Welcome to 2022. Seeing Love, Health, and Peace for us all in the coming year.
I was really looking forward to attending the first Sunday service of this New Year at Unity in Naperville as Reverend Michael Speer was scheduled to be the guest speaker. He delivers his messages and acknowledges the presence of the Spirit with a calming, loving, and knowing energy that sheds resistance and opens everyone up to allow and experience Divine flow. And in that state expect the unexpected!
Kim-Char and “Highest Good” performed their opening songs, including “Breath in Breath out” written by Kim-Char, and I could already feel a rush of emotion in the room. It was contagious!
I’m sure those watching the Livestream were feeling the love too.
Michael began his talk by commenting on how more open and how just breathing is easier after hearing that song. If you were watching, you’d agree. (If not, you can still watch it on the UIN YouTube channel)
He went on to talk briefly about thoughts. We are constantly thinking thoughts. Over 6000 thoughts a day one study cited. Through our thoughts and beliefs, we create our experience of life, “the law of cause and effect” he said, and then added, “What I think about, I bring about”. So simple and true that it made me laugh and nod in agreement.
Michael then told us a story. A Native American parable: “The story of two wolves”
An old Cherokee man is teaching his grandson about life. A terrible fight is going on inside of me he tells the boy. It is a terrible fight between two wolves. The old man (And Michael) goes into describing each wolf in detail and tells the boy that the same fight is going on inside of you and every other person too! It’s the fight between the good wolf and the bad wolf. The boy thinks about this for a minute, then asks his grandfather which wolf will win? “The wolf you feed” replies the old man. Michael closes in reminding us that “We all get to choose the thoughts we feed” and with that thought, he took us into meditation…
As is customary, Michael then invited us into a time of giving and supporting Unity in Naperville as Highest Good members prepared to play their next song, but Kim-Char suddenly gets on her mic and apologizes to the tech team (Who had displayed the words to the scheduled song up on the screen) and states that they were going to again play the song they played before Rev Michael’s message. “Breath in Breath out”
Kim-Char asked us if she may share a little bit. She told us about writing this song. Of a time in her life that she lost someone (obviously close to her). Of the pain and troubling thoughts that consumed her mind for two months. As she said this she looked over at Michael as if to acknowledge his message today. She continued to sing a verse and then explain where those words came from. I felt we were experiencing something special today.
Thank you, Reverend Michael Speer, Kim-Char, and Highest Good. I didn’t expect to be so moved and forever touched at this Sunday Service the morning after a snowstorm!
