The weather has been delightfully cool here in Northwest Arkansas. After a long, hot summer, it carries a feeling of new beginnings in the fresh air. The rushes of gratitude I’ve been experiencing are exhilarating! So I was particularly surprised to awaken this morning with regrets for past actions filling my thoughts. Not just one or two events either, but a barrage of hurtful words and acts from the last seven decades were glaring at me. It even crossed my mind that I might be passing away, and that this might be my “life-passing-before-my-eyes” event. (I say this jokingly, but it did occur to me.) As I sat on my porch, greeting the warm sun and watching the world awaken, it came to me that perhaps I’ve been judging others. Maybe I had this onslaught to help me feel compassion for those whom I might be dismissing as foolishly self-centered in their repetition of the past. And so I spent a few moments forgiving myself for any and everything. And now I see A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson #254: “Let every voice but God’s be still in me.” A peaceful thought for today and everyday …
“Let every voice but God’s be still in me. Father, today I would but hear Your Voice. In deepest silence I would come to You, to hear Your Voice and to receive Your Word. I have no prayer but this: I come to You to ask You for the truth. And truth is but Your Will, which I would share with You today.
“Today we let no ego thoughts direct our words or actions. When such thoughts occur, we quietly step back and look at them, and then we let them go. We do not want what they would bring with them. And so we do not choose to keep them. They are silent now. And in the stillness, hallowed by His Love, God speaks to us and tells us of our will, as we have chosen to remember Him.”
A Course in Miracles W-254.1:1–2:6
“Nature voices natural, spiritual law and divine Love, but human belief misinterprets nature. Arctic regions, sunny tropics, giant hills, winged winds, mighty billows, verdant vales, festive flowers, and glorious heavens,--all point to Mind, the spiritual intelligence they reflect. The floral apostles are hieroglyphs of Deity. Suns and planets teach grand lessons. The stars make night beautiful, and the leaflet turns naturally towards the light.”
Mary Baker Eddy - Science & Health Page 240:1-9
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