Life Without Prayer

Posted on by Rev. Cleo Graham

I can’t help wondering about life without prayer. The thought makes me so fearful that it takes my breath away. Where can we take our troubles. Who will receive our inner thoughts that are too painful to speak. How can we fully release our inner thoughts to a God that hears our hearts desires, our undeveloped passions and heavy burdens. Without prayer, my faith is stripped and my hope dissolved. I cannot live without prayer. For the wings in my life will be unsteady and sink instead of rising above my pain.

I might find constant pain without a means to share it with a God that matters. A God that hears us. A God that reminds us that this life that we see now is the second fold from which we come forth only as babies in bigger bodies and immature spirits. The next unfolding makes us leave this works behind to experience a high Calling that only God knows until we arrive.

Some people live during an immature station in life and are not fully developed. Some people may appear bigger but they are not grown. Sometimes they’re too immature to see beyond the tunnel and through the Light of their own Reflection instead of God’s Reflection of what we are created to be. Just watch the Morning Glory. See what it does to cooperate with God’s plan for our lives. Spirit arrives and freshly opens our eyes and lips like flowers that open and smile at the sun. Spirit invited us to experience a new Day and embrace the Light of God’s presence. The Morning Glorious flowers are open during the day glorifying its Maker. We have options and choices to do the same and to be like the flowers that express Communion with the Holy One.

Prayer reminds us to kiss it up to God. Yes, kiss all our troubles, mistakes, worries, and questions. Listen for the great Amen as a signal that God has spoken. But, are you listening? Amen!

Now, go! Make a move that is your move today. Trust in doing your best. Trust God will do the rest with you and for you. Finally give thanks. Yes! Indeed God has spoken. God had the last word. So, hear God’s call. Say I believe I will receive answers. Then say Amen! Say Amen! Believe in Amen and let God’s will be done in you and through you. Amen