Rock Solid Faith

THE UNITY CENTER

Rock Solid Faith

January and February Series

January 9, 2022 • Rev. Wendy Craig-Purcell

“Every great move forward in your life begins with a leap of faith, a step into the unknown.” Brain Tracy

“Today, I stand firm in my own worthiness. My dignity is solid and enduring. My faith is the rock on which I build my life. I dare to risk and I risk my daring. I am large enough to survive my losses and enjoy my gains.” Julia Cameron

“A faith that hasn’t been tested can’t be trusted.” Adrian Rogers

“Sometimes taking a leap of faith requires an imaginative mind that can create the ending you are unable to see.” Shannon L. Alder

“Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.” Khalil Gibran

“Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.” Rabindranath Tagore

“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.” Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“There isn’t enough room in your mind for both worry and faith. You must decide which one will live there.” Unknown

Playful Rest

February 13, 2022 • Rev. Wendy Craig-Purcell

"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.” John Lubbock “Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.” Maya Angelou “Every now and then, go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.” Leonardo da Vinci “Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answers.” William Burroughs “Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.” Anne Lamott “It takes courage to say yes to rest and play in a culture where exhaustion is seen as a status symbol.” Brene Brown “If you’re tired, learn to rest not quit.” Unknown

Joyful Oneness

February 6, 2022 • Rev. Wendy Craig-Purcell

"The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.” Muhammad Yunus “A person experiences life as something separated from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. Our task must be to free ourselves from this self-imposed prison, and through compassion to find the reality of Oneness.” Albert Einstein “If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything.” Alan Watts “Feeling the oneness of yourself with all things is true love.” Eckhart Tolle “Consider your own place in the universal oneness of which we are all a part, from which we all arise, and to which we all return.” David Fontana “Every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree.” Alan Watts “…the cosmos is also within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way that the cosmos can know itself.” Carl Sagan

Cosmic Swarming

January 30, 2022 • Rev. Wendy Craig-Purcell

“Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.” Dorothy Parker “Creativity is not a mood. Creativity is not a gift. It’s the very nature of God inside of you.” Dan McCollam “Creativity is the natural order of life. Life is energy: pure creative energy.” Julia Cameron “The ability to see the order in chaos is called creativity.” Simon Sinek “Chaos is the first step in the creative process.” Jill Bolte Taylor “If you look hard enough, chaos turns into order the way letters turn into words.” Patricia McCormick “Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.” Chuck Palahniuk “Chaos is the only thing that honestly wants you to grow. The only friend who really helps you be creative.” Dan Wieden “In all chaos, there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.” Carl Jung