Happy New Year

This year invest in truth,
and let it work in peace.
Have faith in Him Who has faith in you. 

God Moves in a Mysterious Way

Is a Christian hymn, written in 1773. First verse:

You are loved, far more than you think.

How does the mystic see humanity? In an entirely different way from ordinary men and women. It is profitable for us also to see people from a mystical viewpoint. It provides power.

"The Shepherd"

The year is 1957. An RAF pilot is heading home from Germany for Christmas. Fog sets in, and all radio communication is lost.  Climb into the cockpit with "Fireside Al" Maitland as he once again heads out over the North Sea, in CBC’s annual reading of

This world is not your home.

The point of your life is to get to the point of your life, so let’s get busy.
If you were meant for this world, the world would have made you happy,
but it hasn’t done so,
so see what that indicates,
it indicates that you were meant for something different
from this human inhabited planet that wobbles so badly.

So consider yourself a visitor,
consider yourself as someone who has an opportunity to understand this world,
really, very serious now,
this world is not your home,
this world is not a permanent thing.
Vernon Linwood Howard

In this season (Christmas) which celebrates the birth of holiness into this world, join with me who decided for holiness for you. It is our task together to restore the awareness of magnitude to the host whom God appointed for Himself. It is beyond all your littleness to give the gift of God, but not beyond you. For God would give Himself through you. He reaches from you to everyone and beyond everyone to His Son's creations, but without leaving you. Far beyond your little world but still in you, He extends forever. Yet He brings all His extensions to you, as host to Him.

Wouldn't it be tremendous …

 “The Tao never does anything, yet through it all things are done. If powerful men and women could center themselves in it, the whole world would be transformed by itself, in its natural rhythms. People would be content with their simple, everyday lives, in harmony, and free of desire. When there is no desire, all things are at peace.” ~ Tao Te Ching

"I am as God created me.

Christmas Bible lesson from 1894

LESSON XII

Luke 7:24-35 Isaiah 9:3-7

Unto Us A Child Is Born

I will forgive, and this will disappear.

This is the lesson God would have you learn: There is a way to look on everything that lets it be to you another step to Him, and to salvation of the world. To all that speaks of terror, answer thus:  I will forgive, and this will disappear. ACIM Lesson 193.13

The entire secret for an authentically successful life can be stated very simply.

I want the peace of God

Be fervent in God, and let nothing grieve you, whatever you encounter. Hadewijch

Silver Screen Artists

“You are not a happy learner yet because you still remain uncertain that vision gives you more than judgment does, and you have learned that both you cannot have.”

IT WAS (IS) ONLY A DREAM!

Control means to not be carried away from oneself by unexpected events or by one's own rising thoughts. Vernon Linwood Howard

“The Garden of Eden

What the ego perceives with fear,

the right mind perceives with love.

“The body is a limit on love. The belief in limited love was its origin, and it was made to limit the unlimited. . . . it was made to limit you ” (T.18.VIII.1:2,3,4)

HE WHO follows Me, walks not in darkness,”

A Prayer for Enlightening the Mind

Enlighten me, good Jesus, with the brightness of internal light, and take away all darkness from the habitation of my heart. Restrain my wandering thoughts and suppress the temptations which attack me so violently. Fight strongly for me, and vanquish these evil beasts—the alluring desires of the flesh—so that peace may come through Your power and the fullness of Your praise resound in the holy courts, which is a pure conscience. Command the winds and the tempests; say to the sea: “Be still,” and to the north wind, “Do not blow,” and there will be a great calm.

The Basis of Firm Peace of Heart and True Progress

The Voice of Christ

MY CHILD, I have said: “Peace I leave with you, My peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, do I give unto you.”

The Imitation of Christ - Amazing Grace

"Amazing Grace" is a Christian hymn published in 1779, with words written by the English poet and clergyman John Newton (1725–1807).

Decide for me.

"Around you angels hover lovingly,
to keep away all darkened thoughts of sin,
and keep the light where it has entered in.
Your footprints lighten up the world,
for where you walk
forgiveness gladly goes with you."

ACIM Ch.26.IX.7 Excerpts

They fulfill their role well.

"Tell yourself,

ThePeaceOfGod

"Truth will correct all the errors in my mind, and I will rest in Him Who is my Self."

What's New Pussycat ...

Do not wait for a leader to direct you. Ask the Divine Guidance and push ahead with your convictions. Emma Curtis Hopkins

"Whenever you question your value, say: God Himself is incomplete without me.