Realizing God's Will Is Oneness

Mindful Prayer

Today, I give to God, myself.  I let go of all expectations of what God’s Will must be, should be, or will be.  I give these expectations to God, offering them in open hands, open to letting go and receiving anew.  I give to God all my fear of what His Will is in reality.  I offer it as well in open hands, open to giving it up and receiving anew God’s Love and Confidence, God’s Joy and Peace. 

I have no other prayer than this.  I ask only for God’s Will in my mind and in my life.  I lay down ego demands and expectations for this moment because I see they are not real.  I may feel some ego pressure or ego resistance, but I can step back and say that this does not concern me because the ego voice is not real.  I don’t have to listen to it.  My mind is open to God.  Let the Voice for God fill my mind with certainty and peace.  Let God’s Will be done to me.  I am God’s Will.  Let me see and accept it with joy, knowing this is my only existence, my only happiness.  There is no joy beyond God.  It is my true life to be in joy.

Mindful prayer is my truest joy in life.  This is when I feel closest to God.  It is generally a quiet time, solitary, and almost always seated.  I want to remember more and more that prayer is my life.  I am always praying because there are always thoughts present.  But are these prayers, these thoughts, about ego concerns or about Truth?  I want to feel close to God as I go about my life every day life, working, being with others.  It is a challenge to be doing and always remembering God; it takes much practice to be mindful of God, especially when life is busy.  I want always to be in my truest joy and to feel the joy.  This is what I ask, to be in mindful prayer more and more.  This is the intent I set for myself.

In mindful prayer, I stay open to God’s Will.  I feel God’s Presence with me.  I listen to Holy Spirit and ask for help to stay mindful and open.  My life’s activities at present call me to this state of awareness more and more.  As I do my ACIM work, facilitating POL courses, facilitating workshops, planning services, and especially writing for this web site, I see that my time is spent more and more in mindful listening.  I feel a level of certainty that I am coming to my life’s work - closer and closer all the time.  What once was frightening and full of doubt, my issues about self worth and trust in the Voice for God have all smoothed down.  My feathers are not ruffled as I swim about on the pond of Light.

Being in this work of opening to the Will of God is my greatest joy and apart from any earthly reward.  The reward and the joy is in simply doing it, and this is closer to living a life of constant true prayer.  I now believe that opening to the Will of God is my real job because salvation is my only function here.  I am accepting this at last.  I can be in my greatest joy without fear, guilt or doubt.  I don’t need approval or praise.  I only need God, and with God all doing is joyful.

Years ago when I was in the legal profession, I could not say these thoughts I say today.  I was in a world of prayer that genuflected at the altar of ego illusions.  There was no joy in the prayer or the doing.  There was only fear and a mind troubled by the consequences of ego thought structures.  Work was a game of wins and losses in which no lasting satisfaction was ever present.  I was mindful mainly of voices around me shouting and arguing that appearances are everything and I must conform.  I now realize that I projected these voices for ego from my own ego mind which is part of the ego mind we share.  When I asked for God’s Will then, the answer for me eventually was to leave the illusive game of ego justice.  This perhaps would not be another’s answer, but I am not another.  I am me, and this was my answer.  I leave others to their answer found in mindful prayer about the thoughts and doing they are guided to for their greatest joy.

Today, I let Holy spirit go before me.  I put my hand on His shoulders and let Him lead me.  I am like the blind being led by One who sees only Light, only true Justice, God’s Justice.  I see Him stand before me and feel His presence in a deep and profound way.  I feel relaxed and peaceful.  I am open to Him and open to the way I am.  Today, I let my heart sing with true prayer, seeing the Christ Self in everyone. I let healing be present as I am open to letting the Light shine through me.  I am thankful I feel peace.  I am thankful I love the people I see and feel connected to them.  I am content to let Holy Spirit lead for I would only follow.  I am thankful to be mindful of all of this.  Today, this is my mindful prayer and I share its truth with you in joy.

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