16/10/2025
Be Careful for What you Pray for - you might get it
The Search for Peace
We spend our lives searching for something, mostly at an unconscious level. We have set our goals and pursue them with vigor, believing they will bring us happiness, joy and peace. They won’t! It is all [part of the ego’s plan to keep us trapped in the matrix, forever striving. “I must have this, I must have tha”t; the relationship, the career, the car, the house and oh, the big one; I must have the money! Lots of it! The list goes on and on and it has no end in sight.
Many years ago I had a very interesting friend. He had a sharp wit, he was intelligent and he was a winner with the ladies! He made everybody laugh, and one of his favourite quips was, when he saw something that he liked, he would tell us all that he would give his “left ball” if it were his, and of course we all used to laugh!
Then one day a call came through to my office but our receptionist couldn’t identify the caller's name or who he wanted to speak to, so she put the call through to me. After some probing I eventually realised this was my young friend and that he was in some serious trouble! I also gathered that he was in a hospital and of course, my immediate reaction was that he had had an accident. I immediately left the office and rushed to the hospital, and when I found him there I noticed that his left leg was in a sling and naturally thought that perhaps it had to be elevated to relieve the pain. I was right of course, but the pain wasn’t in his leg but in his left ball! I was shocked to see that this vital component was swollen to almost the size of a tennis ball. Unfortunately it was malignant, so it had to be removed; be careful what you pray for, you might get it! I don’t remember that he was ever rewarded for surrendering that testicle!
This brings me to an important point! Guard the words you utter; be very vigilant when you find yourself repeating a phrase repeatedly just because it’s funny; it could result in some unwanted consequence. The subconscious mind has no sense of humour; it doesn’t know the difference between a real or an imagined thing, and it is the servant of the thinker, so it will deliver what the thinker’s predominant thoughts are. It was Ralph Waldo Emmerson who said “a man becomes what he thinks about all day long”! Early in the last century, 1920 or so, Florence Schovell Shinn wrote a delightful little book called “The Power of the Spoken Word” and in it she gives many wonderful examples of how we trip ourselves up by repeating negative statements over and over again. Remember too that there is no need to sacrifice anything in the pursuit of a worthwhile goal. The Universe doesn’t work on the principle of “if you gain this you (or somebody else) has to lose. There are no winners and losers in the Greater Scheme of Things, we are all winners. It’s quite alright to want things and yes, you may get some of them or even all of them, but when you become aware that sacrifice is not part of the equation, you will know too, that they are not your Source of happiness.
Blessings
