What an interesting chapter Herb Puryear wrote on prayer,
especially how prayer works. It was good to be reminded that we need to honor
and respect the path and life of others and their Free Will by always asking if we may pray for them with prayers of more than protection. And not praying for them to change their
behavior to that of our own ideals, as parents may be tempted to do, nor of praying and meditating to heal others
of a condition they have taken on. We don't
know if their life challenge was chosen pre-birth for soul development of self
or another, or if it provides secondary gains, or is an exit, a protection from
some unbearable situation. One definition of "Love" is acceptance and allowing. So
we need to wait for prayer requests from others before we do more than prayers
of protection.
We will finish our
chapter on prayer by reading the final section on pgs. 155 &156, "A Potential Beyond Limits."
Our experiment is taken from the last page of the
chapter, which describes how we may give to others, but only what we ourselves
have:
"If
we select a pattern of Love through which to pray and relate to another, then the
Life Force of Love is drawn to us as a
channel of that energy and flows to others."
I'm
looking forward to seeing you next week.
Prayers of Protection to us all,
Sylvia Raye
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