The Song of Prayer From A Course in Miracles

[Micheal Jorden]

While the majority of us have now been mentioned to think that prayer involves pleading to God to greatly help, save, fix problems and bring us things nowadays, that's not true prayer nor its purpose. Prayer in A Course in Miracles (ACIM) is very different and very beautiful. Greater than a song, it is joyous exchange of Love and thanks between God and His Creations that employs the forgiveness process to correct the mind before Prayer Song is all that remains. It's the ticket home so understanding true prayer, and forgiveness, may be worth the amount of time in retraining the mind.

Prayer is exchanging (sharing) a Song of Love and Creation or judgments of the ego centered on that which you ask for (agree with) in the mind. There is no other way. In the Course, the mind (content) is split between God and the ego; and you are choosing all the time with an area as reason for effect.

Forms (all things with this world) are miscreations reflecting the ego's judgmental thought system. We've managed to get up (miscreated this world) and will give it down anytime by correcting the mind (forgiveness). True prayer requires this correction of the mind as God has nothing to do with forms.

What Prayer is Not:

As you are usually deciding, that which you ask for when you pray is what counts. When you plead in prayer to have God fix a questionnaire problem with another form problem, you are asking the ego mind for help (not God). Those forms and needs are deemed more important than God's Love that'll remain hidden to their education you decide on the illusion.

All external things (forms) are needs. Other labels are wants, desires, status, problems, sickness, human love (special relationships), gifts and goals nowadays, etc. They are that which you choose as substitutes for God's Love and the ego will distort the purpose of prayer by with them to help the illusion. Therefore, prayer can not be about "forms" or "needs" in virtually any way.

The Purpose of Prayer:

The Song of Prayer is defined by the Course as a Song of Creation, Love and gratitude being sung from the Father to the Son and returned from the Son to the Father. God gave this gift of Want to His Son at Creation to ensure that it's just one voice shared by both the Creator and Created. Continuously sharing Love and Creation back and forth extends them forever in eternity. That is prayer's purpose.

In this form world of illusion, this prayer continues to be a gift from God offered through the Holy Spirit, the memory of God in the mind. It's the way you reach God in the illusion. Anyone who has ever remembered the tiniest instant with this all-inclusive joy must begin questioning what he's choosing (praying for) and how to change his mind so he is able to have that all the time.

True Prayer and Forgiveness:

True prayer is: (1) asking for what's already there, The Song; and a course in miracles, (2) along the way, using forgiveness (correction of the mind) to stop the ego forms or what's certainly not there. Joining with Love in true prayer is asking for nothing (i.e., no illusion, forms or needs) so you end up receiving everything (Love). One problem. One solution.