By Anna Von Reitz
Jesus already taught everyone how to pray, but it
seems that the message isn't getting through, so I am doing a little follow-up
and drawing your attention(s) to some fine points.
First, our Creator is constantly creating us. Your
present physical incarnation in living flesh began with an Act of God at a
specific moment, but it didn't end there, did it?
There was the zygote and the amnion and the fetus
and the baby and the toddler and the grade school kid and..... on an on. Every
one of your trillions of cells and over 200 different kinds of tissues in your
body get replaced on a regular cyclic schedule. You are being constantly created
and in the verbiage of the modern era, "manifested".
Now, we just take all that for granted because from
our perspective, it happens automatically--- but if you stop a moment and think,
you will realize that all this is being ordered and orchestrated, along with a
great many other things. He numbers the hairs on your head, because He is the
One putting them there.
Just from that one example, you can see that you
are not a static creation and your relationship with your Creator is not static,
either. It's a vast, constant, intimate, ever-changing, dynamic interaction and
the connection to your Creator is a built-in part of you.
Your Source is part of your Being and is literally
"within you" in much the same way that an electric current is within a sewing
machine, except of course, that this "electric current" is sentient. Your Father
knows everything about you, and I do mean, everything.
You don't know how much keratin is in your toenail,
but He does.
So there is no need to belabor your needs or drone
on about the car payment. These things are already known.
There's also no way to hide anything. As the Irish
say, "the all of it" is fully and completely known.
As I have told you many times, there's no way to
lie about anything, so you might as well give up that bad habit, because all it
does is cause dissonance and friction.
Lying actually makes you feel bad and "out of
sorts" for a reason. Lying runs counter to the truth within you, grating along
your nerves like a rasp on a piece of wood.
Stop thinking of your Source as something or
someone distant from you or external to you or unfamiliar with you and your
circumstance. Also stop thinking of your Father as a Deadbeat Dad; He has in
fact given you life and everything else besides.
As He said to Moses as Moses stood on the edge of
the Red Sea with Pharaoh's chariots closing in ---- why are you calling me? I
already taught you everything you need to know....
So, because God is literally within you and knows
the whole skinny, you don't even need to pray in words. You can pray with mental
images. You can pray with feelings. You can pray using any form of communication
at all and if you use words, the only important thing is that they are true and
friendly and humble.
That's why Jesus gave you the example of The Lord's
Prayer --- not that you should endlessly repeat exactly what He said, but so
that you get the gist of how to pray --simply, truthfully, humbly.
Now, most men and women are prideful, and humbling
themselves is not an experience they cherish, but it is necessary when you
approach your Father and appropriate, too. He is far greater than you, as a man
is greater than a child. You don't have to be afraid of Him, because He loves
you --- but at the same time, show and give back the respect that He also shows
you.
He is wonderful. He is present. He is all-knowing.
He is, well, the True God. So if He humbles Himself to care for you and to give
you life and He expends the energy to manifest your body and your consciousness
and provides you with an environment that supports your physical life --- how
much more grateful and humble should we be, when we turn our attention away from
our small selves and address the Living God?
When we search for God within ourselves, we find
Him. When we look around the Earth, we see His works and they reflect his glory
and testify to His mind and heart, but He is not "out there" far away from us.
He is literally within us. So look for Him within yourself, and you will find
the glorious truth that you are part of the Living God and He is part of you.
You are part of All That Is.
He is not distant. Not foreign. Not vengeful. Not
immune. Know this -- when we suffer, He suffers with us. When we rejoice, He
feels that, too. So any idea that He is the cause of your sufferings needs to be
released as the gigantic lie that it is. He may allow us to suffer for our own
sakes, but that is a different thing from causing our problems or desiring
them.
Prayer should be a gentle conversation with a Loved
One, a Loved One who is trusted and respected, and whose generosity and kindness
is beyond question or reproach. He does not withhold anything good from us, and
all we have to do, is ask....and receive.
It's the receiving part, our end of it, that gets
garbled.
Once we learn to pray to Our Father who is within
us, and learn how to ask for what we need in a simple and honest way, we also
need to learn how to receive and recognize His gifts which are returned to us as
a result of our prayers.
Imagine the situation. We ask for the perfect
husband, but we turn away because he doesn't look like we expect him to look. We
ask for delicious, nourishing food, and then trample on it, because we think of
it as weeds. We need a car to get to work, and sure enough, one just happens to
be sitting in the parking lot at Walmart with a "Sale by Owner" sign in the
window, but we don't call the number.
And then we complain and we blame and we stomp
around like two year-old children and think we didn't get what we asked for. We
did, yes, we got exactly what we asked for, we just didn't recognize our
blessing when it came.
It gets worse, because we don't recognize our own
blessings, we are constantly impeding the flow of gifts and blessings intended
for others. Imagine being at the baggage carousel at the airport and everyone is
grabbing someone else's bag off the rack? Imagine the confusion and
consternation?
What's a Father to do with us?
Perhaps we need another version of the Serenity
Prayer: Father help us to recognize the blessings you give to us, help us to see
your miracles and to accept the hand-tailored gifts you send to us in answer to
our prayers. Open our eyes to see these gifts that are meant for us and open our
hearts so that we don't envy or seize upon the gifts that you have sent to
others....
If we learn to recognize the gifts and blessings
that are ours, hand-tailored, made especially for us, if we simply accept them,
our contentment and joy would flow like the sea, and there would be no want or
misery anywhere.
So while we are paying attention and learning how
to pray and where to address our prayers, let's also learn how to recognize and
receive the gifts and blessings that are so reliably returned in answer to our
asking.
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