Wisdom at Your Fingertips
“Today I claim the gifts forgiveness gives.” Restoration is the gift forgiveness gives, restoration to Inner Peace and tranquility and to the Joy of living life to the fullest. Whenever you do not feel restored, it means you are clinging to some grievance towards someone or some situation. A grievance is a misunderstanding, a misinterpretation,
“Forgiveness ends the dream of conflict here.” Conflict arises when priorities clash. What other priority could you possibly have than Peace, Joy and Freedom for all? And so it becomes a matter of knowing how to fully embrace that single priority. The answer, the Course teaches, is forgiveness, because forgiving is the way to set
“Fear binds the world. Forgiveness sets it free.” Imagine looking at the world through a funnel. Would you prefer to look at it down through the narrow end, or out through the open end? Mistaken notions about the world limit your reception of Creation. They make you look down the funnel through the narrow end.
“There is no conflict, for my will is Yours.” There is no contradiction among the divine creative ideas that emanate from Source and extend into Creation. There is no pulling this way or that. All the qualities, such as Love, Beauty, Freedom and Peace, support each other in harmony. They are Source’s single focus as
“I will not hurt myself again today.” As long as you do not accept forgiveness as your only function, you will be in attack mode against the images you think you see in the world. And you will hurt yourself. That link might not be immediately clear to everyone. While there is a time of
“I have already chosen what You will.” The fact that you are studying the Course indicates a desire in you to gain a greater understanding of the role that the focus of your mind plays in healing the mind and in realizing a joyful and loving life in a joyful and loving world. You have
“I choose the second place to gain the first.” First, second, third or last place – ranking becomes irrelevant to those who live inspired by the Truth that is revealed within. Everything you look upon with Love, with Tenderness, with Joy is true precisely because of your reception of it in Love and Tenderness and
“I need but call and You will answer me.” There is no place or time that isn’t the doorway to the answer to any questioning. It is about attunement. Your openness to guidance and your willingness to listen are the elements that attune you to the answer that is always accessible, right in the here
“I am forever an Effect of God.” You are Source’s furthermost outpost in extension and expansion, the emissary of Peace and Joy and all the other creative attributes that together make up Creation. You are not separate from that. You are the carrier – the embodiment, if you will – of that. Always have been
“All things I think I see reflect ideas.” Today’s lesson is a message from the engine room of your mind. The lesson describes how the mind operates and how the world renders a service to each and everyone present here. You see “out there” what you hold dear inside. So how can someone be seeing