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Markham</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08336565533124142690</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="26" height="32" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vMrCu3Qr-RM/SSrlLQiDYJI/AAAAAAAABBs/u67sGGJIVVo/S220/David+Markham+4005.jpg" /></author><generator version="7.00" uri="http://www.blogger.com">Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>688</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/UuAWayOfLife" /><feedburner:info uri="uuawayoflife" /><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/" /><feedburner:emailServiceId>UuAWayOfLife</feedburner:emailServiceId><feedburner:feedburnerHostname>http://feedburner.google.com</feedburner:feedburnerHostname><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DEQGQ3w8fyp7ImA9WhRWGE8.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8647562459433740241.post-7402150263752395086</id><published>2012-01-06T00:05:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-06T00:05:22.277-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-01-06T00:05:22.277-05:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Hafiz" /><title>And so I retired on 12/23/11 at age 66 after working since I was 14</title><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xahRaKeFKjo/TwaA7SdEu9I/AAAAAAAAFzY/NT_NRrZR-G8/s1600/Dali.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xahRaKeFKjo/TwaA7SdEu9I/AAAAAAAAFzY/NT_NRrZR-G8/s1600/Dali.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;The way sound and light travel, the way all&lt;br /&gt;
come from a source that has never moved,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
at the height of the action of longing or in the&lt;br /&gt;
perfect resistance to all the forces of morals...&lt;br /&gt;
everything can stop.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
That is where you want to be, where the clock's&lt;br /&gt;
tyranny has lost its influence.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
One always gets a big prize for that - for any&lt;br /&gt;
intelligent, overall functional, useful deductions.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The door prize is, heaven wraps itself in a box &lt;br /&gt;
and places itself at your feet.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Hafiz&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8647562459433740241-7402150263752395086?l=uuawayoflife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;NPR has a 5 minute story on a class started by Gil and Layli Miller-Muro, parents who are participants in the Bahai faith, to teach virtue to children of many faiths. They have children in the class who come from Bahai, Jewish, Muslim, and Protestant backgrounds in Falls Church, VA. It sounds as if Unitarian Universalists would fit right in and perhaps sponsor such classes themselves if none are available in their area. To listen, go to the NPR web site by clicking &lt;a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=87809254"&gt;here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8647562459433740241-6774602604117477315?l=uuawayoflife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-G79Zp23gmO0/TwKCZej3YpI/AAAAAAAAFyg/j1eIQg9UkK4/s1600/tailgating+woman.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-G79Zp23gmO0/TwKCZej3YpI/AAAAAAAAFyg/j1eIQg9UkK4/s1600/tailgating+woman.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;The light turned yellow, just in front of him. He did the right thing, stopping at the crosswalk, even though he could have beaten the red light by accelerating through the intersection.&amp;nbsp;The tailgating woman was furious and honked her horn, screaming infrustration, as she missed her chance to get through the intersection, dropping her cell phone and makeup. As she was still in mid-rant, she heard a tap on her window and looked up into the face of a very serious police officer. The officer ordered her to exit her car with her hands up. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
He took her to the police station where she was searched, fingerprinted,photographed, and placed in a holding cell. After a couple of hours, a policeman approached the cell and opened the door. She was escorted back to the booking desk where the arresting officer was waiting with her personal effects.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
He said, ''I'm very sorry for this mistake. You see, I pulled up behind your car while you were blowing your horn, flipping off the guy in front of you and cussing a blue streak at him. I noticed the 'What Would Jesus Do' bumper sticker, the 'Choose Life' license plate holder, the 'Follow Me to Sunday-School' bumper sticker, and the chrome-plated Christian fish emblem on the trunk, so naturally... I assumed you had stolen the car.''&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8647562459433740241-3392326132653237509?l=uuawayoflife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
Ralph Waldo Emerson&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I don't know what Ralph by "trying " to help another. How about just doing your best to help the person?&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Am I quibbling?&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
