“Prayer Changes Things”

Oh yeah, that’s right. I need to remember that.

“Prayer Changes Things” is a phrase often used to express belief that prayer has a transformative effect on situations, circumstances, and outcomes. It suggests that through prayer, positive changes can occur in our lives, relationships, health, and even the world around us. Whether you’re seeking comfort, guidance, or healing, prayer is seen as a powerful force that can bring about positive shifts.—Copilot

The art of praying is not my forte. Yes, it is an art. Most times, when all else fails, then I remember to turn to prayer. I use prayer as almost my last resort. Pre-written affirmative prayers help me to cope with my stress, conflict, challenges and grief in my life. Often prayer is a source of inspiration, comfort, and guidance during difficult times. But, to immediately and automatically turn to prayer, I’m not there yet. I do know, no matter what happens to me, what counts is how I react to it.

I do have faith though. Faith is a belief that is not based on tangible proof. I do tend to turn to my faith immediately and automatically. Because of my faith, prayers change things in my life. Faith has transformed the way I think about myself and others, and what lies ahead for me. Faith shifts my perspective and has empowered me to forgive. Faith brings a sense of peace and comfort into my heart.

The following is a meditation from Ernest Holmes page 434 Living the Science of Mind that I often use as my all-purpose go to prayer. I’d like to share it with you.

I KNOW there is a Power for Good which is responding to me and bringing into my experience everything that is necessary to my unfoldment, to my happiness, to my peace, to my health, and to my success. I know there is a Power for Good that enables me to help others and to bless the whole world.

So, I say quietly to myself: There is one Life, that Life is God, that Life is perfect, that Life is my life now. It is flowing through me, circulating in me. I am one with Its rhythm. My heart beats with the pulsation of the Universe, in serenity, in peace, and in joy. My whole physical being is animated by the Divine Spirit, and if there is anything in it that does not belong, it is cast out because there is One Perfect Life in me now.

And I say to myself: I am daily guided so that I shall know what to do under every circumstance, in every situation. Divine Intelligence guides me in love, in joy, and in complete self-expression. Desiring that the Law of Good alone shall control me, I bless and prosper everything I am doing; I multiply every activity; I accept and expect happiness and complete success.

Realizing that I am one with all people, I affirm that there is a silent Power flowing through me and them, which blesses and heals and prospers, makes happy and glad their pathway.

And realizing that the world is made up of people like myself, I bless the world and affirm that it shall come under the Divine government of Good, under the Divine providence of Love, and under the Divie leadership of the Supreme Intelligence. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.

–Madeline Pallanes