Day 168

Today's Lesson:

You grace is given me. I claim it now.

God speaks to us. Shall we not speak to Him? He is not distant. He makes no attempt to hide from us. We try to hide from Him, and suffer from deception. He remains entirely accessible. He loves His Son. There is no certainty but this, yet this suffices. He will love His Son forever. When his mind remains asleep, He loves him still. And when his mind awakes, He loves him with a never-changing Love.

If we but knew the meaning of His Love, hope and despair would be impossible. For hope would be forever satisfied; despair of any kind unthinkable. His grace His answer is to all despair, for in it lies remembrance of His Love. Would He not gladly give the means by which His Will is recognized? His grace is yours by your acknowledgment. And memory of Him awakens in the mind that asks the means of Him whereby its sleep is done.

Today we ask of God the gift He has most carefully preserved within our hearts, waiting to be acknowledged. This the gift by which God leans to us and lifts us up, taking salvation's final step Himself. All steps but this we learn, instructed by His voice. But finally He comes Himself, and takes us in His Arms and sweeps away the cobwebs of our sleep. His gift of grace is more than just an answer. It restores all memories the sleeping mind forgot; all certainty of what Love's meaning is.

God loves His Son. Request Him now to give the means by which this world will disappear, and vision first will come, with knowledge but an instant later. For in grace we see a light that covers all the world in love, and watch fear disappear from every face as hearts rise up and claim the light as theirs. What now remains that Heaven be delayed an instant longer? What is still undone when your forgiveness rests on everything?

It is a new and holy day today, for we receive what has been given us. Our faith lies in the Giver, not our own acceptance. We acknowledge our mistakes, but He to Whom all error is unknown is yet the One Who answers our mistakes by giving us the means to lay them down, and rise to Him in gratitude and love.

And He descends to meet us, as we come to Him. For what He has prepared for us He gives and we receive. Such is His Will, because He loves His Son. To Him we pray today, returning but the word He gave to us through His Own Voice, His Word, His Love:

Your grace is given me. I claim it now. Father, I come to You. And You will come to me who ask. I am the Son You love.

Miracles I'm noticing:

This past week was incredible. I spent it in West Palm Beach, Florida studying under Bob Proctor and getting certified and licensed to deliver several new programs for my business. I believe this training was some of the most significant work I've done for myself - maybe ever. I had a chance to hear Rev. Michael Beckwith in person, and together with his wife Ricki, they were a powerful team. As I studied with Bob and met all the other participants in this work, I really began to see the power of the Law of Attraction as well as the other universal laws.

I don't think it was an accident that on the first leg of my flight home I didn't have an exit row (I almost always request an exit row for my long legs) and I moved to the only available seat in an exit row when no one was sitting there right before the plane took off. The gentleman seated next to me (Michael) was very nice, and we started talking right away. It turns out he lives in a small town in Wisconsin and is going to be moving to West Palm Beach. He attended Luther College in Iowa (I went to Concordia in Minnesota, but they are very similar private colleges). He is a year older than I am and still plays club rugby (I played basketball in college). Through the course of our conversation it became very clear that it was no accident we were seated together. He had never heard of The Secret, but as we were talking, the woman in the seat next to him overheard what we were talking about and asked if we had heard of the movie The Secret, so she joined the conversation. I'm learning that that will really open doors for me as I'm starting to market my new certification.

I just happened to have my newly autographed book (The Secret) in my carry-on bag, so I loaned it to Michael and he started reading it. He didn't get done with it when our plane landed, but we were going to be on the next flight together, too, so he kept it for that leg as well. When we got on that plane it turned out we were seated one row apart (no coincidence there, either). I told Michael about the training I had attended, and he was very interested, so I think he might see about joining a mastermind group in West Palm when he goes back (I'll put him in touch with Paul, the director of the center where we were certified).

That's surely the Law of Attraction in action - and proves that miracles are simply a shift in perception from fear to love. If I had been afraid to tell Michael about what I had learned, we would have never made the connection we made. When he handed me back my book as we landed in Minneapolis, he saw things in a new light and was very excited to learn more. He had already been practicing some of these ideas without really knowing all of the story so for him it was validation for what he already knew.

Watch for ways people "just happen" to come into your life. What were you being that attracted them to you? Or how did they attract you to them? You'll see that there really are no accidents when you become more aware and awake.