People have a lot of good intentions which they never carry out and then excuse themselves saying that they tried.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In A Course in Miracles it says that a person learns what the person teaches.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VWdiSh8LsO0/TwEB0CHoZeI/AAAAAAAAFwo/y40tCwBWVmQ/s1600/learn+what+you+teach.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VWdiSh8LsO0/TwEB0CHoZeI/AAAAAAAAFwo/y40tCwBWVmQ/s1600/learn+what+you+teach.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;If you want to learn something teach it.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Teaching takes many forms.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In Alcoholic Anonymous they have a slogan "Fake it till you make it."&lt;br /&gt;
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As a psychotherapist I am familiar with what is called the "pretend technique". People are resistant to change or don't believe that they can do certain things. As a therapist I encourage people to pretend to do it even if they can't.&lt;br /&gt;
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Jesus never condemned anyone for sinning but he did seem exasperated when He would say "Oh yee of little of faith. If you only knew how much your Father loves you, you could not doubt your desire to extend your love in a constructive way."&lt;br /&gt;
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Mother Theresa said she was not interested in whether her efforts brought success. She said she did her work to be faithful, not to be successful. Is this what Ralph meant by try - to not be concerned with success, but only with the efforts to help another and thereby we learn what we teach.&lt;br /&gt;
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Our interior spiritual life gives us the motivation and intention to act towards ourselves and others in a loving way. This intention gives us much peace and spiritual joy.&lt;br /&gt;
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Do you have to be successful to make an effort to help or can you just do it because it is fun for you?&lt;br /&gt;
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I like helping because I like it not because it necessarily is effective, successful, or is appreciated by the target of my efforts.&lt;br /&gt;
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What do you think about this idea of separating the effort from the effect? Have you ever helping anyone and it didn't seem to be effective at the time? How did the lack of success make you feel? What did you do about those feelings?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8647562459433740241-5129814137744517892?l=uuawayoflife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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- Leanna Balloffet&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AwQdNy5Rg0U/TvyJtoehRLI/AAAAAAAAFu4/BbP6QPImYZE/s1600/Laughing+Buddha.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" rea="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AwQdNy5Rg0U/TvyJtoehRLI/AAAAAAAAFu4/BbP6QPImYZE/s1600/Laughing+Buddha.bmp" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;I am reading James Martin's book, "Between Heaven and Mirth: Why Joy, Humor, and Laughter are at the Heart of a Spiritual Life" and it has given me time and encouragement to consider the topic as it applies to our Unitarian Universalist faith.&lt;br /&gt;
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It seems that humor is an important part of a vibrant, joyful spirituality. Jesus was funny as is Mulla Nasrrudin in the Sufi tradition and one of my favorite icons is the laughing Buddha.&lt;br /&gt;
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You either laugh or cry, right?&lt;br /&gt;
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UUs are especially good at laughing at themselves. Self denigrating humor that is appreciative of human foibles and not hurtful is one of the protective factors of resiliency in&amp;nbsp;a rich spiritual interior life.&lt;br /&gt;
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How does a sense of humor help you get through life? How does it enrich your spiritual life? Life is better appreciated if one sees the absurdities and incongruities and laughs.&lt;br /&gt;
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Tell us a joke that enriches your interior spiritual life, please. Leave it in the comments or send it to me at &lt;a href="mailto:davidgmarkham@gmail.com"&gt;davidgmarkham@gmail.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8647562459433740241-8725403781878785122?l=uuawayoflife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;em&gt;Matthew 2: 16&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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It seems that King Herod like George W. Bush ordered a pre-emptive strike to kill what Herod believed would be a terrorist threat to his kingdom.&lt;br /&gt;
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How many children has the United States killed in Iraq, and Afghanistan? Far more&amp;nbsp;children than killed by King Herod.&lt;br /&gt;
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The children King Herod killed in his pre-emptive strike are considered the first Christian martyrs and today, 12/28 is&amp;nbsp;the feast day&amp;nbsp;Roman Catholics and may other Christian denominations&amp;nbsp;remember and&amp;nbsp;honor their deaths. Will we remember the children our country has killed in Iraq, Afghanistan, Viet Nam&amp;nbsp;so that we, Americans, can feel safe? Human sacrifice offered on the altar of patriotism and terrorist politics so George W. Bush and the United States congress can pander to U.S. citizens fears of loosing their exceptional place in world politics.&lt;br /&gt;
