Sunday Experience – Live @ Unity on Rancho

The Tender Edge: Grace, Courage, and the World to Come

“We are being invited to live at the edge of the old world, with the heart of the new one.”
~ Bayo Akomolafe

We are living at the edge—of old certainties, old identities, old ways of relating to life itself. This liminal time is calling forth from us two potent energies: the warm heart energy of compassion and the cooling, soothing energy of insight.

In week one of this two part series, we will explore the wisdom of interdependence through the lens of the Shambhala Prophecy, including Joanna Macy’s powerful transmission of insight as a sacred warrior’s path. In week two, we’ll turn toward compassion—not as pity or performance, but as the fierce, relational tenderness that emerges when we surrender the illusion of separateness. Together, we’ll reimagine grace as a living current, courage as a shared inheritance, and healing as an act of co-presence. This is not about escaping the world – it’s about becoming trustworthy to it. Join us at the tender edge, where the future is not fixed, but quietly waiting to be tended into being.

Insight: Seeing with the Web of Life

“Insight is not a spotlight we shine on the world, it is the world shining through us when we remember we belong to it.”
~ Terry Tempest Williams

What if insight wasn’t something we achieved alone in the mind, but something that emerged through relationship—through our entanglement with Earth, each other, and Spirit? This week, we begin with the Shambhala Prophecy as shared by Joanna Macy, inviting us into a new way of seeing: one rooted not in separation or superiority, but in reverence for the interbeing of all things. This is insight as felt connection, insight as sacred perception—an awareness that cannot be earned or forced, but arises when we pause, soften, and listen to the aliveness already here. Together, we’ll explore how grace becomes visible when we attune to the web of life, and how even in moments of uncertainty, we are being held, guided, and whispered into deeper belonging. The world doesn’t need us to fix it. It’s inviting us to see it and ourselves, anew.

In a climate of great uncertainty, polarity of thinking and a crying out for healing on a global scale, our Sunday Experience offers the inspiring message that the fundamental nature of the Universe and all beings is Goodness and Love.

“Love is the energizing elixir of the Universe – the cause and effect of all Harmony”
~ Rumi

Our universal message honors the spiritual traditions while incorporating the teachings of leading age thinkers and philosophers.