Prayers, Jim Carrey and Bruce Almighty
I am a huge Jim Carrey fan. His humor is slapstick, but his messages within his movies are real and he delivers them with a punch. If you haven’t already seen Bruce Almighty, it’s worth a look even though it’s about 2 years old now. Bruce, a downtrodden reporter who ignores the gifts in his life, loses a promotion and his job. In desperation, he begs God for his help. Of course in Jim Carrey style, he ignores all the signs and signals that are practically falling in his lap, right down to a number on his pager from God.
Morgan Freeman plays God and is wonderful in the role. He gives Bruce a gift…to see what it’s like to be God for a limited period of time, to see if he can do a better job. This is the premise of the rest of the movie. It has its hilarity, as well as it’s touching moments, as we see in his girlfriend (played by Jennifer Aniston) who prays for him. The obligatory foregone conclusion of course is we cannot play God, as we often think we can do (a better job of).
Freeman as God gives us some heartwarming thoughts about life. When Bruce is asked to pray for something by “God”, he asks for the usual world peace and health and happiness for everyone. God tells him, “That’s great if you’re running for Miss America”. Bruce digs deep and now prays a selfless prayer for his girlfriend to be happy even if it means never seeing her again. Now, that’s a prayer, Freeman (God) proclaims!
Of course the movie has a happy ending, (sorry if I’ve divulged too much). The entire point of this discourse is about prayer and God.
Unless we’re praying well, we may not be praying at all. We’ve all asked for “things” and made empty promises to God, only to be disappointed when we haven’t received. Just imagine being God and receiving all these selfish, empty prayers from the infinite amount of spirits in the universes. Sounds ridiculous? Yes it is. Firstly, we cannot “play” God, but as long as we are here, we can make this life the best one humanly possible. Lastly, we cannot know “The Mind of God”, or God’s Will. It’s wiser to just be “Godly”.
There are karmic propensities (Ref. article on Karma), God’s Intention and God’s Will. When faced with Divine Potentiality, God’s Will, God’s Intention, and karma, we may just want to be a little humbler when praying. I have a few prayers of my own, (See Devotional Nonduality), but keeping these words in mind may help: surrender, forgive, forgiveness, unconditional love, intention*, and will (Divine).
Be the prayer, live life as a prayer and surrender it all to God.
*Intention must be pure of heart, unconditional, and integrous. Affirmations must ring with the same qualities.
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