What to write?

I've started a write a business challenge exercise with the Working Writers Club.  The first week is to write a one list article using a topic.  That is my dilemma, what to use as a topic for a list of something about it.  Lets see, maybe Unity Church, two that I have belonged to and the headquarters in Kansas City.  Now that would be something I do know something about.

My list would start with:

1. Charles and Myrtle Fillmore started the Unity Movement, a New Thought belief in the late 1889. Charles was born in August 1854 in St.Cloud,Minnesota and died in 1948.  He married Myrtle Page March 1881 They wrote many books on the power of God. Myrtle used her personal God power of to heal herself of tuberculous by prayer and meditation. She talked to each of her cells daily telling them they were healthy and full of the power of God.

2.  The headquarters is Unity Village, which is 15 miles southwest of downtown Kansas City Missouri, near  Lee's Summit. The village is beautiful, bountiful rose gardens, ten fountains that cover 14,090 square feet in the center of the court yard. There is a first class hotel for anyone to come and stay in the peace and quiet of one of the most beautiful villages I have ever been to.  There is bookstores, prayer chapels. Private walks through wooded areas.  A peace like you have never felt before will be yours before you leave this amazing prayerful village.
Google www.unity.org  to view anything you want to know about this most peaceful, prayerful place in the world as far as I'm concerned.

3. Unity Villages beautiful prayer 165 foot tower, Silent Unity is staffed 24 hours a day by members of Unity Village to pray with anyone from anywhere in the world.  Silent Unity can be reached by phone, e-mail silentunityprayers   The person on the other end of the phone will pray with you until the presence of God fills you with love, peace and takes away the worry, fear or what ever had been bothering you.

4. Charles and Myrtle also started the Daily Word magazine which was used by only a small group of people but the word got around and now in 2015 The Daily Word Magazine is used around the world as daily inspiration.  I first saw the Daily Word magazine on my mothers bedside table, in a care home, for a number of years.  I never asked her where she got it nor read it.  At that time I knew there was a God but didn't want to deal with religion as I knew it. I had also been told as a child that God has a very long memory and never forgives. That kind of God I didn't want in my life anymore I wanted a loving caring God I knew was somewhere.  I came to know exactly that. The love of God, Spirit, Light and Power. God is within everyone and will speak, feel and touch with love and peace.

5. Unity Churches are new thought that believe God is a non-gender Spirit of Light and Love and is Mother/Father/God.

6. Now that I have written about Unity Village I will start about Unity of Vancouver in B.C on the east side of Oak Street and about 40th Avenue or one block south of 41st Avenue.  Unity of Vancouver was the first Unity Church I had ever heard about or been in.  A friend asked me to go to church with her on a Christmas Eve some time in the late 80's. That was the most interesting Christmas Eve service I had every been to. I wanted to hear more.  But it was February of the next year that I finally asked my friend if I could go with her again. That was where I found the Daily Word.  Where Mom got it I don't know. For about 4 or 5 years I went every Sunday and to classes Wednesday night, until I left for another Unity Church. It was at Unity of Vancouver I learned God isn't an angry "old man" living in the sky somewhere just waiting for me to make a mistake and chalking up all the mistakes of my life to hold against me.  I learned the God of the Universe is a loving God who lives in each of us and also has a very short memory. He forgives long before we forgive ourselves.  We are the temples of the Living Christ. Now when I write out a prayer before reading my Daily Word the answer is more than likely the word for that day and the message answers my prayer or tells me how to deal with the prayer and the verse in the bible that deals with that word for the day.

7. From Unity of Vancouver I went to Unity In Action on Edinburgh Street and 17th Avenue in New Westminster B.C. Where Unity of Vancouver is a big beautiful church with stained glass windows, a platform that would hold a choir, and a grand piano Unity In Action is a small country style church in the midst of big city. It is a spiritual cozy, beautiful in it's own right as a historical building.  Unity has has had it for about 45 years as a number of years ago we celebrated it's 40th Birthday.  The first leadership group bought it from the Baptists who had it for I don'n know how long. I have been going there for 22 years and have no intention of leaving. It may hold 100 people, where as Unity of Vancouver would hold maybe close to 500. The difference makes Unity In Action a small community of friends with new people coming every week, to hear a wonderful Unity Minister who trained at Unity Institute of Learning at Unity Village, and listen to a wonderful professional piano player who can make that instrument talk, like a pipe organ, a band, guitar or any other musical instrument needed for the particular song being sung. The piano was a gift from a grateful member of Unity In Action. Our singers are first rate as well. There is also a half hour of prayer circle every Thursday at 6 PM from where our prayer box is prayed over for a month then sent to Silent Unity to be prayed over for another 30 days. From the fall to spring there is usually classes after the prayer circle.
We are so blessed by the love of God.

8. I served 6 years on the board of Unity In Action while we went through good times and bad that took payer, love and the patience of God to see us through. Now we are a happy healthy community of loving caring members who welcome anyone to come and join the singing, inspirational talk and music.


This is my list for the first week of August.  Didn't take as long as I thought it would.