The state of being, is just that.   Whether we sit or stand, walk, run, laugh or cry.   But Why?   With life it seems to be at face value just that–it just is!

Yet, it is so much more than just being, just doing, just existing.   It is a presence within us!

If I were to share with you, what is  for me–It is a journey.   Not a day to day journey, but a state of mind.   For life, is more than going through the motions of living and crying, sleeping and dying.   Life is lifting up!   When one decides to ‘go up’ then you must decide to take the ‘stairs’.   Really!  The ‘Spirit’ needs a form of exercise.

Just as the body becomes stronger, quicker, more agile, when exercised, so the spirit becomes, stronger, quicker, and wiser through prayer !   For it is ‘human nature’ is to deny that the spirit needs exercise, it does.    Done through ‘prayer’, The state of ‘praying’ is elevating the mind to ‘highness.’   It is an experience!

The growth that comes through praying is quiet and unassuming, yet, very real.   As when one starts out ‘exercising’ the body and finds themselves feeling ‘more alive’!   So, in the most of unexpected circumstances does prayer change the ‘soul’.

Though it is natural for a ‘child’ to deny responsabilty to task, so it is with us.   For each of us, a ‘child’ of God, finds ourselves in the state of denial from time to time.   Yet, if we wish to be ‘wise’ we must reflect.   Then the reality of living will reveal itself.   This is accomplished through prayer.

For just as one can choose not to exercise, one can choose not to pray.  No one makes us do anything.   Choosing to ‘take the stairs’ is when the living begins.

Years ago, in the seventies, I believe it was; someone wrote a song, ‘Stairway to Heaven.’  If indeed it is a stairway to heaven, then it will indeed take work to take each step.   We all know to take the stairs is more work than taking the elevator.

If we wish to attain heaven, we must do the work, and prayer being the state of lifting the mind up each step; then the journey begins to make sense.

For once we realize the ‘journey’ we are on is work, then we have the ‘acceptance’ Our Heavenly Father desires.

Prepare yourself for distractions!   For life is full of them.   You must want heaven!  If you want heaven,do the work, and ‘take the stairs’!   The the mind will grow into dimensions beyond your wildest dreams.

If  fullness of life is what you desire…lift yourself up through prayer, and the journey of a lifetime will begin.

Book of Isaiah: Chapter 58: 6-9

6)” Seek the Lord while he may be found, call him while he is near.   7)Let the scoundrel forsake his way, and the wicked man his thoughts; Let him turn to the LORD for mercy; to our God, who is generous in forgiving,  8)For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are  your ways,says the LORD.   9)As high as the heavens are above the earth, so high are my ways above your way and my thoughts  above your thoughts.”

Book of Sirach: Chapter 1 verses 14-18

14)”Fullness of wisdom is fear of the LORD, she inebreates men with her fruits.   15)Her entire house she fills with choice foods, her graneries with her harvest.   16)Wisdom’s garland is fear of the LORD, with blossoms of peace and perfect health.   17)Knowledge and full understanding she showers down; she heightens the glory of those who possess her.  18)The root of wisdom is fear fo the LORD her branches are length of days.”