A function of prayer may be that God lets us ask for things and not just give them to us, so that we might become better, wiser people. Even better, that we ask things for other people. Perhaps it is only secondary whether or not our prayers are answered, especially in the way that we mean for them to be. Or as George Meredith said, “Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.” After all, God already knows what we need and what we want: it is we who are clueless about the whole affair. In seeking God, then, we find out our own true selves. Not that we should not care about the things we pray for, because that is a part of it too, I think. To quote Ani DiFranco, “God’s work isn’t done by God.” Amen to that. Indeed.
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12:17pm thursday, 22nd august
I saw Jesus last night. Yesterday I watched a program about alien abductions and how the abductee's said when they say the name of Jesus the aliens disperse. This has happened in my own life. When entities have entered my room I spontaneously say the name of Jesus and they disperse almost immediately. Sometimes they try to cover my mouth and can turn off my voice so I won't say those words. I think the aliens are from evil or the devil sorta speak..I don't know the full story, but this world is the same crap over and over and over. Like evil just plays the same game over and over and over. Well, how I saw Jesus?....Last night I was laying in bed and started to say the name Jesus. A strong (very strong) power started to resonate within me and kept getting stronger. I then had a vision of rain drops pouring all down on me, like I was being washed. I then saw a vision in front of me of Jesus standing on this pristine beach on a earth like planet. Maybe earth as what it was like years and years ago when it was really pristine. Then it all stopped and I was back to normal again in my bed. What's this all about?..I don't think we can fully understand, I just walk along the path that is revealed.....
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12:19pm thursday, 22nd august
The way I pray. I just ask for the things I need, and to keep me away from the things I don't need, and to just reveal the path. How can you lose with a prayer like this?
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2:42pm sunday, 25th august
Temperance
I am the sun cast towards the moon. I am the moon embracing the sun. I am the waters filling into every stream of conscious energy. I am the flower waiting to bloom in its correct time. Patience and full of temperance, I am fulfilled in the passing breeze of nothing moving towards nowhere.........
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