I remember when I first started taking the pre-Practitioner Training classes at Agape back in January of 1997. These were Science of Mind classes and we were learning the Prayer “Treatments” that Ernest Holmes taught that are so very powerful.
It took me a moment to really accept that my word and thought could be so powerful that it would impress upon the one mind and bring things into being – or remove them from my experience. That felt like a LOT of power and I resisted simply accepting that my words and thoughts, my intentions and even my wishes could be that effective.
It took me another 10 years or so before I truly understood how much I was still resisting accepting the full power of my word.
Knowing my word has power, and also knowing that I could be careless and harmful with my word – that was too much for me. I didn’t want that kind of power. And that’s one of the things that is talked about in A Course in Miracles – we’re more afraid of our Light than what we think is our darkness. We’re more afraid of our power than the evil we think might lurk within us.
For me, taking responsibility for my word, my thought, my experience, and my feelings about everything has been my liberation from pain and suffering, from playing small, from living in lack and limitation.
If only someone could really have taught me this a long time ago, my life would have been so different. Of course, I don’t actually waste anytime lamenting that I didn’t learn it sooner, instead I focus on helping others to know it and find the relief that I have found.
Most of my closest friends are Licensed Prayer Practitioners that I’ve known for decades. We’ve all transformed our lives with the power of prayer that we learned in our Prayer Practitioner training.
This past week I was in California and had the opportunity to meet up with folks who I’ve known for years. It’s so happy-making for me to hear that folks in my Masterful Living program are still praying with the prayer partners I matched them with years ago. They are the closest of friends. I hear the most beautiful stories of their connections and the Joy they bring each other. I know exactly how they feel. Finding friends like that is life-changing.
Praying together in this affirmative prayer way, and witnessing the positive and miraculous effects these prayers bring, the true and lasting shifts in consciousness that people have, this is the best ever!
I truly feel that learning to pray in this way has been the smartest thing I’ve ever done in my life – the very best decision I ever made. When I started those classes back in 1997 and began to pray, I had no idea where it would lead me, but I did know I was interested in turning toward the Light and being of service to the Light.
Through prayer, I released doubt, and a whole host of negativity, and that brought me to the place where I could discover what true forgiveness was and begin to teach that, and that eventually led me to A Course in Miracles.
Now, I wouldn’t really say that my prayers have been answered because I am not asking for anything. I’m aware that Spirit has already given me everything. There’s nothing been withheld for me to ask for. Instead, in my prayers, I’m activating in my awareness what has already been given. My prayers are to fully accept and embody what I’ve been endowed with and to remember the perfection that is already mine, and yours.
ACIM teaches the prayer that asks for nothing, and that’s really what the Science of Mind prayer teaching is too.
When we’re willing to accept what’s been given to us, and discard the stories we’ve made up, then we can live as we’re intended to, We can be truly helpful and represent the one who sent us. And that’s a life that’s unlimited Love in manifestation.
That’s the life for me. That’s what I choose. That’s what I represent. I re-present the one who sent me. Once I was lost, but now I’m found.
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