The Human Predicament - Rev. Sheryl Padgett DDiv

Singer describes the human predicament this way: throughout life we resist painful experiences, and those unresolved experiences become stored emotional patterns, or samskaras. These stored impressions create our likes, dislikes, fears, and expectations. We then spend our lives trying to manipulate the world to avoid discomfort and recreate pleasant experiences. When life matches our preferences, we feel good. When it doesn't, we suffer. The problem isn't life itself; it is our resistance to life.

The Heart - Rev. Sheryl Padgett, DDiv

This message moves from the mind to the heart - the spiritual or energy heart where we experience emotion, love, fear, grief, longing, and connection.

From Confusion to Clarity: Awakening Understanding - Rev. Sheryl Padgett DDiv

Understanding is one of the Twelve Powers in Unity. It is more than intellectual knowledge or collecting spiritual ideas. True understanding is the awakening of wisdom in the heart. It moves us from information to transformation, from judgment to compassion, and from confusion to clarity.

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Beyond Appearances: The Power of Divine Imagination - Rev. Sheryl Padgett DDIv

Too often we accept life at face value, allowing circumstances to define what we believe is possible. Yet divine imagination invites us to see beyond limitations and envision the spiritual truth that already exists within every situation. Discover how the creative power of your mind, aligned with Spirit, can transform challenges into opportunities and reveal a life filled with possibility, purpose, and joy.

Thoughts and Dreams - Rev. Sheryl Padgett DDIv

When we stop believing every thought and begin witnessing them with awareness, we discover the peace, wisdom, and freedom that have been within us all along.

Living Untethered – Part 3: The Mind - Rev. Sheryl Padgett DDIv

Where does suffering really begin?

Michael Singer reminds us that life unfolds in three realms simultaneously—the outer world, our thoughts, and our emotions. Freedom begins when we stop confusing these three experiences.

Fathers, Mentors, and the Power of Example - Rev. Sheryl Padgett DDIv
The greatest gift we can offer others is not advice but example. Through courage, compassion, integrity, and service, we help others find hope, purpose, and belonging.

One Light, Many Colors - Rev. Sheryl Padgett DDIv

The light is one, but the colors are many - just like Spirit is one, while humanity expresses through many identities, backgrounds, cultures, and life experiences. Diversity does not diminish unity; it reveals it. Charles Fillmore taught that “God is Spirit, the Principle of creative life, the moving force in the universe, the omnipotent, omnipresent essence from which all things proceed. God is life. God is in the universe as its constant ‘breath.’”

Living Untethered - The Outside World - Rev. Jill Campbell

Step by step Singer relates how matter formed and reformed after the Big Bang. What we see before us has been forming for over 13 Billion years. It is not about us.

Living Untethered - Conscious Awareness - Rev. Sheryl Padgett DDIv

We all experience an inner voice that worries, criticizes, judges, and replays the past. Most of us assume that because we hear these thoughts, they define who we are. Michael Singer’s central teaching: You are not the voice in your head; you are the awareness that hears the voice. If we can observe our thoughts, emotions, and reactions, there must be something deeper within us that is doing the observing.