The Reality of Prayer

"I found that prayer works alot better with big players."

-- Knute Rockne

Is here anything that's more of a waste of time than prayers of petition? OK, maybe watching Survivor, American Idol, or any other reality show you can name, but that's about it. In fact reality shows and petitionary prayer have about the same actual degree of reality -- none.

Do you think God really cares who wins a football game? Of course not. So why then would the Supreme Being, the Primordial Energy, the Operating Principle of the Universe care about your petty personal concerns? He/She/It doesn't.

God is not a person. God is Reality, Itself. God is not going to alter the course of What Is merely because your ego is offended by it. God is not going to intervene in what has lawfully transpired. It is up to you to align yourself with Reality; it is not up to God to rearrange Reality to suit you.

So make a resolution, actually two resolutions: Give up watching crap on TV and give up asking some super power to intervene and make the world different than it is. You want the world to be different? Use all the time you're saving by not watching televised bullshit and invest it in making the world a better place. True, your football team still may not win (especially if it's Notre Dame), and your cat may not be cured of kitty leukemia, but at least you'll be actively engaged on the playing field of life rather than enmeshed in a fantasy of being saved by some old, bearded daddy in the sky.

Big players have big ideas, big effort, big joy. And that all adds up to a big, a real BIG, life.