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Unitarian Universalists covenant to affirm and promote justice, equity, and compassion in human relations. Can a person be a good UU and a good American who supports the killing by U.S. troops in his/her name for such bogus reasons?&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;em&gt;“A cry was heard in Ramah—&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;weeping and great mourning.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;Rachel weeps for her children,&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;refusing to be comforted,&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;for they are dead.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Two of my children were killed by a three time drunk driver and I grieve every year as we, humans, drunkenly rejoice that it is "Miller Time" and that Budweiser has "drinkability". At this time of year, getting into the Christmas spirits has a double meaning and for many it brings great sorrow, injury, and death. In 2012, I am starting a spirituality of recovery group for all those people who are interested in replacing their chemicals with spiritual peace and joy.&lt;br /&gt;
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Let us become aware of who we really are, children of God, and put away our drones, bombs, guns, and booze and come to our senses and consider what it is that we are doing to ourselves and others in this world.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8647562459433740241-2466749853858564167?l=uuawayoflife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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This week we will be considering what an interior spiritual life might consist of&amp;nbsp; and what models there are for the development of spiritual lives.&lt;br /&gt;
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There is a field of spiritual direction which offers guidance to people seeking assistance in further developing their spiritual life. I am not a spiritual director and I am hoping that if there are UUs who practice this discipline they might share with us their methodologies, intentions, and services they provide.&lt;br /&gt;
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I am a Licensed Clinical Social Work Psychotherapist and I often find myself discussing my client's spiritual life with them. I am drawn to the field of mental health and substance abuse counseling because of a spiritual desire to be of service to other people in their lives. I firmly believe that people in recovery are greatly assisted, as is anyone, in developing a rich interior spiritual life. John Bradshaw, a substance abuse counselor, who became famous back in the 80s when he lectured and wrote several books on recovery especially as it involves one's experience of one's family life. John Bradshaw described a recovering addict's spiritual hunger and emptiness as the "hole in the soul."&lt;br /&gt;
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John Bradshaw said this in an &lt;a href="http://www.healthy.net/scr/interview.aspx?Id=222"&gt;interview published on Healthy.net back in 1995&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;em&gt;I'm also troubled that there is not more stress on the etiology of addiction. While I believe that I may have a genetic predisposition to alcoholism, it's also true that you have to learn to be an alcoholic or an addict, and you learn through the ideology of abuse, through abandonment, neglect and enmeshment. You get this emptiness, a hole in your soul, and you've got to keep filling it up. You numb out emotionally, so the only way you can mood alter is with your addiction. I would like to see a lot more emphasis on that.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;I'd also like to see somebody come along and start talking about soul, restoring the soul of our culture, because I think we've lost our soul in a lot of ways. I'm more of the prophetic voice, which is easier than being the practical one, who knows how to put that into action. But I guess you need prophets, or at least prophetic voices.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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The model for an interior spiritual life which I am developing revolves around two main ideas:&lt;br /&gt;
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How well do I know myself?&lt;br /&gt;
What makes me tick? What are my motivations, intentions, desires which fuel my behavior, my thinking, my emotional awareness?&lt;br /&gt;
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In other words:&lt;br /&gt;
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Who do you think you are?&lt;br /&gt;
What do you think you are doing?&lt;br /&gt;
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Your first assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to write a brief essay of 500 words answering those two questions. If you could boil them down and add some comments on the&amp;nbsp;blog&amp;nbsp;or send your essay to me at &lt;a href="mailto:davidgmarkham@gmail.com"&gt;davidgmarkham@gmail.com&lt;/a&gt;, I'd love to read it and I will respond to you personally.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;em&gt;he knows,&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;em&gt;while the sage, who has to duck his head&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;when the moon is low,&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;em&gt;keeps dropping keys all night long for the&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;beautiful, rowdy prisoners.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Hafiz&lt;br /&gt;
