Language of Letting Go - July 11 - Bring Any Request to God
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Language of Letting Go - July 11 - Bring Any Request to God
You are reading from the book The Language of Letting Go
Bring Any Request to God
Bring any request you have to God.
No request is too large; none too small or insignificant.
How often we limit God by not bringing to God everything we want and need.
Do we need help getting our balance? Getting through the day?
Do we need help in a particular relationship? With a particular character defect? Attaining a character asset?
Do we need help making progress on a particular task that is challenging us? Do we need help with a feeling? Do we want to change a self-defeating belief that has been challenging us? Do we need information, an insight? Support? A friend?
Is there something in God's Universe that would really bring us joy?
We can ask for it. We can ask God for whatever we want. Put the request in God's hands, trusting it has been heard then let it go. Leave the decision to God.
Asking for what we want and need is taking care of ourselves. Trust that the Higher Power to whom we have turned over our life and will really does care about us and about what we want and need.
Today, I will ask my Higher Power for what I want and need. I will not demand-I will ask. Then I will let go.
From The Language of Letting Go by Melody Beattie ©1990, Hazelden Foundation.
Bring Any Request to God
Bring any request you have to God.
No request is too large; none too small or insignificant.
How often we limit God by not bringing to God everything we want and need.
Do we need help getting our balance? Getting through the day?
Do we need help in a particular relationship? With a particular character defect? Attaining a character asset?
Do we need help making progress on a particular task that is challenging us? Do we need help with a feeling? Do we want to change a self-defeating belief that has been challenging us? Do we need information, an insight? Support? A friend?
Is there something in God's Universe that would really bring us joy?
We can ask for it. We can ask God for whatever we want. Put the request in God's hands, trusting it has been heard then let it go. Leave the decision to God.
Asking for what we want and need is taking care of ourselves. Trust that the Higher Power to whom we have turned over our life and will really does care about us and about what we want and need.
Today, I will ask my Higher Power for what I want and need. I will not demand-I will ask. Then I will let go.
From The Language of Letting Go by Melody Beattie ©1990, Hazelden Foundation.
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I struggled with trying to figure out how to pray "right". Then I read something Melody Beattie wrote, saying "Pray for or about anything you want...God will sort out the junk." That helped me just open up and talk to God like I would a good friend and made all the difference.
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Thanks for posting this Ann. I struggle with the same thing. I feel there are "right" and "wrong" ways to pray, and things to pray for, and I worry I'm not doing it right, or being selfish, or putting my own wants before "God's will" I just hope God understands what I'm trying to say...
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This one really hit home for me too and will help me with my spiritual connection. I try to talk with my HP as I would a dear friend, but I do find myself weeding out things that I feel are selfish. I guess that helps in a way too, because I at least am understanding my own motivations and being more honest with myself about them. Thanks, Ann
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