Jesus is encouraging me to start my day as I awake with:
Today I wake with joy, expecting but the happy things of God to come to me. I ask but them to come, and realize my invitation will be answered by the thoughts to which it has been sent by Jesus. And I will ask for only joyous things the instant I accept my holiness. For what would be the use of pain to me, what purpose would my suffering fulfill, and how would grief and loss avail me if insanity departs from me today, and I accept my holiness instead?
rell: This has been a fairly easy lesson for me. Back 25 years ago I was handed a little tiny book, “As A Man Thinketh.” (so he iseth.) This seemed entirely possible to me. And it has been. My little tiny book is worn fragile, but I still have it. At another time I was gifted with Emmet Fox’s, “Mental Equilavlent”…same sort of empowerment system.
When I started this spiritual path, ACIM: “As A Man Thinketh” was already a “built in” for accepting Jesus’s word as Truths…somehow I intuitive knew that my happiness would come from my mind and the thoughts that I started sharing with God.
Jesus prays:
“Father, my holiness is Yours. Let me rejoice in it, and through forgiveness be restored to sanity. Your Son is still as You created him. My holiness is part of me, and also part of You. And what can alter Holiness Itself? Amen”
rell: and what can alter holiness? I have learned that “they” are still as God created “them.” Just actions have changed, not their holiness…regardless of what their actions portray.
*** …rell
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