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

by Marianne Williamson

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You are loved, and your purpose is to love. From a mind filled with infinite love comes the power to create infinite possibilities. We have the power to think in ways that reflect and attract all the love in the world. Such thinking is called enlightenment. Enlightenment is not a process we work toward, but a choice available to us in any instant. Enlightenment is the answer to every problem. In any situation where you seem to be at the effect of forces over which you have no control, remember that God dwells within your mind, and there are no forces over which He has no control. Therefore, through His power within you, there are no mortal conditions over which you are powerless. Whenever your good is obscured by the appearances of an unloving world, the universe is programmed to lift you out of that condition and return you to an abundant state.

DAY 201

Everything I do is infused with the energy with which I do it. I know that what I’m feeling is communicated subconsciously to everyone, and every thought I think creates form in some way.

DAY 202

DAY 203

Faith in a positive outcome doesn’t mean I’m denying a problem; it means merely that I’m affirming a solution. Where I put my faith directly influences what happens next.

DAY 204

DAY 205

To whatever extent your mind is aligned with love, you will receive divine compensation for any lack in your material existence. From spiritual substance will come material manifestation. This is not just a theory; it is a fact. It is a law by which the universe operates. I call it the law of divine compensation.

up. We surrender our thoughts, then He uplifts our thoughts, then our experiences change.

DAY 206

Today may I be a person who leads with kindness, who listens well, and displays a generous heart. May everyone I meet today be blessed by my presence.

DAY 207

In Him and through Him, there is nothing I cannot achieve. I am on the earth to seek His will for me and to carry out His guidance. It is not my power, but His, that moves through me as I surrender myself to the authority of love. I pray to be used for higher purposes than my own, and know I will be sent on tasks that only God could choose for me. My path is blessed and my success guaranteed.

DAY 208

DAY 209

With every thought, I manifest form on some level. With every thought, I bring forth either love or fear. May I be ever conscious of my power today, in how I think and how I behave.

DAY 210

If our circumstances tempt us to think thoughts such as, “I’m such a loser,” “I will never have another chance,” “It will take forever for this situation to right itself,” or “I hate whoever is to blame for this,” then miracles, though they are programmed into the nature of the universe, cannot make their way into our awareness. They’re in the computer, but we’re not choosing to download them. With every thought we think, we either summon or block a miracle.

DAY 211

May I not be held back today by illusions of lack, obsessions about meaningless things, or thoughts of fear. May the love that is in my heart blaze forth, creating miracles for myself and everyone. May I be fully present for my life today, that my presence might bless the world.

DAY 212

My power lies in my clarity about why I’m on the earth. My desire to serve God will create the means for me to do so.

Whatever I do today, whatever effort large or small that I exert on behalf of healing the world, can be turned into a mighty work. I dedicate my efforts—my work both personal and professional—to be used by God. I will be amazed by what He then brings forth.

DAY 213

DAY 214

Today, I choose a conscious life. I will ask myself when something has not turned out well, “What did I do or not do that helped cause this to happen?” Only then will it be revealed to me the source of my pain. I will be healed as I am willing to look honestly at myself.

DAY 215

It gives you a confidence based on something that’s in you but not of you, that can do for you what you can’t do for yourself.

DAY 216

The word “communication” includes the word “commune.” If I communicate without communing, I do not communicate at all. I am responsible for the heartspace between me and whom I communicate with. If someone feels attacked or judged or blamed by me, they will not hear me. I might speak but I will not have been heard. Today I will find the innocence within myself and others, the place of holy communion, before I speak. Then not only what I say, but how I say it, will be heard as a sharing and not an attack. Dear God, Please help me communicate With love and not fear. Let me assure whomever I speak with Of their essential goodness, Even if they might have been wrong. For otherwise, I will be wrong myself. Amen.

DAY 217

It is the guidance system for a wise and peaceful life.

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DAY 219

Today I accept with gratitude and humility the presence of God within me. I am a vehicle for the ecstatic power of grace, always ready to move through the veins of my consciousness and my body. God’s greatness is the antidote to the suffering of the world.

DAY 220

miraculous universe. You have a calling simply because you are alive. You have a calling because you are a child of God. You have a calling because you’re on this earth with a divine purpose: to rise to the level of your highest creative possibility, expressing all that you are intellectually, emotionally, psychologically, and physically in order to make the universe a more beautiful place.

DAY 221

I am only at the effect of what I accord reality.

The power of forgiveness is a miracle of God, a shift in perception from world to spirit, from past to present, from fear to love. It is God’s greatest gift to me and my greatest power. My willingness to forgive is my refuge, my security, and my strength.

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DAY 224

I know my defects are not where I am bad, but rather where I’ve been wounded. But regardless of the events that led to their development, I am fully responsible for my defects now. I accept what they are, surrendering them to God with a prayer that He pave a new path in my consciousness. Thus shall I, and those around me, be free of who I used to be.

Dear God, Please take from me The things I do that deviate from love. I surrender the thinking That binds me to dysfunction, And pray that Your spirit come upon me And change me. Return me to my essential self That I might be in all ways Who You created me to be. Amen.

DAY 225

Surrendering a situation to God means surrendering your thoughts about it. You’re programming your mind to think thoughts that are the most creative, positive, insightful, and beneficial. You’re not giving up responsibility or turning your power over to something outside yourself; you’re taking the highest responsibility for your circumstances, asking God to make your mind a literal touchstone for miraculous breakthroughs. You walk forward in the confidence that God provides. Surrender makes way for a larger sense of self—not the false self, but the true. It’s an expansion of our realization of who we are when we allow our minds to merge with the field of the divine. Dropping our sense of physical boundaries, we are open to the totality of our existence. In our emptiness, we find our fullness in God.