A Step on the Path

I recently read The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz.  Such a good read.  I highly recommend it.  This book validated some of my own personal thoughts and gave me new ones, as well.  We tell untruths to ourselves every single day.  This is the cause of so much of our suffering.  I, personally, want to continue to learn how to un-think those negative thoughts and choose new agreements for myself.  This is true Freedom.  There are two prayers at the end of the book that are so beautiful, I had to share.  You need to read these today.




Prayer for Freedom:  

Today, Creator of the Universe, we ask that you come to us and share with us a strong communion of love.  We know that your real name is Love, that to have a communion with you means to share the same vibration, the same frequency that you are, because you are the only thing that exists in the universe.

Today, help us to be like you are, to love life, to be life, to be love.  Help us to love the way you love, with no conditions, no expectations, no obligations, without any judgment.  Help us to love and accept ourselves without any judgment.  Help us to love and accept ourselves without any judgment, because when we judge ourselves, we find ourselves guilty and we need to be punished.

Help us to love everything you create unconditionally, especially other human beings, especially those who live around us - all our relatives and people whom we try so hard to love.  Because when we reject them, we reject ourselves, and when we reject ourselves, we reject You.

Help us to love others just the way they are with no conditions.  Help us to accept them the way they are, without judgment, because if we judge them, we find them guilty, we blame them, and we have need to punish them. 

Today, clean our hearts of any emotional poison that we have, free our minds from any judgment so that we can live in complete peace and complete love.

Today is a very special day.  Today we open our hearts to love again so that we can tell each other "I love you," without any fear, and really mean it.  Today, we offer ourselves to you.  Come to us, use our voices, use our eyes, use our hands, and use our hearts to share ourselves in a communion of love with everyone.  Today, Creator, help us to be just like you are.  Thank you for everything that we receive this day, especially for the freedom to be who we really are.  Amen.

Prayer for Love:

Thank you, Creator of the Universe, for the gift of life you have given me.  Thank you giving me everything that I have ever truly needed.  Thank you for the opportunity to experience this beautiful body and this wonderful mind.  Thank you for living inside me with all your love, with your pure and boudless spirit, with your warm and radiant light.

Thank you for using my words, for using my eyes, for using my heart to share your love wherever I go.  I love you just the way you are, and because I am your creation, I love myself just the way I am.  Help me to keep the love and the peace in my heart and to make that love a new way of life, that I may live in love the rest of my life.  Amen.

Namaste