A Course in Miracles Lesson #125
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"In quiet I receive God's Word today."
[Marsha's thoughts]
When I first read, "In quiet I receive God's Word today", I laughed out loud. Quiet? Today? This is the first weekend of the month-long May Festival of the Arts,. There's an ARTrageous parade, there is an event called Africa in the Ozarks with drumming and high-energy gatherings, we have a gallery stroll, a featured artist, food and beverage, and hundreds of people coming through the doors today. Physically, there will be no quiet for the twelve-plus hours I'll be in the gallery. And then I think of a friend who tells me she can't meditate because there is never quiet at her place. There are cars going by, birds chirping, clocks ticking -- everything breaks the silence she so desperately craves. Is there really any difference in her loss of peace and the projected loss I'm anticipating? Of course not! The quiet I will practice today has nothing to do with outside influences. Peace of God is within. This is what I'll realize every moment of this joyous day, filled with making new friends and welcoming old. The few moments which can be snatched for listening, I will savor. It won't need to be long, perhaps only a couple of seconds while reaching under the checkout counter for wrapping paper, or a look out the window into the forest, or while gazing at a beautiful painting. No matter what our circumstance, the "still, small voice" is always there. I look forward to seeing how many inspirations are revealed in the blink of an eye.
Mary Baker Eddy quote:
“The ‘still, small voice’ of scientific thought reaches over continent and ocean to the globe's remotest bound. The inaudible voice of Truth is, to the human mind, ‘as when a lion roareth’. … Then is the power of Truth demonstrated,--made manifest in the destruction of error.”
Science & Health Page 559:8-16
