Sending Joy

“Anything that comes from Love is a Miracle.” A Course In Miracles

Envision a life of health, safety, happiness, peace, harmony, abundance and pure joy.

Imagine miracles piling up around us and shared with everyone. To share a miracle is to increase it. Miracles cannot be hoarded or experienced alone. They must be extended to everyone without exclusion in order to be ours. A miracle is anything that comes from love. Everything that is shared grows in magnitude and holiness. 

You know everything you need to know to make this happen. Don’t concern yourself with what you don’t know.  Just remember, “I know all I need to know to experience miracles.” This is God’s promise.  Place your trust in His promise and you can’t go wrong.

Now, let’s let go of our tiny, angry, sad, victim, judgment thoughts.  And live in Oneness as we were created knowing that the Loving Power of God lives in us and so we can naturally and easily be a channel for miracles. It’s simple.  Just smile and breathe and accept and enjoy! 

Wow!  Isn’t it beautiful here in the Land of Oneness? God calls it Heaven and it exists right here on earth; right inside each calm and quiet mind. It’s called miracle mindedness.

“Be quiet in your faith in Him Who loves you, and would lead you out of insanity.” A Course In Miracles When we do this, we will see miracles everywhere.

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Let our prayer be for healing and safety health for all the world. Let us ask for help with kindness and love and trust to generate the health and wellness, safety and peace of mind we want for every man, woman and child on earth. And then let us be grateful and say Thank You, God!

 “A happy outcome to all things is sure.” A Course In Miracles

“The journey that we undertake together is the exchange of dark for light …”  A Course In Miracles

“I will open my heart to Light’s  presence today.”

Yesterday the storm, today the sun. The weather is much like life. We weather the storms and bask in the sun. The storms help us grow as much as the sun. It seems we need both to become who we are meant to be. In this sense all is good for every experience contributes something to our progress. Together, let us celebrate both the storms and the sun filled moments knowing that all is for a higher purpose.

When it rains, let’s let joy be our umbrella. When it snows God’s comfort is our warm scarf. Let us sparkle under the warmth of the sun and rest in the shade of the oak tree. Let’s splash in the puddles during a storm and remember, “this too shall pass.” On the other side of darkness we will always find the light of morning. And if we can’t see the light at this moment, we can quietly open our hearts to its presence and before long it will show itself.  Perhaps not in the way we expected, but better.

“Sacrifice is gone. And in its place the Love of God can be remembered, and will shine away all memory of sacrifice and loss.”  A Course In Miracles

God does not require sacrifice for God is only Love.

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Let our prayer be for healing and safety health for all the world. Let us ask for help with kindness and love and trust to generate the health and wellness, safety and peace of mind we want for every man, woman and child on earth. And then let us be grateful and say Thank You, God!

 “A happy outcome to all things is sure.” A Course In Miracles

 “Let us rest in our Creator there to be restored to sanity, to freedom and to love.”  A Course In Miracles

God does not allow disasters, but He is here with us to enfold us in His Loving Arms and to comfort us and to lift us to higher levels than we ever knew existed.  He places us in the arms of His Angels for healing and protection.

Whatever we are going through, let’s give it to God and pray this prayer, “Please help me.” Than grow still and breathe quietly while we wait and see what develops when we let God be in charge of our lives.

“Today we practice letting go all thought of values we have given to the world. But free our wings and we will fly in sureness and in joy to join our holy purpose.” A Course In Miracles

Now we are choosing a new way of living, a new way of being and we are joining with the power of Angels as we fly above a world of pain and disaster and into another world of freedom and love and joy.  This does not require that we leave our bodies or this world.  It only requires that we change our minds about how we see this body and this world. As we choose another way of seeing and another way of being we allow a Loving Force more powerful than bodies and the human world to be in charge of all things for us.  It’s time to fly!

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Let our prayer be for healing and safety health for all the world. Let us ask for help with kindness and love and trust to generate the health and wellness, safety and peace of mind we want for every man, woman and child on earth. And then let us be grateful and say Thank You, God!

