One of the most important thoughts to use in building the God of our own understanding is that God is Spirit...not human, not of a certain form even..and that Spirit is presence itself, such as the wind, as the beams of the sun, as the air we breathe.
That Spirit is within us, without us, always present, and our only desire needs be to let it speak to us, to let it do for us as it wills.
As Fr. Richard Rohr writes this morning in his Daily Meditations, "Jesus was not changing the Father’s mind about us; he was changing our mind about God." There it is. We must change our mind about God.
In the changing of our mind (per Joel Goldsmith, The Heart of Mysticism at p. 993), "[w]hen you pray, remember that God is Spirit, and pray only for the word of God and its spiritual fruitage."
That, of course, means that we pray not for money, prestige, companionship or even good health...we pray only for knowledge of God's word and will.
The biggest change may well be in learning that our prayer starts...always...with "thank you."
Thank you.
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