2023-01-30

I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the 103 quote comes from Chapter Three and the section on prayer:

Prayer

Like meditation and contemplation, prayer is a very effective way for us to deepen our awareness in order to do work in consciousness. I feel that the most important ingredient in our prayers is our intention for the prayer and our will to be part of the answer to our prayers. I would also recommend that when we pray for others we ask that the highest and best be done for them according to the will of the Creator because this is not the density of understanding. Some people may feel that they know what another person who is in some kind of distress needs, so they ask God, or the Creator, to provide the specific outcome that would provide immediate relief for that distress. However, I don’t believe that any of us is wise enough to know what would fulfill the pre-incarnative choices of anyone else or ourselves for that matter. Beautiful lessons of healing, love, and enlightenment often are produced by going through the most traumatic of experiences as Ra said in 34.14:

It is to be noted that among your entities a large percentage of all progression has as catalyst, trauma.

 In this quote Q’uo gives some general principles of how and why we might pray:

Everyone’s Creator is different. Everyone’s mode and method of prayer and hope and desire is different, often radically different, yet each path is utterly appropriate for the person to whom it is natural and the part that is appropriate to an entity must needs be respected by that entity with an authority that is above all teaching, all outer authority and all discrimination that is not one’s own, for the truth that is yours is not heard, but heard and recognized, somehow remembered. If it is not recognized, if it remains in the head and does not move to the heart with a feeling of recovered memory, it is not your truth, and no matter who says it to you, it is to be laid aside gently and with respect, but with a firmness that allows no stumbling block to enter your path.

So when we say to you that questions about relationships are actually questions about how to seek and to pray, we offer this as opinion, and we ask you to subject this and all opinions to your discrimination. Q’uo, March 29, 1992.

Once again, Q’uo speaks about the unique nature of prayer being as unique as are the people who pray:

There are as many ways to pray as there are people who seek to join in union with the one infinite Creator that is their beginning, their end, and their deepest truth. We would assure you that there are no mistakes. If there is an intention to pray, [however you choose to pray] will be an effective way for you to pray.

Remember always that thanksgiving, praise and devotion are also ways to pray—to enter the silence and to feel the union with the One that opens to you that gateway to intelligent infinity.” Q’uo, January 30, 2010

I love Q’uo’s suggestion that one of the most effective means of prayer are thanksgiving, praise and devotion. I think that this type of praying is effective in reaffirming our natures as portions of the one infinite Creator. As portions of the one Creator we are blessed by Its grace, Its peace, and that grand overview that continues to inform us of the beauty and purpose of our lives. In my Morning Offering I say this prayer in my attempt to thank the Creator, the Father, for my life:

Father, we praise and bless your holy name and thank you once again today for this amazing opportunity that you have given us: to be alive in your infinite creation and to be able to seek you and serve you with every thought, word, and deed. Father, you already know the needs of all of your children. Your blessings are always upon us. Open our eyes and our hearts to them that we may ever be aware of the wonders of your works. Amen.

This evening we will begin a healing workshop with about ten good friends of L/L Research to see how we can manifest healing the wounds of mind, body, and spirit that everyone suffers at some time within the third-density experience. This workshop will continue through Saturday and end late Sunday afternoon.

From A Book of Days, channeled by Carla L. Rueckert:

January 27

Beyond Reason And Comfort

I am the spirit of the consciousness of love, the creative principle of the universe and all that is manifested within it.

To deal with words is to become involved in overstatement and understatement, both of which are unavoidable. And to seem to be rational is a situation we must endure. For the spirit of mighty love is anything but rational. And its strength lies not in man’s ability to reason it out but in the ability of spirit to gaze beyond the reason of man.

Thus it will sometimes seem to you that the spirit is a harsh and unforgiving voice and is perhaps more interested in enriching negative experience than in offering ease and comfort. Yet to be a Comforter is to seek hard times and hard decisions and then to invest such with the consciousness of love. For it is not in comfortable times that a Comforter is needed but during the transformation of difficulty.

We ask you, then, to ask of the spirit not “Why?” but “What?” and “How?” For though we shall not be the voice of reason to you, yet shall the comfort which we do offer be more precious to the seeker than rubies and gold.

In peace we leave you, now and always. Amen.

I said the prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight:

We come in the name of love and open our hearts, minds, and souls to send love, light, and healing energy to Mother Earth as she brings forth a new Earth in the fourth density. We ask that the infinite love, light and healing energy of the One Infinite Creator heal the hearts of all souls in pain on Earth tonight. May all souls on Earth feel our love, light, and healing energy in their hearts, their minds, and their souls. Amen.