terrible things to you; what do you do?
Do you hate them if they seem to hate you? Do you throw them away as if they are something to discard? What do you do?
First of all, do your best to remember who and what you are so that you don’t forget as well. Then you pray. Go within and ask the Highest Voice within you for what to think in this situation. Ask your Self for the Truth of the situation to be revealed and then take your actions.
Next, rinse and repeat.
Before each action, go within and ask. Trust the Divine Voice within you. It will never guide you to hurt yourself or another. Remember, you can never force another to wake up, but you can awaken yourself by desiring God more than you desire confusion. Keep asking the Highest.
Remember, we are all equal in God no matter how we behave. In God we trust, and move and have our being.
All the Best for Today,
Rev. Shawn
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“Divine Love and Wisdom” Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (12/03/23)
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Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
"A LOSS OF MIND"
What do you do when someone you love seems to have lost their mind? I’m not speaking of dementia or Alzheimer’s disease. I’m speaking of when someone completely forgets who they are and what their spirituality is, and they have done what seems to be terrible things to you; what do you do?
Do you hate them if they seem to hate you? Do you throw them away as if they are something to discard? What do you do?
First of all, do your best to remember who and what you are so that you don’t forget as well. Then you pray. Go within and ask the Highest Voice within you for what to think in this situation. Ask your Self for the Truth of the situation to be revealed and then take your actions.
Next, rinse and repeat.
Before each action, go within and ask. Trust the Divine Voice within you. It will never guide you to hurt yourself or another. Remember, you can never force another to wake up, but you can awaken yourself by desiring God more than you desire confusion. Keep asking the Highest.
Remember, we are all equal in God no matter how we behave. In God we trust, and move and have our being.
All the Best for Today,
Rev. Shawn
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“Divine Power” Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (11/26/23)
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Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
"Prayer and Meditation Are Essential for Peace"
How many of you think you cannot meditate? I frequently hear, “I can’t meditate. I think too much.”
We all think during meditation. It is by gently bringing yourself back from the thinking into the meditation that gives you the greatest benefit. Somewhere a rumor started that you’re not supposed to think when you meditate. I don’t know any human being who doesn’t think.
Some like to say that “prayer is for asking and meditation is for listening.”
Prayer is a conscious communion with your Highest Self. It is not asking for something as if it is absent, but affirming your oneness with the Highest. Through affirming the presence of what is perceived as absent one can reveal the very thing that seems to be missing.
Meditation is for relaxing and being. Sometimes in the quiet we get great spiritual revelations and other times we just get quiet and a revelation happens later when we most need it. There are also times that we just get quiet.
Take your time to find a way that works for you and offers you the most. It takes work and commitment and its worth it.
All the Best for Today,
Rev. Shawn
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"Divine Zeal" Rev. Theresa Crisci @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (11/19/23)
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Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
"It Happened, Now How Are You Going to Think About It?"
I know I’ve said this so many times as have so many New Thought teachers, but our thoughts create our experiences. It’s not, “that happened and now I have to think this about it.” It’s “that happened, what am I telling myself about it?” Nothing has any definite meaning or required way to think about it.
If you say, “Today was a good day, or today was a bad day,” I will ask you what makes it good or bad? The answer will come down to, “Because I said so.”
In God, there are no good days or bad days; there are events that we experience according to what we tell ourselves about them.
As your day’s events unfold, observe what you tell yourself about them. What are you telling yourself about the weather, your money, your relationships, your politicians, the bumps in the road, etc…. What are you telling yourself. Remember, there is no, “I should think this…” There is only what am I thinking and what is my story?
This goes for everything that happens, not just the big or the small stuff, everything!
All the Best for Today,
Rev. Shawn
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"Divine Imagination" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (11/12/23)
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"It Came to Pass...It Didn't Come to Stay"
Hey U-nity,
I heard that statement many years ago and it was profound to me. The simplicity of it is what appeals to my way of thinking. First of all I like that it uses an old saying that I’ve heard since childhood and then adds simple logic as well as hope to it.
Everything, whether we like it or not is going to pass through our lives and no matter how hard we try to hold onto it, it is not here for the long term.
I need to remember this as much as anyone. I’m grateful to have thought of it today. If everything that comes is meant to stay, we would be so overcrowded with thoughts, stuff and people. Let’s just look at our problems for a moment here. Who here has had problems that aren’t problems any longer? I have! However, they passed. There are so many problems I used to have that I don’t have anymore.
I thought I would never get to sixteen and get my driver’s license. It passed and I drive all the time. People I love have passed. People I have resented have passed. Thoughts I thought were so important have passed. I don’t remember most of them.
Whatever you are going through will pass. They will pass with more ease and grace if you let them. Observe and decide if they are worth holding onto. Take responsibility for your thoughts staying or passing.
All the Best for Today,
Rev. Shawn
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"Divine Understanding" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (11/05/23)
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Hey U-nity,
Expose your light. As they say, “don’t hide it under a bushel. Let your light shine.”
The best part of you is never your physicality. The best part is always what’s within. Especially if you are maintaining a conscious connection with your Source. If you want to know if your light is shining, look for the light in others. You couldn’t see their light if yours wasn’t on.
Show, or expose your god-self and let your light so shine. It’s not something you control, it’s something you become willing to have done through you. Make the choices to let the pathway open.
All the Best For Today,
Rev. Shawn
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"Keep Your Mind Inward - Ignore the Distractions" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (10/29/23)
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Hey U-nity,
Early on in my study I heard, “As God is for me, nothing could be against me.”
It sounded nice but I didn’t understand it. Sometimes it seems as if something or someone is against me. Then I looked at it differently. I turned the other cheek. I realized that while many things affect me, they aren’t directed at me personally.
No one is against me personally. They might be threatened by my religion, my sexuality, my gender, my relationship or whatever else, but they don’t know me.
Hurricane Ian didn’t single anyone out in Ft Meyers or anywhere else, but it affected them…and thus affected all of us everywhere else. It wasn’t against us; it was weather happening.
Illness isn’t against us. Whether it’s mental or physical, illness isn’t against us. Illness doesn’t consider the person or persons who is affected.
That is why we aren’t wise to feel sorry for ourselves. We have the power within us to shift everything. I invite you to listen to my talk from this past Sunday, October 23rd. https://www.facebook.com/unitycenterofnorwalk/videos/425960556367961
I believe that whatever God is, It is Good and is willing that we all thrive and prosper and all we have to do is hold the right thoughts, words and take the right actions. Do not hold off on your Good with self-pity. Decide now, “Good can come from this and I am willing to participate in bringing this good about. What’s more, I am willing that ALL beings thrive and prosper as I thrive and prosper.
As God is for me, I am for me and I am for all beings becoming joy-filled.
All the Best For Today,
Rev. Shawn
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"Divine Faith" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (10/22/23)
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Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
“Making A Decision To Serve God-What Does That Mean?”
For me, serving God is choosing the next right thought, the next right word and the next right action. How do I know what the next “right one is? I just know. I pay attention and I know. Will it hurt myself or anyone else? Terrific! Will it make my life better and not diminish anyone (and I mean anyone) in any way? Even better. Will it benefit all? Great!
Show up and be the best you that you could ever be. All beings are God’s beings. Show up in kindness, wisdom and service as and for all of God’s beings and you’re home free.
All the Best For Today,
Rev. Shawn
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"Who Do You Think You Are?" Rev. Theresa Crisci @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (10/15/23)
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Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
"What Is Your Motive for Praying? What Do You Really Want?"
I am assuming you pray. We all pray, but I mean consciously and deliberately pray. What is your motive for praying? Is it to get something? Is it to remember that you already have something? Is it to get rid of something? Is it because you are afraid not to?
What do you really want by praying? We often think we are praying for something specific when it is actually something so much bigger that we want.
It is similar to when we apologize. When you apologize for something, is it to bring clarity where there has been confusion? Or is it because you are afraid of the repercussions that may follow if you don’t? Don’t apologize to placate when your apology isn’t authentic. Instead, pray for clarity and Truth in the situation.
As a kid, I prayed for stuff and I prayed because I was afraid not to. I did that way as a kid into my early thirties. One day I had a spiritual awakening and I began to pray as a means of KNOWING God. It became enough to feel the presence of the Presence. Good began to flow in and through my thinking, my words and my actions. My confidence in the world being “for” me rather than against me increased and I smiled more easily.
When you pray today, please remember that what could give us, God has already given us and so there is no reason to ask God for it. In your prayer time give thanks for the ability to see and recognize that your Good is here and your Good is God. Then begin to observe a shift in your life.
All the Best for Today,
Rev. Shawn
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“One Step at a Time” Rev. Krista Erickson @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (10/8/23)
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Living From the Super-consciousness
"What Is Your Motive for Praying? What Do You Really Want?"
I am assuming you pray. We all pray, but I mean consciously and deliberately pray. What is your motive for praying? Is it to get something? Is it to remember that you already have something? Is it to get rid of something? Is it because you are afraid not to?
What do you really want by praying? We often think we are praying for something specific when it is actually something so much bigger that we want.
It is similar to when we apologize. When you apologize for something, is it to bring clarity where there has been confusion? Or is it because you are afraid of the repercussions that may follow if you don’t? Don’t apologize to placate when your apology isn’t authentic. Instead, pray for clarity and Truth in the situation.
As a kid, I prayed for stuff and I prayed because I was afraid not to. I did that way as a kid into my early thirties. One day I had a spiritual awakening and I began to pray as a means of KNOWING God. It became enough to feel the presence of the Presence. Good began to flow in and through my thinking, my words and my actions. My confidence in the world being “for” me rather than against me increased and I smiled more easily.
When you pray today, please remember that what could give us, God has already given us and so there is no reason to ask God for it. In your prayer time give thanks for the ability to see and recognize that your Good is here and your Good is God. Then begin to observe a shift in your life.
All the Best For Today,
Rev. Shawn
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“What is Your Concept of Abundance and Do You Have Abundance of It?” Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (10/1/23)
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Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
“What Is Your Motive for Praying? What Do You Really Want?”
I am assuming you pray. We all pray, but I mean consciously and deliberately pray. What is your motive for praying? Is it to get something? Is it to remember that you already have something? Is it to get rid of something? Is it because you are afraid not to?
What do you really want by praying? We often think we are praying for something specific when it is actually something so much bigger that we want.
It is similar to when we apologize. When you apologize for something, is it to bring clarity where there has been confusion? Or is it because you are afraid of the repercussions that may follow if you don’t? Don’t apologize to placate when your apology isn’t authentic. Instead, pray for clarity and Truth in the situation.
As a kid, I prayed for stuff and I prayed because I was afraid not to. I did that way as a kid into my early thirties. One day I had a spiritual awakening and I began to pray as a means of KNOWING God. It became enough to feel the presence of the Presence. Good began to flow in and through my thinking, my words and my actions. My confidence in the world being “for” me rather than against me increased and I smiled more easily.
When you pray today, please remember that what could give us, God has already given us and so there is no reason to ask God for it. In your prayer time give thanks for the ability to see and recognize that your Good is here and your Good is God. Then begin to observe a shift in your life.
All the Best For Today,
Rev. Shawn
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"Spiritual Discernment" Rev. Theresa Crisci @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (9/24/23)You can see this talk and others on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/c/UnityCenterNorwalk
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Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
“Where Did We Go Right Before We Went Wrong?”
Recently, a friend of mine fell away from a new way of life he had committed to. He fell and he fell hard. Once he decided he didn’t want to keep falling, I asked him to look at what led up to his fall and ask himself what he did right.
It’s easy to immediately start beating ourselves up over what we did wrong. It’s usually quite easy to see as well. But by looking at what we did right, we can see, “Oh, I did a lot of stuff right in order to climb up the hill of health and well being before I forgot.”
When we see some of the rightness of our thinking and actions, we can move in that direction more quickly before we forget again. Perhaps then, we’ll continue to remember why we got on the right path in the first place.
We don’t need to keep forgetting our misery in order to find it again. Remember your misery with wisdom and gratitude and then pray on how to remember what health and well being feels like.
What did we do right? Did we pray differently? Did we reach out to others who seem to maintain a level of joy and wisdom? Did we reach out to others to tell them what we are thinking that could bring us down? Did we go to Church? Did we join a Twelve Step fellowship? What else did we do? Did we ever remember to have gratitude where we didn’t used to? Did we say, “Thank you, God” even though we didn’t understand why? Were we kind to those who didn’t seem to deserve kindness? What did we do right and how will we recreate that now and expand on it?
Please look into it. Even if you are already doing everything right, look into anything that might be missing. There is no good reason to miss out on our joy, and we really don’t want a repeat of some of the darker days.
All the Best for Today,
Rev. Shawn
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“And So It Is, Isn’t It?” Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (9/17/23)
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Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
“Where Did We Go Right Before We Went Wrong?”
Recently, a friend of mine fell away from a new way of life he had committed to. He fell and he fell hard. Once he decided he didn’t want to keep falling, I asked him to look at what led up to his fall and ask himself what he did right.
It’s easy to immediately start beating ourselves up over what we did wrong. It’s usually quite easy to see as well. But by looking at what we did right, we can see, “Oh, I did a lot of stuff right in order to climb up the hill of health and well being before I forgot.”
When we see some of the rightness of our thinking and actions, we can move in that direction more quickly before we forget again. Perhaps then, we’ll continue to remember why we got on the right path in the first place.
We don’t need to keep forgetting our misery in order to find it again. Remember your misery with wisdom and gratitude and then pray on how to remember what health and well being feels like.
What did we do right? Did we pray differently? Did we reach out to others who seem to maintain a level of joy and wisdom? Did we reach out to others to tell them what we are thinking that could bring us down? Did we go to Church? Did we join a Twelve Step fellowship? What else did we do? Did we ever remember to have gratitude where we didn’t used to? Did we say, “Thank you, God” even though we didn’t understand why? Were we kind to those who didn’t seem to deserve kindness? What did we do right and how will we recreate that now and expand on it?
Please look into it. Even if you are already doing everything right, look into anything that might be missing. There is no good reason to miss out on our joy, and we really don’t want a repeat of some of the darker days.
If you think I can help you to get greater clarity, by all means reach out. 203-855-7922 or RevMrShawn@gmail.com
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"The Thought Exchange - A Way of Life" David Friedman @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (9/10/23)
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Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
“Where Did We Go Right Before We Went Wrong?”
Recently, a friend of mine fell away from a new way of life he had committed to. He fell and he fell hard. Once he decided he didn’t want to keep falling, I asked him to look at what led up to his fall and ask himself what he did right.
It’s easy to immediately start beating ourselves up over what we did wrong. It’s usually quite easy to see as well. But by looking at what we did right, we can see, “Oh, I did a lot of stuff right in order to climb up the hill of health and well being before I forgot.”
When we see some of the rightness of our thinking and actions, we can move in that direction more quickly before we forget again. Perhaps then, we’ll continue to remember why we got on the right path in the first place.
We don’t need to keep forgetting our misery in order to find it again. Remember your misery with wisdom and gratitude and then pray on how to remember what health and well being feels like.
What did we do right? Did we pray differently? Did we reach out to others who seem to maintain a level of joy and wisdom? Did we reach out to others to tell them what we are thinking that could bring us down? Did we go to Church? Did we join a Twelve Step fellowship? What else did we do? Did we ever remember to have gratitude where we didn’t used to? Did we say, “Thank you, God” even though we didn’t understand why? Were we kind to those who didn’t seem to deserve kindness? What did we do right and how will we recreate that now and expand on it?
Please look into it. Even if you are already doing everything right, look into anything that might be missing. There is no good reason to miss out on our joy, and we really don’t want a repeat of some of the darker days.
All the Best For Today,
Rev. Shawn
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“Prosperity, Prosperity, Prosperity, Blah, Blah, Blah.” Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (9/03/23)
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Living From the Super-consciousness
"Maintaining Our Spiritual Practice"
Hey Unity,
Before one can maintain a spiritual practice, one must create a spiritual practice. I'm going to assume that everyone here has already had a spiritual practice. Now, are you maintaining it?
What is your practice? Is it satisfying or obligatory?
To practice is to get better at something (one hopes). To practice is to master. That is what we want. We want to be masters at prayerful demonstration. I guess that would make us "Master Demonstrators." We want to be masters in love, life, wisdom, peace, joy, and anything else God offers. Mastery comes about through practice. Trial and error. Spiritual scientific experimentation.
Our practice gives us the confidence to know that all things are working out for Good, and we don't have to worry about the results; we just need to continue in our practice until we see the manifestation.
Maintain and expand your practice so that you can continue to know and pass along your wisdom.
Testify!
All the Best For Today,
Rev. Shawn
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“What Is Praise?” Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (8/27/23)
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Living From the Super-consciousness
“Reeducating Our Minds”
Hey Unity,
“Reeducating Our Minds”
I co-taught myself a lot of stuff in my younger youth. I say “co-taught” because while I had many senior teachers in my life, I still interpreted many things they passed along, so I am obligated to reeducate myself now if I am still applying teachings that don’t work.
One of the things I have to reeducate myself on is how I think about my teachers (parents, school teachers, lovers, friends, adult figures, ministers, etc...) I have had to find out how to let them off the hook in my thinking so that I’m not distracting myself with resentment and unforgiveness.
I have had to reeducate myself repeatedly about God and Love, and all of this spirituality stuff.
Most of all, I have had to reeducate myself about myself. I have had to reeducate my mind about almost everything I have thought about myself at one time or another. The things I taught myself were too small. I gave myself too small of a God and therefore too small of a self and too small of a life. It’s okay now that I did that. It’s okay now because I have reeducated myself. I listened to the teachers that told me I was big and that my God needed to be even bigger.
A small example about reeducating minds comes from a time when I was five years old. My grandmother made brussels sprouts. I looked at them and told her I didn’t like brussels sprouts. She asked if I had ever eaten them. I said, “No, but I still don’t like them.” She asked if I would try just one? If I didn’t like it, I didn’t have to eat any more. I trusted my grandmother so I tried one. It was delicious. Brussels sprouts are one of my favorite vegetables. It was not lost on me, even at five that I was convinced I didn’t like them even though I had never tried them. It also was not lost on me that I had missed out on other delicious things before that I was sure I didn’t like but had never tried. That’s why I don’t like beans today. Believe me, I’ve tried all kinds of beans and they are awful!
I’ve tried different modes of spirituality and found things I liked and things that didn’t work for me. I’ve given people who I thought I wouldn’t like a chance. Some have become good friends. Others don’t resonate either on my part or on theirs.
The point is, my mind needs to be reeducated all the time so that I don’t let foolish and uneducated prejudices limit me and keep me from my good. What will you try today that you haven’t tried before?
All the Best For Today,
Rev. Shawn
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"Living From the Christ Consciousness" Rev. Theresa Crisci @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (8/20/23)
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Living From the Super-consciousness
“Make Prayer Your First Choice Rather Than your Last Chance”Hey U-nity,
“Make Prayer Your First Choice Rather Than your Last Chance”
Pray First. Before any action is taken and preferably before thinking develops, pray. Pray, Pray, Pray!
That doesn’t mean to ask God for stuff. That is not a truly effective prayer method. If it were, we would all be amazing manifesters. Prayer means “conscious communion with God, or what God is.” What is God? God is Presence itself, Power Itself, Intelligence itself, Love itself, Wisdom itself. To pray is to be in conscious communion with what IS. When we do that, we then KNOW the next right thing to think, the next right thing to say and the next right thing to do.
To pray is to center oneself and consciously connect with the Truth and Wisdom that IS. Sometimes we need to do it very quickly if we are in the midst of conflict. When I’m there in the midst of confusion I often get quiet (Even though I’m having a conversation with someone, I’m not getting quiet for long, just long enough for an easy breath and to go within and ask, “Spirit, what is the Truth here? What is the correct response here?”) I always get the answer I need for resolution, even though it might not be comfortable in the short run, it’s always for peace in the long run.
Pray, offering yourself over for peace and joy before checking your phone or email in the morning. Do the same throughout the day and, of course, at bedtime.
Don’t wait for conflict to come up before remembering to pray. Let prayer be your first choice in all things.
All the Best for Today,
Rev. Shawn
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“Changing Behaviors or Changing Goals” Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (8/6/23)
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"It's All Grace" David Friedman @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (8/13/23)
Last week's message from Rev. Shawn
Living From the Super-consciousness
“Make Prayer Your First Choice Rather Than your Last Chance”
Hey U-nity,
Pray First. Before any action is taken and preferably before thinking develops, pray. Pray, Pray, Pray!
That doesn’t mean to ask God for stuff. That is not a truly effective prayer method. If it were, we would all be amazing manifesters. Prayer means “conscious communion with God, or what God is.” What is God? God is Presence itself, Power Itself, Intelligence itself, Love itself, Wisdom itself. To pray is to be in conscious communion with what IS. When we do that, we then KNOW the next right thing to think, the next right thing to say and the next right thing to do.
To pray is to center oneself and consciously connect with the Truth and Wisdom that IS. Sometimes we need to do it very quickly if we are in the midst of conflict. When I’m there in the midst of confusion I often get quiet (Even though I’m having a conversation with someone, I’m not getting quiet for long, just long enough for an easy breath and to go within and ask, “Spirit, what is the Truth here? What is the correct response here?”) I always get the answer I need for resolution, even though it might not be comfortable in the short run, it’s always for peace in the long run.
Pray, offering yourself over for peace and joy before checking your phone or email in the morning. Do the same throughout the day and, of course, at bedtime.
Don’t wait for conflict to come up before remembering to pray. Let prayer be your first choice in all things.
All the Best For Today,
Rev. Shawn
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“Changing Behaviors or Changing Goals” Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (8/6/23)
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Living From the Super-consciousness
“Uninformed Decisions”
Hey Unity,
Does this title make sense to you? How many stories (of our own or someone else’s) have we decided are true without getting proper information? I grew up making those decisions about God because I thought my parents and grandparent’s choices were informed. Turns out, they weren’t. They made their decisions about God based on misinformation from their adults.
“There is a principal which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep man in everlasting ignorance – That principle is contempt prior to investigation.” Dr. Herbert Spencer
Have you ever disliked someone based on your friend’s opinion of them? Have you ever disliked someone because they reminded you of someone else that you don’t like? Or, have you ever liked someone just because they flattered you or agreed with you?
I have liked some people because I liked the color they were wearing. I have disliked people because of the color they were wearing. Clearly, I have judgments based on feelings rather than investigation.
For years I investigated my beliefs about God and then my beliefs about myself. Now, I try to let my decisions about God, myself and you to be fluid, knowing that more is being revealed.
It is foolish to make decisions about health, wealth and personalities without proper investigation. It is also foolish to reject our potential Good without proper investigation.
Let’s not be foolish today. Let’s get informed about God and ourselves through honest prayer. Let’s find out the source of our Good and the Cause of our experiences through proper investigation. Observe all outcomes (positive and negative) and trace them to their source. Let’s find out for sure how this life thing works and how we can consciously participate in it for the good of all.
All the Best For Today,
Rev. Shawn
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"If I Can Trust God For This, I Can Trust God For That" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (7/30/23)
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"If I Can Trust God For This, I Can Trust God For That" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (7/30/23)
Living From the Super-consciousness
“I Can’t Live In Peace If…”
Hey Unity,
“I Can’t Live In Peace If…”
I can’t live in peace with a war going on in my head. I can’t live in peace if I insist peace is absent.
No one is a “peace-maker.” There are peace-finders but peace was already made and we can’t remake it. I question the intentions of those who call themselves “peace-makers.” It’s similar to thinking we can actually forgive someone. We can experience forgiveness but to have the power to forgive implies I have the power to actually judge someone. My judgements aren’t real because they are based on opinions that are made up. So my thinking I can forgive is based on opinions that are made up. I can however, experience forgiveness; meaning that I can release the thoughts and opinions of judgement.
Peace is natural. The seeming absence of peace is based on thoughts and opinions that are made up. Or, we could call it “the foolishness of forgetting our God-connection.” I can’t live in the mindfulness of peace if I forget my God-connection.
Now I need to do what I can to remember my God-connection by reminding myself of what God is. God IS Omnipresence (Presence Itself.) God IS Omnipotence (Power Itself.) God IS Omniscience (Intelligence Itself.) God IS Love Itself. God IS Wisdom Itself. God IS PEACE Itself. Therefore, I am always IN Peace whether I’m aware of it or not.
So before we declare an absence of peace, let’s remember the Presence of Peace. Got it?
All the Best For Today,
Rev. Shawn
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"Freedom, A Blessing or Fill In the Blank" Rev. Theresa Crisci @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (7/23/23)
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Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
“Where Have I Been at Fault?”
Sometimes that question can be filled with recriminations and judgment that isn’t exactly accurate. Perhaps a better question may be, “Where did I come up short in that situation?” Or “How was I mistaken or confused in that?”
It’s important to pay attention to where we come up short in our thinking so that perhaps we can stop doing that. It’s like, “Oh, I said/did that and I feel awful. I think I won’t say or do that again.” It’s pretty simple, although not necessarily easy.
The hardest part comes in our resistance. A great argument for taking responsibility for our thoughts words and actions is, “Yeah, but…” “Yeah, but, what you did was just as bad or worse.” “Yeah, but, I didn’t know I was doing that when I did it.” “Yeah, but, I didn’t know the gun was loaded.” (Substitute, “I didn’t know my mind was loaded when I opened my mouth.”
The God of my understanding is not mad at us and is not looking for where to blame us. It’s about knowing where I was at fault or came up short or missed the mark so I can rethink my thinking and behaviors in order to better function in joy.
Joy, isn’t that a good reason to face everything and heal?
All the Best for Today,
Rev. Shawn
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"Things Are Not What They Are Not" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (7/16/23)
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"Things Are Not What They Are Not" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (7/16/23)
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“Can A Weakness Actually Be A Strength?"
Hey Unity,
It should be obvious that the answer is “Yes, a weakness can be a strength.” Weakness is often based on perception rather than reality. Perceptions rarely find their foundation in reality.
Some of my greatest weaknesses have given me my greatest strengths. Where one seems to have a handicap in an area of their lives, either mental or physical, another part of our being strengthens to compensate for the weakness. Many fears I have experienced in my life have led me to a much stronger prayer life where true perceptions have evolved.
There is a term I have heard, “being blessed with the gift of desperation.” The gift of desperation has led many of us to seeking higher thinking for the way to live life with quality and dignity. Some of us have had to go to the bottom to rise up to understanding and willingness. It was the only way for some of us to find our strengths.
Before you criticize yourself for any of your weaknesses, ask yourself if you are willing to be shown how to use this weakness in order to know your strength? Go ahead and ask, and then listen to the answer.
Have fun this week.
All the Best For Today,
Rev. Shawn
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"I've Never Seen a Hearse Followed By a Uhaul" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (7/9/23)
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Living From the Super-consciousness
“Can A Weakness Actually Be A Strength?"
Hey Unity,
It should be obvious that the answer is “Yes, a weakness can be a strength.” Weakness is often based on perception rather than reality. Perceptions rarely find their foundation in reality.
Some of my greatest weaknesses have given me my greatest strengths. Where one seems to have a handicap in an area of their lives, either mental or physical, another part of our being strengthens to compensate for the weakness. Many fears I have experienced in my life have led me to a much stronger prayer life where true perceptions have evolved.
There is a term I have heard, “being blessed with the gift of desperation.” The gift of desperation has led many of us to seeking higher thinking for the way to live life with quality and dignity. Some of us have had to go to the bottom to rise up to understanding and willingness. It was the only way for some of us to find our strengths.
Before you criticize yourself for any of your weaknesses, ask yourself if you are willing to be shown how to use this weakness in order to know your strength? Go ahead and ask, and then listen to the answer.
Have fun this week.
All the Best For Today,
Rev. Shawn
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"Put God First" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (6/25/23)
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"Fireworks In My Mind" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (7/2/23)
Living From the Super-consciousness
"Have You Counted Your Blessings Lately?"
Hey Unity,
Let’s see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5…..infinite.
I have a lot of blessings, how about you? However, they are only blessings if I think they are. So many of us don’t even notice our blessings. Blessings aren’t always shiny.
When I began my healing journey, I was told to give thanks for any and all signs of improvement in my life. I did. And because I did, I began to see more and more improvements in my thinking and in my physical world. The more I blessed the more blessings multiplied.
Just noticing the blessings weren’t enough. If they had, then the blessings themselves would have been the source of my Good and become an object of worship. I needed to find out more about the source of my blessings. It turns out that God is the Source of my blessings and that my thinking is the cause of my blessings.
Yes, the degree of my blessings isn’t about a lack of God, but where my thinking is directed. As I broadened my spiritual thinking I found out that there are no thoughts that I “should” think about anything. I can choose my thoughts. I prefer to choose with the Highest Voice within me. I do that by going within and asking, “What are the highest thoughts I can think about this now?” I don’t always like the answer I get, but I know I have been told the Truth because I asked. Then I look into my willingness to think the thoughts as I have been guided. I am always guided for the best and highest thoughts to think about myself and all beings. I don’t always follow the guidance, but I am always guided. When I choose less than the highest, I seem to miss out on my infinite blessings.
I know some that will say, “Fine! Then I’ll miss out, I’d rather be mad.” Okay, but then, do you really have the right to complain about anything? You chose, just as I have chosen. If we choose to follow the guidance of Spirit, we really don’t have anything to complain about.
