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FIRST UNITY CHURCH – Serving the spiritual needs of the St. Louis community for over ninety years.

The Newsletter ofFirst Unity Church

Of Saint Louis

July 2015

v Inspiration

v Information

v Illumination

Inside this issue:

News and events

Truth Thoughts

Quotable Quotes

Calendar

Humor

God Is the AnswerDana Gatlin

Law of Mind Action

By Richard and Mary Alice Jafolla

When the British tennis star Gem Gilbert wasa little girl, she watched in horror as hermother died of shock in the dentist chairduring a tooth extraction. The experience hadsuch a profoundly negative impact on herthat for the next thirty years she refused to goto a dentist. Finally, she was suffering from atoothache of such severity that she agreed tohave a dentist come to her home to see if hecould help her. Hearrived to find hersurrounded by herfamily, her friends, herpersonal physician, andeven her minister. Uponexamining the tooth, thedentist informed Gemthat he would have to extract it. But before hecould even begin, she died!

After a lengthy obituary detailing her life andathletic accomplishments, the article in theLondon Daily Mail concluded that she waskilled by thirty years of thought!

Think about This!

Apple seeds can only grow apple trees. Dogscan only produce puppies. Continually givebuilders the same blueprint and they willcontinually build the same house. Regardlessof location, time of year, or builder, ablueprint for a white stucco house with awhite picket fence will yield a white stucco

house with a white picket fence. How can itnot? “But I wanted a red brick house withouta fence.” Well, then create a differentblueprint.

It's been estimated that we have 60,000separate thoughts each day. That's about fiftythoughts each minute! How astounding. Itshows that we have an incredible ability to

process ideas. Yet what's even moreastounding is the fact that about99 percent of today's thoughtsare the same as yesterday's! Nowonder it is so difficult for us tochange our lives.

How can our lives be anythingdifferent than our thoughts? God's desire

for us is absolute good. It is our minds thatdecide what part of God's good will becomespart of our lives. You can see that the choicehas to be ours, otherwise the concept of freewill is a hoax.

If what happens in our lives is the result ofanything other than our thinking, then it isnot we who decide our fates. It would bebelieving that God gives us free will but thencapriciously takes it back by interfering inour choices.

--Continued on Page Six

Rev. Randy SchmeligMinister

ASSISTANT MINISTERJan Mourning, LUT

LICENSED UNITY TEACHERSDeb FrySharon Lindsey

BOARD OF TRUSTEESPaul Henley, PresidentMarilyn Milonas, VicePresidentChuck Seger, TreasurerRoy Vaisvil, SecretaryCarol EllermanSandy EtheridgeDenise Halbert-RaggioMark WhittingtonLinda Harr

PRAYER CHAPLAINSTom BullockSandy EtheridgeLinda HarrAnne HartupeeJudie HenleyPaul HenleyJan MourningElise ReidMary Tumminello

BOOKSTORE MANAGERJane Vondruska

OFFICE MANAGERSara DeWitt

MUSICAnne Hartupee, Piano/OrganDean Wiegert, Soloist

YOUTH MINISTRY TEAMDenise Halbert Reggio,DirectorGlenda GebhardtCindy Gibbs

WINGS NEWSLETTERFaye Schmelig, EditorEmail: fayeschmelig@att.net

OFFICE HOURSMon. – Thu. 9am – 3pmChurch phone: 314-845-8540Minister’s home: 314-892-3017Fax: 314-845-0022www.firstunitychurchstlouis.org/Silent Unity: 1-800-669-7729

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Page 2Evening of Q & A withRev. Randy

Every Sunday people come up to Rev.Randy with questions about his lesson, theBible, and Unity. On Thursday evening, July23, at 7:00, Rev. Randy will try to answerany questions you may have on thesesubjects. Please submit your questions inwriting to be drawn at random. If we don’tget to all of them, we will have anothersession the following Thursday.

This month the Ladies’ Night OutGroup will be at Billy G's, 131 Argonne inKirkwood on July 20th at 5:30. For moreinformation call Mary Tumminello – Home:314-843-1807 Cell: 314-814-4530.

