September 24, 2004

I went into one of our Temples, the Paduka Mandir, today to offer a prayer for my mother’s health and well-being.

In my spiritual practice we offer a prayer called the Devotional Prayer of Changes. Its a prayer based on the understanding that true prayer is not about begging for changes, but a process in which you participate with present conditions by actively releasing what is negative and invoking and affirming through breath and intention, the positive change you would like to see occur. It is based on the understanding that our reality is a constantly shifting event, moved and directed by energy, intention and Grace.

This prayer is offered in a disposition of surrender, releasing any negative emotions you hold around the present situation. It is a powerful form of prayer and I have never offered a heart-felt Prayer of Changes in this Temple without seeing a shift occur in the situation I was praying for within a day or two.

I know that my mother’s true care comes from a source far greater than me. If I stay in relationship to that, then she is helped in ways I could never be capable of.

--c.