[Prayer, as commonly practiced, often sounds like a helpless child asking some superhero to intervene to save them. Be honest. We are brainwashed with such a mindset by oversimplifications of Judeo Christianity. Yes, “Ask, and ye shall receive,” but that is sadly oversimplified. It can completely strip us of any sense of power, and that cannot be good. A favored thinker keeps a wonderful and mysterious balance that does not require us to believe we are ultimately powerless at all. Some excerpts from such an article (source at end):]
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We’re empowered from within.
Once we contact our Inner Source, that is what true, humble, and confident power represents. It is the ultimate meaning of a well-grounded person.
This replaces our “heart of stone with a heart of flesh.”
No wonder we seek power in all the wrong places—since we have not made contact with our true power, indwelling.
This empowerment is the ultimate answer to our prayers.
We pray not to change God but to change ourselves.
We pray to form a living relationship, not to get things done.
Prayer is a symbiotic relationship with life, a synergy which creates a result larger than the exchange itself.
*We* need prayer to keep the symbiotic relationship moving and growing.
Prayer is not a way to try to control, or even to get what we want.
The answer to every prayer is one, the same, and the best.
Prayer gives us power more than answers.
A truly spiritual woman, a truly whole man, is a very powerful person.
Prayer calls us to be adult partners who can handle power and critique themselves.
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[more at the source, https://cac.org/daily-meditations/the-divine-strategy-2023-05-29/
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More from this author, and from Brené Brown, at FeelWithNeil’s most read article: https://feelwithneil.com/2023/04/09/to-my-subscribers-the-most-viewed-article-is/
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Neil D. 2022-05-29
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