Tomorrow (September 8) is our annual World Day of Prayer: a 24-hour prayer vigil we hold each September in Unity.  We invite you to hold our world in prayer: our leaders, our people, our environment, ourselves.

The first World Day of Prayer was held back in 1994, and it was the concept of James Dillet Freeman and brought into beautiful manifestation through Rev. Lynne Brown, former Vice President of Silent Unity.

No matter your religious background, we encourage you to join us in your prayer practice at home or at work.  Throughout this sacred Day, Unity centers around the world host opportunities for prayerful activities, and ours is no exception.  If you live here in the Central Ohio area, we also invite you to join us at Unity of Columbus for our World Day of Prayer activities.  (The full schedule can be found below.)

This year, our dear friend Linda An, along with her husband, Jim, are attending the World Day of Prayer at our headquarters in Unity Village, Missouri.  I had the honor of attending last year, and it is a wonderful opportunity to connect with hundreds of people in meditation, creative thought, and fellowship.  We send prayers for a safe, peaceful journey for them both.

Prayer is the foundation of our Unity Movement.  It all began with our co-founder, Myrtle Fillmore, when she and her husband, Charles, decided to attend a lecture from an early New Thought leader named Dr. E.B. Weeks in 1886.  There, Myrtle learned the power of what we call affirmative prayer.  

Myrtle had been diagnosed with tuberculosis, which doctors had told her and her family was a hereditary disease, one that in most cases proved to be fatal, certainly in the 19th century.  Over the course of many hours per day, seven days a week, for several weeks and months following Dr. Weeks's lecture, Mrs. Fillmore engaged in deep meditation, repeating the following words:

"I AM a Child of God, and therefore, I do not inherit sickness."

Within two years, Myrtle was healed - there was no evidence of tuberculosis in her body, and she went on to inhabit her physical body with life, wholeness, vim, and vitality until 1931, when she made her transition peacefully at the age of 86.

Prayer works, and it can work for you, too!  Unity offers tools for transformation - join us this Sunday, where you will learn to transform your lives; it all begins by changing your perceptions.

We look forward to praying with you tomorrow!

In Spirit,