Sending Joy

“The light of truth is in us, where it was placed by God.” A Course In Miracles

“Let me be a light for peace today.”

Each time we laugh with joy we are sharing a new beginning.
Each time we smile with quiet grace we are offering love.
Each time we open our minds and ask for help to forgive
We are being instruments for peace.
Each time we allow our heart to beat with calm and quiet confidence,
We are placing our trust where it belongs.

God’s Love and Light hum here at the Center of our Universe
And every heart now beats as one.

Miracles are commonplace.
Sickness and scarcity,
Death and Destruction Danger and war                                                  

Have disappeared.

And we say, the only thing we can say,
“Thank you, God.”

And then,
“Amen.”

Prayers for all those who may be experiencing extreme weather conditions, hurricanes and tsunamis, fires or floods anywhere in this world.  Our loving thoughts are with you. May God keep you safe and transform the extremes into harmony and balance. 

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

“Everything that comes from Love is a miracle.” A Course In Miracles

“I will let this be a day of miracles for me.”

Love is the only miracle and everything that comes from Love is the cause for miracles. Let this be a day of miracles for us.  Miracles are tiny instants where love sends shoots of energy from one heart to another. Miracles, both large and small, are the reason we are here. Miracles, both recognizable and hidden from our conscious thoughts are meant to be seen and heard and understood for what they are; repair devices for a sick and angry world.

What if there were no right or wrong, except how we choose to see it?  Everything is but a lesson, an opportunity to learn and to grow quiet and breathe love into the moment. We need do nothing, but become still in our mind and calm in our heart and ask God for help in seeing the world through His eyes.  When we are feeling burdened or challenged or anxious, we can make the decision to do nothing on our own.  “I will do nothing here, God, but step back and let You lead the way.  If there is something I should do or say, please make it clear to me so that all my thoughts, words and actions will come from Love and be the cause for miracles.”

So now, with a quiet, listening mind and a calm and loving heart, let’s feel the burden of decisions lifted from us. Let’s accept that of ourselves, we know nothing. Now are we free to extend love and peace into the world.  Now, will every thought and word and act be the right ones.  For now, all will come from Love.  Everything that comes from love is a miracle.

“Of myself I can do nothing, but in God are all my problems solved.” A Course In Miracles

Prayers for all those who may be experiencing extreme weather conditions, hurricanes and tsunamis, fires or floods anywhere in this world.  Our loving thoughts are with you. May God keep you safe and transform the extremes into harmony and balance. 

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 could see peace instead of this.”  A Course In Miracles

Let’s speak to our silent, inner presence thus …

“I will not see pain, but only joy.
I will not see divisiveness, but only oneness.
I will not see violence, but only gentleness.
I will not know danger, only perfect safety.
I will not hear loud words, only loud laughter.
I will not know sickness, only wellness.
I will not see poverty, but only God’s abundance.
I will not focus on the world’s mistakes, but only its good works.
I will not see my helplessness, but only my amazing power.”

“Forgive and you will see this differently.” A Course In Miracles

And when I have done this for a while,
Long enough for it to be a habit,
I will stand back and watch in stunned amazement at
How my choices of seeing have changed my world.

Prayers for all those who may be experiencing extreme weather conditions, hurricanes and tsunamis, fires or floods anywhere in this world.  Our loving thoughts are with you. May God keep you safe and transform the extremes into harmony and balance. 

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

“In quiet I receive God’s Word today. Let this day be a day of stillness and of quiet listening.” A Course In Miracles

God holds our heart gently in His Heart and breathes His quiet, healing Love into it. Now does its rapid beat grow calm.  Now do its fearful feelings fade.  Now does it lift lightly with joy and with hope. Now does it know without a doubt that fear is nothing and God’s quiet, healing Love is all there is. Now we understand that all we want is held gently for us in God’s own Heart waiting for our willingness to receive it.

Let’s open our hearts today and accept our Holy Gifts.

God holds our heart gently in His Heart and keeps it safe and well.

May we remember we live quietly in God’s Heart today and that our safety is guaranteed by Him

Prayers for all those who may be experiencing extreme weather conditions, hurricanes and tsunamis, fires or floods anywhere in this world.  Our loving thoughts are with you. May God keep you safe and transform the extremes into harmony and balance. 

