{"id":611,"date":"2022-07-31T14:21:16","date_gmt":"2022-07-31T14:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/realisticliving.org\/New\/?page_id=611"},"modified":"2022-07-31T14:21:16","modified_gmt":"2022-07-31T14:21:16","slug":"the-practice-of-prayer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/realisticliving.org\/New\/the-practice-of-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Practice of Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align=\"left\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/realisticliving.org\/images\/solitaryprayer.jpg\" width=\"210\" height=\"144\" \/>Day One<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Silent Prayer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Sit upright.\u00a0 With a straight spine let the shoulders relax.\u00a0 Allow the breath to be deep, slow.\u00a0 Allowing the eyes to close, being totally alert, totally relaxed.\u00a0 If thoughts come, allow them to pass like clouds.\u00a0 Simply being here, this moment.\u00a0 Breathing.\u00a0 In.\u00a0 Out.\u00a0 Deep.\u00a0 Slow.\u00a0 Calm. Peace.\u00a0 Smile.\u00a0 Release.\u00a0 Present moment, only moment.<br \/>\n(Sit in silence.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Writing Prayer<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>If we refuse to admit that we are estranged from our true being, we live in a world of illusion and truth becomes a stranger to us.\u00a0 But if we freely admit that we have done wrong, we find that forgiveness follows as the night the day, leaving us clean from all unrighteou<\/em><em>sness.\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0&#8211; I John 1: 8-9.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Traditionally there are four types of prayer:\u00a0 confession, petition, intercession, and gratitude.\u00a0 Confession is an acknowledging of our mistakes, our weaknesses.\u00a0 We all regularly fall short of our expectations of ourselves and the legitimate expectations of others.\u00a0 We \u201cscrew up.\u201d\u00a0 Today what are you aware of in your life that you want to own up to?\u00a0 What have you done that seems inappropriate?\u00a0 What would you like to do over?\u00a0 What was undone?\u00a0 How do you sense yourself \u201coff the mark,\u201d having betrayed your true being?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Write your prayer of confession.)<\/p>\n<p><em>For a copy of the complete 30-day manual send $8 to Joyce Marshall;\u00a0 3578 N. State Highway 78;\u00a0 Bonham, TX 75418.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>What God asks for is the heart, and it is enough that it should stand before Him with reverence.\u00a0 Standing always before God with reverence is unceasing prayer.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>\u00a0 &#8211; Theophan<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day One Silent Prayer Sit upright.\u00a0 With a straight spine let the shoulders relax.\u00a0 Allow the breath to be deep, slow.\u00a0 Allowing the eyes to close, being totally alert, totally relaxed.\u00a0 If thoughts come, allow them to pass like clouds.\u00a0 Simply being here, this moment.\u00a0 Breathing.\u00a0 In.\u00a0 Out.\u00a0 Deep.\u00a0 Slow.\u00a0 Calm. Peace.\u00a0 Smile.\u00a0 Release.\u00a0 Present &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/realisticliving.org\/New\/the-practice-of-prayer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Practice of Prayer<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-611","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/realisticliving.org\/New\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/realisticliving.org\/New\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/realisticliving.org\/New\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realisticliving.org\/New\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realisticliving.org\/New\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/realisticliving.org\/New\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":612,"href":"https:\/\/realisticliving.org\/New\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/611\/revisions\/612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/realisticliving.org\/New\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}