Unity on the North Shore

10/15/2026

Honoring Hecky’s life, celebrating his legacy!

Evanston residents celebrated a new mural of the late Hecky Powell at Hecky's Barbecue, marking the restaurant's 43rd anniversary.

10/15/2026

Enthusiasm becomes much more powerful when it is connected to purpose.

Instead of asking only what we want, we can also become curious about what wants to be expressed through us.

Where is my enthusiasm aligned with purpose?

10/14/2026

Jasmine, our Executive Director, invites you to re-think church.

10/14/2026

Myrtle’s more than the myths we’ve told ourselves.

What happens when we love the idea of someone more than we’re willing to know the person?

10/13/2026

Scattered attention can leave us feeling depleted even when we are busy.

There is power in gathering ourselves around what we truly value.

I gather my energy around what matters most.

10/12/2026

Everything cannot receive equal attention.

Zeal becomes purposeful when we choose where our energy belongs.

What deserves the strength of my yes?

10/11/2026

Energy is powerful, but energy without direction can become scattered.

We can care about many things, respond to every invitation, and spend ourselves everywhere.

Zeal becomes spiritually useful when enthusiasm meets discernment.

This week asks us to notice where our energy is going and whether that direction reflects what truly matters.

10/10/2026

We do not have to manufacture inspiration.

Sometimes our work is simply to become available enough to notice when it arrives.

I welcome the spark of divine possibility within me.

10/09/2026

In fifth grade, we were asked to write a business letter. At supper that evening, my family decided I should write to the Sunshine Co., makers of Cheez-Its, about my dad’s broken tooth and an underbaked box of product.

A few weeks later, a Sunshine rep showed up at my school with a carload of goodies—cookies, crackers, Cheez-Its, and more. Clearly, they were meant to be shared with the whole class.

But I wanted to take them home to my dad.

If I could go back to that fifth-grade classroom, I would make a different choice. I’d open the boxes and say, “Look what we got!”

It’s the sort of shift that happens in our ever-evolving understanding of abundance and Oneness. As we allow what supports life’s good to flow through us, we experience a widening of the circle—from “me” to an awareness that there is no such thing as private good.

What comes to us is also what we’re called to give from. The abundance, joy, peace, and wholeness we experience become gifts we share.

The possibility available to me in that fifth-grade classroom is on the table for us all. We can hold fast to the blessings of good we receive, or we can become the kid who doesn’t need to take the Cheez-Its home, but gets joy from opening the box and sharing them with everyone.

- Rev. Kurt

10/08/2026

Curiosity can be one of the gentlest forms of spiritual guidance.

We do not always need certainty before taking the next step.

Sometimes interest itself is enough to begin.

What am I curious enough to explore?