Mary:
In our morning reading, we read A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 105. What stood out to me was this:
As Heaven’s peace and joy intensify when you accept them as God’s gift to you, so does the joy of your Creator grow when you accept His joy and peace as yours. True giving is creation. It extends the limitless to the unlimited, eternity to timelessness, and love unto itself. It adds to all that is complete already, not in simple terms of adding more, for that implies that it was less before. It adds by letting what cannot contain itself fulfill its aim of giving everything it has away, securing it forever for itself. (W-pI.105.4)
I am seeing that it is my job to accept the peace and joy that is extended to me by God, and that inherent in receiving His gift is extending it. Receiving and extending God’s peace and joy is a pretty happy job. The ego’s “gifts” always lead to sorrow, depression and pain. Hmmm. Let me think… Which gifts do I choose to accept today, the ego’s or God’s? Putting it that way, it seems obvious that the way to true and everlasting happiness is to accept God’s gifts instead of the ego’s.
My prayer is that I practice accepting God’s gifts of peace and joy today and, like the ripples on the water, that I let them extend to everyone I meet or think of today. I choose to accept the happiness God gives me today. What a nice job to have.
Robert:
Forgiveness is the key to happiness. It is unforgiveness that refuses to accept God’s gifts. Judgment stands as a barrier to the awareness of Love’s presence. So every situation in my life offers me another opportunity to either recognize the gift of Love or to recognize a barrier I have put up against it. Thus every moment is a gift. I’m always free to accept the gift.
Today is a day filled with blessing opportunities. With Holy Spirit’s help I will accept the gift offered me in each moment.
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