 Write Your Own Prayer of Freedom
Identify Your House of Worry
Ask yourself a few questions:
- Am I stuck in my own House of Worry?
- Do I frequently wake in the middle of the night gripped by panic?
- Do I fret about my ability to put together a good life?
Follow your thoughts and listen to what you worry about. Keep your prayer journal next to the bed and record your middle-of-the-night fears and early morning panics. Pay close attention to the worries that pop to the surface with the wail of the alarm. Label a page in your prayer journal: My House of Worry. List everything you worry about. Everything. It is important to capture it all because you are going to hand the list to God. God is going to take care of it. Give Spirit a complete list.
Draw Your Whole-Holy-Free Self
Consider these three powerful quotations from Simple Abundance:
- When you start following your authentic path, you’re finally using the gifts Spirit expects you to use.
- The rate of exchange in heaven is wonder.
- Essentially what happens when you begin to do what you love is that you get a new employer: Spirit.
Ask yourself:
- Do these ideas excite me?
- What sense of holiness or wholeness do they spark in me?
- Do they point the way to my freedom?
If these words do not inspire or excite you, take the time to find statements or images that do. Open your favorite sacred writings and ask God to guide you to the words you need to hear. Once you’ve discovered the statements or images that radiate the life of freedom you want to live, write them in your journal. Label that page: My Whole-Holy-Free Self.
Look at your freedom statements:
- Why are these ideas exciting?
- Why did I choose them?
- How do they represent wholeness and freedom for me?
- What would my life look like if these statements or images were true?
Describe your whole and holy self in your journal. Your image of the whole-holy-free you could be a drawing, a photograph, a postcard, your child’s artwork, a funny card from your best friend, or a caption in a magazine. Or perhaps the whole-holy-free you is a collage of all these things.
If you communicate with God in words, your description of your whole-holy-free self might fill a paragraph or ten pages. If you are talking through art, it could be anything from a simple drawing to a full size poster. Its form is entirely up to you. The key is to continue until the image is clear to you. The Universe will get it when you get it.
Walking to Freedom
In your prayer journal, respond to these questions:
- How am I going to become my whole-holy-free self?
- What do I have to do, think and believe to be free?
When I decided to walk to freedom, my prayer journal looked like this.
To gain my freedom I need to drop my worries, ask God to be my
employer, and start walking into the light.
I admit that where I was going wasn’t clear. It’s scary to walk away from the known—no matter how painful—and step into the unknown. But with the images Ron Roth and Sarah Ban Breathnach gave me, I felt safe walking into my future. After all, what bad could happen to me if God was my employer? How scary could it be stepping into the peace and presence of God?
Your route to freedom won’t be the same as mine. Your worries are different, your situation is different, and your solutions will be different. To discover what you need to do, visualize yourself walking from your House of Worry to your whole-holy-free self. How will you get from one to the other? As you explore that question, you will begin to see the steps to take and the choices to make to get free. Describe this journey in your journal.
Don’t panic if you don’t have a specific plan. God does. Just tell God you are ready and open. Tell God you are ready to walk away from your House of Worry. Ask God to show you the way. If you don’t know what to ask for or how to get free, just say, “Come, Spirit, come. Show me. I’m ready. Shine the light and I will follow.”
God will come. God will lead you out of your House of Worry. God will guide you to a better place. All you have to do is take one small step: decide to leave. Are you ready? Then, start walking.
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