Game Changer

Daily Prayer

“I am someone who prays. I rely upon grace to intervene at all times in my life, especially in times of change and personal transitions.”

Caroline Myss (Caroline's Blog: Adapting to the Power of Your Light, Part 3; “Suffer Not One Exception,” from 2013 Salon)

When I began writing this blog in February, 2011, I was clearly instructed to do so in a dream. I had no idea at that time that I would still be writing it eight years later. What I have found in writing daily is a voice that has always spoken to me, but does not seem to be my own. As I've said before, my personality is rough. Sometimes I struggle with nuance and delicacy. I have a tendency to say what I think without gauging the impact it may have on others. But there is a light within me that needs to have a voice, and this is it. You have a light within you as well. Your light's guidance may be different from mine, but if you pray for guidance, you will receive it.

Being sincerely willing to follow that inner guidance, however, is a whole other ball of wax—a game changer. When you ask for consciousness, which is what you are asking for when you pray for guidance, a series of events are put into motion that will change your life—sometimes in ways you had not anticipated. We think of our inner light as beatific. Not always. A friend of mine, who has been opening herself to guidance for a year or so now, told me this week, “I think I have Cruella DeVille inside me!” She is confronting her Shadow in a most imposing way. Becoming conscious of your Shadow—how it acts in the world and how that affects the people around you—is an eye-opener, and often a burden. After all, Cruella DeVille skinned puppies to make herself a coat—not a very caring person.

You may be wondering how discovering Cruella within can possibly come from the light. If we don't become conscious of our Shadow and it's dark intentions, we will act it out in the world, and project it onto other people. We will be destructive in our own lives and in our relationships. And here's the rub—once we become conscious of that side of us, we cannot go back. We will never again be able to say and do cruel things without knowing what we're doing. That's what I mean about changing one's life—that's what consciousness does. It brings what is unconscious to light so that it can be dealt with, acknowledged and incorporated. It can humble us, and convict our conscience. But, it also makes us a whole person, whose light is genuine.

I don't know if you pray. I do, and I can tell you it is not to be entered into lightly. In praying daily, we put ourselves in contact with the Source within and without. We enter into a communication system with universal reach and strength. Daily prayers for guidance will change you in ways both great and small. As Caroline Myss advises, “suffer not one exception when it comes to asking for grace in your life each day.”

                                                            In the Spirit,

                                                                Jane