Meditation reading for Friday March 29, 2024
PRAYER —
Prayer can change us dramatically. It can open our eyes to the intricate beauty in things and people in our life.
Prayer can help us see the people we pray for, whether friend or adversary, with greater clarity and love. Our gratitude for friends is heightened; our resentment toward adversaries lessens. Barriers mysteriously disappear when we look upon those we dislike prayerfully.
The Eleventh Step suggests that prayer may be as simple as asking for knowledge of God’s will for us and the power to carry that out. We therefore seek God’s presence anywhere we are and with anyone we’re with. This is prayer as action, as a commitment to fully invest ourselves in life. When prayer is how we live our life, we are able to honor whatever life gives us by responding with acceptance and love.