Our beloved host celebrates three years on air this week, and in honor of this milestone, she is featuring Touching the Stillness listener Dinah Chapman who, inspired by the work of this broadcast and our host’s prayer and meditation ministry, created a tribute song and included it on her new album.

Today’s guest, Ashana, has the voice of an angel that merges beautifully with the sounds of the multitude of crystal singing bowls that surround her in a pool of iridescent light to create an enchanting heart-opening experience of rich ambient stillness. (www.ashanamusic.com)

In keeping with Unity’s Year of Abundant Living theme for the month, our host urges us to cease and desist evaluating and judging our ability to meditate, or the progress of our prayer practice. She reckons if we just do our best, and ‘Let Go and Let God,’ this will be enough to make the grade!

With her thoughts attuned to a weekend of stillness and silence, our host encourages us to become still and let the sediments of our minds—and our challenges—settle as she prepares to lead us in a meditation designed to clear our thoughts and clarify our vision.

Listen in as our host discovers how one listener cycles her way to stillness and has plans to create a retreat for other women to use this pursuit as a healthy spiritual practice.

What does our guest Peggy Mulvihill do at Unity Temple on the Plaza in Kansas City, Missouri, to support parents in raising spiritually-minded kids? She joins our host to reveal some of the highlights of a newly created initiative that’s under way in her church community, in this second part of our series about teaching kids how to meditate.

There’s a biblical proverb that says if we direct our children onto the right path now, when they’re older they will stick with it (Prov. 22:6). In the first of this two-part series, our host provides tips and pointers for teaching kids how to meditate now, so they’ll hopefully be well-practiced in Touching the Stillness as adults!

You’ve heard his music, and in this episode, you’ll hear from the man himself! Our host introduces us to Jack Fowler, the musician who lives in the hands of grace. You’ll also hear some of the soul-enhancing, spirit-inspired music he’s bringing with him, to create a sacred space for stillness, when he joins Rev. Paulette in next month’s Annual Touching the Stillness Silent Retreat at Unity Village (http://www.maestropms.com/mkt/1322/retreats_calendar.htm).

We’re taking a stand for peace in this special episode honoring the 10-year anniversary of 9/11, and preparing for Unity’s annual World Day of Prayer on September 8.

We’ll be bumping into other people all day long unless we learn how, with prayer and meditation, to light up our energy field and own our space in the world. Our host dons her sunglasses as she chats with spiritual lighthouse, and certified energy worker, Christel Hughes, about how to—literally—let our light shine!