The Only Little Prayer You Need summary

Have you ever prayed? If so, it may have gone something like this, “Please make my mother well,” or “Please keep my children safe.” In other words, you asked for something or someone in our external environment to change.

However, this prayer is different. Instead of asking for things to change in the world around you, you ask for yourself to be changed. Let’s look at how the prayer can be applied to a specific situation.

How long does it take to form a habit? And, what are the best ways of doing so? While the answers to these questions will be unique for everybody, the key is consistency – and this is true for the prayer as well.

That’s why you should try to find ways to incorporate it into your daily routine. For example, you could say the prayer as soon as you wake up in the morning, when you go to bed at night, or whenever you make a cup of tea or coffee.

Think back to when you were a child. Do you remember those cartoons where, as soon as a character has to make a decision, a devil and an angel pop up on either side of her shoulders?

Well, this is kind of like how our brains are set up. According to the online spiritual course A Course in Miracles, which the author teaches, our minds have two sides: the ego and the higher Self. 

Our world is filled with constant chatter – whether it’s the evening news on the car radio, a squabble between customers in the supermarket, or the whispers of gossip coming from the next office cubicle.

We also contribute to the noise ourselves. Remember that pesky rattle in the dashboard – the metaphor for those fear-based thoughts that we’re all immersed in? They contribute to what the author calls the “diet of drama” that we ingest on a daily basis without knowing it.

For many people, the idea of getting fired, having a chronic health condition or losing a relative would be enough to send them into complete despair – and for good reason. But, what if it were possible to face those challenges all at once and still remain calm?

This was the case for Shelley, a woman who attended one of the author’s workshops on the day she had lost her corporate job.

We all have an idea of what our perfect lives would look like – whether it’s living in a nice house, having a family, hopping on and off planes to witness the wonders of the world or a combination of them all. But, aside from this, most of us just want to be happy.

The word “happiness,” however, is hard to define and it’s a concept that, surprisingly, not everyone feels totally comfortable with.