 “A happy outcome to all things is sure.” A Course In Miracles

“Creations gentleness is all I see.”  ACIM

When I look upon the world, I see anything but gentleness. And that’s how I know I am not in my right mind. Looking through the eyes of insanity, insanity is all I see. But I truly want to see differently.

I want to see through the eyes of God and I want to see His Divine Universe. I want to see peace, not chaos and what’s more I know that it is possible. I know because I’ve seen it. Not just once but often. I quiet my vision and smile softly and pray “Thank you, God.” And there it is: another world, another way of thinking and of being. My mind grows quiet and my heart grows still and I know that all is well no matter how it looks.

We, God’s Children are not the insanity, we are the peace and we flow with His Grace on a mighty river of contentment and joy. And this is forever, because it just is. And you and I, we just are. And that is permanent and always.

We smile gently with each other and at each other and our eyes are calm and we say thank you to each other. For what belongs to one belongs to all. And isn’t this a lovely place? Once and forever I remember for us that “We are in danger nowhere  in the world.” and “We need be anxious over nothing.” ACIM

And that’s the truth.

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Let our prayer be for healing and safety and health for all the world. Let us ask for help with kindness and love and trust to generate the health and wellness, safety and peace of mind we want for every man, woman and child on earth. And then let us be grateful and say Thank You, God!

 “A happy outcome to all things is sure.” A Course In Miracles

“God being Love is also Happiness.”  A Course In Miracles

“I will remember my true nature today.”

 Love is alive and well inside each Child of God.

The TRUE nature of each one of us is
Kindness
Compassion
Cooperation 

Even when we act otherwise.

Even when we see our sisters and brothers acting otherwise.

No matter what our experiences, we only want to be

Happy and Healthy
Safe and Secure

God would never deny His children what they need.

As soon as we recognize that what we want for ourselves,
We must also want it for our sisters and our brothers, 
Then will the world be healed
And our lives in perfect order – God’s Order.

Love is alive and well inside each one of us.
All we need do is to look, in silence and in trust, 
And offer it to others in any way that we are guided

And then, relax and smile knowing “A happy outcome to all things is sure.” A Course In Miracles

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Let our prayer be for healing and health for all the world. Let us ask for help with kindness and love and trust to generate the health and wellness, safety and peace of mind we want for every man, woman and child on earth. And then let us be grateful and say Thank You, God!

 “A happy outcome to all things is sure.” A Course In Miracles

“And God smiles upon His Child, His one creation and His only joy.” A Course In Miracles

“I will smile my thoughts today.”

A smile is a speech without words. A smile can heal a situation, a relationship or begin a friendship. It can comfort a child and calm a chaotic world. It can defuse a tense moment and soften a heart.

What if we stopped thinking and started smiling? Smile in greeting at each stranger we pass. Smile at our spouse, our partner, our children, our co-workers.  What if we let go of all that we think we know and all that we judge to be real or factual and simply smile instead. No thinking. No judgments. No words.

A smile is a signal, a form of communication. It’s a sign of our willingness to be friendly and open. It requires no thinking, no words, no effort and no time. It cost nothing and yet it is a valuable gift to everyone we smile at and to ourselves as well.

A smile is contagious and causes others to smile back. In our smile, people feel they know us. In a smile lives kindness, compassion, humor, gentleness, open mindedness and the willingness to forgive. A smile houses love and the energy that makes joy rise.

As we smile we can lower our blood pressure, raise our awareness, open to our connection to others and feel the effects of the Divine Universe blessing us. Our forehead and face relax and our eyes soften as we smile. The tightness between our shoulders loosens and the heaviness in our chest becomes lighter.

A smile lifts us to a higher level of being and allows our spirit to shine.  We are beautiful when we smile. A quiet smile gives us breathing room to be in the moment and listen to the stillness of our holy self communing with our Source. 

A smile leaves the past behind.

A smile doesn’t worry about the future.

A smile brings us all into Oneness in the moment.

Smile and be healed.  Smile and heal.

And feel God’s grateful, loving Presence, smiling back.

