Divine Relationship
The Divine Collaboration protocol acknowledges the presence of an additional participant in the conflict resolution process. That additional participant is God. This may require additional explanation…
Healing Relationships, Human and Divine
In the same manner that Divine Collaboration seeks to mend relationships between two or more people, the protocol also acknowledges that each person exists in a living relationship with the Divine.
This Divine relationship very often is in a state of disrepair.
The status of each individual’s relationship with the Divine is unique. From person to person the state of the relationship varies. Usually, as an early step in reconciliation, we assess the status of Divine Relationship.
Divine Collaboration, the process, which heals both human and divine relationships, begins with an assessment of the quality of communication…
Communication Repair
In all relationships communication is vital. When communication ceases, the relationship ends. Thus, when mediators seek to heal relationships, they must assess and repair communication breakdowns.
Reconcilers who seek to repair communication with the Divine turn to the tools of spiritual direction and ask, what is the status of this person’s divine communication?
Prayer is the word that best represents divine communication. So, we’re asking, in essence, how is your prayer life? Thus, when we seek to reconcile a person’s living relationship with God, we inquire into the quality of their prayer life.
Multitude of Prayers
Upon reflection, we discover there are many types of prayer. Verbal prayer and silent prayer. Prayers of supplication, prayers of gratitude, prayers of repentance and prayers of lament. Prayers offered in solitude and prayers voiced in a group. Prayers in which we shout “hallelujah” and prayers that cannot be captured in words.
In Divine Collaboration efforts we will focus primarily on contemplative prayer, a form of mystical prayer that seeks communion or union between our individual spiritual consciousness and the Mind of God, the creative impulse of the Divine.
Mind of God — Idealism
When an individual stills his mind (“rests in God”) he or she enters a state of mystical union. In this state, an individual better understands the Will of God. This is vital, as we live in an idealistic universe, a manifestation of the Mind of God.
Prayers that align with God’s creative force, prayers that align with Divine Intention (the Will of God), may be “answered” by the emergence of “new conditions.” Reality, which is inherently malleable, shifts into alignment with God’s Will.
When one grasps the key concept of an Idealistic Universe—that it is a product of the Mind of God—one begins to understand why prayer works. This phenomenon remains a mystery to a culture steeped in materialism. However, when one gains a robust understanding of Faith, the malleable nature of the Reality that conforms to prayer comes to view.
Fearing the Power of Prayer
Materialists and Marxist atheists scoff at the idea that prayer is anything but a delusional self-conversation. However, their attack on religion turns out to be quite ironic, as they come to fear that which they claim does not even exist.
They deride prayer, but, at the same time, harbor an instinctual fear that prayer just might work. Divine Providence, summoned by prayer, threatens the materialistic scheme of reality. And it functions as an unacknowledged source of fear.
When Tucker Carlson was fired from Fox News recently, some people opined that his removal was related, at least in part, to his public call for Americans to pray for their Nation’s salvation. If indeed his firing was due to his call for prayer, that would be consistent with the idea that prayer, while openly ridiculed, is also secretly feared.