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

by Marianne Williamson

Forgiveness sets me free of pain.

To the extent that I withdraw my attachment to what you did, I will no longer be affected by what you did. I have decided to put my faith elsewhere. That is the miracle of forgiveness.

It is not the love given to me by others, but only the love that I myself provide, that will save me today from suffering. I call to mind any person from whom I have been withholding love or forgiveness, or situation from which I have been withholding faith in miracles, and surrender such thoughts for healing.

Naming it, surrendering it to God, and asking Him to remove it—that’s the miracle of personal transformation.

Today I align myself with the will of a loving universe.

Wherever you’ve been, and whatever you’ve done so far, your entire life was building up to this moment. Now is the time to burst forth into your greatness, a greatness you could never have achieved without going through exactly the things you’ve gone through.

It is not too late. You are not too damaged. In fact, you are better than you know.

Today I choose happiness.

Happiness is the choice I make today. It does not rest on my circumstances, but on my frame of mind.

Today I atone for the mistakes of my past.

The holiness of the present delivers me from the pain of yesterday.

Today I accept myself as I am.

No matter what the problem, the solution is love.

Whatever problems I face today, I will look for answers inside myself. I will search my heart for any lack of love . . . lack of forgiveness . . . lack of acceptance of my brother or myself. I will be lifted then to an illumined place, where wisdom and truth shall guide me. There I will find the answers that I seek.

I resist all temptation today to judge how I think others should behave. I cannot know the deeper forces at work within anyone’s heart. My deliverance comes from accepting all people, not judging or controlling them.

pray to be an instrument of love by which people are reminded of their innocence, not an instrument of blame that reminds them of their guilt. I do this for my own sake, that I too might be released from feelings of guilt that would otherwise bind me.

My true self is a being of light and love. Today may I be my true self.

Today I resist the temptation to punish or undermine myself.

No matter who you are, no matter how young or old you are, in the present, all things are possible.

I dedicate my work today to the furtherance of all things good.

Whether I am paid or not, whether I am working out in the world or planting my own garden, I dedicate whatever I am doing today to the uplifting of all things.

May the activity of my mind and work of my hands be of service to the healing of the world.

Today I recognize the miracle in all things.

The universe intends that I be loved. All is planned for my greater good.

According to ancient Asian philosophy, life is not a circle but a spiral. Every life lesson that has ever been presented to you (which means everything you have ever been through) will come back again, in some form, until you learn it.

Whatever I give to others, I am giving to myself.

In a world gone mad, we can choose to be sane. In order to move ourselves, and our civilization, into the next phase of our evolutionary journey, it’s time for all of us to awaken.

Today I will not burden myself by thinking I need to run the universe. I needn’t control anyone or anything. I need only to show up fully with my heart and in my excellence.

I needn’t prove anything to anyone. I am blessed as a child of God.

While the world is changeable, the Truth is not. May I not be tempted by the drama of the world to forget the eternal peace of God.

Take a good look at your life right now. If you don’t like something about it, close your eyes and imagine the life you want. Now allow yourself to focus your inner eye on the person you would have to be in order to create your preferred life.

Crossing the bridge to a better world begins with crossing a bridge inside our minds, from the addictive mental patterns of fear and separation, to enlightened perceptions of unity and love.

May I have the strength to forgive those who’ve betrayed me.

May my mind not wander into dark terrain today, but may I remain within the field of light. May I not be tempted to attack my brother, or attack myself. May I cleave instead to love.

Only in my mind does the past exist.

I free the universe from my efforts to control it.

How different my life will be if I let go, allowing the universe to do its dance without my constant interference. Today I release the thought that I know what is best—for myself, for the world, or for anyone in it. I relax into the patterns of a divinely orchestrated universe, asking only to be guided where I can best fit in and be used in service to love’s will.

I can see through the eyes of the world, or I can see through the eyes of love. One produces darkness, while the other produces light. Today I make a choice for life and love.

True forgiveness is not a lack of discernment or the product of fuzzy thinking. It is a “selective remembering.” We choose to remember the love we experienced, and to let go of the rest as the illusion it really was.

This too shall pass. So have we been promised by God, and His promises are real.

Today I seek to love those whom I do not like.

I surrender my attachment to lesser things.

For in any given moment, regardless of circumstances, I can choose again. I can choose strength instead of weakness, and love instead of fear. I can choose to bless instead of blame, and to lean into the future rather than dragging with me the past.

Everything that occurs today is part of God’s plan.

Many people struggle and fail to find peace within themselves, because they don’t really realize who their “self” is. That is why the ego is so dangerous: it would have us believe that we are separate, when in fact we’re not.

Every moment holds the possibility of endless possibility.

Today I seek to do one thing that interrupts a pattern of fear.

Meaning doesn’t lie in things. Meaning lies in us. When we attach value to things that aren’t love—the money, the car, the house, the prestige—we are loving things that can’t love us back. We are searching for meaning in the meaningless. Money, of itself, means nothing.

My life is made new today. Today I stand for radical change, within myself and in my life. My future is reprogrammed in this very moment as I allow God’s spirit to enter here. Nothing is needed in order for this to happen, except the free flow of love from my heart.

I let go my grievances, that I might have a miracle instead.