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Let our prayer be for healing and health for all the world. Let us ask for help with kindness and love and trust to generate the health and wellness, safety and peace of mind we want for every man, woman and child on earth. And then let us be grateful and say Thank You, God!

 “A happy outcome to all things is sure.” A Course In Miracles

“Joy is our song of thanks.” A Course In Miracles 

“I will bask in my own light today.”

Can you see it?  It’s the light of your own being joined with all the other lights of everyone around you, and then joined again with every light throughout the world.  Bask in the light.  Feel the warmth of all that love flood your being.  Breathe it in like the freshest, cleanest air, then breathe it out and feel all the tension leave your body.  Breathe it in and out again.  And again.  And again. Watch fear swirl harmlessly and fade into the light. Fear is darkness and darkness cannot survive in light. 

Play in the light, skip and hop and be just plain silly while the light shines on you and pours from you.  Join hands with other lights and lead them in a dance of perfect happiness, totally uninhibited, filled with sheer delight.  Dance as one to the music of the rhythm of life; the song of grateful joy. Shout, Hooray! knowing that this moment of deep happiness, safety and well being is all there really is and it is yours and everyone’s.  Not only is it yours, but it is YOU! Pure and simple.

“God’s peace and joy are mine. God’s peace and joy are yours. Today we will accept them” A Course In Miracles.

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Let our prayer be for healing and health for all the world. Let us ask for help with kindness and love and trust to generate the health and wellness, safety and peace of mind we want for every man, woman and child on earth. And then let us be grateful and say Thank You, God!

 “A happy outcome to all things is sure.” A Course In Miracles

“The scent of flowers is a gift to you. The ocean’s waves bow down before you, and the trees extend their arms to shield you from the heat … “ A Course In Miracles

“I will see my life as filled with a garden of gifts today.”

“When our heart’s garden is calm and radiant and the flowers of our heart light the way, people around us will recognize the beauty of life and realize how precious it is to be alive.” Teacher, Thich Nhat Hanh

As we plant our flowers and put out our flower-filled pots we should ask why are we doing this? Is it because we love beauty? Is it because it makes us feel good?  Makes us hopeful no matter what is happening in our lives? Is it because we are ready to focus on something light and joyous and wonderful?  

Why is the beauty of flowers so enticing and so important to us? Is it because we somehow know that there is a place of beauty inside us and flowers help us to remember our truth? They fill our world with color and invite hummingbirds and butterflies and other delightful creatures into our lives. And it’s something we can control to make our lives a little more heavenly, and little more lovely in a way that is simple and yet powerful.

A garden is a miracle filled world of wonder that we can enjoy right here and right now with just a little effort and a conscious choice. Watering our gardens and dead-heading our flowers are chores we do with love to keep the beauty and wonder alive. The beauty and wonder that lives in us is reflected in our gardens. And in our loving relationships.

Our calm and loving thoughts nourish our hearts and minds just as water and sunlight and healthy soil nourish our flowers.  Why would we want to suffer when our lives can be filled with beauty and joy? As we enjoy the experiences caused by our beautiful flowers and our beautiful thoughts, we naturally share them with others with no effort on our part.

Now we can smile with gratitude at the beauty of the miracle of our heart’s garden.

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Let our prayer be for healing and health for all the world. Let us ask for help with kindness and love and trust to generate the health and wellness, safety and peace of mind we want for every man, woman and child on earth. And then let us be grateful and say Thank You, God!

 “A happy outcome to all things is sure.” A Course In Miracles

“A healed mind does not plan. It carries out the plans that it receives through listening to wisdom that is not its own.” A Course In Miracles

“I have no plans apart from God today.”

It is important that we face our fear thoughts. Once we understand our power for unhappiness is ours, we can begin to understand that our power for happiness is our choice as well.  

“I gladly make the sacrifice of fear.”  A Course In Miracles

Our decision to value our hurts and fears from the past blocks God’s Light and keeps us from our miracles. If we doubt that we are valuing our hurts and fears, we only need to listen to ourselves. What stories are we telling the world? What pain and anger and suffering are we still clinging to from yesterday and from years ago?

