“Thus prayer must be redefined as the act of consciously choosing union. With this definition, you can see how your life can become a prayer. This does not negate the fact that a prayer is also a constant dialogue of asking, being answered, and responding. This is the aspect of prayer that makes of it an act of creation. (Treatises of A Course of Love: Treatise on the Art of Thought, 6.3)”
Affirmation: “I will choose union through prayer today.”
Reflections:
1 – Union
This passage for today emphasizes once again how important prayer is to our well-being in this life. We are said to make of our whole life a prayer, when we follow what Jesus is saying in A Course of Love. We consciously choose union with our Self/Christ and God within, with our brothers and sisters in this world and all worlds (even unseen), and we choose to embrace the universe(s). Union is all-inclusive, and it is a big part of our way home.
2 – Prayer
The second sentence in this passage is important: “This does not negate the fact that a prayer is also a constant dialogue of asking, being answered, and responding.” Certainly! This is the way that we have traditionally seen prayer at its most simple: asking and being answered. But here we also see that we are to respond. And this is the new art of thought. We learn through receiving and then responding, not only to God, Who has answered our prayer, but also to others who can benefit as well.
3 – Personal Experience
I have personally found that my answers to prayers have increased in very recent days. What we believe does make a difference, and I have been expecting answers to come at the point of asking. I have not had to wait long. Recently I asked for a solution to a minor health problem, and immediately–yes, immediately–the answer to my problem came into my mind, not as a voice, but as an internal word that was my own thought, but yet a bit beyond me. At first I thought that I had misheard, that another one-word answer was meant. But as the afternoon wore on, I realized that the initial word had been accurate. I acted on this precise directive, and my minor health problem cleared up.
4 – Mind
The word that come into our minds are not always God speaking to us. There is much left in our minds that alter His messages. But as we walk further along the pathway to Awakening, the chaff tends to fall away, and our internal hearing does seem more on the beam with God. We can ask silently, and receive an answer. We can also journal our questions, and wait for an internal prompting of what to write by way of an answer. This latter suggestion is championed by a writing expert, Julia Cameron (The Artist’s Way). And it works. The fact that we capture on paper what is impressed upon our minds encourages us to reread and to respond in the future to what has been answered in our prayer.
5 – Listening in Prayer
So, pay attention to the internal, silent monologue of thoughts when asking in prayer. I have been very, very pleasantly surprised that this type of listening increases as it is used.
Prayer:
Dear Father/Mother,
Thank You for the immediate answers to my prayers that I have been receiving. I realize that this is the way that prayer is supposed to work, for our communion with You answers all problems.
May all of us have a good day. May anxieties fall away, and may we walk into the sunlight with You.
Amen.
MIRACLES EACH DAY 