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2. GOD’S WILL “Where would you have me go?
What would you have me do? What would you have
me say, and t...
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Grandiosity is always a cover for despair.”
As I interpret the Course, ‘our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.’ We ask ourselves, Who am I to be
brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we’re liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Where you went to school is no big deal, or even whether you went to school at all. God can use the flimsiest resume. He can use the smallest gifts. Whatever our gift is to God, however humble it may seem, He can turn it into a mighty work on His behalf. Our greatest gift to Him is our devotion. From that point of power, doors open. Careers blossom. We
miracle worker makes peace our only goal.
living out of our vision is more powerful than living out of our circumstance.
“Dear God, I surrender this situation to you. May it be used for your purposes. I ask only that my heart be open to give love and to receive love. May all the results unfold according to your will. Amen.” Whatever you do, do it for God.
“I’ll do this because it serves, even if I’m not paid,” is a very high beam. It says to the universe that you must be very serious. And when you get serious about the universe, the universe gets serious about you.
Why do I act so arrogantly? Why I am pretending to be so tough? Why am I judging so many people? Why am I not appreciating all the love and beauty that surrounds me? Why am I avoiding the simplest and most important element of my being, the love in my heart?
‘God’s will is that we be happy’ now. In asking that God’s will be done, we are instructing our minds to focus on the beauty in life, to see all the reasons to celebrate instead of mourn.
“During the time of the darkest night,” says the Talmud, “act as if the morning has already come.”
“Only infinite patience produces immediate results.”
God doesn’t provide any of us with happiness that is only meant for us alone. When God sends us happiness, he does so in order that we might then stand up more fully in the world on His behalf. Happiness is a sign that we have accepted God’s will.
people who participate in the solution to problems, don’t seem to find themselves as depressed about those problems as do people standing on the sidelines doing nothing.
Hope is born of participation in hopeful solutions. We
