Unity Church of Christ

Beloved,

July and August are wonderful months to rest a little, recreate and take some time to reflect on where you are and where you are going. The days are warm and summer is truly in full swing. It is freeing to reduce schedules and requirements and follow your inner flow to your good. Your thoughts can rise above the mundane and you can understand how to have an even closer walk with God.

Going within is essential to getting a clearer handle on this months’ Power, Understanding. If you have not read The Twelve Power’s in awhile you might enjoy revisiting it this month. Charles Fillmore made the point in the book that intellectual understanding is good for the soul but that is not all that you are expected to do on your spiritual path. During the summer, following your spiritual path sounds like a natural progression probably because many are traveling and following inner guidance to places you have planned to go.

You are encouraged to see beyond your human orientation for what you know about your purpose here and to seek a deeper understanding of the principles which Fillmore strongly suggests brings the wisdom we wish to attain. This wisdom is clarified as you use that “knowing” which you may not remember how it got there. We all have had that experience when we knew what was right or what was the best way to proceed or even answered a question and did not know how we knew it. This is called using the “brain of the heart” and Fillmore stated that you need not know all the complex movements of the mind in order to get the message of the Lord. It is enough to know that your understanding is opened in both the head and heart when you give yourself wholly to the Lord.

This can happen in a flash as it did to Saul who was renamed Paul, Acts 9, or it can come gently and harmoniously. Let your heart clarify what your intellect is telling you. Use your own inner divine thoughts to guide you and you may find this summer to be a very creative one. Fillmore quoted Tennyson as saying “knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.”
And in doing so you can carry it a step further and let God’s will be your will as you go forth to do that which you understand in your head and heart is yours to do. Will, which is the power for August, is the executive function of the brain but it can be so misleading because a person can be willful, stubborn, or resistant in terms of achieving their own good. But when you let “Not my will but thine, be done” you are making a grand affirmation that can bring peace and relaxation.

Enjoy and have a great summer.

Rev. Bessie