“I gladly make the sacrifice of fear.”  A Course In Miracles

Instead of judgment we must want forgiveness. Instead of hopelessness we must want joy. Only our self-imposed barriers to God’s Love block His Answers and His Healing.  We need do nothing but simply be willing to be happy and God will do the rest. In order to be open to His Voice, we must be willing to change our life’s story from one of a sad and sorry past to one of hope and trust in each moment – beginning now.

“I gladly make the sacrifice of fear.”  A Course In Miracles

It is the power of God within us that gives us the confidence and the opportunity to understand that we are so much more than our fears. If we take His hand, He will lead us gently from the darkness that we have made and into the Light that He has Created as our Holy Truth.  Now, we can forgive the past, let go of our anxiety about the future and rest in the light of this holy moment with Him. Through forgiveness and surrender we are opening for ourselves a channel of pure Love. It is from this point of Love, this Divine Love within our own mind, where true and permanent healing originates and from there that we must make our resolutions for change.

“I gladly make the sacrifice of fear.”  A Course In Miracles

And now we walk through the world, an instrument of peace and a teacher of joy. Now we are ready to learn to be a healed healer and we can bring peace and health and happiness with us everywhere we go.

“I am surrounded by the Love of God.” A Course In Miracles

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Let our prayer be for healing and health for all the world. Let us ask for help with kindness and love and trust to generate the health and wellness, safety and peace of mind we want for every man, woman and child on earth. And then let us be grateful and say Thank You, God!

 “A happy outcome to all things is sure.” A Course In Miracles

“If the situation is used for truth and sanity, its outcome must be peace.”  A Course In Miracles

  “I will choose to be sane today.”

We believe that we can only be at peace if the world is at peace.  It’s just the opposite.  Peace in our minds comes first and that brings peace to our world. Insanity is calmed by peaceful, loving thoughts and kindness and compassion in our hearts. If we believe that the world must be healed before we can have joy and abundance, we will be waiting a long time for what we want. We bring to ourselves what we are inside.  Like attracts like. Fear attracts fear. Love attracts Love.

Watching the news can be disheartening and frightening. It feels as though the world is out of our control. Let’s take our power back and calm the tidal wave of fear that threatens to undo us.  Even if the world appears insane, we can be sane in the midst of all the craziness. 

Let us be 
… the eye of the storm, 
… the center of gravity, 
… the quiet space between the chaos. 

First of all, let’s not believe for an instant that we have no choice, but to live in a crazy world.  Then let’s believe that also for everyone else. As we say …

I give my life to God today, in everything I think and do and say.

Our Prayer is: 

“I am a Child of God, 
A Loving Creation, 
A Beautiful Being.”

And then let’s lift our heads, soften our vision, smile gently and act like one. 

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Let our prayer be for healing and health for all the world. Let us ask for help with kindness and love and trust to generate the health and wellness, safety and peace of mind we want for every man, woman and child on earth. And then let us be grateful and say Thank You, God!

 “A happy outcome to all things is sure.” A Course In Miracles

“I don’t know what this or anything is for.” A Course In Miracles

“I will take a step toward freedom today.”

Feelings are just feelings. We mustn’t be afraid to look at them.  Remember the old saying, “…there is nothing to fear, but fear itself.” It’s really true.

Fear is not a premonition.

Anxiety is not a sign of bad things to come. 

Depression doesn’t mean the world is coming to an end. 

These feelings only mean we’re afraid or sad or angry. These are just feelings. They don’t own us, but it is time for us to recognize that instead, we need to own them. The most powerful antidote is simply looking and seeing the feelings as something apart from us and not actually who we are.  The thought that “… this is just who I am” is based upon a false premise.  It is not who we are. It is what we perceive as our reality. Our perceptions are not the truth of us nor are they the truth of others. We have the right to believe in fear instead of Love, but is that what we really want to manifest into our life?

If the answer is no, let’s take a step toward freedom together and repeat in our minds a thousand times and then a thousand more. “I am as God created me.”  A Course In Miracles And do this until we believe, not in our limited and limiting perceptions but in God’s Holy Truth.

