The Song of Prayer From A Course in Miracles
While most of us have been brought up to trust that prayer involves asking to God to help, save, fix problems and bring us things these days, that’s not true prayer nor its purpose. Prayer in a Course in Miracles (ACIM) is quite different and extremely beautiful. Higher than a song, it is memorable exchange of Love and thanks between God and His Projects that employs the forgiveness process to correct the mind before Prayer Song is all that remains. It’s the ticket home so understanding true prayer, and forgiveness, is worth the time in teaching the mind.
Prayer is swapping (sharing) a Song of Love and Creation or judgments of the ego based on what you ask for (agree with) in the mind. a course in miracles There is no other way. In the Course, the mind (content) is split between God and the ego; and you opting for all the time with a side as cause for effect.
Forms (all things of this world) are miscreations reflecting the ego’s judgmental thought system. We’ve made it up (miscreated this world) and can cease anytime by repairing the mind (forgiveness). True prayer requires this a static correction of the mind as God has nothing regarding forms.
What Prayer is not:
Since you are always deciding, what you ask for when you wish is what counts. When you plead with in prayer to have God fix a questionnaire problem with another form problem, you are asking the ego mind for help (not God). Those forms and needs are deemed more important than God’s Love which will remain hidden to the degree you choose the illusion.
All external things (forms) are needs. Other labels are wants, desires, status, problems, sickness, human love (special relationships), gifts and goals these days, etc. They are what you choose as replacements for God’s Love and the ego will perspective the objective of prayer by using them to further the illusion. Therefore, prayer cannot be about “forms” or “needs” in any way.
The objective of Prayer:
The Song of Prayer is defined by the Course as a Song of Creation, Love and gratitude being sung from the Father to the Son and returned from the Son to the Father. God gave this gift of Want to His Son at Creation so that it’s a single voice shared by the Creator and Created. Continuously sharing Love and Creation to and fro expands them forever in everlasting nature. That is prayer’s purpose.
During this form world of illusion, this prayer is still something special from God offered through the Holy Spirit, the memory of God in the mind. It’s how you reach God in the illusion. Anyone who has ever remembered the tiniest instant of this all-inclusive joy must begin questioning what he is choosing (praying for) and how to change his mind so he can have that all the time.
True Prayer and Forgiveness:
True prayer is: (1) asking for what is already there, The Song; and, (2) along the way, using forgiveness (correction of the mind) to give up the ego forms or what isn’t there. Joining with Love in true prayer is asking for nothing (i. e., no illusion, forms or needs) so you wind up receiving everything (Love). One problem. One solution.
Forgiveness (correction of the mind) is a part of true prayer and makes the process go quicker. Prayer is timeless and goes on forever, and forgiveness is the illusory step ladder in time that returns the mind to this endless exchange. Forgiveness goes away when the mind is very remedied and remembers only The Song.
The big secret of true prayer and forgiveness is to concentrate on neglecting and giving up the things you think you want and need in the illusion, even the particulars, as this asks for the mind to be returned to Truth (Love). You are not furthering the illusion. You are tallying with God that (a) you are a mind; (b) this form world is not real; (c) you made an error; and, (d) you can choose again.
Using a static correction of the mind (forgiveness) places those forms and needs on God’s ceremony, or in his hands, as idols which are only anything you’ve selected to be more important than God’s Love. No longer wanting anything before His Love, the only effect God could return is your memorial of Him. The more you give up, the more meaningless the world becomes and the faster you perform His Song.
Prayer in the Illusion:
Since the mind still chilling out with God, the Course says you don’t have to decide alone and may ask the Holy Spirit for help deciding and wait for the answer. Otherwise, you’ve already decided with the ego. If you must make a decision at that moment, you’ll get the appropriate “need” answer right then.
A fix is an indicate of God’s Voice from the Song of Prayer. You are not asking for the indicate itself. You are choosing the gift of Love from the Song by providing up all form needs. “Need” answers in the illusion are contained within that indicate even during the a static correction of the mind process. They are met at the degree of the forgiveness step ladder you can understand and accept.
