Make Room for Grace
Sue Riley

Inspired by Sue Riley and Jana Stanfield's lyrics to “I Made Room for Grace.”

When I stumble, I won’t be defeated, since I make room for grace.

I stop resisting. I make room for grace.

I just step aside, open up a space, and make room for grace.

Now the blessings arrive every day, since I made room for grace.

Mama Drama
Leddy Hammock

“As a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you; and you will be comforted”(Isaiah 66:13, New International Version).

I can feel Your arms around me, holy grace of Mother Love. Bring me to birth, Mother Love, for I am Your child. Here in this holy place, I can feel the tender mercy of Mother Love. I can feel Your wondrous Spirit, Holy Mother, rocked in the cradle of Your Love.

“. . . His mother kept all these things in her heart” (Luke 2:51).

Hero of UR Story
Dieter Randolph

We walk in the radiance of the indwelling Christ, is the Superhero within each one of us.

The Superhero within is now raised up to meet every challenge.

No error thought, no adverse condition, can stand before the unlimited super powers of the indwelling Christ Spirit.

The Christ Spirit is mighty in the midst of me – my Superhero!

Connections - Leddy Hammock
As we live and work together, we are all divinely connected through spiritual qualities of harmony, friendship, and love.  Through the Christ Spirit, we are always in the sacred presence, connected at the heart.  Three in one – faith, hope, and love – bind us in universal unity.   They will know we are family by our love.

Earth Care
Dieter Randolph

“Dream of a day when . . . the Earth can be peaceful again . . . .

Each of us has the power to bring about changes . . .

What can we give the Earth that we haven't given in the past? – a way to live here on Earth – make it last and last and last.

Dream of a day when we can live in communion . . . without fear.

Awaken a way to get all of us working together and know that the time when the Earth can be peaceful is near

And know that our thoughts and our actions are honest and clear

And know that the people on Earth will be safe from all fear

Know that the time when the earth can be peaceful is here.”

From the lyrics to “Earth,” by David Roth
(April 22 is “Earth Day”)

Here & Now & Wow!
Leddy Hammock

Jesus did not teach us to wait for answers that might come “someday.” He taught us to pray, “Give us today our daily bread” (Mt.).

Right now and right here, God is our All-sufficiency. He taught that the Kingdom of Heaven is “at hand” (Mt. 4:17). and He promised the receptive soul, even from the cross, “Today you will be with me in Paradise’" (Lk.).

Right here and right now, we dwell in the presence of the goodness of God. When He told the parable about the man who gave a big feast and invited everyone, He said, “Come, everything is now ready'” (Lk.).

The time is now and the place is here for us to accept God’s invitation to abundance of all good to feed our soul. Remember His words: "I am with you always” (Mt.).

Right here, right now, Jesus Christ is as present as ever, as real as ever, as alive as ever! Wow!

Running on Empty?
Leddy Hammock

“The Prayer of Faith” (a Unity Classic) by Hannah More Kohaus:

“God is my help in every need; God does my every hunger feed; God walks beside me, guides my way Through every moment of the day.

I now am wise, I now am true, Patient and kind, and loving, too; All things I am, can do, and be, Through Christ the Truth, that is in me.

God is my health, I can't be sick; God is my strength, unfailing, quick; God is my all, I know no fear, Since God and Love and Truth are here.”

Running on Empty?
Leddy Hammock

“The Prayer of Faith” (a Unity Classic) by Hannah More Kohaus:

“God is my help in every need; God does my every hunger feed; God walks beside me, guides my way Through every moment of the day.

I now am wise, I now am true, Patient and kind, and loving, too; All things I am, can do, and be, Through Christ the Truth, that is in me.

God is my health, I can't be sick; God is my strength, unfailing, quick; God is my all, I know no fear, Since God and Love and Truth are here.”

Rise Up!
Leddy Hammock

“You are my light. You are my joy. You are my strength. I rise in You.

You are my hope. You are my love. You are my peace. I rise in You.

Let every heart be lifted higher. Let every soul now be inspired to rise in You!

You are the force that lifts the eagles' wings . . . . that makes my heart to sing . . . . that turns an acorn to a tree. You are the power working miracles in me!”

(Resurrection prayers inspired by lyrics written by Claudia Carawan)

“When the great crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, they took palm branches and went out to meet him, and cried out: ‘Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’ . . . . So the crowd that was with him when he called Lazarus from the tomb and raised him from death . . . went to meet him, because they heard that he had done this sign” (John 12:12-18).

Into Your hands, God, I commend my Spirit.
Hallelujah – a word of praise to my God!
Hallelujah – a word of thanks for my God!
Hallelujah – a moment of thanks for my God!
Hallelujah – this is a blessed day – a blessed day with my God!
“Let every breath I breathe be sacred. Let every word I speak be true. Let every song I sing be holy, and only bring me close to You”
(Inspired by Daniel Nahmod’s lyrics to “Hallelujah – A Word of Praise”).

Your Green Thumb
Leddy Hammock

On the morning of St. Patrick’s Day, here at Unity, we are all honorary Irish, and all invited to be blessed by the wearin’ of the green.

In our Scripture, we find so many references to the blessings of “green:” “The pastures of the plain are green” (Joel). “Like green leaves the just flourish” (Proverbs). “Blessed is the he who trusts in the LORD, whose hope is the LORD. He is like a tree planted beside the waters that stretches out its roots to the stream . . . . its leaves stay green” (Jeremiah). “In green pastures you let me graze; to safe waters you lead me” (Psalm 23:2).

King David’s last words were these, that somehow sound right spoken with a brogue: “The spirit of the LORD spoke through me; his word was on my tongue . . . . ‘He that rules . . . in justice . . . is like the morning light at sunrise on a cloudless morning, making the greensward sparkle after rain’” (II Samuel 23:2-4).

May the road rise up to meet you! “God blessed them, saying: ‘Be fertile and multiply . . . . See, I give you every seed-bearing plant all over the earth and every tree that has seed-bearing fruit on it . . . to be your food; and to all the . . . living creatures . . . I give all the green plants for food’" (Genesis).

You are divinely gifted with a green thumb for growing great ideas!