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Let our prayer be for healing and health for all the world. Let us ask for help with kindness and love and trust to generate the health and wellness, safety and peace of mind we want for every man, woman and child on earth. And then let us be grateful and say Thank You, God!

 “A happy outcome to all things is sure.” A Course In Miracles

“My grievances hide the light of the world in me.” A Course In Miracles

“I have the power of happiness within me.”

There are two aspects of us in this world. The aspect of the ego in which we live in fear and darkness.  And the aspect of the spirit in which all is light and wondrous and perfect. The aspect of the ego is minute, like a drop in the ocean and the aspect of the spirit is the ocean. Instead of seeing the drop becoming one with the ocean, we spend our days trying to force the ocean inside the drop.  See how uncomfortable and painful that is to live in such an unnatural state.  And yet we all do it.  We see the drop as our life and the ocean not at all. Or as a figment of our imagination, or an unattainable dream. If we only knew how bizarre that is, we would have to laugh at ourselves and our limited perceptions.   

The fact is that the only thing that is real is God (The Ocean) and He is pure Love. And we, as His blessed drops are created whole and perfect in His image. Thankfully God offers a way out of our backward, twisted thinking by allowing His presence to be in all things. That means that we can choose to see everything through the eyes of God’s Love if we wish and we can do this at any moment. 

Let us affirm ourselves:

“I have the power of happiness within me.  
I am willing to choose it now.”

 “I am a powerful, loving and perfect being. 
The fact that I have forgotten this cannot change it.”

“I am a beautiful, sacred and holy creation of a loving God and nothing else.”

“I am grateful to know I am a blessed drop in the Holy Ocean of God’s unlimited Love.”

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Let our prayer be for healing and health for all the world. Let us ask for help with kindness and love and trust to generate the health and wellness, safety and peace of mind we want for every man, woman and child on earth. And then let us be grateful and say Thank You, God!

 “A happy outcome to all things is sure.” A Course In Miracles

We cannot change the world. 
We can only change our mind about the world.” 
A Course In Miracles

“I will have the courage to change my mind today.”

Many of us speak of changing our mind as something negative. We call it flip flopping. We call it wishy washy. We call it weak.  We couldn’t be more mistaken.

To change our mind is to allow sanity to replace insanity. 
To change our mind is to let go of stubborn misperceptions.
To change our mind is to allow growth.
To change our mind is to let healing happen.

We cannot grow unless we are willing to change our mind.

The only way to change the world
Is to change our mind about the world.

That is powerful.

There is great courage and strength in the willingness to recognize we have been mistaken and then to change our mind. And God will help us do it. 

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Let our prayer be for healing and health for all the world. Let us ask for help with kindness and love and trust to generate the health and wellness, safety and peace of mind we want for every man, woman and child on earth. And then let us be grateful and say Thank You, God!

 “A happy outcome to all things is sure.” A Course In Miracles

“We are as certain of success as we are sure we live and hope and breathe and think. We do not doubt we walk with truth today …”  A Course In Miracles

“I will breathe easy today.”

Breathe in the light of your own perfection.
Breathe in the beauty of your sweet spirit.
Breathe in the truth that lives inside you.
Breathe in this moment and keep it with you always, knowing

“God is with me.  I live and move in Him.” A Course In Miracles

Now is all there is.
Now you can breathe easy.
Now you know that all is well …

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Let our prayer be for healing and health for all the world. Let us ask for help with kindness and love and trust to generate the health and wellness, safety and peace of mind we want for every man, woman and child on earth. And then let us be grateful and say Thank You, God!

 “A happy outcome to all things is sure.” A Course In Miracles

“God’s promises make no exceptions. “
“His Word has promised peace.”
A Course In Miracles

“I will accept God’s promises today.”

Let’s think of all the ways we keep our fears close,
Protecting them and worshipping them
As we fan the flames of pain and suffering
And keep alive all that we do not really want.

Where is Heaven now?

Being groundless our fears cannot attach themselves to 
Anyone or anything unless we choose to allow it.
Fear attached to nothing is harmless and will
Soon disappear into the nothingness from which it came.

