Sunday Service Times: 9 and 11 AM.
Services held in our beautiful new chapel located at 8900 Arapahoe Road. Directions.Youth: Nursery available for infants at both services. Children’s Church for all ages during the second service.
Click here for the Summer 2009 Youth Program.
Teens will not meet formally during the summer. However, they are encouraged to assist with the younger children during the second service.
What is Unity?
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 repects each individual's right to choose a spiritual path.-Association of Unity Churches International
Looking for a Beautiful Wedding Location?
The Columbine Unity sanctuary is available for weddings. If you or anyone you know is planning a wedding, please let them know our space is available to them. Interested parties can contact Scott or Carol at 303-546-0114. Check Out Our Wedding InformationGrocery Scrip
Come by the table on the lower level on Sundays to purchase your grocery scrip.
Grocery scrip is an easy way for you to help raise money for the church. You purchase a $50 gift card and it's good for $50 in groceries at the store of your choice. It doesn't cost you any extra money out of your pocket, it just makes the church money! Our list of stores includes King Soopers, Safeway, Vitamin Cottage and Sunflower Market. The church makes 5% on the amount of the gift card. Someone is at a table in the lobby after every service where you can help the church and purchase your grocery scrip.
Minsters' Letters
Letter from Scott
March/April 2009
In the last newsletter I wrote to you about my personal mission: “I’m about getting down to it.” I want to uncover and live from my deepest truth. Obviously my approach to ministry is a reflection of this mission; as you come to understand my mission you can’t help but hear it in my talks or experience it in my classes and counseling sessions. Many of you have asked for further clarification and guidance for ‘getting down to it’. Let’s look at another example from my life:
I have just returned for a vacation in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. I went by myself. The church calendar dictated that I take vacation in February and yet none of my friends were available to accompany me. I could have visited friends here in the states but something felt right about heading to Mexico and being on the beach. I vacationed by myself once back in my twenties and I didn’t care for it. I felt alone and particularly noticed the aloneness when I experienced something beautiful or exciting and had no one to share it with. I knew that going alone thirty years later could, and probably would, bring up some of the same reactions but I have grown spiritually in those years and I was curious about the experience now. One of the important components of ‘getting down to it’ is our willingness to do what feels right in the moment, no matter what conclusions we have drawn from our history. In this way we shift our focus from needing to control our lives to being open to growth and the resulting freedom being offered by the unfolding of our lives.
Immediately upon landing in P.V., I felt some anxiety. The anxiety was about accomplishing the little things like getting through customs, negotiating the taxi fair, discerning whether the kid who pointed out the ATM machine really deserved the tip that he was now demanding, and deciding where to go for lunch. I realized how much confidence and comfort I take just from having other people I know around. I was also able to see and acknowledge that objectively I was doing just fine on my own.
The next day was much the same. I was experiencing the nuances of vacationing alone, recognizing that some brought up reactions in me and yet in each case it seemed that I was objectively doing fine.
On the third day, however, I woke, after about eight hours of sleep, wanting to sleep more. I remember rolling over telling myself that there was no reason to get up and trying to go back to sleep. Then it occurred to me that I wasn’t tired. My body felt fully awake and rested. My mind, however, was putting out a strong message that it wanted more sleep. I sat up in bed realizing that something was up.
“Getting down to it” requires that we develop sensitivity to what is going on for us in the moment. It takes practice because our normal stance in life is to be more focused on the task at hand or what is going on around us. When I first began to orient myself toward “getting down to it,” I had a clock on my desk that would beep once an hour. That was my reminder to pause and ask myself the question, “What am I experiencing now?” With this question we are engaging our minds in the scanning of our bodies. Our bodies never lie about what is really happening for us in the moment. Does our body feel open and relaxed or is it tense and closed. Is there an emotional content to what is going on in the body? From this perspective we begin to reveal the patterns and beliefs playing out in our lives; patters and beliefs that inevitably have been limiting us.
That morning in P.V. I found tension in my belly. As I sat with it for a moment I could feel the anxiety about the day ahead: more choices, no structure or distractions to get lost in. I could feel the sense of overwhelm and the desire to escape it by sleeping. The energy was young, child like and concerned about doing it right. I recognized my inner child and suddenly was struck with the question, “Who has been taking whom on vacation here?” It was becoming obvious that my inner child thought that he was responsible for maneuvering us through this vacation.
I spent time alone as a child to avoid being teased but it wasn’t a pleasant experience. It made me feel like there was something wrong with me. As I considered this that morning in P.V., I realized that out of the sense that there was something wrong with me, I worked to do everything right so that I might at least get some acknowledgment from my parents that I was OK. Here I was again in a situation where I was alone and it seemed clear now that my inner child had subtly taken charge to make sure that everything was done right so that he could get some positive acknowledgment.
The task, however, was daunting to a young child and now he was overwhelmed. I had been observing what was going on but until this moment, not realizing the dynamic that was playing out within me. Through the practice of getting down to it, now I, as an adult, could be present to the situation.
I jumped out of bed announcing to this young part of me that today I was taking him to the beach. My willingness to explore what was going on in the moment had brought presence and the experience of spaciousness. I was energetically holding this anxious and overwhelmed aspect of my ego in the space and there was also room for the qualities of spirit to arise in my experience. I felt alive and confident; open to the day. I was clear about what needed to be accomplished that morning in order to get us to the beach. Having provided safety and support for this young aspect of my ego, this structure relaxed in me, freeing those childlike qualities. That day at the beach I was more animated and outgoing. I wasn’t just on vacation, I was enjoying vacation.
In our willingness to get down to it, we reveal our limiting beliefs and patterns by exploring the activity of our ego. Through the process we are learning to be present with ourselves which not only allows our ego to relax but also creates space for the expression of spirit in our experience. The process requires that we begin to ask ourselves, “What am I experiencing now?” While the process can reveal uncomfortable, even painful dynamics from our past, the resulting freedom brings satisfaction and fulfillment to the experience of our lives.
Love,
Scott