November 11, 2026
Honoring Service, Awakening to Heaven, and the Treasures of Gratitude
Honoring Our Veterans
On this Veterans Day, we pause with gratitude to honor the men and women who have served our country. We recognize their courage, sacrifice, and commitment to something greater than themselves. We also hold in our hearts their families and all whose lives have been touched by the experience of military service. May our gratitude extend beyond words into our own commitment to be instruments of peace, compassion, and love in the world.
The Way of Mastery — Stairway to Heaven
Our November Way of Mastery Lesson 11 offers a beautiful opportunity to deepen our spiritual practice. I invite you to follow this link to listen. It is given as a meditation. Please consider adding this to your practice this month as an opportunity to become still, listen deeply, and allow its wisdom to awaken something within you. This teaching will inform our conversation this Sunday, “Stairway to Heaven,” as we explore a practice that carries us to the stairway to heaven within our own heart. I look forward to exploring this together.
A Thousand Treasures — The Practice of Gratitude
Consider the following Affirmation for November: “In every moment of each day a thousand treasures come to me.” (Lesson 315 of A Course in Miracles). It’s an invitation to actively notice the abundance of life! How many treasures pass through our days unnoticed — a kindness, a smile, a moment of beauty, a breath, a connection? Gratitude is more than a response to life's blessings; it is a practice of awareness that opens us to recognize what has always been present. During this season of Thanksgiving, I invite you to expand your gratitude practice: Write a letter of gratitude to someone whose presence has blessed your life. Tell them what they mean to you, how they have touched your heart, and what you appreciate about them. And perhaps, write one to yourself. Imagine the love we might set in motion through this simple act of noticing and giving thanks.
I give thanks for you, this beloved community, and all the generous, kind-hearted, generous people who are devoted to living the Unity way of Life in Love, Peace & Joy.
Blessings and Love,
Rev. René