Wednesday, April 4, 2012


Meister Eckhart, a Christian metaphysician said:
"If you do nothing, truly nothing, God cannot help but come into you. If you leave, God can enter."
We call ourselves in Unity the path of positive practical Christianity, practical spirituality. How then does the above quote by the Meister make any practical sense?
When I was a young mother with two small children, I used to read the latest child care theories. I also drew on the experience of my childhood, doing what I considered to be good parenting and promising I would not do what I thought unskillful.
One day when my son was grown, he gave me a Mother's Day card which read "I know you wished you had found Unity when we were young, but I want you to know I could not love you more."
What I've come to realize is when we put down the theories, leave the past, dismantle our structures of how things should look, we leave the ego, the sense of a personal "me" and what we discover is God/Love rushes in and moves us to care, nurture, and love.
Happy Easter,
Rev Janice