Prayer...Whom do you pray to? Are we just talking to ourselves?

[thefool]

I was wondering how prayer fits into the big picture if we are all "God"? I know a lot of you pray, including Carla. I love to pray, but when I do, I don't even know who I'm talking to anymore (since I left organized religion). Sometimes I get embarrassed, because I feel like I'm laying there or sitting there talking to the wall, or to empty space.

I love the idea of feeling there is a God who loves me and that listens to me and gives me guidance. But just who are we praying to when we offer our words and feelings in prayer - and does it matter? Is it effective?

I noticed as I have been reading Carla's blog that she says she did her morning offerings - is that her way of saying she prayed?

Thanks for reading...
Kristy xo

Those are some interesting, penetrating questions. Thanks for making us think on those lines and try to put it into words

For me, Prayer is of different kinds.

The one prayer is where you are opening yourself up to the divine. This divine self could be anything it could be your representation of the divine. For example it could be a picture of Jesus, That represents not the Jesus's Human self but the Christ-hood. As it is all ONE, it does not matter. That is the beauty of it. It could be a rock and that could function as a reminder of the divine. For me the Divine is the Infinite Intelligence. Which is again all of us but not quite. We live in illusion but Infinite Intelligence does not. You are again opening your self to the divine and becoming receptive to it. it is very similar to meditation.

The other prayer could be for a specific prayer for healing etc. That is done to the specific Energy Form / Deity / Archangel for that aspect of the Energy required (Intelligent Energy?). There is a magical process for it. Whole nine yards. Or the process could be as simple as a request to that Deity...

Actually I am making it up as I go...