For those who prefer not todrive at night we are having aLadies Lunch Out on July 31st

at 11:30 at Roberto’s - 145Concord Plaza shopping center. Call JudieHenley at 314-487-3938 so she can make areservation.

July 14: Orphan Train by ChristinaBaker KlineAugust 11: Boston Girl by AnitaDiamant

September 8: Far from the Madding Crowdby Thomas Hardy (Note this change.)October 13: To Kill a mocking Bird byHarper Lee(Anyone who wants to attend the meetings arewelcome, male or female, whether they haveread the book or not.)

Laughter Yoga with JodiSimple stretching, breathing andguided meditation! Join in for apositive spiritual experience onThursdays, 4:00 - 5:00 PM, inFellowship Hall.

Feed my peopleDonations are often down

for all food pantries during thesummer months, and with

children home from school,there are more mouths to feed, so your giftsof food are especially appreciated at this timeof year. There is a table for donationsprovided in the bookstore.

www.feed-my-people.orgOur bell choir is looking for two newmembers. If you or someone you know loves

music and knows how to read music,let them know about our bell choirauditions coming up on Saturday, August1st. Auditions will be held from 9:30am -11:30am. Any musician, high school age andolder, can try out. Rehearsals during theyear are on Saturday mornings at 10:30amfrom mid-August through May.

Mark your calendars for July16th! Back by populardemand: Ukulele Concertand Spaghetti dinner!Tickets are available in the

church office: $12.50, adults/$6.00, children.Doors open at 5:00, dinner at 5:30, concertbegins at 7:00.

Our Youth Educationdepartment is growing.We sure could use extrahands and hugs. If youcould help just one Sunday a month, it wouldmake a big difference for our church and ourchildren.

Our Lending Library,near the elevator, continuesto grow. Stop by and checkout an inspirational title fromamong a wide selection of books written bysome of Unity's greatest authors and teachers.

There are also many other favorites foryou to enjoy, written by other New Thoughtand spiritual thinkers.

July Affirmations

Inner Peace: I navigate lifewith ease and grace.Guidance: I trust my inner

wisdom.Healing: I am renewed by the healing powerof prayer.Prosperity: God is my source for all I needand desire.World Peace: I see peace in every heart andin every situation.

A Prayer for July4th

Almighty andever-living God, wehumbly praise youfor the nation inwhich you have

allowed us to live. We cherish itswonder and its beauty. We arethankful for its fruitful lands, itsbountiful waters, its great resourcesand its unlimited opportunities.

We thank you for our foundingfathers and mothers, and for theirforesight, special wisdom, andsteadfast courage in establishingfreedom and a lasting document offairness.

Stir up within each of us the willto be good stewards of all theblessings of the land we love. Amen.

Communing with GodAfter Apollo 11 landed on the

moon on July 20, 1969, pilot BuzzAldrin requested via radio thatpeople pause to give thanks for theachievement in their own way. Whenhis broadcast ended, Aldrin read averse from the Gospel of John andtook communion, which his churchhad sent to space with him.

“It was interesting for me tothink: the very first liquid everpoured on the moon, and the veryfirst food eaten there, were thecommunion elements,” the astronautsaid. “At the time, I could think of nobetter way to acknowledge theenormity of the Apollo 11 experiencethan by giving thanks to God.”

Mighty to SaveDr. Kent Brantly, a U.S. medical

missionary who contracted the Ebolavirus last summer in Liberia, creditsa “mighty God” — and lots ofprayers — for his survival. Afterrecovering from the disease, Brantlyreturned to the North Carolinaheadquarters of Samaritan’s Purse,the group he’d been working with inAfrica.

He spoke about Deuteronomy 6,saying it’s important to remindothers of God’s acts. “I will never

grow tired of talking of this,” Brantlysaid. “I’m going to keep telling mystory so I can remember what Godhas done in my life.”

Then Brantly offered thischallenge: “Never think you’re just anormal person. If you’re pursuingGod’s calling in your life, he will useyou. Even if it’s a challengingcalling, even if you find yourself indifficult circumstances, he will giveyou what you need to be faithful tohim, even if it’s a whole army ofpeople praying for you. Share yourstory over and over and over so youcan remember we serve a mightyGod.”

