I want to start with a few quotes today. The first one is from William Blake, "We are put on earth a little space", you know, we only have a few moments in time, you know that, right? There's a little dash between when you are born and then when you die, and even that little tiny space on planet earth, it goes by very quickly. And no one knows when that last day is going to be put on that tombstone called your life. No one knows when your earth visa is going to be called. We get a little tiny space, a little moment in time for what? Well, William Blake continues when he says that "we may learn to bear the beams of love". Did you feel that? The beams of love, that's who you are.

You are a beam of love. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin says, "Love is an animating energy pulsating through the universe, the supreme spiritual energy linking all elements and persons and their irreplaceable and incommunicable essence in the universal process of unification. Say amen, folks.

That's pure truth right there. Or as my darling, Charles Fillmore, Chuck, as I call him, Chuck Fillmore, the co-founder of Unity, where he says, "Love is the binding, harmonizing, unifying power in the whole universe. And it holds everything together". I just love that. It's in everything. It doesn't die. It's forever. It is the thing that holds the atoms, the cells of your being together in oneness.

That is who you are. Isn't that exciting? I think it is. There's an old out of print book called Awakening in Love's Presence written by a British author, Sir Francis Young. And he said this while standing on the top of the Himalayas. But he said this, "I had a curious sense of being literally in love with the world. Can you imagine being in love with the world right now? Being in love with the world, there's no way in which I can express what I felt. I felt as if I could hardly contain myself for the love which was just bursting within me. It seemed as if the world itself were nothing but love. The whole world seemed in a blaze of love. And all human hearts were burning to be in touch with one another". 

My friends, that burning, blazing presence of God, that love that is within us, is what we're here to express, to give, to extend forth to one another.

I had a direct experience and encounter with this kind of love. My husband Steve and I went to my cousin's memorial service, I think it was like eight years ago. And we sat up front with the rest of the family. The pews were just packed full of people. I knew my cousin as the funny, loving, quirky guy that I grew up with. Family knows you in a certain context. They don't know the effect that you have on other people. They don't know the things that people think about you. They don't know how you've touched other people's hearts. They don't know the miracles that you've created in other people's lives. And there I was thinking, well, heck, who is this guy that all these people have come to honor? I thought I knew him really well, but apparently not. And there was something in that service that I recall somebody saying, I heard the words, "He was love made visible".

Those words awakened me and those words became my mantra. I decided, what if I just said this affirmation and saw love being made visible everywhere? My friends, that is what we're here to do. To teach love, to share love, to give love.

That's what this is all about. To make sure that we are love made visible. It's all about the love that we extend to others because that's what continues on.

Bodies come and go, but love is forever. I began to look at my world as love made visible. My mom, her selfless giving all of my life, love made visible. Your dogs, your cats, you know, when you come home, they greet you, love made visible. My chickens, love made visible. About eight eggs a day, love made visible. When you look at the beauty that surrounds you, that love is made visible.

When miraculous things just happen in your life that God created just for you, that's love made visible. When your loved ones, your spouse, those that are near and dear to you and they do something special for you, that's love made visible. The smiles and the kindnesses of complete strangers, that's love made visible.

If you look for it, love actually is all around. If you look for it. In Unity, we're taught to look through the eyes of God, not through the small ego self.

You have a dash of time. How do you spend that dash of time?  My friends, you create your world by the way you look at it. You create your world by the way you act in it. And you begin to realize that everything you do matters. Everything.

Yes, my friends, we are put on earth a little space that we may learn to bear the beams of love.

Love made visible everywhere. And with that, can I get an amen?

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