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FEBRUARY 9

PRAYER AND MEDITATION

SPIRITUAL BALANCE

“And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.”

Jesus Christ

There are many kinds of prayer, and many kinds of meditation. Both prayer and meditation are helpful, and both are needed: The Eleventh Step says I need both, telling me to seek to improve my conscious contact with my higher power by praying and meditating. This is sometimes easier said than done. Perhaps when my prayers seem ineffective it’s because I’m not doing the things I should in order to pray with the right spirit. This doesn’t mean I have to “get good” first, and then seek contact with my higher power. But I must be in a place of love and tolerance of others for my prayers to be most effective.

I don’t approach my higher power asking for love and help if I haven’t shown the same to others in my life. Today I know that prayer offered from a place of love and tolerance in my heart is many times more effective than prayers offered from a place of anger, selfishness, or fear.

I pray for help with my recovery and for help in living with my pain. I strive to treat others with love and respect, so my prayers can rise from love, to love, with love.