Burning Bowl 2007

Going along with this weeks theme of “New Year-New You,” I wanted to tell all you YBPs about an event I’m attending tomorrow at my church for the first time called the Burning Bowl. Every first Friday of the year Chicago’s Christ Universal Temple, located on 119th and Ashland, hosts its annual Burning Bowl. The purpose of the bowl is to ask God for blessings. The process is simple and my mother has been attending for year, and she swears the process works.

What you do is simple you (write two copies) a letter to God asking him for all the blessings you want in the following year: good health, wealth, happiness, financial stability etc. One thing you do need to make sure you include is specifics. For example don’t just say I want a better job. Say “I want a job that pays me $____ (more or the actual amount). The more specific you are the more you accurate your blessing. The second part of your letter needs to include the things you want God to remove from your life, for example, sickness, negativity of various forms, and any other problem that you have. After this has been done as a church we all pray over the letters and we proceed to burn them. Your other copy of the letter is left in the prayer room to prayed over year-round.
I am personally excited to attend the Burning Bowl, because I feel as I get older there are less and less things that I have control over and getting to church may help. I feel this will be a great step in getting myself to go back to church- something my boyfriend and I have been attempting to do. Tonight we’re going to write our letters and tomorrow we will join my parents in sending all our wants, needs, desires to God. I’ll post later this weekend to let you all know how the bowl went. Remember, that just because you may not be in Chicago you can have your own Burning Bowl, and expect GREATNESS in 2007!!!