Bite-Sized Wisdom (1)

        

For the next six weeks I’m offering some small kernels on some of our most important spiritual practices. Some of these I have blogged on before, but I am just presenting them now as a brief, cohesive series. I consider them important, useful and some of the best ways of staying sane in a demanding world. The first is quite familiar and often brought out daily. We recognize it as Prayer.

Errant thoughts....can boomerang...

We are thinking beings, which means that we are setting something in the Universal Mind to act upon all the time. This we can consider some form of prayer, and it can be kind of scary. Imagine! Every thought a form of prayer, not just the ones we intend, which means that we will need to take better charge of our thoughts. Usually whenever we think of praying or at least making some kind of contact with whatever we consider deity, we have good intentions. We want a healing; we want something to turn out well, etc., but unintentional prayer is another matter. Errant thoughts, sloppy thoughts, hateful thoughts can boomerang and bring us unwanted conditions. It’s good to remember that old saying: What goes around comes around.

More compelling...

So, without sounding too church-y, I would recommend that we see if we cannot make our general thinking (We cannot and will not monitor every thought!) a bit more holy, or wholesome. The immediate outcome of doing so will bring a frame of mind that holds more light, more ease, more comfort. We’ll be easier to get along with and more attractive to others because they will sense something more compelling in us, even if they don’t know what it is.

Mind the mind...

Therefore mind the mind. Make sure our general thinking is worthy of us, let alone our intentional prayer. Would we want to carry around a mindset that is a desecration to ourselves? We are meant to be gifts to life, and with prayer based in love, we will be.

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