Have you ever been asked to pray for someone? A friend or neighbor or co-worker asks…please pray for this person. They are having a hard time. They’ve had some bad news. There has been a death in the family. They are in pain, lost, suffering. Will you please pray for them?
What do you do now? How do you pray? What effort do you make on behalf of another? Here is what I believe about prayer. Prayer is about bringing the Presence and Power that is God into our own consciousness. In order for this to happen we have to become still. Following the breath is a good way to begin. Following the breath in and out helps us clear our mind of chatter and distraction. We are able to gently sink into the rhythm of stillness.
From here we can accomplish an amazing thing: we can see as God sees and know as God knows. Through our own stillness we have allowed the movement of God in our very being. In these moments of prayer, it is we who change. We are able to see the magnificence of the Divine everywhere and in everyone, no matter the outer appearance.
We begin see the other not as someone to be fixed or healed but as someone who is whole and complete in this very moment now. To see the other as Love Itself…as tender and worthy and at ease. To see the Divine breathing and sustaining them, lifting and inspiring them. In other words, we see and feel for them what, in that moment, is difficult for them to see and feel for themselves.
It is the greatest gift we can offer another…to see as God sees and to know as God knows.
With great humility
Paula
