To Deepen My Spiritual Practice

Recognition
There is One Power and One Presence that is All There Is. It is Intelligent, and It is Loving. It delights in expressing Itself in, through, and as everything that It has created. It is fully present at every point throughout creation. And it delights in knowing Itself in, through and as Its own creations.

Unification
This means that right where I am, the full Power, Presence and Intelligence of God is present and available to me, and that right where I am God is delighting in knowing Itself in, through, and as me.

Realization
I recognize that my heart’s desire to deepen my spiritual practice is a divine urging. Deep is calling to deep as my individualized mind longs to know and feel more fully and completely the Divine Mind. My desire for a deepened spiritual practice is simply the Divine One beckoning, desiring for me to know It in the way that It knows Itself. So I surrender to this longing of Spirit, and release any resistance to my daily spiritual practice. I accept for myself a revealing of that Divine Intelligence within that guides me into the perfect knowing of how to have a more consistent daily spiritual practice, and provides any resources--internal and external—to support my spiritual practice.

Thanksgiving
With gratitude I welcome my deepened spiritual practice into my mind, heart, soul, and daily life.

Release
I now release this Word to that aspect of God which can only say “Yes” and automatically makes this so. And so it is.

Rev. Joyce Duffala
Center for Spiritual Living, Santa Rosa