You Nique By Design

Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things.

~ Samuel M. Shoemaker ~

Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can’t pray a lie - I found that out.

~ Mark Twain ~

Grow flowers of gratitude in the soil of prayer.

~ Verbena Woods ~

When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.

~ John Bunyan ~

Prayer is the coin paid to Gratitude.

~ Jessi Lane Adams ~

Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.

~ Adam Clarke ~

There come times when I have nothing more to tell God. If I were to continue to pray in words, I would have to repeat what I have already said. At such times it is wonderful to say to God, “May I be in Thy presence, Lord? I have nothing more to say to Thee, but I do love to be in Thy presence.”

~ O. Hallesby ~

‘Pray without ceasing’.

~ 1 Thessalonians 5:17 from the New Testament of the Bible ~

Quite alot of shared thoughts here above me on prayer yes? Hmm… and to share that these are merely the tip of the iceburg on prayer however not just on the subject of prayer, but on effective prayer. Truth

I have been very aware lately of the attitudes revealed in ones underlying views of wealth and abundance. I have observed my own attitude in this area for many years. What comes to mind is an open ended question, one that can only be answered by the individual.

My question, How do you begin your day?

Attitude wise.

What groundwork are you laying for the beginning of each day?

One that is begun on the expectation of ones good, wealth and abundance or a hidden dread of what will this day bring in its wake?

Most of us have heard about meditation for well, since time immemorial and what does meditation really mean? Is it coming into the Presence of the All in All and laying prostrate before IT? Is it waiting to hear something miraculous so we can have the spark that keeps us going, that gives us a reason to want to keep on living?

I am speaking here of what’s hiding there inside your bag (baggage)? Your true Heart Intentions, beliefs. What feeds your life view. What’s in your soil or seedbed? Sharp rocks, sandy soil, restricting clay or a rich loamy soil mixed with a healthy blend of all these ingredients broken down into its finest particles, a composted soil full of life giving nutrients, that matches all the necessaries of bringing life to full potential?

We really cannot fool the All Knowing ONE whom’s Presence lives within us. We cannot fool our I AM selves truly and you know exactly what I am sharing here. That little tiny something within when you know you are still hiding something and do not want to bring it out into the Light. Not ready to let that one little something go, that coveted trinket. That little something you just feel can’t hurt to keep as it is just a small thing really.

Yes, it is a small thing, it’s called a seed of doubt. And if allowed to remain will continue to be fed, because we are all nurturers at Heart. Next thing you know, you are overwhelmed with this seed that has grown into a thickly rooted tree, wrapping itself tighter and tighter around you until you feel constricted, as though you are being held back or down by something and then it begins to appear in the physical reality as others or some circumstance that is hindering your progress or your ability to be free in your ability to deeply breathe and live without restrictions.

I have to say that being a part of this diverse Spiritual community all these years on planet Earth, I have noticed a backwards idea of being sensitive. We can see even in the media how ones have taken advantage of being offended by the inconsiderate ways of others to the point of suing ones for saying something that sounds racist or derogatory or even revealing ones underhanded ways. We put so much power into another to hurt us and forget to remain strong by standing firm in our True Power to forgive or see beyond the offense, intended or not. We give our Power away when we allow this.

This says something about us in the deepest part of what we believe. We truly do not believe who we say we are, we are still holding onto that little tiny seed of doubt of not really Being worthy. We just know enough about it in an intellectual way and not so much Know this as in Being Living Awareness of IT in our very nature by the witnessing of our behavior and how we handle ones whom are still ignorant or asleep to their GOD Nature. We know just enough to keep us in a state of misery.

How do we find ourselves in this postion? By a seed of belief, an errant one that can be changed.

When life seems to be rocking our world for our undivided attention, as in a let’s get to the Heart of the matter moment, and uncover the real attitude here, it is in these moments that we are reminded to ask for some guidance. Kind of a backwards way yet, it does seem to work or help in most cases. We feel a lifting of our imagined burdens that seem so real and imprisoning.

Now about this question I asked in the beginning. Are you aware of your Heart attitude upon rising? If not, pay attention and write it down, your genuine thoughts as they flow to get a deeper look into Knowing yourself. This sets us free truly. Knowing your Real Self. Not the personally identified self that shows up to be for others what they want to see in you so you can feel accepted and a part of the community.

This Real Knowing sets all things straight and puts your Inner House in Order. Divine Order. For when you know your True Self, then whom can say otherwise about you and affect you? It rolls off like oil and water. Truth.

The beginning of our day begins in all honesty with the ending of the day before. Leave it there. Oh, but this legal thing is ongoing and I have to deal with this and that, my child is having issues in school, my parents are elderly and ill, the bills are due, etc… Leave it in the hands of the ONE who is guiding you. How? By prayer. And then act on the given knowing.

Prayer is a word that leaves a disagreeable taste in ones mouth due to the heavily influenced definitions of religious leaders and followers. They instruct you on the how’s by telling you what physical position you must be in for it to be effective as in bowing down, laying face down, sitting on a hard surface, etc…

Prayer is an attitude of the Heart and not the physical body. I have prayed while driving in my car, and washing dishes and tending my garden, grocery shopping, washing my hair and on and on. And the interesting thing is my prayers have been answered while in the midst of doing these things. So, physical position does not seem to affect the answering of prayer in my honest opinion.

