What Is the Experience of True Prayer?
Into the Kingdom Retreat, Day 2: A Return to Our Beautiful Mind—What Is the Experience of True Prayer?
David Hoffmeister draws the audience into an experience of forgiveness and purpose. Even though words are “twice removed from reality,” (M-21.1:10) the Holy Spirit can use them for healing, and David uses them to guide us into an experience of unified awareness, or “into the Kingdom.” We are like the prodigal son, who is welcomed by his father when he finally returns home. Let us return to our beautiful Mind together.
This session also contains several questions and prayers from participants on a variety of topics, including devoting life to forgiveness, miracle worker training, and undoing what was never done!
Gold Nugget:
“And then Bill Thetford was just saying, ‘Just let it come, you know. We did ask for a better way, another way to live, so let’s just give it a chance, and we’ll throw it away if it doesn’t make any sense.’ And then came, ‘This is a course in miracles. It is a required course.’ In-1:1-2 The very famous introduction came through. And they both took—like in Neda’s voice liberation—they took an ‘ahhhh.’ The original of A Course in Miracles, was let it come, just let it enter, let it enter. And I would say that’s really why we’re all here, because underneath that all of us gathering together, there’s a prayer. We have a prayer for peace, peace of mind; we have a prayer for healing; we have a prayer for happiness, for joy, for laughter. We have a very deep prayer to know the fruits of the Kingdom and ultimately to know ourselves as we were created by God! The only anxiety, the only worry, the only concern that ever enters our mind is when we forget one simple thing: ‘I am as God created me.’ W-94 Just from the belief that I can create myself, all difficulties seem to arise, from the belief that I can be my own source! That I can be the creator of myself! That I can invent myself! And I can reinvent myself! And I can make myself, as the ego might say, any damn way I want to be! That belief that I can make myself, I will assure you, is behind any worry, concern, fear, guilt, pain, suffering. It’s just one thing! So I want you, as you come to this experience, this week, I want you to come back and relax into ‘I did not create myself.’ You can let your shoulders relax, Ahh, I didn’t create myself. I really don’t have anything to worry about. I really don’t have anything to be really concerned about. Because thank Heavens, I did not create myself!“
Recorded at the Into the Kingdom Retreat on October 8, 2019 at Kasteel de Berckt in Baarlo, the Netherlands
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