Without fear’s darkness, we will see with clarity
God’s Holy Smile as it radiates throughout the world.
And we will know without a doubt that
The Promised Land has come and all is healed.

Let’s simply lay fear down
At the feet of He, Who tells us 
In Clear and Loving terms

“Children of God, your fears are groundless.
Heaven’s Peace is here and now and nowhere else.” ACIM

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Let our prayer be for healing and health for all the world. Let us ask for help with kindness and love and trust to generate the health and wellness, safety and peace of mind we want for every man, woman and child on earth. And then let us be grateful and say Thank You, God! “A happy outcome to all things is sure.” A Course In Miracles

“Into His presence would I enter now.” A Course In Miracles

Before us lies a door.  Beautiful it is and filled with light. On one side lives the world we know. We busy ourselves about our ordinary days never trying to go beyond what is familiar to us. Now and then we glance up at the door and even see its light. We sense there is something special on the other side. But we put that from our minds and trudge on in the world we know with the life in which we have grown accustomed.  We’re way too busy for nonsense like doors of light or other impractical ideas. We’re trying to survive here. And besides it probably isn’t even real.

Over time we become tired of all that fills our days and nights.  Tired and even sick.  Tired of it all.  Sick of it all.

One day we find we cannot go another step.  We sit down and realize how weary we have grown of trying to carry the weight of the world we know. It’s just too much and nothing ever changes or gets better except for brief moments here and there.  Our life has become a burden.  Our judgments weigh on us.  We know we’re right, but what’s the good if no one else does?  So many opinions; so many different ways of seeing.  Why can’t everyone see the world as we do? Then maybe things would finally change. It’s so confusing.

Then a whispered thought comes to our mind. “What if I’m mistaken?” We quickly shut that thought out for that would mean our whole life is a lie. 

The door still stands before us, its constant, quiet light more bright than ever.  Something deep within us begins to stir and shift. As if a part of us that has been soundly sleeping is trying to awaken.  We wonder just what that door is hiding? We walk close but don’t turn the knob. We’re afraid and anyway we’re sure the door is locked. And we don’t have the key.  “It’s only a prayer away.” We hear the whisper in our ear.  We say the only thing that comes to mind, “Help me.”  And there it is, a shining gold key in the door.

We’re still afraid but our desire for something better becomes stronger than our fear. We turn the key and the door opens almost of its own accord.  At first we’re disappointed. It looks the same on the other side.  There is our life as always.  Same home, same family, same job.  But wait, something is different. Finally we realize it’s us. We’re different. We’re smiling. We’re laughing. Our eyes are calm, our hearts are light. We’re singing a little song.  We spend time listening rather than lamenting. Being still feels very comfortable and comforting.

What’s changed? we wonder. Then it hits us.  We are no longer carrying the weight of our life. We’ve let it go.  Surrendered it somehow.  We feel light and free.  We have no judgments and no fears.  One Who walks with us is carrying the weight for us.

Now we ask questions before we make decisions. “What would You have me do?  Where would You have me go?  What would You have me say? And to whom?”

Life is simple now. Our hearts have forgiven everyone and everyone’s forgiven us.  Truth walks ahead of us instead of being pushed back into the dark recesses of our minds. All that small, petty thinking that occupied our days on the wrong side of the door seems so silly to us now that we have found the answers to Heaven here on earth.

We’re in no hurry for time is not an issue when we use it for God’s purpose. When we serve God and not our fears our life becomes amazing.

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Let our prayer be for healing and health for all the world. Let us ask for help with kindness and love and trust to generate the health and wellness, safety and peace of mind we want for every man, woman and child on earth. And then let us be grateful and say Thank You, God!

 “A happy outcome to all things is sure.” A Course In Miracles

“Everywhere the signs of life spring up to show that what is born can never die for what has life has immortality.” A Course In Miracles

“I am open to new life and new beginnings today.”

The symbols for spring are new life and new beginnings. In God we are given opportunities for new life and new beginnings every time we make a choice.  Every time we choose to judge someone, that is a new beginning for an outcome that we may not want.  Every time we choose to forgive someone that is a new beginning that will bring us peace. Whatever we choose for another is what we choose for ourselves. That’s how oneness works. 

