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Peace Notes

News, Experiences and Coming Events

June 2008

 

Tony's Musings

 

Reverend Tony Roebuck 

Meditation and Prayer 

 

The Featured Reading this month from Eric Butterworth illustrates one of the principle Ideas in Unity concerning prayer.   We have often been taught to pray to a Being out there to get this Mighty Being to change the world and circumstances to suite our desires and needs.  But in Unity we teach that prayer is really aligning our thoughts and feelings with the presence of God in us and allowing that presence to work through us to manifest the good that God is from the essence of our being as the very good that we desire.  God doesn't answer prayer by making everything and everyone different.  God doesn't really answer prayer by making us different for that matter.  It is in focusing our thoughts to vibrate in harmony with the good that already exist for us in our essence that allows us to then see that good (God) in our experiences.  In a very real sense, prayer is removing the blinders from our own heart to be able to see the presence of God in us and manifesting in the world through the form or experience that can most meet our hearts desire and needs in that moment.  That which ultimately meets our hearts desires and needs is the very experience we most want-- to be our true essence.  In Unity we call this the Christ within. Christ is that consciousness within us from which the Divine expresses itself.  It expresses itself in ever richer ways as we allow the beliefs, thoughts and emotions of the past to dissolve and experience our Self here and now as our wholeness.  We come more in alignment with this Christ essence through meditation or "Sitting in the Silence".   Meditation allows us to release our identification with outer form to experience our Christ essence.   Prayer allows us to align our thoughts, emotions and beliefs to be in harmony with that Christ essence.  From this we become instruments of that Christ light shining in our world.  This is meditation and prayer in it's highest form. Meditation and prayer are 2 sides of the same coin of an awakening consciousness.

 

Blessings 

 

Tony

 

 Featured Reading
"The Cosmic Counterpart"
 from The Universe is Calling by Eric Butterworth
 
 
Jesus clearly said, "Your Father knows what you need before you ask him" (Matt. 6:8). The implication is, "Why ask?" This leads to one of the most challenging points in the entire prayer process: Don't ask . . . claim your good. Affirm the truth. God, the whole of God-mind, is ever present. God is always centered in you. You need to become centered in God.
Now the question might be asked, and it should be, "If prayer is a science, then why isn't my prayer always answered?" This is like asking, "If there is a principle of electrical energy, why doesn't the light come on every time I throw the switch?" But what if the bulb is burned out?  Or there is a break in the circuit? Or the appliance is unplugged? We are told, "Before they call I will answer."' In an orderly universe, the need and its answer are always one. We live and move and have our being in infinite mind, a veritable "mind field." In the transcendence of mind, the answer to any need is present and follows as does four from two plus two.
This is what I call "your cosmic counterpart." It is very much like a mystical shadow. There is a whole of you that is present in the energy field that you are, even in a partial expres­sion of you. There is an allness even within illness, an all-sufficiency in any seeming insufficiency.

 

Special Guest Speaker

June 15th

 

Rev. Ann Holmes Redding

 

We are honored to welcome Rev. Ann Holmes Redding who is an Episcopalian Priest and is both a Christian and a Muslim.  We are excited to have her share her spiritual path with us as she lives out what it means to be Interfaith.  Read this article on her in the Seattle Times-

"I am both Muslim and Christian" 

 

Musicians for June 

 

6/1 Ancient Sounds

6/8 Stephan Plummer

 &Jeanette Alexander

6/15 Lexington Ave

6/22 James Howard

6/29 Doug Beneke

 

Women's Retreat
"Exploring the Path of Sacred Receptivity"
- An In Depth Contemplation, Celebration and Experience of Willingness Practice - The Activity of Presence which Expands our Awareness of the Heart, Connects us directly with the Divine and Opens us to Sacred Surprise!

