PRAYER
This is my gift to you.
This is my gift to you.
When we say we will pray for someone or something what is it that we intend to do? Why is it sometimes it works and sometimes, not? When we refer to God, what is it we are referring to? Many people world wide think of God as something separate from them, something that they make requests of, make offerings to and make deals with. It seems sometimes this prayer works but is not that dependable.
For much of my life I have been looking into the science of prayer. What is it that works? And what is God?
I had a huge breakthrough in my quest when I had my mystical experience. It gave me a sense of the nature of God. The beautiful result was a natural relationship to prayer.
I had the experience that God is Love and in that All embracing Love we are absolutely safe. When I speak of Love I am talking about an All encompassing Love that is far beyond personal love.
God is All. Omnipresence. EVERYWHERE present. You, me, your cat, the rocks in your garden, all God. That omnipresent Presence is Grace and Harmony. This Omnipresence is infinite. This is an important aspect of prayer. There is no separate person/s over there that one is praying for. The God that is you is the same God that is everyone. We are all the same Grace.
God is Omnipotent. The only power. That is very good news because it means that the only TRUE power is love, grace and harmony. In the experience of being a person in the world we confront some pretty scary situations and people. If you know and align your self with the nature and power of the Divine, harmony prevails in your experience.
God is Omniscience. The field of all knowing. God is All, God knows, and believe me, God knows exactly what to do about it All. Prayer is surrender to Grace. Turn your life over to Grace.
Prayer is aligning with these truths. The deeper one's sense of alignment with Truth, the more powerful the prayer. Sometimes when I am having an issue with someone I will simply align myself with the Truth I AM YOU. What that means to me is the same Awareness, the same Intelligence, that I call me is you and is already Harmony. We are participating in a dream of sorts in which we believe we are separate and we need to participate in certain ways. This is Maya, an illusion, a very convincing illusion, albeit, but an illusion. Because we believe it and feel we have to change it, we continue to create it. The only way we need to participate is in handing it over to Love, Grace and Harmony, and following any guidance that may follow.
Understanding the nature of God is important. But once understanding occurs the next step is much more important....
The awakening I experienced was entered through being aware of being aware. We spend our lives being aware, focused on what it is that we are seeing, hearing, smelling and feeling. We focus on the experienced, rarely the experiencing and, even rarer still, the Experiencer. That which is aware in us, that which is experiencing is the Truth of our Being, our Divinity, God. That which is being experienced is the dream. God's dream.
In the Silence, Grace reigns Supreme.
So meditation is the next step. I sit down and ask myself "Am I Aware?" That silences the mind and puts it on the search for Awareness. If the mind is particularly busy start by being aware of a sound or sensation and move to that which is aware. Or, I listen to the Silence. Awareness and Silence is the 'locale', so to speak, of God. Now is the 'time'. The job of the mind is to think, don't try to fight it, the mind loves that. Just become aware of the thoughts without engaging. Nothing silences the mind faster. Be in the silence.
That's it.
I caution you. God is Now, only Now. So when you start looking for results you are leaving the Now and leaving prayer. If a 'problem' took you to pray, practice either being aware of being aware or thinking about the qualities of the Divine whenever the problem wants your attention.
Remember Harmony is in charge, and Harmony is THE Mystery and we never know what the answer to our prayer will be.
If we pray for more money, or a new boyfriend, better health or peace on earth we are aligned with the worldly. Rather than praying we are setting intentions, and intentions can be powerful. I, sometimes, set intentions before going into a state of prayer. If I am praying for something in specific I will affirm that this is God's dream and it is very easy for God to alter that dream. This assists in my alignment with Truth. It is potent that I go into prayer knowing what seems so dire is in fact a simple matter in the face of Divine Grace. The closer intentions are to the core desire of being happy, the more possible fulfillment becomes. God's intention is Love and Happiness, always. I lay my desires at the 'feet' of the Divine and fully surrender myself to the Awareness/Divinity/Grace that I AM. Then I go into being Aware of Being Aware, the silence. God knows what you have need of before you ask.
