Wisdom at Your Fingertips
“I love You, Father, and I love Your Son.” Let’s dissect this statement a little. To love means to willingly welcome without any reservation, in total freedom. Father is a word that symbolizes the Source of everything, and Son is a word that symbolizes the extension of Source: Creation. And so we get: I embrace
“This is a day of stillness and of peace.” Christ’s vision sets everything and everyone free, for it holds nothing against anything or anyone. Christ’s vision comes to you when you allow the wind of forgiveness to blow and clear away all of yesterday’s debris that might be occupying your mind, freeing your mind to
“My present happiness is all I see.” Unless your mind is occupied with trying to catch the wind – clinging to an image in the past – it is available for the focus of your conscious choosing. When you set your mind to aligning with the creative flow as it emerges in the present moment,
“Let me forget my brother’s past today.” Thinking about the past, analyzing it and drawing conclusions based on your interpretation of what you think happened, is part of living in this world. It is a strategy you have adopted to support your physical survival. You only have to put your hand in the fire once
“I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.” This ability to focus your mind is your key: your ability to decide what to direct your attention toward, and, perhaps even more importantly, what to not direct your attention toward. In other words, what to ignore, neglect, starve. That means that you need to find
“My true Identity abides in You.” It is impossible for an extension of something to be different in nature from its source. Your true nature remains forever Source’s true nature, which is loving, joyful, peaceful, glorious, expansive, inclusive, and so forth. Part of today’s text reads: We offer blessing to all things, uniting lovingly with
“The glory of my Father is my own.” Today’s lesson speaks of inseparability: What the source is, its extension is, too. The idea is to take your cue from Source, from Spirit – in other words: focus your mind on Spirit – and observe how the extension of that focus manifests in an image in
“God is my Father, and He loves His Son.” Today’s lesson concludes by saying: “I am weary of the world I see. Reveal what You would have me see instead.” (W-pII.224.2:3-4) Are you ready to receive? Are you willing to give up your own assessments, to simply drop them all? The word “reveal” is a
The following statements are given for review: My mind holds only what I think with God. (139) “I will accept Atonement for myself.” (140) “Only salvation can be said to cure.” Atonement, salvation and cure, they all point towards the same thing: the Light within, the Light without; the Light that is the essence of
“God is my Source. I cannot see apart from Him.” Today’s lesson addresses seeing, perception and knowledge and how the Holy Spirit mediates on your behalf so you can move from perception into knowledge. If that is a lot to take in, just remember that inner alignment with creative qualities, such as Peace and Loveliness,