The wonders of prayers



Gabriel praying at Wat Doi Suthep - Thailand



Although I have always understood and experienced the wonders of prayers, my daughter has taken a fond passion for them to her bedtimes.

She says they make her sleep better and she just loves them................ so what is any good mother to do............. OK, then we'll do prayers every night!

Our prayers consist of 2 parts, the first part is:

"Dear God (feel free to insert your choice here: Jehovah, spirit, the Tao, heavenly being, angel guides, what ever works for you), thank you for............................."

Then the 2nd part is:

"Please bless................................"

As we have been praying together, things have become a little streamlined and are moving in different directions as we grow together.

 A few months ago, she was having awful concerns with a mother of a child at her school.
That night, when we got to the "please bless" part, I named this mother, she opened her eyes wide and asked why on earth we were blessing HER????
I thought about it for a moment and then shared that in order for someone to treat another so badly, they must be in emotional or mental pain, so then if we pray for them, perhaps it will alleviate some of their suffering and perhaps they will become more peaceful.

She thought about it for a moment and then added "yes, good idea, perhaps then she'll leave me alone too......... I'm pretty scared of her".

So it was done, every night for several weeks, she was included in our "please bless" part, 3 weeks to the day later, she comes up to us, looking very embarrassed and sheepish and starts chatting away, being quite nice as if nothing had ever happened.

Amazing!

Don't you love those synchronicities, the ones where you know if your heart they always work, yet are still amazed every time they do.

For the past month we have been saying our prayers every night.
One evening Emma prayed for a sick client, the next morning we had an email saying they had miraculously healed overnight - for no apparent reason and were coming home from hospital today.

Another evening we were discussing debts and energy debts. I shared with her a story of a past client had borrowed a large sum of money around 12 years ago and we assumed they would never be in a position to pay it back and allowed it to flow through the universe.
She brought them into her "please bless"

The next evening, I received a phone call saying there had been an inheritance in their family and a request for our banking details so the entire amount could be placed back in tomorrow.
Amazing!

Every day there are little miracles and I have decided to share snippets of them with you in this blog each time I can, rather than save up for huge long winded chapters, I hope they may have you coming back here regularly to hear what has transpired and perhaps inspire you to make some regular changes in your life too.

Giving gratitude is something we are especially big on in our family, we have taken the children to remote countries around the world, including Pokkara (in the foothills of the Annapurna ranges of Nepal) where they witnessed small children cooking dinner in fires in tin cans and sleeping on the streets.
For us, it is not a remote thought, it is something very real and every day of our life we are eternally grateful for the blessed life we lead.
Hence the "thank you" part of the prayers is a small reminder of the blessings that we have received every day.
This week, we have been busy making up many gifts for the "wishing tree" in Kmart, where the gifts are handed out to those less fortunate and perhaps unable to afford them. We always make sure we include some gifts for mums, dads and the elderly as well as the children.

This year we were beautifully blessed and in a position where we were able to gift around 50 gifts for the tree, as we were wrapping them up, my son came and asked "Mum, you always do this each year, why do you feel the need to do so".
Thinking about it for a moment, we shared a discussion on how many people may suddenly have life take a less comfortable turn and may find themselves in a financially struggling position.

I shared with him, how grateful I was that this year, this was not our experience and I also shared how if I ever found myself in a position where I could not afford to give my children a gift, I sincerely hoped someone else may step in and offer them something to make their Christmas special.

Gifts in arms, we set off for the shopping centre and one by one the children silently placed each gift under the (very pleasantly heavily laden) tree.
Each one placed, they said a prayer that it would get to the person who would most love it.

That night in prayers, the please bless naturally turned to the homeless, the people on the street, the mummies and daddies that couldn't give their children gifts, the people that felt unloved in the world.
We ended with a visualisation of love flowing around the world and filling the peoples hearts with warmth.

Phew - so much for a short note here - this one turned into a lengthy tale too. I'll wind it up here, the reason this blog started this evening was due to tonight's prayers.

We tucked up in bed (said our prayers) as we were doing so I thought about Renascent winding up for the year, about not teaching any regular classes for 6 weeks, about no income in our business and whether I needed to do anything different. I know we are always fine, but sometimes these little financial worries slide right in there surreptitiously before you realise it.
I pushed the thoughts aside and we offered our blessings to all those parents who may experience financial difficulties at this festive time of the year.

I glanced at the clock, left Emma's room and went to tuck in Gabe.
10 minutes elapsed as I glanced at a clock and settled into the computer to complete some work.
The first email I opened said it was delivered exactly 10 minutes earlier (as we were wishing financial blessings on others), it was a paypal notification of $1300.00 from an unexpected web sale that had come in at that exact moment.
Amazing!

With a lovely warm smile, I offered thanks to the universe, to Emma and her wonderful powers of manifestation and to the lovely customer that had slipped in at the exact moment of blessings with their own beautiful synchronicity.