Pray Without Ceasing

Jesus said to pray without ceasing. Most of us do anything BUT... or if you think of our mental focus as a type of prayer, think about what we're praying for... we're cursing the driver in front of us, we're worrying about how to make ends meet and praying for more money worries, we're complaining... How much of our time is REALLY spent in being grateful for what we have? How much of our time is spent in blessing others? How much of our time is spent conscious of what we're thinking about, at all?

Then there are the "I need something" type prayers. How many of us pray more when we're asking for something and when we're not, we pray less? I will be the first to hold my hand up. When our kitty Solstice was in vet hospitals for several weeks, I prayed daily for her--often walking around at lunch in contemplative prayer. When she seems better, I forget... when she seems worse, I pray again.

If God were a more perverse and egotistical God who wanted everyone's attention all the time, you might think He would send challenges into our lives to force us to reconnect in prayer...but fortunately, He's not. And I think our ego selves thinking small can create more than enough drama in our own lives without God's involvement! We are free to pray--or not. I asked the angels about praying without ceasing and they said:

Yes, it seems to be a common human affliction to pray for help when needed, and to forget about prayer at other times. This isn't only "self" oriented prayer--one also prays more in an intercessory way when one has concerns for others, for example illnesses and challenges of friends and loved ones. But people think of prayer as a type of asking, mainly. Now prayer can and does involve requesting divine assistance, but there is so much more to it. In fact, it is this misunderstanding of prayer's nature that leads some to think that you are engaging in angel-olatry or angelic idol worship when you ask us angels for help in your lives. But you're ASKING us for help, or saints for help. You're not worshiping us. If you ask your friends to pray for you, are you worshiping them? If you ask a friend for a favor, is that prayer? Of course not.

But you can worship the Creator/God/"Source"--the Divine by whatever name you choose to call it. We angels worship God. Worship is a wonderful sort of prayer. It need not have words, it's a feeling of appreciation, of overflowing joyous communion with God, of feeling surrounded by, enfolded within, the bosom of God and feeling the energy of divine LOVE. Love, not as a verb, not like romantic love or familial love. Love as a state of beingness. Then there is Joy as a state of beingness, Peace as a state of beingness.... every single quality you think of as "good" rolled into a single, overflowing experience. This is the prayer of worship. This is the prayer of communion....

This is the prayer that Jesus wanted you to pray without ceasing. Praise, love, adoration, and deep communion with God... Never feeling separated from God, never feeling anything but connection and the richness of union with God, 24/7.

That is what Jesus did. That is what Jesus DOES. We realize that it's not likely to happen overnight, but we would like you to set aside five minutes a day to experience God. Feel God around you. Feel God within you. Notice God... you can expand from there, but at least reconnect once daily. The ecstatic experience of worship will bring out your true spirit, your soul essence--that you are a creation of the divine and share this essence... and that it feels wonderful to plug back into who you are, and from who you truly are, to the Love that God is.

SOME LINKS TO SITES ON CONTEMPLATIVE PRAYER
These forms of prayer take one into a contemplative state where one can enter into a communion with God, as opposed to actively praying. One allows God to speak in contemplative prayer....

These prayer sites are oriented toward Christianity, as that is my own faith, but I believe that people of other faiths can find value in them. After all, in his book Practical Praying about the rosary, psychic medium John Edward says his Jewish friend and fellow psychic Shelley Peck used to pray the rosary as a form of meditation.

Jesus Prayer
Anglican Prayer Beads
Labyrinths
Online Labyrinth
Video Rosary
Online Rosary (click on beads for prayer)
Biblical Basis for the Catholic Rosary
Centering Prayer

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