May 14
Karen Casey, Daily Meditations for Practicing the Course:
“Our purpose is simple.”
“Complicating our lives is to typical. We feel driven to analyze every feeling we or others have. We search for the hidden meaning in a co-worker’s comments. We fearfully assume that our “job” in this life is enormous and we probably can’t succeed. We think that others lie wait for our mistakes in order to judge us. The list goes on. Yet how wrong our perceptions are!
We don’t have a grand assignment, and others aren’t watching us. The only task is a small one, and it’s the same for all of us: to speak, think, and act lovingly at every moment. We need not write the definitive book or discover a cure for cancer. We aren’t expected to solve a neighborhood’s crime problem or settle a three-generation feud. Giving and receiving only love fills the bill.
If all the people we meet actually fulfill this assignment, and everyone they meet does likewise, the experience of the entire human race would be quite different. The change can begin with only one. Let it begin here, now, with me.”
“I can make a difference today in my response to the people I meet.
Peace can begin with me.”
Marianne Williamson, A Year of Daily Wisdom: “The places in our personality where we tend to deviate from love are not our faults, but our wounds.”
Hugh Prather, Morning Notes: “The one meaningful choice we have is whether to receive our life as a gift or to judge and fight it every step of the way. I keep trying to get the details of my life right. I believe I have control of most of it and there are just a few things left I need to master. Maybe it’s a nagging health problem, not enough money, something about my appearance, or someone’s annoying habit. But even if I make progress with those, other things fall apart. Yet I stubbornly refuse to acknowledge the overall pattern. My distress is not coming from the current areas of my life that not to my liking, but from my preoccupation with those areas. I believe that my life perfectible, but no one ever gets it all under control.”
Caroline Myss: “Mystics are…people who are called to know the divine through its mysteries. Many people today want the mysteries and challenges in their lives solved and resolved quickly, but mystics know that we all have a deeper task: to accept that some challenges come into our lives in defiance of human reason, logic, order, justice, fairness, and even common sense. They know that underlying these challenges is a divine order and sense that my be revealed in time.”
Eckhart Tolle: “The ego tends to equate having with Being: I have, therefore I am. And the more I have, the more I am. The ego lives through comparison. How you are seen by others turns into how you see yourself.”
Unity’s Daily Word:
“Divine order is unfolding.
All is well with my loved ones and me.”
“I am declaring this a divine order day! Whatever this day brings, I am ready and willing to embrace it, for I realize that divine order permeates every facet of my existence.”
“My life and the lives of those who I love are all an integral part of God’s perfect design. I rest in the knowledge that even when an event makes absolutely no sense to me, God will use it for the greatest good – all in divine order.”
“As I enter into the silence, I open myself and my life to the wonder-filled possibilities each day holds. I receive the strength to embrace life’s joys and challenges equally, realizing that divine order is ever present and active. I understand that even when the reason for some circumstance in my life eludes me, divine order is unfolding and all is well.”
A Course in Miracles: Lesson 134
“Let me perceive forgiveness as it is.”
So let me see what forgiveness is! And what might I see it as? I simply see forgiveness as changing my thoughts of fears to thoughts of love. And by changing my thoughts, I change my perception and by changing my perception, I “forgive” myself for the thoughts of fear I held. Ego tries to have believe that I can forgive another, but I cannot for the other can do nothing to me except what I think they do. Forgiveness is mine, but in my acceptance is my view of my brother changed – the Christ in me truly sees the Christ in him.
Karen Casey, Daily Meditations for Practicing the Course:
“Our purpose is simple.”
“Complicating our lives is to typical. We feel driven to analyze every feeling we or others have. We search for the hidden meaning in a co-worker’s comments. We fearfully assume that our “job” in this life is enormous and we probably can’t succeed. We think that others lie wait for our mistakes in order to judge us. The list goes on. Yet how wrong our perceptions are!
We don’t have a grand assignment, and others aren’t watching us. The only task is a small one, and it’s the same for all of us: to speak, think, and act lovingly at every moment. We need not write the definitive book or discover a cure for cancer. We aren’t expected to solve a neighborhood’s crime problem or settle a three-generation feud. Giving and receiving only love fills the bill.
If all the people we meet actually fulfill this assignment, and everyone they meet does likewise, the experience of the entire human race would be quite different. The change can begin with only one. Let it begin here, now, with me.”
“I can make a difference today in my response to the people I meet.
Peace can begin with me.”
Marianne Williamson, A Year of Daily Wisdom: “The places in our personality where we tend to deviate from love are not our faults, but our wounds.”
Hugh Prather, Morning Notes: “The one meaningful choice we have is whether to receive our life as a gift or to judge and fight it every step of the way. I keep trying to get the details of my life right. I believe I have control of most of it and there are just a few things left I need to master. Maybe it’s a nagging health problem, not enough money, something about my appearance, or someone’s annoying habit. But even if I make progress with those, other things fall apart. Yet I stubbornly refuse to acknowledge the overall pattern. My distress is not coming from the current areas of my life that not to my liking, but from my preoccupation with those areas. I believe that my life perfectible, but no one ever gets it all under control.”
Caroline Myss: “Mystics are…people who are called to know the divine through its mysteries. Many people today want the mysteries and challenges in their lives solved and resolved quickly, but mystics know that we all have a deeper task: to accept that some challenges come into our lives in defiance of human reason, logic, order, justice, fairness, and even common sense. They know that underlying these challenges is a divine order and sense that my be revealed in time.”
Eckhart Tolle: “The ego tends to equate having with Being: I have, therefore I am. And the more I have, the more I am. The ego lives through comparison. How you are seen by others turns into how you see yourself.”
Unity’s Daily Word:
“Divine order is unfolding.
All is well with my loved ones and me.”
“I am declaring this a divine order day! Whatever this day brings, I am ready and willing to embrace it, for I realize that divine order permeates every facet of my existence.”
“My life and the lives of those who I love are all an integral part of God’s perfect design. I rest in the knowledge that even when an event makes absolutely no sense to me, God will use it for the greatest good – all in divine order.”
“As I enter into the silence, I open myself and my life to the wonder-filled possibilities each day holds. I receive the strength to embrace life’s joys and challenges equally, realizing that divine order is ever present and active. I understand that even when the reason for some circumstance in my life eludes me, divine order is unfolding and all is well.”
A Course in Miracles: Lesson 134
“Let me perceive forgiveness as it is.”
So let me see what forgiveness is! And what might I see it as? I simply see forgiveness as changing my thoughts of fears to thoughts of love. And by changing my thoughts, I change my perception and by changing my perception, I “forgive” myself for the thoughts of fear I held. Ego tries to have believe that I can forgive another, but I cannot for the other can do nothing to me except what I think they do. Forgiveness is mine, but in my acceptance is my view of my brother changed – the Christ in me truly sees the Christ in him.
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