Dangerous Prayers | Rev. Paul Gonyea

"In order to broaden and deepen our connection with all of Life, we need to practice being spiritually present every moment of our life, which means having an open heart, an open mind, and open eyes. We must be able to look at what is in the world, really and truly --- the beauty, the joy, the opportunities; the suffering, the pain, the inhumanity --- and not try to use prayer to deny it, to ignore it, or to explain it away with some simplistic spiritualized explanation that we learned in some book or seminar. This decision to be open and accepting of 'what is,' is one of the most dangerous things we can do in this new and deeper way of praying because it doesn't allow us to hide behind our intellect or our assumptions. It requires us to see what we see, and to relate to it as God relating to God, without letting our ego or our intellect get in the way. But until we actually try it, we don't realize how hard it can be."