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Contemplation for the Week:
Today I receive because I ask with understanding.
July 1, 2018
10:30 a.m. Sunday Celebration Service
"Bondage or Liberty-Which?"
Music by Kenneth Gartman
Soloist: Brian Dorais
Ray Sassano on Guitar
and Joyful Noise
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"What Does Asking Mean?"
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Rev. Shawn Moninger |
Hello Unity Friends and Family,
It's hard to understand that we are to "ask" in prayer and then be told not to ask for anything because we already have everything. What do these strange spiritual instructions mean and do they oppose each other?
It's all about attitude and the thoughts we are holding when we do anything. If we go into prayer with the thought of lack, we are likely to be affirming lack even though our words are trying get something.
If we are "asking" while hoping that some benevolent Being will give us something, we probably are not giving ourselves great opportunities for manifestation.
To "ask" is a subtle command. It is done with the expectation of manifestation. The example I like is, when we ask for our paycheck, we are expecting. We aren't hoping our employers decided to pay us. We did the work and we expect to be paid.
When I "ask" for something in prayer, I am actually asking myself to awaken to receive it. If I am asking in, in prayer, for someone to give me something and the "someone" has options as to whether or not give it to me, then I am barking up the wrong tree in my asking.
It is foolish to ask without the expectation of receiving. If I ask another person to give me something, it is because I expect them to give it to me. If they say "no", it means they aren't the one to give it to me. It doesn't mean I can't have it; it just means they aren't the one to give it to me.
Whatever it is that I want, provided it is for the good of all, is available provided I have the consciousness to receive it.
So use your prayer time to become God-centered and then ask yourself to become open to receiving.
Nice,
Rev. Shawn
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In Our Community
Kiss Me Kate
with Kenneth Gartman
June 28 - July 29
Box Office 203.966.4634
Waveny Park,
New Canaan, CT
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Desperate Measures
with David Friedman
CONGRATULATIONS to David Friedman!!!
WINNER of the
2018 Drama Desk Award
f
or Outstanding Music.
WINNER of the
2018 Outer Critic's Circle Award
for Best Musical.
WINNER of the
2018 Theater Alliance Award
for
Best Musical.
When the dangerously handsome Johnny Blood's life is on
the line, he must put his fate into the hands of a colorful cast
of characters including a mysterious sheriff, an eccentric priest,
a sleazy governor, a saloon girl gone good, and a nun out of
the habit. Together, they face uncharted territory as laws are broken and hearts are won. Before the sun sets, will they be
able to rise up and pull off the greatest act yet, or will Johnny
be left hanging?
340 W. 50th Street
New York, NY
Unity Center Theater Outing!
July 21st - 2 pm
and dinner afterward
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