Julia, you mentioned meditation, Heart position and attitude, a getting caught up in the ‘troubles’ of this world mentality and then prayer. Yes. It is all working together here, hang in here with me. I was brought up in a military lifestyle with a mixture of faiths all around me while a Christian flavored background was in my own family, and so I was privy to prayers of all kinds.

I will say that I noticed that no matter what one was praying there was a united belief about prayer and that is, that ones really believed it worked or was working for them, only it was based more a slave receiving its meted out rations from a temperamental God. Being uttered mainly in moments of fear, pain, angst and despair due to current life experiences. Promising to change their ways radically if their prayers were answered.

Rarely did I see ones praying for the sheer Joy of expressing gratitude. Truth. I am not saying that I never heard prayers of gratitude, just rarely and when expressed, it was from a relieved postion of a God having mercy upon a lower unworthy being.

How about praying just for the sheer Joy of Being in the JOY of ONEs Presence and based, grounded on the Knowing without a doubt that this ONE LOVEs you and desires only to InJoy ITs relationship with you. IT desires to Breathe you as ITs companion in Loving Gratitude and that this Divine Spirit truly delights in you.

I spent many years praying from the position of being inwardly prostrate, face eating a steady diet of dirt in my Heart attitude. A begging and pleading for mercy from the God I once believed in due to my level of awareness in that moment, ingrained by a collective religious consciousness and I really felt due to believing that I was a mere worm at the mercy of a God’s whims of ‘Do you feel lucky today Julia?’ I laugh at myself now. However, I journaled alot of my hidden Heart’s utterings and found them after my foundation has been shaken to the core, shifting my level of awareness of how I was believing and I could not believe I wrote them! Such groveling!! It honestly made me ill to read them because my eyes were opened and I saw GOD very differently now. I threw them all away because I did not recognize the one whom had written them based on her false ideas of who GOD IS. Truly.

I was then shown in Divine Order that we leave each day behind where it belongs. Done, finished. Anything that is ongoing such as the issues I mentioned above are easily handed over and I know as I go to sleep that I am taken care of. Everything is being ‘worked’ out by the Universal ONE while I rest and rebuild for the new day’s adventures.

I don’t have to figure things out in my personal mind any longer. I have my Best Friend whom is more than capable of handling all the details, why just look at this ONEs track record, Being the Creator of the Universe! What a relief!! What a burden lifted. I can empty my bag of all things, even a tiny seed of doubt now, because, I have found IT works to believe that everything is already taken care of!! In my favor and yours.

Have you considered yourself to be one whom is already favored by Source ~ ’GOD’? Or do you secretly harbor a seed of feeling left out or forgotten, abandoned in your darkest hour? A ‘Father! Why have you forsaken me’ moment? Our eyes tend to close when we experience something painful and we are focused on our pain.

We are called to look ‘up’ positionally, as in beyond the circumstance and be seen. We are always seen and known by our Heavenly Parent. It is our short sightedness that keeps us from seeing this. Truly. Our current level of awareness blocks our ability to see what is REAL.

Once you end your day in this trustful knowing, it sets the pace of beginning each new day with this attitude, in genuinely felt appreciation of having everything provided for you . You wake up refreshed and ready to face the day with a Joy for living because you know with certainty that the Creator of the Universe has some amazing things in store for you! And now you InJoying this wonderful relationship only desire to experience it all day long. The Apostle Paul called it praying without ceasing. You commune (two way open door~ receiving and returning in kind by listening and being listened to) communication. Heart sensing ONE another …

You are like a child that knows without a doubt that Parent is taking care of everything!

Meditation as was shown to me from the early days of being 19, is being Divinely Connected with my Source. I have forgotten this in moments, as I shared about finding my old journals, yet it was through this process of being willing to release my old beliefs, my old habituated fears, that allowed me to remove all my doubts and stand firmly supported in my current state of being InPowered by my Source.

My back (past) is covered at all times, as is my leading (future) and everything in between as well, this now moment. And this is the same for you when you do what? Just be willing to be open to being aware of IT. That’s all. You don’t have to struggle to get this really. It is this idea that keeps us from experiencing IT.

Release is a Spiritual form of exercise, it strengthens your Inner Core.

If I were to teach anyone on how to pray, I would follow the Divine Design of exampling the KISS Principle.

Keep IT Simple Sweetie~pie

How? By feeling IT more than wording to it ~

Just say, Thank YOU!! and mean it from your Heart based on your awareness and this seed of LOVE will continue to grow and grow and grow, leaving no room for seeds of doubt ~

IT is enough truly to live from a root language of Thank You. Watch what happens~

Many Blessings Indeed await you,

InJoy this day ~

Discovering that Thank You not pleeease, is the magic word that UnLocks the Universe for your Joy to be expressed from your Heart Knowing position~

There’s no ‘time’ to focus on your body’s position of playing a game of twister truly, stand up and move so you can get the Highest View, while riding upon the shoulders of your Parent whose only desire is to be intimately acquainted with you, delighting in you as you are delighted to be in your Parent’s presence ~

Much LOVE to all today, InJoy your Divinely established Relationship,

Be Well in your knowing that All is well ~

By remaining in constant everywhere Present communication with your Divine Parent …

Thank You for Being Present Here with me all along!

Julia