Calling For Prayer
A Sense Of Adventure
Feeling adventurous today? How about this? I found the official website of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. And they accept prayer requests. Isn’t that cool? Here is a direct link to the prayer request page.
If you want to browse the site first, you can go to www.nationalshrine.com. The easiest way to get to the prayer request page, is to scroll down to the bottom of the page, find the site map and look for the submit prayer request link there.
This is what they have to say about prayer requests. “Mary’s maternal intercession is very powerful. We welcome your prayer requests at her National Shrine. Prayer requests are received here at the Shrine to be remembered in our daily Masses and devotions through the intercession of the Immaculate Virgin Mary. May God bless you.”
So I thought this would be a little different.. Mary, the mother of Jesus, will do the praying for us. Nifty huh?
Shaking Things Up
We Are All In This Together
I was reading The Onion this morning and I came across this article. I thought it was just hilarious. It seemed appropriate to our blog, and so here it is:
Also, I am wondering if we might want to think about adding into our prayers things that are related to prosperity, such as success, resources, empowerment, energy, enthusiasm, time, money, luxury, divine solutions, opportunity, etc etc.
Bye for now
Exploring The Concept
I went on an online search this morning to see if I could discover anything profound or interesting about prayer. I put “pray for me” into my yahoo search bar, and this is what I came up with.
I found a really beautifully crafted website that offers (for a small fee) to put your prayer as close to God’s ear as possible. The website url is: www.letter2god.com in case any of you want to go and see what that is all about.
I also found a site www.greatercalling.org They set up conference calls for people who want to pray together, and I thought that was interesting too. Especially if you have a group scattered all over the place and you want to pray together.
I checked out the science of mind website, and looked at their online form for creating an “affirmitive mind treatment”. That was nifty, and I encourage you all to do that.
I found www.claretians.org where, for a donation of $10 or more, your prayers are joined with those of the thousands of St. Jude devotees in every corner of the world. I liked their picture of St Jude. It looks like he is wearing a giant penny with Jesus on it.
At www.prayer.la prayers are posted, and then anyone who wants to can go see the prayer request, pray for that person, and then send them a short email saying that they have prayed for them. A concept called “PUSH” was discussed there: “Pray Until Something Happens”.
My absolute favorite link was this one:
Find, compare and buy Pray.
The Inner Dad
I was sitting here, wondering what to post, when I noticed this postcard. It came to me a long time ago, and the image of this very intense man looked so familiar to me that I put him on my desk.
He is now the “master” of my bills.. and frowns at me when I don’t pay them. This morning I realized that he very much resembles my “inner dad”, and might even be a portrait of who “god” is to me.
What’s really funny and interesting is that his persona.. his “look”.. his mood and attitude.. is so much like my ex-husband that the first time my granddaughter saw the picture (she was about 3), she said “Is that my grandpa?”
Anyway.. I am wondering if I need to somehow find a new understanding of my “inner dad” and a different perspective of who “god” is to me.
The picture is called “Machismo”, the artist is Hector Casanova. The postcard came to me from the Mattie Rhodes Art Gallery in Kansas City Mo.
A work in progress
Hi.. this post is still a work in progress. And I am not sure that I will ever get it “done”.
This morning I spent some time promoting our blog in a couple of blog directories. So we might even end up with some more visitors. I put it on Globe of Blogs, and Blog Explosion. And I downloaded a nifty tool for backing up the blog just in case blogger.com accidentally loses our blog altogether. So I have been working on our “work in progress” all morning.
Another thing I am looking into is spiffing up our page a little bit. And I was wondering if you guys would like it to be a little more colorful? And what about a logo? or a banner? I found a tutorial on how to do that kind of thing. What do you think? Or do you like it how it is… lots of white space and just plain and simple? Let me know.. because if you all really love the white space and the simplicity.. I will leave it at that.
So.. our project is a work in progress, our site is a work in progress, and each one of us is a work in progress.. and I like that because it shows a sort of continuity.. an “integrity” of sorts.
The Unexpected
Here is a prayer for unexpected income:
Sprouting Seeds
I found this incredible poem by Hafiz. It may, or may not have much to do with our project, but I love it so much that I am wanting to share it with you guys.
ELEPHANT WONDERING
A seed
Has sprouted beneath a golden leaf
In a dark forest.
This seed is seriously contemplating
Seriously wondering about
The moseying habits
Of the Elephant.
Why?
Because
In this lucid, wine-drenched tale
The Elephant is really —
God,
Who has His big foot upon us,
Upon the golden leaf under which lies
This sprouting
Universe
Wherein
We are all a little concerned
And
Nervous.
Getting It Right
So I paid no attention to the time zones when I set up the blog. And since I posted in the wee hours of the morning on Thursday, the post showed a “time stamp” of Wednesday.. Hence the confusion. So I figured out how to fix it, and the time showing with each post will from now on be correct. I am really sorry for that, and I can see how it could really throw you off, especially if you had missed a day or two.
Cindy posted some great comments and brought up something for discussion, you can find it in the Thursday/Wednesday post otherwise known as Day Five. 🙂
And then this morning, I ran into a huge traffic jam on my way home from work and it took me an extra hour to get home. The traffic was at a dead stop for at least 7 or 8 miles of highway. It was very interesting because the longer I sat there, the more anxious I became. I was worrying about my dogs waiting to be let out to go potty, I was worrying about the blog post being late, and then I started worrying that maybe I was in the “slow” lane and I couldn’t decide if I should try to change lanes or not, and then (40 minutes later) as we began to inch along I started worrying that my car wasn’t running properly, and what if I had a flat tire, and what if my brakes were going out.. It was just plain silly.
I finally made it home, and my tire was fine, my brakes are fine, my car was running fine, and my dogs were fine. But I had a head ache and a stiff neck from all the worrying. And it occurred to me that this is a pattern for me. If things are moving too slow I begin to worry about all kinds of stuff.. Ridiculous stuff usually.. And I get all stressed out. But when things are moving along at a good clip, I am happy and exhilarated.. And feeling good.
So that was interesting, and something to think about. It reminded me of a quote I found a while back, here it is:
Anything worth doing is worth doing slow.
-Mae West
The Prosperity Puzzle
This awesome picture is by Rob Gonsalves.
It seems to me that putting the pieces together and creating a “whole” life.. something that feels complete and comfortable requires inner work as well as outer help. At any rate. This is a cool picture, and I wanted to share it. You can find more of his work here.
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