Thoughts on Prayer and Meditation
by Brother David

One of the most important aspects of a spiritual life, a fulfilled life is the balanced practice of prayer and meditation. One of the greatest fallacies of modern life, is that there is not enough time. We hurry and scamper about, trying to fulfill our needs and our dreams, oblivious to the fact that the answers are right there with us, and that a few sweet minutes of silence and sincere positive prayer will provide us with more than we can imagine.

Prayer and meditation, have always formed the core of the mystical life, but they have all too often been left in the realm of the "vowed" adherents, the monks, the priests, and such, other than for that occasional gathering in church or other event. However, prayer is only one half of the experience. Prayer without meditation, is incomplete. Meditation without prayer is not possible.

Prayer is the setting of the table for the eventual communion with God (however you call God). It is the preparing of the dinner, the "Great Supper" so that we may be nurtured and provided, those things that we need. It serves the purpose of focusing our minds and our hearts in preparation for a personal event that the physical world cannot know. Most importantly it prepares our conscious mind to accept, that which it cannot understand. It awakens the subconscious that it may act as an interpreter for the conscious mind and brings to the forefront the superconscious mind, the soul mind, that we may be capable of communion with God as equals, as children of the Divine Light.

How ironic is it that we (humanity) spend so much of our time preparing the table, making the dinner (praying), and then we never sit down to actually eat and enjoy that dinner, that communion with God, that we have prepared. We pray, but we do not meditate. We work so hard to get ourselves ready, and when all is done.... we walk away, unnourished.

Meditation, is that which follows prayer. It is the meal that prayer has prepared us for. It is that communion, that sharing with God, whereby all that we are, and all that we can become is fulfilled within us. It is the nurturing of every need in our lives.

The New Age, the Aquarian Age, marks a time when humanity may finally learn "how" to talk to God directly, to sit and carry on a comfortable "family chat" over a nourishing meal so that when you walk away you are filled with the Light and Love of God, and are left wanting for nothing.

It is a time when humanity, becomes "Water Bearers", bearers of spirit.

Once upon a time, many years ago, (as men measure years), Divine Spirit, spoke to me and said: "When your every breath has become a prayer, and your every thought a meditation, then you will understand what it is to be a Master, and your life will be complete, for you will never be without. Then and only then, will you have attained the "State of Grace", that state of true awareness of your divine self, and your birthright as a child of the Creator.

Pray, to prepare yourselves, meditate to be nourished by God. It is, and has always been a full circle process. Eventually, when one does it steadily enough, one reaches that state of being, where every breath does become a prayer, and every thought is a meditation. Then you will live your life as the great masters lived theirs. The table, will always be prepared, the trees will always be ripe with fruit, wherever you go in your life, your needs will be fulfilled.

Blessings and Light to All
Brother David

from The Library of Wisdom