Share your TalentsA talent is worth only what you

do with it. Imagine your talent as aplain bar of iron that’s worth about$5.00. That same bar of iron, whenmade into horseshoes would beworth more than $10. If made intoneedles, it would be worth around$3,500. And if turned into balancesprings for watches, its worth wouldbecome over $250,000!

What is your talent, and how areyou using it?

Stillness Can Heal“Be still, and

know that I am God!”(Psalm 46:10,NRSV). People whoseek silence and areopen to God’s presence testify thatsuch stillness and seeking can bringhealing. Tension is relieved, stressbegins to dissipate, one’s innerperson feels refreshed and thenearness of God becomes a reality.In the depth of stillness, God’s poweris present and restoring us towholeness.

The Bible“Our Christian experience mustagree with the Bible. We will betaught by the Bible and fed by theBible. But we do not believe inChrist because He is in the Bible: Webelieve in the Bible because Christ isin us.” —Claxton Monro

“Quotable Quotes”

The Declaration of Independence …gave liberty not alone to the peopleof this country, but hope to all theworld, for all future time.

—Abraham Lincoln

Freedom fails when people decidethat it is their right to take and not togive.

—Stanley Maxwell

Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Mostof us have gears we never use.

—Charles M. Schulz

A commitment to love and justicedemands the transformation of socialstructures as well as of hearts.

—Mary E. Hunt

Summer afternoon — summerafternoon; to me those have alwaysbeen the two most beautiful words inthe English language.

—Henry James

Don’t pray when you feel like it.Have an appointment with the Lordand keep it.”

—Corrie ten Boom

People do not decide to becomeextraordinary. They decide toaccomplish extraordinarythings.

—Sir Edmund Hillary

Faith is believing what you do notsee; the reward of faith is to see whatyou believe.

—St. Augustine

Opportunity may knock once, buttemptation leans on the bell.

—Unknown

The God, who gave us life, gave usliberty at the same moment.

—Thomas Jefferson

I have been driven to my knees manytimes because there is no place elseto go.

—Abraham Lincoln

God Is the AnswerBy Dana Gatlin

Chapter X

The Charmed Circle of God’sLove

The Light shineth for thee,The Light shineth on thee,The Light shineth through thee,And through thee to bless the world.

This little stanza carries a charm. Asyou think of God's presence andpower, your thought of that presenceand power travels out from you inever-widening circles. What place isthere where God is not? What canyour thought touch on anywhere, ofwhatever nature, that is stronger thanGod? In the charmed circle of God'slove there is nothing to hate, nothingto fear.

If there is any condition in yourlife that causes you dread or worry,that seems antagonistic, that seemsmore than you can cope with, thatarouses uneasiness, a sense offriction, or insurgent uprisings inyour mind, pause and remember.Remind yourself:

I walk in the charmed circle ofGod's love.

I live in the midst of His love.In my life and in my thoughts I

am a medium of God's strength andwisdom and harmony and power.

I go with the currents of God'smighty love: never against.

I glorify God by letting nothingbut Him have power over me.

We are helped as soon as weperceive that all our conflict is reallymental. Our most insistent and in-sidious enemies are our ownreactions to human situations. Godwants to give us His guidance, butour thoughts are too noisy, tooconfused, too beleaguered withdoubts, too anxious, or too selfishand stubborn to be able to hear Him.In effect God says one thing only,over and over: "Let there be love."But this command, even if we catch a

note of it, we often misinterpret andwillfully disobey.

God's will is good will toward us,and God's will is for us to love. Ourpersonal will often prompts us tofear, shrink from, resent, or combatcertain conditions, circumstances,people. We do not want to love them,or do not see how we can. We drawback into our inner quiverings,impotences, aversions, rebellions.We are mistrustful, fearful. Butthrough and under all circumstancesGod says one thing: "Let there belove."

God will help us if we sincerelyseek Him and let Him. He knows theway out of all human dilemmas. Heis the answer.

