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 29

Remind me, God,
to forgive myself
that I am clear to forgive others.

I have loved discovering that forgiveness does not require that someone be wrong and someone be right.

That discovery eliminates superiority/inferiority separation. Removing separation before forgiving makes the blessing that results so sweet.

Love and blessings,

Prayer Prompt 28

This morning's Sunday silence--but for the wondrous birdsongs--brought clearly to mind how much I want to know the universe of love.

Living, loving God
Help me lose my fear
of recognizing love.

Love and blessings,

Prayer Prompt 27

The awareness of one love--and all the human love-types just  variations--is beautiful. Simplifying. Uplifting.

Love is all from God.
God's love is all.
All love is God's.
Love is all God.
God is all love.
All love is from God.

Love and blessings,

The Touch of God

The man whispered, "God, speak to me."
And a meadowlark sang.
But, the man did not hear.

So the man yelled "God, speak to me!"
And, the thunder rolled across the sky.
But the man did not listen.

The man looked around and said, "God let me see you."
And a star shined brightly.
But the man did not notice.

And, the man shouted, "God show me a miracle!"
And, a life was born.
But, the man did not know.

So, the man cried out in despair, "Touch me God, and Let me know you are here!"
Whereupon, God reached down and touched the man.
But, the man brushed the butterfly away and walked on.

Don't miss out on a blessing because it isn't packaged the way that you expect.

from Christopher Ian Chenoweth's
Daily Inspiration, 4/25/2009

Prayer Prompt 19

Whether I view God as my Father, my Mother, my Friend, my Protector....

Whether I view God as Principle, Source, Spirit, Oneness....

I remain delighted to know Oneness with God. No matter what discoveries or decisions I make regarding my relationship with God, I suspect I will always see myself as a child of God...

Good morning, God.
I embrace that I am your child,
that you have me constantly your Child of Good.

That is not a typo. God is, for me, the greatest Power and Presence of Good.

Love and blessings,

Prayer Prompt 18

I grew up with mixed instructions:

Love God.

Fear God.

I recognized the contradiction pretty quickly. But it took me longer to realize that to fear God is just flat out wrong. Self-defeating. Self-damaging. Dumb.

And so as I've loved God, I've learned to love God more. And that learning has let me bring respect in as part of the love.

I respect you, God.
I am open and receptive
to my wants being fulfilled.

The beauty is that it's two-way love. And God expresses love by his creations. You and me.

And by fulfilling our wants.

Love and blessings,

PS I'm conducting a series of 3 teleclasses (simpler than webinars!) about Living a Prayerful Life. I'd love your joining us.

Prayer Prompt 17

Prosperity comes in many forms.

With the heightened commercial attention to the Law of Attraction, it's very easy to equate prosperity with wealth...and mean financial wealth.

Certainly financial or material wealth is one form of prosperity. And not a bad form, at that. But it's surely not the only prosperity.

I recently concluded that the abundance I receive from God is the raw material from which I get to produce prosperity.

God doesn't send me prosperity like a bag of money or a winning lottery ticket. God manifests for me an abundance of tools I can use to create the prosperity I want. That may be financial prosperity. It may also be prosperity in terms of happiness, health, friendships, experiences......

The tools God provides me are ideas. In abundance.

I thank you, God.
Send me ideas that benefit me,
benefit others, benefit your Universe.

Love and blessings for you and your ideas,

Prayer Prompt 16

There is so much joy, so much pleasure to find in the beauty surrounding us.

There is the enlivening beauty of a sunrise and the calming beauty of a sunset. No matter how often we see their beauty.

And the beauty is not all visual. The sound of a car horn and screeching brakes may be the beauty of a life saved. The taste of a fresh peach depicts the beauty of summer. And not many things feel more beautiful than a good hug, right?

Nor is the beauty that surrounds us only physical. Don't you enjoy the beauty of a great idea and a creative insight?

If things physical and mental are beautiful, how much more is the spiritual? The wonder(fulness) of the spirit that is our unity is beyond compare.

God, your work is fine art.
Illustrate for me ways to beautify
my work and the role it has in my life.

Striving to make beauty in what I do is inspired by the beauty God gives.

Love and blessings,

Prayer Prompt 15

More and more I enjoy the truth of Oneness. Thankfully.

More often now I remember to start by relaxing my body.

More frequently I remember to ask my mind to quieten.

More and more I invite my spirit to open and receive.

That's all it takes. Of course, remembering to remember those entry steps is often a challenge.

Sometimes I am too rushed to talk to God. Sometimes I talk so fast, so loud that I cannot hear God speaking to me.

I have faith in you, God.
Allow your healing grace to flow in me.
Allow me to receive it.

Wishing you the calm and easy entry into such communions.


PS I invite you to my Introduction to Living a Prayerful Life teleclass, January 29.
Hope you'll join us.