Go within and ask what thoughts to think about everything and then realize that you are choosing the highest thinking and therefore the highest blessings. Yay!
All the Best Blessings for Today,
Rev. Shawn
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"Put God First" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (6/25/23)
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"It’s Baseball Season, Beware of Curve Balls"
Hey Unity,
Life throws us curveballs when we are playing the game of life…and we are all playing the game of life. We make plans on how to play and then life throws us a curve ball. We plan to release weight and the sugar cravings kick in stronger than ever. We pray for prosperity and we get a huge bill in the mail. We affirm divine health and we get a strange diagnosis. We go to a thousand A.A. meetings and we drink for no seeming reason. We assume that the worst storm is coming and the wind barely blows…and we don’t know what to do with that either.
A ball player plans to hit a homerun. The pitcher throws a curve ball. Now, the hitter might hit the ball and get to first base or even further. Or, the hitter may strike out depending on what he or she is thinking when they see the curveball coming. Some don’t see the curveball coming. They didn’t realize it was a curve ball until after they got the information.
Here’s how I see it: God was present through the whole play. God didn’t just go absentee just because life threw a curveball. The ball just didn’t come in the way we had planned, and life didn’t happen the way we had planned. All the good of God still lives within me and I will get a chance to bat again and again and again. Unless I quit the team…which is a foolish thing to do.
Keep KNOWING God is the very Presence of our existence. Keep practicing your game until you master it and keep stepping up to the plate to bat again. Curveballs aren’t bad, they’re just curve balls.
All the Best For Today,
Rev. Shawn
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"Father Knows Best" Rev. Theresa Crisci @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (6/18/23) You can see this talk and others on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/c/UnityCenterNorwalk
"Father Knows Best" Rev. Theresa Crisci @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (6/18/23)
Last week's message from Rev. Shawn
Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
"One Thought Can Do a Lot of Stuff "
One thought changes something. One thought changes everything. Thought is the cause of all changes. Pay attention to your thinking and notice what shifts with the string of thoughts you are having. As you read this, observe the thoughts you are having. I’m observing my thoughts as I write this and I noticed I changed my mind about what I’m having for dinner tonight. I’m observing my thoughts about someone in my church. I’m observing my thoughts about what I think you are thinking and that influences what I’m writing.
A thought to make a phone call can lead to a chain of thoughts that lead to the solution that had seemed so evasive an hour ago.
A thought of writing a book leads to many thoughts.
A thought of forgiveness can bring about the experience of forgiveness for many.
A thought of prayer changes everything…sometimes for the better and sometimes it just brings up thoughts of resistance.
A thought of tithing can lead to all sorts of prosperity. Just as a thought of lack can lead to all sorts of other lack thoughts.
Notice your thoughts. Try to judge them as little as possible. Notice them and then notice what they lead to. You will find out just how powerful your thinking self is.
All the Best for Today,
Rev. Shawn
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"So a Tree Falls in the Woods - Does it Have Any Meaning?" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (6/04/23) You can see this talk and others on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/c/UnityCenterNorwalk
"i'm going to do something different" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (6/11/23)
Living From the Super-consciousness
"Spot Your Gifts"
Hey Unity,
Do you spend more time thinking about what’s missing in yourself or do you take ample time to appreciate the Good that resides within you? Too many of us negate the gifts we have to offer.
I was speaking with a group the other day and the topic was “rigorous honesty.” Usually that inspires talk about how we have lied to each other about things in our lives. Many confessed that they have lied when there was no reason to lie.
What occurred to me is how I have lied to myself. For years I told myself that I couldn’t sing. One day I stopped telling myself that and said, “Maybe I can sing.” Next I found out that I can sing. In fact, I sing rather well. I told myself I couldn’t get up on a stage and be funny. I stopped lying to myself and now I’m an award winning comic. I told myself I wasn’t good enough to be a minister. I didn’t know it was a lie I was telling myself. But when I started listening to the Voice inside of me that is Spirit-based instead of an egoic liar, I became a minister. I have done many things since I stopped lying to myself.
I had no idea how I could do these things, but when I stopped lying by saying I couldn’t, it showed up that I could and still can.
I used these examples because they were my passions. What are your passions that you would like to experience but have been telling yourself that you couldn’t? Interrupt the “I can’ts” and go within and ask, “How can I?” Remind yourself that you are as good as Shawn so you can do things you never thought you could. Let “I can” become your spiritual gifts.
If you have a passion for something, give it your best shot. I don’t know if you’ll win awards. I didn’t set out to win anything. I just wanted to find out if I could. That was what was important. I had to do it. Whether I was great at these things or dreadful, I could know that I had tried. Turns out, I have several gifts flowing through me.
Find out about your gifts. Find out through experience. What are you longing to try? Show up for it with a plan for success. Show up with a faith that you are loved by God and can’t not be loved. Show up knowing you may not be a finished product but a work in process.
I have a friend who showed up here at Unity for Open-mic a few months ago. She sang a song while reading the lyrics from her phone. She sounded lovely, but disconnected from the lyric. She basically only knew how to sing-a-long with a famous recording. I suggested that she book a coaching session with Kenneth so that he could record tracks on her phone for her to rehearse with in her key rather than someone else’s. She did it. She has advanced herself within her gifts.
Show up, take risks, laugh as much as possible. Have your feelings and don’t become your feelings. Find out how to let your gifts shine in even bigger ways.
All the Best For Today,
Rev. Shawn
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"So a Tree Falls in the Woods - Does it Have Any Meaning?" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (6/04/23) You can see this talk and others on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/c/UnityCenterNorwalk
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"Both Sides of the Coin Are Valuable "
Hey Unity,
The front of a penny has the same value as the back of the penny. One side of a viewpoint can lead to spiritual freedom as another side of the same viewpoint.
For those of us with a difficult past, let’s not throw it away because it hurt, and perhaps still hurts to think about. My past has proved quite valuable to my present.
Where has your past led you to higher thinking? Or a greater knowledge? Or given you a greater ability to be of service in the world?
If your past hasn’t done that, it’s because you’re not paying attention. I have friends who will not allow peace and productivity into their present state of mind and affairs because they are still waiting for the past to not have happened. I used to do that. (To be honest, I still do sometimes.) I would sit around and tell people about how I was done wrong by my parents, my teachers in school, my former employers, people I thought were my friends, the traffic on the roads etc…
In my fury and confusion, I was only going to let all of these beings and situations off the hook is if they undid it and made it not have happened. Of course that was impossible. So then I was stuck in my misery and it was their fault.
One day I woke up and realized I didn’t want to be stuck in my misery anymore. I found people who had successfully transformed their “stuff” into productive thinking and living. I was also in a healing program that offered promises of healing if I stuck to the principles of refraining from behaviors that went out of integrity. One of those promises was “we will not regret the past, nor wish to shut the door on it; no matter how far down the path we have gone we will see how our experiences will benefit others.” Wow! My experiences could be of use in the world and others could have a better life because of what I had gone through at both the hand of others and my own destructive behaviors. That was fantastic.
I got to work at looking at everything differently. Forgiveness began to reveal itself to me and within a relatively short amount of time I no longer needed my past to not have happened. I just need to think about it differently. I found mentors and therapists and friends who could guide me through wisdom and their own experiences of transformation. The transformation included letting go of some stuff and seeing other stuff radically differently.
I also continued to observe those who stayed stuck in their old ways of thinking. I reminded myself of both what I wanted and what I didn’t want. I made myself available to be present for those who could benefit from my new choices…and while holding sacred space for those who weren’t yet ready for my new journey, I kept and keep a polite distance.
Let’s remember, both sides of the coin have value, both sides of life have value if properly invested.
I’m really grateful for us!
All the Best For Today,
Rev. Shawn
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"A Ticket To Be A Blessing" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (5/28/23) You can see this talk and others on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/c/UnityCenterNorwalk
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"Reservations"
Hey Unity,
Do you have reservations about your spirituality? Are you uncertain about what you think God’s will is? Reservations are about holding back in our thinking.
So many have reservations about committing to a belief in God, but they don’t have reservations about holding on to a resentment, or their thoughts about the absence of their good, or what’s wrong in their world i.e., sickness, poverty, childhood abuse, their looks, etc…
I know others who only want to look at what they consider positive things, and they don’t want to hear your negativity. Their reservations are for things that don’t scare them.
If you are making a reservation for dinner, it is because,
A. you want to have dinner at a certain time and
B. you want to have dinner at a certain place and you want your place held for you.
Make your reservations for your spirituality. Call your mind and save a space for something so good that you would never want to live without it. Assume that your time is available and that traffic getting there will be easy.
Rather than using reservations for withholding your Good, use your reservations for claiming your Good.
Thanks for being open to looking at it this way.
All the Best For Today,
Rev. Shawn
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"May It Begin With Me" Rev. Theresa Crisci @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (4/16/23)
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Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
"Do You Laugh Enough? "
I personally like to laugh and I like to laugh a lot. I find many things very funny even though others don’t always see the humor in it. I seek out movies and tv shows that make me laugh; especially before going to sleep.
I look for humor and silliness in situations that I used to take very seriously. Even through tears and grief at my mother’s funeral, I had many moments to laugh, especially at some people’s discomfort. So many people take life so seriously that I find I have to laugh at them. Uncomfortable situations are rife with opportunities to find funny.
Death is riddled with humorous moments. Sickness can be healed with humor and laughter. Inharmony can be brought to connection with joined laughter. Prosperity can be increased by seeing the humor of how seriously some take their money.
Most of all, I had to learn to not take myself seriously. Sometimes that can be difficult because I think my indignation over something has value. Indignation cannot have more value than joy.
Many years ago I was in a relationship with someone who really negated petty upset. His response to many in an outburst was often, “Don’t be a baby, Shawn.” I would laugh at that statement. In fact, I still laugh just thinking about it. Some people feel like their pain is being negated when they are spoken to like that. I felt that I was being guided to freedom. At that point in life, my pain was seen sufficiently and I need the God in me seen more. I needed Life seen in me more than my past pain. “Don’t be a baby, Shawn,” woke me up to seeing Light in life that I had been ignoring. I wasn’t being negated with that statement; I was being loved.
This may hurt some people’s feelings, but he wasn’t interested in my pain. He knew it was there, but he was more interested in having fun with me and seeing me laugh. Laughter heals a lot and he had a great laugh. So much so that I sought ways to make him laugh even in his deathbed last year.
David has a great laugh, I look for ways to make him laugh. The walls fill with joy when we laugh.
I’ll give one last example here; Years ago I was about to walk my dogs (back in my NYC days) and the leash tightened on one and it knocked over a glass of water on a wooden table. In my childhood, that was one of the worst things that could happen. I saw myself getting upset and suddenly I changed my story and I said, “Oh good, I was hoping that would happen.” I laughed at that. It was just me and the dogs there and I laughed at the silliness of worrying so much over spilled water and that I could suddenly say, “Oh good, I was hoping that would happen.” I don’t think anyone is hoping to knock over a glass of water, but I found out that day that it didn’t matter and I could laugh my way through a new thought about it.
Let’s find out how we can laugh through things that really don’t matter and our upset could really stomp on the joy that is available.
Don’t be a baby. Be a beloved child of God.
Thank you to my friend Richard who taught me that.
All the Best for Today,
Rev. Shawn
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"Hello Feelings" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (5/14/23) Happy Mother's Day!
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"Acceptance Really Is the Answer to My Problems Today "
Hey Unity,
There is a quote from somewhere that says, “Acceptance is the answer to all my problems today.” I agree. For a long time I refused acceptance that many parts of my life experience had actually happened and I spent hours and hours of years trying to make them not have happened.
That was how I maintained both unforgiveness and misery.
If I break a glass, I can’t unbreak it. I might be able to repair it, but I cannot have broken it in the first place. This is where my choices come in. I can spend the rest of my life in misery that my glass got broken and it shouldn’t have. But it did. But it shouldn’t have…but it did…argh! Or I can accept that my glass got broken, I wish it hadn’t but it did. I’ll let that glass go. I’ll get a new glass. It was just a glass. I have lots more glasses. I’ll move on.
I spent a long time trying to not have been an abused child. Finally, one day, my healing was more important than any resentment I carried towards my parents. I looked for ways to change my thinking about myself, my parents and the abuse. Through lots of twelve-step work I discovered my parents didn’t have any more tools when they were in their thirties than I did in my thirties. I began to stop looking at them and what they did and look at myself and what could become possible for a great life. Finally, I could accept that all of that stuff happened and because of how good my life had become as a result of all that, I no longer needed it to not have happened. I let my mother off the hook while she was still alive and even though my father had already passed, I did my forgiveness work to set us both free from my story.
I’ve had many occasions for acceptance and to notice my resistance. It goes round and round, but I keep looking for freedom in all that happens. The cycles of unforgiveness are much shorter and the path of acceptance and joy are extending. I encourage us all to keep accepting the freedom that is available through acceptance.
Love, Love, Love
Please don’t ever decide that “This is the only way to think about it.”
All the Best for Today,
Rev. Shawn
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“It's In Here Somewhere” Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (5/7/23)
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"Be Kind... To Yourself "
Hey Unity,
Are you kind to yourself? I don’t mean “nice,” I mean KIND. Do you forgive your mistakes and go on to have your healing? Or do you emotionally or mentally beat yourself up for not already being “there”, wherever “there” is?
In Norwalk we had a retreat last week and a lot of the focus was on writing and creativity. It was not a writing retreat. The writing was a device we used to go deeper. Every single person participated in both singing and writing a song. No one was made fun of or criticized. It was a kind environment. It was a generous environment. All individuals were kind to each other and to themselves.
This was not a group of professional singers and songwriters. A couple of people were, but overall, the group were all amateurs. Everyone showed up as a professional. We started on Thursday. Eyes were crossing by Thursday night. By Friday night many were convinced that the assignment was impossible. The assignment was to write a song and perform it by Saturday afternoon. Most individuals had never written a song before. I’m not sure if anyone, with the exception of David, had written one this fast before. By Saturday afternoon, every single person got up and sang their original song and they sang it on pitch. It was impressive. My original song was probably the lamest and I didn’t care. I had another success this weekend by singing a song in the singing workshop that I have been wanting to sing for over thirty years.
Are you kind to yourself about your living environment? Your work environment? Your earthly environment? Are you kind to yourself when others forget to be kind to you? Do you think and speak words of kindness when mistakes happen? Yours or someone else’s.
Begin to practice kindness. The next time someone does something on the road that you habitually don’t like, bless them well and wish them joy. Find opportunities for kindness. Remember, our resentments are a form of unkindness…especially to ourselves. Holding hate in my heart is unkind to my heart. Pay attention and find love in your heart and mind.
Blessings All Over the Place.
All the Best for Today,
Rev. Shawn
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"Choice Points: Frequencies, Self-Talk and Possibilities" Rev. Nancy Napier @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (4/30/23)
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Living From the Super-consciousness
"Healing Isn’t Limited to Age, Gender, Race, Social Background or Finances "
Hey U-nity,
Insurance may be limited to some or all of those things, but healing isn’t.
We can have unlimited healings in every aspect of our lives. These healings don’t come without a price however. The price isn’t the same as what insurance costs. It is much simpler and yet not as easy for some of us. The cost of healing is the belief in healing followed up by inner guidance.
I believed my teachers when they told me all healing is possible. First, I had to heal in my mind. Then my body could follow. I’ve had many healings over the years; sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. When they are slow, I have to look at my willingness to apply Principle in all aspects of my life. Sometimes it’s hard to do that because I don’t always want to see what my thoughts are. However, if I want to have the healing I am promised, I must look at my thinking and see if there is any place it needs to shift. If it does need to shift, I then need to see if I am willing or if I am more willing to suffer through the long route to healing or suffer through while maintaining the problem? Nobody said this is easy, they just said it was possible.
Healing isn’t limited to anything but our thinking. Let’s look at our thoughts and see if they match up to what needs to be healed. Make it a fun process.
Please don’t ever limit yourself by deciding that “This is the only way to think about it.”
All the Best For Today,
Rev. Shawn
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“Creating a World That Works for Everyone” Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (4/23/23)
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"We Can't Just Talk About It "
Hey Unity,
It’s easy to quote spiritual teachers. We can spout off on all of the spiritual wisdom we have heard. We can forward wise articles from spiritual leaders that we admire. That will not make us spiritual or spirit-filled. As David Friedman writes in his song “We Can Be Kind”, “It’s not enough to talk about it. It’s not enough to sing a song. We must walk the walk about it…”
We must put our spirituality into practice. We must put feet to our beliefs and be the example of what we think we believe. We must, we must, we must. We cannot actually believe in our spiritual principles if we are not proving them true all of the time. It’s not enough for me if you are having healings and extraordinary things happening. I must also be having healings, spiritual, mental and physical in order to KNOW that what we speak of is true and accurate. It’s wonderful to witness what we call miracles, but unless I’m also experiencing them, I think miracles are only for other people.
I need to be able to share my own experience with healing in all of its many forms in order to testify of the power of the Invisible.
So, before you share someone else’s wisdom, look for your own. It will be much more powerful. We can’t just talk about spirit, we must be spirit in action.
Please don’t ever decide that “This is the only way to think about it.”
All the Best for Today,
Rev. Shawn
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"Loving Mother, Loving Earth" Rev. Theresa Crisci @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (4/16/23)
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Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
"How Have We Grown In Consciousness"
Do you take the time to observe how you have been practicing the things we talk about and if they have made a difference?
It’s always good to notice if the way you are thinking is meeting your expectations. Unity teachings promise a way of life if the principles are followed. Twelve Step recovery promises a way of life provided that the principles are followed. Many paths for spirituality and healing promise a life of wisdom and understanding if the principles are practiced. So it’s never a matter of thinking, “See, this stuff doesn’t work.” I am absolutely certain that if we practice the principles thoroughly, life is better and we know more than we thought we knew. If things are not working out, I am also certain that we are holding out on some of the principles. Half measures offer half to none of the healing.
I began my healing journey almost thirty years ago and I can always tell the difference in my willingness to wrap my consciousness around the principles of healing. It doesn’t mean that some things won’t still be hard, but they don’t need to be complicated. Complications are a reflection of my willingness to fully embrace all of the healing offered to me. Otherwise, it’s often just a matter of allowing the time necessary for the healing to take place.
Stay on the right track and you will reach the desired or even better destination.
Please don’t ever limit yourself by deciding that “This is the only way to think about it.”
All the Best for Today,
Rev. Shawn
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“Exceptional Things Are Happening All The Time” Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (4/9/23)
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"My Goodness, It's Easter Again"
Hey Unity,
Every year Easter comes around again, and it seems like it’s usually on a Sunday.
The purpose of Easter is to remind us to have a rising up in consciousness. We need these landmark days throughout our calendar because so many of us forget and we sink in consciousness and wonder what happened to let us forget.
Let’s take the religion out of Easter and use the symbolism to remind us of life rather than death. “May you have life and life more abundant.”
Today, let’s be willing that all of us have life and life more abundant. Let that be the Easter message.
Please don’t ever decide that “This is the only way to think about it.”
All the Best for Today,
Rev. Shawn
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"Spirituality is Not a Part Time Hobby" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (4/2/23)
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"Spirituality is Not a Part Time Hobby" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (4/2/23)
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Living From the Super-consciousness
"God By Another Name Is Still God "
Hey U-nity,
My most practical and practicable use of God active and present in my life has been to make God as Good Orderly Direction. I encourage a lot of people to do this, especially if they struggle with the way god was taught to them as a child. Early in my healing someone suggested this to me and it made all the difference. While I still personify God in many ways, I need to know the Power that God is, is within me and I can access it at any time.
G-O-D! Good Orderly Direction. One foot in front of the other thinking, speaking and doing what ought to be thought, said and done by me. It always starts with thought and then travels through me from there.
I wake up in the morning and the thinking begins. If I’m on point spiritually, I think gratitude thoughts. From there I pray. From there I brush my teeth and do whatever else needs to be done in the bathroom. Then I prepare for my day in whatever way that needs to happen, all the while maintaining prayer and gratitude. G-O-D
Let God be God in you. Keep it simple and keep it effective. Let G-O-D be fun.
Please don’t ever decide that “This is the only way to think about it.”
All the Best for Today,
Rev. Shawn
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“Only Tell Yourself What's True” Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (3/26/23)You can see this talk and others on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/c/UnityCenterNorwalk
“Only Tell Yourself What's True” Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (3/26/23)
Living From the Super-consciousness
"What Are You Thinking?"
Hey Unity,
Do you pay attention to your thoughts? We are told that our thoughts create our lives. Are your thoughts creating a life that you want?
Some of us think that we have to think the thoughts that we are thinking. That is just not true. We can change our thoughts at any time just because we choose to.
“Think with God.” What does that mean? To me it means think with Love, Power, Life…etc. When you catch yourself thinking about the absence of Love or Life, interrupt the thought. Find a new thought or several new thoughts. Ask the Superconscious mind within you to guide your thinking so that you may create the life you want. We have the power within us to create an amazing life here, now. Let’s do it.
All the Best For Today,
Rev. Shawn
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"The 7 Important Messages" Rev. Theresa Crisci @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (3/19/23)
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Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
"What If That's None of Your Business,You Such and Such? "
David and I have created a way of communication that is effective and gets to the point. David is one who asks a lot of questions. Questions that I don’t generally have the answers to. He’s not wrong for wanting the answers to these questions, but I don’t like to frequently affirm “I don’t know.” It’s not the best to my way of thinking. Nevertheless, he will ask what the weather is going to be and I have to affirm “I don’t know.” Once is awhile it’s okay, but on a daily basis, it’s unnerving.
One night we were on our way to a party and he first asked who was going to be there. Once again I said, “I don’t know,” while thinking who cares, stop asking questions. Next he asked what they were serving. Finally, I found the right response, “It’s really none of your business.” That felt so good, and he laughed. We both laughed. He decided we should add a couple of choice words at the end of that sentence (I won’t say them here so “You such and such” will have to do. Feel free to create your own words or ask me privately.)
We say that a lot now and we continue to laugh. I no longer resent the questions and he doesn’t mind my reaction. We have passed this along to many couples who are also using this technique to communicate what used to be frustrating.
I believe that in my Godself, I have all knowledge within me, and yet there are trivial details of the earth that I do not know. I don’t want to diminish my Knowing by affirming :I don’t know” over things that really don’t matter. So, by all means, the next time someone you love asks one too many questions, by all means reply, “It’s really none of your business you such and such.”
Have fun in living your life today.
Please don’t ever decide that “This is the only way to think about it.”
All the Best For Today,
Rev. Shawn
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"Women, Love and Power" Rev. Robert Yarnall @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (3/12/23)
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Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
"You Can Try to Figure It Out Till the Cows Come Home But the Solution Is Still Love"
I’ve spoken about this many times, but it bears repeating. We don’t and can’t “figure out” anything. While we are God beings with all that God is within us, we are not the whole of God Itself. Whatever needs figuring out has already been figured out. There is a simple solution to all confusion and that solution is Love.
Often a solution appears to us and we think that we figured it out. We didn’t figure it out. We simply opened to seeing the solution. Often we open and don’t even know that we did it.
It is my very strong suggestion that we spend our “figuring it out time” in quiet contemplation of our relationship with God. It is in our KNOWING of God in us that all Good is seen and the Good that we see is Love in action.
Keep moving.
Please don’t ever decide that “This is the only way to think about it.”
All the Best For Today,
Rev. Shawn
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“Be Here Now” Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (3/5/23)
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Living From the Super-consciousness
"God Is In the Tears and the Laughter"
Hey Unity,
Each week we end our Celebration Service with “The Prayer For Protection.” In that prayer is the statement, “Wherever we are, GOD IS, and all is well.” Do we mean it or don’t we?
Are we willing to trust both the Presence of God and that God is Presence Itself in what’s fun an what’s hard? It’s the same God. God IS Presence not absence.
I encourage everyone to acknowledge the Presence of Light and Love in all circumstances. I’m not seeking to rob anyone of their feelings. I’m looking to get all of us to know the Truth while we are having them. In Truth there is no cause for despair, no matter our feelings or sensation. The Love that God IS, is the Love that we are. Let’s focus on that Love through our tears and our laughter. Let’s really take notice that wherever we are, God IS and all is ultimately well…even if we don’t understand how.
Pay attention, for heaven’s sake! :}
Please don’t ever decide that “This is the only way to think about it.”
All the Best For Today,
Rev. Shawn
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“Being Impeccable With Your Word” Rev. Krista Erickson @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (3/26/23)
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Last week's message from Rev. Shawn
Living From the Super-consciousness
"God Is In the Tears and the Laughter"
Hey U-nity,
Each week we end our Celebration Service with “The Prayer For Protection.” In that prayer is the statement, “Wherever we are, GOD IS, and all is well.” Do we mean it or don’t we?
Are we willing to trust both the Presence of God and that God is Presence Itself in what’s fun an what’s hard? It’s the same God. God IS Presence not absence.
I encourage everyone to acknowledge the Presence of Light and Love in all circumstances. I’m not seeking to rob anyone of their feelings. I’m looking to get all of us to know the Truth while we are having them. In Truth there is no cause for despair, no matter our feelings or sensation. The Love that God IS, is the Love that we are. Let’s focus on that Love through our tears and our laughter. Let’s really take notice that wherever we are, God IS and all is ultimately well…even if we don’t understand how.
Pay attention, for heaven’s sake! :}
Please don’t ever decide that “This is the only way to think about it.”
All the Best For Today,
Rev. Shawn
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"The Greatest of Them All" Rev. Theresa Crisci @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (2/19/23)
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Last week's message from Rev. Shawn
Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
"Called to Kindness"
I have been called to kindness.
You have been called to kindness.
We have been called to kindness.
Kindness is not being a push-over. Kindness is compassion when someone is trying to push us over.
Kindness is helping…even if were busy.
Kindness is being kind. Be kind!
Please don’t ever decide that “This is the only way to think about it.”
All the Best for Today,
Rev. Shawn
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"The Awakened Christ In Us Runs This Church" (2/12/23)
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Last week's message from Rev. Shawn
Living From the Super-consciousness
Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
“Do Your Life With Love”
Ask yourself these questions:
“Is this the most loving thought I could think right now?”
“Are these the most loving words I could say right now?”
“Is this the most loving action I can take right now?”
Ask yourself, “Am I living the most loving life I can live right now?”
Notice the answers. If they are less than ideal, notice the thoughts you have been thinking. If your thoughts are less than ideal for the abundant life you have been promised, change your thoughts. Think with God rather than trying to get God to think with you. Decide now, “I am loved and I can’t not be loved. I am living my life IN Love!”
Please don’t ever decide, “There is only one way to think about it.”
All the Best For Today,
Rev. Shawn
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"It's a Series of Books, Not a Novel" (2/06/23)
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Last week's message from Rev. Shawn
Living From the Super-consciousness
"Does Your God Love You?"
Hey U-nity,
Does your God love you? If It doesn’t, you need a new God.
Too many of us are going through life thinking God is mad at us or that God has forgotten us. We can’t afford a God that is mad or too busy. Therefore, let’s not have that kind of a God.
This may surprise some of us, but we are making God up. Many are creating their God based on a lot of misinformation from other people. Too many “adults” told us as children that God punishes people. They did this in order to control us. Those adults were wrong. I completely believed it when my teachers in Unity told me God is Love and therefore we are loved with an everlasting love. That is far more logical than anything else. Where I go awry with that is when I forget that I am loved.
Let’s take today to remind ourselves that we are loved. If questions arise about how could it be that you are loved and “bad” stuff still happens, ask yourself if there is anything you could be thinking or doing differently? This is not to impose blame but to awaken us to consciousness.
It can be scary to think about altering our own thinking and behaviors. We like a lot of our behaviors and of course, thoughts that aren’t the best for ourselves or our planetary consciousness, but we do them anyway. There are those of us who have to think twice or even three times before littering. Just imagine how hard it can be to refrain from stuff that gives us temporary pleasure.
Use a wonderful understanding of God to get through the temporary discomfort of so many thoughts and behaviors. Create a God that loves you so much you could never out-give it. You could never out-love it.
We Can Never Out-Love God,
All the Best For Today,
Rev. Shawn
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“What Confusion Means to Create a Mess, Can Still Workout for Good” Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (1/29/23)
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Living From the Super-consciousness
"Simple and Easy Doesn’t Mean It’s Cheating"
Hey Unity,
It’s okay for life and the living of it to be easy. Many of us keep complicating it by worrying. We worry about what we think. We worry about what we think others are thinking about us. We worry about money, love, sex, careers, the weather, the sky and the ground.
For some, possibly many, there is concern about getting help around these things. As if we are somehow cheating if we don’t think up the solutions to our concerns ourselves. We are all here, we might as well let those who are better experienced at certain things use their strengths to make us stronger.
It is a foolish thing to isolate around our perceived problems when there is so much help and enlightenment available.
There is always a simple solution to every issue. I won’t say it is always easy. Sometimes people say to me, “It’s complicated.” I disagree. What makes things complicated is when we are trying to control it or other people for the outcome. Complications arise when personalities take priority over principle. We get confused and put God and True Wisdom second or even further down the line.
I have known a handful of people who have gone to jail while trying to prosper in an unprosperous way. How can we go out of integrity and expect to thrive and prosper? There has got to be a way to prosper and still remain within the bounds of both spiritual and human law.
