My ideal day would be to spend it in silence. Silently meditating, silently listening to my breathing. I would not want television, radio or any other source of entertainment. I wouldn’t want my dog around either. He would be a distraction just nuzzling up to me to pet him or stare at me until I took him out. I wouldn’t want my husband around because he would ask me if I wanted or need anything.
My prayers are said in bits and pieces. I can look at the ocean and while listening to the waves break think “It’s all Universal power”. I can see a bird carry a branch in its mouth and take off for the tree where it was building a nest and think “It’s all God”.
I often see beauty and feel special because I am a part of this wonderful earth. I think of its magnificence and enormity as I see myself as only a part of the whole.
My prayers are little phrases with huge meanings. I am connected to the Universe. I’ve felt this way for some time now and know that I am continually growing into a more spiritual self.
But, when I say prayers out loud or I should say when I try to treat out loud, I spend too much time editing what I want to say, making sure it is getting my feelings across or that it sounds intelligent. I know I don’t have to go there. It’s a separation that happens when I speak my prayers verses when I think my prayers. When I think them, I am one with the Universe. When I speak them I am separate. I spent half my life praying to a God up there in the sky. And prayers were said out loud quite a bit in childhood either in classroom recitation or out loud to my parents at mealtime, bedtime or when required to learn new ones for homework.
It may take me a little more time to get to that place where I can speak out loud and feel the same connection that I do when I think my prayers.
I want to experience the oneness I felt at Asilomar last year and be able to speak out loud. At Asilomar, I went to more meditation seminars than lectures. I found that a week of connection to the Universal Power far outweighed any vacation I’ve taken in my entire life. I look forward to another week of listening to silence where Spirit expresses as Infinite Potential and I know the Truth for me that nothing about me is in final form, that all of me is in the process of becoming. I experience a greater awareness of the Divine Truth within me and know I am renewed in my thinking. I am lifted in consciousness in meditation and live with great expectancy. I experience fullness and a soothing oneness with the Divine.
2/25/03
Treatment for Praying out loud
One God, One Spirit, One Mind, One Love, One Law. I am of this One. At various times of the day I sit quietly, if only for a moment, to experience this oneness. It is joy. It is harmony. It is God. It is me.
My life is complete and my days are filled as Spirit guides me. I am God expressed.
Silence welcomes me home. It is my connection to the One. There are no activities in my mind or in my life that keep me from being the love that I am. I am filled with inner strength and I provide an avenue for Spirit to work through me. I know who I am and I am not afraid to be me. In silence I open the door to my infinite intelligence. I have all the information I need to be the perfect expression of God through prayer in any form.
I accept all the power of the One Mind who supports me at the moment I choose to embrace it. My life is the life of God working in, as and through me.
Lovingly, I give thanks for this knowing and accept that it is so.
2/25/03
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