UNION THROUGH PRAYER

Jesus was here to perform the mission of teaching mankind to join his lower personality with his higher individuality. Paul caught this message and said that the true prayer should be one of union with “Christ in you, the hope of glory.” He instructed us to “Have this mind among yourselves, which you have in Christ Jesus,” and said that we should “pray constantly.” How can this be possible when we usually think of prayer as a special time of formal observance? To think of it this way is limiting, because a life lived rightly is a constant prayer. True prayer is joining in union with the higher nature within ourself. We all know that it is there, for when we are quiet and meditate, it is not a matter of reaching out and trying to get something to respond to us or give something to us; it is a matter of being still so that the higher Self can flow through us and instruct us.

We will never be able to pray effectively unless we realize that the God to whom we pray is within us. He is within all things. He is everywhere, and since He is all-powerful, all-knowing, all-present, and all-sufficient, there is no point in asking Him to do or to provide something for us. Prayer is not a matter of coercing God to give, but of overcoming our reluctance to receive. Donald Curtis

Words for Growth

It is only what is done now that counts, the present moment does not recede into the past, as so many people commonly believe.  It advances into the future to confront us.

Love is like the sun, it doesn't care who shines on.

Reading

The Art of Meditation - By Joel S. Goldsmith

Black Labor/White Wealth - By Claud Anderson, ED.D

It’s Not Over Until You Win - By Les Brown

Meditation for Little People (Book for Children) - By Anne Langford

Edgar Cayce’s Miles to Go, The Spiritual Guest of Aging - By Richard Peterson & Charles Cayce

TV Programs

Fields of Dreams - Keith Cosatte

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