Prayer is not a plea for God to act.

Prayer is merely an opening. It is not a plea for God to act. It is your opening to find benefit from that component of love that is beyond your present understanding. Sometimes you pray for God’s presence, and only in hindsight do you recognize the reality of that presence. It was not seen or felt immediately, but as you look back, you find it unmistakably part of your life because you were open to that energy.

God cares, not in a human sense but in a far greater sense. God’s love is for all that exists, but the exercise of that love is not easily described in human terms. Nevertheless, it is there. God exists because you exist; you exist because God exists. Without human life, God’s presence, God’s reality, would be less than whole, for you are a part of that totality. Embrace that part of God that you occupy. Acknowledge that in reaching out in all forms of human love, you are fulfilling some of the reality that is God.

Also know and accept that there is a response between God’s presence and your soul that will be unrecognized by you. That response is the light coming through a window that has just been opened. The light was there all the time, but the window was closed. Opening the window does not command the light now to enter the room. The light enters the room because that is the natural behavior of light, and the act of opening the window, opening the shutters, allows that natural behavior to be brought in.

Opening your heart to God’s presence is the opening of that window. The presence, the loving presence, the caring, the embracing presence that is God is always with you. Open the shutters. Open your heart. Let your pathway be illuminated by a new light, by a renewed sense of loving presence.