Love,
Prayer and Forgiveness
“Never
forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you:
love, prayer, and forgiveness.”
H.
Jackson Brown, Jr.
Rabbi
David A. Cooper, in his book, God is a Verb, describes the
spiritual universe as a continuum with many levels of awareness, and
no degrees of separation. He compares it with a musical note. When a
cord is struck, we hear the loudest sound at the striking, but
afterward the sound continues, moving out for some time before there
is silence. When that cord is struck, all the stringed instruments
nearby vibrate at the same frequency, regardless of whether the sound
is loud or soft. I believe that prayer is like that, love is like
that, and so is forgiveness.
Like
ripples in a quiet pond, when we pray, the vibratory energy of our thought expands outward in concentric rings, touching everyone in its
path. It goes backward and forward in time, to generations past and
those to come. When we pray for someone in particular, we send energy
out as a blessing, and because there are no barriers through which
energy cannot travel, that person is touched, no matter how far away
or near they may be.
The
nature of God is pure awareness. We feel the magnetic pull of God's
awareness drawing us toward it. We need a spiritual life, we yearn
for connection, we search for meaning, all because of that potent
magnetic pull. In prayer, and in love, and forgiveness, we experience
the click of contact. We know we've tapped into that continuum of
powerful energy, and it is flowing through us. Today, when you pray,
allow yourself to feel the flow.
In
the Spirit,
Jane
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