Prayer Prompt

Prayer Prompt 31

God, I sing your praises loudly.
Help me sing as well
with clarity and confidence.

The gift is what I say means more than how it sounds. The beauty is I want to say and fear not being out of tune.


Love and blessings,

Prayer Prompt 30

Embrace me, God.
Your love supports me
that I may stand for you.

What is beyond companionship and greater than friendship allows me not to fear falling.

Unafraid to stand, I am confident to be. Just to be.

Love and blessings,

Prayer Prompt 12

As 2008 winds down, my mind hops and skips over the many joys of the year. And my mind stumbles over some of the not-so-great moments of 2008.

As 2009 approaches, I breathe deeply the anticipation of all the grace, peace, and prosperity in the year to come. And I occasionally catch my breath because fear of the unknown is a natural (human) reaction.

So...here's my application of the continuous reminder that fear is just the absence of love.

I am safe with you, God.
Help me constantly light the darkness
of fears I feel with love I know.

I look forward to 2009. I hope you will, too.

Love and blessings,

Prayer Prompt 10

There can be pleasure in being alone. There's usually not so much pleasure in feeling lonely.  

Being alone gives me time to think, to reflect, to meditate, to contemplate. And, surely, to do mundane things like read and write and cook and "veg."

Being lonely comes from not wanting to be alone. And the vicious circle makes me feel all the more alone...

Recognizing what alone and lonely share and how they are different helps.

But nothing helps more than realizing neither is Truth.

I enjoy you, God.
You are my instant, constant and abundant
supplier of love, joy and peace.

God doesn't supply those blessings from afar. They are delivered "in person" and mean I'm never alone.

Or lonely.

Love and blessings,

Prayer Prompt 9

So much is said, written, and prescribed about worry...
and worry remains so prevalent.

These days we may have more to worry about than in the past.

That does not mean we have to worry. Worry really is a personal choice.

I loved hearing someone say, "Worrying is praying for what you don't want."

That stimulated this week's Prayer Prompt:

I honor you, God.
You remind me to pray
rather than worry.

Enjoy! Don't worry.

 

Prayer Prompt 8

For too many years I wrestled to make the Law of Attraction work for me.

My mind twisted itself into knots trying to believe I believed the LoA.

I said affirmations. I concentrated on wanting very specific things...even very specific amounts of money.

And when none of that worked, I made slight--ultimately, big--changes in the way I worked the Law of Attraction.

Sometime in the past few months, I've been blessed to understand that prosperity, abundance, wealth may manifest as "raw material." I've become aware that I have the chance to do some work on those raw materials, to turn that abundance into the results I desire.

I worship you, God.
You provide abundant ideas:
prosperity I put into action.

And the add-on was this. I clearly saw how prosperous I truly am, have been. The abundance of ideas is nothing new.

The blessing is seeing them as the answer to my wants--and as the opportunity to turn them into what I wish them to be(come).

The Law of Attraction doesn't require my mind to believe it. It's wonderful, though, that my heart knows it.

Prayer Prompt 7

I love solitary time, in proper amounts.

I do not enjoy feeling alone. Ceilings get lower and minutes get longer.

Real-izing that I'm never alone has taken me years and years. And when it happened it seemed so obvious, I felt it was a "duh-scovery."

My mind has known for a long, long time that I am God's creation. My heart has been a slow study.

And it's the heart that must feel it for it to be true. That's true for me, anyway.

I feel you, God
Everyday you live
within me.

The solitary time, now, is refreshing, refueling. I am not alone.

Neither are you.

Prayer Prompt 6

The energy and concentration required just to live this human life makes me give inordinate attention to my being.  Brings lots of attention to my mind. Causes me to overvalue my feelings, my opinions.

My ego too often convinces me it serves my own good. I almost hear it say it helps me not only survive but also succeed.

It helps when I can remember that it's not all about me.

I adore you, God.
You are greater than my mind,
Greater than my heart.

This reminder, taken just once a day makes it so much easier.

If you wish, I hope you'll enjoy its use.

Prayer Prompt 5

We live in physical bodies that take action in a physical world.

Impossible to deny we give a lot of focus to our physical being.

We live in a visual society, driven by commerce steered by media.

Impossible to deny we spend much of that focus on how we look, and much of our worry on looking good enough.

But most truly we are our spirit. The body is temporary; the spirit continues.

The beauty is truly within us. Our beauty expresses itself from within us. That beauty is so much more than our body, hair, face, size, shape, skin, clothes, muscles, posture.

Knowing we are beautiful does us good because it's true. We are beautiful; there's no reason to forget that.

You are beautiful, God.
I receive my beauty from you.
Help me remember.

For sure, the human body is a beautiful sculpture, an outstanding architecture, a masterful engineering design, and first-rate mechanics. It is truly beautiful in and of itself, no matter how it looks according to 21st Century Beauty Standards.

But the greatest beauty is the spirit that fills, fuels, fosters our body and our mind.

I hope this Prayer Prompt helps you know you're beautiful.

Prayer Prompt 4

Some mornings I begin my meditation with the mantra, Om Namah Shivaya. Its beauty is the Sanskrit vibrational tone. 108 repetitions aloud settle me into a beautiful meditation place.

Om Namah Shivaya escapes specific translation. The closest I've found--perhaps the one I like best-- is I bow to Shiva. Shiva is one of the 3 Hindu gods of this creation, the god who destroys the universe but also--and I feel more importantly--the god of the inner self.

This morning I finished the mantra and eased into silent meditation. My body stilled by the vibration. My mind placed the phrase I am one with God within each of my breaths.

Later in the day this prayer prompt came through clearly. It is the reminder I so often need and want:

I celebrate you, God.
I celebrate that you and I
are One.

Oneness--true unity--is the purpose I know we are meant to fulfill.

Love and blessings,