AN EXPERIMENT

The experiment is simple: Pick one thing in your life you wish to change. In meditation, see it passing physically from your hands to God’s. In prayer, claim that divine Power is now healing the condition, completely and forever. Close with a prayer of thanks for knowing Him better. Repeat daily until the condition improves. See, simple. Now the hard part.

Prayer and meditation bring about real change and growth in our lives, affecting the world as well. The belief that we need to accept with resignation any negative condition in our lives as God’s will is not only false but a sin. The experiment is to bathe any negative condition in your life in the light of God’s love and knowledge. How? In specific prayer and meditation.

Do you pray expecting to receive? Or with trepidation? When we pray with doubt, believing secretly in our heart of hearts that God is too busy, we are too insignificant or since our hands are not perfectly clean our prayers will not be answered, then we are praying with two minds, wanting the prayer answered but not believing it will be. How is it then any surprise when we fail to demonstrate?

None of us are perfect, no one is insignificant, and time is a human construct that has no bearing on God. We live in a state of grace, undeserved, because we are loved unconditionally. We place conditions on His love because of our fear. Please do not misunderstand, fear is a powerful foe, our only real bulwark to it being God. Consider: The daily news is a never-ending cacophony of doom and gloom. Economic disaster looms, wars and rumors of war abound, global climactic failure imminent, the end is nigh unless we act. If you are not a student of history, become one. Nothing in the news today is new. In my lifetime, this is the fourth or is it the fifth time the stock market has had a major hiccup, always to recover. The third major correction in the housing market. On any given day there are dozens of wars/conflicts going on, most of which we never hear of because they do not interest the media. In the late 70’s the great climatic fear was the coming ice age and if we didn‘t act immediately most of mankind would be dead from starvation by the end of the century (2000). Someone is always screaming the sky is falling for one reason or another (usually to sell something or push an agenda). Does worrying or talking incessantly about these things improve our lives? Understand, this planet, our home, has been hit many times in its history with all manner of space debris, altering the world drastically. Massive volcanoes have and will again explode, just exactly, what is worrying about it going to change? Remember the serenity prayer? God’ grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

So the way out is to pray and meditate on God’s love. Bathe all inharmony in Truth and claim that divine Power is healing the condition. Then give thanks because praise and thanksgiving are the most powerful prayers of all. Remember, we live in eternity NOW and passing conditions are just that, passing. It is vital that we guide our thinking, gently, away from the negative and to God’s love and guidance. In so doing not only does our life improve but the whole world as well, volcanoes, comet/asteroid strikes, pandemics and global warming/cooling be damned.