THE GREATEST OF ALL PRAYERS

To be completely caught up in fretful prayer for any righteous reason is to be completely caught up in self...there is no God there.

It becomes fairly easy to understand that being caught up in praying for one's self, be it for power, glory or security, is self-centered and not of God.

It becomes trickier when we allow ourselves to believe that God will approve and grant our prayer if  it's for a just or noble cause, or a dear one's health, or our country. That, in fact, is simply a wish...there is no God in wishes either.

What makes that particularly hard to comprehend is that occasionally our so-called prayer is answered and answered exactly as we asked for it. That may be the human condition or it may be karma whichever you choose to go with. I doubt anyone has ever kept track of the unintended consequence of those answered requests, but it would make for interesting reading.

Today, prayer to me is based first in my accepting unto walking around truth that God does know each and every person's needs, does have each one's back, has already taken care of any perceived problem and taken care of it for each one's own personal benefit.

If we are ever to do God's will, or to even want to do God's will, our job is to accept that God's idea of fixing a problem beneficially is not our idea...and opening to a whole new understanding of  "beneficially."

Once I am secure in my base of acceptance (which means I've quit thinking, analyzing, bargaining), I can pray the greatest of all prayers: "Thank You."

Thank You.