Fall is an amazing season. As the leaves slowly turn color and the temperature drops with the leaves, autumn brings us a perfect time for two critical activities in our spiritual lives-Reflection and Harvest. These two are intricately linked, actually-reflection can, if focused on gratitude, spur the awareness of the abundance in our lives, and prompts us to harvest these many blessings to be used in the future. But both require our attention and our focus. In my constant and crazy schedule, it’s easy to miss the many ways in which the Holy Spirit has produced a bounty that is ripe for my taking, there for me to use throughout the winter. The practice of meditation, which allows me to align with Divine Spirit, also enables me to regain perspective, to see the many gifts, and to gather them around me. No wonder Thanksgiving happens in the midst of the fall!
For me, and for all of the Unity Center DC family, this summer’s bounty has been rich: a new location to make of as we wish, a place and opportunity to create a vibrant, thriving spiritual center that brings healing, enlightenment, and grace to the people of the Washington DC area. It is ours to both reflect upon with great gratitude (in spite of all the work we are now undertaking to make the most of this new space) and to begin to harvest all of its blessings by actively participating in newly planned activities and bringing others through these vehicles to experience God’s amazing, loving family. This fall, I’m so deeply grateful for my COTH family: for the choir that brings music and fellowship every Thursday, for services and A Course in Miracles that align me to truth and help me fully engage God’s love, and for the many special meetings and events that serve for me as a welcome oasis in the midst of all the hustle and bustle that surrounds me all day every day. I’m grateful (more than I can say) for a prayer chaplain who calls just to pray with me, and who is there to connect with me whenever I need it. And, I am so grateful for the many, many members of this congregation who give me love, joy, and hope. All I need do is just think of the any of the faces of the COTH family who have loved me and welcomed me with open arms, and I feel God. Here, I am home. The only response is gratitude!
I pray you’ll be able to richly harvest the blessings of being in the COTH family, and enjoy the many offerings of our new space. The harvest, for us all, is plentiful.
Blessings, Tom Workman
Trustee, Board of Trustees
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