Prayer for Depression

God, again this oppressive blanket of hopelessness covers my heart. Sadness shields my vision. I view the world through the lens of desperation. I feel bound to the never-ending power of pain. I seem to be chained to endless depression. Armed with this all too familiar suffering, I come to you. Lift me up into a new experience. Replace my vision with your reality. Restore my faith in myself and in the perfection and order of life. Replace my mental stagnation with a sacred sense of dynamism. Shower me with a sense of nonjudgmental self-acceptance.

Let my mind give no thought to the world of illusion so that it can be returned to its resplendent place at the right hand of love.

Return my mind to sanity, my heart to love and my vision to inspiration. I give up my need to cover-up and deny this reality. I face this depression and surrender it into your light. I know that your will for me is grounded in perfect joy. In you and with you, I rise into a new reality with a powerful sense of freedom. My vision is sourced in a vast wisdom and doors that have been closed swing open to the floodgates of my soul. This moment offers a new sense of release that is returning me to your loving presence. No longer does the dream of separation tear my inner world into shreds. The restoration of my good is becoming the overriding perception of my inner world. I am released from my powerlessness into an ever-widening awareness of your power living in me. The rumblings of my spirit have become the music of my soul. My life is singing love songs. I am blessed with your presence, nurtured in your vision and nourished in your light. The pain that has bound me no longer rules my life. As I emerge into this new state of vibrant aliveness, I give thanks that your love has once more saved me from the bondage of my past beliefs. I walk freely now, empowered by your love and guided by your wisdom. Amen

©1989 Excerpted from Offbeat Prayers for the Modern Mystic

Anne Sermons Gillis MS, is a life coach, breath worker, and speaker. You can order her books, Offbeat Prayers of the Modern Mystic, EZosophy: The Art and Wisdom of Easier Living, and Standing in the Dark online at annegillis.com  order or call 281-419-1775

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FIRST CORINTHIANS 13, CHRISTMAS VERSION

Author Unknown

Anne and Jim

 If I decorate my house perfectly with red velvet bows,

strands of twinkling lights and shiny balls, but do not show love to my family, I'm just another decorator.

 

 If I slave away in the kitchen, baking dozens of Christmas cookies, preparing gourmet meals and arranging a beautifully adorned table at mealtime, but do not show love to my family, I'm just another cook.

 

 If I work at the soup kitchen, carol in the nursing home, and give all that I have to charity, but do not show love to my family, it profits me nothing.

  

If I trim the spruce with shimmering angels and crocheted snowflakes, attend a myriad of holiday parties and sing in the choir's cantata but do not focus on Christ, I have missed the point.

  

Love stops the cooking to hug the child.

  

Love sets aside the decorating to kiss the husband.

  

Love is kind, inexhaustible, willing to push our physical limits.

  

Love doesn't envy other's home that has

coordinated Christmas china and table linens.

  

Love doesn't yell at the kids to get out of the way,

but is thankful they are there to be in the way.

  

Love doesn't give only to those who are able to give

in return, but rejoices in giving to those who can't.

  

Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes

all things, endures all things.

  

Love never fails. Video games will break, pearl necklaces will be lost, golf clubs will rust.

But giving the gift of love will endure.  Merry Christmas!

Money Drama

News about the economy often serves as a trigger that moves us from EZosophy into Hardaholism. If we cannot be responsible listeners, if we are going to use the news as a freak out trigger, then let's not listen to or read the news. Even if we are addicted to negative excitement about money and the economy, we always have a new choice in the present. 

Abundance is an experience, not a dollar amount. We will not hear about the true nature of abundance on television, read it in the paper, or on the internet. Looking within, having the immediate and direct experience of abundance, and healing our personal issues about money, help us to remain centered in the source of real prosperity. Drama is a stress disease. Worry is a mild form of drama. Give it up. Our health is more important than the juicy thrill of upset. Think of Easy Money, not Hard Cash. In the midst of an abundant life, do not pay homage at the altar of lack.

I found that when I stopped suffering about money, I tended to attract more opportunities to receive or earn money. My family suffered endlessly about money or the purported lack of money. It was a mystical and magical event to free myself from the family financial patterns. The freedom I experience, every time I drop the money drama, is a miracle. 

Dropping the struggle and suffering around money in no way means not paying our bills or keeping our agreements around money. Dropping the drama is about letting go of the addictive emotional dialogues around money. If you are typically stressed about money, even though your bills are paid and you have money in the bank, then you may be a money addict. I was a money addict,; everything in my life was centered around money.But I’m recovering. Enjoying life in the present is the easiest way to let go of money drama, and being present and open to life brings forth treasures from the depths of well-being – gifts of the spirit. 

Check out my prosperity products to accelerate your healing process around money and lack. http://www.annegillis.com/Books-CDs-Etc.html You may also want to participate in the 40 Days to Prosperity Program or the Pray it Forward Prosperity Program. Remember the promise, “I have come so that you might have life and that you might have it abundantly.”