DWQA QuestionsCategory: PrayerHe asks: “I feel that this prayer of protection, ‘Creator, surround us with your light, enfold us with your love, protect us with your power, watch over us wherever we are for you are always with us,’ still may be missing something specific, but I want something simple for those who may be dying to remember and assist them in returning to the divine realm. How can this prayer be improved to achieve this?” What is Creator’s perspective?
Nicola Staff asked 10 months ago
There are many issues here and things to consider. The first would be, as a request to us is needed, this might need to be customized for the recipient in need of the prayer or to help instill a working model, a practice to implement by way of preparation to groove it into memory, for example, and get a person accustomed to prayer who might not be at the moment. That will be especially helpful during transition when all bets are off about what the state of being might be in terms of cognitive awareness and inner wherewithal to summon. Something simple, as a simple statement that conveys the desired end result clearly, would be better than a multipart ceremony-like list of criteria and phenomena. All that is really needed is something like, "Creator, when it is my time, send me your love to raise me up to be with you." That is self-contained, it states a time, a recipient, and a request to have the loving attentions of the divine to return them to the heavenly realm without using jargon, spiritual trappings that might be unique to a given religious perspective, and so on. Sometimes the simplest approach is best.