When I was studying to become a minister I asked for and received all sorts of help in my education and practicum. I needed a course in accounting. I found a CPA to tutor me through the course. I had to take a creative writing course. I found a songwriter to coach me through the different styles of writing. It wasn’t cheating. I couldn’t discover those methods on my own in such a short time. I got an education from people who knew how to do this stuff. They didn’t do it for me; they showed me how to do it.
If you are hesitant about asking and receiving help for any reason, (sobriety, finances, legal issues, filling out a resume, applying for aid, etc…) please go ahead and seek the help that is available to you. Don’t let embarrassment, shame or guilt stand in your way. Offer the universe an opportunity to help you. You would help the universe where you have strengths, let a great exchange of support begin.
Congratulations to us all,
Rev. Shawn
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“It's the Same Principle” Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (1/22/23)
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Living From the Super-consciousness
"Rethinking Our Past"
Hey Unity,
It’s important that we remember our past so that we don’t need to repeat it. At the same time, we don’t need to keep reliving it either. We are not who we were then; so it’s best to allow ourselves to be who we are now, even though we can’t define who we are now.
In rethinking our past, let’s ask Spirit within us to give us new/True information about it so that the best reason to look at our past is to use it to love ourselves and help others.
We need to transform and alchemize our past into something extremely useful and valuable in our present.
So, if you find yourself with regrets for the past, please remind yourself that there is good to be found in any kind of past and that you are willing to see it. Don’t fight it. Just do your best to take your story out of it and let the Truth of God become alive in it. Affirm that you are loved and cannot not be loved, and notice how the past is transforming into a wise present.
“I have no real past, just stories I have told myself based on experiences I think I have had. Now I see them differently and I can be glad for the new experience.”
Grateful For You Now,
Rev. Shawn
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"Is Every Thought a Prayer?" Rev. Krista Erickson @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (1/15/23)
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Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
“Let Your Spirituality Be Practical, Not Magical”
Many of us participated in our annual Burning Bowl Ceremony on Sunday. As much as I try to make it practical while still incorporating ritual into it, people still try to make it a fortune telling wish list. Many years after they receive their letter back in the mail someone will say to me, “But it didn’t come true.”
That’s because it wasn’t a wish list. This is about the art of visioning and listening to the voice within that guides us to our perfect life and the expansion of it.
Minister’s always explain that we are to place ourselves in consciousness for a year from now and feel what we see. (I know that sounds magical, but really it’s mystical.) Then people too often, write down what they would like to see without believing it’s possible. We have to do our part in our manifesting on earth, but we ought to surrender our mind and thinking to Spirit far more than they do.
I now it can be frightening to surrender to God. What if God doesn’t want what I want? A new way to look at it is, God always wants what I want which is to be happy and know that I am loved. The quest really is, what if what I think I want is what will make me happy or feel that I am loved? So now we might consider for the future asking ourselves to surrender to the joy of God and see what happens. If you need to rewrite your letter and drop it off at the church (either by mail or in person) by all means do so.
Let’s let all of our prayers (both affirmations and denials) be declarations of what we believe is both practical and practicable. Let’s not pray as if we are trying to get what we want, but pray as if we already have it and it’s here.
Listen up, Everybody. This is sound spiritual guidance.
Happy New Day,
Rev. Shawn
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"Let's Begin Again" Rev. Theresa Crisci @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (1/8/23)
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Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
“Let Your Spirituality Be Practical, Not Magical”
Many of us participated in our annual Burning Bowl Ceremony on Sunday. As much as I try to make it practical while still incorporating ritual into it, people still try to make it a fortune telling wish list. Many years after they receive their letter back in the mail someone will say to me, “But it didn’t come true.”
That’s because it wasn’t a wish list. This is about the art of visioning and listening to the voice within that guides us to our perfect life and the expansion of it.
Minister’s always explain that we are to place ourselves in consciousness for a year from now and feel what we see. (I know that sounds magical, but really it’s mystical.) Then people too often, write down what they would like to see without believing it’s possible. We have to do our part in our manifesting on earth, but we ought to surrender our mind and thinking to Spirit far more than they do.
I now it can be frightening to surrender to God. What if God doesn’t want what I want? A new way to look at it is, God always wants what I want which is to be happy and know that I am loved. The quest really is, what if what I think I want is what will make me happy or feel that I am loved? So now we might consider for the future asking ourselves to surrender to the joy of God and see what happens. If you need to rewrite your letter and drop it off at the church (either by mail or in person) by all means do so.
Let’s let all of our prayers (both affirmations and denials) be declarations of what we believe is both practical and practicable. Let’s not pray as if we are trying to get what we want, but pray as if we already have it and it’s here.
Listen up, Everybody. This is sound spiritual guidance.
Happy New Day,
Rev. Shawn
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“What is Your Intention” Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (1/1/23)
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YES, GOD, I AM LOVED
Living From the Super-consciousness
"Merry Everything!"
Hey Unity,
Let remember to find out the Good we have in common rather than what makes us different. Merry Everything! As long as what we are seeking to celebrate within our spirituality is for the good of all people, let’s not judge each other’s path but embrace it.
I believe my path of spirituality is a good one and is willing that all beings are embraced in love and health as well as prosperity. If your path is different, do you embrace this good for all on their path?
Let’s go for it. If you know someone who doesn’t seem to have a path, offer them yours and then let Spirit take over. Invite them to our Christmas Eve Service or a Sunday Celebration Service. Or even, love them from afar.
Let’s see how we can all come from Love and then offer Love so that we can have more in common than different.
Merry Everything That Is Good,
Rev. Shawn
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“Merry Christmas” Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (12/25/22)
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YES, GOD, I AM LOVED
Living From the Super-consciousness
"Yes, God, I Am Loved"
Hey Unity,
I am so loved. Really, I can’t not be loved. God is Love itself so I and everyone is loved and can’t not be loved.
It’s difficult for many to accept that they are loved because they can’t explain how. I just decided to accept it when I heard about it because it sounded better than anything I could make up. I was told by my teachers that I was loved by God because God is Love itself and couldn’t not love me. That told me that Love IS and I couldn’t make it untrue even though I could either forget that it was true or pretend that it wasn’t true.
It makes it harder to misbehave when I am knowing that I am loved. People fight knowing it so they can keep acting out.
I invite you to KNOW today that you are loved with an everlasting love and you can’t escape it so you might as well live in the satisfaction of it.
Happy Love week of Advent,
Rev. Shawn
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Advent 4 “I’ve Got Love?” Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (12/18/22)
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Living From the Super-consciousness
"Joy In Our Guts"
Hey Unity,
Joy is natural and not based on conditions. It sits in our guts. Isn’t that a nice way of thinking about it? We are told that joy is strength giving. Imagine that: joy makes me strong. Does being joy-filled mean I have a lot of guts?
“The joy of the Lord.” I’ve heard that statement all of my life and it is just recently I have understood it. It means the joy of living in integrity with Spirit. Think about living your life where the God of your understanding is more important than your opinions, more than your resentments, more than your complaints, more than your politics, more than what you like! Whatever God is, is more vital to your well-being than any of your personality. That would take a lot of guts.
Today, choose the joy of God over anything else and begin to make it a practice.
In Joy-filled Presence,
Rev. Shawn
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Advent 3 "There Is JOY In My Gut" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (12/11/22)
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Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
“Hope and Faith”
This is from The Revealing Word: Hope is the expectation of good in the future. It is a quality (good as far as it goes) of sense mind because it is subject to time. Faith is the certain knowledge that our good is ours right now. It is of God; it goes beyond time and space.
Look at your beliefs. Do you believe in the possibility of Good in all things and all people? If yes, then great, this will be simple. If no, then you need to look and notice that your faith is directed in the absence of Good. At least this way, you will know and that it is up to you to work on it. Some would say their faith is not directed in the negative, it’s just that the world is in such terrible place and people are doing terrible things. If you are committed to those thoughts, your faith is directed away from God and instead focused on temporary conditions.
The Revealing Word definition does not touch on our beliefs being for less than Good. There is a reason for that. In Spirit we are expected to keep our focus on the Good that has no opposite so that we may manifest that Good in our thoughts, our words, our actions and in our demonstrations.
Let us all keep our focus on complete Good and not any compromise any of it. Don’t spend time expecting limited Good when you can spend the same amount of time expecting unlimited, overflowing Good in your mind and in your life.
We have begun our Advent Season. Advent is about the expectation of recognizing our Good and recognizing it now.
Season’s Greetings Everybody,
Rev. Shawn
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Advent 2 "The Is HOPE For Us" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (12/4/22)
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Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
“Give Me a Piece of Peace”
Most of us say we want peace. Are we willing to be the cause of it? I know that I have “disturbed the peace” many times in my life. Every time I choose to hold onto a resentment, it is me who is disturbing the peace. It is me who is telling the story of the absence of peace. Even if its someone else who seemed to have started it, it is me who is maintaining it. By repeating the story (even if only to myself) I am keeping peace at bay.
Something happened with me and the person sitting in front of me on an airplane once that taught me this lesson. She slammed her seat back into me and told me it was her right to do so. I felt it was my right to push her chair back with some force. We stopped the exchange before it got any further out of hand and I sat in my chair resentfully thinking about what clever thing I could say to her when we landed. As I contemplated, the thought of disturbing the peace came to mind and I realized that it was me that disturbed the peace. How did I know? Because it was my peace that I was disturbing with the meaning I was giving to everything. When the plane landed, I looked at her and I apologized for disturbing our peace that day. We both walked off the plane free. That freedom was so much better than trying to convince myself and anyone else that I was right.
Now, I may not be able to fully offer a peaceful life to myself at this time. I may need to do it piecemeal. Hence, create a piece of peace for myself and those around me. It will start with prayer and willingness. It will lead to noticing any new thoughts that appear and following through on them. Sometimes we have to delay our actions because we don’t have the rest of the parties to work with, but we can start with ourselves.
Have a piece of peace with your lunch today and see how quickly things change.
Peace Be With Us and As Us,
Rev. Shawn
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Advent 1 "PEACE is Acceptance" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (11/27/22)
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Hey Unity
Living From the Super-consciousness
"It’s Beginning To Look a Lot Like Thanksgiving"
I am borrowing this title as a variation of a talk by my friend Rev. Britt.
Our Thanksgiving holiday is always a good time to remember the spiritual act of gratitude.
We have a metaphysical definition of gratitude from The Revealing Word: Gratitude and thanksgiving are both necessary in demonstrating prosperity through divine law. All metaphysicians have found by experience that being thankful for what they have increases the flow. Gratitude is a great mind magnet, and when it is expressed from the spiritual standpoint it is powerfully augmented. The saying of grace at the table has its origin in this idea of the power of increase through giving thanks.
This year, celebrate your Thanksgiving with enthusiasm. Let your power of zeal remind you of all that you have so that you may increase your good and let there be good for all.
Grateful For You,
Rev. Shawn
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Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
“No Life So Hard That Our Thinking New/True Thoughts Can’t Make It Better”
Over and over again I have proven for myself that difficult situations can be experienced differently with different, or “new” thoughts. So have a lot of people I know. Millions of people have transformed minor, major and explosive situations from terrible to “Wow! I hadn’t thought of it that way before.”
It makes a difference when we offer our thoughts over to Spirit for reinterpretation. It’s so simple to do. I say, “Spirit, tell me what to think, say and do about this if there is anything to be thought said or done.” Then I follow through on any guidance I get. I am always listening for guidance throughout my day.
So many of us pray from “the foxhole” and then forget about the prayer until it’s all over, and then wonder what happened.
Please don’t ever decide, “This is the only way to think about it.” There are always True thoughts. Many don’t trust this process because Truth doesn’t have words to accurately describe things and Truth doesn’t have a mission to assuage my nosy ego. I ask, I listen and I go about the business of peace. At least I do sometimes. The other times, I forget, and I tell Spirit/God what It should be thinking. That never works out well.
Let’s spend our day remembering to ask the Highest Voice within us so that we can have a new/True thought about everything.
Glad to be here remembering,
Rev. Shawn
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"In a Hurry to Get Nowhere" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (11/13/22)
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Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
“Ugh or Ahhh?”
Funny thing, we don’t all think and feel the same way about everything. I was reminded of this yesterday in a very simple exchange.
I was speaking with a friend and he was expressing his hatred of daylight savings time. He said that he hates that it’s now getting dark so early. I thought about that and realized that I like waking up to daylight now. If I were offered my preference, I would prefer to have daylight from 6 AM to 10 PM each day, every day. I’ve not been offered my preference.
I have, however, been offered the choice of how to think and react to anything and everything and anyone and everyone. I prefer to have fewer “Ughs” in my day and more “Ahhhhs”. I don’t want to be miserable or “hate” what I’m powerless over. My life should never be unmanageable over my thoughts and emotions. (My life should never be unmanageable.)
Look into your day. Choose the thoughts that are the most satisfying. Do you want an “UGH!”? Or an “AHHHH!”? It’s your choice. Just don’t impose your choices others; let them stay in their ignorant bliss.
All the Best For Today,
Rev. Shawn
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"Oh Waiter, There's a Beautiful Hair In My Soup" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (11/6/22)
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Hey U-nity,
"Please Vote and Please Be Kind and Trust God"
Hey, I get it that our political climate has turned quite nasty in these past few years. Some people I love seem to have forgotten the Spiritual Principles we espouse here at Unity, and are making choices based on hate and inhumane beliefs. I hear the most awful opinions, both from my friends and from many strangers as well. Recently, I heard someone here say they wished the President would be assassinated. Others I know have said that they wish the former President would be assassinated. And don’t get me started on what I am still hearing about Hillary’s emails.
Knock it off people! We must come to terms with Divine Law, and remember that what we wish for another we wish for ourselves. It seems that so many of us have forgotten that we are all people. It shocks me that so many elected officials are treating people as if they are cattle to be brought to slaughter. And the other shocking part is that now, so many of the general public are starting to treat themselves and each other as objects rather than sacred beings.
It is our right and privilege to vote in this country. We need to become informed objectively, register to vote, and then show up at the polls and vote for the candidates that offer the most to the most people.
It is never my place to tell you who I am voting for. For a large part of my life, I didn’t stay informed and I didn’t bother to vote. Then, one year I realized that it is my right as a citizen of this country to vote. Many citizens of other countries don’t have that right. Not that long ago, many here didn’t have the right. Black people didn’t have the right to vote in America. Now, every black person ought to be out at the polls, even if it is made difficult for them in some areas of our country. Women didn’t have the right to vote. Now women must be pro-active and vote as is their right. We have all earned the right to vote, even if we shouldn’t have had to “earn” it in the first place.
That being said, vote for who and what you’re FOR, and vote with LOVE. Vote after inviting Spirit from the Highest part of your mind to speak through you to tell you which candidates have the most integrity and are most likely to serve ALL people. Let’s have fun with our voting, and keep affirming, “The highest good for all beings is happening NOW!”
Blessings in the Highest,
Rev. Shawn
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"Keep Your Mind Inward - Ignore the Distractions" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (10/30/22)
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“Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
“As God Is For Me…”
Early on in my study I heard, “As God is for me, nothing could be against me.”
It sounded nice but I didn’t understand it. Sometimes it seems as if something or someone is against me. Then I looked at it differently. I turned the other cheek. I realized that while many things affect me, they aren’t directed at me personally.
No one is against me personally. They might be threatened by my religion, my sexuality, my gender, my relationship or whatever else, but they don’t know me.
Hurricane Ian didn’t single anyone out in Ft Meyers or anywhere else, but it affected them…and thus affected all of us everywhere else. It wasn’t against us; it was weather happening.
Illness isn’t against us. Whether it’s mental or physical, illness isn’t against us. Illness doesn’t consider the person or persons who is affected.
That is why we aren’t wise to feel sorry for ourselves. We have the power within us to shift everything. I invite you to listen to my talk from this past Sunday, October 23rd. https://www.facebook.com/unitycenterofnorwalk/videos/425960556367961
I believe that whatever God is, It is Good and is willing that we all thrive and prosper and all we have to do is hold the right thoughts, words and take the right actions. Do not hold off on your Good with self-pity. Decide now, “Good can come from this and I am willing to participate in bringing this good about. What’s more, I am willing that ALL beings thrive and prosper as I thrive and prosper.
As God is for me, I am for me and I am for all beings becoming joy-filled.
Let’s Go, People,
Rev. Shawn
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Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
“Is Your Life Good Enough For You?”
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Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
“Life, Sky, God, Love, Death…Too Big to Understand”
Think about Life...what do you really know about it that you don’t make up? I’m certain at this point that I do not know what life is. I don’t know what God is. I don’t know what Love or death is. I don’t know hardly anything about the sky or the ground I walk on. And yet…I trust that Life IS, God Is, Love Is. What’s more, I’m certain that death is not what I have thought it is and there’s no reason to fear it.
Think about our relationships and whether we have known each other before? Is there such a thing as past lives and have we walked a path together as different people and yet still us?
I am opening a moment for contemplation here and an opportunity to let go of limited thinking and open to the bigness that is and that all possibility exists. What do we do with this moment? My suggestion is to use it to accept the bigness and accept that we don’t really know and aren’t likely to ever know so many things, and yet…we can experience them in our mind, our body and our soul.
Take time to breathe and revel in the Love that you know simply IS. Take time to rest in the understanding that God IS and God IS the BIGNESS that IS.
Let your contemplative moments shift from trying to get anything, or figure out anything, but to KNOW that you already have everything and you will see it when you are willing to see it. How will you know you are willing? When you stop thinking about the absence of it. Think about it; it’s very logical.
You and I are too big to understand. Let’s not make ourselves or Life small by limiting us.
Here’s to Life and Life more abundant,
Rev. Shawn
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"Back to What and From Where" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (10/09/22)
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Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
“Has Anything Changed?”
When we do something “big”, what makes it big? Is it big in God or is it just a shift that brought out a change.
So I went away for ten days of Silence and a Vipassana meditation practice course. What has changed?
I’m not sure anything has changed so much as I’m more of who I actually am rather than who I behave as.
There are lots of life-changing events. Some of them we create, and others happen by surprise. I don’t want to say they happen to us, but we are affected by them. Sometimes a simple statement from a friend or teacher awakens everything we know to be true about ourselves.
Sometimes the radical shift comes when a friend or family member makes their transition. My mother’s death was what I think of as the biggest thing that ever took place in my life. I would imagine it was pretty big for her as well. Now, what makes it big? Lots of people die every day and I’m not at all aware if it has an effect on me. But, if someone I love leaves and I have the realization I won’t see them again, I experience a shock to my mind and in my body.
The bigness is determined by me. The change is determined by me. It is all based on my perception and not by the event itself.
I am looking forward to seeing my reaction to life as each day enters since last week’s event. I invite us all to keep noticing your reaction to the events in your days and see that your reactions are based on your thoughts and not the events themselves.
I have several friends who like to declare that this event or that event was a “very God-like happening.” I want to remind us all, every event is a very God-like thing. There are no big or small moments in God. There is God in God.
Blessings on all of your God moments,
Rev. Shawn
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Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
Twelve Powers Series
“Silence, the Greatest Aspect of STRENGTH”
In Unity’s Twelve Powers, the tenth Power is Strength. Strength’s home in the body is at the small of the back. I was impressed to learn that Silence is a part of Strength. Then I thought about it and I got it. It takes a lot to be silent. It takes a lot to be still. So many of us are “human-doings” rather than human-beings.
Once we let go of the idea that our identity isn’t about what we do but rather what we are, we can then get on board with being quiet. I don’t have to identify myself by what I say or what I do. I AM. I AM!
That can be disconcerting to give in to that one. I AM! Most of us want to keep that sentence going, “I AM ________! In practicing our Power of Strength we don’t have to fill it in. I AM! Is a complete sentence. To follow it with something will just weaken it.
During my recent taking of the Vipassana Course of silent meditation for ten days, I learned how unimportant most of my thoughts and sensations are. The world ran just fine without me offering my opinions. It hurts my feelings a little bit that my wisdom wasn’t sought out during that time and it is a relief that I have been imagining my importance in the world. My value is in my willingness to be where I am. In that group I meditated with, my value was sitting alongside everyone else. Their value was sitting alongside of me. When I show up at a support group I help everyone just by showing up. I share my experience, strength and hope because I was advised to. Everyone who shows up helps me just by showing up.
This week, work with your Power of Strength. Each day, perhaps several times a day declare, “I AM!” and then go on about your business. Feel the Power of Strength flow up through your spine as you declare what you are in your God-self and you release all diminishment of your self. Observe where your strength is called for in your world and where it isn’t. Sometimes it is good to be quiet.
Charles Eastman said, “Silence is the cornerstone of character.” Let your very being speak for your self. “I AM!”
I AM,
Rev. Shawn
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Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
“Shhhh, Again”
Rev. Shawn is in the Silence. Join him, won’t you?
Blessings in your Silence as he is in his.
P.S. Rev. Shawn will be returning from the Vipassana Meditation Center, Dhamma Dharā this Sunday just in time for the celebration Service. He’ll be driving back in the morning from a ten-day Silent Vipassana Course. Please join us at 10:30 AM as he shares his experience and insights. It’s always a revelation for all of us when he does this.
Blessings.
Rev. Shawn
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"ON MY WAY TO THE SILENCE"
I leave Wednesday the 14th for a ten-day Vipasssana meditation course. This will be my fifth sit at the ashram in Massachusetts. It is a course of Silent meditation. It’s not a retreat; it is a course in how to practice Vipassana meditation. Each time I go there my practice deepens. I wish I could explain it all here, but I can’t and it’s not appropriate that I do. I’m not a qualified teacher for it.
However, as hard as the course is, I recommend it to anyone who hears a call to try it. That’s what happened with me. I heard a calling to go and do this because it would take me deeper into who I really am and away from limiting thoughts and definitions. As hard as the first time was, I went again the next year and two more times after that. Hard doesn’t mean bad. What makes it hard is any resistance to the spiritual stretching that takes place while in the course. The gym is hard when you do a big stretch. Spirituality is the same way. AND…it’s worth it. I will be back on Sunday, the 25th and I will come straight to the church in Norwalk and give a spontaneous talk.
I’m very excited about this whole process. The last time I was there was 2019 and then they closed in 2020 for a while. When they opened it again, they kept it to a very local attendance and now they are running to a full but cautionary capacity. It’s been an exciting but wearing few years and 2022 in particular has called us in our household to pay extra attention to life and see if we are practicing it abundantly.
I imagine many of you in your household have been called to a higher level of thinking and diligence in your spiritual practice in these recent times. Are you doing something in order to rise up to meet your spirit? I hope so and if you haven’t, it’s never too late.
I wish everyone well and I look forward to see you in Connecticut on the 25th and you New Yorker’s in October.
Blessings and Glad Tidings,
Rev. Shawn
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BACK TO SCHOOL
Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
“Back To School”
Labor Day was Monday, so it’s back to school week. I know that many went back before Labor Day but don’t be so literal. It’s back to school time. The air is turning Fall-ish. For me, it’s always been a time of new inspirations. If not goals, at least new dreams and visions of what could be possible. Back to school means stretching from what I learned last year into what I’m about to learn this year. It means new people, new schedules, new lessons, maybe a new diet and even some new clothes.
School by it’s very nature means education. To educate means literally to draw from within. So by going to school we are inviting our teachers to reach within us and draw forth the Good that we already know but didn’t know we knew.
Who are your teachers this Fall? Who are you teaching? Will you be a teacher of Spirit? Of Love? Of Wisdom? And will you allow your teachers to draw these aspects of Spirit from you?
Let’s open up during this school season to the lessons of Love that Spirit is offering to us and through us.
TODAY I AM OPEN TO THE LESSONS OF LOVE THE SPIRIT IS OFFERING TO ME AND THROUGH ME!
How Nice,
Rev. Shawn
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BACK TO SCHOOL
Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
“Back To School”
Labor Day was Monday, so it’s back to school week. I know that many went back before Labor Day but don’t be so literal. It’s back to school time. The air is turning Fall-ish. For me, it’s always been a time of new inspirations. If not goals, at least new dreams and visions of what could be possible. Back to school means stretching from what I learned last year into what I’m about to learn this year. It means new people, new schedules, new lessons, maybe a new diet and even some new clothes.
School by it’s very nature means education. To educate means literally to draw from within. So by going to school we are inviting our teachers to reach within us and draw forth the Good that we already know but didn’t know we knew.
Who are your teachers this Fall? Who are you teaching? Will you be a teacher of Spirit? Of Love? Of Wisdom? And will you allow your teachers to draw these aspects of Spirit from you?
Let’s open up during this school season to the lessons of Love that Spirit is offering to us and through us.
TODAY I AM OPEN TO THE LESSONS OF LOVE THE SPIRIT IS OFFERING TO ME AND THROUGH ME!
How Nice,
Rev. Shawn
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"Thought Is Mind In Action" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (8/28/22)
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Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
“Would I Do This If Somebody Was Watching?”
Would you litter if somebody were watching? Do you litter if no one is watching? Do you steal when no one is watching? Do you lie when you know you won’t get caught?
My thought is this: God is Presence itself. So, we are never alone. It’s not that God is a person watching, but my highest consciousness that sees me all of the time and is aware of what I’m thinking and doing. It’s not that this Consciousness is judging, but it knows and I can’t move forward in joy and peace and love while doing what I know to be out of alignment with my highest consciousness.
Some know this and say, “So what! I’ll get around to better behaviors later; I don’t want to wake up right now.”
In some ways I rather admire the individuals who don’t experience shame and they are willing to show their stuff in front of everyone. It’s like someone who doesn’t worry about how they dance. They love to dance and they don’t care what anyone thinks. Same with singing. It’s wonderful when someone finds and appropriate venue to get up and sing. (The next table over from me is a restaurant is not an appropriate venue.) There is never an appropriate venue for littering, stealing, killing, hurting another human or animal etc…
The point here is just because another person doesn’t see me doing something I know is wrong to do, doesn’t mean I won’t experience the negative effects of those thoughts and behaviors. I know when I do something wrong. I know when I’m out of alignment and I know that guilt will not redeem me. Spirituality doesn’t need guilt, it needs correct perception and behaviors that go along with it.
If you want to dance alone in your bedroom, go ahead, that won’t hurt anyone. If you want to litter in our streets, it makes a huge difference that affects all of us. Think about it.
In the Love of Correct Perception,
Rev. Shawn
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Living From the Super-consciousness
"Powerlessness to Powerfulness"
Hey U-nity,
So, let’s face it, there are so many things and people that we are powerless over. That doesn’t stop us from trying not to be, but that resistance generally leads to unmanageability as they say in the twelve step healing fellowships. The unmanageability is always about resistance to what is.
My powerfulness comes from realizing that I don’t need to make what happened not have happened, but to think correctly about it.
Recently, I overheard a discussion that was about me…or at least it seemed that it was about me. Actually, it was about what someone thought about me. I took quiet offense. I say quiet because I didn’t let anyone know I could hear them. I sat feeling offended for a bit and then went into prayer. I went within and I said, “Spirit, tell me what to think about this and what’s the Truth here?” I immediately thought about the Four Agreements Class I had just facilitated and I thought, “Don’t take it personally. This is about what someone thinks and not about me at all.”
That doesn’t mean I’m not affected by it, but only to the degree I allow it to affect me and in what direction I send the information. I felt tremendous relief with the thought, “It’s not personal, because what they are saying isn’t true”. If it’s not true, I don’t have to defend myself or attack the other person for saying it or even the other person for listening.
This is very new for me. In the past I would have steamed and made myself very unhappy thinking it was their fault I was unhappy. Today, nobody is at fault for my life. If I’m unhappy, it is because I haven’t sought the counsel of Spirit. It’s because I haven’t sought Truth in my thinking. Remember the instruction, “And you will KNOW the TRUTH, and the Truth will set you free. I want to be free in my conscious mind. Do You?
I hope so,
Rev. Shawn
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"Because I Am What I Am" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (8/14/22)
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Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
“The Flicker of Light”
Do you ever notice a flicker of light out of the corner of your eye and you can’t explain it? What if it’s just light flickering in your world and you can see it?
Take time to look within and notice a flicker of light when it happens. What does flickering light do but call our attention to what is in front of us or what is within us? When we take the light beyond a flicker and let it fully illuminate we see on a larger scale. We’ll know we’re really working on a big scale when we see what the light is showing us and we ask what were seeing rather than making up a story about what we are seeing.
We want to be illuminated rather than informed. Our past will tell us what we are seeing, but that doesn’t make it true. Often, we become misinformed when we rely on our past for current information. It is only our present within the Presence that illuminates us on what is in front of us.
Begin noticing the flicker of light in the room and the flicker of light in your mind and ask Spirit within to fully illuminate what the light is trying to show you.
In Divine Light
Rev. Shawn
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Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
“No Time In the All Of The Time”
I’ve heard so many people (including myself) say, “What happened to July? Where did it go?” July moved through my consciousness very rapidly. So did 2020 and 2021 for that matter. Most of this past decade has flown by and I no longer remember a lot of it.
A time I am aware of however, is right now. I’m conscious of being here now and not rushing to get to the next time. I know I have things to do in the next time, but I’m okay with being here now while writing this newsletter about time.
I remember being mostly in a rush to get to the next time because there was something I was looking forward to or something I wanted to get over with. Plus, I used to remember the past vividly. I could tell you details about stuff from practically before I was born.
