Welcome 2022!

Welcome to 2022. For many it has been another challenging year. Yet, as we leave 2021 behind, we can know that together, we are stronger, wiser, happier and healthier.

Unity has proved this in many ways – not least with Daily Word and our prayer ministry, which supports so many in the UK and around the world.

As we reflect on the year gone by, perhaps we have learned more about ourselves: What works in our lives, what does not; how we can support ourselves with kindness and compassion, so that we are able to respond more positively to what is happening in the world and in us.


This may mean we have found ways to support our mental and physical care, as well as our spiritual care. If we did not know before the pandemic began, we know now, how important this is, for everyone.


One thing is for sure – there is always hope, often found through the beauty of nature around us, when we look for it. As this time of writing, we have a glorious sunset of oranges and pinks against the deep blue of the sky. My soul is lifted, through this simple gift.


Because there is hope, we can remember that we are never alone. Whatever we need, we can tune into God-Presence: To open to the deep experience that every need is met and we are loved more than we could ever know. Here is our faith and our joy.


At the turn of the year, and the beginning of longer days and more light, we naturally think about what we want to experience, learn, or know more deeply. For me, there is a definite pull to experience even more mental and emotional peace – to move beyond the thinking, critical mind. For here, I find true peace, joy, fulfilment, and ways to more deeply live and serve in our world. 


I also recognise that my greatest joy throughout the pandemic has been all the ways we have connected – on Zoom and finally in person at our summer retreat and Christmas Service.


My desire in Unity is to keep this energy and experience alive and grow it even more. In 2022 we have lots planned – study classes, home retreats, in-person retreats, online workshops. As well as continuing our daily online meetings, which you can also dial into with your landline or mobile phone if you do not have access to the internet.


We can connect in many ways. This is our call. It is my call. 


This New Year, I invite you to make this commitment to yourself:

• To connect with God-Presence within and around you, which will help you to
• Connect with your beautiful, divine Self , which will enable you to
• Connect more deeply with each other and the world around us

We use affirmative and loving thoughts and prayers, and we learn to still the mind and access Divine Heart/Mind in the silence.

From this deeper experience of connection, we move forward with right action, able to encourage others to know that they, too, are beautiful, worthy, and loved.

It is only together that we can really wake up to our beautiful, joyful, creative selves, and be the divine Self we came here to be.

Join us on the journey – we are here and we celebrate the Divine You.

Rev. Kimerie Mapletoft