On Throwing Spiritual Weight

I am convinced that we play an inner, hidden role in the wheel of cosmic change. We are at a moment of just such a shift, and it is momentous. With the election and inauguration of Barak Obama not only has the political landscape changed dramatically, but there is change on other fronts and at different levels almost everywhere we look.

Prayer is the ability to “throw one’s spiritual weight” in a particular direction. If ever we needed to do this heavy lifting, it is now—at just this moment, when things everywhere are critical and yet the possibilities are open, if briefly.

We can throw spiritual weight in prayer, I am convinced. It makes a difference, and conscious intention is just such weight that also has the energies of Spirit behind it. I think particularly, of the Middle East. The world there is in tatters, but there is spiritual intention to change things. If you have the sense of it, then throw your weight there, at the very least—and everywhere else that your heart speaks.