THIS IS MY LIFE
Sunday, 9/15/2002
Copyright (c) 2002, Michael (Dickerson) Deluno. All Rights Reserved. Reproduction or quotation is strictly prohibited without permission.

Hi, you all ~

I spent Friday 5 p.m. through Sunday 5 p.m. in Unity Santa Fe�s Prayer Chaplain Training retreat. There�s still more to the training, so I'm not finished (until October 20). It�s a program largely based on one created at Unity of Phoenix (AZ) by Rev. Lei Lanni Burt.

The purpose is to train us to be Prayer Chaplains in our church � that is people who pray with congregants when requested and who each have a group of members that they contact once a month (at least) to see if they have any prayer requests. A couple of Prayer Chaplains are on duty after each service for anyone who wants prayers.

We were learning to do �laser prayer� � being able to get someone�s issue and pray with them in 3 to 5 minutes � as well as to create sacred space, know when to make referrals, etc. What Brendalyn told us is that we don�t have to know anything about praying with people, that we really just need to get ourselves out of the way and let God pray through us. I experienced that as true. There�s a huge difference between head-creating a prayer and letting our Inner Spirit speak through us.

One of my favorite parts was that we watched �The Legend of Bagger Vance� as an example of being a Prayer Chaplain (and started referring to ourselves as caddies). If you haven�t seen that movie, I recommend it highly.

It was a very full and very valuable weekend. We did a lot of practice, so I not only prayed for a lot of people, but I was also prayed for a lot.

I had one important realization. For the entire time I�ve been in Santa Fe, I�ve been saying that no one really knows who I am yet. What I discovered is that the truth is that I�d forgotten some of who I really am and thus haven�t been communicating it.

More to come. Lots more to come.

Namaste,
Michael

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