Having taken a break from Lori-Lyn Hurley‘s Sacred Beginnings prompts yesterday, let me catch up with my consideration of PRAYER.
Although I consider myself very much to be a spiritual person, I am not a religious person. And so I always feel like I want to take special care about talking about prayer because it can means such different things to different people.
For me I consider prayer to be a way to activate our resources on the spiritual plane.
I like to think of prayers as ladders to Source.
But truly, once again I think Rumi says it most perfectly:
“Getting doors open
one after the other
is the essence of Prayer.
Every door is a passage,
another boundary we have
to go beyond.
We squeeze ourselves through,
and then we go.
Farther.
After all,
the purpose of the Prayer
is not to stand and bow
all day long.
The purpose is to possess
continuously
that fragrant state
which appears to you
in Prayer.
Asleep or awake,
writing or reading,
in every state
never be empty
of Remembrance.
Be rather one of those moving
constantly
within Prayer.”
I know I most certainly want to be in that fragrant state, never empty of Remembrance.
In my former life, prayer was a huge part of my way of being in the world. I miss it. I have been redefining and understanding it differently but I so miss being able to release cares, to implore on behalf of others. My meditative doodling is a form of prayer. I find focus and peace.
Hugs for the tender parts of this Cynthia. But I strongly believe we can reclaim right-fit for us for everything – and so perhaps you’ll find your way to prayer that feels perfect as well.