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Reading & Correspondence

On the Sunday following Easter eleven years ago the Unity Church of Bozeman opened its heart to me as a speaker and Truth student.  Over these years since, an intention has been given life, that I would become a fully ordained Unity Minister in service to our Unity ministry here in Bozeman.  It has taken the love and dedication of each and every one at Unity Church of Bozeman, the Unity School of Christianity and the Association of Unity Churches to see this intention ripen into its completion.  On March 16^th 2006 in the Fillmore Chapel at Unity Village our commitment was realized.  For the first time in sixteen years Unity Church of Bozeman enjoys an ordained Unity Minister as its Spiritual Steward.  The vision born eleven years ago has come to pass in Divine Love and Purpose.  We are blessed and a true blessing to have made this journey with assurance and grace.  Let us celebrate each and everyone who has contributed to this birth.  On May 21^st at the Gallatin Gateway Community Center we will meet at 10:30 am to celebrate.  Unity Ministers from around the country will be present to commemorate the ordination and complete the installation of Unity Church of Bozeman’s minister and ministry.  We have many friends and family coming for a full day of celebration, feasting, and dancing.  All are welcome and invited.  We are one community of Divine Love.

      I wish to share with you now the story of the journey to Unity Village. Leila and I left after church and drove on clear roads to Buffalo Wyoming where a fox came out to the road to call us to attention.  Within miles we were in the biggest storm of the year on the northern plains.  We called on spirit to guide us and kept hearing to press on.  The road didn’t even have a track at times and yet we made it through.  In Kansas City we were given the penthouse room at the hotel, yet were only charged the smallest room price.  We did not ask for anything special, we were given the road and the room through a willingness to receive God’s good for us on this journey of celebration we all share together.

      The gift of sharing the beauty of Unity Village with Leila, and the fellowship of the candidates, mentors, and Association staff, was so very wonderful.  She was welcomed as the essential partner in our ministry that she truly is.  Every wish she had to participate was eagerly honored.  Everyone welcomed her as the eternal member of the Unity family that she is (as are each of you).  We toured Unity Village and visited the Temple on the Plaza in Kansas City.  We sat with the head of the school and the head and officers of the Association.  Leila remarked that she was with 80 Unity ministers all around her, and that, they were the funniest and most loving people she could experience.  She attended the Silent Unity Prayer Service and found her prayers answered.  On the afternoon of ordination Leila and I were given grace to sit privately in Charles Fillmore’s office for the purpose of prayer (you were with us there as you are with us always in all ways).

      The ordination took place in the Fillmore Chapel.  Charles and Myrtle were ordained there, as was Mary Wessell (1933) founder of Unity Church of Bozeman.  Leila was given a place of honor in the front row with those of us completing the ordination program.  After the other candidates were bestowed their licenses or renewal, my classmate who will be ordained at her home church was honored.  Then, Leila and I and my mentor Reverend Bob, stood before my fellows and teachers for my ordination.  The ceremony of blessing and commitment was full with salt and Missouri Headwater healing waters, corn meal, and anointing oils.  Reverend Bob was wonderful in presence and word.  Afterward we feasted and I sang with the drum my love for us all.  On the road home we traveled with the sunlight staying one hour in front of the storm that cleansed the Great Plains for three days after our passing.  God is good all the time and we were safely home to house and cats, and to you, our holy community where love shines it light so brightly.

       Every day of this decade long walk has been a day for me to know deeper and truer that Spirit is our source.  Every person and situation, the rough and the smooth, has called me to be the Presence in my being and my being with.  Each step felt complete, for it was what I could experience and express from that place.  And each step placed me in a new realm of appreciation and commitment to what we are doing together.  This step of ordination is a new beginning.  There is a covenant and call to be the Unconditional Love as each moment.  There is the awakening from being a “man of God” to being GODS MAN.  Thank you God the Good as each of us for this journey in our Unity…….AMEN