Jump-Start Your Life Through Prayer

Sometimes we feel stuck. Life suddenly isn’t working. Maybe a relationship we cherish isn’t going anywhere, and we don’t know what to say or what to do to jump start the relationship. Or maybe we feel like we’re in a rut at work. We don’t feel challenged or we may feel like we simply don’t fit in our current position anymore. Or maybe our recovery seems to have stagnated. We were feeling really good about all of the new patterns of behavior we’ve learned to live, but suddenly now, we feel like we did years ago when we were hopelessly lost in our codependency. We feel miserable inside and we feel stuck in the mud of negativity.

When we reach difficult crossroads like these, we need to pray for doors to open. First we need to pray for a door to open within our hearts. We need the door to self-love to re-open. This is the door that allows us to breathe-in self-approval and to feel worthy again to receive all that is good in life. There’s a reason why we’ve gone from feeling confident to feeling miserable. It’s because we have slammed this door shut on ourselves once again. We’ve cut-off the lifeline to our self-love, and, as a result, we’re feeling worthless again or like we aren’t good enough to have success and happiness in life. To get out of this rut, we need to sit, pray and ask Higher Love to help us open this door to emotional empowerment from within.

Next we need to pray for doors to open within our minds. We need clarity. This means we need added awareness to be awake and alert to all of the ways in which our Higher Power is speaking to us. We need to be back in the Universal flow of goodness and personal empowerment. We are a necessary part of the Universal flow and we need to choose to believe that we are. Then, like butterflies, we need to keep our antennae up. We need to get the self-help messages that Higher Love sends us. If we remain in the now, we will get the positive ideas we need to move forward in the right direction. We will then be empowered to reach out to the right people and to help ourselves get fully back into the Universal flow.

Lastly, we need to pray that doors will open in terms of opportunities. We need people to walk into our lives and become doors to new ventures. Sometimes we just happen to meet someone who is the key to a new relationship or a new career path. So we need to be aware and open to all persons who cross our paths.

Remember, moving forward in life is all about having an open heart and an open mind. It’s about keeping our hearts open to ourselves and others. And it’s about keeping our minds in the now—in reality—where our thoughts can work in positive ways to move us forward in all aspects of our lives: in self-discovery, in love relationships, in work places and in recovery from our addictive behaviors.