Creativity, Source of Life.
by Lynda McClanahan

Dear Unity Friends,

Recently, I looked around my kitchen and sighed.  The holidays are a busy time and much has been accomplished around our house lately.  One thing which hasn't gotten done, however, is cleaning the kitchen.  Everywhere I looked I saw failure:  a filthy floor, dishes in the sink, counters stained with coffee and a stove that looked like it belonged in the yard rather than in the house.  This was one ugly landscape I'd created, a mess evenly divided between manic activity and sloth!  I was overwhelmed, irritable and paralyzed.  What can one woman do in the face of such chaos?

Since cleaning didn't seem like an option, I decided the best I could do was what my Grandmother called "putting hooey on the phooey."   That's when you drench yourself in perfume instead of taking a bath.  In this case, it meant putting a nice poinsettia on the table and just forgetting about it.  As soon as the flowers were installed at the center of the room, an odd thing happened.  Something was out of balance.  Things didn't look right.

Maybe I should wipe up the coffee at least.  And wouldn't the flowers look better if the counters didn't have compost on them?  And what about that stove?  Before I knew it, the entire kitchen was straightened and cleaned and just as pretty as the flowers.  Things were in balance again.  The decks were cleared, sparkling and ready for higher mental thought.  All this happened easily and naturally in less than an hour, not because I'm a wiz with a mop, but because of the principle of beauty found in an ordinary pot of flowers!

As we greet the New Year, it's good to be reminded that the purity and beauty which resides within each one of us also has an incredible power to change our circumstances for the better.  If a pot of poinsettias can clean my kitchen, what can be impossible for the Christ Consciousness?

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