Seeds for the Garden of Your Mind

January 24

Karen Casey, Daily Meditations for Practicing the Course:
“To know peace is the miracle.”

“How often do we awaken anxious of the details of the next twenty-four hours? Perhaps a simple phone call from a friend jars us from the serenity we nurtured during meditation. Or the journey to work may have started out smoothly enough, but a traffic jam changed all that. Maintaining a peaceful perspective is difficult. Can A Course in Miracles really make a difference in our lives?

The Course doesn’t claim to eradicate the turmoil in our lives. Nor does it control our actions or beliefs in any way. The journey we chart and the experiences we have are of our own volition. How we feel about them, how we use them, how we incorporate them into our lives is up to us. However, there is always another way to see whatever we have created, and that’s the gift the Course offers us. The mere request, “Show me another vision of what’s happening now,” invites the Holy Spirit to interpret the details of the moment. Feeling peace in the midst of the devastation is possible. Always.

“No circumstance will overwhelm me today if I ask to see a different picture.”

Hugh Prather, Morning Notes: “How could one person’s way possibly be superior to another person’s way if God is leading us all? If I believe that my spiritual path is superior, my path is not spiritual. Spirit is One. The divine doesn’t contain degrees of correctness. Either we all share the same Truth and ultimate destiny, or there is no truth and we are lost in a reality of private perception and momentary interpretation. The way out of chaos is to stop analyzing and start experiencing, to stop looking for better ways to say it and start practicing more peaceful and inclusive ways of doing it.”

Wayne Dyer, There’s a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem: “We have been trained to think in terms of sin and punishment. These ideas disempower us by stressing that we are weak and wrong. The empowering way is to view trials as lessons and opportunities to choose differently.”

Paul Ferrini, Reflections of the Christ Mind: “I am no more beloved by God than you are. This, you must come to know in your own heart. No amount of teaching or preaching will cause you to believe it.”

Unity’s Daily Word:

“I have a life of serene expectation,
gratefully accepting the good that is mine.”

“I breathe, relax, and picture myself in peaceful, comfortable surroundings. With each breath I take, I relax more than I did with the breath before. I am at ease and in touch with my restful self, my restorative self.”

“I am blessed with the creativity and perception to picture my desires and goals. God guides me to use my senses to visualize resources received and goals reached. As I walk in God’s loving light, my strengths are revealed.”

“I envision my achievements completed and any needed answers received. I use my God-given abilities to imagine and clarify outcomes. All my senses assist me in visualizing the reality of accomplishments.”

“I live a life of serene expectation, gratefully accepting the good that is mine.”

A Course in Miracles: Lesson 24

“I do not perceive my own best interests.”