Daily Devotional Aug 11, 2026: HOW TO PRAY FOR IMMEDIATE CHANGE.

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Daily Devotional August 11, 2026: STOP DOING THIS TO SEE IMMEDIATE CHANGE.

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Good morning. God morning to you.

I want you to put your hands under your thighs. Sit on your hands and sit back. And stop. Everything for just a moment. Stop trying to become. Stop trying to fix. Stop trying to change. Stop trying just for this moment. Sit on your hands. And listen. Past me. For the answer.

The answer is a soothing. It’s a softening. It’s often wordless. It’s silence, deep silence, like I threw a blanket over you, a weighted one, a heated one. There’s a rest there even if your eyes are open. My eyes are open, and yet I am aware of the darkness behind closed eyes at the same time. What you perceive as darkness behind closed eyes, I perceive with my eyes open while seeing the world. I see what it comes from and where it goes to. And then there’s an awareness of both. And all three of those perceptions are one.

So whether your eyes are open or closed, it does not matter. This Love is. And there’s not a “you” there to feel it or not feel it. As soon as you stop trying, only Love is. And you can replace the word Love with God or here. Only here is. Only now is. Only this is. All of creation is appearing as this right now. There’s nothing outside of this.

And you keep waking up to that reality in every moment: in your bed, in the bathroom, in the kitchen. It’s all rearranged as the kitchen. It’s all rearranged. And now it’s the checkout lane at the grocery store. Now it’s the screen being scrolled to infinity. Now it’s this voice. And then it’s a thought, a doom thought, a worry thought. And then the thought comes: only Mother is here. And then there are no thoughts again for a while. Or only Father is here.

If you keep that thought in front of you as you take a walk, you’ll recognize very quickly that that body is walking through the Mother, the grass. That’s Her lap. The sidewalk is Her lap. It’s His lap. There’s nowhere you can go that’s not God’s lap. The sky, the ocean, the lake, wherever you are, it’s all God. Every single person is all God. Take it up a notch: it’s all you.

When you’re looking at a person walking towards you, you can have the thought, that’s Me, Me, Me, or Love, Love, Love. I give you options not to confuse you, but because one of these will be the one that breaks through for you. But you have to use it in practice. You can’t just hear this and then go out there and be “you,” a human in the world. You have to take it all back and recognize that it’s all the Mother, or all the Father, or all God, or all Christ, or all Love, or all here, or all now, all me, or all nothing, and feel the Love more loudly than you’re seeing the stuff and hearing the stuff and perceiving this stuff.

I share this all reluctantly every day because it’s very challenging to put it into words to tell someone that you can see the world and the darkness at the same time. I was born on a new moon just before sunrise. No moon. All the Light contained here. You should look up when you were born, what the moon was doing when you were born, just to give you a little clue into what you’re doing now, why things may be more challenging now, and then know that as soon as you are aware as Love, like they say, the course of the river changes, the lines on your palm change, and the whole world looks at you. The whole world is looking at you, is looking to you, bowing towards you. Me too.

You must change first, not the bad habit, not adding good habits. Those come as a natural side effect of your awareness as Love, as the Highest. You knowing: only this is. Only God exists. Only Love is here. That’s the change.

And you don’t try to be aware of this. You sit on your hands until you realize there’s no one there sitting, no hands to sit on, no chair to sit in. No room, no building, no city, no state, no country, no Earth, no Milky Way galaxy, no solar systems. The beginning and the end contained right here, right now, as Love, as joy, this exuberance that is muted. It’s so soft, so gentle, you’d miss it.

And I get enough messages from you that sometimes you feel you miss my message. You can’t grasp it. It is not to be grasped, and I cannot water it down anymore. I can’t dilute this. I can’t give you chasers anymore. I guess I could give you one chaser right now.

When it’s getting real, and it may get real there today; it gets real here, you know, at least a couple times a week, stress. I think it was Eckhart Tolle that said when you’re stressed, that is a sign you have lost the present moment. You have lost Presence. That’s all stress is: unawareness of God, unawareness of Love, unawareness of now. You’re in the future or in the past, but usually in the future.

And then when you catch it, when you catch that stress, you come back. Automatically, you’re already back when you’ve caught it. But to intensify this Presence, to anchor yourself here, all you have to do is notice that you’re breathing. And you don’t have to change the rate of it or the depth of it. Just notice that it’s happening, and keep noticing. You don’t have to count your breaths. You don’t have to extend them to a certain count. Just notice.

Or you can notice the space just beyond your right ear, just outside of your right ear, and listen to that space as if God is right there in that space whispering to you, as if God is that space, as if God’s Presence is that space. You got your ear pressed to God. All of these are shortcuts. They all short-circuit the ego, and they bring you back to nothing.

You want everything. You want so many things you can’t even pray for them all. I know. You feel like there’s many things wrong, many things that need fixing. There’s only Love here for feeling, feeling more and more and more until you’re not aware that you’re feeling more and more. There’s just more and more. And since there is no inside and outside, no spiritual versus material, no spiritual that needs to be bridged to be seen in the material, then all you do… you see more. You see more. They will call you a seer. That’s what you’re here for.

There’s an app called Be My Eyes where you can help someone that is visually impaired find things, help them navigate this world. You have to be the eyes of the world. You have thousands of eyes, millions of eyes, billions of eyes. You’re only looking out through those seemingly right now. But that’s just a thought. You’re just a thought away from seeing from a different perspective. From these eyes, what am I looking at right now? See it.

I love you, and we’ll chat soon.

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