How often do we declare, “I don’t have time for this!” And yet, we seem to have more than enough time for video games, overeating, addictions, arguing, prejudice, and of course, worrying. I guess that’s why we don’t have time for “this.”
In God/Spirit there actually is no time. No time exists in Spirit. It’s always now.
So, before we get all puffed up again with how there’s just not enough time, remember that there isn’t any time at all. See what that thought inspires in you.
Glad we met just in time :}
Rev. Shawn
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Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
Let’s Know God in the Ouch
Things hurt all the time. We bump our elbow. We bang our knee. We stub our toe. Somebody says something that triggers an old memory of something that hurt. People we love die and people we don’t love live. Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!
It’s a lot to contemplate and sometimes its hard to remember God in the hurting…or the “ouch” as I like to say.
Let’s get in the habit of when something hurts, we say “Hi, God, I am loved and ouch!” Pain doesn’t have to mean something other than “ouch.” Yes, sometimes pain indicates something needs to be looked at more closely, but it doesn’t need a story that takes our mind away from God and the healing possibilities available.
I have been known to hurt myself somehow and say, “Hi God, I’m awake.” ‘Cause sometimes it is clear that I’m not paying attention and I’m not treating myself as a being that lives in love and after the second, third or even fourth “ouch” I realize that I’m not paying attention and I need to acknowledge God in my consciousness.
So, today and every day, bring God into the “Ouch!”
I Awake God,
Rev. Shawn
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Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
“Make Decisions Based on Love and Wisdom”
So many of our decisions are based on fear rather than Love or True Wisdom. We decide what we decide to keep from losing rather than because we already have everything. Decide now that you already have everything Good. Decide now that all beings already have everything Good.
In these decisions there is no reason to “get even” or punish. There is no reason to steal or lie. There is every reason to be honest without being unkind. There is every reason to behave generously. There is every reason to look further than behaviors for our judgments.
In your decisions this week, the large ones and the smallish ones, look at why you are leaning towards the decision you are making. Does it glorify Spirit within you. Does it enhance your sense of joy? Will it make someone else’s life better? Decide with God and then pay attention.
Here’s to GOOD Decisions,
Rev. Shawn
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Living From the Super-consciousness
"Divine Humility"
Ahh, humility! To expect God’s best.
That is what humility is to me…expecting God’s best. Not deciding God’s best but expecting God’s best.
David and I have a daily affirmation we have been using effectively for several weeks now. “I wonder what wonderful surprises God has in store for me today.” And then we go on about our business. We have been noticing lovely things, big and small that take place during our day. Sometimes multiple things for one or both of us.
Get humble, if you’re not already, and stop trying to “figure it out.” We don’t have to figure anything out. We need to stay present and honestly expect the best.
Best,
Rev. Shawn
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Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
“No Lack of Anything Good”
What do we tell ourselves to think when people make changes we don’t like? Do we go around talking to ourselves and each other about how terrible this is? If we do, how does that help?
Our parents made promises they didn’t keep.
Our friends make promises they don’t keep.
The government changes laws without consulting me (which is another way of making a promise and not keeping it.)
And yet, we are told there is no lack of anything good. I think they meant there is no lack of anything GOOD. Let’s look at life that way. “There is no lack of anything Good…therefore All of the Good that we need is already here in abundance. Now I must become willing to look past any limited vision and see the Good here and now.” That’s a long denial leading into a long affirmation.
Imagine yourself, as you travel through your day, “I see my Good here…” Open a menu, “I see my Good here.” Open a newspaper, “I see my Good here.” Look in the bathroom and closet mirror, “I see my Good here.” Go through every room in your home and declare your Good present. As you drive, declare your Good present. As you live, declare your Good present.
THERE IS NO LACK OF ANYTHING GOOD! ALL THE GOOD I NEED IS ALREADY HERE…IN ABUNDANCE!
Fantastic!
Rev. Shawn
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"We Must Believe" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (6/26/22)
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Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
“Cooperate With G-O-D”
To cooperate: “to work jointly toward the same end.” To me it means to work WITH what I know to be True. What is the “same end?” That would be awakening. To work with G.O.D. toward awakening while knowing that awakening could happen at any moment rather than at some far-off time.
G.O.D.: Good Orderly Direction which we have spoken of here before. I’m talking about using our God principles in the action of G.O.D., Good Orderly Direction of mind, word and action. Apply what you know to be True in your thinking, your word and your actions. Apply what you KNOW to be TRUE and then notice the outcome.
Apply full cooperation with what you know to be True about God and if it’s not working, look deep within and observe any place you are holding out on yourself. (Trust me, it’s never that God is holding out on us.) Look at any place you still fear full surrender and ask yourself if you could go at least a bit further if not yet all the way. Keep observing your progress and the outcome. Don’t stop at a little. Remember the whole JOY package is available.
Let me know.
In the Love of G.O.D.,
Rev. Shawn
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Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
“We Cannot Afford to Be Indifferent to Our Spirituality”
It still surprises me that no matter how many times some people have been here and heard my talks, they still think they can “get away” with indifference to spiritual indifference. Many that live like this is a fantasy world and “out there” is the real world. And because of that they still live in the discomfort of doubt.
Indifference to our spirituality is a sure path for confusion and disappointment with life.
I beg of us all to abandon a take it or leave it attitude when it comes to the Power that lives within us. Study, pray, study, practice, pray, study, pay attention, pray, and study. Observe the difference from when you pay attention and when you simply go “eh.”
If you want to know more and better how to do this, reach out and I will guide you. Claim the best and highest for yourself.
Oh, How Wonderful,
Rev. Shawn
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Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
“We Cannot Afford to Be Indifferent to Our Spirituality”
It still surprises me that no matter how many times some people have been here and heard my talks, they still think they can “get away” with indifference to spiritual indifference. Many that live like this is a fantasy world and “out there” is the real world. And because of that they still live in the discomfort of doubt.
Indifference to our spirituality is a sure path for confusion and disappointment with life.
I beg of us all to abandon a take it or leave it attitude when it comes to the Power that lives within us. Study, pray, study, practice, pray, study, pay attention, pray, and study. Observe the difference from when you pay attention and when you simply go “eh.”
If you want to know more and better how to do this, reach out and I will guide you. Claim the best and highest for yourself.
Oh, How Wonderful,
Rev. Shawn
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Living From the Super-consciousness
"Life Gets Different"
Everyday is different…even if it feels the same. Who saw the movie Groundhog’s Day? Even though everyday was the same day, every day was different for the lead character.
It’s the same for us. Our surroundings may seem the same day after day, but as we expand spiritually, we experience everything differently every day.
God has changed radically for me over the years of spiritual study. My viewpoints and outlook on both life and death have shifted radically. My opinions are different and far less emphatic than they used to be. The way that I experience people is very different and keeps getting more different. My prayer life is different all the time. Even my tastes in food keeps changing.
As long as I put down any resistance to change, I can accept these differences peacefully and usually gratefully. The changes are usually for Good and when I am willing to experience the changes with a new open mind, I can see life in a new way and then I can welcome the fact that life gets different and yet life is awake in me now.
Life Is Awake In Me Now,
Rev. Shawn
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Living From the Super-consciousness
"Life Gets Different"
Everyday is different…even if it feels the same. Who saw the movie Groundhog’s Day? Even though everyday was the same day, every day was different for the lead character.
It’s the same for us. Our surroundings may seem the same day after day, but as we expand spiritually, we experience everything differently every day.
God has changed radically for me over the years of spiritual study. My viewpoints and outlook on both life and death have shifted radically. My opinions are different and far less emphatic than they used to be. The way that I experience people is very different and keeps getting more different. My prayer life is different all the time. Even my tastes in food keeps changing.
As long as I put down any resistance to change, I can accept these differences peacefully and usually gratefully. The changes are usually for Good and when I am willing to experience the changes with a new open mind, I can see life in a new way and then I can welcome the fact that life gets different and yet life is awake in me now.
Life Is Awake In Me Now,
Rev. Shawn
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Living From the Super-consciousness
"Life Gets Different"
Everyday is different…even if it feels the same. Who saw the movie Groundhog’s Day? Even though everyday was the same day, every day was different for the lead character.
It’s the same for us. Our surroundings may seem the same day after day, but as we expand spiritually, we experience everything differently every day.
God has changed radically for me over the years of spiritual study. My viewpoints and outlook on both life and death have shifted radically. My opinions are different and far less emphatic than they used to be. The way that I experience people is very different and keeps getting more different. My prayer life is different all the time. Even my tastes in food keeps changing.
As long as I put down any resistance to change, I can accept these differences peacefully and usually gratefully. The changes are usually for Good and when I am willing to experience the changes with a new open mind, I can see life in a new way and then I can welcome the fact that life gets different and yet life is awake in me now.
Life Is Awake In Me Now,
Rev. Shawn
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Accepting My Divinity
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Living From the Super-consciousness
“Accepting My Divinity”
In the Twelve Step Program, defects of character are frequently spoken of. People often feel guilty over their defects of character. I ask the question, “Do we have more than one defect of character?” I think many would say yes.
Ah, but what if we only have one defect of character? Would that make it easier and make us less guilt prone? What if our only defect of character is our failure to accept our divinity? Then, everything we have been calling “defects” (lying, smoking, drinking, overeating, criticizing, stealing, gossiping, killing, breaking laws, cheating etc…) are just symptoms of not accepting out divinity.
So lets work on how we could become willing to accept our divinity and let the symptoms fall away. Pray today for the willingness to accept our divinity at any cost.
Love My Divinity,
Rev. Shawn
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Living From the Super-consciousness
“Am I Looking For the Good In People?”
Is my pattern to see the Good or best in people or to find the worst or most disappointing things about people? I think many of us might be embarrassed at our answer. It’s become too easy to make up the worst about people as a protection from being hurt.
We must; we absolutely must find a new way. Look at the people who do see the best in others; how do they do it? Ask them.
I admire people who behold the Christ in all beings, even though many beings are seemingly very flawed. The one pathway into seeing correctly is when I realize how many mistakes I make each day. Then I have to ask myself for my justification in holding others bound to my harsh opinions. “Yes, but what they do is worse than what I do!” Is it? Think in these terms, “In God, is there harsher judgment for specific failures?” I believe that in God, there is every opportunity to remember the Christ in ourselves and the Christ awakened in everyone. For those of you who don’t like the word “Christ”, you can think this way, “In God, Spirit, Principle, there is every opportunity for everyone to wake up to the Good that they are. EVERYONE!!!”
Look beyond behaviors and become willing to see the Absolute Truth in all beings.
The Christ In Me Beholds the Christ In You,
Rev. Shawn
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Living From the Super-consciousness
“Listen”
On Saturday I met a man in a group setting where he came up to me and said, “Hi, my name is John.” As I was responding to say, “Hi, my name is Shawn.” Before I got my response out, he was already saying to the person sitting next to me, “Hi, my name is John.” On it went around the circle without him ever stopping to notice that he hadn’t listened to a single one of us tell him our names.
I have to wonder, do I do that? Do I just talk without waiting for the other person to share? I’m not the best at remembering names, but could it be because I don’t stay long enough in a very brief conversation to listen when I’m told?
How much do we miss out on in life because we didn’t stick around long enough to listen? How buried are we in our phones that we miss out on our beautiful surroundings?
How buried are we in our thoughts that we don’t hear the Voice of Spirit telling us how Good and beautiful we are?
Listen. Listen to the Voice of Spirit, the Voice of Love, The Voice of Peace and the Voice of Joy telling us the Truth about ourselves, the Truth about each other and the Truth about our Life. Listen so that we can have honest reactions to what is True.
Listen up, People. There’s wonderful things to hear.
Welcome to Spring Once More,
Rev. Shawn
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Living From the Super-consciousness
“Make Decisions Based on Love and Wisdom”
So many of our decisions are based on fear rather than Love or True Wisdom. We decide what we decide to keep from losing rather than because we already have everything. Decide now that you already have everything Good. Decide now that all beings already have everything Good.
In these decisions there is no reason to “get even” or punish. There is no reason to steal or lie. There is every reason to be honest without being unkind. There is every reason to behave generously. There is every reason to look further than behaviors for our judgments.
In your decisions this week, the large ones and the smallish ones, look at why you are leaning towards the decision you are making. Does it glorify Spirit within you. Does it enhance your sense of joy? Will it make someone else’s life better? Decide with God and then pay attention.
Here’s to GOOD Decisions,
Rev. Shawn
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Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
“Make Decisions Based on Love and Wisdom”
So many of our decisions are based on fear rather than Love or True Wisdom. We decide what we decide to keep from losing rather than because we already have everything. Decide now that you already have everything Good. Decide now that all beings already have everything Good.
In these decisions there is no reason to “get even” or punish. There is no reason to steal or lie. There is every reason to be honest without being unkind. There is every reason to behave generously. There is every reason to look further than behaviors for our judgments.
In your decisions this week, the large ones and the smallish ones, look at why you are leaning towards the decision you are making. Does it glorify Spirit within you. Does it enhance your sense of joy? Will it make someone else’s life better? Decide with God and then pay attention.
Here’s to GOOD Decisions,
Rev. Shawn
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Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
“Make Decisions Based on Love and Wisdom”
So many of our decisions are based on fear rather than Love or True Wisdom. We decide what we decide to keep from losing rather than because we already have everything. Decide now that you already have everything Good. Decide now that all beings already have everything Good.
In these decisions there is no reason to “get even” or punish. There is no reason to steal or lie. There is every reason to be honest without being unkind. There is every reason to behave generously. There is every reason to look further than behaviors for our judgments.
In your decisions this week, the large ones and the smallish ones, look at why you are leaning towards the decision you are making. Does it glorify Spirit within you. Does it enhance your sense of joy? Will it make someone else’s life better? Decide with God and then pay attention.
Here’s to GOOD Decisions,
Rev. Shawn
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"There's Just Something About Easter" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (4/17/22)
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Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
“The Reason for the Season”
The Christ in me is rising up in my consciousness. That’s the point of the Easter season for me. A resurrection of what is True in my mind. The season isn’t actually about Jesus. It is about the Christ in each of us and we can use this time, just like we use Christmas to remind us of the birth of the anointing in ourselves.
Use these times for the practice of practical spirituality. Actually, use all time for the practice of practical spirituality, but allow these holidays to reinforce what you know to be true and to overcome forgetfulness.
The celebratory stuff of holidays is great. Who doesn’t like a good marshmallow peep? (Don’t answer that.) Hopefully Christmas brings a warm fuzzy feeling. But let’s use these holidays to really remember who and what we are. We are spiritual beings…meaning that we are made up of Spirit. We are made in the image and likeness of Truth, Wisdom, Love and Intelligence. I beg of us all to make remembering that our priority today and every day.
How wonderful!
In Continued Easter Blessings,
Rev. Shawn Moninger
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Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
“Are My Thoughts Fully Accurate about Anything?"
That is a rather pithy question. To be accurate in the response to this question, the answer is “No.” My thoughts are never fully accurate about anything. How could they be? My thoughts are always at least a little tinged with prejudice from the past. If you don’t like the word “prejudice” you can substitute it for the word “influenced”. All of my thoughts are influenced by my thoughts about the past. Therefore, my thoughts about what is here and now aren’t truly accurate as to what it means.
Whatever is up for you right now, notice your thoughts about it…because you certainly do have thoughts about it. Now notice that those thoughts aren’t necessarily true. These thoughts point toward the past more than they do the present.
Now, allow yourself to be okay with that. Knowing this doesn’t make us unsafe and it doesn’t have to make us unsure. If we can be okay with not knowing what “this” means, we can then become free to be and allow experience to take over rather than discomfort.
Allow this statement to enhance your thinking, “My thoughts about this aren’t accurate and that is fine.” Next, “I give over my thoughts about this to Spirit so that I can have a divine experience now.” “It’s okay to not know and to just be.”
Let that be the activity for the time being. Our past is not the boss of us and it can’t control our thoughts about the present without our say so.
In Eastertime Tidings,
Rev. Shawn
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Living From the Super-consciousness
"Do I Have a Primary Purpose?"
Many are confused over what their purpose in life is. Members of certain Twelve Step groups have it easier. Their purpose is spelled out for them. In A.A. for example the preamble states, “Our primary purpose is to stay sober and help another alcoholic to achieve sobriety.” That’s clear.
Purpose is the reason why something is done. It’s not entirely different from one’s personal mission. My purpose is to remember that I am Good and to remind everyone that they are Good and cannot not be Good. With that statement I have a good reason to be here.
If you don’t yet know or have forgotten your purpose, I suggest you pray on it. Ask yourself what your passions are. Or what your interests are. Ask yourself what you believe about God and how you can be an active example of that belief.
We are human beings and not human doings; however, our purpose ought to drive us into action so that we are active participants in life.
Dig in and see what’s up for you. If you are already active in your purpose, fantastic! If not, keep looking and asking.
Glad to know that we are Good together
Rev. Shawn
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Living From the Super-consciousness
"Do I Have a Primary Purpose?"
Many are confused over what their purpose in life is. Members of certain Twelve Step groups have it easier. Their purpose is spelled out for them. In A.A. for example the preamble states, “Our primary purpose is to stay sober and help another alcoholic to achieve sobriety.” That’s clear.
Purpose is the reason why something is done. It’s not entirely different from one’s personal mission. My purpose is to remember that I am Good and to remind everyone that they are Good and cannot not be Good. With that statement I have a good reason to be here.
If you don’t yet know or have forgotten your purpose, I suggest you pray on it. Ask yourself what your passions are. Or what your interests are. Ask yourself what you believe about God and how you can be an active example of that belief.
We are human beings and not human doings; however, our purpose ought to drive us into action so that we are active participants in life.
Dig in and see what’s up for you. If you are already active in your purpose, fantastic! If not, keep looking and asking.
Glad to know that we are Good together
Rev. Shawn
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“The Power of Life”
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Living From the Super-consciousness
“The Power of Life”
A few weeks ago we started a weekly series here for the first twelve weeks of 2022. I am focusing on our Twelve Powers as given us from Unity’s cofounder, Charles Fillmore. Each week we’ll look at one of the Powers. I don’t tend to present them in the traditional order. I start at the top and work my way through the body. For me, it’s easier to remember this way, and it’s easier to connect how they work and to use them practically. Please remember that all of our spiritual principles and teachings are only a theory until they are practiced and proven.
I will post the current week’s power first and have the previous week’s below. That way you can see how the earlier powers connect.
Our twelfth power is the Power of Life. “Today I choose Life and I choose it more abundantly.” That is one of my favorite affirmations. Life is what animates us.
In aligning our Twelve Powers let’s remember that we started with the Power of Faith. In our Faith we say “Yes” to Life. Next, with the Power of Will we call forth the thoughts to activate Life in our mind, in our cells and in the very air we breathe. I encourage you to reread the rest of the powers.
Life did not begin with the body and it won’t end with the body. Life IS. It is in our living Life and the thoughts we accumulate as to what we call our life. Not everyone calls Life good. Not everyone calls it bad. Where the confusion happens is that we think life is happening to us. Life IS. We call forth the quality of Life we live by telling ourselves what it is, rather than going within and asking Spirit, “What is Life? Tell me what to think of it.”
Today and each day from now, let’s develop the practice of going within to get our thoughts. If you’re not already doing that, notice the difference and the quality of Life you are living.
Here’s to Life…
Rev. Shawn
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The Power of Strength
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Living From the Super-consciousness
“Power of Strength”
A few weeks ago we started a weekly series here for the first twelve weeks of 2022. I am focusing on our Twelve Powers as given us from Unity’s cofounder, Charles Fillmore. Each week we’ll look at one of the Powers. I don’t tend to present them in the traditional order. I start at the top and work my way through the body. For me, it’s easier to remember this way, and it’s easier to connect how they work and to use them practically. Please remember that all of our spiritual principles and teachings are only a theory until they are practiced and proven.
I will post the current week’s power first and have the previous week’s below. That way you can see how the earlier powers connect.
Our tenth power is the Power of Strength. It is located in the small of the back and one of its greatest traits is that it enables us to be silent. Think about it…How hard is it to be still and silent sometimes? Our minds are frequently racing to do what we ought to let God do.
The metaphysical definition of strength is: The energy of God. Freedom from weakness; stability of character; power to withstand temptation; capacity to accomplish. Strength is physical, mental, and spiritual. All strength originates in Spirit, the thought and the word spiritually expressed being the manifestation.
So that goes back to what I said about stillness. I encourage you to notice your time in the silence and see where that ability is originating in your being. It is not an intellectual process so it can’t be coming from your head. Pay attention so that you may focus on your Divine power of Strength whenever you need it.
Here’s to the quiet of our being,
Rev. Shawn
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"Being" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (3/6/22)
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Power of Order
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Living From the Super-consciousness
“Power of Order”
Our ninth power is the Power of Order. It is located just behind the naval and it collects information and distributes the information to our body and then tells us what to do with it based on our thoughts, words and actions. Also, it is based on whether we are correctly using our power of Will or not.
There is an order within us that starts with our thoughts (faith, what we are currently saying “Yes” to), that leads to our words (the Power of Power), and then tells us what actions to take in order to achieve what we are currently saying “Yes” to in our lives”. We base all of this on how we want to feel. It’s a bit complicated, huh?
Just remember, Divine Order is always at work. You never need to pray for it. It is just a matter of how you are working it by way of your thoughts, words and actions. What are you thinking? What are you calling forth? (Are your thoughts aligning with your thoughts?) And, what actions are you taking in order to align with your thoughts?
Pay attention and live consciously.
In the Perfect Order of Our Beingness,
Rev. Shawn
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Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
“Power of Order”
Our ninth power is the Power of Order. It is located just behind the naval and it collects information and distributes the information to our body and then tells us what to do with it based on our thoughts, words and actions. Also, it is based on whether we are correctly using our power of Will or not.
There is an order within us that starts with our thoughts (faith, what we are currently saying “Yes” to), that leads to our words (the Power of Power), and then tells us what actions to take in order to achieve what we are currently saying “Yes” to in our lives”. We base all of this on how we want to feel. It’s a bit complicated, huh?
Just remember, Divine Order is always at work. You never need to pray for it. It is just a matter of how you are working it by way of your thoughts, words and actions. What are you thinking? What are you calling forth? (Are your thoughts aligning with your thoughts?) And, what actions are you taking in order to align with your thoughts?
Pay attention and live consciously.
In the Perfect Order of Our Beingness,
Rev. Shawn
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Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
“Power of Love and Wisdom”
A few weeks ago we started a weekly series here for the first twelve weeks of 2022. I am focusing on our Twelve Powers as given us from Unity’s cofounder, Charles Fillmore. Each week we’ll look at one of the Powers. I don’t tend to present them in the traditional order. I start at the top and work my way through the body. For me, it’s easier to remember this way, and it’s easier to connect how they work and to use them practically. Please remember that all of our spiritual principles and teachings are only a theory until they are practiced and proven.
I will post the current week’s power first and have the previous week’s below. That way you can see how the earlier powers connect.
Our seventh and eighth powers are the power of LOVE and WISDOM. Love resides in the heart and Wisdom sits in the solar plexus. I put them together here because they work best when they work together. Love without Wisdom is too flighty and Wisdom without Love is too ridged.
Treat Love as a reality of God and Life. Treat Love as a reality of your very being so that it’s not just something nice that people talk about. Love is not a concept, LOVE IS and it is in every part of us.
Treat Wisdom as a reality that works with Love when it is correctly used. Picture yourself making conscious choice around what you are saying “Yes” to in your life and see yourself willing that your choices work in the best interests for all beings. Don’t leave anyone out; be all inclusive. Feel how that feels. If no one, absolutely no once can get hurt as you imagine your “Yes” coming into manifestation, the you have the powers of Love and Wisdom working together.
Blessings in our Love and Wisdom
Rev. Shawn
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"The Good, The Bad, The Shack" Theresa Crisci, LUT @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (2/13/22)
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Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
“Power of Love and Wisdom”
A few weeks ago we started a weekly series here for the first twelve weeks of 2022. I am focusing on our Twelve Powers as given us from Unity’s cofounder, Charles Fillmore. Each week we’ll look at one of the Powers. I don’t tend to present them in the traditional order. I start at the top and work my way through the body. For me, it’s easier to remember this way, and it’s easier to connect how they work and to use them practically. Please remember that all of our spiritual principles and teachings are only a theory until they are practiced and proven.
I will post the current week’s power first and have the previous week’s below. That way you can see how the earlier powers connect.
Our seventh and eighth powers are the power of LOVE and WISDOM. Love resides in the heart and Wisdom sits in the solar plexus. I put them together here because they work best when they work together. Love without Wisdom is too flighty and Wisdom without Love is too ridged.
Treat Love as a reality of God and Life. Treat Love as a reality of your very being so that it’s not just something nice that people talk about. Love is not a concept, LOVE IS and it is in every part of us.
Treat Wisdom as a reality that works with Love when it is correctly used. Picture yourself making conscious choice around what you are saying “Yes” to in your life and see yourself willing that your choices work in the best interests for all beings. Don’t leave anyone out; be all inclusive. Feel how that feels. If no one, absolutely no once can get hurt as you imagine your “Yes” coming into manifestation, the you have the powers of Love and Wisdom working together.
Blessings in our Love and Wisdom
Rev. Shawn
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"Look Deeper Than What You Are Seeing" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (2/6/22)
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Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
“Will Power”
Last week we started a weekly series here for the first twelve weeks of 2022. I am focusing on our Twelve Powers as bestowed to us from Unity’s cofounder, Charles Fillmore. Each week we’ll look at one of the powers. I don’t usually present them in the traditional order. I start at the top and work my way through the body. Quite frankly, it’s easier to remember this way and it’s easier to connect how they work and to use them practically. Please remember that all of our spiritual principles and teachings are only a theory until they are practiced and proven.
I will post the current week’s power first and have the previous weeks below. That way you can see how the earlier powers connect.
Our second Power is WILL. Will sits behind the left eye and works directly with the Power of Faith. Remember, Faith is our “Yes” power so Will works to bring about whatever I have said “yes” to…even if what I am saying “yes” to isn’t in my highest interest. However, if my “Yes” is for the Good of all, then we’re really cooking with gas as my grandfather used to say. (He worked for the gas company.)
The Power of Will consciously seeks the best channels for manifesting our Faith or our “Yes.”
In taking time for conscious thinking, visualize what your Power of Faith (in the center of your brain) is saying “yes” to and then see it making contact with the Power of Will behind your left eye in order to bring about a manifestation. (Look at what I have said about Faith below.)
Let’s give thanks now that are using our Twelve Powers to consciously manifest the lives we have always dreamed of. I give thanks for the opportunity to write about them and come to a greater understanding as I do. I give thanks and I know that gratitude is our greatest healer.
Amen,
Rev. Shawn
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"The Power of Living Life" Theresa Crisci, LUT @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (1/30/22)
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Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
“Will Power”
Last week we started a weekly series here for the first twelve weeks of 2022. I am focusing on our Twelve Powers as bestowed to us from Unity’s cofounder, Charles Fillmore. Each week we’ll look at one of the powers. I don’t usually present them in the traditional order. I start at the top and work my way through the body. Quite frankly, it’s easier to remember this way and it’s easier to connect how they work and to use them practically. Please remember that all of our spiritual principles and teachings are only a theory until they are practiced and proven.
I will post the current week’s power first and have the previous weeks below. That way you can see how the earlier powers connect.
Our second Power is WILL. Will sits behind the left eye and works directly with the Power of Faith. Remember, Faith is our “Yes” power so Will works to bring about whatever I have said “yes” to…even if what I am saying “yes” to isn’t in my highest interest. However, if my “Yes” is for the Good of all, then we’re really cooking with gas as my grandfather used to say. (He worked for the gas company.)
The Power of Will consciously seeks the best channels for manifesting our Faith or our “Yes.”
In taking time for conscious thinking, visualize what your Power of Faith (in the center of your brain) is saying “yes” to and then see it making contact with the Power of Will behind your left eye in order to bring about a manifestation. (Look at what I have said about Faith below.)
Let’s give thanks now that are using our Twelve Powers to consciously manifest the lives we have always dreamed of. I give thanks for the opportunity to write about them and come to a greater understanding as I do. I give thanks and I know that gratitude is our greatest healer.
Amen,
Rev. Shawn
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"Our Essential Nature" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (1/23/22)
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Last week's message from Rev. Shawn
Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
“Will Power”
Last week we started a weekly series here for the first twelve weeks of 2022. I am focusing on our Twelve Powers as bestowed to us from Unity’s cofounder, Charles Fillmore. Each week we’ll look at one of the powers. I don’t usually present them in the traditional order. I start at the top and work my way through the body. Quite frankly, it’s easier to remember this way and it’s easier to connect how they work and to use them practically. Please remember that all of our spiritual principles and teachings are only a theory until they are practiced and proven.
I will post the current week’s power first and have the previous weeks below. That way you can see how the earlier powers connect.
Our second Power is WILL. Will sits behind the left eye and works directly with the Power of Faith. Remember, Faith is our “Yes” power so Will works to bring about whatever I have said “yes” to…even if what I am saying “yes” to isn’t in my highest interest. However, if my “Yes” is for the Good of all, then we’re really cooking with gas as my grandfather used to say. (He worked for the gas company.)
The Power of Will consciously seeks the best channels for manifesting our Faith or our “Yes.”
