The Song of Prayer From A Course in Miracles

1. The Song of Prayer From A Course in
Miracles
While most of us have been brought up to trust that prayer involves asking to
God to help, save, fix problems and bring us things these days, that is not
true prayer nor its purpose. Prayer in a Course in Miracles (ACIM) is quite
different and also beautiful. Higher than a song, it is joyous exchange of Love
and thanks between God and His Efforts that employs the forgiveness
process to correct the mind so that the Prayer Song is all that remains. It's
the ticket home so understanding true prayer, and forgiveness, is worth the
time in teaching the mind.
Prayer is substituting (sharing) a Song of Love and Creation or judgments of
the ego based on what you ask for (agree with) in the mind. There is no other
way. awakening movie In the Course, the mind (content) is split between God
and the ego; and you opting for all the time with a side as cause for effect.
Forms (all things of this world) are miscreations reflecting the ego's
judgmental thought system. We've made it up (miscreated this world) and
can give it up anytime by improving the mind (forgiveness). True prayer
requires this correction of the mind as God has nothing to do with forms.
What Prayer is not:
Since you are always deciding, what you ask for when you wish is what
counts. When you plead with in prayer to have God fix a form problem with
another form problem, you are asking the ego mind for help (not God). Those
forms and needs are deemed more important than God's Love which will
remain hidden to the degree you choose the illusion.

2. All external things (forms) are needs. Other labels are wants, desires, status,
problems, sickness, human love (special relationships), gifts and goals these
days, etc. They are what you choose as replacements for God's Love and the
ego will perspective the stage that prayer by using them to further the
illusion. Therefore, prayer cannot be about "forms" or "needs" in any way.
The stage that Prayer:
The Song of Prayer is defined by the Course as a Song of Creation, Love and
gratitude being sung from the Father to the Son and returned from the Son to
the Father. God gave this gift of Want to His Son at Creation so that it's a
single voice shared by both the Creator and Created. Continuously sharing
Love and Creation forward and backward provides them forever in
everlasting nature. That is prayer's purpose.
Through this form world of illusion, this prayer is still something special from
God offered through the Holy Spirit, the memory of God in the mind. It's how
you reach God in the illusion. Anyone who has ever remembered the tiniest
instant of this all-inclusive joy must begin questioning what he is choosing
(praying for) and how to change his mind so he can have that all the time.
True Prayer and Forgiveness:
True prayer is: (1) asking for what is already there, The Song; and, (2) along
the way, using forgiveness (correction of the mind) to give up the ego forms
or what just isn't there. Joining with Love in true prayer is asking for nothing
(i. e., no illusion, forms or needs) so you wind up receiving everything (Love).
One problem. One solution.
Forgiveness (correction of the mind) is a part of true prayer and makes the
process go quicker. Prayer is timeless and goes on forever, and forgiveness

3. is the illusory spectrum in time that returns the mind to this endless
exchange. Forgiveness goes away when the mind is very solved and
remembers only The Song.
The big secret of true prayer and forgiveness is to concentrate on
disregarding and giving up the things you think you want and need in the
illusion, even the main features, as this asks for the mind to be returned to
Truth (Love). You are not furthering the illusion. You are tallying with God
that (a) you are a mind; (b) this form world is not real; (c) you made a
misstep; and, (d) you can choose again.
Using correction of the mind (forgiveness) places those forms and needs on
God's ceremony, or in his hands, as idols which are only anything you've
selected to be more important than God's Love. No longer wanting anything
before His Love, the only effect God could return is your memorial of Him.
The more you give up, the more meaningless the world becomes and the
faster you train my voice His Song.
Prayer in the Illusion:
Since the mind still lives with God, the Course says you don't have to decide
alone and should ask the Holy Spirit for help deciding and wait for the
answer. Otherwise, you've already decided with the ego. If you must make a
decision right away, you'll get the appropriate "need" answer right then.
A remedy is an indicate of God's Voice from the Song of Prayer. You're not
asking for the indicate itself. You are choosing the gift of Love from the Song
by providing up all form needs. "Need" answers in the illusion are contained
within that indicate even during the correction of the mind process. They are
met at the degree of the forgiveness spectrum you can understand and
accept.