I used to have a real problem with anger.

I was angry so much of the time that I walked around on the verge of boiling over, because I felt like such a terrible victim. And I had no idea, for decades, that I was doing it to myself and that I could stop.

I had no idea it was all my choice.

If only somebody could have told me. You can be happy. You can feel effective and fruitful and beneficial every day.

You can feel loving all the time, peaceful, harmonious, excited, inspired, interested.

Nobody told me. So I tried to manage it instead.

That’s what we do in worry consciousness. How can I fix it, how can I fix it, how can I fix it. Managing and coping, managing and coping. When we feel separate from God, when we don’t feel loved, when we don’t feel good enough, we aren’t going to come up with good ideas.  And we’re not listening to the higher voice.

Finally, I decided to stop trying not to worry.

I said, I don’t know how to get out of worry.
I don’t know how to end the anxiety or the depression.
So I’m not going to figure any of that out.
I’m just going to wake up.

A Course in Miracles is honest with us about where correction actually works.

Correction belongs only at the level where change is possible.

Worry is a symptom. We’ve been coping with the symptom for years.

What actually shifted things for me was learning to pray.  Back in the nineties when I first started taking classes at Agape. Studying to be a Science of Mind Prayer Practitioner I learned to pray in an effective way and that was the turning point of my life. Daily prayer, consistent prayer, prayer throughout the day, moving toward a “prayer without ceasing” way of living.

Not praying for things in order to get things. Not that.

Prayer is the medium of miracles.

Every prayer is a remembrance of the truth. Every prayer is a declaration of willingness, and willingness is all that’s required for us to wake up.

Which means there’s nothing left to wait for.

Delay is of the ego, because time is its concept.

Our awakening is happening now. It’s guaranteed. So why postpone it, and what exactly would we be postponing it for?

I’ve never once wished I’d waited longer.  And that’s also why teaching to pray this way is such an important part of my programs like Finding Freedom From Fear – prayer helped me heal my worried mind.

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LATEST PODCAST EPISODE: You Don’t Know What Will Make You Happy In this episode, I explore ACIM teachings on happiness, certainty, and trust. I’m just home from an A Course in Miracles gathering in Stony Point, New York, and I opened Lessons 361 to 365 and the Workbook Epilogue and found the one assumption that quietly kept my own answered prayer out of reach for years. I share the surprising truth about what we’re afraid surrender will cost us, the hidden key to certainty, and why worry never runs out of material. If your faith feels shaken, come sit with me.