There are infinite reasons why I love our Unity in Naperville, and Sunday’s guest speaker provided yet another reason: UIN attracts phenomenal speakers to provide another way to receive a message that fills my bucket to the top, and go into the week! Tama Kieves gifted us with her energy and message around the topic, “Thriving Through Uncertainty.” This message really resonated with me, as my life is opening new doors that are inviting me to decide to lead with my faith, or with my old messages of fear. And, once again, my spiritual community at UIN brought me messages and tools that continue to allow me to turn to my Highest Self and my Highest Good.
It is also in this time of new doors opening that I am closing other doors—and unfortunately, one of those closing doors is stepping down from having the honor to serve on UIN’s Board of Trustees. I want to extend my heartfelt apologies for those that voted for me, and for breaking this commitment.
Through letting go of control and allowing myself to follow my passions, I have been offered a job opportunity that is amazing, but also means more time away from the “working mom/life balance” dynamic. After reflection and meditating, it was clear that to be able to step into this new role of teaching more classes at Northwestern, I needed to step out of the role of serving on the Board in order to maintain a healthy flow of balance. My fellow Board members have been nothing but supportive and understanding, which continues to remind me of the health that our community has all the way down to its roots.
One of my favorite parts of Tama’s message was the reminder to thrive where we are at – not waiting for something to come into our lives to make our thriving happen (the job, the money, the health issue dealt with), but to live in the present moment now, regardless of how it may present, and THRIVE! It reminds me of a Unity tool I use on a regular basis: “The Golden Key.”
I end my last E-News entry with a summary of “The Golden Key:”
Any time we have a concern, worry, or expectation that something’s going to be difficult, we should use The Golden Key. Whatever ideas come up in a crisis situation are ones that we have established by our own fears and feelings of limitation. Every time you have a thought like that, use The Golden Key.
Miracles come from the practice of putting God in the midst of situations – this will diffuse anything negative that’s been added to it. We create a problem with our doubts and questions. When we have something that crops up, it’s because we have believed in delay, limitations, barriers, blocks – all negative. Don’t believe in any of those.
The only barrier that you have is the one that you believe in, the one that you have set up for yourself.
The Golden Key is simple but we try to make it more difficult. It’s a way for people who have no knowledge of metaphysics to understand that they can make things happen before they even get to that point of clearing their awareness of all their old belief systems.
The Golden Key uses the “God Is’s”.
“God is…” and then you attach the word that’s pertinent. Add them until you remove that doubt from your mind. Take your mind off the problem and put it on God (whatever your name for “God” is). This is one of the most difficult things to do because we’ve been taught that we’re supposed to worry. We’re supposed to be concerned.
God is joy. God is harmony. God is power. God is love. God is peace. God is understanding. God is strength, health and happiness. God is air and water. God is everything I see. God is everything I know and understand. God is the wisdom of the universe.
Your “God Is’s” will dissipate any seeming obstacle that you have, any problem, any personality in your life that is giving you a hard time.
–Taken from: Getting Unstuck by Dr. Terrie Wurzbacher,(referring to Emmet Fox, “The Golden Key”)
Blessings to all of you!
May all of you “Golden Key” any perceived struggles and THRIVE where you are right now!
Jaimee Ory
Board Member
