**Pigeonholes or Possibilities?

Awakening to Your True Creative Power**

Life is full of moments when we can either shrink or expand. We all know what it feels like to get stuck in old habits, looping thoughts, or reactive emotions. But what Rev. Erin reminds us is that every moment also offers a possibility—a doorway we can consciously walk through to create something higher, truer, and more aligned with who we’re called to be.

And the more we ask the question “What am I called to be?”, the more our lives stop unfolding by accident and start unfolding by intention.

Waking Up to Your Contribution

When we don’t pause to check in with ourselves, life can easily be filled with unintentional actions and unexamined emotions. But as Rev. Erin teaches, Unity is not a Sunday-only practice; it’s a way of living awake.

We’re invited to notice the small moments:

• Where am I spending my mental energy?

• What thoughts am I energizing?

• Am I contributing to the collective good—or to the collective chaos?

Martin Luther King Jr. once reminded a group of students that doors of opportunity are always opening, and our responsibility is to be prepared to enter them. That same truth applies today. Our world is calling us to step forward—not just with hope, but with intention, readiness, and conscious participation.

Seeing the Divine in Action

Rev. Erin shares a moving story about attending an ecumenical gathering focused on refugee support. Despite differences in belief and language, what united everyone was simple: compassion expressed as action.

When we serve each other, we serve God.
When we love each other, we love God.
And when we harm each other, we diminish our own divine potential.

Unity's core teaching has always been that the Divine expresses in us, through us, and as us. We aren’t separate from Love; we’re its instrument. The invitation is to keep asking: How can I serve? How can I show up as Love today?

Becoming Conscious of the Inner Landscape

Every human being carries a full spectrum of inner voices—the wise, the frightened, the reactive, the expansive. As Rev. Erin humorously notes, we all have a “Nancy Negative” inside us, and pretending we don’t is when the real trouble begins.

Unity doesn’t ask us to suppress our humanity. Instead, it invites us to become intimate with ourselves so we can consciously shift our creative energy away from fear, judgment, and complaint—and toward love, compassion, and clarity.

When we understand ourselves deeply, something beautiful happens:
We stop judging others.
Compassion naturally arises.
And our spiritual practice becomes grounded, powerful, and real.

Unplugging from What Drains Us

We are always creating—through thought, emotion, and action. The question is what we’re creating.

Are we spending our creative energy on:

• Worry?

• Criticism?

• Fear?

• Stories that diminish?

Or are we plugging into:

• Love

• Faith

• Courage

• Service

• Higher possibility

As Rev. Erin says, fear is simply a misuse of imagination.

Instead of borrowing trouble, we’re called to participate in solutions—spiritually and practically. If something bothers us, we act. If something feels misaligned, we contribute to changing it.

Prayer as a Creative Technology

Unity’s affirmative prayer isn’t passive; it’s an inner technology that lifts the mind from the limited into the unlimited.

Prayer is:

• A conditioning of the mind

• A remembering of our divine nature

• A re-centering in spiritual law

• A commitment to show up aligned with Truth

And belief isn’t just an idea—it’s demonstrated through how we live.

Michael Beckwith says:
“If you want to know what you believe, look at what you’re doing.”

Our time, talent, and treasure reveal our true values far more than our words.

Living Awake, Together

Every moment we choose consciousness over autopilot, compassion over judgment, or intention over reaction—we awaken to the infinite possibilities available to us.

And this work is richer—and more powerful—when we do it together.

That’s why joining Unity Village Chapel live on Sundays matters.

It’s not just a service.
It’s a weekly recalibration.
A spiritual community choosing possibility over pigeonholes.
A collective commitment to awakening, compassion, and conscious creation.

If you’re seeking a community that lifts you, challenges you, expands you, and walks beside you—your place is here.

**Join us live this Sunday.

Experience the possibility for yourself.**