02/05/2026
Reverend Rachel Harrison offered a deeply grounded and expansive teaching rooted in lived experience, metaphysical insight, and compassion for the human condition. Drawing from her Buddhist upbringing, her decades within Unity, and her own spiritual inquiry, she invited the congregation into a wider understanding of what it means to be both soul and human.
She began by reminding us that spirituality does not depend on proximity or numbers—that the energy we cultivate radiates far beyond the walls of any room. Like the Buddhist monks walking for peace across the country, even when unseen or unsupported, the resonance of embodied peace moves outward into the collective consciousness. We are not contained beings; we are energetic participants in a much larger field.
The theme “Acceptance as a Path to Peace” emerged for Reverend Rachel during a profound period of healing and reflection in Costa Rica. Rather than being a passive resignation, acceptance was revealed as an active spiritual stance—one that allows growth, wisdom, and integration. It is not about approving of all circumstances, but about recognizing the deeper purpose of our presence here.
Through reflections on Charles and Myrtle Fillmore, she reframed Unity’s foundational teachings as radically forward-thinking for their time—not doctrines meant to be preserved unchanged, but catalysts designed to stretch consciousness. Sacred texts, she suggested, are alive when they are re-interpreted through the lens of now, rather than frozen in the past.
At the heart of her message was an honest question many spiritual seekers carry:
If we are already divine, already whole, why choose a life that includes suffering, conflict, and heartbreak?
Her answer was both tender and challenging. Earth, she suggested, offers a rare and powerful privilege—the opportunity to experience contrast. It is through disappointment that compassion is born, through heartbreak that love becomes known, and through friction that the soul expands. We are not being punished by life; we are participating in a curriculum of becoming.
Reverend Rachel spoke candidly about her own journey—years spent in resistance to her circumstances, relationships lived in opposition rather than understanding, and spiritual insights that briefly inspired but failed to transform. Peace did not arrive through more knowledge, but through the willingness to accept her life as it was unfolding.
Acceptance, she taught, is what allows the soul to fully inhabit the human experience. It is what transforms marriages, families, communities, nations, and even the world itself—not by force, but by presence. We are not here to escape humanity, but to embody divinity within it.
In closing, the message landed gently yet powerfully:
Being an essence of the Divine does not mean we are already enlightened.
It means we are here to learn, to grow, to remember, and to participate consciously in the evolution of love.
