How to End a Prayer Beautifully and Powerfully

Today’s drawing of Mary Magdalene

I love Gregg Braden. Even though he’s been known by the world for a long time, I saw him for the first time last year, in the podcast Know Thyself with André Duqum. Gregg loves to talk, and he is super passionate. And knowledgeable. He is a scientist and he is a researcher, and he is a man who has cultivated his spirituality.

In the Gaia program “Prayer Code Mysteries,” he speaks about The Gospel of Thomas, found in the Nag Hammadi Library, and the words recorded in a part of this text in which we can find the instructions for a lost mode of prayer. The students ask the teacher how to communicate with God. The words of the teacher, Jesus, are recorded in this text.

He shares the King James Bible words “Whatsoever ye ask the Father in my name, he will give it to you. Ask and you shall receive that your joy may be full.”

Gregg tells us that in Aramaic, the original words read:

“All things that you ask straightly, directly… from inside my name, you will be given.

“Ask without hidden motive and be surrounded by your answer.

Be enveloped by what you desire that your gladness be full.”

Gregg avises: “Feel as if… your prayer is answered, your body is healed, your perfect relationship is here, your abundance is present. Invoke your senses!”

Gregg analyzes a computer program to give us a template for a prayer: A program starts with a declaration, then a code, the a closure. He suggests that this is the same template for a prayer:

Declare what the purpose of the prayer is.

Give thanks for what is to happen

The closure: from the original Aramaic:

“I seal this prayer in faith, in trust, in truth. Amen.”

What beautiful words to conclude a prayer… A way to end a prayer beautifully and powerfully.