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I awoke this morning about the interior spiritual life of Unitarian Universalists. I wondered what their interior spiritual life is like and how the Unitarian Universalist faith feeds their spiritual life. As I consider this, I invite you to this discussion and ask you to add your thoughts, ideas, and feelings as we go along.&lt;br /&gt;
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What nurtures your spiritual life? What kind of practice do you find empowering and comforting? How does the Unitarian Universalist faith support and inform you spiritual life?&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Stl-ZC_E4oY/TvncDzDgu3I/AAAAAAAAFtY/QYalJZaIACw/s1600/prison+cell+of+life.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" rea="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Stl-ZC_E4oY/TvncDzDgu3I/AAAAAAAAFtY/QYalJZaIACw/s1600/prison+cell+of+life.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;These are big questions and I hope that your interior spiritual life grows so that you too will have to duck your head when the moon is low, and if you are so inclined that you will drop your keys to the prison cells which the rest of us confine ourselves to.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8647562459433740241-234463801115440482?l=uuawayoflife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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The &lt;a href="http://www.brockportuu.org/"&gt;Brockport Unitarian Universalist Fellowship&lt;/a&gt; was accepted into the UUA in October, 2011. We are a young congregation having begun services in September of 2009.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pGTNAaZRIPI/TviDTf1f0gI/AAAAAAAAFso/71cyHpixUvY/s1600/Peggy+with+stole+speaking+091910.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" rea="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pGTNAaZRIPI/TviDTf1f0gI/AAAAAAAAFso/71cyHpixUvY/s320/Peggy+with+stole+speaking+091910.jpg" width="272" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;We had a wonderful holiday service yesterday, on Christmas, 12/25/2011 lead by our minister, Rev. Peggy Meeker. It consisted of singing Christmas Carols and singing to two house bound members who are ill with cancer.&lt;br /&gt;
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I have been reading Hafiz and today I find the reading:&lt;br /&gt;
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"There are so many gifts still unopened from your&lt;br /&gt;
birthday. There are so many hand-crafted presents&lt;br /&gt;
that have been sent to your door by God.&lt;br /&gt;
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The Beloved does not remind repeating,&lt;em&gt; 'Everything I have is yours.'"&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uM_7kPqJPfE/TviC8dobNqI/AAAAAAAAFsc/hFxh8iFOfqo/s1600/Sun.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" rea="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uM_7kPqJPfE/TviC8dobNqI/AAAAAAAAFsc/hFxh8iFOfqo/s1600/Sun.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;I went to my daugther and son-in-law's yesterday for Christmas and they have Soltice suns hanging in a mobile in their dinning room which their three kids made and they have a beautiful Soltice sun on the front of their house which glitters. I am pleased to celebrate their earth religion with them.&lt;br /&gt;
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The J man and I share the same birthday on December 25th. Of course, He wasn't born on the 25th of December most scholars, who have researched the matter, tell us, but the Roman church decided to co-opt the pagans and celebrate His birth on the Soltice. No matter because I am special anyway regardless of His real birthday. And as Hafiz says, the gifts just keep coming. I got another one this morning when I awoke to a new day and decided to resume UU A Way Of Life. &lt;br /&gt;
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The principle of A Course In Miracles is that we all should be At-one-ment. The Atonement takes forgiveness. Once we have forgiven ourselves, our job is to help others.&lt;br /&gt;
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It is written in T-1.III.3 &lt;i&gt;"The forgiven are the means of the Atonement. 2 Being filled with spirit, they forgive in return. 3 Those who are released must join in releasing their brothers, for this is the plan of the Atonement. 4 Miracles are the way in which minds that serve the Holy Spirit unite with me for the salvation or release of all of God's creations."&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/i&gt;UUs, like all human beings, are forgiven for their separation from God because, in reality, they could never separate themselves from Him since they are manifesting the Life Force. Not all UUs, though, are aware of this, and many, for now, may not even want forgiveness because they choose to maintain their separation.&lt;br /&gt;
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When they do return to God, and our Universalist faith acknowledges that we all do sooner or later, they will be in the position to forgive in return and with the help of the Holy Spirit extend Miracles to their brothers and sisters. We acknowledge this and pledge our intention in the third principle when we covenant to affirm and promote the acceptance of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth in our congregations and to share what we have come to know with others who think the world they have made is real.&lt;br /&gt;
