With my new mind and my new body I resonate peacefully with Rabbi Balfour Brickner’s interpretation of prayer:

“For me prayer has become meditation upon the best we know, communion with the noblest that we understand, and reaching out of what we are to what we yearn to be.”

“I like that definition because it completely shifts the grounds of responsibility from God to us.”

I agree with the rabbi. I don’t want to offend anybody but I can’t stomach the type ‘Amen” mentality on Facebook.

The rabbi continues:”It reverses the common view that in prayer, we should somehow affect God, compelling the Eternal One to do something for us. Not so, my father suggested. God is an ideal, a paradigm of all we hold of ultimate value or good. Prayer i the activity we enter into to enable us to concentrate on those values. Such concentration help us to find our FINER SELVES, act more responsibly, better control our passions, come to some deeper understanding of a given situation, reach out for a solution of what troubles us.”

This to me is closer to what the Law of Attraction teaches. We are the answer according to M Tamura. God has given us the tools. We are to help ourselves. We have been empowered. We are not victims!!!!!

I am amazed at how this interpretation of prayer empowers me. It emboldens me. I can do things for myself.

“This is what we mean when we suggest that God is, we do. The purpose of prayer is not to change God, but to change the person praying.”

I like the above. This defies the “appease the gods” mentality!

“God does not manipulate or change the intimate details of a person’s life as an accommodation to that individual’s momentary personal needs.”

I believe God gives us the tools we need to find our FINER SELVES, to act more responsibly, better control our emotions, come to a deeper understanding of a given situation, reach out for a solution of what troubles us.

“God is, we do.”