Unity Church of Tucson

by Sammie Alijagic

“Joy, joy, joy. I LIKE to feel joy. It is a good feeling. I like my mom to feel joy. I respect her hard work. So joy is good for her, too.

“Here is an example about joy. I did some things with my friends the other day, we laughed and it was joy for all of us. It was good to have joy with all of my friends. They agreed.
But my mom did not. Now my mom feels mad, mad, mad. And I will have no more joy for at least two weeks. And that is why I am writing this paper. It brings my mother joy to make me do it. So maybe I can return to joy feelings with my friends again real soon. Then my friends will feel joy. And I will feel joy. And my mom will feel joy. She is the most important person in the world. So I do not feel joy when she is sad.”

Writing essays was a part of my children’s “groundation” punishment. The above represents but one-fourth of an essay my younger wrote after one of her escapades. We lived very close to the beach in Venice, California, and Escapades was her middle name. But, my point is, she was a bright ninth-grader and wrote with this incredible redundancy for three pages. joy, joy, joy.

The topic was chosen by her by pulling a card from “The Angel Cards.” They are about 50 little cards 2 « x _ inches, each with one word on them. I made her pull three, and write three pages on each. Trust me, each was as redundant as the other.

The other day I revisited this memory. That’s because I re-read what I wrote for last issue’s Expanding Horizons. I must have used the term “point-of-view” four dozen times. I don’t know - I was too appalled to read it twice and count it up. It could have been five dozen. I wasn’t trying to pull one over on anyone, as my little angel-child did way back in ninth grade, but it sure sounded like it! Admittedly, though, “Bookstories” last issue was written as if I were a procrastinator!

So, let me have another go at my point:

Points of view expressed, contemplated and shared are an important way to develop introspective opinions. Expressing ourselves helps us to be understood, and we extend the courtesy to listen to others. This allows us ever greater opportunities to let spiritual energy encompass us. The Unity Metaphysical Bookstore, and this was my point last issue, houses about 3500 Points of View. They are based on New Thought. Topics of Wellness, Self-Empowerment, Holistic Lifestyles, Spiritual Wisdoms fill up the floors and rafters. And that is very cool. It’s beautiful in the bookstore, too.

And those Angel Cards my daughters had to write essays from? They have been re-issued in beautiful gift packaging. They are called, “The Original Angel Cards.” Each daughter got that as a gift this year. I believe, if you give yourself a gift of them, you, too, will feel joy when you look at them, joy when you think about them. Joy is good. Joy is nice to spread.

Thank you for Being at Unity Metaphysical Bookstore.