Prayer is the greatest gift with which God blessed His Son at his creation. It was then what it is to become; the single voice Creator and creation share; the song the Son sings to the Father, Who returns the thanks it offers Him unto the Son. Endless the harmony, and endless, too, the joyous concord of the Love They give forever to Each Other. And in this, creation is extended. God gives thanks to His extension in His Son. His Son gives thanks for his creation, in the song of his creating in his Father’s Name. The Love They share is what all prayer will be throughout eternity, when time is done. For such it was before time seemed to be.
To you who are in time a little while, prayer takes the form that best will suit your need. You have but one. What God created one must recognize its oneness, and rejoice that what illusions seemed to separate is one forever in the Mind of God. Prayer now must be the means by which God’s Son leaves separate goals and separate interests by, and turns in holy gladness to the truth of union in his Father and himself.
Lay down your dreams, you holy Son of God, and rising up as God created you, dispense with idols and remember Him. Prayer will sustain you now, and bless you as you lift your heart to Him in rising song that reaches higher and then higher still, until both high and low have disappeared. Faith in your goal will grow and hold you up as you ascend the shining stairway to the lawns of Heaven and the gate of peace. For this is prayer, and here salvation is. This is the way. It is God’s gift to you. (A Course in Miracles, S-1.in.1-3)
Everyone in this world is searching for Love, because it is a dream where Love is denied. True prayer leads us out of this dream to the recognition of our unity with the Love that created us. Praying for any form in the world is praying for idols. Love has no form, for it is one and the same eternally.
In the world it seems that we have needs. These needs are the reflection of the dream’s denial of Love, Which is all we really need. True prayer has at its core the willingness to join in Love. The willingness to accept Love is reflected in our dream world as specific answers to perceived specific needs. These answers are truly helpful. They always answer in a way that no one loses and in some way the remembrance of Love’s innocence and oneness is facilitated.
As we are willing to be truly helpful and ask for guidance for what to think and say and do, we will always receive answers that are helpful and healing.
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