Everything In Between

In Unity, when we think of our co-founders, we picture Charles as head-centered, while Myrtle embodies the heart. She’s remembered as gentle, nurturing, almost grandmotherly.

She was.

And… Myrtle was also a badass.

Case in point: Benj. G. Lee once wrote to Myrtle complaining that prosperity principles weren’t working for him. In her response, she didn’t coddle him. She challenged him—pointing out that he was insisting his good arrive in familiar ways, even though, by his own admission, Spirit was calling him to something new.

Myrtle understood that love isn’t only gentle. Love is also fierce. Love is clear. It speaks truth without sugarcoating it.

That’s how love works in us, too. It calls us to hold tenderness and toughness together. We can be compassionate and direct. Loving and courageous.

As Christmas approaches, and we prepare to celebrate that we—like Jesus—were born divinely human, may we remember this: the Christ is born in the fullness of human experience, the gentle, the fierce and everything in between.