How could it be that a prayer goes unanswered?
Some will tell you that every prayer is answered, but sometimes the answer
is, "no."
Those who say this do not understand the secret of prayer. For prayer is when
a consciousness below breaks out of its ego and causes delight to the
Consciousness Above. And when delight is brought Above, it must return below.
So some will tell you that, yes, the prayer is always answered, but perhaps
only in a spiritual realm. Not always can a prayer affect the coarseness of our
material world.
But this cannot be, for the consciousness below did not pray for a spiritual
blessing, but for a material one. From the place the prayer came from, to there
the blessing must return.
Rather, it must be that every prayer is answered, in our world, now, for the
one who prayed and for that which he prayed.
The problem is only in the packaging -- that it is packaged in the artifacts of
our coarse and dark world, so that at times we cannot see through the wrappings
to discover the answer to our prayer.
But there will be a time when all of us will return to the One Above with all
our hearts, and then all the concealment of this world will be shattered. The
wrappings will fall away and we will see how each prayer was answered in its
time. And we will hold all the blessings of all those millennia in our hands.
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