Certainty of Purpose

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As the year draws to a close, our busy-ness tends to increase until we are, perhaps, in a tizzy all the time, much like the spinning dreidel which is a staple of many celebrations. I witnessed a friend in such a dither today. As I watched her, I realized she was taking personal responsibility for everything around her. She felt put-upon and over-loaded with duties and chores. She breathlessly rushed about feeling that no one but her would know what to do about any number of things. I closed my eyes and breathed slowly and deeply, hoping it could spread to her, but she wasn’t receptive. She was no more able to accept the peace that was hers, as the expression of Spirit, than she was able to trust that everything would be done with or without her — or not! It’s easy to slip into believing that we’re the only one who knows how to do certain things, thinking that everything will fall apart without us. I have found, time and again, that to stand with divine Love “in peace and certainty of purpose” will allow perfect results to transpire! So take a deep breath and trust the Universe!

‘“Rest in peace’ is a blessing for the living, not the dead, because rest comes from waking, not from sleeping. Sleep is withdrawing; waking is joining. Dreams are illusions of joining, because they reflect the ego’s distorted notions about what joining is. Yet the Holy Spirit, too, has use for sleep, and can use dreams on behalf of waking if you will let Him.”
A Course in Miracles T-8.IX.3:5-8

“When we reach our limits of mental endurance, we conclude that intellectual labor has been carried sufficiently far; but when we realize that immortal Mind is ever active, and that spiritual energies can neither wear out nor can so-called material law trespass upon God-given powers and resources, we are able to rest in Truth, refreshed by the assurances of immortality, opposed to mortality.”
Mary Baker Eddy - Science & Health Page 387:5-12