Sometimes in the turmoil of ourdisorders it seems difficult to findHim, to feel sure of Him, tounderstand how He works, and tounify ourselves with His great lovingpower.

After my first marvelous healingthrough prayer, I was often distressedby undesirable situations in myworld and by uncontrollable doubts,indecisions, and embroilments withinmyself. My understanding of God,His laws, and His ways hadincreased-or had it? Sometimes 1 feltmore inadequate, baffled, and tornthan when 1 had first turned to Him.

One day, utterly discouraged, Itried to realize the Father's infoldinglove and wisdom. But my mind andheart were too full of other things:disappointments, fears, grievances,failings of my own and of otherpersons. Suddenly it was as if some-one spoke to me: "Lift yourself up!"

I was startled and abashed. Howsorry and mean my inner self mustlook to the Father-my shrunken,flabby spirit, discolored by suchugly, bitter things! The voicecontinued: "Come to yourself! Bestrong! For I have not given you aspirit of fear, but of courage and oflove and a sound mind!"

I weakly alibied: "I try to realizethat, Father, but everything about mekeeps going criss-cross, and keepspulling me down."

"Are these things stronger than Iam?" the voice questioned.

"Sometimes I don't seem able tofeel Your presence, Father," Ianswered. "The discord around me istoo strong. I know that my worstenemy is the negative thoughtsstored in my own heart and mind, butwhen they rise against me I don'tknow how to deal with them."

"You don't have to deal withthem," He said. "Forget them;remember Me."

I was engrossed with a long list ofills and unanswered prayers that Iwished to bring to His attention. Butas I started formulating them Heinterposed, "Forget them! 'Be still,and know that I am God.' "

A dim sense of reassurance andpeace began stealing over me, as ifagainst my human will. Then myhuman self tried to resume itsquestionings: "But Father--"

"Don't resist! Don't youunderstand how you are resistingyour good?"

"But Father--""Don't argue! Trust Me. Trust!"

"How can I?" I pleaded. "Theseconditions are hard and difficult.These people---"

"Be still!" And then: "These uglythings you are so insistent about arefigments of the human mind. Why doyou let them sully, rend, and destroyyou? Forget them."

"But I can't, Father. I don't seemable-don't knowhow--"

"Peace!" commanded the Father."There is nothing but good. Let allcontentions be silenced. Let thesetorturing false images be dissolvedout of existence in your world. I willdissolve them, for I am the solution.The sole solution."

In the deep hush He spoke again:"There is nothing but My power-andMy power is love. Let! Let Me!"

As a sense of His meaning spreadinto my mortally sick and harriedsoul, I felt a wave of transcendentglory-peace. Yet the inadequate,craven part of me persisted: "While Iam here alone with You, Father, Ifeel strengthened and reassured. But

as soon as I go forth into the worldagain, into the difficult situations thatI dread--"

"You cannot go where I am not.Wherever you go, you can take withyou the remembrance of Me. WhereI am there is no dissension, noconflict, no disorder, no hate.Wherever you move, you move inthe circle of My love. You mustcarry this thought always with you. Itis your most imperative duty, yourgreatest blessing."

The flood of glory that pouredthrough me then was such as I hadnever experienced before. Guidance,wisdom, forgiveness, steadfastness,strength: not mine but the Lord's.Wherever I moved, I moved in thecharmed circle of God's love! A con-veyer of His blessing!

Thank God for the day when youdiscover there is no enemy, noconflict, excepting that which ragesin your own mind. Thank God for themoment when you realize that yourmost unruly thought can be broughtinto line. God can and will help yourule these inner tumults of confusionand strife. Your thoughts, reactions,and innermost feelings may seem torise up against your will, butconsider: Is this situation strongerthan the invisible but mighty tide ofomnipotent love? Your ownturbulent thoughts and instincts areembattled only because they aretrying to buck His mighty tide. Anymoment you can bring them into lineby bidding them to cease resistingand go along peacefully with thecurrent.

