MessengerBoy wrote:
NBK wrote:
Prayer for me now is more about understanding the real life than trying to see things change. I feel there is more to our existence than what we see or are told. I guess my prayer is looking into/ beyond what I see to what is really there.
I get that, NBK. After I posted the above I thought about it a little more. I find in addition to what I said above, many of my "prayers" are just observations I tell to God about myself or things going on around me. For example, I'll direct my thoughts to God and say something like, "Man, I really screwed that one up. Didn't I?" or I might say, "Well, God I wonder what you would think about that?"
Messengerboy. I used to consider everyone I talked to from the more Xtian fundie point of view. What I now understand is the person behind the person I see. Maybe a little insight into some of the things that make them tick. I see the angry lady at he checkout stand as fearful rather than simply a person offering bad customer service...This is what I mean by seeing the real life as opposed to the surface.
Also, Religion depends on us believing what we are told and what they tell us we see. I am discovering a reality beyond what i see and am beginning to realize that reality is actually truth, not the slogans of institutional Religion.
The divine is working all around us. Every detail we see has more to it than the surface we are aware of. That for me is why prayer has taken on a different character/attitude than before. So many things in life are simply all part of the cycles of life and will eventually work themselves out. Modern religion does not admit there are cycles of life so there is this constant effort( prayer) to change these events.
