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"The Third Week of Advent - Joy & Love and Hope & Peace Abide in Me." Rev. Shawn Moninger @ Unity Center of Norwalk CT (12/13/20)

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Last Week's word from Rev. Shawn:

2nd Week of Advent “Peace”

“Physical Distancing and Social Presence”

Hey Everybody,

Hey,  usually, I would talk about something ethereal around the week of peace, but I thought I’d chat about something else that may lead to a more peaceful understanding of how to think and live in our current circumstances.  

Every day we hear about “social distancing.”  In a chat with a friend the other night he introduced a concept I hadn’t heard yet: “Physical distancing and Social Presence.”  THAT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE!

We place too much emphasis on the physical and not enough on the spirit.  “Social distancing” says “Get away from me.”  It says, “I can’t be near you.”  “Physical distancing” with “Social presence” says, I’m standing over here while I’m loving you over there.  Socially, I can love you and appreciate you from here.  

Peace prevails when we find the loving way. In our current way, it is loving to be Socially present for ourselves and each other.  We have Zoom, we have the telephone and we have the outside where we can stand a bit apart but hold each other’s heart.  Rather than bemoaning that it isn’t the way that it was, rejoice that Love is still the way that it is.

Remember “Physical distance and Social presence.”

Let’s affirm together, “The Superconscious Mind is awake in me now!”

In Love With You,

Rev. Shawn