Unity Connections

Joining a spiritual community is a statement of commitment. An outer statement that speaks of an inner commitment to make our spiritual growth and wellbeing a priority. For those of us already in the community, this is an opportunity to realize what a true honor it is for someone to purposely choose us as the community that they want to grow with. Our true community purpose is to come together to know and support each other on our sacred path of spiritual unfoldment. Spiritual community affords us a place and a space to explore and grow into the fullness that we are in Spirit. It also holds that vision of us in times when we may lose it for ourselves. We all take turns in that process. Wherever you are in that process- thank you for joining us, in community. Consider for yourself: What brought you to Unity of Denver? What keeps you coming back? How do you currently demonstrate your commitment to this spiritual community? If you are looking for an open and inclusive spiritua...

 We are wrapping up our series on the book How to Pray without Talking God by Rev. Linda MArtella-Whitsett this Sunday. Last Sunday we considered how affirmative prayer shifts the purpose of prayers for healing to prayers that call forth and claim a greater revelation of our innate wholeness, as expressions of Divine Life. For those of you that were in attendance, I appreciated your input on the concept of wholeness and wanted to address one comment in particular. I asked those of you in the audience for your take on the idea of wholeness. Specifically I asked what wholeness means to you, and how do you experience it. Several answers emerged - “completion, balance, connected, peace…” and then, “messiness” was tossed into the mix. Why didn’t I see that one coming? Another person even spoke to me about it afterward, expressing that she has come to realize that there is indeed wholeness in the midst of the messiness of life. That is why it is so important that we allow ourse...

As you might expect, the most frequent prayer request is for healing.   Whether it be healing for our body, our broken heart, our anxious mind, or our bank account. The practice of affirmative prayer leads us to healing by way of revealing and reclaiming our innate wholeness.  The source of our wholeness is Divine Life that expresses as us. Just as we cannot imagine the Divine to be broken or incomplete in any way, a key element to healing is to begin to know the completeness, the wholeness of the Divine as our own Divine Identity. In her book , How to Pray Without Talking to God, Rev. Linda Martella-Whitsett summarizes it this way: “All prayer intentions, whether about material good, relationships, health, or prosperity have one common aim: a realization of wholeness." In Truth, we are always whole. Our Divine Identity is full and complete. It is whole. Furthermore it is unchanging, unending, and uninterruptible.  Our very being-ness comes from and contains th...