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

“Say God’s Name, and you invite the angels to surround the ground on which you stand, and sing to you as they spread out their wings to keep you safe, and shelter you from every worldly thought that would intrude upon your holiness.” A Course In Miracles

“… birds and angels both have wings and songs.” Kerry Boone

“I will sing and fly today.”

Together we can sing beautiful melodies, fly to new heights and rise above the ordinary as we soar with the angels. There is a world beyond this one rich with beauty, vibrant colors and wondrous sounds not dimmed by misperceptions or hidden behind the gray mists of limited seeing. This world is joyous, healthy and abundant, completely free of fear in any form. If we could get even a glimpse of this for only an instant we would never be the same.

In stillness we can know this other world is there because God would flood our beings with the thoughts we need to be open to what’s Real. God’s world governed by His laws and protected by His Angels is all that we will know when we choose to listen only to God’s Voice. 

Together let’s breathe in a great sigh of relief and feel all stress leave us and all Love enfold us like wings of Self protection as silently we sing in perfect harmony with all that is Holy and Wondrous and True.  And let’s do it here and now.

Prayers for all those who may be experiencing extreme weather conditions, hurricanes and tsunamis, fires or floods anywhere in this world.  Our loving thoughts are with you. May God keep you safe and transform the extremes into harmony and balance. 

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

“Retain your gifts in clear awareness as you see the changeless in the heart of change; the light of truth behind appearances.” A Course In Miracles

“Today I will pray GOD IS and say no more”

Let’s hang a crystal in our window and watch the sunlight reflect a rainbow all throughout our home.

In this way forgiveness is a crystal that reflects a rainbow of healing through our heart and throughout the world. The simple prayer GOD IS is enough to reflect love into our lives which extends a glorious light into the hearts of those around us.

A Course In Miracles teaches that the only true prayer is GOD IS and then we stop and grow still.  Nothing else is needed.  In these words live the truth of the Universe and the answer to all questions.  In this simple, yet powerful thought, we will find our true home.  Heaven is not a place.  It is a state of mind. And it lives inside us changeless and unceasing.

If we close our mind to the recognition and acceptance of this, it is like covering the crystal of clear understanding with a shadow that keeps the rainbow from our experience. We will not see what is right in front of us because we have let darkness hide the light.

But the moment we decide we want a better way, our willingness opens windows and clears channels for our higher consciousness to stream forth and teach us all we need to learn in order to grow into our most perfect, peaceful and Holy Self.  Now are we transformers of a new way of being as the truth quietly becomes clear reflecting bright color-filled splashes of joy everywhere.

“The joy within us is very still. It is not physically slow; it is simply at peace.” Hugh Prather

Prayers for all those who may be experiencing extreme weather conditions, hurricanes and tsunamis, fires or floods anywhere in this world.  Our loving thoughts are with you. May God keep you safe and transform the extremes into harmony and balance. 

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 am the light of the world. That is my only function. That is why I am here.” A Course In Miracles

“I will share my light with everyone today.”

It doesn’t matter where our bodies reside. It only matters where our hearts live. When we follow our hearts and live the life designed for us vistas of blessedness and miracles will open up for us. Our pathway of light will shine through all the dark thinking and reflect the light that is in everyone and everything. We will free a world imprisoned by fear, transforming it into a world made holy by Love.

In our light all others will see their own light and rejoice for having been awakened from a crazy dream that was never the truth. All the world will bow before us in gratitude for our having been willing to share our light and our open heart and mind for the healing of all.

“Forgiveness is my function as the Light of the World” ACIM

Prayers for all those who may be experiencing extreme weather conditions, hurricanes and tsunamis, fires or floods anywhere in this world.  Our loving thoughts are with you. May God keep you safe and transform the extremes into harmony and balance. 

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 am the light of the world. That is my only function. That is why I am here.” A Course In Miracles

“I will share my light with everyone today.”

