Prayer of principle (5)
Knowledge of these spiritual principles is not enough. We must live them. (Principle 5, Unity Basic Teachings)
I have been given quite a few wonderful chances just this week to apply that principle. A major speaking engagement well out of state. My mom’s transition after several years’ dealing with Alzheimer’s. My significant love’s having surgery.
Certainly it all gives me the chance to realize God’s presence. It calls on me to remember the Christ I am. And it lets me reflect in endless ways the connections and unities among all: all people, all situations, all events, all things, all.
And while all of that is good-to-great, the week’s been one of considerable tumult. I’ve been thankful to anchor myself with the 5 principles. Reading through them; examining anew what each one means; asking and answering how this principle, then that principle affects me.
Every time I’ve come to Principle 5, I’ve felt myself smile involuntarily. Such a lovely reminder to get out of my head.
To take my heart to the meeting room, and see the Power and Presence that is God manifest in every being and item and word and idea before me.
To press my faith to the telephone talking to members of my family, and know the essence of God–the spirit–in each of them.
To enjoy that how I think this week is how this week is, that I create the energy and joy and love and comfort by wanting, thinking, and knowing they are true.
To exalt in the power of prayer. I have loved the immediate presence of praying as the purest communication…with God, with Mom, with my family, with my audience, and with my Self.
Perfect Loving God, I thank you for reminding me to do and then to do more.
I am glad to say I know your perfect Power and Presence;
I am made more glad by living in that Presence.
I am blessed to recognize the divinity you expressed as every one of us;
I know more blessing when I speak and act with others I see as your divine expression.
I experience hope when I think that thinking makes it so.
I experience truth as my thoughts become experience.
I love the prospect of praying loved one’s wellness.
I thrill to dissolving into our creative communication of her perfect be-ing.
I thank you, God, that you remind me to bring all parts of me
–spirit, mind, and body–
into my living faith.
And so it is,
6/17/2010
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