Welcome to Living Water Unity
Living Water Unity closed in January 2026. If you are seeking a Unity community in the Denver Metro Area, please consider these local options:
Columbine Spiritual Center
Columbine Spiritual Center
8900 Arapahoe Road
Boulder, CO 80303
Boulder, CO 80303
(303) 546-0114
4670 E 17th Ave Pkwy
Denver, CO 80220
Denver, CO 80220
021 S University Blvd
Denver, CO 80210
(303) 758-5664
7899 S Lincoln Court
Littleton, CO 80122
Littleton, CO 80122
(303) 798-2295
Do you have a prayer request? Submit a direct 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
FALLING DOWN AND GETTING UP
My old friend Bob and I recently met for a drink and, as usual, ended up sharing stories. He started us out by telling me about the spring a couple of years earlier when he decided it was time to paint the family room. Determined, he was up early on Saturday morning and out the door to Lowe’s to buy two gallons of red paint (his wife’s idea), wooden mixing sticks, a drop cloth, and one of those cheap brushes that always hardens no matter what you soak it in.
Arriving home, he opened and stirred the paint outside and then waddled to the door of the house with a gallon of paint in each hand, the drop cloth under his arm, and the brush between his teeth. With a good-humored chuckle, he told me what happened next. “I stood at the door for I don’t know how long trying to figure out how to open it without putting anything down. I must have looked like an idiot . . . struggling to push down the door handle with my elbow. Well, I almost had the door open when I lost my balance and stumbled backwards, winding up on the ground nearly entirely covered in red paint.” At this point, Bob began laughing uproariously at his own stubbornness . . . a blessed gift of time, I guess.
Well, I thought about his story all the way home. Amazingly we’ve all done this . . . whether with bags of groceries or painful stories we hold onto and repeatedly share. It’s such a mysterious thing how, in a moment of ego, we refuse to put down what we carry so we can easily open a new door. Time and again, we are offered the chance to learn that we cannot hold on to things, even memories, and wholeheartedly embrace a new experience.
Perhaps there’s a basic process that contributes to successful, drama-free living: plan, gather supplies, put down old baggage, open the new door, enter. Sounds simple . . . yet, for some reason, we often refuse to do things in such an orderly way. The good news is that we are always given another chance to learn how to fall, get up, and laugh at ourselves.