Unity Village - Light of the World

So I am at Unity Village now and today has just been a fabulous day.

It started with my beautiful flights.  One into Atlanta and then to Kansas City.  I read most of the time on the first flight.  Truly, it was a beautiful experience.  I was reading "Jesus Christ Heals" and it is a great great book.  When we took off from Ft. Lauderdale, I looked out the window and cried.  Such beauty on this earth.  To think that we have co-created such a wonderful place.  I should concrentrate more on that then how "awful" it can be.  Just remember that it is a wonderful place and naturally I will be aligned with its beauty and do things only to enhance it rather than diminish it.  I am glad I took the step of being a vegetarian.

My next flight was supposed to be lots of reading also but I sat on the plane next to a wonderful guy.  He was cute, intelligent, funny and very open.  He was also gushing over his son and his wife.  It was nice to talk to him for those two and a half hours.  I felt I had met a friend from another part of the spectrum from what I normally meet as to lifestyle.  We exchanged numbers.  He was flying from Atlanta where he was in a conference to Kansas City for another conference.  He lives in Hamilton, Ontario Canada.  We talked about the possibility of getting dinner one of these nights.  Who knows?  I hope so but if anything, I would like to keep in touch with him through email.

Then we got to Unity Village.  I am sharing this experience with my friend Sonia.  It is great to have her here with me to discuss our love of Unity and the energy we receive from it (and give back).  Truly this is a beautiful campus with lots of loving, wonderful, vibrant energy.  The people are great also.  Actually when I got to Kansas City and we were on our way to the village, I cried again.  I was just in the love that was Unity and being at its birthplace.  Then I cried a little at Unity Village.  Haha.  All tears of joy though.

We walked around and went to the bookstore and bought some things here and there.  We realized we did not have our cameras - we forgot them in Florida!  We asked the bookstore if they had any and they did not.  The wonderful lady working there, Kathleen, told us she was off at 7 and she would take us into town to get some if we wanted. What a beautiful woman!  She also said that after hearing me talk, she knew I would be a good minister and spread the Unity movement.  She never even asked me if it was my intention to be a minister!!!

Then we had dinner and met some great people.  There is a couple from San Fran, a guy from New York (ex dancer - cute smile), someone from South Florida, a few from other parts.  I got to talk to a lot of them - the ex dancer, Ken and Sonia, made reference to me being a social butterfly.  Really it is just because I am in joy of being in the presence of people who have made a conscious decision to say YES to God. 

They had a service tonight.  Really pretty.  The music was great.  Three ladies sang (someone called them our own Dixie Chicks).  Then a ministerial school student gave a small talk.  I approached everyone to thank them for it.  I told one of the singers that I felt like I knew them for a long time, that they all seemed so open.  She said she felt the same thing from me as soon as she saw me.  Beautiful!

Funny, I could go on and on but I wont.  Just interesting to mention though that most people I have met somehow or another know of Unity on the Bay.  I mean to tell you how funny the connections are...as we were walking back to the Unity Cottages I saw a woman walking by herself so I introduced myself and we began talking about Unity.  I asked her where she was from and she said New Hampshire.  I mentioned I was from Unity ont he Bay.  She said she had heard of it from someone...before she could finish I asked if it was Jim Labrie (he is a congregant at UOTB I had the pleasure of meeting and I know he goes lives someo of the time in NH).  Anyway, it was him.  She actually learned of UOTB from Jim's secretary up there.  What a small world.

Anyway, Sonia is falling asleep (its only 8:48 PM - not sure why she is so tired..im wired) and there are still a lot of books I need to read for classes tomorrow.

Thank you all for reading this.  I know with every word you read, you are sending me love and I return it to you joyfully.