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The take away today is to continue to work on forgiveness by asking the inner Holy Spirit for help. Every time to forgive yourself and another a miracle occurs and time is shortened in our pursuit of the Atonement.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8647562459433740241-2125902226167164400?l=uuawayoflife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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In workbook lesson 240 it says "Fear is not justified in any form." and the ego mind immediately says, "yes, it is. It is justified continually in our live. You have millions of things to fear."&lt;br /&gt;
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The first principle of our Unitarian Universalist faith is that covenant to affirm and promote the inherent worth and dignity of every person. We recognize that the Essential Self is the work of God and an extension of God's love, and how can that creation of God be harmed? As children of God and extensions of God's love we have nothing to fear and it is not justified in any form. We can choose choose love or fear, and we cannot serve two masters.&lt;br /&gt;
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Our Universalist faith promotes the idea that we are all sons and daughters of God and we will all be with Him at the end of time. The ego mind has projected onto our anthropomorphic creation of God, a God of judgement, of damnation, but Univesalists have seen though the lies of the ego and rejected its fear mongering ideas and instead have participated in the Miracle of recognizing and acknowledging God's love which, in the end, is the only thing that is real.&lt;br /&gt;
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The take away today is to several times today, when you are worried, anxious, feeling negative in any way, ask yourself, "Do I want to choose love or fear?" It's up to you to decide whether you will side with the ego-mind, or with your essential self.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8647562459433740241-7274028190535731831?l=uuawayoflife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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What does Unitarian Universalism have to offer people who live in fear especially those who have chosen to medicate it away? With our six sources and no God like figure we espouse as a religion, we have nothing magical to offer to assuage people's fears. What we do offer is covenantal relationship organized around 7 principles.&lt;br /&gt;
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What A Course In Miracles offers is what it calls, a "miracle", which is a shift in perception that recognizes that we are one with the Love of God and not the separate body which the ego mind has taught us we are. It says in the Course, "The miracle is the means, the Atonement is the principle, and healing is the result."&lt;br /&gt;
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The "acceptance of one another and encouragement to the spiritual growth in our congregations", the third principle, points to this activity of healing as a release from fear that the Course describes. The correct implementation of this principle is to recognize the Spirit of God in each other and not the bodies. The principle of the Atonement is the recognition that the separation never occurred.&amp;nbsp;The separation&amp;nbsp;is a figment of the imagination of our ego minds. Our UU faith acknowledges the interdependent web of all existence, but does not acknowledge that this "existence" is not real, but a miscreation which we, unfortunately, continue to believe. The Course teaches that the only thing real is the Love of God which we have never actually left even though we think we have and sometimes in our&amp;nbsp;egotistical defensiveness&amp;nbsp;continue to insist on.&lt;br /&gt;
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The take away today is the willingness to acknowledge that we are something more than our bodies. We are all part of the Love of God. What happens to my brothers and sisters, my fellow human beings, happens to me, and what happens to me happens to them. My willingness, with the help of the Holy Spirit , to shift my attention to the Spirit of God, brings a release from fear and great peace. This shift of attention occurs when I practice forgiveness. Will I forgive myself today for believing and miscreating all the things I thought were real and am discovering are nonsense? If I forgive myself I will find it easier to forgive others. Forgiveness is the key to releasing fear and it brings about great healing.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8647562459433740241-1783093255823816281?l=uuawayoflife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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The group will meet the second and fourth Wednesdays.&lt;br /&gt;
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David Markham is the host.&lt;br /&gt;
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For more information call David at 585-637-0040 or send him an email at &lt;a href="mailto:davidgmarkham@gmail.com"&gt;davidgmarkham@gmail.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8647562459433740241-3698268254408336619?l=uuawayoflife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Life's big teacher of trust is grief, because until you have lost things which you thought were important to you, you have not had to "sort out" what you really value. We come to a point in our lives sooner or later when we realize that "stuff" and money and power and "special relationships", all the things the world has taught us are important, are really not important. This awareness is a huge step in our spiritual growth. Jesus tells the rich young man to give up everything he has and "come follow me." The rich young man is not ready and he turned away. Most people in our society are not ready and turn away as well.&lt;br /&gt;
