I overheard a young man yesterday say that he prayed for twenty things every morning...love, patience, kindness, perseverance, etc. Doesn't that sound wonderful? That sounds like a God-approved prayer for sure.
The problem is, according to me, praying for those good things every day is denying every day that we already have them. We were born with every good thing within us. Why would God have to be petitioned for them? We're the ones withholding...from our own self.
Our life is all about living that good...the less we live love, the less we know we have love. So we begin to pray for love...in effect, holding love out there...away from us...while praying for the love that we already have. For the patience, kindness, perseverance, etc., that is already ours...we just must use it to realize it.
Of course, the only block to living the love we already have is, that goes against our ego's dictates...as in, it requires us to think of others first, to put others first, to do for others first. Our ego is all about I, me, my, mine...all about self in a word. The only reason ego exists is for self, for its perception of our benefit. Until we make a conscious decision to "loose it and let it go," our reasoning mind will line up with our ego every time.
Our job, ego deflation in depth, is made perfect when we realize that God thinks of us first, puts us first, does for us first. I wonder if that's not the sole miracle of God in action? He can and does put every single person in the universe first. All we must do is plug into that, into God consciousness. It is our detachment into God consciousness, that springs the miracle...we know God has our back so we are free to have another's back, which sets her free, which sets him free, and so on. Ah-ha! That's why it's called the circle of love.
Thank you.
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