Day 265

Today's Lesson:

Creation's gentleness is all I see.

I have indeed misunderstood the world, because I laid my sins on it and saw them looking back at me. How fierce they seemed! And how deceived was I to think that what I feared was in the world, instead of in my mind alone. Today I see the world in the celestial gentleness with which creation shines. There is no fear in it. Let no appearance of my sins obscure the light of Heaven shining on the world. What is reflected there is in God's Mind. The images I see reflect my thoughts. Yet is my mind at one with God's. And so I can perceive creation's gentleness.

In quiet would I look upon the world, which but reflects Your Thoughts, and mine as well. Let me remember that they are the same, and I will see creation's gentleness.

Miracles I'm noticing:

Today's lesson reminds me of Byron Katie's "The Work" which I listen to at least twice a week in my car. That Work asks us to question our thoughts instead of just blindly believing them. Whenever we notice a thought that makes us frustrated (like "I am sinful and unclean," for example) we are to ask ourselves whether or not that is actually true. If we can determine that our thoughts are not really true, we can see that we have been deceiving ourselves and not really living in Truth.

Today's lesson reminds us that what we fear is not in the world, it is in our minds alone. And if we can learn to question those thoughts and realize they are not even true, we can see that there is only gentleness in God's creation.

Notice for yourself where you are believing your thoughts. I'll bet miracles will start showing up instead!