True Prayer

"Prayer is the medium of miracles." -- A Course in Miracles

What is my true prayer? What is it that I really pray for?

A Course in Miracles describes true prayer as a melting inward, a resting in God in an awareness of perfect Oneness. So the question arises, is that experience what I really have in mind when I pray? I don't think of myself as someone who prays for things, or for circumstances to change. I know that as I rest in the awareness of Oneness with God, all apparent situations and things resolve in harmony beyond my imagining. I know this, but is that really what I have in mind when I pray? Or is there some subtle (or not-so-subtle) wanting something from God, wanting something from the experience? Like saying you love someone, but really wanting, wanting, wanting. Not the same thing, is it?

The Love that is God must be the only Love there is. This Love must be everywhere, and in and as and through all that is. There is no wanting in Love. Like prayer, it is a perfect resting, without needs or agendas. When A Course in Miracles points us to prayer as the medium of miracles, it is not speaking of wanting. It is pointing us to this Love that is beyond wanting, that holds us all in perfect peace. And the mystery is that out of that peace, all that we need or could imagine we need arises in our apparent world and experience.

True prayer wants nothing. It rests in silent, blissful awareness of our Oneness with God, and needs no more than this, for this is everything and everywhere. This makes no sense to us when we are contracted into the individual identity of our ego. Only our ego wants and demands more. And how could we have ever thought we needed more than everything?