This offering of yours really brought a tear to my eye.

My iTunes shuffle kicked in with the song "protection", just as I started reading it, now i'm writing this reply through a glazed vision.

Thank you.

Thank you for sharing your heart, opening your soul and spreading your beautiful light onto this page, for a most touching read @Mammasitta.

I also stopped/lost believing at some point, early on in my life, during the post-initiation ceremony of the assimilated mind era.

Prayer/meditation allows an opening to a consciousness beyond.

And so - A practice that once seemed trivial at best, becomes a treasured gift.

Om lokah samastah sukhino bhavantu