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Unity of Blairsville
P.O. Box 1237
Blairsville, GA 30514

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Unity Small Group Ministry

The Power of Staying Connected!
 
Our Study Group, A Meaningful Journey Through the Advent Season, continues THIS Tuesday, Dec. 7 from 11 a.m. - noon. via Zoom. (Note: This is the CCC group normally held on Wednesdays.)  Join us for a time of spiritual study and dialogue centered around Advent. This group study will last 4 weeks. The Zoom link is provided in the "Spiritual Explorers" section below.

Our Unity Small Group Ministry will continue its' tradition of participating in the "Adopt-A-Family" program in coordination with the Union County Schools "Family Connections" program. (Gifts will be delivered on 12/8/21) If you are interested in making a child's Christmas even brighter, please email MaryAnn at travilbug@verizon.net for more information. A special "shout out" to all Santas participating.

The A Course in Miracles study group is on will resume this Thursday, Dec. 9 at
1 p.m. via Zoom.

We are working together now as to what comes next for our small group ministry. As we consider upcoming study groups in the months ahead, you are invited to share topics of interest to you. Please let us know you thoughts. See below for our upcoming study group beginning next week. . 
 
The purpose of our Small Group Ministry is to join together in study, prayer, and meditation as we grow in greater spiritual understanding and serve our community. 
 
Know that we will continue to keep you informed each week via this newsletter, Facebook and our website. We are excited to have you join us on this journey!
 
Unity is a positive, practical, progressive approach to Christianity based on the teachings of Jesus and the power of prayer. You are welcome here!

Your continued support of our spiritual community is greatly appreciated.
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Unity of Blairsville
P.O. Box 1237
Blairsville, GA 30514

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Through faith I am centered and guided every step of every day.

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Community, Coffee & Conversation

Advent Study Group

Tuesdays, 11 a.m. - noon (EST)
Topic: A Meaningful Journey Through the Advent Season

We celebrate Advent as a time of spiritual preparation for the birth of the Christ. Unity founders Charles and Myrtle Fillmore understood Christmas as a season of great joy and expectancy but also viewed it as a time for inner celebration when the Christ is born in human hearts. "It does not belong to the past; it is a vital, living, present Truth. The bringing forth of the Christ child is not a work that is finished in Bethlehem. It is taking place in our midst every day. It is this we celebrate."      ~Published in the December 1919 issue of Unity Magazine
 
This year Advent began November 28th, and you are invited to participate in a spiritual study and dialog in preparation for Christmas. Zoom link below.
If one of the daily readings really resonates with you, feel free to bring it up for discussion. 

The booklet and our guide, A Christmas to Remember, ​​is available for download or you may request a hard copy. It includes the 12 Days of Christmas to follow Christmas Day. We hope you will join us Zoom-style!

ZOOM LINK (click below)



To request a hard copy of booklet, go to:
https://www.unity.org/publications/booklets/christmas-to-remember

To download a copy, click link below.
A Course in Miracles
Study Group

The A Course in Miracles study group
resumes this Thursday, Dec. 9
at 1 p.m. via Zoom.
See you then! 💙

The Zoom link is:


Meeting ID: 819 2497 6547
Passcode: 920477 


INSPIRATION ON THE PATH

“Christmas! The very word includes in its significance all the joys and possibilities of humanity.”
- Myrtle Fillmore

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it. 
- Eleanor Roosevelt

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. 
- Jimi Hendrix

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.
-John 14:27

Christmas is the season of miracles and magic. As we listen and see the Glory of God all around us, we truly are filled the Christmas Spirit.

10 minutes

p.s. This could be the most important thing you do today! 💙
"Embracing Christmas"

There will always be a Christmas. Why? Because as long as the Earth shall wander around the Sun and as long as human beings shall inhabit it, there will be the love of light when the lights dim and the love of color when the colors fade and the urge to rekindle the fire when the warmth begins to slip away.

There will be wonderful tales and delight in telling them.

There will be the generous desire to share our good with others.

There will be the urge to set a candle—in our window and in our mind—and watch it cast its little light across the fleeing darkness.

There will be children—some young, some not so young—falling asleep at night with visions of waking in the morning to a world of dreams come true.

There will be singing of old familiar songs.

There will be worship at which we gather to bow down before the august and gentle Mystery we sense at the secret core of being.

So there will always be a Christmas, even if in some far off time all our present names and symbols fade from memory, for it celebrates the deepest and dearest impulses of the human spirit—all that is warm and bright and generous—the delight in wonder, the need to worship, and above all the power to rise above the tyranny of time and things.

Embracing Christmas, by James Dillet Freeman


Unity's Five Basic Principles

We encourage you to explore and apply Unity teachings based on your own spiritual understanding. We believe this spiritual understanding is enhanced through reflective prayer and meditation.

The five basic ideas that make up the Unity belief system are:

  1. There is only one Presence and one Power active as the Universe and in my life, God the Good.
  2. Our essence is of God; therefore we are inherently good. This God essence was fully expressed in Jesus, the Christ.
  3. We are co-creators with God, creating reality through thoughts held in Mind.
  4. Through prayer and meditation, we align our heart-mind with God. Denials and affirmations are tools we use.
  5. Through thoughts, words, and actions, we live the Truth we know.
Unity of Blairsville
and
Unity of Dallas
www.unitydallas.org www.facebook.com/UnityofDallas/
Sister Churches!

You are invited to attend our Sister Church, Unity of Dallas, Sunday celebrations at noon (EST) on their Facebook page or website.

They have a Children's Service and a wide variety of online classes and Zoom groups. Visit their webpage for opportunities for spiritual growth and meeting like-minded folks. Invite your friends, too!






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