The more you pray, the more you offset the shadow.

The Madonna has been appearing in Medjugorje, Yugoslavia, with one consistent message: pray the rosary, pray for peace—pray, pray, pray. When I was a kid I couldn’t understand it. If you knew war was coming, why not just show up? I carried that question for years. And then I got it. It’s the law—the balance of grace and psychic free radicals. Energy becomes matter, grace becomes matter. The more you pray, the more you offset the shadow ingredients of what will be created.

Please enjoy this session from my live workshop “Gift of Seven Extraordinary Days of Grace,” presented in 2013. If you’d like to see the rest of this workshop – you can click here to learn more »

Grace rarely announces itself in obvious ways. It does not arrive like a visitor knocking at your door. Most of the angels who have walked beside you have never introduced themselves. Heaven works quietly, through subtle movements and moments that can easily be overlooked. Yet grace is always present, guiding the unfolding of your life. To recognize it, you must refine your perception and learn to see what Teresa of Ávila called “God in the details”—the presence of the divine within the smallest, most ordinary moments of daily life.

We are living in a moment that represents a profound turning point in the history of humanity—an ending of an epoch so vast that no single mind can fully grasp it. The scale of what is unfolding exceeds the reach of thought alone. The only place within you capable of recognizing the magnitude of this moment is your soul. In times like these, we are called to develop a deeper way of seeing—one that allows us to rise beyond ordinary perception and begin to recognize the presence of grace in our lives.