Blessings
“Blessed
be the journey that has taken you so far along in your life. Blessed
be the willingness and the fortitude you have to face each day. And
blessed be the goodness in you to want to rest on sacred ground.”
Caroline
Myss (Caroline's Blog: Is Prayer Something Real for You?)
I receive lots of prayer
requests on Facebook—as I'm sure you do. Almost everyday someone is
asking for prayers for themselves, or a friend or relative who is
sick or going through a hard time, and lots of folks respond. This
leads me to believe that prayer is real for many of us. We believe
that in saying, or thinking a few words for that person, we somehow
impact their life in a positive way. When we ask God's blessings for
them, or we ask that the surgeon have steady hands and a clear mind,
when we ask that they be healed, or cured, or lifted up, we have a
sense of certainty that God hears us and responds.
To be sure, what we ask
for does not always happen as we would like for it to, yet we are
comforted in the asking. In the depths of prayer, we connect with a
Presence within and without, that feels very real. We're aware of the
closeness of that Presence and we feel that It understands our words
regardless of our language, feels our pain, and has a vast capacity
for compassion. Even when our prayers are not answered in the way we
would choose, we feel deep peace in the asking.
Even though most of us
seem to direct our prayers to God-out-there, the connection, the deep
peace, comes from the God-in-here. When we pray, we go inside to holy
ground. We kneel before the Source of our being and communicate with
the part of us that is directly connected to that which we call God
by many names. That Source is One and Universal—available to, and
inherent in, every living thing. It does not belong to one religion,
one people or one planet. It is within each of us—we who are made
of flesh and bones, blood and marrow, are also made of soul and
spirit. I hope you will find your sacred ground today and ask for
blessings and guidance for our world.
In the Spirit,
Jane
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