To Pray or Not to Pray?

The quote of the day causing much discussion on facebook is: If you "truly" believed in God then you wouldnt pray for anything or anyone. All you would see is a divine dance of consciousness always in perfection :))

Some one else asks the question 'does this mean we should stop praying or changing the way we look at prayer?' Well, does it? Let's think about it - if we really EMBRACE that we are divinity, that we are not separate from that which created us, then who are we praying to exactly? Believing in a God/Goddess who is 'out there' who can grant wishes and protect us is dis-empowering, for it denies that we are made of and ARE the very same energy as this creator/source/the whole. When we 'pray' and ask someone/something else to do something for us we are in effect shirking the responsibility of being part of the solution, we are denying that we too have the power within ourselves to create change, movement, solution. Why would we do that?

Religiously speaking the idea of God is an authority figure of sorts, one to be respected and honored, obeyed and followed. This sets up a relationship that is hierarchical, or 'Master/Student' if you want to look at it in a slightly more expanded light. But, even the Master - in a Master/Student relationship knows that the true master lies within - not without. The 'Master' wishes to inspire and show the example that the student has the answers/energy/light within all the time. Just look at every Master/Student story out there. Those who say that God is somehow more than just a Master says that this 'God' would create a somehow inferior product to worship him/her. Sounds egotistical to me. Instead, this Divine energy is our larger Self - US, in effect - at a whole level... we are the same...We are expressions of the whole, the microcosmic version of the macrocosmic truth...

Here we are, living in a very conscious time where those of us wanting to embrace our divinity are shifting the paradigm for all. I find it interesting that those of us who I would consider 'in the know' would question this notion of releasing the need for prayer. And perhaps it isn't even releasing as much as 'redefining'. - If you have read or listened to Gregg Braden's 'lost mode of prayer' you would find that the modality of prayer that many of us have lost or are unaware of is the empowered part - the part where we pause to feel...in every fiber of our being...the prayer already answered - we create the emotion, the feeling, the experience inside already. By this we participate in the creation of that which we would seek after. We are the Divine co-creating the experience for ourselves and the many.

Many times I have made the statement 'I imagine a world of empowered people'.... when I think of this in terms of prayer I think - WOW - what if everyone embraced the power that is within themselves? - what if, whenever you saw something that didn't resonate with you - you stopped to see it as you would like to see it - in a healed, whole and beautiful way.? What if each one of us did this throughout the world, instead of giving away that power to an unseen force? For every time we 'pray' and say something like 'Let there be peace on Earth' - we are saying that there is not peace now. When we say 'please let johnny become well' - we are saying he is ill. If we instead look at all things as the divine dance they are - and begin together to visualize the changes we would like to see - instead of wishing away that which we do not like - while at the same time honoring the process that comes from our joint visualizaton....we would, I strongly believe, begin to see miraculous things in a very short period of time.

You, Me, ALL of us are Divine - ALL OF US. We are ALL part of the grand and beautiful dance - each one of our choices, thoughts, deepest fears, loves and dreams create the world in which we live. I invite each one of us to right now in this moment OWN your divinity. OWN your power to contribute equally to the unfolding of the dance.

If we back up our perspective even more we can see that - we, together, are the ONE LIFE - One energy expressing as the many....through us the divine essence experiences mortal existence, physical pleasure, pain, wind, laughter, tears. In a detached place of inner alignment we can begin to merge with this awareness and know ourselves to be the ONE. See one another as pure reflections of the larger Self - no matter what is happening. AND - by that same power and vision, we can step into ourselves more completely, step into the body of the 'dancer' and begin to try a new step in the eternal flow...notice the new way in which our experience can take shape when we accept our presence, embrace our infinite beingness...dance the dance of eternity in this here NOW. What would you like to SEE in the world? Begin now to dance it - live it, breath it .... and then every moment of life becomes the prayer, the place of honor to the Divine within, and obedience to the purest direction ever given - the pull of the heart to express JOY!! Love Love to ALL - For we are ONE!! ~Stasia