Many of us get discouraged when we think about the things we could be doing to improve the world around us. The idea of making a difference in the world can seem trite when we are surrounded with abundance and wealth.

Yet there is something we can do…the effects of which we one day will see.
This something affects the world.
This something affects the universe.
When we focus our attention on God in love
When we fix our eyes in adoration for the risen, exalted Christ,

things change in the atmosphere around us.

There is something pure and powerful about the type of prayer we pray when our minds and hearts connect with the true person of God–the Cosmic Christ; void of image, evaluation, and distraction.

In The Cloud of Unknowing, St John of the Cross puts it like this:
“For when you fix your love on Him, forgetting all else, the saints and angels rejoice and hasten to assist you in every way–no corner of the universe is untouched by this exercise of love…”

In pure contemplation, we are one with Christ.
When we join with the person of Christ, the world–
the universe shifts.
The universe–the cosmos.
All because a small prayer we pray–even if it begins as egocentric–
twist and turns.
The prayer twists.

And turns

Away from us
And

Bounces back to

Adore

focused, wholehearted, devoted.

Cosmic.

Now, and then; you are making a difference.