Miracles News

October - December, 2005

Our Thoughts Are Prayers

by Rev. Deb Phelps

At the Pathways of Light ordination ceremony on August 6, 2005, as with each ordination ceremony, we sing a song titled, “Our Thoughts Are Prayers.”

The lyrics are: Our thoughts are prayers, And we are always praying. Our thoughts are prayers, Be aware of what you’re saying. Keep a higher consciousness, A state of peacefulness, And know that Love is always here, And every thought… remains a prayer.

I thought of this song today as I turned to the section in A Course in Miracles entitled, “The Invitation to the Holy Spirit.” (Chapter 5, Section I) In paragraph 2, it says: “Thoughts increase by being given away. The more who believe in them the stronger they become. Everything is an idea. How, then, can giving and losing be associated?” What is it that I am giving away today as all the thousands of thoughts race through my mind? Are the thoughts that I am thinking of a kind and gentle nature or are they of lack, anger or judgment?

What I focus on I will receive. Today, I choose to focus on inviting the Holy Spirit into my mind. The Holy Spirit is there at my slightest invitation. In fact,
He lives in my mind. I just have to open up the door. Anytime that I feel a discomfort in my mind, I ask Him to transform my thinking and in doing such I receive a miracle and a river of peace.

Peace is what I want today and every day. What is not peace gently slips away when I place my attention on God. Honoring God is honoring myself. If I have a day where it seems everything has gone wrong, what have I forgotten? Did I forget to take time for my communion with the Divine?

I can do it right now even in the midst of a crisis. I stop and take time to breath deeply, slowly relaxing every part of my being. I allow my mind to relax and receive the waves of peace. I can take as long as I need.

I am worthy and deserving of God’s unconditional Love. I give myself permission to be where I am in the moment. I give myself permission to accept peace now. As the peace fills my soul, I can be still now and listen for a new idea, a solution to a perceived problem or an insight that I never had before.

All is within me just waiting to gently rise to my awareness. As I work with the Holy Spirit continually, I can change my thoughts with His assistance and then peace becomes the prayer of my heart. It is this prayer, this inspiration that leads me to a more awakened perspective. When I am aware of what my true prayers and thoughts are and when I am willing to change them with His help to only prayers of Love, Divine Intercession has certainly taken place.

Several years ago I had studied the idea of “Centering Prayer.” One experience that I had then was the idea of focusing on one attribute of God. In practicing the focus on God in the silence, I can send a loving, joyful prayer to all my brothers since the focus on the attribute of God is really a focus on the attribute in us all because we are One. Could that be said enough? I think not.

What is in my heart today? Today in my heart is a prayer of Love for me, for you and for God. The fruits of this “thought prayer” are abundant.
Let us reap together this peaceful bounty. It is truly our gift.

Rev. Deb Phelps is a Pathways of Light minister living in Madison, Wisconsin.

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