Prayer is an offering; a giving up of yourself to be at one with Love. There is nothing to ask because there is nothing left to want. That nothingness becomes the altar of God. It disappears in Him.
This is not a level of prayer that everyone can attain as yet. Those who have not reached it still need your help in prayer because their asking is not yet based upon acceptance. Help in prayer does not mean that another mediates between you and God. But it does mean that another stands beside you and helps to raise you up to Him. One who has realized the goodness of God prays without fear. And one who prays without fear cannot but reach Him. He can therefore also reach His Son, wherever he may be and whatever form he may seem to take. (A Course in Miracles, S-1.I.5:5-7;6)
The ego believes that accepting our Identity in the oneness of God’s Love is a sacrifice. This is because the ego, the thought of separation, cannot exist in Love’s oneness. This is why the ego is afraid of Love. True prayer then involves setting aside, at least temporarily, our identification with the ego little self. It means that we have opened our mind to join with the Christ Mind in ourself and our brother.
The ego always has a sense of lack because it does not recognize our true oneness with all that is real. And so the ego always comes from a place of need. This need is interpreted by the ego as a form. It thinks it needs a certain status, relationship or circumstance to feel safe or complete. Our Christ Mind sees only that we are already complete in God’s Love.
While in the ego dream, we need help to recognize that we already have everything we need; we already have all of Love. So when we perceive a need in ourselves or in another, we need to ask for help to recognize the Christ, our true Self, within. We are asking for healing of the mistaken belief in being separate.
Each time we practice this, we loosen our identification with a false image and open to the Light of Love that shines away its shadow and brings us to see the forgiven world. This is the world of the Christ Mind, where all is seen as innocent. The practice of true prayer leads us to accepting that we are at Home in Love.
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