In taking time for conscious thinking, visualize what your Power of Faith (in the center of your brain) is saying “yes” to and then see it making contact with the Power of Will behind your left eye in order to bring about a manifestation. (Look at what I have said about Faith below.)
Let’s give thanks now that are using our Twelve Powers to consciously manifest the lives we have always dreamed of. I give thanks for the opportunity to write about them and come to a greater understanding as I do. I give thanks and I know that gratitude is our greatest healer.
Amen,
Rev. Shawn
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"Let's Get To The Source Of Things" John Valentine, @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (1/16/22)
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Last week's message from Rev. Shawn
Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
“Will Power”
Last week we started a weekly series here for the first twelve weeks of 2022. I am focusing on our Twelve Powers as bestowed to us from Unity’s cofounder, Charles Fillmore. Each week we’ll look at one of the powers. I don’t usually present them in the traditional order. I start at the top and work my way through the body. Quite frankly, it’s easier to remember this way and it’s easier to connect how they work and to use them practically. Please remember that all of our spiritual principles and teachings are only a theory until they are practiced and proven.
I will post the current week’s power first and have the previous weeks below. That way you can see how the earlier powers connect.
Our second Power is WILL. Will sits behind the left eye and works directly with the Power of Faith. Remember, Faith is our “Yes” power so Will works to bring about whatever I have said “yes” to…even if what I am saying “yes” to isn’t in my highest interest. However, if my “Yes” is for the Good of all, then we’re really cooking with gas as my grandfather used to say. (He worked for the gas company.)
The Power of Will consciously seeks the best channels for manifesting our Faith or our “Yes.”
In taking time for conscious thinking, visualize what your Power of Faith (in the center of your brain) is saying “yes” to and then see it making contact with the Power of Will behind your left eye in order to bring about a manifestation. (Look at what I have said about Faith below.)
Let’s give thanks now that are using our Twelve Powers to consciously manifest the lives we have always dreamed of. I give thanks for the opportunity to write about them and come to a greater understanding as I do. I give thanks and I know that gratitude is our greatest healer.
Amen,
Rev. Shawn
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"A Spiritual Solution to Your New Year Resolution" Rev. Krista Erickson @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (1/09/22)
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Living From the Super-consciousness
"Faith Power"
Hey Unity,
I am thinking that for the first twelve weeks of 2022 I would focus on our Twelve Powers as bestowed to us from Unity’s cofounder, Charles Fillmore. Each week I’ll focus on one of the powers. I don’t usually present them in the traditional order. I start at the top and work my way through the body. Quite frankly, it’s easier to remember this way and it’s easier to connect how they work and to use them practically. Please remember that all of our spiritual principles and teachings are only a theory until they are practiced and proven.
This first week, let’s look at the Power of FAITH. Faith sits in the middle of the brain and is our “Yes” power. Our faith is what we are saying “Yes” to. No matter what direction our faith is pointed to, it is what we are saying “Yes” to. And yes, we can say “Yes” to the negative as easily as the positive. For example, my faith can be pointed to what I fear as well as what I love. If I place my faith in fear, that is what I am saying “yes” to. It’s good to pay attention.
This week, pay attention to where you are consciously and unconsciously placing your faith. Observe your thoughts, your conversations, and your actions. We often aren’t even aware of what we have faith in.
Faith has often been used in relation to God, but that is only true if we are using God-thoughts, God-words, and God-actions. (God stuff is the permanent stuff.) What is unlike God is the temporary stuff (fear, resentment, complaints, gossip, criticism, gluttony, resistance etc…) That is all temporary because a True thought will shift it and your faith can be placed aright again.)
As I said, pay attention to where your faith is pointing? I suggest you find a compass that leads to Spirit and the Good awaiting you.
Here’s to Faith In Our Good,
Rev. Shawn
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"Burn the Hell Out of It" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (1/02/22)
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Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
“This Day Leads to the Next This Day”
Often we measure our lives by “last year, “this year and “next year.” Rarely are we seeking to express “now.” Today, now is where everything is. So as we come to the end of 2021, let that just be numbers that are a part of now. Planning your feelings for next year takes you out of the now. What are you feeling now?
Seek for how happy and joy-filled you can be now. Don’t wait for things to happen in order to be happy. Let the joy of right now lead to the next happy now.
The best way to do this is to work on your relationship with God now. If you aren’t happy with your God now, you won’t be happy later. Change it now. As your relationship with God is a fulfilling one, your relationship with yourself and all beings are fulfilling. Pay attention and notice what needs shifting now.
Remember, every yesterday leads to tomorrow’s yesterday.
I wish you all of your best nows!
See you next year,
Rev. Shawn
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"On the First Day After Christmas..." Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (12/26/21)
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Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
“I Love This Day”
We must love this day rather than worrying about tomorrow. Today is the day that Love has made. Every time you catch yourself leaving this moment and tension creeps in, remind yourself, “Today is the day that Love has made.”
Stand still in Love,
Rev. Shawn
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"Merry Christmas Eve" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (12/24/21)
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"Merry Christmas Eve" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (12/24/21)
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Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
“I Love This Day”
We must love this day rather than worrying about tomorrow. Today is the day that Love has made. Every time you catch yourself leaving this moment and tension creeps in, remind yourself, “Today is the day that Love has made.”
Stand still in Love,
Rev. Shawn
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"The Intimacy of the Christ" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (12/19/21)
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Forth Week of Advent / Love = "The Intimacy of the Christ"
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Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
“I Love This Day”
We must love this day rather than worrying about tomorrow. Today is the day that Love has made. Every time you catch yourself leaving this moment and tension creeps in, remind yourself, “Today is the day that Love has made.”
Stand still in Love,
Rev. Shawn
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"In Joyful Exultation" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (12/12/21)
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Third Week of Advent / Joy = "In Joyful Exultation"
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Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
"Peace Comes With the Realization of God"
In my KNOWING God, I am filled with a peace that passes all understanding. I didn’t understand what that statement meant when I was younger. “The peace that passeth understanding” was just one of those sayings in the Bible.
Philippians 4:4-9 4 Rejoice[c] in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice.[d] 5 Let your gentleness be known to everyone. The Lord is near. 6 Do not worry about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. 7 And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds.
8 Finally, beloved,[e] whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is pleasing, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about[f] these things. 9 Keep on doing the things that you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, and the God of peace will be with you.
I encourage everyone to study these words. I will explain them more fully on Sunday, but you must come to your own understanding and acceptance.
I wish you peace in your advent season.
Rev. Shawn
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"The Calm Before The Joy" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (12/05/21)
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Second Week of Advent / Peace = "The Calm Before The Joy"
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Living From the Super-consciousness
“Oh God, I Hope So”
We hope for a lot of stuff to happen. What some of us miss out on is the understanding of how to bring it about. Each year we use the tradition of Advent to help us to come back into spiritual realization and become aware once more of the Christ presence within us.
In Unity, we are told over and over that the power to manifest an amazing life is within us and not “out there.” And yet, we keep looking to a spiritual presence “out there” to do the manifesting.
Go within to find God, the Christ, Holy Spirit, Truth, Wisdom, Intelligence and any and all Presence. Let all of your True hopes and desires become manifest for you now.
Let your Hope be your divine inspiration.
Rev. Shawn
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"Great Expectations" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (11/28/21)
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First Week of Advent / Hope="Great Expectations"
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Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
“Creating a World That Works For Everyone”
This statement is the mission for several Unity churches as well as Unity Worldwide Ministries (UWM). I am fine with keeping our mission here at Unity Center as it is, “To continually discover, demonstrate and educate that our source of Good is God within.”
If we practice this, we are creating a world that works for all and we won’t even be trying to. The practice of our mission makes that an inevitability.
Are you willing to have a world that works for all? We don’t have to know what that looks like right now. It’s about willingness. The willingness to know that it is possible and the willingness to show up for it.
There are certain basics that can be taken right now. If you steal, stop it. Stealing doesn’t work for anybody; not even the thief. If you kill (even in character assassination) stop it. That doesn’t create a working world for anybody. I think you get my drift here.
It seems to me that everybody wants to know that they are loved and many if not most have forgotten that. So they have settled for less. Even the biggest bully wants to know that they are loved. They just lost faith and insight of how to achieve it. We want a world where everyone KNOWS they are loved. It seems to me that we have to start the ball rolling on that. I have to start KNOWING that I am loved even on the days that the days are hard. A hard day isn’t saying I am not loved; it is saying the day is hard to accept as it is. Keep affirming, “I am Loved and I live in Love!”
One Being at a time, let’s create a world that works for all.
Let’s let that be both our Thanksgiving and Advent Message,
Rev. Shawn
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"And In Everything Give Thanks" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (11/21/21)
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Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
“Get Together to Talk About Spirituality”
What are you talking about at your gatherings? The next time you suggest a get-together with anyone, plan for a spiritual conversation rather than a gossip-fest. I don’t mean a religious conversation, but a visit that is based on spirituality. Bring both your faith, your questions and your openness to new understanding. I wonder if Love could be the new “superspreader.”
So what do you think about God?
Rev. Shawn
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"Let Go and Let Life" Theresa Crisci, LUT @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (11/14/21)
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"Let Go and Let Life" Theresa Crisci, LUT @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (11/14/21)
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What Have We Agreed To?
Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
“What Have We Agreed To?”
Sometimes I am shocked with the apparent agreements I have made because of fear. In my healing I have made new agreements and they are to remember Love and Wisdom. At least on the days I remember to.
I would rather look at it this way, agree with God and do it quickly. Agree with Love and do it quickly. Agree with Intelligence and do it quickly. Agree with what you know has to be True rather than with what you would like to be true in a moment of stress.
Do not agree with your opinions when you look in the mirror. Never agree with a thought that you are less than the beloved child of God, no matter how much you weigh. Don’t agree with abusers, even if you are the abuser. Don’t agree with a thought of ugliness. Don’t agree with the world if the world is telling you that your life is bad.
Also, don’t resist this misguided information. Treat it as nothing and get back to agreeing with Love, and that you are beautiful. Agree with God about your neighbor. Agree with God that Good can be found everywhere if one is looking for God.
Living in the beauty that is us,
Rev. Shawn
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"God Was There" Rev. Krista Erickson @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (11/07/21)
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Living From the Super-consciousness
Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
“I Pray For Myself, Not For God”
Prayer is not for the pleasing of God. Prayer is for me to realize God in my consciousness. I need a very active present consciousness of God in all of my thoughts, words and actions.
Charles Fillmore defined prayer as “Conscious communion with God.” I like to think of prayer as “Conscious communion with Love.” Or “Conscious communion with what IS, rather than what is temporary.”
No matter what, I encourage all of us to realize that we are not praying or offering up platitudes to please an old person in the sky. We are praying to align ourselves with Truth, Wisdom, Intelligence, Power, Presence and yes, Love.
Think on this before each time you pray.
Prayerfully,
Rev. Shawn
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"Silly Superstition" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (10/31/21)
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Living From the Super-consciousness
Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
“Acceptance”
Acceptance, for me, is twofold. Part of it is coming to terms that things happened, AND, no longer trying to make them not have happened.
So much of our misery is from trying to make our lives not have happened. We stay angry at our parents for their mistakes and even abuse as if that will somehow justify our upset. For me, I was going to stay upset until they made it not have happened. Then I found out they couldn’t. You wouldn’t think that could take thirty years to realize, but it did. For some of us, it takes longer. For others, it never happens and they spend their lives burdened by hate and confusion. And then there are a few of us who understand that good things can come from every upset if we allow it, and they realize it early on.
Acceptance is not seeking to change what happened but to accept that it did, and to even accept that I think this way about it, and then to seek the counsel of Spirit as to what True thoughts I could have about it. This way, the story will be gone and positive results can be revealed.
Let’s go ahead and work with things this way from now on.
In the acceptance of life and seeking God’s influence about it,
Rev. Shawn
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"Investigate" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (10/24/21)
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Living From the Super-consciousness
Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
“You Cannot Make Me Think That Way”
You cannot make me think that way. You cannot make me have a nice day or an awful day. You’re not the boss of me. You can’t make me love you or hate you (although you might interfere with whether or not I like you.) Even that, is a choice I can make. Everything is my choice to experience in whatever way I choose to experience it.
I can’t make you think anything. I can’t make you loved or unloved. I can’t approve or disapprove of you. I can’t make you less than you are. I cannot not make you a god-being.
You and I are loved with an everlasting love. You and I are blessed with the ability to choose what we think and feel. You and I are blessed. We can choose to think we aren’t but that doesn’t make it not true.
I Think I Love You,
Rev. Shawn
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"What Brings Me Joy" Theresa Crisci, LUT @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (10/17/21)
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Living From the Super-consciousness
"You Cannot Give What You Don’t Have"
You cannot give away what you don’t have and… you must share what you do have so that you may keep it and that it be increased.
For instance, Love. Love must be given away freely or it will dry up and grow stale within us. Peace must be given freely. Harmony must be given freely. Even our wealth must be shared freely, joyfully and wisely. “But I don’t have enough!” Cries the one who has a limited view of their source. Some think they don’t have enough love. So they hide/hoard it until they forgot where they put it. (Don’t hide your love.) “I don’t have any money!” (Share what you have. Don’t hide/hoard or throw it away.) We have enough peace. (At least we do once we accept peace as readily available.) Our Good goes on and on and we must stop affirming that we don’t have enough Good. Almost every one thinks there is a lack of Good somewhere in their lives or in their vision.
We must begin to see Good everywhere. At least we must begin to become willing for Good to be revealed to us from places we had not thought of. Let’s begin to assume that we already have Good and more Good is revealing itself to us now.
I can’t give what I don’t have, but I have lots to give.
Yea, Even More Good Is On the Way,
Rev. Shawn
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"Put the Spirit Into Spirituality" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (10/10/21)
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Living From the Super-consciousness
"Celebrate Progress"
There is an old saying, “Progress, not perfection.” What seems to be neglected in that statement is that we must celebrate our progress. Remember, blessing is a power of multiplication.
Any place that has seemed to be lacking in your life…and I mean any place, money, memory, inharmony, clutter, places that need cleaning etc…. If you make any progress at all in these areas, praise them. Celebrate the progress knowing that if this much can be done, more is on the way. No matter what, do not negate the progress by wallowing in what hasn’t yet been accomplished. Praise and celebrate the forward movement and affirm “Even more Good is on the way.”
Yea, Even More Good Is On the Way,
Rev. Shawn
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"I Eat Vegetables in Moderation" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (10/5/21)
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Living From the Super-consciousness
"I Seek Guidance"
Many of us desire guidance; but once it is given, do we receive it? “I pray to be guided on my journey today.” (“as long as it’s not too scary, uncomfortable or inconvenient.”)
So often I hear, “I don’t know what God’s will is for me! I keep asking but I’m not hearing anything.” With all due respect, I say “Baloney!” If you really want guidance, you are given it. However, you may be so busy exclaiming that you don’t have what you want that you are not hearing how to get it.
If you want guidance, ask for it and then shut up and expect it. Quit claiming your Good is not here. Many years ago that if I want to see my Good, I must expect my Good. I also learned that my Good doesn’t always look like I thought it would.
I think all of us want peace, right? If I want peace, I must actually want it at any cost and I must then expect it. The cost is likely to be the taking away of chaos. Who wouldn’t want that? Many of us, that’s who. Many of us just can’t seem to release chaos and yet still complain about the seeming absence of peace.
Many of us want to be our god-selves and yet spend a lot of our thinking and speaking time ignoring our god-selves.
Go within and ask for guidance about being your god-self. “But who am I asking, Shawn?” You are asking yourself. All it of yourself. We are god-beings and so all that God has and is, we have and are. When you seek guidance, check your motives. Do you want the guidance of Spirit for so that you may know the Truth, or to find a temporary fix for a temporary problem?
I guess it doesn’t really matter which you want it for, (although one is certainly more altruistic than the other). If you ask, you must expect in order to have results.
Free to Love,
Rev. Shawn
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"Live Action Living" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (9/26/21)
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Living From the Super-consciousness
"Does My Understanding of God Create Freedom or Bondage?"
Dear Unity,
Which does your understanding of God create for you? Does your understanding of God allow for unforgiveness? Judgement? Guilt? Superiority over others? Belief in Old timey sin? Are you limited in who you are allowed to love? Like? Hang out with? Does your God find fault with you and others? Does your God hate anyone?
Is your God synonymous with Love? Principle? Divine Intelligence? Is your God open and compassionate? Is your God willing that you and all beings be happy, joyous and free?
As long as your God is holding out from loving anyone, you are not free. We’re not talking about behaviors here. God isn’t worried about behaviors. God isn’t worried. However, as long as I allow my behaviors and my judgment of others to stand in the way of Love, I don’t get to be free.
Let’s look at what we think is our right to judge and then seek the counsel of Spirit in how to correctly see ourselves and our brothers and sisters. God is Love, so God sees in and as Love. Let’s join God even if it’s uncomfortable for a bit. (And it just might be uncomfortable for a bit.)
Free to Love,
Rev. Shawn
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Living From the Super-consciousness
"My Thoughts Are Shaped By Spiritual Connection, Not By False Evidence Appearing Real"
Hey Unity,
Actually, my thoughts are shaped by whatever I allow them to be shaped by. I was using that title as an affirmation. It is what I would like my thoughts to be shaped by; spiritual connection. Unfortunately, I often allow my thoughts to be shaped by false evidence appearing real; otherwise known as f-e-a-r.
We would all do well to know that what we fear is not real. It is a lie telling us that we should be afraid. When we hear that lie and we choose to believe it, we then allow it to shape our thoughts into a belief in an absence of Love/God. When fear kicks in, we tell ourselves we are not loved, and we then convince ourselves that we have evidence to back it up.
We are in Unity to remind ourselves of the Truth and to remind ourselves frequently that Love is the only reality and everything else is just false evidence.
Please, let’s just keep interrupting the untrue information and keep reminding ourselves of what is True. Let’s let Truth/Love/Principle have no opposites and allow that to shape our thoughts. Please!
Here’s to Shaping Our Thoughts In Truth,
Rev. Shawn
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"The Christ In Me Beholds the Christ In You"
This is one of the best, most connecting affirmations and thoughts we can hold for our planet. Often, if I find myself in judgment of another I will say, “The Christ in me beholds the Christ in you. Christ in me, go talk to the Christ in me and then tell me what was said.” I feel better when I say that and I feel more hopeful.
None of us wants to hate anyone else. So let’s come to a realization that the Christ presence lives in all beings and that’s what we want to reveal and what we want to see. Let’s keep going for the ultimate in our thinking.
The Christ In Me Beholds the Christ In You,
Rev. Shawn
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Living From the Super-consciousness
Hey U-nity,
“Happiness is a mental habit, a mental attitude, and if it is not learned and practiced in the present it is never experienced.”
—Maxwell Maltz
Do you live in the “If only’s”? “I could be happy if…”
Many years ago I learned I could be happy if I believed in a God that was on my side and loved me no matter what. So that is the God I sought and found and that’s when the mental attitude of happiness began. My days became more joy-filled. My prayer life became a habit. My seeking joy in my experiences (even the hard ones) became a habit.
Today, I automatically know that the world is not always pleasing to me, but there is Light within me and all I have to do is find the willingness to turn it on so that I can see. Let’s all get in the habit of turning on the Light. Why? So that we can see.
Light is Good,
Rev. Shawn
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"Will I End the Day Satisfied?"
I was reading something for a group today and the passage was asking if we will die knowing we had done what we were supposed to do.
I think that is too much to ask of ourselves. Let’s just focus on today. Think on last night first. Did I go to bed knowing I had thought, said and done what ought to have been done by me? Did I go to bed knowing that God is my Source and Supply? Now let’s look at today. Am I living today knowing that God is my Source and Supply? Am I interrupting thoughts that sell God and myself short?
Am I at peace right now? Or am I trying to “figure out” how to solve all of my problems? Or worse, am I trying to “figure out” how to solve someone else’s problems? Do I think I am doing it alone?
My life changed with one prayer many years ago. My prayer was, “God, I need help, I can’t do it alone anymore.” That prayer revealed a lot to me. Mostly it told me I thought I was doing life alone…without help and without connection.
When someone is doing life alone (in their perception) they can never be satisfied. There will always be so much more to do. Are you one who thinks they never get enough done? Are you worried that you are going to be criticized for not doing enough?
The only way for me to go to sleep satisfied is to turn the day over to God. As I turn out the light, I say, “Thank you God for today. Thank you for what I liked and what I didn’t like. I am aware that I don’t know the meaning of most things, and for this moment, I am willing to know that all things are either good or are leading to good. Thank you and goodnight.” And then I sleep.
Most nights I sleep well.
Pleasant Dreams,
Rev. Shawn
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"Today Is Not Yesterday…and It’s Not Tomorrow"
Hey Unity,
Let’s all celebrate that today is not yesterday and it’s not tomorrow. Woo Hoo! This means I can stop dragging the past into the present.
We are taught that God is Presence Itself. I adopted that teaching for my own practice. I would rather have my Good now than in some far off future place…like tomorrow.
Begin to affirm, “My Good is here now.” “My Good is here now, and this is what my Good looks like.” “My Good is here now and if I don’t like it, it will pass so that the next Good can appear now.”
Now is the time,
Rev. Shawn
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Living From the Super-consciousness
“Find a Way To Be Seen”
Another title for this could be “Let Your Light Shine.” When I was in my first seminary we were assigned an exercise on the very first date where we walked around the room and with each person we encountered we said, “I am here to be seen.” Each being was to respond, “I see you and I am glad you are here.”
I was and continue to be grateful for that exercise. Why would I be in a seminary if I weren’t there to be seen? Why be a minister if I’m not expecting to be seen. I am expecting God/Light to be seen through me. That exercise took away my false modesty. It was okay to want to be seen. Especially if I had something of quality to look at.
I was no longer looking to be seen in order to be objectified for lust, or to be “special.” I had a great longing to be seen for my authentic self. I wanted to be seen before I spoke a single word. That day, I realized I had something to offer and it was valuable. I was no longer looking to be validated, but to be seen. With that, it didn’t matter if people acknowledged seeing me or not. I knew I was very visible and I needed to maintain my Light if I wanted to maintain my value. I also knew that not everyone wanted the Light I was offering and that didn’t matter. The Light had been seen.
Over the years I have met many who long to be seen because they have never felt seen. Yes, many of our parents didn’t want our Light, but rather, they seemed to value something in us that wasn’t authentic, but instead was convenient to their psyche. Some of us walked away from our childhood homes feeling unseen, unloved and with no sense of true identity.
Others walk through life thinking it is immodest and shameful to want to be seen. I get it; there are extroverts and introverts. Even the introverts want to be seen for their Light….if they could just admit the Truth that they are Light.
Find your way to be seen. Start with this if you haven’t already, look into your mirror and say, “Hi God, I am here to see myself as I am seen by God.” Don’t make up a story that God somehow has an opinion of you. Instead, say, “I am here to see myself as Good because I know that is how God sees me.”
I heard a mother say to her adult child the other day, “If I had it to do over with what I know now, I would have told you that you were Good every single day.” It touched me to hear that. It’s never too late and if our parents can’t do that for us now, let’s do it for ourselves. Look in the mirror and say, “You are Good. I AM GOOD!
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Peek-a-boo, I see You…and you are Good!
Rev. Shawn
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Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
“Find a Way To Be Seen”
Another title for this could be “Let Your Light Shine.” When I was in my first seminary we were assigned an exercise on the very first date where we walked around the room and with each person we encountered we said, “I am here to be seen.” Each being was to respond, “I see you and I am glad you are here.”
I was and continue to be grateful for that exercise. Why would I be in a seminary if I weren’t there to be seen? Why be a minister if I’m not expecting to be seen. I am expecting God/Light to be seen through me. That exercise took away my false modesty. It was okay to want to be seen. Especially if I had something of quality to look at.
I was no longer looking to be seen in order to be objectified for lust, or to be “special.” I had a great longing to be seen for my authentic self. I wanted to be seen before I spoke a single word. That day, I realized I had something to offer and it was valuable. I was no longer looking to be validated, but to be seen. With that, it didn’t matter if people acknowledged seeing me or not. I knew I was very visible and I needed to maintain my Light if I wanted to maintain my value. I also knew that not everyone wanted the Light I was offering and that didn’t matter. The Light had been seen.
Over the years I have met many who long to be seen because they have never felt seen. Yes, many of our parents didn’t want our Light, but rather, they seemed to value something in us that wasn’t authentic, but instead was convenient to their psyche. Some of us walked away from our childhood homes feeling unseen, unloved and with no sense of true identity.
Others walk through life thinking it is immodest and shameful to want to be seen. I get it; there are extroverts and introverts. Even the introverts want to be seen for their Light….if they could just admit the Truth that they are Light.
Find your way to be seen. Start with this if you haven’t already, look into your mirror and say, “Hi God, I am here to see myself as I am seen by God.” Don’t make up a story that God somehow has an opinion of you. Instead, say, “I am here to see myself as Good because I know that is how God sees me.”
I heard a mother say to her adult child the other day, “If I had it to do over with what I know now, I would have told you that you were Good every single day.” It touched me to hear that. It’s never too late and if our parents can’t do that for us now, let’s do it for ourselves. Look in the mirror and say, “You are Good. I AM GOOD!
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Peek-a-boo, I see You…and you are Good!
Rev. Shawn
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Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
“In What Direction Is Your Attitude?”
“That old nest of negativism followed me everywhere I went.” This is a quote from someone and I’m not sure who. When I read it, I realized that even with all of my positivity, I still had plenty of negativity.
The quote came from an article seeking to help us in recognizing our unconscious negativity. This isn’t about trying to make any of us guilty for our negativity. Nor is it a new age way of saying, “Be Positive!” It is just about becoming conscious of our negativity and how we express it in our body and our world.
Observe your thoughts and your speech and from that you can assess what your expectations from life are. What do you expect from today? So many of us are bemoaning yesterday and tomorrow, we don’t even notice the good of today. If that is you, readjust your thinking and your speech. We don’t have to voice our upsets. We don’t have to voice our projections just because we think them.
I have friends who protect their negative thinking by defending against a positive attitude. “Don’t tell me to be positive; I have to feel my feelings!”
Yes, go ahead and feel your feelings, but don’t give out a doomsday report while you are doing it.
When I was a kid, I got approval from my mother by criticizing the neighbors or anyone she didn’t like. As a child, I had no idea how that would affect me later on. I couldn’t have known how many people I would attract who were just like my mother and seemed relieved when I expressed what was wrong with other people and how judged they felt when I expressed what I like about people.
What direction is your attitude flowing? In a positive or a negative direction? When the topic of God comes up, do you feel comforted or judged? I don’t mean if someone is criticizing you, but just the general topic of God and how someone is expressing their beliefs? When someone talks about their church or lack of church, what direction is your attitude flowing?
What about the subject of money? Do your thoughts flow upward or downward? How about forgiveness…or even politics. One might think they have the right to be negative about politics, but no, not really. One can look for Light in that conversation as well and not have to compete in the conversation. I’ve seen many a political conversation go south even when everyone agrees. They bring people who aren’t even in the building into the conversation so they can argue with them while they aren’t there.
I suggest we find and develop a positive attitude so that we may know our God-selves better. Let’s look for God active and present in everything and everyone. I guarantee that if we look while being willing to see, we will see.
Use this technique in each event of your day, including looking into the mirror, your wallet, and your past. Call forth the willingness to see God and your attitude will definitely look upward.
You Are Great,
Rev. Shawn
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"Living From the Super-consciousness “Just a Thought Away”
Hey U-nity,
Living From the Super-consciousness
“Just a Thought Away”
Everything we need is just a thought away. The solution to any perceived problem is just a thought away. The healing of a relationship is just a thought away. The healing of our past is just a thought away. The healing of our finances is just a thought away. The experience of God, Life, Intelligence, Wisdom, Harmony, Peace, Abundance, Joy and on and on is just a thought away.
How shall I bring about the next RIGHT thought? I shall do it through the right use of prayer and meditation. There are those who say, “there is no wrong way to pray.” They are wrong. There are many correct ways of praying and many incorrect ways. One MUST pray believing. One must believe that connection to their Source is possible. Do not tell God what is missing in your life. Affirm that through God all Good is possible and you are willing to experience it now.
It’s okay to want to experience stuff while you are in your body at this time and in your place. Just don’t imagine that it will create your identity. You already have an identity. You and I are beloved children of God and we are the Light in action. At the same time, if you want to know what it feels like to drive that new car, it’s not a sin and it’s not selfish as long as it’s not being used to diminish someone else. Use the stuff of this earth to make life more fun for everyone. If you have lesser motives in mind, you probably won’t get to keep it.
Everything, and I mean everything is just a thought away. What we want and what we don’t want is just a thought away. Explore your heart’s desire and become open to the experience of it. Prove the power that God IS right now and show your Light.
Thinking Fond Thoughts of You,
Rev. Shawn
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"Equal In God"
Is everyone equal? I say yes even though it often doesn’t look like it on the surface. I see clearly, that I have always had the same opportunity to go within and know God as anyone else has had the opportunity to do. I see that I have always been able to see beyond every appearance even though what was going on at the time was clearly unfair and hurtful on a human level. I also see that I ignored that for almost half of my life and it has take the other half to build up better habits.