Spiritual mastery is the mostimportant battle you will ever win. Itis a difficult battle from the mortalsense. Only with God's help can youwin it. "Let Me!" says God. Godbrooks no conflict, and He wins bysilencing and dissolving everyrebellion and contention within yourown soul. It is only after this innervictory and in proportion as we aresteadfast that we can attain anabiding peace and poise within, asense of His love and wisdominfallibly controlling and directing

His entire creation.The Truth that Jesus taught is not

a philosophy of life, not a creed, buta way of living. Our consciousconnection with God is the importantthing. But our knowledge of God andof the Truth that Jesus proved is oflittle value to us unless it helps ussolve our daily problems. When wecatch a new glint of understanding,we must apply it and use it in everydepartment of our workaday world ifwe wish God to work through us andbless us.

The trouble is that we are allhumanly out to "get" something, ifonly what we term our "rights." Weare not willing to become a means ofexpression for the Father throughwhich His glorious all-providinggood may flow to bless us and ourworld. Every inner inharmony arisesfrom the fact that we are personallystriving to "get the best of" somesituation or some person. We arereally striving to exert our personalwill over the condition. Our self-concern, our self-importance, ouralmost unconquerable desire for self-justification cause more dissensionand stress than any other element inthe human make-up, leaping up andinsistently clamoring, “Me! Me!Me!” This is the human traitor withinourselves that bars us from yieldingto the will of the Father.

It requires faith and considerablepractice to change our mentalattitude. It helps me both in reducingmy instinct to "get" and my personalsense of effort or conflict to think ofmyself as a channel through whichGod's powerful essence of love andwisdom is continually passing. It isconveying itself through myreceptive mentality to be transmittedinto every department of my visibleworld. My realization of this makesit easier for me in the spirit of sin-cerity, conviction, and authority topronounce spontaneous, heartfeltblessings on adverse situations.

Try it. Bless your distressingcircumstance with a realization ofGod's presence and power. Blesswith thoughts of peace and joy the

persons who have affronted you.Bless the conditions that have fright-ened you. Bless the needs that youhave seemed unable to meet, thestrangers you pass on the .street.Bless even the drudgeries that youhave hitherto hated. You are achannel for God. Respect and honorHim by utilizing your full abilitywillingly and cheerfully. Feel aninterest in how well the smallest jobmay be done. This goes for theupkeep of your personal appearanceand your home too. You will besurprised at the improved resultsboth in yourself and in those aroundyou. You will feel better inside too.This is God's way of saying to you,"Well done, good and faithfulservant." It is God who gives theincrease, and as soon as you meritbetter circumstances, you may besure that God will see that you havethem.

God knows how; God istrustworthy. God always gives us theanswers if we put aside our limitedpersonal self and learn to go with theuniversal current. Once a very sickman was not expected to live throughthe night, and a Truth healer wassummoned. The healer entered thesickroom and sat silently at thebedside, immersing his whole con-sciousness in the loving Presence andPower. Presently the sick man stirredand looked up. "Why, it is easy!" hesaid. "Yes, it is easy," replied theother. "I hadn't expected it to be soeasy," said the sick man, droppingoff into peaceful sleep. When hewoke up, they knew that he was notgoing to die. "It is easy." Often inspasms of pain or fear these threewords have recalled me toremembrance and acted like atalisman. When we trustfully let Godtake charge, God does not fail.

I live in the love of God.Everywhere I go I carry God's lovewith me. There is no escaping it.Sustaining me, soothing me,protecting me--yes, even from myown willful, embroiled humanthoughts. Guiding me, strengtheningme, blessing me, and through me

blessing my whole world with Hislove and peace. I carry His realm ofpeace with me wherever my thoughtsmay travel. Wherever I go, whateverI do, I live, move, and have my beingin the charmed circle of God's love.

Here is an ancient French prayerthat expresses the creed of the onewho has found the Christ way of loveand loving service:

"Lord, make me an instrument ofThy peace. Where there is hate, mayI bring love; where offense, may Ibring pardon. May I bring union inplace of discord, Truth to replaceerror, faith where there is doubt,hope for despair, light where there isdarkness, joy to replace sadness.Make me not crave so much to beloved as to love. It is in giving thatone receives, in forgetting self thatone finds and wakens eternal life."

