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What About the Power of Prayer?

Posted by fromsurvivingtothriving at 05:53 PM on August 23, 2008

Written November 2007

A question I am asked about often...

Prayer is commonly considered an act of spiritual connect to "God" or 'higher power". It is indeed a level of conscious and subconscious communication with a spiritual intent. The key word in the act of prayer that many miss, and consequently don't fully benefit from, is the word COMMUNICATION. Communication is a two way interaction. Message sent... message received... message communicated.

The wonder of prayer is it allows us to PROCESS a need, concern or desire on a universal level, rather than from the level of self. Much like we take our complaints to "the boss", "mom and dad", "the principle"... etc., we take it "beyond ourselves". Taking time to pray humbly centers our focus away from mindless actions and reactions and calls for a moment in time where we can regroup our internal being. Using our soul voice, we send a message, a prayer... "beyond our lower level self" (to some people this is not external) and we wait... sometimes impatiently and so we ask again... lol... but for some of us we wait for a RESPONSE from "beyond our lower level self" (some call this God others "my right mind", "Full awareness" etc.), others, do not wait. In either event, we will respond and we will be subject to the consequences, sometimes seemingly good and sometimes not as we thought it might be.

Remembering to do daily good deeds, it is a prayer of thanksgiving, to offer selflessly to one who is less fortunate in a particular area of their lives. This doesn't have to be a poor person, can even mean you give your time when one is sick... or lacking in some specific area where you can be of greater support. Yes, this is indeed an act of prayer. Taking time out to spontaneously to pray in the simplest form can achieve some of the most fulfilling blessings known, or what I call 'simple blessings' or 'small mercies'... they are to me known as "my morning dew"... where before the world has been awakened to what has happened, I have been blessed. In other words, it may not be showers alone that bring may flowers.

There is no better way to show our appreciation to the 'powers that be', 'God', 'the great spirit', 'all that is life'... etc., than to respect ourselves, unconditionally loving ourselves, through the positive out pouring of that which we took the time to deliver, obedient to the great inner voice of love and light within us all.

Blessed is the one who is blessed by the blessed....

Love and light...
Ms. Milano

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