Controversial question: Prayer or Manifestation? 
Before you read my below comment, you need to know this about me.
I don’t and won’t give you the “answers”..
This is about your journey, your path, your wrestle..
This doesn’t mean that I don’t have my own opinions
But it does mean that there is no judgement, no shame in the wrestle
And it means that I hold space for you.
Because we need safe spaces to wrestle out spiritual concepts and clarify our view of who God is.. His identity, because in doing so it clarifies our own.
Do I provide guidance, mostly in the form of questions – absolutely? You’ll see a perfect example of this below.
In all things, I want to help you to SEE more clearly.. through the biases, lenses, distortions and conditioning..
Because when you can see more clearly you are infinitely more powerful, focused, impactful.. FREE.
During COVID I remember working with a client and she was discussing her decision around the you-know-what. Her journey was not about my stance.. I facilitated the wrestle and she made her decision.. and that was it. No judgement, just space held.
My job is to be there to facilitate and guide your wrestle – to authenticity, to truth, to awareness and CLARITY of what’s really truly rumbling around in your heart so you can be closer to yourself, closer to God and infinitely more impactful from His rest and peace.
LS x
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“Controversial question: Prayer or Manifestation? What’s your opinion on how these play together?”
What I have found is that there is sometimes a deeper unspoken question underneath questions and contrasts like these..
For example –
“Can we commune with God while working towards the things that we desire?”
“Can I have both connection to God + the things that I desire?”
Just imagine a little girl whose dad is distant/absent (either physically or emotionally), and he sends her gifts and that is how she learned to receive love..
She receives the gifts but she doesn’t receive the emotional closeness. So she perceives that these two things aren’t possible for her to have together. It becomes an either/or situation. It might not feel safe for her to have both.
Some other things that spring to mind in the same vein –
So often prayer to God can bring up the idea that I am powerless and he has all the power. So deeper questions are – can I pray without being/feeling powerless? Does God require me to be powerless and in waiting energy to commune with him? (No)
What is it that truly satisfies the human soul? For animals go after what they desire, and we are infinitely more valuable and powerful than they.. 
Credit: amazing thread by Fabi Paolini-Benavides