Rest In God
May you be a witness to the Magic of Divine Truth.
For much of my life I have been looking into the science of prayer. What is it that works? And what is God?
I had a huge breakthrough in my quest when I had my mystical experience. It gave me a sense of the nature of God. The beautiful result was a natural relationship to prayer.
I had the experience that God is Love and in that All embracing Love we are absolutely safe. When I speak of Love I am talking about an All encompassing Love that is far beyond personal love.
God is All. Omnipresence. EVERYWHERE present. You, me, your cat, the rocks in your garden, all God. That omnipresent Presence is Grace and Harmony. This Omnipresence is infinite. This is an important aspect of prayer. There is no separate person/s over there that one is praying for. The God that is you is the same God that is everyone. We are all the same Grace.
God is Omnipotent. The only power. That is very good news because it means that the only TRUE power is love, grace and harmony. In the experience of being a person in the world we confront some pretty scary situations and people. If you know and align your self with the nature and power of the Divine, harmony prevails in your experience.
God is Omniscience. The field of all knowing. God is All, God knows, and believe me, God knows exactly what to do about it All. Prayer is surrender to Grace. Turn your life over to Grace.
Prayer is aligning with these truths. The deeper one's sense of alignment with Truth, the more powerful the prayer. Sometimes when I am having an issue with someone I will simply align myself with the Truth I AM YOU. What that means to me is the same Awareness, the same Intelligence, that I call me is you and is already Harmony. We are participating in a dream of sorts in which we believe we are separate and we need to participate in certain ways. This is Maya, an illusion, a very convincing illusion, albeit, but an illusion. Because we believe it and feel we have to change it, we continue to create it. The only way we need to participate is in handing it over to Love, Grace and Harmony, and following any guidance that may follow.
Understanding the nature of God is important. But once understanding occurs the next step is much more important....
The awakening I experienced was entered through being aware of being aware. We spend our lives being aware, focused on what it is that we are seeing, hearing, smelling and feeling. We focus on the experienced, rarely the experiencing and, even rarer still, the Experiencer. That which is aware in us, that which is experiencing is the Truth of our Being, our Divinity, God. That which is being experienced is the dream. God's dream.
In the Silence, Grace reigns Supreme.
So meditation is the next step. I sit down and ask myself "Am I Aware?" That silences the mind and puts it on the search for Awareness. If the mind is particularly busy start by being aware of a sound or sensation and move to that which is aware. Or, I listen to the Silence. Awareness and Silence is the 'locale', so to speak, of God. Now is the 'time'. The job of the mind is to think, don't try to fight it, the mind loves that. Just become aware of the thoughts without engaging. Nothing silences the mind faster. Be in the silence.
That's it.
I caution you. God is Now, only Now. So when you start looking for results you are leaving the Now and leaving prayer. If a 'problem' took you to pray, practice either being aware of being aware or thinking about the qualities of the Divine whenever the problem wants your attention.
Remember Harmony is in charge, and Harmony is THE Mystery and we never know what the answer to our prayer will be.
If we pray for more money, or a new boyfriend, better health or peace on earth we are aligned with the worldly. Rather than praying we are setting intentions, and intentions can be powerful. I, sometimes, set intentions before going into a state of prayer. If I am praying for something in specific I will affirm that this is God's dream and it is very easy for God to alter that dream. This assists in my alignment with Truth. It is potent that I go into prayer knowing what seems so dire is in fact a simple matter in the face of Divine Grace. The closer intentions are to the core desire of being happy, the more possible fulfillment becomes. God's intention is Love and Happiness, always. I lay my desires at the 'feet' of the Divine and fully surrender myself to the Awareness/Divinity/Grace that I AM. Then I go into being Aware of Being Aware, the silence. God knows what you have need of before you ask.
Rest In God
May you be a witness to the Magic of Divine Truth.
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