September 2008, was the first time I participated in Unity’s Day of Prayer. I had volunteered to meditate and pray from 10-11am.  With the bitter rhetoric of election politics swirling around, over flowing from the media outlets into neighborhoods and signs on the corner, I was very agitated and started my prayer time nagged by worries which ranged from the proliferation of war to the ongoing environmental destruction in our society, and I tried to envision a better future for my children. About 20 minutes into my meditation I was hit with “So what?” Not in an apathetic type of way, it was as if all of a sudden I was genuinely freed from attachment to the results – of my prayers, of my actions, of other people’s actions in relation to our fate here on earth.  It did not propel me into complacency, in fact it freed up my energy to still direct my prayers and actions in a meaningful way, yet in losing my attachment to the results I also dropped my fears and animosities towards “the other;” The other policies, the other beliefs, the other candidates and so on. Read More