Anais Nin has a quote, “We don’t see things as they are; we see things as we are.” The first time I read this quote I could not quite wrap my mind around it. I realized that the reason I couldn’t take the quote in was because I had a very different belief. My belief was more like “What you see is what you get.”

When I got to Unity and began to hear about a different way of thinking, I almost ran from the teachings because the foundation of my life began to crumble. At least that is what it felt like. I experienced the dreams I had held for so long and had made come true were no longer working. My present life no longer fit with the new dream I was creating. As I changed my beliefs, those things that no longer fit began to fall away. It was a bit scary!

Monday is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. King is best known for his statement, “I have a dream.” I can only begin to wrap my mind around the dream process for him and how it changed his world and the world of his family. And - If King had had the dream but not believed it was possible, he would have never been able to talk about his dream or to share with people so that they could begin to see the vision that he was holding. And who knows if our world would have shifted in the ways that it has.

What Unity really teaches and what I have begun to understand is the belief is the dream. It is a pre-thought thought that I have thought so many times that I believe it and then hold it as reality in my world – my dream. And if my thoughts are really prayers – well then I am projecting my dream right into my world through my thoughts and words – which really begins to change what is (my reality) into my dream.

Join me and Voices of Unity this Sunday as we not only celebrate the life of Martin Luther King, Jr., but also the dreamer within each of us. I have a dream………….. What dream are you holding? Can you allow it to change your life?

Peace is the Way.

Rev. Denise