CHAPTER 18
AFFIRMATION AND
RELINQUISHMENT
Prayer of Release
and Attraction
Dear
Creator: To you who made me good and to whom I would return myself in
perfection:
I release from me all
persons
all things
all habits
all ambitions
all experiences
which are not a
part of
my perfect,
divine pattern of life.
All persons
all things
all ambitions
all experiences
which are not a
part of
my perfect,
divine pattern of life
release me.
I attract to me
all persons
all things
all places
all desires
all ambitions
all experiences
which are a part
of
my divine pattern
of life.
All persons
all things
all places
all habits
all desires
all ambitions
all experiences
which are a part
of
my perfect,
divine pattern of life
attract me.
In the prayer poem of the previous page
is the summary of all we have
spoken of, experienced, worked for and
accomplished.
It
is the epitome of affirmation and the high peak of relinquishment.
An
affirmation in the finest metaphysical sense is a positive balanced statement
of belief that is voiced with such faith that it creates its own answer.
Relinquishment
in the finest metaphysical sense is the utter turning over of that answer for
fulfillment in the highest degree according to the Will of our Creator, whether
or not the result is what we expect or want and we declare the result to be
GOOD!
We
are to know it is our privilege at this moment to take every word of this book
which is an affirmation of our beliefs and relinquish them to their best
expression through Universal Mind, our Maker.
We
turn all of them over utterly for fulfillment in the highest sense according to
the Will of our Creator. This is so
whether or not the results are what we expect or want. We declare the results to be GOOD in the
Name of our Creator and our Avatar no matter what Name we elect to honor.
In
so doing we have faith that the pendulum swings neither too far to the left or
to the right and this balance permits the extraordinary to become ordinary.
When
we have become so imbued with the Holy Spirit that it becomes us and we become
it, the whole process contained in the prayer poem can become part of us with
just a few words.
We
are blessed in our maturity as we realize that to use the prayers of protection
and then proclaim Divine Order, Divine Justice and/or Divine Harmony entails
the complete process of affirmation and relinquishment. When we submit a situation to the Divine, in
two or three words we completely remove our own desires and submit our will to
the Divine Will of the High Holy One.
It
is up to each one of us to decide if and when we have reached the point of
selflessness that gives way quickly to our Creator. At that point joy and release, not concern, will be the reaction
every time.