Lawd, Jesus, help me, a beg yuh!
That was my cry for many years – until I learned better.
Without getting into my theological evolution or my current
spiritual understanding, I know that such a ‘prayer’ is useless. Calling to
Jesus, God, Jehovah, Jah even Buddha or Allah in the middle of a situation is
vain, arrogant and pretentious in my view.
I remember during my residency as an hospital Chaplain how mad
I would get at family members who never darkened a church once since their
childhood but would page the on call Chaplain to come to their family member’s
bedside at 2:00 in the morning!
God on call is what some people believe they have and while
I believe that a Higher Being is available to us at all times, It simply is not
sitting around waiting to be ordered about!
The other thing that I know for sure about prayers – they are
always answered, however, you might not like the answer! That is so amusing to
me. I laugh at myself very often on this. We all have the tendency to think
that we can bawl out to Jesus or whomever with a laundry list and “it shall be
so!”
Hell no! What comes to us, we attract to ourselves. I can
see some of you cringing from that statement but I stand by it. The trajectory
of my life has proven that to me and whether you want to believe or buy into it
hardly concerns me. My DOS family will
tell you that the song that I sing to them very frequently is to “accept,
embrace and then change,” what comes if it no longer serves you. I also know
the importance of being clear about my intentions – those things that I hold in
my heart, the residence of Spirit/Source, as from it flows the issues of my
life. Whether I label those issues good or bad, they are mine!
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