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Once we have come to the awareness of the impermanence of this world and have accepted it as "natural" we experience some peace of mind, but we once again come to face our judgementalness and realize that we do not know what we want and finally we realize that we only want what God wants for us. As St. Paul says, "If God is with you, who can be against you?" Perhaps St. Paul got this wrong because it seems to me it should be "If you are with God, what can can harm you? There is nothing no longer to fear and you have realized that you are love."&lt;br /&gt;
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When we die, if we die consciously, we surrender our mortal existence for the purely spiritual realm. The corporeal shell is given up or&amp;nbsp;taken from us&amp;nbsp;depending on our choice. Surrendering takes great trust. Trust&amp;nbsp;in the love of God. Some people get there before they die, others when they die, and others never do.&lt;br /&gt;
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Unitarian Universalists covenant to affirm and promote the "respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part". This doesn't quite get to the level of Trust which the Course talks about but it does point to a willingness to surrender to something bigger than ourselves which is a step in the right direction.&lt;br /&gt;
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Take away today - What really matters to you? How would you respond to Jesus' invitation to give up everything and come follow Him? What do you grieve for and what do you think of your grieving? Do you understand what is happening at a spiritual level or are you protesting what is happening on the earth plane, an illusion that we have only made up?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8647562459433740241-5838865947016887926?l=uuawayoflife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Sometimes we have what ACIM calls a "sustained relationship" which is a relationship which is more intentional and deliberate, and then we separate. This happens to me all the time at work, and in community organizations, and with "friends" with whom we engage in intentional activities.&lt;br /&gt;
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The third level of relationships are "lifelong". These lifelong relationships continue even if they are not honored. We can divorce, disown, and otherwise cut people off, but they are like ghosts that haunt our lives because even if there is no contact, there is unfinished business.&lt;br /&gt;
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A Course In Miracles teaches that there is no levels in teaching relationships.&lt;br /&gt;
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It is written in the Manual For Teachers in the section entitled "What are the levels of teaching?":&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;&lt;span style="font: 7pt &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;“The teachers of God have no set teaching level. Each teaching-learning situation involves a different relationship at the beginning, although the ultimate goal is always the same; to make of the relationship a holy relationship, in which both can look upon the Son of God as sinless. There is no one from whom a Teacher of God cannot learn, so there is no one whom he cannot teach.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Unitarian Universalists recognize this "truth" when we covenant to affirm and promote the "acceptance of one another and encouragement&amp;nbsp;to spiritual growth in our congregations." I drop the "...in our congregations" because the Course teaches that the Atonement is the acceptance of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth everywhere. Why limit it to just people in our congregations?&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
As has been mentioned earlier, Teachers of God teach constantly by being who they are. As Stephen Gaskin has said, ultimately the only thing we have to offer another human being is our own state of being.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Take good care of yourself today. Spend as much time as you can in your "happy place". When you are experiencing "good vibes" within yourself, they ripple out to the rest of the Universe and we all are one step closer to the At-one-ment. As Jesus said, the Kingdom is within you. When people experience you experiencing the Kingdom within you a Miracle occurs.&lt;br /&gt;
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Dominus vobiscum.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8647562459433740241-1820687200315760660?l=uuawayoflife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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It says in A Course In Miracles in the Manual for Teachers : &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;“When pupil and teacher come together, a teaching-learning situation begins. For the teacher is not really the one who does the teaching. God’s Teacher speaks to any two who join for learning purposes. The relationship is holy because of that purpose, and God has promised to send His spirit into any holy relationship."&lt;/span&gt;﻿&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Jesus says in the New Testament where two or more are gathered in my name there I will be. I think ACIM clarifies what Jesus meant when he said this. When two or more come together to help each other learn more about the spiritual level of life, God (the Spirit of Life) is there to not just assist but to work through the relationship for the benefit of the two participants and the world.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
