Learning As We Go - Growing in Unity Group

If there’s one thing I hope that we can encourage each other to remember at all times it is that we are enough and then some.

This license plate miraculously pulled up in front of me as I was talking to myself about whether I should give my daughters the “you are enough speech”. As a parent, I feel like my number one job is to help my daughters remember who they are. There are so many messages that tell them that they are not enough. However, they are not always interested in hearing my little speeches. So, I was going to keep it to myself until I saw the license plate. It showed up the second after I had a thought while I was driving them to school. So I pointed out the license plate and said, “ See that girls? That’s the Universe telling you what I always…

Let me start by thanking everyone who looks at and engages these posts. My hope is that over time, folks will feel encouraged to share your thoughts, reflections, and questions and use this space to build even deeper community here at CSC.

Part of why I felt led to start this group is based on a Buckminster Fuller quote that I use all of the time and have probably already used here. But it always bears repeating.

This quote has almost served as a mantra for me over the past few years. Over the decades, I have had the gift of experiencing what doesn't work. Like the apocryphal Thomas Edison quote about learning 10,000 ways not to make a light bulb, I have learned many ways how not…

Words are very interesting. When we speak and we listen, we often assume that people use words the same way we do. That is rarely true. Even within the same family, there is a diversity of lexicons. My kids use slang in ways that take me to the internet to figure out what they are talking about. And I imagine it must have been even more difficult for parents in previous generations who didn't have access to the world's knowledge (both useful and seemingly useless 😜). Mindful of this, I think it is an important part of our relational and spiritual practices to seek clarity in our communications when we can, always beginning with positive assumptions.

For example, in my previous post, I mentioned that someone described Unity as an "Interfaith 'Synchronistic' Church". Well, it turned out that he said an "Interfaith 'Syncretistic' Church". Now, I still didn't know what…

Welcome again to everyone who has joined this group. My hope is that you will feel comfortable to engage and will invite others to join us as well.

One of the questions that is at the forefront of my consciousness right now is how I would describe Unity to people who have never heard of it or who have less informed ideas about it.

If you Google "Unity Church", the new AI function describes the Unity Church this way, "It is a non-denominational organization that focuses on spiritual growth and a practical way of life, believing in universal truths found in all religions."

If you go to the Unity.org website and go to the About Us page, right at the top it say, "We are a global, inclusive, spiritual community, and we offer practical tools and uplifting resources to help people of all faiths apply positive spiritual principles in their daily…