Here is the announcement from Unity of Tri-Valley!
“Nothing could be finer….”
The UTV Board of Trustees is pleased to announce that Rev Dinah Chapman is joining our spiritual community as our next Senior Minister. Her first Sunday Celebration service will be on Sunday, February 18th.
Rev. Dinah received her Masters of Divinity degree from Unity Institute and Seminary and became an ordained Unity minister in June 2016. She has served as Associate Minister at Unity of San Leandro for these past two years. Rev. Dinah says, “I am happy to be coming back to UTV, this time as your minister, and being part of this welcoming, inclusive faith community.”
In addition to having a love for teaching spiritual principles, Rev. Dinah is also a talented singer/songwriter, who will be incorporating her musical talents into her ministry at UTV. Rev. Dinah is passionate about inclusivity, empowering and inspiring others to live abundant, joyful, meaningful lives that make a positive difference in the world.
“We want and need a world that works for all, that embraces and celebrates all of our diversity,” she adds.
Our UTV spiritual family looks forward to continuing to co-create, now with Rev. Dinah, a loving and supportive community where we learn, grow, and express ourselves spiritually as a source of light, hope, and peace to all.”
g in the world, that made me go hmmmm…. So how do we, who claim to follow in the footsteps of Jesus, engage in our world in a way that will allow us to shift to a higher way of being, doing, and having that alleviates suffering and the agonizing pangs of not enough-ness? It was a tough, challenging class taught by Dr. Shariff Abdullah, (center of photo) who has made his life’s work and spiritual practice all about inclusivity. Shariff Abdullah says in his book, Creating A World that Works for All,
Maybe this work of inclusivity is not sexy or glitzy enough for everyone to jump on the bandwagon in droves. However, I believe when enough people get sick and tired of being sick and tired…they’ll wake up and realize that instead of hacking away at the symptoms that are manifesting on the surface, we’ll begin to also work the deeper work of shifting our collective consciousness and awareness to the underlying spiritual aspects and qualities of our humanity and our divinity. Then we can find that pearl of great price — our linkage, our spiritual heritage that allows us to live in unified, divine harmony in the beloved community and be as One.
Earlier this week I wrote and got so busy I forgot to post – Hmmm, it feels odd to talk about and be about JOY, when so much is happening in the media that doesn’t seem to represent JOY. JOY to the world, and goodwill toward all are not just things we should say in December. I was just absolutely speechless when I heard about the violence and death of Heather Heyer in Charlottesville. “Where is the Joy in that?” I thought. I recognize that Joy is an innate quality of being that springs from divine love and for me that means it is the inner state of mind and heart that is attuned to the spirit of God. As spiritual beings having a natural experience, we can decide if we’re going to be in alignment with Truth and righteousness or if are we going to break with eternal truth and do something else. There’’s a whole lot of “something else” going on in the world today. But there is a great deal of good that’s going on in the world as well. What will we choose to focus on?
shing upon it, or about any joggers coming toward it. Just as a wave would roll in, the bird quickly hopped up just in the nick of time and never got close to being splashed by a wave. “Good instincts!” I thought. Then I thought again, “noooo, it’s more than that; when you know how to fly, you don’t WORRY about the waves!”
