Prayer with Michael Jackson and Robin Williams

When I was little I used to wonder how to pray "right".  I was never taught to pray and often I would apologize to God for not doing it "right".  Sometimes I would memorize a prayer, but even those seemed to be pre-designed words.  What I wanted to say and ask from God was more personal.

Not long ago, I had heard from other people that they had heard Michael Jackson pray.  I know I have even heard stories that he would often pray for hours.  Sometimes he would pray for the sick children at the ranch, for their families, for the world.  Sometimes I would catch part of his prayers, but rarely all of them.  Then after he passed, I asked him how he prayed.  Prayer almost seemed elusive to me as a child.  Sometimes if we are not taught things or don't believe we are doing it "right", we don't do it, or we don't believe it will "work".

Prayer does work and there really isn't a right or wrong way to do it.  When I asked Michael about his technique I thought his answer was the best way to explain how and why we enter into prayer.  He said prayer is your personal relationship with God. When you pray you enter that silent space with only him.  You give yourself permission to ask what's in your heart and mind, listening inside for the answers.  "I would give all I had up to God.  For Him to use me as a vehicle to express love on the planet.  For healing.

Not many people pray any more the fervent prayers we have once heard.  When people pray, we hear them on this side of the veil.  When they pray for you, you are transported into light, enveloped in a field so strong it embraces your very soul.  That's the power of prayer."

Some people pray and ask for things.  Robin Williams is here this morning, so I asked him if he used to pray.

"Prayer is something we all do in our time of need.  Sometimes we can ask for a job, more money, better schools for our children.  Healing the world is rarely on our list of to do's in prayer.  Most often it's about ourselves.  Our own little world that we have created takes center stage.  It's rare to look outside of ourselves to see humanity as a unit.  If we took that thought and permeated it throughout the planet, I think people would see themselves as something more than what we do today.  We can't be little planets independent of one another.  We are still living in one solar system.  What we do today effects the other little planets around us.  When we use the water, abuse the earth, there is less for the other planets, but if we choose to help, to provide assistance to those in need.  Find homes for the homeless, lift the spirits of the depressed, I think we'll find the world a much happier place.  We find love when we connect.  We find healing when we heal each other.  Don't ever think because your life is bad you can't help another.  It's at that moment that we need most to reach out.  Seeing ourselves in that other person is exactly what we need to realize we are not an independent being, but intra-dependent beings.

I'm Robin Williams.  Over and out, nanoo, nanoo"

It's important to take time for your personal relationship with God.  The creator that created us all, that sees all, that is all, can connect with your heart and in turn that heart felt connection is what you will also feel with everyone around you.  All of life, dancing in symphony to the tiny tune of your own beating heart, connected in love, connected to God himself.

It's beautiful to pray alone, but when our prayers are joined together we create a larger symphony, a more potent form of light and love.  As demonstrated in the video below, one prayer from Celine Dion is made even more beautiful when another man, Andrea Bocelli, joins in with hers.  The music is the same music of the spheres.  Souls in unison, praising the light and love that we are all connected to and have all been created from.  Notice as you listen how you feel inside.  It's the music that lifts you and connects your heart even in unison with the performers.  This is the magic that connects us all . . through our very own hearts.

We have often joined with this group in prayer.  A wonderful outreach that was created after Michael's death.  If you'd like to join with others in prayer for our planet, please visit Major Love Prayer.  When we join together in prayer, we can and do make a difference.