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 to some situation. Everything that happens is a gift,
“Forgiveness ends the dream of conflict here.” Conflict occurs 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 to that is forgiveness, for forgiving is the way to set the
“Fear binds the world. Forgiveness sets it free.” Imagine looking at the world through a funnel. Would you prefer to look at the world down through the narrow end, or out through the open end? Mistaken notions about the world limit your reception of creation. Forgiveness and the relinquishment of judgment, assessment and even opinion
“There is no conflict, for my will is Yours.” There is no contradiction among the divine creative qualities that emanate from source and extend into 3D. There is no pulling this way or that. All of the qualities, such as love, beauty and peace, support each other in harmony. This is source’s single focus as
“I will not hurt myself again today.” Today’s statement equates holding on to a fixed notion of how someone else should behave with hurting self. That link might not be immediately clear to everyone. While there is a time of assertion, of proclaiming to the world and to self who you are, and of standing
“I have already chosen what You will.” The fact that you are studying this course indicates a desire in you to gain a greater understanding of the role that the focus of your mind plays in realizing a joyful and loving life in a joyful and loving world. You have already chosen joy and love
“I choose the second place to gain the first.” First, second, third or last place – this ranking business is 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 them in love and
“I need but call and You will answer me.” There is no place or time that isn’t itself the answer to any questioning. This is about attunement. Your openness to guidance and your willingness to listen are the elements that attune you to the answer that has always been in place. “I need but call”
“I am forever an Effect of God.” You are the experiencing aspect of source, the exploring part, the furthermost outpost in expression, the emissary of peace and joy and all the other creative attributes that together make up the creative forces. You are not outside of that, you are the embodiment of that – have
“All things I think I see reflect ideas.” Today’s statement is a message from the engine room of your mind. This is how the mind operates and this is the service that the world is rendering to each and everyone present here. You see what you hold dear inside. So how can someone see disturbing