I came into Unity holding the thought that with my past, I had very few options in life except hope. I didn’t have much of an educational background. I didn’t have family connections. I hadn’t had any inheritances to cushion me. I had a relationship with God but not much idea as to how to use It or how to pray practically.
When I came into Unity, I found out that my past had no bearing on what God IS, has been, or ever was. What God IS has always been the same and I can’t change that; nor should I try. Many have attempted to influence me into thinking of a God that I ought to fear rather than respect. I knew better than that then and I know better than that now.
We are all equal in that we are loved equally in God, and I have no idea why life is incredibly hard for some and seemingly easy and privileged for others. What I have to hold to is that we are all equal in the Love that God Is. If I don’t, I take on thoughts of guilt and shame and I begin to think that I am not loved and my hope begins to fade. I have worked diligently for many years to remember that all beings are Good in God and that is not based on behaviors. That is based on the nature of God.
We must interrupt the thoughts that we are somehow bad and that the world is somehow bad. We must remind ourselves that the world is screwy because of our thinking and that we can aright the world with True thoughts. Start thinking True thoughts about yourself. Then start thinking True thoughts about your neighbor. Keep doing it, over and over and over again. If it’s not a True thought, interrupt and it start again. Refuse to tell yourself anything untrue about yourself or your neighbor. Let’s do that now and notice the difference we make. Let’s prove that we are equal within God.
Glad to KNOW the Truth of Our Being Together,
Rev. Shawn
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"Good Living Starts With Good Thinking…and the opposite applies as well"
Everything starts with thought. So, pay attention to your first thought and if it seems insufficient for the life you wish to live, create a second thought and create it consciously. Our first thoughts are often reactive and unconscious. We know enough now that we must be diligent with our second thought at the very least.
Our thoughts create our life experience and we want to have the very best life experience possible. That’s why the second, third and fourth thoughts must be in alignment with Spiritual Principle. If it’s not happening yet, your first thought will start to be the one aligning with Truth.
In Unity we teach, “Thoughts held in mind produce after their kind.” Notice your thoughts. Are they bringing about Good for all? Or is it hit and miss? Remember, the “miss” is a result of our thinking as well. Nothing happens by accident. Our thoughts may not cause specific circumstances, but they do cause our experience of everything.
Again, notice your thoughts. Change them if they need changing. Align with God in that You are Good and cannot not be Good. The same applies to your neighbor whether you like them or not. Align with God. Align with Principle. Align with Love. Let these aspects of Truth be your guiding thought in everything.
After you have affirmed that, Let’s affirm together, “The Superconscious Mind is awake in me now!”
Glad to KNOW the Truth of Our Being Together,
Rev. Shawn
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"Good Living Starts With Good Thinking…and the opposite applies as well"
Everything starts with thought. So, pay attention to your first thought and if it seems insufficient for the life you wish to live, create a second thought and create it consciously. Our first thoughts are often reactive and unconscious. We know enough now that we must be diligent with our second thought at the very least.
Our thoughts create our life experience and we want to have the very best life experience possible. That’s why the second, third and fourth thoughts must be in alignment with Spiritual Principle. If it’s not happening yet, your first thought will start to be the one aligning with Truth.
In Unity we teach, “Thoughts held in mind produce after their kind.” Notice your thoughts. Are they bringing about Good for all? Or is it hit and miss? Remember, the “miss” is a result of our thinking as well. Nothing happens by accident. Our thoughts may not cause specific circumstances, but they do cause our experience of everything.
Again, notice your thoughts. Change them if they need changing. Align with God in that You are Good and cannot not be Good. The same applies to your neighbor whether you like them or not. Align with God. Align with Principle. Align with Love. Let these aspects of Truth be your guiding thought in everything.
After you have affirmed that, Let’s affirm together, “The Superconscious Mind is awake in me now!”
Glad to KNOW the Truth of Our Being Together,
Rev. Shawn
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"Today I Welcome the Change"
Hey U-nity,
"If the Great Spirit wanted men to stay in one place He would make
the world stand still; but He made it to always change..."
-- Chief Flying Hawk, OGLALA SIOUX
Some of us really welcome change. Others of us are really uncomfortable with change. And still others of us really want to control the change so that they can embrace it safely.
Many will not let go of their old understanding of God, because its too dangerous to contemplate a bigger, freer God than they have922 now. (“I don’t really believe in God, but I’m afraid to let go entirely.”) Something I discovered is that the God of my understanding does not fit into a box. Early in my studies I found that just when I thought I knew what God was, God went and changed on me. God got bigger and bigger until God became bigness itself. As hard as I try to limit God, It will not be limited. It’s the same with defining Love, it can’t be done.
Life changes with each thought we have. The world shape-shifts with each thought. How do you think your keys suddenly appear in the place you looked for them a few minutes ago? How is it that we think of someone and they call? How is it that we surrender our thoughts and we suddenly know things we didn’t know before and the path to joy is suddenly clear?
Let us all welcome change and embrace the willingness to recognize God active and present in it.
Let’s affirm together, “The Superconscious Mind is awake in me now!”
Glad for the changes,
Rev. Shawn
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"Dinner Will Be Provided Today"
Hey U-nity,
What are you worried about not getting in the future? For some of us, we are worried that we won’t have enough for retirement. For others it is about getting too old for success. For some, it is a fear of never getting to be loved. (BTW, all fear is a form of not being loved.) Sometimes, it’s just that we have to get to the store before the bargains run out.
Now, let’s look at this differently. I will have dinner today. Some will argue with me and say, “But what about all of the starving people who won’t have dinner today?” (People love to argue away their good.) Are you one of the people who won’t have dinner today? Are you one of the people who can’t have even the slightest bit of Good today? If you aren’t, then let’s start there. “Today, my dinner is provided.” “Today, I have clothing.” “Today, I have lots of ideas.” (You may not yet know what to do with the ideas, but we know that you have them.) Today, I don’t yet know if they still have what I want at the store, but I know that I am loved by God either way.
If by chance, dinner is not being served this evening, LOVE IS.
Let’s affirm together, “The Superconscious Mind is awake in me now!”
Grateful that God Is,
Rev. Shawn
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"Live and Let Live"
Hey U-nity,
Have you been bogged down by your opinions? Some might call them judgments, but to be nice, we’ll call them opinions. I understand that we have preferences in life, but within our preferences, we have opinions (judgments) that are just none of our business and we are letting ourselves get waylaid on our journey because of these thoughts flowing through our mind that we would do well to interrupt and let go of.
I have blocked people on facebook so that I wouldn’t see their posts and thus be judgmental of them. I knew I couldn’t control certain thoughts about some of these people if their opinions were coming up on my wall and I know that my function is to love them rather then judge them, so I removed their postings from my sight. Live and let live. If people and I don’t agree about certain things, it is better that I seek God’s Knowledge rather than my opinions and fears. The fears in me will only lead to limited thinking and I can’t afford limited thinking; I can only afford rich thinking.
I had to learn how to let my family live and let live rather than trying to change them. I’ve had to do it in a lot of places and with a lot of people. Live and let live doesn’t mean people can be destructive without consequences, but it doesn’t mean they have to take up space in my head because I think I know them better than God knows them. I have to pray and get in with a God-thought in order to see past my judgments and open to love. My judgments limit all of us. Divine Intelligence opens the way for infinite joy.
Let’s open to Infinite joy by living and let everyone live. God will not lose.
Let’s affirm together, “The Superconscious Mind is awake in me now!”
Amen,
Rev. Shawn
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"Change Happens…when we commit to a spiritual practice."
Hey U-nity,
When we commit to a spiritual practice, lots of changes take place. Some are subtle and some are like dynamite going off without your permission. New Thought writer Emilie Cady (Lessons In Truth) wrote of an experience we call “chemicalization.” Chemicalization is what happens when we introduce new ideas to old ways of thinking. Often our lives go SMOOSH in one way or another.
What is the spiritual practice you have committed to? Have you committed to a life where you actually desire to hear the Voice of Spirit guiding you in thoughts of Love and Intelligence? Or have you made the illusion of a spiritual commitment, but are still busy telling yourself and God what is wrong with you and the rest of the world that is revolving around you? If you have done the second, are you puzzled as to why life is still so hard?
That may sound judgmental, but I know from personal experience the difference between the two and I know that when I truly desire my relationship with God and as a God-being my life is easier. When I assume that God is on my side and I am willing to follow the guidance for love, forgiveness, peace and joy, then I am confident that Good is present no matter what seems to be going on.
Now, sometimes, when I make that commitment to Love, everything unlike it appears. People may become more erratic and unkind than before. Suddenly there is a shortage of money. My face breaks out. My hair falls out. I gain weight. People I love get sick and people I love die. Or I get diagnosed with illness. Or, the person I hated the most wins the lottery. They fall in love. People I have held judgments towards suddenly seem to be happy when they don’t deserve to be happy…especially since I’m the one who made the spiritual commitment!
Maintain your spiritual commitment and assume you will begin to see God active and present everywhere, including in places you least expected it. (Like in the people you don’t care for.) You will begin to see how your old judgments can’t keep God’s good away from anyone.
When we commit, or recommit, to a full-on spiritual practice change is going to happen and we must assume that this change is Good and “God is active and present in my own and everyone’s life.” Become glad that you are suddenly awake and noticing how life is active and an event that affects everyone for Good.
Spiritual commitment doesn’t mean that life isn’t going to happen; it means that we will know what to do with it when it does.
Let’s give thanks that we in Unity are making this spiritual commitment together. We’re all doing it to different degrees, but we are doing it. We have learned that it is safe to do it because God isn’t a whimsical old man, but a loving, intelligent presence, active and present in our mind and in our life. Hold on to that thought and make the full commitment so that the full change takes place. It is a change that is Good.
Let’s affirm together, “The Superconscious Mind is awake in me now!”
Grateful for the change,
Rev. Shawn
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"Walk the Path of Divine Guidance"
Hey U-nity,
Everyone IS Divinely Guided. Not Everyone wants to walk the path of Divine Guidance. If one fears not having enough, one will resist Divine Guidance. The fearful being thinks they will lose if they listen and follow. For some strange reason, fearful people think that God wants them to be poor. Some think that if they are sick it must somehow be God’s will. I say this to you now, “Cut it out!” If your God wants you to be sick or poor or unhappy, you need a new God.
Pay attention to your Divine Guidance and notice how loved you are. Notice the wisdom and good sense in a lot of it. Listen and see how you prosper in ways that are bigger than the ways that you had thought. Listen and experience wellness coming from within. Listen.
I understand how nerve-wracking it can be when you aren’t used to it. Here’s what I suggest you do: “I accept that God is FOR me and all beings. God is willing that I and all beings thrive in wellness, harmony and financial abundance. I am grateful to realize this now and I move forward in spite of any appearances to the contrary, because I KNOW that God is on mine and everyone’s side. Amen.”
Walk the path of Divine Guidance.
Let’s affirm together, “The Superconscious Mind is awake in me now!”
God IS Really FOR Us,
Rev. Shawn
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"Can I Laugh At Myself?"
Hey U-nity,
I have great gratitude that I can laugh at myself today. I have stuff about me that is so ridiculous that the only thing that gets me through the day sometimes is that I laugh at it. If I didn’t have a relationship with the God of my understanding, I wouldn’t be able to laugh.
I used to take myself pretty seriously. I had pain and I thought I needed it to be seen. The problem with that is the more it was seen, the less I laughed. In fact, more pain came up to be seen till finally, nobody wanted to look anymore.
A friend came along who taught me how to laugh at myself and how silly so much of our serious thinking is. Yes, lots of stuff happened “to me.” But lots of stuff happens with everybody. It’s no longer “Why me?” but “Why not me, and what do I do with it?”
Laughing at it where I can somehow find humor in it makes a huge difference. Look at life, see the silliness in it when you compare it to the Love that God is. Look at what you take seriously and make yourself laugh at it. Several years ago, I knocked over a glass of water on a good table. I heard myself say, “Oh goodie, I was hoping that would happen.” I laughed at that. Suddenly it didn’t matter. I wasn’t bad for knocking the water over and knocking over the water wasn’t bad. I cleaned it up and went on about my business.
As I write this, I am thinking of some things I’ve been wishing were different and I have said, Oh goodie I was hoping …would happen. I’m laughing now as I write this. I guess they are different now.
Thank you for listening.
Let’s affirm together, “The Superconscious Mind is awake in me now!”
God IS Good and hysterically funny,
Rev. Shawn
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"Do I Have Time?"
Hey U-nity,
I was reading some sort of pithy book with wise sayings and the May 2nd reading is, “Our biggest misunderstanding is that we think we have time.” It really hopped off the page at me.
There are several ways to look at this. Literally, there is no such thing as time. Time is something we made up. That is not how I choose to see it today. Today, I am using the time we have made up.
However, I am learning that we don’t know how much of this kind of time we have left. I’m not looking to be maudlin here, and this isn’t to make us afraid of dying. My question is, do we really have time to be afraid, to be resentful, to be sick, and to be afraid of dying? Do we really have time to fear each other? Do we have time to fear politicians, racists, and other confused individuals and groups? Do we have time to kill till we get well? Do we have time to hate ourselves until we love ourselves?
Of course we don’t. But that won’t stop us from trying.
Here’s what I’d like to know that I have time for: prayer and meditation and kindness towards myself and others all at the same time. I’d like to remember that I have time for fun and creativity. I know I have time for forgiveness and I’d like to use that time gratefully. I have time to grow older wisely. I have time to stretch my mind and body. I have time to say, “Thank you.” I have time to pick up the phone and say “Hello” to people I haven’t acknowledged in awhile. Most of all, I’d like to remember that I DO have time to LIVE and LIVE WELL.
I’ve met people who have shown me this and I am grateful that I have taken the time to learn from them.
Let’s affirm together, “The Superconscious Mind is awake in me now!”
In the Infinite and the NO Time,
Rev. Shawn
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"Know They Think of You As a Light In the Darkness "
Hey U-nity,
This comes from a statement I heard, “Don’t feel badly when people only think of you when they need you. Know that they think of you as a light when they are in the darkness.”
If we shift our thinking, life never has to be a burden. Imagine being grateful that people think of you as a light. Don’t let personalities come before Principle. Keep giving thanks that you are a vital force in the world and your light is the one shining for certain individuals to see.
Let’s affirm together, “The Superconscious Mind is awake in me now!”
Blessings, Always Blessings,
Rev. Shawn
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"Do I Allow Myself to Be Loved?"
Hey Everybody,
I felt the need to reflect today and ask myself if I am open and receptive to all of the Love that is available and being offered to me. I know that sometimes I ignore love and focus on what’s wrong or who doesn’t seem to love me. I also know how great it feels when I have a realization that love is the dominating factor in my life. Do you know those days when you know that you are ultimately taken care of and if you would just give up your doubts about tomorrow and your sorrow for yesterday, you could go ahead and be happy and appreciate the nurturing of today? I do. I know those days and that’s why I feel qualified to talk about this topic.
One thing I had to do was open to how love doesn’t always feel or look very loving but it still is love. In my healing, I began to see and agree with the statement, “As God is FOR me, no-thing is against me.” If that were to be true in my consciousness, I could not think of anything as against me. I began to think about all of the things I thought were my enemy, (people, smoking, alcohol, my past, religion, politicians, the weather, my family, etc). As I thought about these things I began to see that all of them had brought me to this point and this point is okay. So, all of those things that had hurt me had actually brought me to a point of love. Granted, I allowed myself to see it this way, but that is a very loving thought.
It was wonderful to know that the facts of my past couldn’t have been different and everything just wants to serve me. Everything can only serve me from where I am spiritually. So if I’m living an existence of spiritual resistance, then a lot of what we call negative habits and behaviors will be doing their best to serve us from that place. If I am deciding that today is the day I am loved, the universe will conspire to show me that…even though it might hurt a bit if I’m out of the habit.
Life wants to serve us and we must decide how we want to be served. We are the masters and we are loved with an everlasting love. Today, declare “I AM LOVED and I CANNOT NOT BE LOVED!” Allow yourself to know you are loved within all conditions and then watch the conditions lose their power over your mind.
I AM LOVED and I ALLOW MYSELF TO KNOW IT!”
Let’s affirm together, “The Superconscious Mind is awake in me now!”
We are all loved,
Rev. Shawn
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"What You Focus On Grows"
Hey Everybody,
Blessing is the power of multiplication. So it stands to reason that what we focus on is what we are blessing…even if we don’t intend to.
Sometimes it seems impossible to focus on anything but the perceived problem. So we rant about it. We call our friends and advisors to talk about it. We talk to ourselves about it. We put our next good off because we are waiting for this last thing to not have happened. What happens from all of this? It grows. In our minds, it keeps getting bigger and more intolerable. And yet, no matter how many times we are taught to change our thought, we continue to hold onto this one as if thinking about it will create the solution. Instead, with each moment that we focus on it, it gets bigger in our minds.
We have an alternative and it will cost us. I know that it’s worth the price and sometimes I am willing to pay it and sometimes I’m not. However, when I look within and seek a new thought/a True thought about “this” everything shifts. The price to pay is our bondage to limitation. It never seems like much until we ask ourselves to pay it.
I am asking all of us to remind ourselves that “as God is for us, nothing is against us”. Let’s set ourselves free of all limited/victim thoughts and enter into the current thought free from the last thought. Let’s focus on that and watch it grow. Oh yeah, let’s do it.
Let’s affirm together, “The Superconscious Mind is awake in me now!”
Hallelujah,
Rev. Shawn
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"Work On Forgiving Two Today"
Hey Everybody,
Let’s work on experiencing forgiveness for two people today; ourselves and someone else. As long as we are holding a resentment (no matter how minor) for someone else, we are holding ourselves captive as well.
That is what we are doing by maintaining our resentments; we are holding ourselves captive with the very person we don’t like. Whether you know it or not, when we are keeping unforgiveness alive for another, we are living in unforgiveness. That has to wear on our own psyche. Not only that, unforgiveness multiplies. Suddenly I find myself resenting a third and even a fourth person. At some point I wake up to realize I am lugging resentment around with me all day and I am thinking about those people more than the ones I think I love.
I know I talk about forgiveness a lot and I’m certain I’m not the only one who still has a couple of people they are holding onto. Forgiveness seems to be a life-long process. There are countless people, institutions and policies to offend our righteous sensibilities. So many words, and roadblocks to enable us to forget our Christ awakening and put us back to sleep.
Here is my suggestion for all of us: when you notice something attacking your thoughts, interrupt it and think, “Oh no you don’t. I am a beloved child of a loving creator and I’m willing to think thoughts that reflect that!”
Hand over all of your thoughts of resentment to Spirit and declare: “I am a beloved child of a loving creator and I know that all beings are beloved children of a loving creator and I am willing to think thoughts that reflect that!” I know it’s a long affirmation; say it anyway and say it every time a disturbing thought about another comes up. What I can promise you is that our world will shift as we do this. If everyone of us interrupts our unforgiveness, then forgiveness will happen and we won’t be weighted down with resentment but will be lifted up in Spirit and in Truth. Let’s release ourselves today.
Let’s affirm together, “The Superconscious Mind is awake in me now!”
Love, Love, Love,
Rev. Shawn
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"Half Measures Aren’t Whole Measures"
Hey Everybody,
There is saying that “half measures availed us nothing.” I don’t know if that is entirely accurate, but I know from experience that half measures haven’t offered nearly enough. I know that telling half the amount of lies I used to doesn’t make me not a liar. Someone who steals less is still a thief. Drinking less doesn’t make us sober.
If I want self-esteem, I must do estimable acts.
And if I want a confident relationship with God, I must pray without ceasing.
Let’s understand something here, we’re not trying to become perfect. We are looking to step up our moral living to a level that never needs defense. If I don’t lie, I don’t need to remember my lies. Not only that, I can feel that I am more right with God because I don’t have secrets.
In spirituality we take it to other parts of our practice. When I came to Unity I was taught that in order to thrive and prosper I had to both tithe and forgive. At first it seemed that tithing was going to be the hard one to practice. It turned out that giving ten percent of my income back to where I was spiritually fed was the easy part. Money had never had a lot of value that I could understand anyway, even though I was afraid of it. Giving away that tenth to my spiritual home took away the fear I had always experienced around money. I didn’t necessarily have a lot more, but by giving it away freely rather than hoarding it to buy something special gave me new understanding that God is my Source, not money.
Forgiveness turned out to be the tricky one to practice in full measure. To hand over my thoughts and judgments about both myself and others was a terrific challenge. (Often it still is.) Apparently, my thoughts and judgments have great value to me. I couldn’t afford to maintain them if I wanted to thrive and prosper. I began to learn more about the process of forgiveness. I learned most about it through prayer and witness the results of the prayers. I had so many epiphanies during my prayers on forgiveness. I learned that forgiveness isn’t something I do, but something I experience through my willingness to see differently. I’ve had many experiences now where I was no longer attached to my perceptions of the past. I had experienced forgiveness or “the giving way for” new thoughts about those events and I was set free.
As I have continued to tithe and work on forgiveness, I have thrived and prospered in ways I could barely have imagined. My Good flows to and through me in ways that I expect and ways that surprise me. When I negate my practice and apply half measures, the ways seem to dry up. It’s not magic, it is consciousness.
So, half measures are sorely lacking in our demonstration of a great life. Don’t settle for half, get on board with whole measures. It’s pretty easy and very simple, just pray, asking what’s next to think, say, and do to practice fully.
Let’s affirm together, “The Superconscious Mind is awake in me now!”
Have a Great Time,
Rev. Shawn
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"Would You Say to Their Face What You Say Behind Their Back?”
Hey Everybody,
The answer to this question in most cases is, “Hopefully not.” We say things about each other all the time that we would prefer they not hear. I know I don’t want to hear at least half the things that are said about me. (And I am glad to hear the other half.)
I’m in the middle of doing team evaluation of ministers who are applying for the seminary and other ministers who are already in the program. Our team statement is “We are their advocates from application to ordination.” However, it can become easy to make flip comments on the evaluation forms because we think they won’t ever see these forms. I saw the evaluations from my application two years after I was ordained. I wasn’t supposed to see it, but I did. Those “ministers” wrote things that I would truly hope they wouldn’t say to my face. They were flip. They were unkind and they were not very ministerial. But who am I to judge? 😊
One of the reasons I joined the UWM mentoring program is to change things so that no new applicant would ever be treated as poorly as both me and several of my friends had been subjected to.
We have received extra training this year guiding us to make constructive comments on the evaluation forms, that offer a forward movement rather than writing judgmental comments that amuse us. I have learned that I’m not smarter because I know what’s wrong with somebody and I can say it in a witty way. That doesn’t make me smart and it sure doesn’t allow kindness to come through.
My point is that we need our built-in editors to let us know that the people around us are people with feelings and they need to be encouraged to blossom rather than drying up and wilting. We need the same thing. If no one is encouraging you in a loving way, do it for yourself. Say kind, supportive things to yourself. Encourage yourself to do better and continually remind yourself that you are loved by God and cannot not be loved by God.
Let’s start declaring the present activity of God in each of us to our faces and behind our backs. Let’s pick that mountain of confusion up and throw it into the sea.
Let’s affirm together, “The Superconscious Mind is awake in me now!”
I see you and you’re Good,
Rev. Shawn
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"Facts Are Neutral”
Hey Everybody,
We have often heard the expression, “face the facts.” It’s not a bad thing to face the facts. Facts have no opinion. They aren’t proof of whether we are good or bad. They aren’t proof of God. They are the facts of a situation, and they have no meaning.
When we look at something, say a car accident. The only meaning it has is the meaning we give it. We can say, “That’s awful,” but that is an opinion, not a fact. I like cookies a lot. It doesn’t make it a fact that cookies are delicious, nor is it the Truth…or is it?
Facts are not the Truth. Facts are evidence that something happened. Facts just aren’t the meaning of what happened or how they happened.
So, let’s not use facts to tell us what to feel about things. Let’s not use facts to separate us. Let’s not use facts to win. Use facts to open a door between you and your neighbor. Use facts to open a door in your mind.
Facts have no inherent meaning, they are neutral. Use them to know God rather than shutting God out. Use facts to let light shine.
Let’s affirm together, “The Superconscious Mind is awake in me now!”
Blessings,
Rev. Shawn
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"“Why?” Doesn’t Matter”
Hey Everybody,
Years ago I was advised to not embark on yet another useless journey. It occurred to me that the question “Why?” was a useless journey. Why? Because there is no definite answer to the question. I will have to satisfy it from the intellect.
This makes a lot of sense to me. Now I go within and ask “How do I think about this?” Rather than, “Why is this happening?” “What were you thinking when you did this?” Rather than, “Why did you do this?”
In Unity, we are taught that thought is cause. If I like the results of my actions, I need to see my thinking that brought it about. If I don’t like the results of my actions, I need to see the thinking that brought it about.
Finding out “why” I did it won’t continue it or stop it. It will just give me intellectual conversation about it, often either blocking or perpetuating it.
I encourage all of us to observe our thinking and then go within to ask how to think for the future. Remember, we want our thinking to align with God, not just be used for manifesting stuff. It’s not about manifesting. It is about the Power that brings about manifestation. It is about the Source of our strength.
Keep the focus where it belongs, on the Source. Why things happen don’t matter nearly so much as that they happen. Pay attention.
Let’s affirm together, “The Superconscious Mind is awake in me now!”
Glad to be experimenting together,
Rev. Shawn
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"Practice doesn’t Make Perfect…Practice Makes Better”
Hey Everybody,
I was talking with a mentor of mine the other night and he reminded me, “Shawn, practice doesn’t make perfect; practice makes better.” He is a musician and I know that musicians need to practice a lot, but I always assume there is a goal of becoming perfect. I assumed that is why you practice anything. Perfection is the goal. It isn’t. It is just a matter of exercising the muscle so that you may be better and stronger.
For years, my anger muscle was well exercised and my kindness muscle was very weak. One day, I found myself longing to know how to be kind, empathetic and a light in the world I knew. I began to work on that stuff at the “spiritual gym.” I made strides and then I would stumble trying to make things happen through self-will. Then I would go within and ask what to think and do so that I could consider a new way.
It began to become easier and finally more of a habit to respond thoughtfully rather than rashly and self-involved. I say it became “easier” not constant. I falter. I forget. Then I remember again and the muscle gets stronger and I feel better than when I respond from my own ego rather than Spirit.
Practice makes better and as long as I see progress, I can let the thought of perfection go.
Let’s affirm together, “The Superconscious Mind is awake in me now!”
Thank you for your practice,
Rev. Shawn
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“Effective Communication”
Hey Everybody,
Do you feel heard or unheard in your daily communications? Does it feel as if you have to scream at people to get them to understand you?
Sometimes David will ask me what I just said, and I will repeat it louder and with succinct enunciation. David always replies, “I heard you, I just don’t know what you mean.”
This always astounds me because I think that I said it as clearly as it could be communicated. I always think I say things clearly, don’t you?
However, if he didn’t understand what I was saying, I clearly didn’t communicate it in a way that he could hear me. We’re both smart people so that can’t be the issue.
I began to wonder where else I wasn’t being heard...and why? How and where am I not effectively communicating what I think I’m thinking?
In my prayer life, am I communicating what I actually want to experience or am I vague and fearful? Am I praying from a place of believing or disbelieving?
Like with David, I believe I am communicating very clearly and yet he can’t hear me. I also believe I am communicating clearly to the Universe. I have to ask myself, am I communicating my thoughts in a way that the Universe can’t hear me?
I do understand that there are people who don’t seem to understand me because they don’t like what I am saying. Now, am I not hearing the Universe’s response to me because I don’t like what it is saying?
Am I communicating honestly and clearly with my body? With my money? With strangers and friends? Am I communicating in a way that people can hear me from where they are?
I have to look at my life to see the universal responses I get. What is my body telling me in response to my affirming divine health? What are my finances telling me in response to my affirmations of prosperity? What are my relationships telling me about living harmoniously?
Effective communication means that I have expressed my thoughts, kindly, lovingly and inclusively. Am I including the person I’m talking to in my conversation? If I’m not, then I’m just thinking of myself and what I want. I must be inclusive in my relationships. Even my relationships with strangers must be inclusive if I want to be heard, rather than interpreted.
I encourage all of us to begin to check on ourselves and ask ourselves what we are saying to ourselves and each other. Are we effectively communicating our god-selves when we speak, when we act, and when we react? Pay attention and notice your powers of manifestation.
Let’s affirm together, “The Superconscious Mind is awake in me now!”
Yea for the teachings,
Rev. Shawn
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"Commit to the Solution, and God Is the Solution”
Hey Everybody,
Imagine that the only problem we have is the forgetting that God is somehow the solution? Think about it. We all seem to have problems. We want solutions to our problems, don’t we? The issue seems to be that we keep trying to solve our problems from the ego. We might pray to have God get rid of the problem, but how often do we seek to allow God to be the solution to the problem.
There is a difference between trying to get God to do something and identifying God in our system. Results are very inconsistent when we beg. When we beg, we are actually affirming the absence of God.
Do you have a problem? Any kind of a problem? Commit to God being the solution to these problems. “God is the solution to what I perceive as problems.” That’s very different from committing to the problem. “God is the solution to what I perceive as problems.”
Allow whatever God is in this situation to be revealed and then know that only Good can come from this. Why? Because God is the solution to what I perceive as problems.
