Copyright 2001, Colin C. Tipping

The Power of Prayer
Science has been putting the spotlight on prayer over
the last few years and there is a growing consensus
amongst that community that it actually works. We truly
create our reality through our prayers. Not the kind of
prayers, I hasten to add, that consist of requests or
demands that God gives us this or that, or make this
happen rather than that, or in some other way tells God
what to do.
No, the essence of creative prayer is not a matter of
words or thoughts. It is actually 
feeling.
Prayer will mani-
fest what you want only when you are able to be fully in
the feeling of having it already, knowing that it is done,
or that you have already been gifted with it. A feeling of
profound gratitude is perhaps the nearest one can come
in describing it.
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But even this is tied to a particular outcome and prob-
ably will not raise the consciousness sufficiently high to
shift the energy to the degree required.
The purest form of prayer we can engage in is to feel
peace; the kind of peace that comes when we surren-
der totally to what is - as is — in the knowledge and
comfort that Spirit has it all handled and that it will all
work out for the best if we just get ourselves out of the
way.
It is only when we are fully surrendered to the situation
that we have now that the energy will open up for
changes to occur — and what they will be, heaven only
knows! Don’t pray 
for
peace. Pray to 
feel
peace. That’s
the most creative prayer you can make. Peace is the
strongest power on earth, and it is certainly called for
at this time. When we can feel peace in our hearts, we
will know Love and our world will reflect it.
This means that we have a choice. Each individual can
make a choice to stay in the feeling of fear, lack, mis-
trust, greed and guilt or choose to let go of all that and
be in peace. It is as simple as that. Peace/Love is the
only antidote to the fear-based consciousness that we
now live in and participate in daily. So simply choose
it. We have the technology. Use Radical Forgiveness
daily in order to make that choice real — and see what
happens!
Healing Crisis
What we may be seeing at this time is the Earth and all
of humankind going through a healing crisis — and it
may have to get worse before it gets better. (A healing
crisis occurs when an organism goes through what looks
like a dramatic worsening of its condition, such as with
a fever or an eruption of boils, just before it starts to get
well again. This worsened condition serves as a
cleansing and detoxification process.)
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