“This is the time of hope for countless millions.” A Course In Miracles

“In most instances, our thoughts are so chaotic and vulnerable to events that we go through the day looking at everyone through a swirling stupor that blocks our understanding of who each person is at heart. Yet it is seeing the deep and often unspoken urges of the heart that makes us happy.” Hugh Prather

Millions and more are ready. Feel the restless shuffling of spirits as millions prepare to break loose from ties that chafe and bind them to unwanted thinking. See the dissatisfaction on multitudes of faces as God’s children sense there must be more. Watch the doubtful expressions as so many begin to question, “Why am I here again?” And in this question lie miracles of healing.

Sickness and death are now removed from our lives.

Violence and Attack, be gone from every heart! Fear and Victimhood, be banished from our minds! Judgment and separation thoughts, disappear into the past! It’s time for a new way of living, of being, of thinking, of seeing. It’s time for Love and Light to wash away all bad news and open the world to good news today. It’s time to pray for a Holy Healing for a world that is bone weary of living in darkness, in sickness and in fear. It’s time to be Free!

It’s a movement; a holy movement toward another way of seeing. Another way of thinking. Another way of being. And we’re right in the midst of it. As questioners. As teachers. As leaders and as followers. As participants of a brave new world. A world that sees forgiveness as the path to peace and kindness as the philosophy that frees. Stillness and trust in God is the only way to heal all the dark and crazy thinking from all minds.

Before us is the path, well lit and inviting. An open invitation. We place one foot cautiously upon it, then taking God’s hand, we place the other as well. And we’re off. It feels right. Gentle winds of healing fan us. Smiles of quiet peace light our faces. Our hearts are calm and confident. Our thoughts are the ones God gives us. Joyous laughter fills our being and flows through us filling the air with happy sounds.

Relief lifts the weight of the world from us. “What took us so long?” we wonder. We know with absolute certainty that it’s time. It’s our time. It’s the world’s time. It’s God’s time. It’s the time for peace for all.

We are ready. We are able. And so we pluck our fruits from the tree of Truth. Love. Peace. Joy. Oneness. They are ours. They manifest in our lives as happiness, health, safety, abundance. They are ours. Always have been. But now we know it. No longer do we hide ourselves in uncertainty and fear and doubt. It’s as plain as the nose on our faces. As clear as the light in our eyes. As certain as the joy in our hearts. It’s time for a brand new world. And we have been recruited to be among its leaders.

We lead, not by overpowering wills, which never works, but by setting quiet examples of kindness, love, helpfulness, inclusion and positivity.

Follow that light! It’s God leading the way. God’s prodigal children have come home.

Prayers for all those who may be experiencing extreme weather conditions, hurricanes and tsunamis, fires or floods anywhere in this world.  Our loving thoughts are with you. May God keep you safe and transform the extremes into harmony and balance. 

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

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

“Happiness is an attribute of love. My happiness and my function are one.” A Course In Miracles

“Today I will practice happiness. Happiness is my purpose here.”

What the heck, why not be happy?  We know we want it.  It’s really all everyone wants. No matter how extremely we act out against ourselves and others or how fiercely we try to protect ourselves from others, we really just want to feel peace and safety right here, right now.

Just as we allow the sun and rain to keep our gardens healthy, so must we allow the nourishment and light of loving thoughts to shine away our fear for the healing of our minds and hearts.

We must decide for peace. 
We must choose joy.

“… happiness belongs to you.” A Course In Miracles

We are not the victim of a cruel and angry, unpredictable world.  Instead we have victimized ourselves by choosing our negative thinking and separating ourselves from our brothers and sisters through judgment and unkind words and thoughts. 

“Now are we saved indeed. For In God’s Hands we rest untroubled, sure that only good can come to us. No longer is the world our enemy, for we have chosen that we be its Friend.” A Course In Miracles

So why not be happy?  What else have we got to do?

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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

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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

“Peace to my mind. Let all my thoughts be still.” A Course In Miracles

“I will let this be a time of silence and of trust.”

Listening is an art that few have mastered.

Listen to the silent symphony of wisdom.

Listen to the beauty of the wordless poem.

Listen to the soft swish of a brush across a light filled painting.

Listen to the holy stillness of forgiveness;

The soundless opening of hearts all

Seeking for the answers to the universe

Cleverly concealed inside

The calm and quiet mind.

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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

“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