Day 106

Today's Lesson:

Let me be still and listen to the truth.

Today we will be laying aside the ego's voice, however loudly it may seem to call. If we will not accept its petty gifts that give us nothing that we really want; if we will listen with open minds, then we will hear the mighty Voice of truth, quiet in power, strong in stillness, and completely certain in Its messages.

Be not afraid today to circumvent the voices of the world. Walk lightly past their meaningless persuasion. Hear them not. Be still today and listen to the truth. Hear only Him today, and do not wait to reach Him longer. Hear one Voice today.

Thus does salvation start and thus it ends; when everything is ours and everything is given away, it will remain with us forever. And the lesson will have been learned. Today we practice giving, not the way we understand it now, but as it is. Each hour's exercises should begin with this request for our enlightenment:

I will be still and listen to the truth.
What does it mean to give and to receive?

Ask and expect an answer. Our request is one whose answer has been waiting long to be received by us. It will begin the ministry for which we came, and which will free the world from thinking giving is a way to lose. And so the world becomes ready to understand and to receive.

Today the holy Word of God is kept through our receiving it to give away, so we can teach the world what giving means by listening and learning it of Him. Do not forget today to reinforce our choice to hear and to receive the Word by this reminder, given to ourselves as often as is possible today:

Let me be still and listen to the truth.
I am the messenger of God today.
My voice is His, to give what I receive.

Miracles I'm noticing:

I really am beginning to notice how important it is for me to be still and to quiet my busy mind. I have so many things programmed into my brain that just don't work for me when I consider that I'm supposed to be happy and things are supposed to be much easier than they sometimes seem. When I just stop the many voices - voices from the past and voices of authority figures and those who seem to know better than I - I have an opportunity to really listen to what I Know is the truth.

I am the messenger of God, and I am not in this alone. When I remind myself of that, everything is joyful and there is no pressure to be a certain way or to do things a certain way. As we learned from our text last week, when anything threatens our peace of mind, we are to ask ourselves, "Has God changed His Mind about me?" Then accept His decision, for it is indeed changeless, and refuse to change our minds about ourselves. God would never decide against us, because He would be deciding against Himself.

God created us perfect. And His laws work only for our good - there are no other laws beside His. Everything else is merely lawless and therefore chaotic. When I can remember that, I realize how much I'm making up and then treating as the truth. There doesn't have to be so much pressure - in fact, there doesn't have to be any pressure because we can trust in the truth.

How much that will free us up to be who we are supposed to be! I'm currently reading Marcus Buckingham's latest book "Go Put Your Strengths to Work" which is all about doing something with what we know about our individual strengths. It's not enough to know this stuff, we really have to now start being what we know. It's similar to what I'm reading in the course. It's not enough to believe this could be true - I've got to start living the truth and trusting it by being still. All is well and all is perfect. What more miraculous thought is there than that? :)