The KNOWING of God can heal the toughest confusion. KNOW God! Why? Because God is the solution to what I perceive as problems.
I like a simple solution!
Let’s affirm together, “The Superconscious Mind is awake in me now!”
Blessings, Blessings, Blessings,
Rev. Shawn
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"Healing Begins Now”
Hey Everybody,
All healing begins now. And now…and now…. At least it does if we say so. “I say so,” says the one who suffers. And then it seems as if the suffering continues, and it’s even worse. “But I said, ‘Healing begins now.’” The suffering one cries. “HEALING BEGINS NOW DAMMIT!”
My thought is this, if I have declared, “Healing begins now,” then I must assume the healing has already begun; no matter what the appearances are. I have had so many healings through this way of thinking. It surprises me that so many of us pray for healing and then stay committed to the problem.
What aspect of your life needs a healing? And before you say, “All of it,” focus in on something you believe could be healed, even though you don’t know how. It’s important that you believe there is a way, even though you don’t know the way. Once you are settled with that, declare, “Healing begins now.” Then go on about your business. If you should hear what your part in the healing is, follow the instructions. Otherwise, just know that the healing is happening and you are in process.
I’m thrilled to be writing about this, because it is reminding me of what I am willing to have heal and what I’m not yet willing for healing. But it is reminding me that all healing, when it happens, happens NOW!
Let’s affirm together, “The Superconscious Mind is awake in me now!”
Best Blessings For Our Day,
Rev. Shawn
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"Zooming Through Life”
Hey Gang,
How are you staying connected during this time? David’s and my favorite way is on Zoom. We have had many a Zoom date. Our Board of Trustees now meets on Zoom and we plan to keep it that way well into the future. Our classes are going well on Zoom.
It sounds like I’m doing a commercial for Zoom. I’m not. It’s just a way that I find effective to maintain connection with people and we don’t have to wear masks.
I’ve heard from others how they don’t care for Zoom. They have to use it for work and by evening time, they don’t want to be on their computer.
There are a handful of people who come to church in person because they want to experience it with other people in the room. There are others who may watch us on Facebook live forever.
The point here is, are you connecting with the people you love here? Are you going out of your way to make new connections? Please remember, just because some people are busy the first time you seek them out, doesn’t mean they don’t like you; it may mean they are busy right now and need to be pursued again.
I have a friend who relapsed in his twelve step program because he didn’t want to go to Zoom meetings and he was waiting till groups were meeting n person again. He isolated and that didn’t work well for him. He goes to Zoom meetings now and he has 11 days back.
Let’s put our resistance to change down. Let’s know that nothing is going to be “back to normal.” There will become a new normal and we will adjust to that or we will not grow in spirit and in love. Invite God into your mind so that you may think with God rather than against change. Invite God into your consciousness to remind you of divine possibility. Invite God in so that you may invite all beings in.
Keep an open mind and an open heart!
Love, Love, Love,
Rev. Shawn
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"Eh, What Do I Know?" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (1/31/21)
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"What To Do When You Are Afraid”
Hey Everybody,
These are scary times for some people. When I think about it, all times have been scary times for some people. I grew up in a house with frightened people. I grew up in a neighborhood with frightened people. Now I’m growing older in a world with frightened people.
Fear isn’t necessary, although it does seem as if it’s the prudent thing to experience sometimes. If I’m afraid, I can justify a lot of poor thinking and behaviors.
Today is a different day. Today is the day to choose for God/Spirit/Joy/Love/Peace/Wisdom/Principle, etc… instead of a thought that I “should” be afraid. At this point, most of the time I experience fear, it is because I have a story from my past that is informing my present and that story is no longer relevant to who I am today.
I saw a mouse at my office the other day. My first reaction was to jump in fear. (As if the mouse had an intention to hurt me somehow.) That is learned behavior. The mouse quickly ran somewhere when it saw me and I haven’t seen evidence of it since (although I have put out peppermint packets to repel it.) When I think about mice at this point, I remember it is a living being and while I don’t want mice in my vicinity, I also don’t want to forget who and what I am as if I’m not a God being when I see one. I have since had a talk with the space and informed it that mice and other rodents aren’t welcome here even though they are beloved beings of God. I would hesitate to tell a human that they aren’t welcome in my space even though they are beloved beings of God so it makes sense to tell animals as well.
Some are afraid to leave their house for fear of what awaits them outside. In our minds, there are so many dangers. Some are afraid of God because of what they think of themselves.
I remind each of us right now, remembering the love of God is the solution. Calling upon the Highest Voice within you for Wisdom is the answer to fear. Asking yourself to remember that you are fully loved is kind and generous and will clear the mind of false information. Please remember that it isn’t your past that will tell you the truth, it is the Presence of God that needs to be called upon to inform us at every moment.
Let’s affirm together, “The Superconscious Mind is awake in me now!”
Here’s to the Highest,
Rev. Shawn
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"When Life Gets Lifey-Love" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (1/24/21)
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"Practical Spirituality Is Practical Living”
Hey Everybody,
We must learn how to apply our spirituality practically. As they say, “Keep it simple.” They also say, “Be ye as a little child to enter the kingdom of heaven.” I have to do my spirituality as a little child. I have to just do it and trust that it works even though I don’t necessarily know how it works. However, being as a little child doesn’t mean being an ignorant fool. I know what hurts me and it is only willful ignorance that would make me keep doing what hurts me or others. Willful ignorance is not practical spirituality.
Sometimes it can be uncomfortable to practice what we KNOW to be right and true. For some reason, it can seem like applying the Truth of God will somehow make us lose. I have won again and again by childishly applying Truth Principles in my practice and still I will ruminate over the next time as if it might not work this time. I have learned that I don’t always get the things I want, but when I apply Divine Principle, I always have greater understanding that what I was pushing for wasn’t the right thing at this time. Sometimes, I really find how off-base I have been in even wanting it.
If I want something that diminishes another being, I’m never happy if I get it. If I have to go out of integrity to acquire something, I’m never truly satisfied with having it. In my awakened consciousness, I can never justify lying, cheating and/or stealing. I can’t justify character assassination of my brothers and sisters. That is why I must awaken to my Super-conscious mind aka my Christ Mind. I must surrender to the bigness that is bigger than the world I see. I must surrender to the thoughts of Oneness, Peace, Joy, Love, Wisdom and Intelligence.
This is practical spirituality. Let’s all take some time away from our worries and resentments and offer that time over to thinking about our spiritual practice and ask ourselves if what we believe and practice is practical when applied. Then ask ourselves if we would be willing to apply it to any aspect of life that we have been avoiding or putting off till later. Let’s go ahead and trust that practical spirituality is practical NOW.
Make your spiritual practice practical.
Let’s affirm together, “The Superconscious Mind is awake in me now!”
Abundant Blessings of Wisdom,
Rev. Shawn
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"Our Mission”
Hey Everybody,
Our mission here at Unity Center of Norwalk is to “CONTINUALLY DISCOVER, DEMONSTRATE, and EDUCATE that our source of Good is God within.”
Our mission is still applicable and what drives our church during easy times and confusing times.
If you don’t know, a mission is a concise explanation for an organization’s reason for existence. It describes the organization’s purpose and its overall intention. Why else would we exist except to be reminded and remember to live in the confidence and assurance that that we have a spiritual purpose which is continual and serves all beings.
Several years ago Unity Center of Norwalk was inspired to create and adopt a new mission to reflect where we had come to at that point, and we still feel it is apropos to our organization as well as apropos to each of us individually.
While we don’t, as a community, meet in the same building, we are still a Spiritual Community that joins together to maintain a common bond and purpose. That purpose is to “Continually, discover, demonstrate and educate that our Source of Good is God within.” Our mission, collectively and individually, doesn’t change. We are connected in the KNOWING that “our Source of Good is God within,” and we are responsible to pass that message along.
I encourage all of us to remember that statement several times a day. “Our Source of good comes from God within.” Good never comes from the outside. That doesn’t mean the outside can’t reflect our good from within, but good never starts in the outside. The outside is always temporary and the good of God is always eternal.
Another important thing to remember in doing this is that you aren’t doing it alone. The whole Unity Community is doing this. This mission doesn’t just belong to the organization; it belongs to each individual in the organization.
Let us all gather today in Spirit so that we may KNOW together that OUR SOURCE of GOOD COMES FROM GOD WITHIN!
Let’s affirm together, “The Superconscious Mind is awake in me now!”
Grateful to Share This Mission With You,
Rev. Shawn
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"Get Yourself a Good God" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (1/10/21)
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"It's Today”
Hey Everybody,
For many of us, it’s a New Day rather than a New Year. Most people I know cannot handle a whole year right now, but almost all of us can handle a day. I can conceive of life events taking place from the time I wake up to the time I go to bed. (If that should be too much, take it moment by moment.)
Let’s face it, on New Year’s Day of 2020, none of us could have conceived this whole past year. Plus, misery or at the very least, confusion set in for many of us when we tried to plan for an unknown future. We still can’t plan for a definite future. But we can be present in the Presence of God.
It’s today; it’s Now. Right now, the Light of God surrounds me, the Love of God enfolds me; the Power of God protects me, and the Presence of God watches of me. Right now, where I am, GOD IS, and all is well. Perhaps “well” in ways that I don’t know about, but as long as I am in spiritual integrity, all is well.
Let’s begin each new day with a plan of conscious-God-connection. Remember, it’s just for today, ultimately.
Let’s affirm together, “The Superconscious Mind is awake in me now!”
Happy for a Happy New Day,
Rev. Shawn
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Christmas Eve Candlelight Service - The Holiest of Holy Nights - Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (12/24/20)
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“A Happy New Year Is Up to You”
Hey Everybody,
We choose our happiness and we choose our unhappiness. We rarely choose consciously, but we do choose, almost always by way of our judgment of current conditions. We need to be choosing happiness based on our relationship with God.
I know that when I choose to trust that I am loved within God, whether any person seems to love me or not, I have happiness. I learned many years ago (long before I was in a relationship) that I could be happy without a relationship. I learned (through experience) that I could be happy with whatever money I had (as long as I was living in integrity.) I learned that I could live in peace (if I were honest) and I could experience great forgiveness (if I were willing to love my neighbor and myself.)
Turn on the Light of Spirit so that you may see what is real and discard what isn’t. Rediscover your Happy New Year in you.
Let’s affirm together, “The Superconscious Mind is awake in me now!”
Happy for a Happy New Year,
Rev. Shawn
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"12 Days of Christmas" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (12/27/20)
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Living From the Super-consciousness
4th Week of Advent “LOVE"
Hey Everybody,
Love cannot be defined. It can be KNOWN. It is practiced in it many forms, but it is too big to identify with words. Love is a way of being and an action.
The point here is to BE Love without defining it. BE LOVE by going within and asking how to BE LOVE. Don’t bother to tell Spirit if it’s difficult; ask how to BE LOVE in action. Then follow the guidance. You’ll probably be surprised at how simple it is, but keep listening and then go ahead and BE LOVE. You won’t BE LOVE through the intellect, you will BE LOVE through your willing connection to your Source.
BE-ing LOVE is surprisingly simple and become very easy with practice. Remember, in the Advent season; this awakening of the Christ within us, we are making smart choices through realizing that the conscious connection with our Source makes everything better.
Let’s affirm together, “The Superconscious Mind is awake in me now!”
Great Being IN LOVE with you, Merry Christmas,
Rev. Shawn
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"The Forth Week of Advent - Love, Hope, Peace, & Joy Abide in Me" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (12/20/20)
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3d Week of Advent “JOY"
“My Joy is My God”
Hey Everybody,
Let’s remember that Advent is the “coming forth of the awareness of the Christ within us.” With that awareness Joy is awakened. What can be difficult to grasp is that the Christ and Joy are always within us whether we are aware of it or not. Now let’s become aware of it.
“The Joy of the Lord is my strength.” That is said in both Nehemiah and Psalms. Both times it is referring that we ought to be joy-filled because God IS. Whether you like the word “God” or there is another word that you use, it still adds up to the KNOWING that there is Something that is bigger and greater than your ego and your thinking unto yourself. For me, several years ago I was experiencing something upsetting (I don’t remember what it was) but during that upset I was aware that in my gut, I was experiencing something other than upset. I suddenly realized that it was Joy that was there in my gut. At the depths of my being, I suddenly knew that I could experience upset on the surface, but in reality, I had the Joy of God, the Joy of Knowing, the Joy of assurance that I was Good and that this situation meant nothing. Ever since then, I have had the wherewithal to pray during upsetting moments so that I can KNOW the Joy of God in spite of the heightened emotions.
If you want to know the Joy of God in any given moment, decide now that you are loved with an everlasting love. Decide now that the God of your being loves and likes you no matter what your thoughts and actions have been. Decide now that your God is on your side and that you can go within at any time and ask how to think about anything and everything that you are thinking. Trust that you are being told whether you are hearing anything or not. Trust that you are being divinely guided and will know what you need to know (if you want to know it.) Trust that the guidance you receive is for the good of all and doesn’t leave anyone out (even if you don’t like everyone.) Once you KNOW this, you will KNOW true Joy.
Let’s affirm together, “The Superconscious Mind is awake in me now!”
I’ve Got that Joy, Joy, Joy down deep in my heart today,
Rev. Shawn
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"The Third Week of Advent - Joy & Love and Hope & Peace Abide in Me." Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (12/13/20)
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2nd Week of Advent “Peace”
“Physical Distancing and Social Presence”
Hey Everybody,
Hey, usually, I would talk about something ethereal around the week of peace, but I thought I’d chat about something else that may lead to a more peaceful understanding of how to think and live in our current circumstances.
Every day we hear about “social distancing.” In a chat with a friend the other night he introduced a concept I hadn’t heard yet: “Physical distancing and Social Presence.” THAT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE!
We place too much emphasis on the physical and not enough on the spirit. “Social distancing” says “Get away from me.” It says, “I can’t be near you.” “Physical distancing” with “Social presence” says, I’m standing over here while I’m loving you over there. Socially, I can love you and appreciate you from here.
Peace prevails when we find the loving way. In our current way, it is loving to be Socially present for ourselves and each other. We have Zoom, we have the telephone and we have the outside where we can stand a bit apart but hold each other’s heart. Rather than bemoaning that it isn’t the way that it was, rejoice that Love is still the way that it is.
Remember “Physical distance and Social presence.”
Let’s affirm together, “The Superconscious Mind is awake in me now!”
In Love With You,
Rev. Shawn
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"The Second Week of Advent" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (12/06/20)
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Rev. Shawn's Weekly Message “1st Week of Advent “Hope”"
Hey Everybody,
On Sunday we spoke of “hope” being about the future and we need to get more in the now. Even if it’s, “Right now, I’m hoping for a better future.” It’s not the best example but it does help to bring us into the present.
I was thinking of my early healing in Twelve Step recovery. Something that got me into the present were the promises that would come in the future. I hope that makes sense. I was on step one, but I heard someone read the ninth step promises and I thought, “I want those active and present in my life and I can’t have them unless I do the first eight steps thoroughly!” That got me to consciously work with steps one, and gradually I worked my way to step two and so on. Not once did I work the steps in the future. When I did them, I did them now and then maintained them as I continued to work through the present.
These are the 9th Step Promises: “If we are painstaking about this phase of our development we will be amazed before we are halfway through. We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness. We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. We will comprehend the word Serenity and we will know peace. No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others. That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear. We will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows. Self-seeking will slip away. Our whole attitude and outlook on life will change, fear of people and economic insecurity will leave us. We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us. We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves. Are these unrealistic promises? We think not. They are being fulfilled among us sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. They will materialize if we work for them.”
So while we may work toward a great future, we can only do it now.
Let’s affirm together, “The Superconscious Mind is awake in me now!”
Happy Holiday Season,
Rev. Shawn
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"First Week of Advent" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (11/29/20)
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Rev Shawn's Weekly Message
“The Number One Healer"
Hey Everybody,
Early on in my healing I discovered that in order to heal, I had to find a path to gratitude. True metaphysicians discovered through investigation and experience that gratitude for what they have (because we don’t know if what we have is “good’ or “bad”) leads to great healings and increases the obvious Good in both consciousness and in the physical.
There is a reason why we ought to be saying grace at the table. We must acknowledge the Bigness of Consciousness that creates the food we are about to eat. We must also acknowledge our authority over it. Here is the meal blessing that Rev. Carlos Anderson shared with us:
From Rev. Carlos, "Food is neutral, waiting for you to tell it what it is and what it is going to do for you. This is how I was taught to bless my food”:
I authorize you to completely please my taste buds. I authorize you to bring health and vitality to my body. I authorize you to provide me with all of the vitamins, nutrients, minerals that will increase my life force, to bring me a greater sense of aliveness. I authorize you to support me in having my body be as fit and in the condition and in the shape that I would like it to be. I give you no authority to do anything but this. Thank you.
That is a powerful prayer for many reasons. We are not subservient beings hoping that a loving God will forgive us for “pigging out”. We are calling up our own super-consciousness to eat consciously and to eat with gratitude and joy. It is also calling up the support and cooperation of the Universe to join with your highest mind in a way that you can recognize it. And, it is allowing yourself to enjoy your meal.
I encourage all of us to look at this prayer and see where it can be modified to apply to many events in our lives. Let’s take charge and live both confidently and gratefully. Yea!
Let’s affirm together, “The Superconscious Mind is awake in me now!”
Happy Day,
Rev. Shawn
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"Giving Thanks" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (11/22/20)
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“Are You Who You Were?"
Hey Everybody,
The Answer is “No, I’m not who I was.” If you want to go deep, you could also say, “I’m not who I think I am now.”
I never was who I thought I was and you never are who I think you are. We just experience ourselves and each other as we think we are.
We are God-beings and that’s hard to understand. This is hard stuff, but if we let go of old beliefs and welcome new concepts into our conscious mind, we will be free. Imagine yourself as a God-being and that’s enough. You aren’t who you have behaved as and you aren’t what your thoughts are. You aren’t what someone tells you, you are as far as how much they like or dislike you. We aren’t who our body tells we are. We aren’t our appetites and/or addictions. We are God-beings.
If we are willing to simplify our thinking and just ask ourselves, “If I knew I was a God-being right now, what choice would I make about this?” It’s impressive what answers we get. Just thinking of myself differently leads to different choices than I might otherwise have made. Thinking of someone else differently opens new doors in relationships.
Imagine yourself free of all resentments. Imagine yourself free of being bound to your attachment to opinions, your stuff, your schedule etc….
In that freedom we will no longer be who we thought we were and we will be (in our conscious mind) who or what we actually are. Again, we are not likely to have words for what we are, but we will know a freedom and a happiness that will be deeper than we had previously experienced.
Let your Superconscious mind inform you of your identity today.
Let’s affirm together, “The Superconscious Mind is awake in me now!”
Great,
Rev. Shawn
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"The Four Agreements Series Part 2" Theresa Crisci, LUT @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (11/15/20)
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“Nobody Wins While We Are Divided"
Hey Everybody,
There has been too much focus on winning and losing. The reason I say “too much” is because I’ve heard more criticism of political candidates than I have heard about how we can awaken to the Christ consciousness within us. I understand, so many are afraid of the outcome of stuff, and that is because we seem to think that is more real than God. However, we cannot count on politicians to break the seeming divide between people; we must do that ourselves.
“How are we to do it, Shawn?” By interrupting your thoughts and comments about what is wrong with people and become well acquainted with your own thoughts and how to lift them up. Are your thoughts and beliefs going to join us all in Spirit, or are they tearing us apart? BTW, our thoughts can tear us apart even if it seems like no one knows what you are thinking. Our prayers, whether they are meant to be prayers or not are very powerful. The universe hears our thoughts and words even when we think they are private thoughts. The universe then works to bring into manifestation what we are thinking. That’s why so much is fuzzy.
“I am willing that all beings win as a result of our choices.” “I am willing that all beings unite in Love!” “I am willing that all beings come together in the realization of Oneness and that no-thing can ever tear us apart in reality.” “I AM-GOD IS-WE ARE!
Please remember, God doesn’t lose because God has nothing to win. GOD IS!
Let’s affirm together, “The Superconscious Mind is awake in me now!”
We Are Good,
Rev. Shaw
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"You're Already the Cake" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (11/8/20)
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“How Do You Choose Between…?"
Hey Everybody,
In this election time, we need to remember something. Each day we must vote for Love and Divine Principle. What’s more, we must vote for ourselves as the leader of Love and Divine Principle. Would you vote for yourself for this vital position in our society? If not, do more research on Love and Divine Principle. I promise that you can be qualified if you want to be, and then you can run for the position in your territory/region.
Imagine that your platform is Love because you understand what Love is. That doesn’t mean that you can explain what Love is, but it means that you KNOW that LOVE IS. It means you are a practitioner of Love. (“But, Shawn, How do I find out what Love is?”) Well, do your research. Pray on it. Look it up. www.truthunity.org is one great resource. Read The Holy Spirit’s Interpretation of the New Testament. There is an index in the back. Practice it through trial and error. Call me and we’ll chat about it.
The other part of your platform is Divine Principle. Principle is that which does not change. Love does not change but my understanding of it does. Truth does not change but it reads differently in my mind every day. God stays the same, but God keeps changing in my mind. I do not have the same God I had as a child, but God it isn’t God that changed, I have.
Rather than worrying so much about our elected officials doing our work for us, let’s elect ourselves to be the guiding force of Love and Divine Principle to rule our thinking (about ourselves and each other). Let’s rely on our internal Voice FOR Love and what’s right about people, rather than the internet or the news for what’s wrong. Let’s rely on what True about us and treat ourselves and each other that way in spite of our mistakes.
So, today, I have my vote, do you have yours? If not, get on the campaign trail and become the most qualified person in your life to live in Love.
Let’s affirm together, “The Superconscious Mind is awake in me now!”
I’m Holding the Space For us All…in Love,
Rev. Shawn
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"A Blessing Is a Blessing Is a Blessing" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (11/1/20)
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“How Do You Choose Between…?"
Hey Everybody,
How do you choose between love and personality beliefs? Isn’t that what we are battling here? Some people are good at letting it go and letting people believe what they believe. Others have given up their relationships in favor of resentments and resistance. I myself have blocked a few friends on Facebook because I didn’t want to see their posts. Their posts were distracting me from the love I have for these people and my love for them is far more important than my disagreements with them. I found it best to erase the distractions.
It seems that it’s too hard to choose God/Love rather than having to choose between politics or family. Do it anyway. Just choose God/Love. But that would depend on what you believe God to be. To choose politics or religion over family and friends is to say that your God is divisive and dualistic. Is that what you want your God to be? Or have you just not been paying attention to your beliefs about God? Ask yourself, “Does my God include Love for ALL beings? If it does, then you must choose Love for ALL beings.
So many of us have been making the world real and God an idealistic theory. Remember, no matter who wins the elections, we’re still going to be living in a two or three or more party way of thinking rather than a One Power/One Presence God Consciousness.
Today, this week, this month, right now, stop choosing between people and politics and start choosing FOR God. Choose FOR Love. Choose FOR divine Principle. Choose FOR what is beneath your personality choices and choose FOR your Super-consciousness. Choose FOR your Christ mind to awaken once again.
Let’s affirm together, “The Superconscious Mind is awake in me now!”
I choose FOR us,
Rev. Shawn
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"Respect Rather Than Fear" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (10/25/20)
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“Glance At the Past; Don’t Stare"
Hey Everybody,
Our past is not what defines us for who we are now. The closest we can ever come to an honest definition of ourselves is our relationship with our Higher Power, God, Source, Principle etc…
A Course in Miracles says that “I see only my past.” (L7) That’s pretty accurate. I use my past to define myself and it’s never true. My past is about events and reactions. I use that information to guide myself now and what I consistently fail to notice is that, while this situation feels the same, it isn’t the same. It’s never the same.
As we keep deepening our relationship with God, we shift. As we shift, the universe shifts, as the universe shifts, new thoughts happen and we react differently than before. We shouldn’t limit our present by holding onto a past that doesn’t exist.
So, while we may glance at our past in order to see what it looks and feels like, don’t stare at the past as if it is a reality that still means what we thought it meant then. Glance and let go. If you can let go with gratitude, even better. Just because ACIM says, “I see only my past” doesn’t mean we have to maintain that past . That lesson is to make us aware that we are looking in the wrong direction for True information about the present.
Look steadily to the Presence within for the True thoughts to think right now. Bless your past and embrace your present.
Let’s affirm together, “The Superconscious Mind is awake in me now!”
Glad to be with you NOW,
Rev. Shawn
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“Life Is NOT a Competition"
Hey Everybody,
In living from the Super-consciousness, we must awaken to the realization that life is not for competing. There aren’t winners and losers in life. There is awakening and staying asleep.
What if we think we are winning when we “one-up” one of our fellow beings? Am I more in favor with God because I know how to criticize our politicians? It seems to me that the more names I call them, makes me just as stupid as I’m saying they are. See, no win there. Makes us equal.
I’m also not less than those who I think are saints. Remember, we are not competing for sainthood. To tell ourselves we are somehow inferior to another is a form of arrogance and it distorts our understanding of ourselves, each other and God. We don’t have to work to be in God’s favor, but we must see ourselves and each other correctly in order to be at peace.
To play a game of backgammon should not be a competition to see the superiority of the winner. If both players play skillfully then often it is about the rolls of the dice. If one player keeps rolling a 1 and a two while the other is getting all doubles, then it is not about superior playing so much as coincidence. We might consider that when we are playing a game, we are actually playing opposite ourselves and so we should want everyone to play their best. That way, it’s not about winning and therefore, no competition. Go ahead and congratulate whoever scores the highest and congratulate everyone for playing their best.
We are not competing for parking spaces. We are not competing to be the fastest person on the highway. Let’s face it, unless we are all going to the same destination, who is going to get there first. Also, if we are all heading for heaven, by all means, hold the door open and be glad to let everyone in.
We aren’t competing for love. If you think you are, get a new concept of love. God IS Love Itself. Embrace the concept and stay open to everyone receiving it. Let’s walk beside one another and sing a happy song.
Let’s affirm together, “The Superconscious Mind is awake in me now!”
All We Have Is Love,
Rev. Shawn
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"Today Is the Tomorrow We Worried About Yesterday" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (10/11/20)
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“Open to Rethinking"
Hey Everybody,
It’s vital that we are open to rethinking everything and that we invite the Highest Voice into our conscious mind for each phase our thinking.
I invite us all to look at anything that is troubling us and become willing for it to become our teacher. That would mean rethinking it, whatever “it” is. Trust me, if we are feeling angsty about any incident or condition in our life, we need to rethink it so that we can once again be assured that there is a loving and intelligent solution to all that itches us today.
Too many of us are unconsciously willing to let go of people we have loved over small offenses that could so easily be resolved with a thought of God in the midst of it. I believe it was Bill Wilson of A.A. who said, “Resentment is the number one offender.” Please rethink all of your resentments. None of them are worth the confusion they bring. I understand that it is a process but stay in the ring and keep inviting that Highest Voice that loves both you and the one who is troubling you.
If there is something you really want to do and you think it is impossible for you to ever do, rethink that impossibility. I have proven to myself over and over that so many of my impossible’s actually weren’t. I remember when walking on a stage brought up the most uncomfortable self-consciousness. I have been on many a stage now and I love it almost every time and I am grateful every time. It took decades to get through my fear enough that I could invite God onto the stage with me.
So please, invite God into your thoughts so that you can do whatever is necessary to heal any part of your life that is falling short of the ideal. Please!
Let’s affirm together, “The Superconscious Mind is awake in me now!”
Grateful For the Awareness of God Present and Active,
Rev. Shawn
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"Think With God" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (10/4/20)
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"The Use, the Misuse and the Abuse of Power" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (9/27/20)
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"My One Defect " Hey Everybody, In Twelve Step healing, they talk a lot about defects of character. (One does not need to be in Twelve Step recovery to focus on defects of character. The 4T’s program also focuses on it as well as Step Six and Seven.) I get it, we need to stop the behaviors that stand in the way of ourselves and God-consciousness. The issue for me is that so many who are healing use their “defects” of character in order to beat up on themselves so which of these defects are they actually releasing or handing over to the care of God? We are not walking defects!
The conclusion I have reached is that we only have one defect of character. That defect is our unwillingness to accept our divinity. Many say, and they are correct, “I am a good person.” However, admitting you are “good” without understanding what that means, does not mean that you have accepted your divinity.
Accepting our divinity is accepting our Oneness with God and accepting that all beings are One with God. Then, from accepting it, we practice it in all of our affairs. When I fail to do this, that’s when all of the symptoms of spiritual sickness come in. We become liars and thieves. We cheat and we scheme. Sloth takes over and we feel free to gossip and character assassinate. In our unconscious disconnect we allow these behaviors into varying degrees. We blame others for what “they did to us.” Life becomes “unfair” and “unjust”. Our racism and prejudice starts leaking through our thoughts and words. All in all, we become convinced that w are somehow separate from God and each other and we are justified to think this way.
“But I’m a good person, how can I be living like this?” We live like this because we forgot to accept our divinity today. I encourage each of us to begin each day by declaring, “I accept my divinity today! I am one with God and my neighbor. There is no separation between God, my fellow person and myself. I am willing to surrender all behaviors that keep me thinking separation thoughts and take on my spiritual practice that reminds me of our Oneness. I give thanks for remembering my divinity now.”
