Welcome to Living Water Unity
Living Water Unity is a joyful and supportive Unity community based in Arvada, Colorado. Unity is a positive, practical, progressive approach to Christianity based on the teachings of Jesus and the power of prayer. Unity honors the universal truths in all religions and respects each individual's right to choose a spiritual path.
Whatever your religious upbringing, we invite you to join us for our weekly congregational services. Our various guest speakers draw from their own life experiences and the teachings of numerous wise teachers, including Jesus the Christ, our way-shower. We use their lessons to enlighten, inspire, and prepare us to apply “practical Christianity” in our lives.
We meet every Sunday at 10:30 a.m. (Mountain Time) via a combination of in-person and virtual gatherings. See calendar for details on which services are in-person. Join us for music, affirmative prayers, meditation, fellowship, and an uplifting message intended to strike a Divine spark in you. We are all connected in Spirit, and we hope you feel at home with us.
**PLEASE NOTE: For our in-person services, we encourage attendees to be vaccinated, but it is not required to attend. Masks are optional. Please do not attend if you have any symptoms of illness, fever, or have been exposed to someone who has tested positive for Covid-19 within the last 10 days.
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Do you have a prayer request? Send us a message through our contact form or call 720-576-9193. Our community will include your request in our prayers at the next Sunday gathering and we will also submit your request to Silent Unity. Each prayer request is held at Silent Unity for 30 days of continued prayer. The requests are placed in the prayer vigil chapel where someone is praying 24 hours a day. You may also contact Silent Unity to speak with a prayer associate directly by calling 1-816-969-2000. Visit their website to learn how to submit prayer requests directly to them via their online request form, mobile app, or by mail.
LIVING WATER WISDOM
Offered by Rev. Catherine Klein, Minister of Record
HEALING
In this world,
Hate never yet dispelled hate.
Only love dispels hate.
This is the law,
Ancient and inexhaustible.
-- Buddha
One of the most difficult things about healing from being hurt is how to put wounds to rest when those who have hurt us will not admit their part in causing the pain. For the past year, I have stood at this crossroad every day. Forgiveness feels too much like compliance. What I long for is justice . . . not as much for myself as for the millions who are being victimized by tyranny.
Some wounds are hard to miss . . . they are visible, physical, material. But what about emotional and spiritual wounds. These are seldom visible; often there are no witnesses. Yet, if we are to heal, they must be looked at and acknowledged. Our pain is compounded when the hurtful one does not even see the damage he is doing, much less admit it or apologize or atone for it. The Buddha’s teaching and Jesus’ admonition to “turn the other cheek and love our enemies” somehow deepen our pain because we know they are true. Concerned friends remind us that, for the sake of our health, we must let go of our rage. But how?
For me, what helps is to honor the pain I’m feeling . . . let it cut deep . . . let the tears flow. In other words, be my own friend and witness. For the deepest truth is that nothing in this world is as loving, comforting, and self- forgiving as the Presence and Power of God within me.