Thank you, Father, for my everything just as it is right this minute.
Thank you for my everything just as it is in Your lights... thank You that You open my eyes to the fact that everything just the way it is in my eyes is the mirror image of Your lights. What I perceive as not wonderful is truly a wonderful for which I can be justly grateful...but only when I lift up my eyes for enlightenment through my new God-view.
Word of warning...do not imagine that just knowing what we see through our reasoning mind's eyes is the mirror image of God's view; and, therefore, bad is good, we're home free. That's the rough road toward magic thinking.
As an example: We see that we don't have enough money to pay the rent. We tell our self that the mirror image of that is we have plenty. Forgive me, please, but that is not going to pay the rent. That is magic thinking. We can be telling our self that even as we are evicted, when we'll declare there is no God.
Truly, God is our unlimited supply, which supply is stored within each and every one of us. We, however, have hands, feet and a brain to put to good use in order to bring that supply into form for our benefit.
We do not fret, worry and stew about how to bring that about...we turn our eyes toward others. We look for another person or maybe charitable situation that is in need, that can use our help...and we turn our focus there.
Turning our focus (our worried mind) away from our lack toward something utterly unconnected with our worry is trust...also known as holding our nose and taking a leap of faith. We must build our trust in the Father we believe in, and nothing is built by words alone no matter how powerful the words. Which we call prayer.
Faith without works is dead.
Thank you.
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