Seeds for the Garden of your Mind

January 17

Karen Casey, Daily Meditations for Practicing the Course:

“Whatever happens can be interpreted for our good.”

“When disaster seems to strike, it’s hard to understand that whatever happens is for our good. It helps to understand that our perception judged the situation a disaster. By changing one’s perception, we can change the effects of an experience. What looked bad one minute may be seen as quite fortuitous the next. Asking the Holy Spirit for a better or different understanding of a circumstance can offer us a dramatically different experience.

How we choose to see our experiences and the people who share them with us is at our discretion. While it’s true that we don’t have the power to control much, we do have authority over how we view the details of our lives. Of course, this assures us that we’ll be as content and peaceful as we want to be. Or just the opposite. At a moment’s notice, we can be transformed. That’s a thrilling opportunity. Our transformation can positively affect all those who share our journey.”

“I will be blessed with all the right experiences today.
I can maximize them for my good.”

Hugh Prather, Morning Notes: “Closeness to God is first experienced as closeness to others. There are personality types that are universally disliked. There are also individuals who are destructive, even murderous. Yet personality is not all there is to anyone. The experience of connection isn’t dependent on how others talk to me or behave. Nor is it a matter of making someone like me. If we can feel close to individuals who are miles away or even to people after they die, surely the potential exists to be at peace with those who are physically present.”

Wayne Dyer, There’s a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem: “When you are spiritually connected you are not looking for occasions to be offended and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.”

Paul Ferrini, Reflections of The Christ Mind: “I was born to a simple woman in a barn. She was no more a virgin than your mother was. You make her special for the same reason that you make me special: to put distance between us, to claim that what we did you cannot do.”

Unity’s Daily Word:

“I release all burdens and rest
in the gentle presence of Christ within.”

“During the early part of His ministry, Jesus offered a loving invitation to all who would listen: ‘Come to me, all you that are weary and carry heavy burdens, and will give you rest.’

“The Christ Presence within invites me to let go of mental and emotional burdens, release the past, live in the now, and look forward to the future. In meditation and prayer, I rest in the gentle presence of the Christ.”

“In the awareness of the Christ Presence, I am unencumbered by thoughts of how things should have been or how other people should be. I let go of any feelings of guilt or reproach, and I am free to co-create my life in new and meaningful ways.”

A Course in Miracles Lesson 17

“I see no neutral things.”