“Everything I think, say, and do is a prayer.
I am praying now.”
Born of the I AM affirmation work, carried ever since
Redefining church: not as place we go, but as the life we live.
The mantra received as the final gift while on a vision quest
in Guadalajara, Mexico.
It has been the center ever since.
An over twenty-three year journey involving an eclectic array
of spiritual recovery practices that have been the grounding
forces beneath every effort at improving conscious contact with
the "thinking stuff", God, Source. Not a technique to
master; a remembering to embrace. A gradual clearing of
everything that obscures what was always already true.
Personal transformation is not about going from nothing to
something. It is awakening: getting in clearer touch with that
thing within you that is everything already, and then learning
to express that power as you, as your life, now.
“The journey to God is merely the reawakening of the
knowledge of where you are always, and what you are forever.
It is a journey without distance to a goal that has never
changed.”
Church is not a building we visit on Sunday. Church is the life
we live every day: every thought, every word, every act a prayer.
The altar is wherever you are. The congregation is everyone you
meet. The liturgy is your own attention, turned toward what is real.
The Community
The Global Prayer Closet
A community gathered around the practice of life as prayer.
Not a congregation to join; a closet to enter, together.
An ordained ULC Minister in September of 2025. Michael holds
an Associate in Arts from The University of Hawaii, a Bachelor
of Arts in Pastoral Ministry from Nyack College and a Master
of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary. His path has
carried him through pastoral study, the mystical traditions,
New Thought, the I AM practice, Vipassana, art, and writing,
each a facet of one lifelong inquiry: what does it mean to
live one's life as a prayer?
That inquiry found its answer on a vision quest in Guadalajara,
Mexico, where the mantra arrived to use as gift to pass on to
others:
"My prayer is my life, my life is my prayer".
Everything since has been the daily process of living it.
Pastor
A Bachelor of Arts in Pastoral Ministry from Nyack College
and a Master of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary.
Life as pulpit lived as prayer in service where and when called.
Artist
Oil, acrylic, and photography. The canvas as another place
where the unseen takes form: the same inquiry, a different
medium.
Author
A children's book and a book of poetry. Words as vessels for
the same truth the mantras carry: you are already that which
you seek.
Bachelor of Arts
Pastoral Ministry · Nyack College
Master of Divinity
Union Theological Seminary
The Work
The teachings live at Abundant Thought
The writings, the Science of Getting Rich course, and the
Abundance Alchemy app all live at Abundant Thought. This site
is the person. That site is the work.
