October 23, 2012
Each and every one of us wans to be at peace and experience love, joy, and happiness in our lives. The Course helps us to retrain our mind, correct our thoughts, and lead us to the awareness of the Divine Self we all are. We haven’t lost peace or love. We don’t have to find it somewhere and bring it into our lives. We can’t buy it. We can’t take it from someone else. What we are looking for is already ours. It is already deep within us. We may not be aware of it at this particular moment, but it is definitely within us and always has been within us. We’ve simply lost sight of it by focusing our attention and beliefs on temporary and illusory fixes.
We can all recognize the thought of “if only I had this then I’ll be happy.” Or perhaps if only this one would change I would be peaceful. The Truth is that peace, happiness, and love are and always have been within us. Our job is to refocus our mind to the Holy core within us and recognize the Divine Presence within we are inseparable from. Our mind certainly has a lot of noisy thinking going on, but Spirit is with us to help us see past the noise and hear the quiet voice that rests at the core of our being. We are whole. God creates us whole. Our wholeness is indestructible. No matter where or when we are, we have this divine essence within that is our true Self. It waits within for us to allow it to come forth and transform our thinking and let our natural state of being come forward and show itself.
Sometimes we think we need this or that to find what we seek. We think we have to forcibly change something to make ourselves something else. But no, we have all we need. Any need we think we need is an illusion, a mistaken thought. We do not need to get any thoughts out of our head. We don’t need to genuflect or climb the mountain or any other feat. We simply let go of our needs and allow the Divine self within to surface. That divinity is buoyant. It will always float to the surface when we allow it. We can expend a great deal of effort holding it under, but the minute we let go. Our divinity bobs to the surface. It just can’t be kept down.
Our life is full of signals to let us know how we are doing. When we experience rear, guilt, hate, anger, it is a signal to let go of whatever we are focused on and look within to our own divinity. It may be difficult at first. It may not seem to have any results, but with practice it will come. Do the daily lessons. Remember to change your focus to the divine within whenever it occurs to you. Recognize the feelings that distract you and transform them into the signals that remind you to think differently. Let them remind you of who you really are and who your brothers and sisters really are. Allow the blessing of peace, love, and joy to well up within you and remove the shade to let the light of wholeness shine from within you. The light emanating from within us will guide us and each other in Divine Oneness. Rest in the Divine and it is so.
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