You are part of God’s answers to prayers.
February 27, 2024
You pray to God. You pray to a loving, creative center. You pray for an energy that is pure love, and you seek ways of connecting in meaningful ways to that loving presence. Even though God is not like a human, in terms of listening to what is being said, but rather a creative force of love, thinking of God and speaking of God as if that reality were almost human can always be of help as you find ways of connecting to that presence. You pray to God as if you are speaking to someone. Your prayers are ones of seeking comfort, wisdom, and peace, and the very act of praying presupposes there is some kind of entity that hears what is being prayed for.
God, as we have insisted, is not a human-like presence, and yet the presence that you pray for on your travels along your pathway still brings strength. There is a response, but that response is not God responding when hearing your prayers. The response of God is the openness you experience in God’s presence. It is that openness that provides a sense of peace, a healing of spirit.
The presence of God is a presence of loving energy. It is there for all to partake. It is a meal that waits upon a table to be taken in as nourishment. If you wish to be fed, you must be receptive to the food that is present, to the nourishment that is present. If you wish to be healed, you must be present for the healing energy that surrounds you. Praying is merely a mechanism for opening yourself to the loving energy through which you walk on your individual pathway. We have said before and we reiterate, praying to God is not activating God to action. Praying to God is opening yourself to that loving energy that is always present.
We speak of knowing life-forms, both human and nonhuman. All life-forms are in part containers of energies. All that exists has within an energy that can be sent forward. There is nothing that exists, human or otherwise, that is void of energy. The reality that supersedes all others is a reality of energy. God is energy. The love that is such an important part of God’s presence is an energy. Thoughts are energies. Light, sound, everything that exists contains that energy.
When you interact with other human beings, your interaction is an energy being sent outward and interacting with the energy of another. The result is not merely a connection of energies but a release, an increase, an expansion of energy. You could say one plus one is not merely two. One plus one may begin as two and become three or four or millions. Any combination of energy sources creates different energies. When you reach out to another with loving thoughts, the impact is more than just the thoughts being received by another as loving presence. The mere act of encountering others with loving thoughts indeed expands that God energy that exists already.
You may frequently hear that God is all-powerful, but such a statement does not relate to one or another type of energy. It actually means that God is the power of all. All belong to the power. It is not a power that dominates. God’s power does not control all that is. God’s presence is the acknowledgment that all that exists is part of God.
God’s impact increases every time you reach outward, every time you look upon another with kindness, every time you sit with another and be present, not because what you are doing is important, but rather being present is important. That act of being present in itself expands the all-powerful God, the God that is the power of all.
The danger of just taking a simple statement and saying that God is all-powerful can serve to remove the responsibilities and opportunities that are available to you. One could simply say God is all-powerful. If I pray to God that something is resolved, something is mitigated, something is overcome, then there is nothing more to be done than to wait patiently for God to act. That relationship to God is a passive one, but your connection to God must always be positive.
In short, if you pray to God to bring peace, then do what you can to bring about peace. If you pray that God is somehow healing another who is suffering, do what you can to mitigate that suffering. It is all about intention. If you wish to observe God’s love, you must have the intention of being loving and of being open, of being vulnerable, so that the love that is offered by others will be fully received by you.
Being active as the presence of God does not imply you must be out speaking with others, working with others, supporting others in very concrete ways. Certainly, those are ways but not the only way. Praying for the benefit of another is being active. Real prayer is not a passive activity. It is an activity of commitment, of doing, of being, of representing what it is you seek. It’s being committed to a process. Praying is not just leaving it to God, brushing off the dirt from your hands, and going on just thinking “when God wants to act, God will act.” It is acting as is most appropriate for you.
All individuals have within themselves a vehicle for being in part what is understood as a response from God. You are part of that sphere of love. You are part of the sphere of God. As you create the energies of love offered to others, you are increasing the presence of love, and in that increasing of love, you are increasing God’s response. You are increasing the totality of all that is, all that is being created. Don’t say God created all. Say God is creating all, and because of your connection to God’s presence, that can be extended to say you, collectively, are creating all.
That creating is a process. It is not a product. God did not in simplest terms create the earth and figure the job was done. The earth continues to evolve. It continues to change, and you are part of that evolution. You are part of the changes that take place, just as you are being changed along with that evolution. You belong to what is being changed, to what is being enhanced, to what is being strengthened. You belong to what it means to create, whether that creativity is concrete or a function of thought or a function of intention, a desire to be loving, to be listening, to be present, to be reflective. There is no finite limit to that energy that is a part of you.
All that you do, whenever you direct your spiritual energies toward others, increases God’s presence and creates in that increase new forms of energy. Those new forms of energy are knowing life-forms. The energy of love always knows the Creator, always knows the center of that love. If you consider love as the surface of a large sphere, all points on the surface ultimately directed downward actually share in the intention being focused on the very core of that sphere. There is a connection that is undeniable.
A knowing life-form is one that is aware of a greater creative force. That awareness may be described as a response to that creative force, not necessarily the capability of labeling the creative force as the Creator but responding to it. When we say that lives that are directed in such a way, with no recognition of God being valued lives, we state that because there is nothing at the core of your life that is pointed away from God.
If you lie on your back on the earth, you may look outward to the sky, but there is an energy that keeps you grounded and attached to the earth. That energy of gravity pulls toward the center. If two people engage in that same activity on opposite sides of the globe, when they look out, they are looking in opposite directions, and yet the force that keeps them grounded pulls toward the center. Two individuals whose lives are greatly different in appearance may both appear to be ungodly, and yet despite their looking the other way, they are grounded by God’s core, that center of loving energy.
If a third person lies on the ground with their face looking downward, the pull of gravity toward the core of the earth is no different. Where they are facing, they seem to be focused on the center of the earth, but there is no difference in that pull toward the core.
This is exactly the situation of human beings whose lives seem to be facing in many different directions, some of which are in denial of the core, the Spirit Center, but nevertheless there is an energy that is pulling toward that center. That is a kind of knowing relationship. This consciousness, if you wish to identify it as such, is a spiritual consciousness. It is a confirmation of that pull toward the core, even when it is not a mentally conscious activity or connection.
The differences in behavior between peoples around the world are insignificant in the greater view of the connection between the loving core that is God and every person. All are pulled by the same force regardless of where you may face. All are pulled toward the loving center of that energy, God, regardless of outward appearances. For that reason, all human life is equally essential. All human life responds, consciously or not, to God’s presence, to your presence, to your commitment to be in communication with others either personally or through prayer.
You are connected. Embrace as you can that connection. Be committed to the importance of connecting with others, knowing that with the intention of being loving, in whatever way that may be, you are expanding the totality of that loving energy. You are increasing God’s presence, and you are part of God’s answers to all who offer prayers to that loving center, to God.
Seek out those opportunities for being actively God’s presence. Be open. Be humble. Be vulnerable. Be receptive to God’s presence as it is offered through others.
Amen.