Article Title: Sharing Some Spiritual Thoughts from Marianne Williamson
Submitted by Craig Lock
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may be freely published, electronically or in print (with acknowledgement to Marianne Williamson, please).
"We share what we know, so that we all may grow."
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Sharing Some Spiritual Thoughts from Marianne Williamson
Introduction:
This article (in point form) was based upon notes (short), that I've taken from Marianne Williamson, as she appeared on Oprah Winfrey's most uplifting TV program some years back. She's talking about God, the power of prayer and so on. I feel the spiritual principles mentioned are eternal and meaningful in making our daily lives easier and better; so this is my reason for sharing.
Thanks, Marianne.
When I don't know what to do about a particular situation, I'll say, "OK GOD, I'm going to let you handle it".
'Crossing The Threshold Of Hope'.
God doesn't see your guilt - God sees your innocence.
Just be willing to see the innocence within each other.
Remember one moment of love and innocence from your sister, the course would say that's the way GOD sees her...
God will give you the capacity to see the innocence in each other.
The power of grace is that God will give you the power to do that.
Do you want to be right, or do you want peace or to be happy?
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THE POWER OF PRAYER
So what happens when we pray is that we ask God to give us His thoughts and to give us His eyes. Prayer enables us to take the power of God and bring it down into the plane of our actual earth experience. Therefore, prayer is the medium of miracles.
and most importantly, ANYONE can pray (even when bed-ridden and even if a person is paralysed, thanks Lindsay)!
I place in your hands, dear God.
We ask that your spirit, which is within us now enter more deeply, more profoundly into the minds and hearts than ever before.
"I can't, but God can."
Prayer as a way of life.
Illuminata" - "Illuminata
It's light.
I think, and ask God to open the way for light to come in to my life...which is open to just seeing the truth. Put God first.
The future is waiting to happen, if we just LET IT BE (thanks John Lennon).
"I would never be so presumptuous as to tell this woman what she should feel...or I mean, I understand the depth of her, her pain as best I can." Stimulate the forces of healing in our society, so that these things stop happening. You change the darkness - by adding light to the darkness.
We don't just concentrate on treating the illness, we concentrate on stimulating the forces of healing. I think each and every one of us, through prayer, through meditation, through serious spiritual practice and devotion, can ask, through the grace of God, to be made into instruments of profound healing and peace and harmlessness. Then God's answers unfold in the process.
You have to really want to let go of anger, resentment, etc. Open up the channel, let their hearts be able to open to see each other in a new way. God gives us a new heart.
The power of our own soul. "Dear God, lift me up."
God does not heal us in the past, he heals us in the present...and makes you new.
God knows your heart. God already knows our heart and already what we are thinking and feeling; so why do you have to say it?
I have a personal relationship with God, so I can pray to Him.
I know that He answers my prayers; because of my relationship with Him.
I don't believe God's closer to anyone than anyone else? I don't believe God loves anyone more than anyone else.
How to pray? Invite God's spirit into every situation; ask God to remove all thoughts not of Him, ask God to show the love in all people, ask to serve only God's purposes; be honest, be humble, be serious
(Source: 'Illuminata' by Marianne Williamson).
Prayer, whether it is a formal prayer, from a book, or your own ritual, is to open up your heart, to have a better way, a passage to peace in your life. It's what we're all seeking.
Try to reach the highest level of humanity possible. As I awaken every morning, that is my prayer for myself, that God be able to use me as a vessel and that whatever comes brings me to the highest level that God would have me be. All our lives we wish that this time spent on the planet be used to reach the highest level of humanity that is possible for each one of us. This is a life changing experience.
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PRAYER FOR AMERICA
by Marianne Williamson
"We join in prayer to celebrate this nation and surrender its destiny to you. We give thanks in our hearts to the founding of this country. We give thanks for and bless the souls of those who came before us who found this nation, to nurture and to save it. We ask that God's spirit now fill our hearts with righteousness. May we play our parts, all of us, in the healing and the furtherance of our country. May we be cleansed of all destructive thoughts.
May judgement of others, bigotry, racism and intolerance be washed clean from our hearts. God, may our minds be filled with the thoughts of you; His unconditional love and His acceptance of all people. May this nation be forgiven its transgressions against the African American, Native American and any and all others. May our lives be turned to instruments of resurrection, that the sins of our fathers might be reversed through us. May the beauty and greatness burst forth once more in the hearts of its people.
May the dreams of our forefathers be realised in us, that we might live in honesty and integrity and excellence with our neighbours. May this country, once again, become a light unto the nations of hope and goodness and peace and freedom. May violence and darkness be cast out of our midst. May hatred no longer find fertile ground in which to grow here. May all of us feel God's grace upon us.'
Reignite it, dear God, the spirit of truth in our hearts. May our nation be given a new light, the sacred fire that once shone so bright from shore to shore. May we be forgiven. May our children be blessed. May we be renewed. Dear God, please bless America."
Amen
Marianne Williamson
Web site: http://marianne.com
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Craig is a writer, who believes in sharing information with a 'dash' of humour, as well as encouraging and helping others to
find their talents and gifts, to strive for and accomplish their
dreams in life - whatever they may be.
http://www.craiglockbooks.com
http://www2.webng.com/writernz/
All proceeds go to needy and underprivilileged children