Unity Santa Fe Prayer Column for August 
2024
How do we take care of our own spiritual, physical, and mental selves? Is taking a break and going for a walk self-care, and can it be prayer? Is seeing a movie that sparks your imagination for creativity or lifts your spirit, self-care and a form of prayer?
I have been exploring prayer in many different avenues this past year but the most interesting has been looking at the idea of praying without ceasing. Maybe we each are a living, walking prayer in action. Doesn’t one of our prayer songs at Unity say, “Our thoughts are prayers, and we are always praying.” Taking that a bit further, we are always able to make a choice, a choice for being reverent with our thoughts, words, and deeds; or being irreverent to ourselves with critical and judgmental thoughts.
With a return to reverence for the Divine within, we wake up to a feeling,
Knowing, and a way of being that is more peaceful, kind, and compassionate for the number 1 person in our life – Ourselves. We find healing and calmness in our life when our self-care includes Praying Without Ceasing.
Kristine Baker
Unity Santa Fe Prayer Practitioner
Prayer Practitioners Available Every Sunday and During the Week
Every Sunday, after service, you have the opportunity to pray with a Unity Prayer Practitioner in the Sanctuary or youth classroom.
You can also request to have a Prayer Practitioner call you once a month or during the week for a Private Prayer Call.