When we pray, it helps
us lots in our hearts. We don't do good sometimes because our hearts are not
right. We learn good while our prayer voice says "Do good."
Squ-sact-un
Squaxin
"Shucks!"
says somebody. "This is nonsense. It isn't practical."
When
such thoughts break in, we might recall, a little ruefully, how much store we
used to set by imagination as it tried to create reality out of bottles. Yes,
we reveled in that sort of thinking, didn't we? And though sober nowadays,
don't we often try to do much the same thing? Perhaps our trouble was not that
we used our imagination. Perhaps the real trouble was our almost total
inability to point imagination toward right objectives. There's nothing the
matter with constructive imagination; all sound achievement rests upon it.
After all, no man can build a house until he envisions a plan for it. Well,
meditation is like that, too; it helps envision our spiritual objective before
we try to move toward it.
Twelve
Steps & Twelve Traditions pg. 100
This
much could be a fragment of what is called meditation, perhaps our very first
attempt at a mood, a flier into the realm of spirit, if you like. It ought to
be followed by a good look at where we stand now, and a further look at what
might happen in our lives were we able to move closer to the ideal we have
been trying to glimpse. Meditation is something which can always be
further developed. It has no boundaries, either of width or height. Aided by
such instruction and example as we can find, it is essentially an individual
adventure, something which each of us works out in his own way. But its
object is always the same: to improve our conscious contact with God, with His
grace, wisdom, and love.
Twelve
Steps & Twelve Traditions pg. 101
Great Mystery
help us to pray. Help us to have good in our hearts.