Prayer time 3 December 2025

ARCHITECTURE OF PRESENCE

Relaxation - Settling Into the Interior

Take a slow breath in… and exhale.

Allow your shoulders to soften, your jaw to release, and the space behind your eyes to widen.

Feel yourself arriving—not at a location, but into an interior presence.

Finnish architect Juhani Pallasmaa reminds us that the deepest architecture we ever inhabit is the architecture of our own embodied awareness.

You are stepping into that architecture now.

Your breath is your threshold.

Your stillness is your doorway.

Your awareness is your sanctuary.

Concentration - God Is Wisdom

Today we recognise the Divine as Wisdom.

Proverbs 2:6 - “For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.”

The Divine as Wisdom is not information… nor cleverness … it’s most certainly not mental clutter.

But the Divine as Wisdom is the quiet, organising intelligence that undergirds all things.

The Wisdom that orders galaxies, patterns petals; directs geese across hemispheres, and arranges your life with precision.

The Wisdom that precedes your thought and outlives your fear.

The Wisdom that whispers, “Be still and know.”

Wisdom in the form of a whisper … a hunch … a nudge. (That gut feeling … your intuition

This Wisdom is here now.

Right where we are.

It is intelligent, alive, and guiding us now.

Wisdom and I Are One

There is no place where Divine Wisdom ends and you begin.

You are not calling Wisdom from afar; you are recognising what is already operating through you, as you, in you. And goodness, also for you!

You and Wisdom are one life, one breath, one awareness.

Your intuition, when trusted, is Wisdom’s architecture forming itself as decision.

Your clarity, when trusted, is Wisdom building the next phase or stage of your becoming.

Of your Being.

And so we say

“The Wisdom of God thinks through me, lives in me, and guides me now.”

“The Wisdom of God thinks through me, lives in me, and guides me now.”

Scripture + Spatial Imagery

James 1:5 – “If any of you lack wisdom, let them ask of God, who gives generously… and it will be given.”

Imagine yourself in a vast, open, sun-lit space.

Light (and warmth) pour from above.

There is a wide open expanse for deep, carefree breathing.

The air is clean and quiet.

Nothing is cluttered.

Nothing is rushed.

This is the interior of your own consciousness when you release tension and invoke Wisdom.

Every beam of light is guidance.

Every open space is possibility.

Every quiet echo is clarity forming its next sentence.

Let your breath expand into this space.

Let your mind unclench.

Let Wisdom rise from within like a calm, unforced knowing.

Meditation - Silence 3 minutes

Realisation - The Insight Becomes Form

So now we allow Wisdom to crystallise into realisation.

You don’t force insight. No striving. No big push.

Gently, we receive it.

Insight, most of the time, is just a gentle dawning. Not so often the lightning strike.

Imagine a slow brightening. As a candle melts and the wick extends, the flame subtley grows.

Same thing within us - this gentle but undeniable ‘ah, yes, this is me!’ I AM that!

We affirm:

Every day, in every way, I am more receptive to Divine Wisdom. Every day my thinking is clearer, sharper, more solid. Today I walked in alignment, and alignment opened doors for me.

Tomorrow I will do the same, just with increased awareness now. I am guided from within; I do not stumble blindly.

The Wisdom of God lights my way.

I am a child of God, born of infinite intelligence, upheld by perfect order.

Today is a good day, and today I listen deeply, in the quiet, and follow the quiet thread of clarity within me. There is no confusion in God, therefore confusion cannot remain in me. There is no chaos in God, therefore chaos dissolves in my presence. Wisdom directs me. Wisdom establishes me. Wisdom anchors me. Wisdom prospers me. Wisdom is me.

And as we lay down to peaceful sleep tonight, we anticipate solid solutions to any and all of the things that might cause us to be concerned. In God, we have no fear.

Appreciation - The Closing of the Inner Door

And so we give thanks.

Breathing in, breathing out, breathing with gratefulness.

Gratitude for the clarity you feel.

Gratitude for the next right step that is now inevitable.

Gratitude for the Intelligence right now organising your life with wise precision.

We end with simple appreciation:

Thank You, Wisdom. Thank You, God within.

And together we pray as Jesus taught us to pray…

Recitation of the Lord’s prayer.

Our hearts bow.

Thank you, bless you.

Amen. Amene. Tihei mauri ora.

Prepared by Jacinda Faloon-Cavander for Unity of NZ