We and our brothers and sisters are one, connected by God’s Loving Energy.  We cannot affect someone else without affecting ourselves.  It isn’t God’s choice that makes this dynamic work, it’s ours.  God simply IS.  We choose whether we align with His Love or ego’s fear.  Like daylight savings, we can spring ahead toward our most loving self, or we can fall back into the old patterns of fear thinking.

As we watch the daffodils and tulips push up from the cold, hard earth, and tiny leaf buds open on the trees, let’s allow ourselves to be reminded that we too can push through the hard old thinking and open to new life and new beginnings by simply choosing God in everything we think and say and do.

Our prayer would be: “God, what would you have me think and say and do here?” And then we quiet our thoughts and wait for our answer.  God always answers. We need only listen and trust Him to answer and our new life will begin.  

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Let our prayer be for healing and health for all the world. Let us ask for help with kindness and love and trust to generate the health and wellness, safety and peace of mind we want for every man, woman and child on earth. And then let us be grateful and say Thank You, God!

 “A happy outcome to all things is sure.” A Course In Miracles

“God’s peace and joy are mine. God’s peace and joy are yours. Today we will accept them, knowing they belong to us.” A Course In Miracles

If we believe life is “the real thing” Let’s Be Joy!

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“Can you imagine what it means to have no cares, no worries, no anxieties, but merely to be perfectly calm and quiet all the time? Yet that is what time is for; to learn just that and nothing more.” A Course In Miracles

 “I will be calm and quiet as I watch for miracles in every moment today.”

How much time do we spend trying to hurry time along.  We talk about the things that make our day go faster as though that is a desirable thing. “At least it made the day go fast,” we say. We don’t stop to think that we are wishing our life away. Trying to speed things up so we can get somewhere else or to something else is a way of losing whole chunks of our life.

We think “Hurry up.” to the stop light. “Move it along.” to those in line ahead of us.  We miss valuable moments in which we can be quiet and kind and at peace with nothing else to do but wait a moment.  And in that quiet waiting, the world is healed a little more.

Many of us want to speed winter along so we can get to spring and summer.  But what about winter?  Unless we are winter enthusiasts, we miss it altogether. Or spend it in frustration and anxiety as we try to push ourselves beyond it. We miss the beautiful moments for being with our families and friends. Playing board games or doing puzzles or reading a good book while drinking hot chocolate.  We miss the beautiful landscapes of mesmerizing white as we quietly watch the winter birds at play. Even shoveling the walk can be invigorating and healthy and something the whole family and the neighborhood can participate in. It’s not the world as it is, but how we perceive it that blocks or opens our presence to a moment.

We  say, “Get this work day over so we can have some fun.” We are blind to the way our life can be beautiful and amazing and even fun at work. Work can provide opportunities to grow and to be helpful and to develop amazing relationships that may last a lifetime.  Also, there are great opportunities at work to experience forgiveness and healing with those with whom we clash. We must let God in to each experience at work so it can be transformed into something helpful and even miraculous.

Instead of losing ourselves in our devices to pass the time, we can lose ourselves in a book, or in conversation with those around us or in simply quieting our mind and being still. So much life and so much in life to be grateful for in every season, to treasure and appreciate in each hour if we but take the time to be in the moment.  Being mindful is freeing. Like releasing a butterfly from a cocoon.

We may have a day where everything is perfect, the weather, the companionship, the experience, but so often we hear from someone, “Enjoy it while you can.  It won’t last.”  Saying it won’t last prevents us from enjoying the moment and making it last.  What if we just be in each moment and each day and smile in gratitude instead of wishing or pushing our life away with thoughts of the future and what it may or may not hold for us.

A perfect prayer would be, “I place the future in the hands of God.” ACIM

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Let our prayer be for healing and health for all the world. Let us ask for help with kindness and love and trust to generate the health and wellness, safety and peace of mind we want for every man, woman and child on earth. And then let us be grateful and say Thank You, God!

 “A happy outcome to all things is sure.” A Course In Miracles