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October - December, 2009

Excerpts from Course 918: The Power of Prayer and Meditation

Pathways of Light

In the Introduction to The Song of Prayer, Jesus describes true prayer as “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.” (1:2) Here we are learning that all true prayer is sharing one voice with our Creator. True prayer is the Love the Father and Son share and extend as they recognize their oneness. True prayer is accepting our Father’s Love and extending that universal Love in one grateful, joyous voice. It is joining in one unified song of gratitude, appreciation and Love. It is sharing our Creator’s Love with the whole Sonship equally.

We are also learning that true prayer is accepting our one Identity in Christ and a recognition that we have no needs, only an eternal giving of praise and gratitude to our Creator, Who has given us all there is to give.

This means that true prayer is not needy. It does not supplicate out of fear or lack. True prayer does not make up a separate voice, different from our Creator. True prayer does not insist that we are vulnerable and weak.

True prayer does not make up images or personalities that are not true. True prayer does not give credence to the ego’s lies of being separate from God and the rest of the Sonship.

Jesus is being very clear in this introduction that true prayer is not asking God to make our dream of separation more to our liking or enhance our dream of specialness. Praying for more of the things of this world to bring us more of what we think we want is the opposite of true prayer.

We are learning here that we have but one need, and that is the need to recognize our oneness in the Mind of God. We are learning that laying down our dreams of specialness is the means by which we open to true prayer. We are learning that true prayer is sharing God’s Love with all equally.

In this world we think we have specific problems. This world was made up to keep our mind distracted from what is real — from God’s peace and Love — so we keep ourselves distracted by dreaming of having a continuous supply of problems. We do not realize that the problems are coming from our split minds and are illusions. That is why Jesus tells us, “…in prayer you overlook your specific needs as you see them, and let them go into God’s Hands. There they become your gifts to him, for they tell Him that you would have no gods before Him; no Love but His. What could His answer be but your remembrance of Him?” (4:3-5)

In our learning about true prayer, some key things that we want to remember and reinforce in our thinking are:

• True prayer asks for nothing and recognizes that we already have been given everything that is real. • To ask for something other than the truth of God’s Love is to ask for illusions and to receive what is really nothing. • The Holy Spirit purifies our mind so we can reach true prayer. He takes our thoughts of need and helps us recognize what our real need is. He helps us recognize that what is truly needed is already provided. • True prayer moves us past every perceived problem and helps us accept the one true answer to every prayer. • True prayer joins in our one eternal prayer of thanksgiving and Love.

What is Meditation? Meditation is the practice of quieting the ego mind, joining with the truth and accepting communion with God.

Process: Take a few minutes to step aside from your worldly activities… Let go of your everyday thoughts … Let your mind quiet and open your mind to your holiness … Let your mind go to Love… Remember that you are fully entitled to receive everything Love has to offer… Let your individual self-image go and unite with Love…

Let yourself be aware that Love is eternally present in your mind. It is still there, behind all the ego thoughts… Lift the veil… Take as long as you need…

We are reminded that not everyone can attain the level of true prayer as yet. When we are still committed to the belief in separation from God, we are not yet able to accept God’s answer of remembrance of Him. When we pray with fear in our hearts, we have forgotten God’s goodness and we have forgotten our unity with God.

When we see that we or our brothers are in fear, we can help by recognizing the Christ in both of us. As we recognize that the Christ is still there in our minds, we are remembering our Self. This remembering helps us all.

What happens as we climb up from the bottom rungs of prayer? We see that our hidden belief in guilt is the source of our experience of scarcity. Our asking can change to move us higher on the road to healing. Instead of asking for more things of this world, we can “ask for gifts such as honesty or goodness, and particularly for forgiveness for the many sources of guilt that inevitably underlie any prayer of need.”

As we open to Holy Spirit’s healing perspective, we learn to recognize that our brother is joined with us in the one Christ Spirit. At this level we rise up the Ladder of Prayer and realize that judging another is really judging ourselves. We realize that we are only imprisoning our own sick mind that is in need of healing. We realize that a prayer for our enemy is really a prayer to heal our own projections, which are trying to make separation real.

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