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During World War II a soldier was running across an open field while dodging enemy gunfire. Fortunately he stumbled into a foxhole but unfortunately it was not very deep. He immediately began to scrape at the dirt with his hands trying to make it deeper. As he was scraping at the dirt with his fingers, he saw a shiny piece of metal. He pulled it from the mud and realized it was a crucifix. At that moment another man dove into the foxhole with him. The soldier looked up and was relived to discover that the man was an Army Chaplain. Holding up the crucifix he said to the Chaplain, “I just found this thing. How do you use it?”

It is not unusual for people attending Unity of Vancouver for the first time to say, “I want to be empowered by my faith. I want to have a closer walk with God but I don’t know how. Can you teach me to pray the Unity way?”

Unity’s’ co-founder Charles Fillmore once said, “I leap forward with a mighty faith to do those things that are mine to do.” But even long time Unity students can find themselves crawling forward in faith rather than “leaping forward.”

As you enter into the New Year, you can choose to walk with your anxieties, fears and problems or you can choose to have a closer walk with God. God is your protection, security, health, happiness, and prosperity. Look to God first and the stumbling blocks on your path will be removed. Trust completely in God’s omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent goodness and your life will flow in harmony, beauty, peace and divine order.

Do not follow the well-trod and mediocre path of others. Follow God instead and go where there is no path and blaze your own trail of love and light.

In love and light, Bernadette

Click here to view a transcript of a recent sevice by Rev. Bernadette