Divine Order and the Unity Principles (4)

It’s Thursday, let’s look at the fourth of the Unity Principles. This one’s my favorite.

Here’s how it’s expressed at unity.org: There is power in affirmative prayer, which we believe increases our connection to God.

Ellen Debenport, cited yesterday phrases the principle as: Prayer is creative thinking that heightens connection with the God-mind.

Either one, the key to the Principle and a key element of Divine Order is prayer. I suggest to you that prayer is

That list can go on and on. If praying is creative connection with Spirit, can there be any limit to how that connection occurs? I think not.

And I think that’s a fact of Divine Order. Divine Order is the creative, harmonious, melodic, methodical arrangement of everything that is (for God created every thing, remember!). Therefore, any connection among those things is an element of that arrangement, of that order.

Henri Nouwen, a Catholic priest and professor at Notre Dame,Yale and Harvard and author of over 40 books, makes this statement in his compilation, The Only Necessary Thing: Living a Prayerful Life:

“Prayer is not what is done by us, but rather what is done by the Holy Spirit in us.”

Divine Order around us, in us, of us, for us. Let us pray.

Love,

Posted on March 1, 2012 at 3:40 am by Tim · Permalink
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