A Circular Prayer

A circular prayer: 

so it's here, the beginning of the end, first of the last three lines, and we're given the secret to the entire prayer - we haven't just been praying for the concerns of others, no, we ourselves have been included all along. This line reveals that it is in giving that we receive, everything we've previously asked for has really been a self-request. 

we are praying for our own salvation.

we're asking for grace.

maybe it was here that I began to fall in love with this prayer, it's transformative power is shown. If I truly wish to be at pace, to know love deeply for myself, then I only have to offer it to others. To be, as Gandhi said, the change I wish to see. This is such a circular prayer, how much I can offer others is my exact return, and the more I'm able to give selflessly the greater I receive - even as my own needs are reduced through through selfless service. 

truly, this prayer is spiritual technology.

an alchemical process.

I have been transformed by the practice of this prayer, heart-touched by the living energy of Saint Francis that now work their way through me several generations from his passing. But surely his presence is alive in me, a whisper through my actions as I seek to offer only love within the world. My prayer deepens now with a wish to always do these words justice.

that I may truly give so that I may receive...

and then only give some more.

my life now being, 

a circular prayer.

~

Love, Eric 

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