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Enfolded, Safe, and Spiritually Shielded
There are moments on the spiritual journey that reveal a truth we think we know but suddenly feel in a deeper and more intimate way. These last few days, walking through my father's transition, have been one of those sacred moments for me. In the middle of the tenderness, the decisions, the goodbyes, and the quiet hours of watching someone you love cross the threshold of this life, something unexpected happened—I felt protected.
Not protected as in “nothing hard is happening,” but protected in the spiritual way Unity teaches: Centered. Guided. Held.
This Sunday, our theme is Protection, based on the Daily Word, and we'll explore what it really means through the timeless Prayer for Protection—Unity's beloved affirmation written by James Dillet Freeman (and yes, the one that literally traveled to the moon). But before we get to Sunday, I want to offer you a small reflection, because this message has been unfolding in me all week.
The Spiritual Shield We Already Carry
Unity doesn't teach protection as something God needs to do to us. We don't imagine a big divine firefighter running around putting out every spark before it gets too close. Instead, we understand protection as a state of consciousness, a kind of inner alignment that becomes our shield.
It's not a shield made of fear or hypervigilance.It's a shield made of remembering.
When I am centered, I am protected.
When I am aligned with Truth, I am protected.
When I trust the Divine Flow, I am protected.
This is the spiritual shield—the one made not of armor but of awareness.
It's the quiet confidence that comes from knowing who you are and whose life
expresses through you. It's the protection that rises from spiritual identity, not outer conditions. And it becomes especially powerful when life feels tender or uncertain.
Protection and the Fear of Death
In moments of transition—ours or someone else's—the fear of death often becomes amplified. But this week, in the presence of my father's passing, something inside me softened instead of tightened. I felt not fear, but peace. Not panic, but Presence.
This reminded me of something David Hawkins wrote in his work on higher states of consciousness. He teaches that the fear of death is one of the great blocks to spiritual elevation. When we face it, witness it, or walk through it from a place of acceptance, something profound opens within us. We loosen the grip of the ego and expand into the deeper knowing that life cannot end—it only transforms.
In his Map of Consciousness, Hawkins notes that overcoming the fear of death lifts us toward higher states, courage, neutrality, willingness, acceptance, and ultimately love. And from those states, protection is not something we seek; it becomes something we embody.
Faith as Spiritual Protection
There is a reason Jesus said, “Do not fear, for I am with you,” and a reason Charles Fillmore wrote, “Faith is the perceiving power of the mind linked with the power to shape substance.”
Faith doesn't shield us from life's experiences—it shields us from forgetting the Truth within the experience.
When we lean into that Truth, something extraordinary happens:
We feel safe not because life is perfect, but because we know we are held.
We feel protected not because nothing changes, but because we remember we are One with the Presence in whom nothing is ever lost.
A Taste of Sunday
This weekend we will explore the Prayer for Protection line by line—from a place of Oneness:
I AM Light.
I AM Love.
I AM Power.
I AM Presence.
Wherever we are, God is.
I hope you'll join me as we uncover the real meaning of spiritual protection: not as rescue, but as remembrance. Beloveds, you are enfolded. You are guided.
You are safe. And you are never, ever alone.
Rev. Bobby
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