with Holly Michelle Eckert from Radiant Relations

and musical guest  Ava Sakowski

& The Fabulous Women of Unity of Woodinville

Friday, July 25 - Sunday, July 27th
Begins with an evening meal on the 25th prior to the official opening at 7:00 PM and ends after our Sunday Service at 11:00
$200.00 includes five meals, two nights lodging, motel-style, (shared room & bath), the beautiful pastoral grounds of Camp Brotherhood near Mt. Vernon, walking trails, arts, crafts, yoga, meditation, prayer, music and a program of inspiration and celebration for your
mind, body and spirit!
Camp Brotherhood Website

 

Click for a Brochure and registration information

 

Financial Report for April 08

 

Total Income  $6,595.65
Total Expense  $6,858.94
Net Ordinary Income  $    (263.29)

 

TOTAL ASSETS  $24,391.07 
 

We continue to prosper financially.  We thank you all for your continued tithes, offerings and support of your spiritual community.   If you would like to see more detailed financial statements you can pick these up on the greeters table on Sunday Morning.

 

 

 

June Service Project

 

Mathew House

is a non=profit organization dedicated to assisting families of those incarcerated in Washington's prisons, with a clothing closet, food pantry, shelter in its 3 apartments, transportation, child care and counseling.

Ways to help:
Children snacks, soups, canned food, juices, milk, cleaning supplies, good quality woman or children's clothing, diapers, baby food,, twin blankets, sheets, pillows and pillow cases, towels, etc.
Also cars, RV's, Vans are accepted.

Volunteers are encouraged and handyman skills are especially requested to help in upkeep of the 3 apartments.

Mathew House Website

New Class

 

Meditation and Prayer

Lead by Rev Tony Roebuck

Beginning Sunday June 22nd through Aug 3rd

1:30 to 3:00 PM 

This is a 6 week class but we will skip the July 4th weekend.

In this class we will not only learn and discuss different ways to meditate and pray but will practice and experience them first hand in each class. This class meets a requirement for Center Membership.

 

Other Classes and Events

 

A New Earth Class-Eckhart Tolle-Chapter 6, "Breaking Free"

Saturday June 7th

9:30 AM-This is a potluck brunch and class lead by Tony Roebuck and will be held at the home of Alan & Lois Caswell

 

View "An Evening with Eckhart Tolle" at Unity Village on Unity FM

 

Meditation

Ongoing Wednesdays at 6:00 to 6:30 PM

This will be a half hour weekly guided meditation lead by Rev Tony Roebuck based on varying meditation techniques and practices.  We will be starting off working with the The Star/Cross Meditation by Ira Progroff.  This if you are new to meditation this is a great place to start and if you are experienced in meditation this is an excellent opportunity join your consciousness and deepen in group meditation.

 

   

Spiritual Cinema

At Tony & Julie Roebuck's home.

May 31st, 7:00 PM

"The Laughing Club of India" and other featured shorts

This joyous documentary made by celebrated Indian director Mira Nair (The Namesake, Monsoon Wedding) introduces us to a new trend spreading across India: laughing clubs.  Knowing the positive health benefits of laughter, groups of people meet to laugh together each week.  Mair traces the roots of these clubs by following some members home, revealing challenging lives in much need of laughter as a form of medicine.  Now laughing clubs have spread throughout the world.

June 21st, 7:00 PM

 "What's Bugging Seth?" 

Quirky romantic comedy about a hearing impaired young man trying to navigate a career, love and friendship while also battling his own internal beliefs about failure and success. 

Directions

 

Unity Circle of Friends

Will meet on June 12 from 11:00 to 1:30 at the home of Julia Craig.  Prayer, meditation, fellowship, potluck lunch, Gratitude Practice and Practicing the Intuitive Heart.   Bring rhythm instruments if you like!

Directions
 

Course in Miracles

Ongoing Sundays at 9:30 AM

This class will be meeting on Sunday mornings at the church's Cottage Lake location.  Bob Hiester will be facilitating.  Please contact him for further information. 

 

"The only thing we are ever dealing with is a thought, and at thought can be changed." Louise Hay-You can Heal your Life