I'll Have it God's Way!

Have you ever noticed that when you get what you want it often doesn't look like what you asked for?

In my life I have noticed that when I affirm something long enough it comes into being in my life.  However, it arrives in character, not necessarily in the exact form that I had in mind.  I've learned that from the macro perspective, what is created after God transmutes it into the form that finally arrives, is generally better than what I thought I was praying for, even if "my idea" would have been more direct or dramatic.  God's version always turns out to be more real, have more extended possibilities connected to it, and of course it is never a finished product.  The answered prayer never provides a place to sit down and rest and say "I'm here. I can stop now."  It always becomes a new begining, not an end.  After all life is "not the destination but the journey."  We give this lip service, while always wishing for a destination.  God always thinks in terms of the journey and destination prayers must be transmuted.

Part of the "Art of Prayer" is recognizing you answer.  Thus we must always be prepared to break our prayers down into the character of life, the energies that we are asking to be created.  The picture is simply a symbol of our desire.  What we really want is an "energy state" that we think this picture would create.  But in actuality, there are many expressions that could create that particular energy state.  So, as we look for signs that LIFE is responding to us and our desires, we need to back up on a constant basis and assess the energy of the new circumstances that are continually arriving.  Sometimes those arrivals are only the promise of what is to come.  And sometimes those arrivals are the real thing, expressing the full character of our request, but appearing so different that we might have missed them as our answer were we not vigilant.  And of course sometimes we get in form exactly what we pictured.

We become powerful at prayer by recognizing that our prayers are answered.  The exact replica, everyone can recognize.  But, it represents only a percentage of answered prayer.  And we remain quite limited as spiritual beings if God's answer has to be in our reflection and not HIS - which is a much vaster realm.  The more you can recognize LIFE responding to you in the multitude of ways that it does, the closer you will feel to the SOURCE and the more dramatic your responses will become.

At Unity I pray that "everyone who enters our doors receivces the blessings they need and the ones they want."  What we want is fun to get.  And if it is the highest possibility I like to have that kind of fun happen.  But what we "need" is the part of the meal that makes us healthy and life full of well-being.  God grant us the strength to see all our blessings: the ones we asked for, the challenges we need, the mutated requests that arrive looking different than we expected, the half-steps that lead to something else, the darkness we need to go through to become something greater, the wonderful surprises, and the response to our every desire - whether we know it or not.

Life is responding to you every moment.  The more clearly we can see this the more intimate that response will become.  When we begin to see that we have been blessed, God's blessings in our lives begin to flow faster than we could have ever expected.