Minister's Message
Where Is Your Standing Point?

Unity Church of Christianity Appleton, Wisconsin

October 2006

Where Is Your Standing Point?

In 1886 Myrtle Fillmore, cofounder of Unity, heard a speaker say the words, “I am a child of God, and therefore, I do not inherit sickness.”

In that moment the seed for our Unity movement was planted. She began a process of affirmative prayer that healed her body and her spirit. She changed her whole standpoint.

Instead of standing at the point of illness and viewing herself as sickly and in the process of dying, she moved her standpoint to the idea of health. She now stood at the point from which God viewed her. She took charge of her life!

Divine ideas have great power. At their “birth” in us, they transform our outlook. We all stand somewhere, spiritually and mentally. Our outlook is critical to the way our life unfolds and that is why Unity stresses contact with God Mind, the source of divine ideas, which have the power to inspire and transform our outlook.

Recently I had the opportunity to attend a New Warrior weekend. It was time to go apart and have many of my standard view points regarding what it is to be a man to be challenged. It was a time of healing as I was willing (with great love and support) to look at some of the shadow views I was holding of myself. As my standing point moved, I was healed.

If we look at the message of Jesus, he created new standing points. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus said “you have heard it was said” (old standpoint) and then he would state something very different. Jesus’ most radical commandment was to love your enemies.

Myrtle discovered divine ideas in prayer and these ideas are the foundations of the Unity movement. We can also make the same discovery. Let us all move our standing point closer to Spirit.

Many of the ideas and accompanying text came from “Perspectives” a column by Phillip White in Unity Magazine, September/October 2006.

Blessings!


Reverend Morgan
minister@unityofappleton.org