Prayer Chaplain Corner
Greetings from your Prayer Chaplain Team
“Our thoughts are prayers, and we are always praying,” is the first sentence of one of my favorite Unity songs. Obviously, thanks to the ego mind, this is not an easy path to navigate. Never fear! We all have a superpower that will instantly hush that ego voice: Gratitude! When you find your thoughts drifting to a place that doesn’t serve, stop and recognize the good within and all around you.
Gratitude has the power to shift your awareness. By incorporating gratitude into your constant thought/prayers as well as your prayer practice, you are aligning your heart and mind with Divine presence. Rather than focusing attention on lack, fear, or limitation, thankful prayer lifts awareness toward wholeness and possibility. You are validating the truth of God already active within you.
Gratitude becomes a sacred recognition that life is unfolding through Divine love, wisdom, and abundance even before outward conditions change. When we pray with thanksgiving, we affirm trust in the creative power of Spirit.
Gratitude in prayer also nurtures peace. If you pause each day to acknowledge blessings—whether large or small—you will begin to notice the quiet ways Spirit moves through ordinary life. A conversation, a sunrise, an answered need, or even the strength to endure hardship can become evidence of Divine support. This practice gently silences that anxious ego mind and transports your awareness into the realm of Christ Consciousness. Over time, gratitude cultivates resilience, compassion, and a deeper sense of connection with others.
As we continue our spiritual journey, gratitude can serve as a daily doorway into deeper prayer. It does not require perfect circumstances or complete understanding. It simply asks us to become willing to recognize the presence of good in the here and now. It reminds us that we live, move, and have our being in Spirit. Through thanksgiving, the soul becomes more receptive to peace, guidance, and the ever-present reality of Divine love.
Namasté,
Rene Holubec
Unity Prayer Chaplain Team
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Myrtle the Mystic and Her Understand of Prayer
Myrtle Fillmore, co-founder of the Unity movement was a mystic, someone who had an intimate experience of God, and was empowered to heal her body of tuberculosis when there was no cure. After wards she maintained a powerful practice of prayer, which helped millions of people heal their bodies as well. Myrtle had a sense of humbleness and sensitivity to the Divine Energy of Life working through her and throughout the universe. You can learn about her process of prayer and more Step up into an awareness Presence of God, the Divine Life Force wherever you go, just as Myrtle did. In her writings you can see the loving nature of her experience with God. Myrtle’s letters clearly express her warm, caring nature and how she openly shared herself with others.
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Unity’s Used Book Store
Did you know we have a used book store in the Fellowship Hall, Hard cover books are just $2 and soft covers are $1. Wow, there is a wide selection of books in this used book store! It’s not our lending library, but the over flow of books from the Lending Library! Take a peek you might like what you C
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A Christmas Blessing
From Schuyler Cronley – Notes of a Skylark
C hrist is the head of your life. B lest be the tie that binds us
H eavenly joy for the season. L ove and light the freeing bond
R iches more abundantly measured. E ternal truth the blessed evidence
I nfinitely more than man’s reason. S ecuring the promised beyond
S inging “Joy to the World” and S ing out your praises, declare
T o All Whom You Meet I n faith, I no longer fear
M ay Your blessings be many N ow through Christ I’m Reborn
A nd your joy, full, complete G odlike – His Image My Mirror
S ecurely enfolded in him S o be your heart’s desire.
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Unity’s Used Book Store
Did you know we have a used book store in the Fellowship Hall, Hard cover books are just $2 and soft covers are $1. Wow, there is a wide selection of books in this used book store! It’s not our lending library, but the over flow of books from the Lending Library! Take a peek you might like what you C
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You Know This - Words of a Skylark
Apples come from apple trees. Roses grow on roses bushes. If a gardener wants carrots, he plants carrots seeds and not radishes or onions. All through life it has been proven that there is a spiritual and a natural law of life that causes all things to produce after their kind. Although Jesus Christ taught it a couple of thousands years ago, man is only now, at first regretfully and then joyfully, discovering this Truth. He discovers that each thought he holds, and each word he speaks, is governed by this very same law. Words of love and kindness never produce hate and inconsideration. You are the boss of your life, if you really want to be.