My heart has been hurting this week watching events unfold in Minnesota. What’s come up is a continued realization that “news” is sensationalized from a particular set of values, and not simply from a disinterested effort at truth.
What really happened? I don’t know. I wasn’t there. What I do know is that I want to participate in the healing of the society and culture I live in. I want to live in a community where trust and respect abound.
Unity teaches us to be vigilant of our own thinking and feeling. With the attention we place on our words and ideas, we re-wire our brains and reinforce tendencies, emotions, and patterns of behavior. Choosing words and ideas of blessing, rather than condemning, is a positive way to create well-being in a turbulent time. Condemning narrows our ability to learn from a situation, and re-cables neurons to manifest more of what we don’t want.
Unity of Wilmington invites you into prayer. Praise the good you do perceive. Praise a collective desire to co-create safer communities.
Bless our potential for healing. Bless our capacity to see each other’s wholeness. Will you pray these blessings with us?
If you wish to reach out:
Rev. Nickie Golden
Rev. Mindy Tucker