WELCOME

   FROM PASTOR RON.

   

    How’s your prayer life? There’s a difference in praying for what you want/ need and     approaching prayer as an avenue of relationship. Prayer means opening myself to the     fact that as I reach for the Divine center of reality, that center is reaching for me. In     prayer I not only address the love at the core of all things; I listen as that love     addresses me, calling me out of isolation and self-centeredness into community and     compassion. In prayer, I begin to realize that I not only know but am known. Here is     the revelation that can change ourselves and our world: we are known in detail and     depth by the Love that created and sustains us. This Love knows our limits as well as     our potential, our capacity for evil as well as for good. Yet, as Love, it does not seek     to confine or manipulate us. Instead, it offers us the constant grace of self-knowledge     and acceptance that can liberate us. In prayer, we allow ourselves to be known by love. Therefore, the mind immersed in prayer no longer thinks in order to divide and conquer, to manipulate and control. When we know self and world from the vital center touched in prayer—and when our prayer allows us to be known—then we are free from the cycle of dominance, free to love the world, each other, and ourselves. This is “whole knowing” that does not distance us from the world but brings us into community, face to face. As the Apostle Paul says in I Cor. 13: “for then I shall know as fully as I am known.” And this is the heart of prayer. Let us pray….

Pastor Ron