One of the things that gets in the way of our living a highly functional spiritual life is that we can believe we know what’s best, at the level of the personality. We get attached to what we think will make us happy, even though we’ve had so many experiences in our life that absolutely prove to us behind a shadow of a doubt that we don’t know what will make us happy. It’s insane.
One of the things I really appreciate in A Course in Miracles is it tells us that we DO NOT know what will make us happy so we should just stop thinking that we do. Time and again we prove that we have no idea what will genuinely make us happy so it would be best for us to give up thinking that we have a clue.
What about this? Instead of telling God what we want, what if we decided to just BE happy and let Spirit guide us there? What if we focused entirely on cultivating the willingness to follow the path of inspiration?
Following the path of inspiration does require us to LET GO of what we think will make us happy.
What I’ve come to understand is that what ACIM teaches about prayer is that our happiness actually comes from giving up what we think will make us happy and opening ourselves to being in the flow of Love which truly is the only thing that is actually fulfilling and happy-making.
If we believe our answered prayer is a thing, a condition, a circumstance then it’s temporary and because of that we’ll ultimately come to see that it cannot fulfill us, it can only temporarily make us feel full. There’s a big difference between feeling temporarily satiated and a true sense of fulfillment.
Our answered prayer is actually a release of false identification and a stepping into a realignment with our true identity.
This is a shift that Spirit will figure out for us and we can be led and guided to it – if we’re willing to accept that the answered prayer is not in this world. It’s in our mind.
We are not in this world.
We are infinite eternal Spirit.
When our mind is changed/healed,
that’s a miracle,
and that’s what changes the world.
ACIM says, “Seek not to change the world, but to change your mind about the world.”
Prayer is a means for changing our mind.
It is the medium of miracles.
Prayer is an active demonstration of our willingness to be in the flow of Love rather than directing the flow of Love. Our prayers are always answered, but not always in the way we wish. For instance, often our prayers are for the things of this world, because we believe they’ll make us happy, but we’d really like is to simply be at Peace and feel worthy of Love. The thing we’re praying for is actually a substitute happiness. That just keeps us dwelling in the past.
Prayer is the medium of miracles
Combine that with the willingness to ACCEPT the answered prayer, in whatever way it may appear to arrive, and then our mind is no longer rejecting our divinity – we’re in alignment with the divine. Remember, the answered prayer IS a miracle, and a miracle is a shift in consciousness.
It’s extraordinary how simple the most helpful tools can be. Prayer is a power tool to help us accelerate the healing of our mind.
Prayer has changed my life and improved the quality of every day.
I say pray, and pray often. Let us all live a life of prayer without ceasing.
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