Do you restrict or withhold the expression of what YOU are?

Your thoughts affect powerfully the people around you. Therefore, be sure your thoughts are strictly true. Keep steady, constant, cool headed. Learn this law: "Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get Wisdom; and with all thy getting get understanding. ECH

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Be very persistent in finishing the studies you attempt. Resist your temptation to changeableness. You affect people near you strongly; therefore learn Truth. By steadiness of purpose, you preside over nations. Keep this text: "All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth." ECH

Your true desires are the expression of what you value.

A true desire has the potential of fulfillment within it, and your part is to allow this desire to come to fruition. A blooming flower is a perfect example of this. First you see the buds filling up and then the glorious release of color. Flowers can't keep from blossoming. It's the natural expression of what they are. It is the desire of nature that causes these flowers to open to their full glory. When flowers express their nature, we receive the beauty of their gift.

The process works the same way with us, but unlike the flowers, we can -- and often do -- withhold and restrict the expression of what we are. This causes pain. Not only are we hiding our light, but the world misses out on the beauty of what we are.

Is there something within you wanting to bloom? Feel the energy you are exerting trying to hold back this expression. Now imagine yourself releasing this energy. Notice how it feels when your energy is unobstructed.

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Christ's vision is a miracle. It comes from far beyond itself, for it reflects eternal love and the rebirth of love which never dies, but has been kept obscure.

Christ's vision pictures Heaven, for it sees a world so like to Heaven that what God created perfect can be mirrored there.

Christ's vision is the miracle in which all miracles are born. Christ beholds no sin in anyone. And in His sight the sinless are as one. Their holiness was given by His Father and Himself.

Christ's vision is the bridge between the worlds. And in its power can you safely trust to carry you from this world into one made holy by forgiveness. What was to be the home of sin becomes the center of redemption and the hearth of mercy, where the suffering are healed and welcome. No one will be turned away from this new home, where his salvation waits. No one is stranger to him. No one asks for anything of him except the gift of his acceptance of his welcoming.

Christ's vision is the holy ground in which the lilies of forgiveness set their roots. This is their home. They can be brought from here back to the world, but they can never grow in its unnourishing and shallow soil. They need the light and warmth and kindly care Christ's charity provides. They need the love with which He looks on them. And they become His messengers, who give as they received. His lilies do not leave their home when they are carried back into the world. Their roots remain. They do not leave their source, but carry its beneficence with them, and turn the world into a garden like the one they came from, and to which they go again with added fragrance. Now are they twice blessed. The messages they brought from Christ have been delivered, and returned to them. And they return them gladly unto Him. I give the miracles I have received.

Your mind makes speakers and lecturers. Therefore, be wise in judgment by often repeating: "The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season." ECH