Let’s affirm together, “The Superconscious Mind is awake in me now!” In Divine Remembering, Rev. Shawn
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"Purpose, Possibilities and Power" Theresa Crisci, LUT @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (9/20/20)
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"Testing Our Faith" David Friedman @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (9/13/20)
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"Back to...?" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (9/6/20)
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"The Only Day That Matters" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (8/30/20)
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"Something About That Name" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (8/23/20)
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"Praying Attention" Theresa Crisci, LUT @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (8/13/20)
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"Are We Christians?" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (8/9/20)
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"Spiritual Logic" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (8/2/20)
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"Making Heaven Happen" Theresa Crisci, LUT @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (7/26/20)
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"I Want to See the One" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (07/19/20)
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"A Holy Way" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (07/12/20)
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"What Is Freedom?" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk (7/5/20)
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"What Can We Expect From Our Christ Practice?" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk (6/28/20)
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"What Is the Highest Ideal?" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk (6/21/20)
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"Embrace the Mystery - Expect a Miracle" Theresa Crisci, LUT @ Unity Center of Norwalk (6/14/20)
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"It Doesn't Matter" Rev. Shawn Moninger and Kenneth@ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (5/31/20)
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"God is Still God" Rev. Shawn Moninger and Kenneth@ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (6/07/20)
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"Really?!" Rev. Shawn Moninger and Kenneth@ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (5/24/20)
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"Oh, That Is So Two Weeks Ago" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (3/22/20)
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"Peek-a-boo, I'm Praying With You" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (3/15/20)
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"Life is Different Than We Think It Is... It's More and It's Less" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (3/1/20)
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"The Most Important Thing... How We Love" Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (3/1/20)
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"I Think I Want to Go Deeper... But, Do I?" a talk by Rev. Shawn Moninger 2/23/20
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"What Exactly is Humility?" a talk by Rev. Shawn Moninger at Unity Center of Norwalk 2/16/20
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"The Prodigal Son, A Story of Forgiveness and Prosperity" a talk by Theresa Crisci, LUT at Unity Center of Norwalk
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Matthew 4:17 "Turn From Everything Else and Towards God" a talk by Rev. Shawn Moninger at Unity Center of Norwalk
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Matthew 3:10 “I Must Do All That Is Right” a talk by Rev. Shawn Moninger at Unity Center of Norwalk
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Matthew 4:4 "Get Outta Here" a talk by Rev. Shawn Moninger at Unity Center of Norwalk
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"Love: Love Is" talk by Rev. Shawn Moninger
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"PEACE: The Awareness of God" a talk by Rev. Shawn Moninger
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"Joy: Keep the Mind Fixed on the Things of Spirit" a talk by Rev. Shawn Moninger
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"Gosh I Hope I Get It... Now!" a talk by Rev. Shawn Moninger
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"Holy Days"
Hey Everybody,
The holidays are upon us. What if we called them "Holy Days?" In our thinking of each day as a holy day, there wouldn't be room to complain about how others celebrate their holidays. In our thinking of today as a holy day, we won't care how early the stores put out their decorations or even what their motives are for putting them out so early. We won't have time to worry because today is a holy day.
As each day is a holy day we will think more about how to experience forgiveness for each offense (past and present). So then dreading seeing family and friends, we will be praying on how to see ourselves and each other as God-beings made in the image and likeness of Love despite their beliefs and political motives. Who we vote for is not an expression of our god-selves nearly so much as our belief in the world as our reality.
I encourage all of us to go within and ask how we may release our judgments and take on greater thoughts of love. We will never be set free by being self-righteous. We are already free and we must set down any blockages to our freedom by setting everyone free from our limited opinions. I am well aware that there are many people doing horrible things in the world. It is my belief that if I become willing for the end of confusion, we will all stop thinking and doing horrible things at any level of horribleness.
The "Holy Days" are here. Let's celebrate them now.
In Abundant Freedom,
Rev. Shawn
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"Is the Simplicity of Spirit Too Complicated?" a talk by Shawn Moninger
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"Here We Are"
Hey Everybody,
Sunday is my first Sunday back from Sabbatical. It’s been a lovely time with plenty of insights and new experiences. It’s great when we prove our principles true and prosper as a result.
I’m grateful that all of our guest speakers brought such varied spiritual information and it’s wonderful how so many stepped up to make things run so smoothly. Now, I’m thrilled about taking the pulpit back this week. It’s what I’ve missed the most. I love, love, love our Sunday mornings together exploring what our metaphysical message means to each of us.
This week, right after the Celebration Service, we are having a Town Meeting to give everyone an opportunity to ask questions, to reflect and to look at where our church seems to be right now and where we think we are headed. I encourage everyone to join in the service on Sunday at 10:30 and stay for the Town Meeting.
Grateful and Abundantly Blessed,
Rev. Shawn
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"Living Life Authentically - An Expression of God!" a talk by Theresa Crisci
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"Proactive"
Hey Everybody,
What we have done here at Unity Center of Norwalk is very impressive. In a lot of ways, but in particular, that so many of us are connected both on Sundays and throughout the week.
Not everyone is as willing to have these connections as they think they are. A while back I called someone I hadn’t seen in some time and I asked her what was up. She told me she felt left out even though she had tried everything to be included. I brought that up to the Board members we had at that time. One of them said, “She never asked me to coffee, I would have loved to have spent time with her.”
I thought back to when I first started at Unity in New York as well as other healing communities. I intuitively knew that I would never make lasting acquaintances, let alone friends by being passive. I was clear that it was important for me to turn to both my left and to my right and introduce myself. Next I looked for the people I thought would be fun and I approached them about coffee or lunch. What was the worst that could happen? They could reject me or they could say “Yes, please join us.” What’s likely to happen if I stand by passively waiting for an invitation is that I won’t receive one.
Many years ago at another Unity Church, a fellow decided that he would stand at the side aisle and wait for someone to say “Hello”. He had decided that if no one did he would leave the church. No one did and he left the church. He sacrificed his church out of pride.
We are a proactive community where we ask for what we want and if we get a “no” here in this moment, we understand that it doesn’t mean that we can’t have it. It just means that this is either not the person to give it to me or it’s not the time for me to have it.
So many have found each other here. They have discovered what they have in common and what they’d like to learn from each other. They take joy in one another’s company. There have been a few false starts in relationships here at Unity and that is usually when someone is trying to get more than they want to give. They want validation and approval and all sorts of things that no one can give. We can’t approve or validate anyone. We can proactively find approval within ourselves. Not through arrogant affirmations but through first connecting with Love within. Once that connection is consciously made, then authenticity begins and then we become interesting individuals. It is in our authenticity that long lasting relationships happen. As long as we are telling ourselves we are less than the love that God Is we can’t be authentic.
I encourage all of us to continually be proactive in KNOWING ourselves as our God-selves. It’s really nice when we no longer have anything to actually worry about.
Keep Looking,
Rev. Shawn
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"How Did I Get Here? - My Journey" a talk by Theresa Crisci
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"The Way Through Fear"
Hey Everybody,
Everything seems to be so different than I thought It Would Be. Success is different. Failure is different. Age is different. Money is different. People are different. Love is different. Relationships are different. Forgiveness is different. Peace is different and Wisdom is different. Most of all, God is different. Jeeze! Everything is different.
I often wish that many things would stop changing… then there are others I can’t wait to see change. Really, it’s a life of whimsy I want. I want what I want when I want it and I don’t want the other stuff when I don’t want it. It can be a burden to be me with these thoughts.
I went to my home town a few weeks ago. I was shocked at how different everything is than I remember it. My childhood home is much smaller than it was when I was a child. (The house didn’t get smaller; I just didn’t notice its size as a child.)
Have you ever bitten into a piece of delicious looking carrot cake and discovered it was spice cake? For me, that is very different and not a pleasant different.
Have you met people who are so different than you thought they’d be?
When you came to Unity, was it different than you thought church would be? Were the people different? Was the music different? What about the message and the philosophy, were they different than you had anticipated?
Everything I just listed was wildly different than I had expected. Even better, it was a “different” I liked. So it was easy to call it good. It’s that other “different” that makes life harder. It doesn’t make life bad, but it can be exhausting and disconcerting.
A prayer I like to use when I’m confronted by my own discomfort when things are different is, “Spirit, show me all of the good in this so that I don’t confuse it with anything else.” I’m always shown when I ask. I’m not always shown in words but often in understanding and divine ideas.
Different can be really disconcerting but it also shows us what we are thinking right now. Pay attention to those thoughts and see how you can use them for freedom.
Wow!
Rev. Shawn
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"Subtle Activism" a talk by Rev. Nancy Napier Sunday November 3rd 2019
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"The Way Through Fear"
Hey Everybody,
The Revealing Word definition of fear is: “One of the most subtle and destructive errors the carnal mind in man experiences. Fear is a paralyzer of mental action. It weakens both mind and body. Fear throws dust in our eyes and hides the mighty spiritual forces that are always with us. Blessed are those that deny ignorance and fear and affirm the presence and power of Spirit.”
What’s the way through this paralyzer? Fear is cast out by concentrating on love. To be centered on and in Divine Love, one must be selfless to do this. One must abandon one’s self-centered opinions and give over to thoughts of perfect love. Observe what happens when you take on a thought of love when fear strikes. Do you feel an easing within your mind and body? Do you notice less resistance in your immediate experience?
Make this a new habit. Every time you find yourself experiencing fear, quickly take on a thought of love. Ask yourself how willing you could be to let Love be the guiding thoughts for all beings. Remember, you are one of all beings.
Walk your way through fear so that you are the master of your thoughts.
Whoosh!
Rev. Shawn
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"My God Given Power" a talk by Theresa Crisci
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"Blessings"
Hey Everybody,
Blessing is the power of multiplication. What we bless we increase. What many of us don’t realize is that we what we think about and speak about the most is what we are blessing. We must consider the thoughts we entertain. We must consider our words. There is so much we don’t want to increase. Especially since we are all one and therefore, what we wish for another, we consciously or unconsciously wish for ourselves.
Let us consider our thoughts and words. Let us interrupt them by inviting the Voice for God to re-inform us and give us correct perception where necessary. Thoughts held in mind produce after their kind and we want to consider what we are multiplying in our thoughts and words. Speak words of health, well-being and prosperity.
Keep asking yourself what you really want and if your thoughts and words are reflecting that. If they aren’t, go within and ask what to be thinking. If you are living in hatred of another, go within and ask what thoughts to think. You will be guided gently through to something higher.
Take these times to bless, bless, bless.
Blessings Always,
Rev. Shawn
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The Hidden Gift
A talk by David Friedman
Message from Rev. Shawn
Hey Everybody,
"Blessings”
Blessing is the power of multiplication. What we bless we increase. What many of us don’t realize is that we what we think about and speak about the most is what we are blessing. We must consider the thoughts we entertain. We must consider our words. There is so much we don’t want to increase. Especially since we are all one and therefore, what we wish for another, we consciously or unconsciously wish for ourselves.
Let us consider our thoughts and words. Let us interrupt them by inviting the Voice for God to re-inform us and give us correct perception where necessary. Thoughts held in mind produce after their kind and we want to consider what we are multiplying in our thoughts and words. Speak words of health, well-being and prosperity.
Keep asking yourself what you really want and if your thoughts and words are reflecting that. If they aren’t, go within and ask what to be thinking. If you are living in hatred of another, go within and ask what thoughts to think. You will be guided gently through to something higher.
Take these times to bless, bless, bless.
Blessings Always,
Rev. Shawn
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"Seek the Kingdom First - Where Do I Go for That?"
a talk by Theresa Crisci
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"Undefining Myself"
Hey Everybody,
Some of us may not realize it but we have been defining ourselves with the meaning we give to our every thought and event. The issue is, it’s not an accurate definition. We have been defining ourselves based on limited thoughts with limited understanding. Now it’s time to undefine ourselves.
How do I undefine myself when I didn’t even know I was defining myself. We undefine by interrupting ourselves each time we tell ourselves a story without knowing all the facts. I do it by remembering, “Oh, wait a minute, where is God in this? Where is Truth in this? Do I really know what I’m talking about here?” I don’t have to beat myself up for going into a story without knowing all of the information, but I do need to interrupt and get more and better info.
When we are calling things in our life “bad” we are unconsciously calling ourselves bad. We don’t have to do that. Begin to see the difference in poor to atrocious behaviors and who we are by nature. We really don’t want to know ourselves or each other as “bad”. Get more and better information by going within and asking what to think about this and that.
As you practice this, notice that you have less and less definition of yourself and more and more freedom. If you don’t have more freedom, I encourage you to look and see if you are still trying to box yourself in with meaning that isn’t true.
As they say, “Be still and KNOW!”
In Knowing and Not Defining,
Rev. Shawn
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"Are You a Spiritual Detective?"
A talk by Rev. Sandra Bargman
A message from Rev. Shawn Moninger
Hey Everybody,
"Good Can Come From the Worst and the Best”
This title comes from the statement, “All things work together for Good.” It’s easy to ask, “But do they?” I choose to believe they do. From what I have witnessed, so much of what I labeled “bad” has turned out to be quite good in the long run. It didn’t feel good at the time, but I didn’t know better then. If I had known better, I would have made many different choices. Knowing that, hopefully I will make new choices in the future.
If you haven’t already, start insisting that “only Good can come from this.” “Spirit, keep showing it to me.” Then go on about your day with whatever feelings you are having.
Only Good,
Rev. Shawn
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"Ask and It Is Given - Do I Need to Say More?"
A talk by Theresa Crisci
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"The Still Small Voice"
Hey Everybody,
How do you see God in everything? First, you have to look. If you can’t find God, then go within and ask to be shown. A way that I do it is, “God, I want to see you here so that I don’t confuse things.”
Even in the joyful times it is important to see God in them so that we don’t put undue pressure on ourselves by thinking we alone created this Good.
As you go about your day, keep going within and asking where God is in this? In everything, seek God, Spirit, Principle, Divine Law. Get into the habit of looking and seeing. It will make your life so much simpler.
Seeing God In You,
Rev. Shawn
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"Indwelling Spirit and Radiating Presence: Expressions of Subtle Activism and More"
A talk by Rev. Nancy Napier
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"The Still Small Voice"
Hey Everybody,
What is the Still Small Voice? The Revealing Word describes it as, “The Voice of Spirit speaking within the depths of one’s being. The ‘still small voice’ is not an audible voice. It comes from within as spiritual knowing.”
I have the Voice that speaks to me and through me and the more that I pay attention to it, the better I hear it. The “voice” never guides me to hurt myself or someone else. It never scolds me or shames me. It doesn’t tell me I’m stupid or foolish. This is not the voice of my abusers. It is the Voice of Spirit and it loves me. The Voice I hear doesn’t pull punches. It just tells me what I need to know. Sometimes I hear it through intuition and instinct. Sometimes I hear words in my head. Other times I’m just inspired to go this way rather than that way. I find when I am steadily listening, I just do things differently and more wisely than I would if I weren’t listening. Sometimes I make new choices six hours later than when I sought the Voice.
One thing that is important is that we seek to hear the Voice rather than telling the Voice to listen to us. The Voice doesn’t need to be told our concerns or problems. We need to hear the Voice speak to us of eternal love and wisdom. As we come to the realization that we are loved we won’t be nearly concerned about the world. We will KNOW what to think of everything.
Happy Listening,
Rev. Shawn
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"Receiving the Word-Divine Revelation and Inspiration"
a talk by Rev. Robert Yarnall
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Hello, Welcome home to Unity,
Whether it’s your first time here or your thousandth, each time is new. Every time we enter our sanctuary, we open to a new thought and each new thought is the next beginning. It is the next beginning for a realization of Love, Joy, Peace and Harmony. With these aspects of God active and present in our lives we stand a greater chance of health and healing in our mind and body. We increase our harmony. We increase our prosperity and we are able to see our world in ways where forgiveness is available for all.
If you’re not yet familiar with Unity and what it is, the easiest definition is, “Unity is a spiritual philosophy for positive living.” We like to say that while we use the Bible as a master book of metaphysical teachings and we use Jesus as a master teacher, we are still spiritual rather than religious.
We have found that an active prayer life of affirmations and denials is the shortcut to a mastery of living. Unity’s co-founder Charles Fillmore calls prayer “Our conscious communion with God.”
Probably the best and most important aspect of Unity is that all are welcome. Bring whatever faith you are currently experiencing and see if the Unity teachings can enhance or round it out. We don’t seek to destroy anyone’s current set of beliefs, but we do seek to remove any limitations to one’s vision of possibility. We believe all things Good are possible with God in one’s thoughts.
If you think we can be of service to you through prayer, spiritual counseling or answering fundamental questions about Unity and how it can enrich your life, please don't hesitate to reach out to us by calling our office (203) 855-7922 to set up an appointment.
Blessings through this next part of your spiritual journey.
Rev. Shawn Moninger
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"Infinite Presence, Unlimited Potential, What does it Mean?"
a talk by Theresa Crisci
Rev. Shawn's Message
"What Is a Sabbatical?"
Hey Everybody,
A sabbatical is a paid time away from one’s professional work in order to deepen his/her professional skills. I’m actually writing this before I leave on my sabbatical and my plans so far are to take ten days in a Vipassana course of silent meditation, (starting today at 4 PM). I’m not doing this in order to teach Vipassana. I actually have an agreement that I won’t try to teach Vipassana. The purpose of taking the course in entirely experiential. When I return, I can relate my experiences, but I will still be unqualified to teach it. I am planning a trip to Mexico to be still in a quiet town where many Americans reside. I am planning to visit other churches and see how they do things. I have plans to meet with friends in other states. I shall take a sabbath from the weekly activities involved with pastoring a church and I will seek to deepen my strengths in order to participate in expanding the consciousness of Unity Center of Norwalk. I am trusting that the Community will do its best to expand its own individual and collective consciousness while I am away.
Have the best time and I look forward to playing again soon.
Rev. Shawn
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"Sabbath"
a talk by Rev. Shawn Moninger
Below is a message from Rev. Shawn
"What Makes the Impossible Possible?"
Hey Everybody,
Nothing from Spirit has ever told me I ought to be guilty. Misunderstood religion and those who practice it have told me about the virtues of guilt, but Spirit within me has never advised me that I could find redemption through guilt. I find redemption through awakening to God within me.
It’s a tremendous relief to know that I am not expected to be guilty in Principle. In fact, guilt will just produce more guilt and ultimately guilt isn’t even real. Guilt is based on a concept of unforgiveness and unforgiveness isn’t real, because in reality, we are not judged. With all that guilt floating around, I am burdened by a lot of nothing that is real.
This is not to say we shouldn’t make amends where necessary. Amends are to release guilt, not make more of it. Amends are also a fantastic way to rethink ourselves and our behaviors. Amends help to connect us rather than keep us separate. Guilt is a separator. Shame separates us. I know that when I pray or seek counsel from the Still Small voice within me, I am never asked to be guilty or ashamed. I am guided to freedom in my thoughts and behaviors.
If I am to live as the spiritual being that I am, then I must make restitution for any poor past behaviors. But, being guilty is not restitution; it’s just delaying it.
I urge us all to look at any guilt we are still experiencing and see if there is restitution to be made. Then make it and be set free.
Grateful,
Rev. Shawn
P.S. As most of you know, I am starting my Sabbatical next Monday. I would sure like it if you could be here on Sunday to bless me as I go off on the next part of my spiritual journey. Thank you.
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"I Knew It a Minute Ago"
a talk by Rev. Shawn Moninger
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Hey Everybody,
"What Makes the Impossible Possible?”
What does make the impossible possible? A change of thought is what makes the impossible possible. If I play a video game and it seems as if I can’t get to a new level, I just have to remember, “they created higher levels so it has to be possible to win this one.” “Somebody else has done this so it must be possible for me.” “Other people have made lots of money, so I can as well.” “Other relationships have healed, so can mine.” “Other people have had instantaneous healings, I can too.”
There are so many circumstances where I thought I couldn’t do something and it turns out I can. I never thought I could sing, but I can and I do. It doesn’t mean I’m not frightened about it sometimes, but I still do it.
The thing for me that makes things impossible or possible is my say so. If I declare a thing impossible, then I’m not likely to try and find out. If I declare that it could and probably is possible, then I’m likely to prove that true.
I encourage us all to declare the divine possibility in all that we want to do.
Grateful For Experimenting,
Rev. Shawn
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"The Power of Life - Living Fully"
A talk by Thresa Crisci
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Hey Everybody,
"What Makes the Impossible Possible?”
What does make the impossible possible? A change of thought is what makes the impossible possible. If I play a video game and it seems as if I can’t get to a new level, I just have to remember, “they created higher levels so it has to be possible to win this one.” “Somebody else has done this so it must be possible for me.” “Other people have made lots of money, so I can as well.” “Other relationships have healed, so can mine.” “Other people have had instantaneous healings, I can too.”
There are so many circumstances where I thought I couldn’t do something and it turns out I can. I never thought I could sing, but I can and I do. It doesn’t mean I’m not frightened about it sometimes, but I still do it.
The thing for me that makes things impossible or possible is my say so. If I declare a thing impossible, then I’m not likely to try and find out. If I declare that it could and probably is possible, then I’m likely to prove that true.
I encourage us all to declare the divine possibility in all that we want to do.
Grateful For Experimenting,
Rev. Shawn
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"What's That To You?"
a talk by Rev. Shawn Moninger
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Hey Everybody, “Practice Love”
There is so much happening here on planet earth and it’s disturbing and it affects all of us. No one is untouched by violence, harsh words, unkindness, murder, suicide, and dismissal.
On the other hand, no one is untouched by love, kindness, inclusion and the realization of Oneness.
We can either focus on the first paragraph or we can focus on the second. Today, I’m going to focus on the second, because the practice of Love will diminish the first one to not happening again. Love, properly used, really does conquer all.
There isn’t an opposite to Love because anything contrary to Love is temporary. All of this violence and inhumanity is going to fall away as we practice Love in our thinking and in our word as well as our actions. Unfortunately, everything unlike Love may raise its hideous head first.
Keep practicing Love. Practice it in your thoughts, your words and your actions. Make the practice of Love a priority in your home, your work and in your play. Make it a priority in your relationships and on the streets you walk and drive upon. Treat all beings (including yourself) in Love. Do it now. Do it always.
Love,
Rev. Shawn
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"It's Not About Release; It's About Accepting God"
a talk by Rev. Shawn Moninger
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Hey Everybody,
“Practice Love”
There is so much happening here on planet earth and it’s disturbing and it affects all of us. No one is untouched by violence, harsh words, unkindness, murder, suicide, and dismissal.
On the other hand, no one is untouched by love, kindness, inclusion and the realization of Oneness.
We can either focus on the first paragraph or we can focus on the second. Today, I’m going to focus on the second, because the practice of Love will diminish the first one to not happening again. Love, properly used, really does conquer all.
There isn’t an opposite to Love because anything contrary to Love is temporary. All of this violence and inhumanity is going to fall away as we practice Love in our thinking and in our word as well as our actions. Unfortunately, everything unlike Love may raise its hideous head first.
Keep practicing Love. Practice it in your thoughts, your words and your actions. Make the practice of Love a priority in your home, your work and in your play. Make it a priority in your relationships and on the streets you walk and drive upon. Treat all beings (including yourself) in Love. Do it now. Do it always.
Love,
Rev. Shawn
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"Whatever You Do, Do It For The Glory Of God"
a talk by Rev. Shawn Moninger
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Hey Everybody,
"Pray, Knowing What You Want and Let Go of What You Don’t Want”
A question I often ask is, “Do you spend more time praying each day or worrying? The answer could be that you pray more. The thing is, our worry is our prayer. If we are too focused on our worries, we are likely to manifest even more of them.
What do you want and what do you think it will give you? Become willing to experience that before you even go into prayer. Once you are in prayer, don’t bother to ask for what you want. Use your prayer time to connect with the Source of all experience and manifestation. Use your prayer time to KNOW your Source and your connection to It.
Do not take into prayer the stuff you don’t want. Don’t go into prayer asking God to get rid of stuff because you think it’s bad. Spend your prayer time getting to know God and what God is. Then get to know yourself and what you are.
What you want is immaterial to God. You KNOWING God is everything. Once that takes place, you’ll just want more of that. “Seek Ye first the Kingdom of God and the rest will be added.” Know what you want and then go about the business of prayer.
Here’s to the Kingdom of God,
Rev. Shawn
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"What Is Your Because"
a talk by Rev. Shawn Moninger
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Hey Everybody,
"We Don’t Get Rid of It, We Transform It”
What do you try to do with something you don’t like? Most of us try to get rid of it as if it is somehow “bad”. We would do much better to notice how we feel about something, but then go within and ask what to think about it. I frequently go within and I ask that Voice within me, “Tell me what to think of this. How can I see it or use it for Good?” I find when I do that, I have way fewer regrets. I stay calmer and the Good is always revealed to me. Good can come from everything. That doesn’t mean the situation or incident is “Good.” It means that Good can come from it if I am open and willing to see it.
That is the art of transformation. If we stay open to the revelations of Spirit, God, the Voice that loves us and cannot not love us, we will see in ways that we have not seen before and our whole being will be transformed from something we thought was useless to something that is quite valuable.
I have been through millions of experiences in my life (anybody else?) and the only regrets I have at this point are the ones where I’m not yet willing to experience full forgiveness. I keep praying on those things and I keep looking for the willingness. It seems rather silly to hold on to anything I’m not willing to know the grace of God in, but there are still some silly notions in my head. I have confidence that even these will pass as I keep expressing my willingness.
I encourage all of us to quit thinking we have to get rid of the “bad” and start asking for clarity on what’s really happening for Good.
In Great Relief,
Rev. Shawn
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"Release All That Is No Longer Serving You"
a talk by Theresa Crisci
Below is the weekly minister's message bty Rev. Shawn:
"The Difference Between Reality and Unreality”
Here is the metaphysical definition of Reality: That which is abiding, unchanging, eternal, the same yesterday, today and forever. The basic principles of mathematics and music are real, because they are not subject to change. A wrong application of their principles may produce discord, but the principles are not disturbed. There is but one harmonious Principle underlying all being and we call that unchanging Principle, God. All causes are in mind. Error thoughts produce the mental and physical inharmonies called disease. These effects are not enduring and eternal. Error can be erased from the mind and be made to disappear from the body.
Therefore, unreality is that which can be changed. Unreality has a lot of seeming power, but all of it is temporary and will quickly disappear when we take on the “real” thought. Unreality ought not be given much credence. Don’t look at it for too long or too intensely. You might begin to believe it and make it your habit thought.
Seek to think the thoughts you most want to be thinking. Never convince yourself that you have to be thinking unreal thoughts. Remind yourself of what is real. Reality will not change. You and I both know from experience that most of what we focus on changes frequently. I like to remind everyone, “God never changes even though my understanding of God does change…and changes frequently.”
Grateful For Reality and my willingness to keep looking at it,
Rev. Shawn
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"I Can Dream Can't I?"
a talk by Rev. Shawn Moninger.
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"Always Go Back to God in Your Thoughts" Hey Everybody,
"Always Go Back to God in Your Thoughts”
No matter how far astray we go in our thinking, we can always go back to conscious awareness of God with just one thought. Even a thought of the absence of God can eventually lead to a thought of the Presence of God.
It is essential that we keep our mind’s eye focused on God. Not religion, but G-O-D. All good can be accomplished when we remember our Source of all good.
So, when stuff happens and you start to tell yourself a story about it, interrupt it with a thought of God. “God is my help in every need.” “Love, Love, Love!” “God is my Source and my Supply.” “Oh God!” “The Christ in me is awake now.” Find a God statement that resonates with you.
Always, always, always turn your thoughts back to God. Self-sufficiency never lasted for anyone. Let’s all turn our thoughts to God together.
Glad to be in this with you,
Rev. Shawn
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"Expect Great Things"
a talk by Rev. Shawn Moninger
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"Easy Is Based On Perception" Hey Everybody,
A couple of weeks ago I fell down in my basement…and I hurt myself pretty good. I still have bruises and torn muscles and a great deal of pain at times. I called this letter, “What to do when you fall.” Here’s the thing, do what you do when you don’t fall; give thanks and pray (and therapy can be good as well). I’m rediscovering how hard it can be to refrain from begging God for a healing as if God can’t see or hear unless I beg. It’s not about the healing. The healing is inevitable. Maintaining my conscious connection to the Source of healing while having pain is the challenge. However, my experience has been that each time I remember my connection to my Source, my suffering is eased. (If not my pain.)
Maintaining my conscious connection is what saves me spiritually and mentally even when I have to scream. My main affirmation to bring me back to awareness is, “The Christ in me is awake now.” Sometimes I say it over and over. Other times I declare, “Only Love lives in me.” Or I shorten it to “Love, Love, Love” .
Find your spiritual “something to do” while you are getting through a traumatic experience. Find what comforts your mind so that you can even think of God and the amazing healing that can take place when one is focused on the Source of health and well being Itself. Get the help you need from others as well so that you don’t have to feel like you are alone.
We can fall physically and we can fall mentally. Be sure and call upon God, Spirit, Principle, Law etc. so that you keep remembering the Good that is possible and the transformation that can come out of going all the way through an experience.
In Christ Awareness,
Rev. Shawn