How Prayer Emails Answered My Own Prayer

Tuesday was a trying day. I'd begun sending out emails on prayer for a marketing bonus I'd joined and was not receiving responses in any way, shape or form. I was beginning to feel as if the whole thing was a waste of my time. In fact, I didn't feel I had gotten very many people to even sign up for them.

Then I remembered what I had said in those emails. I asked myself, "What is the first thing I should do?" Prayer Supercharger #1 was "pray the problem."

First I had to decide what the problem really was. I decided the problem on: I am not receiving any responses to my prayer emails.

Then I asked myself, what is the second step? Prayer Supercharge #2 was "expect an answer and in a positive way."

At that point, something distracted me, so I temporarily forgot about the situation.

A little while later, I went looking for an email I had thrown away earlier. When I opened my trash, I received a big surprise. I found a bunch of emails in there from people who had subscribed to my prayer emails. For some reason, my email software had thought they were spam. I quickly grabbed them up, dusted them off, and put them into the correct folder so I could begin sending them my prayer emails. (Unfortunately, because my trash had been set to empty automatically, I may have lost more of them unknowingly.)

I thought, "Finding those emails is encouraging. I prayed my problem and already God had sent me an answer."

Around that same time, I learned my message board and discussion group (possibilities-subscribe@icantransform.com) were not functioning as they should. I thought, "How are people supposed to respond when the software isn't working?" I had put it together so fast, I hadn't had time to try it myself. So while I waited to hear back from people on how the Prayer Superchargers were working, any one who tried to post had been turned away. Just knowing I could fix the problem felt like another answer to my prayer.

Then, something else amazing happened.

Earlier in the day, I had received a call from Helen Shanley. I don't know if you are familiar with her, but she is an amazing woman. She is getting on in years but has not let that stop her from guiding people through tremendous visualizations that help heal their lives.

I had been particularly interested in hearing from Helen since she used images and archetypes for finding life correlations much the same as I do in my book Transformational Healing. I was curious how her methods would parallel mine.

In my visualization, which lasted about a half hour or more, I saw many symbols, colors, and images that will take me quite awhile to fully understand and utilize. However, some of the messages from these symbols stood out right away. For instance, I have always felt a great affinity for trees and a giant oak appeared as part of my walk with Helen.

The tree, for me, represented a mirror image of myself. The leaves rustling in the wind represented my connection with God and His inspirational touch. The core, which was hollow, represented my physical body and it's presence here on earth. The roots showed me the depths of my thoughts and the vast civilization of knowledge and skill awaiting for me to explore and utilize in my daily life.

From the images found in the visualization with Helen, I reminded myself of the values and purpose I'd set out to fulfill by writing my book. I was reminded, too, of the tremendous resources available to me, to us all, in obtaining our heart's desires.

When we were done, Helen said, "It appears that you are on track with your passions and purpose."

Later, as I pondered all that I had seen and what Helen said, I wondered if I should have asked her more questions. I wrote to her and asked if she could elaborate on what she said meant. She wrote back:

"What I meant was: This imagery is (can be) a dialog with Spirit, which hands up what you're ready for. In your case, I felt that you were being affirmed in all directions, both personal and collective, divine and human. And that whatever you're doing is on the right track."

Now, I want to tell you the most amazing part of all. Do you know when I received this email from her? About the same time as I sat questioning myself, wondering if I had wasted my time, wondering if I had helped anyone with my prayer emails, of which only two of seven have gone out.

Do you know that her message was so important to me that I had to go back, about fifteen minutes later, and read it again. Particularly this part: "I felt that you were being affirmed in all directions, both personal and collective, divine and human. And that whatever you're doing is on the right track."

It was almost as if I were in a time warp and the words "...whatever you're doing is on the right track..." repeated over and over in my mind until I "got it."

From that, I was encouraged to continue with the prayer emails I've been sending and continuing waiting on God to send the answers to my problems. I will also continue working with the images received during my visualization with Helen, and look forward to working with her again and in reading her book Sugar on My Lettuce.

JLS