The inspiration of the Almightygiveth me understanding. "Not bymight, nor by power, but by mySpirit, saith Jehovah."

Love warms me with its spirit offorgiveness. My heart is warm withlove toward everybody and every-thing, and in divine order my mind,my life, my affairs, and my wholeworld are transformed.

I put my faith in His presence andpower. Father, I thank Thee thatThou hast broken through the re-sistance in my consciousness. In theboundless circle of Thy love Thyglorious will is done.

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Happily, that is not so. God workswith us to bring into our liveswhatever we desire and expect. InGod-Mind, there is perfect good forus. God is the Master Builder, but wehave provided the blueprint.

It may be difficult to accept the factthat thoughts have any power. Afterall, what is a thought but a fewmillionths of a watt of electricitygenerated in a computer made offlesh, undetectable by all but themost sensitive equipment. How cansomething so minuscule change ourlives which are so complex?

It may even be tempting to think thata thought is not a real thing, but thereis no doubt that it is. If it were not, athought of fear could not increaseadrenalin and cholesterol, dilate yourblood vessels, and create the manyother physical changes in your body.If a thought were not a real thing,then a thought of love could notstrengthen the immune system andinfuse the body with other beneficialchemicals. Yes, thoughts are things.Thoughts are energy.

Years ago Albert Einstein said thatenergy and matter are related andthat neither is created nor destroyed.Rather, he said, energy is changedinto matter and matter into energy.

Since thoughts are energy, ourthoughts must affect us. There is noway that they cannot, any more thanthe energy of a fire cannot affect apiece of coal. Our "thought" energyis transmuted into the "matter," thecircumstances, of our lives.

Do you still want your life tochange? Then you will have tochange the blueprint, because theuniverse is plastic to your thoughtsand desires. The entire universe iswaiting for you to tell it what to do.Your thoughts are the blueprint fromwhich it works.

A Student of Truth

I feel that we in Unity arefortunate that those who first had todecide what to call themselvesdecided to call themselves Unitystudents, rather than Unity-ists orsomething of that sort.

To tell people what you are, youhave to say, “I am a Unity student,”or even better, “I am a student ofTruth.” A student of Truth is what Ihope I will always be – and what youwill always be, whether or not youare a Unity student. For is thereanything that anyone in any religionwants more than Truth?

-James Dillet Freeman

Five Basic Ideas that Make Upthe Unity Belief System

1. God is absolute good, every-where present.

2. Human beings have a spark ofdivinity within them, the Christ spiritwithin. Their very essence is of God,and therefore they are also inherentlygood.

3. Human beings create theirexperiences by the activity of theirthinking. Everything in the manifestrealm has its beginning in thought.

4. Prayer is creative thinking thatheightens the connection with God-Mind and therefore brings forthwisdom, healing, prosperity, andeverything good.

5. Knowing and understandingthe laws of life, also called Truth, arenot enough. A person must also livethe truth that he or she knows.

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The light side –- A little holy humorWhy does the sun lighten our hair,but darken our skin?

Why can't women put on mascarawith their mouth closed?

Why is lemon juice made withartificial flavor, while dishwashingliquid is made with real lemons?

Why don't we ever see this headline:Psychic Wins Lottery?

Why is the man who invests all yourmoney called a 'Broker'?

Why isn't there mouse flavored catfood?• Who tastes dog food when it has a'new & improved' flavor?

Why didn't Noah swat those twomosquitoesWhy do they sterilize the needle forlethal injections?

Why are they called apartmentswhen they are all stuck together?

Why do they call the airport 'theterminal' if flying is so safe?

Why do we say something is out ofwhack? What is a whack, anyway?

Why are a wise man and wise guyopposites?Why do "overlook" and "oversee"mean opposite things?

Why isn't 11 pronounced onety one?

Why is a person who plays the pianocalled a pianist, but a person whodrives a racing car not called aracist?

Why do women wear evening gownsto nightclubs? Shouldn't they bewearing nightgowns?

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