Prayer to Release Stress
by Nancy Bowers. RScP
God is Perfect Peace. Deep within the Knowingness, the heartbeat of Certainty beams Love and Compassion – the surety that everything is always as it “should” be. It is only my unwillingness to release my perspective and delve into God’s Light and Wisdom that blocks me from the experience of Oneness. It is only fear that places a veil between the small self I’ve concocted for world-engagement and Christ vision. God worries about none of it. Divinity rests in Perfect Peace for It knows the fuel of Life is Love. It has cocooned all of Its creature in Its heart and carved within it a haven of safety and certainty.
I remind myself that I am like God. I am filled with Wisdom, created from Light. I am the Love of God. I am the Peace of God. I am the certainty that Love has never abandoned Its creation.
Resting a moment in that knowingness, I allow it to push out all ideas of disharmony and lack. I drink in God’s Peace and release all stress and anxiety. When my mind wanders toward fearful thoughts, I return it to God, just like returning to the breath during meditation. Again and again, I affirm the Truth. God is Pure Love. I live in that Love and that Love has no room for fanciful illusions of negativity. Its strength is anchored in unflappable Certainty of the Love that is everywhere present. Its amusement is tickled by the idea that my tiny trepidations have the power to obliterate God’s Authority. I cannot undo God’s Rule. I can make things harder for myself. I can wallow in seas of darkness for a while, but even these exertions into self-induced despair are powerless to undermine what is. God is. God is Love. God is Peace. God is Strength. God is Certainty. God is Deliverance from all the silly thoughts I manufacture when I forget Truth.
Do not torment yourself with future-tripping over attachment to how you think things should look. They are only appearances camouflaging the Goodness of Source. I turn away from the conditions my human eyes have viewed as a horror movie. I return to God’s Light knowing my faith in God’s Truth is the salvation I have been yearning for. I release all stress and settle back into the Safety. Everything is already all right. There is nothing wrong and I refuse to flame the fires of fear by focusing on the mind’s doubts.
It feels so much better to rest in God. It ignites gratitude in my heart and so I return to my mantra of love. Thank you, thank you, thank you, God. Thank you for the serenity. Thank you for the calm. I am grateful to return to Thy Tranquility. Thank you that I need do nothing other than what You would have me do. I am Love and I spread it in all the corners of existence knowing You go there with me. I am never alone.
Thank you, God! Thank you for handling the details. Thank you that I do not need to undertand how the pieces fit; for the reminder that I do not know what anything is for. Thank you that I can rest in Your Certainty and be the peace I wish to see in the world. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
I release this prayer with the knowingness that worry is unnecessary and destructive. I drink Thy Peace and affirm it by saying:
And so it is! Amen.