By: Yehuda Berg
March 15 — 21
God does not answer our prayers. God IS the answer to our prayers.
From the Kabbalistic perspective, God is more noun than verb. If God answered our prayers, God would be a verb, taking action, getting involved. Instead, we are the verb.
We need to take action in order to connect with God and draw the Light of the Creator to our lives. We have had this backwards for two thousand years, which is why our prayers have gone unanswered for so long. We keep waiting for an answer from God, but God cannot answer. God just is.
So how do we connect to God?
Transformation. Each time we resist our ego—our self-centered nature that wants to react, scream, cheat, yell, worry and abuse—we connect our soul to God. However, when our buttons are pushed, when some annoying individual incites us to anger, there's almost no way to prevent a reflexive response.
So God came up with an idea, a way to help us out. He gave us a technology that we mistakenly called prayer. The kabbalist who prays is not offering a plea, or making a request. The words and letters that compose a prayer literally link our soul to unseen spiritual dimensions from which we summon spiritual help to rise above our ego, our reactive nature, and all the nasty character traits that keep us from connecting to the Light of the Creator.
This week, pay special attention to this week's 72 Name. Use it often to link into a support system beyond your vision. And work on resisting self centered impulses. The more time you spend helping others, the better your week will be.
All the best,
Yehuda
72 Name of the Week
I now establish an umbilical cord to the Divine Energy, ensuring a constant glimmer of Light in my life, especially now when I am in a place of darkness.
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