My Prayer

According to my commitment of a few posts back, today is about acquiring the six virtues. I am going to come in through the backdoor on this one because I think there are too many folks trying the front door at the moment and things are getting ugly. grin.

There is a famous story about a peasant man who hears a priest read to him from the scriptures that one should pray without ceasing. He is curious as to how this is possible and what the actual nature of the teaching is. This quest starts his spiritual life. Your entire life is, in fact, a prayer. Every thought and action is a request to the universe for a given end. It is a prayer that God never says “no” to. The divine sums up the total of our moments and gives us the exact result at every turn. Most of us pray our prayer with very little consciousness about what it really is. The mind is scattered and diverted by multiple influences. The sum total is a rather mediocre, multi-colored life of no real focus.

The exercise of acquiring the six virtues is the solution to this lack of consciousness on our part. It will train us to become aware, vigilant and focussed in the prayer we are constantly offering to the divine. Now comes the time to figure out what you want and turn the prayer of your life into a clear and consistent request.

Things have prices; but the rarest and finest jewel is an audience with the divine himself. Religion is not a collection of beliefs and dogmas. It is the direct experience of God. It is worth all you have ever had. God is listening; the answer is yes; what will be the sum total of your prayer today?