“The Tao & The Divine Feminine” featuring Rev. David McArthur at Unity Center of Walnut Creek on April 25, 2010.
Summary
We pray “Mother | Father God” and bring our attention to the female as well as the male aspect of the divine.
Know the male, yet keep to the female.
Know the white, which is that which is illumined. Yet keep to the black– which is what is not illumined, issues you hide or potential not yet brought to light. “If you receive the world, the Tao will never leave you.”
“The Tao is the great Mother… always present within you.” From the divine feminine we learn a pattern of attunement to the divine presence. Within you is the perfect idea of who you are. Receive the female world into your arms, as the mother enfolds the child. Be receptive. Practice constant humility– let go of the mind’s need and open to the divine feminine. Be a pattern for the world, and there is nothing you can’t do, and “the Tao will be strong inside you…”
Pray:
“The Tao is strong in me; there is nothing I can’t do.
The Tao is strong in me; there is nothing I can’t do.
The Tao is strong in me; there is nothing I can’t do.”
“God is strong in me; there is nothing I can’t do.
God is strong in me; there is nothing I can’t do.
God is strong in me; there is nothing I can’t do.”
“Love is strong in me; there is nothing I can’t do.
Love is strong in me; there is nothing I can’t do.
Love is strong in me; there is nothing I can’t do.”
Joyous hope is all there is because through your heart all is transformed.
Your Prayer Team
References
Tao Te Ching, selected versus translated by Stephen Mitchell
Music
Music provided by Meghan T Diamond, Lisa Snortum-Phelps, Pamela Whitman, Carol Kuhn, Vicki McCaslin, Nathaniel and Isaiah Douglass and Arnie Cowger, the Youth Education Department and Friends
“Come, Come, Whoever You Are” – Words adapted from Rumi 1207-1273, Music by Lynn Adai Ungar
“Mother Spirit” – © 2010 Lisa Snortum-Phelps
“Thank You For This Day” – © Karen Drucker
“Return Again” – © Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach
“Lord’s Prayer” – Traditional, modified for Unity
“Walking in the Light” – Traditional, modified for Unity
“Peace Song” – Jill Jackson, Sy Miller
