"Relax in this moment and allow God to
work within you. Your life is blessed with wholeness, peace,
and the assurance that all is well in."
Greetings;
April has certainly been another month of blessings, I use the word another with
enthusiasm, as blessings for me are an everyday occurrence. Here at Unity
of Sachse, we are all surrounded with blessings. First and foremost God,
and then each other, with understanding God lives in each of us.
This column I have decided to devote to Prayer.
What does that word mean to you? How do you experience
prayer in your life? How do you include prayer in your everyday
living? Most days do you feel you are to busy to pray? Other
times do you feel distracted by challenges, worry and concern?
But aren't these the times we most need to Pray? It is at
these times we need to experience the peace giving soothing
Love of God. The ever present love that lifts us over the "mountains" and "hurdles" of
our life experience. As I contemplated these questions,
I thought about something I had read. Life is like a melody, and between
the notes in the melody are pauses. We can fill the pauses
of our lives, no matter how brief they are with prayer. Prayer
brings each of us back to the source of our being---God----
and helps us enjoy the melody of life to its fullest. (D.
L. Cameron).
Times with God are so special. They are peaceful
moments, moments of Thanksgiving, moments in which we feel
the presence of God filling us, Yes! we are resting in the
love of our creator, our Father. In these moments we do something
so powerful and yet so simple. It is here we stop. We stop
rushing, stop worrying. It is here we just experience God.
This is a wonderful way to begin each day, to
handle stress or worry. What a releasing activity Prayer is,
It is beginning our day with a conversation with our Father,
recognizing and giving thanks for the blessing of this presence
that we can stop and talk with at any moment we choose.
I think of prayer as a mental, physical, and
spiritual pick-me-up. When giving thanks for the positive outcome
I need in any situation, I know my possibilities are with out
end. This has certainly happened time an again in my life.
I gave thanks in prayer for the opportunity to serve, I was
blessed with this wonderful Church. I gave thanks for the growth,
that would take place in our new church home. Welcome all,
for our growth is abundant. I give thanks each day for the
resolution of all challenges and my answers always seem to
be apparent, God puts someone or someway before me.
We also need to realize even when our prayers
are not answered in the way we feel they should be, we can
know there is always something better for us. We can know God
is in the midst of our experiences and that as we pause in
prayer and allow God's loving presence ample activity within
us, we will be blessed.
As you pray, as you stop and fill the pauses
of your life with an awareness of God, truly you will experience
greater peace and the ability to cope with challenges you are
facing.
Yes! Dear friends just stop each day and spend
time with God, you will find the melody of your life to be
joyful and fulfilling.
I Invite you to come and join us Unity
Church of Sachse as together we worship with prayer
and thanksgiving for all that God is and all that God is
in our lives. Yes, as we believe, so it is.
Blessings,
Rev. Paulette