People "go to church" for various reasons and the clarity of purpose is important to the experience. When I asked a member of my congregation why people should come to church I kiddingly said that, having been raised a Roman Catholic, I was taught as a child, if I didn't go to church on Sunday or a Holy Day of Obligation it was a mortal sin and I would go to hell. I said, "Of course I don't believe this any more so why go to church?" She never missed a beat and said simply and plainly, "Because someone there might need you."&lt;br /&gt;
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Yes, and it responding to their need I help myself as well as them and the world is moved one step closer to the At-one-ment.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Pax vobiscum.&lt;br /&gt;
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A Course In Miracles says that "A teacher of God is anyone who chooses to be one. His qualifications consist solely in this: somehow, somewhere he has made a deliberate choice in which he did not see his interests as apart from someone else's."&lt;br /&gt;
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The seventh principle of Unitarian Universalism affirms and promotes "Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part."&lt;br /&gt;
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The Course would say that it is this recognition of the interdependent web which leads to the salvation of the world. This salvation is based on forgiveness, and when we forgive one another we save time and move the world closer to At-one-ment.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
There is a course for every teacher of God. There are many roads to Rome and many ways to skin the cat as they say but ACIM says that while the forms are different and teaching aids are different the content is always the same which is "God's Son is guiltless, and in his innocence is his salvation."&lt;br /&gt;
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We teach all the time. A person demonstrates what he believes by the way he thinks and acts. As a teacher of God, a person becomes very aware of this and chooses what he thinks and is conscious of how he acts and in so doing redeems himself and the world.&lt;br /&gt;
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Unitarian Universalists are&amp;nbsp;a light unto the world and while a small, dim one, they join with other teachers of God to save time and in doing so hasten the awareness of the kingdom of God for all the people of the world.&lt;br /&gt;
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Thank you for your witness and work.&lt;br /&gt;
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Go in peace.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8647562459433740241-6901833361636125685?l=uuawayoflife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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It also says in the course that teaching is to demonstrate and we demonstrate what we believe by how we live, what we think, how we manage our emotions, and how we behave.&lt;br /&gt;
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Pretty simple ideas, right?&lt;br /&gt;
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But choosing what we want to teach can be a miracle if, in our choosing, we shift our perception from the ego based mind of separation&amp;nbsp;to the spiritual realm of love.&lt;br /&gt;
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I have known since I was a child that I was called and put on this earth to serve others. This idea was reinforced by my mother's insistence as the oldest of 5 that I take an older brother's responsibility for my younger siblings. Part of this insistence on her part was dysfunctional because she turned me into a surrogate husband emotionally, but it also served me well as it reinforced innate talents and abilities to care for others.&lt;br /&gt;
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Deep down what makes you tick? Once you understand this, you will become aware of what you teach yourself and others continually.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
As Unitarian Universalists we covenant to affirm and promote our 7 principles and in doing so we say to ourselves and to the world that these are the 7 ideas that we value and we are choosing these 7 things to teach ourselves and others.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I can take those 7 principles and daily examine my conscience and ask myself, "How have you demonstrated these values in the last week to yourself and to others, and how do you intend to demonstrate them in the coming week?"&lt;br /&gt;
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If you are demonstrating these values in an ongoing way you should experience increasing degrees of peace, and if you are not demonstrating these values well you will experience increasing degrees of anxiety.&lt;br /&gt;
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