A Year of Miracles: Daily Devotions and Reflections (The Marianne Williamson Series)

by Marianne Williamson

DAY 121

Today I view every encounter as a sacred one, blessing anyone I meet or even think of. May a holy light shine forth from my heart and bless all living things. May my presence on earth be a touchstone for God’s love. I place my relationships in the hands of God, and pray that they be used by Him. May anyone who enters my presence feel the healing balm of peace. May my thoughts and actions extend the love that fills God’s heart, and mine. Dear God, Please use my encounters To increase Your love. May they be a blessing On all involved. Amen.

DAY 122

I do not allow my time today to waste me, or be wasted. I pray for the mental and emotional discipline to notice and to act on only what’s important. May I overlook the rest.

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DAY 124

Everything that happens is part of a mysterious educational process in which I’m drawn to situations that constitute my greater learning. I choose in every situation today to be a more beautiful version of myself, so I may learn through joy. I am invited to play life at a higher level—to be strong where I have been weak, to be healed where I have acted from my wounds, to give love where I have withheld it. Thus shall this day serve the purposes of God at work in my life. Dear God, I surrender all that happens today, Every encounter and every occurrence, To Your purposes in myself and others. Amen.

DAY 125

DAY 126

I put aside my search for little things and participate freely in the glory of creation.

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DAY 132

I seek the quiet of God’s presence today, regardless of what worldly turmoil surrounds me. First in the closet of my inner self, and then as I walk through my day, I will seek and remain within the holy space.

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DAY 135

Practice kindness, and you start to become kind. Practice discipline, and you start to become disciplined. Practice forgiveness, and you start to become forgiving. Practice charity, and you start to become charitable. Practice gentleness, and you start to become gentle. It doesn’t matter whether you’re in the mood to be gracious to the bank teller today; do it anyway—and watch how it begins to affect your mood. Just push the button of the self you wish to be, and the synapses that make up that personality begin to form. Your best self already exists in the ethers, just waiting to be downloaded. We become gracious when we decide to be gracious. We have the power to generate as well as react to feelings; to hone our personalities as we travel through life. In the words of George Eliot, “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” It is never too late to become who we really are.

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DAY 140

We can’t have inner peace unless we feel complete within ourselves, and we can’t feel complete outside our connection with other people.

DAY 141

My work for God is effortless. Ego struggles, but spirit creates with effortlessness and joy. I rise above the burden of work, as I give what I do to God. It doesn’t feel like work to work for love. Angels push me from behind today, and guide my thoughts and actions. I relax into the flow of love, allowing myself to float upon the waves of a cosmic sea. I release all resistance that I might experience accomplishment and joy. Dear God, I surrender to You My worldly efforts. May I know not tension But joy, As I am carried by the flow Of love. Amen.

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DAY 144

Within the space of love, I own my “yes” and my “no,” both my gentleness and my firmness. I trust God’s guidance to reveal to me where I should and should not be. I trust that it is safe to love.

DAY 145

We are here because we have a mission: to be the love that is missing in a loveless world and thus reclaim this darkened world for light.

DAY 146

Today I pray for courage. I surrender the attitudes and behavioral patterns that keep from me my greater good. I am willing to be a bigger person, that I might have a bigger life. Dear God, Please remove the fears in me That keep a fuller life at bay. Interrupt the patterns of weakness I have inherited from former times. Deliver me to my greater self. Amen.

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DAY 148

May my self-perception rest only on the vision that God holds of me.

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DAY 150

Our task is to learn to see ourselves as He sees us—totally light, totally loved, and totally empowered.

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DAY 153

There are no limits to the blessings I receive when I speak with love and gentleness.

May I not be tempted today to choose fear or anger as the mode through which I express myself. Rather, may I remember that to do so is to sabotage my good.

DAY 154

May I see everything that occurs today as an opportunity to step up my game.