I have just returned from Unity World Headquarters at Unity Village in Kansas City where I serve on the Board of Trustees.
I remember the first time I came to the Village over 30 years ago. It was about the same time of year and the skies were intensely blue, the air crisp like they were this week. I was there for a week of tests and interviews prior to being accepted for the ministerial education program.
I like to think that going to India in my early 20s was a watershed moment in my life, but becoming a minister in my mid-thirties and serving in ministry for close to 30 years was also a seismic shift and focused all my searching and exploring into a defined role.
I was in awe of Unity HQ when I first saw it. The beautiful Mediterranean style campus on 1,500 acres of rolling hills, woods, and lakes was the backdrop to the awesome work of the Silent Unity Prayer Ministry, the publishing and education programs, and the legacy of founders Charles and Myrtle Fillmore.
Little did I realize that one day I would be honored and blessed to be in a leadership role at Unity HQ myself, with a growing understanding and appreciation of all that Unity World Headquarters does, and all the opportunities unfolding for the future.
What I have come to realize is that life is a series of choice points, doorways to the new. These doorways often open up in apparently blank walls. What do I mean by that? I mean that we can often feel stuck in a place or situation unable to perceive anything beyond the conditions we are experiencing. Yet something impels us to say, Yes! even if it isn’t immediately apparent what we are saying yes to. It is a sense of willingness, of curiosity and exploration. All of a sudden there’s the door and we can walk through.
Openings like this, arising from daring to claim or imagine, led me to college, to India, to Unity, to ministerial school and to service at Unity Fort Worth.
What is necessary, once we have the courage to walk through the door, is to do the work that it takes to fulfill the dream, the opening. And I’ve noticed that I am always given the energy and capability to do that work.
Be encouraged. Your willingness to do a new thing will open up a doorway. It will impel you on and bring you blessings you could never have guessed were possible. We are on the threshold of great things. When we take one step toward the good we perceive, divine provision takes a hundred steps towards us.