Welcome to Living Water Spiritual Community
Living Water Spiritual Community 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.
WISDOM FOR THE WEEK
Offered by Rev. Catherine Klein, Minister of Record
FREE TO BE
Few of us are entirely free from a sense of guilt. Perhaps we have said or done something we regret and never faced up to it. Maybe we’ve broken a promise or failed to fulfill a responsibility. Perhaps someone has accused us of something, and it’s weighing on our mind.
Guilt steals our energy, dampens our enthusiasm, and robs us of joy. We cannot push it away no matter how hard we try not to think about it or distract ourselves or crowd it out with busyness. The only way to be free of guilt is by owning it and correcting the cause.
We may not realize what a burden of guilt we’re carrying until we have taken steps to repair any harm we may have done. Once we’ve apologized and done our best to make things right, we are free to release the past and give our whole selves to present moment.
Today, I will track any uneasy sense of guilt to its source, determined not to whitewash it with self-justification or self-righteousness. Then I will take care of “unfinished business” in my relationships, work, and health by making whatever amends I can. And finally, I will breathe a sigh of relief and turn my full attention to the day ahead.
One is relieved and happy when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; doing or saying otherwise shall give him no peace. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson.