June 30th 2014 Lesson 105
God's peace and joy are mine.
- Intention: To receive God's gifts of peace and joy by offering it to all others.
- Practice: The first Five-minutes of every waking hour as best you can, and remember to repeat today's thought between each practice session.
- Application: -- Begin today by thinking of those brothers who have been denied by you the peace and joy that are their right under the equal laws of God. Here you denied them to yourself. And here you must return to claim them as your own. Think of your "enemies" a while, and tell each one, as he occurs to you:
My brother, peace and joy I offer you,that I may have God's peace and joy as mine.
Thus you prepare yourself to recognize God's gifts to you, and let your mind be free of all that would prevent success today. Now are you ready to accept the gift of peace and joy that God has given you. Now are you ready to experience the joy and peace you have denied yourself. Now you can say, "God's peace and joy are mine," for you have given what you would receive.
You must succeed today, if you prepare your mind as we suggest. For you have let all bars to peace and joy be lifted up, and what is yours can come to you at last. So tell yourself, "God's peace and joy are mine," and close your eyes a while and let His Voice assure you that the words you speak are true:
Remember hourly today's thought, and if a brother seems to tempt you to deny God's gift to him, see it as but another chance to let yourself receive the gifts of God as yours. Then bless your brother thankfully, and say:
My brothre, peace and joy I offer you,
that I may have God's peace and joy as mine.
Insights/comments:
- Giving and receiving are the same, and God's gifts increase in the giving, unlike the gifts of the world, in which the giver loses as he gives. A major goal of this course is to reverse the our view of giving so that we can receive, for if giving is a source of fear, we would avoid the only means by which we can receive. God's gifts will never lessen, but only increase when given away. True giving is creating for it extends what is already there and already complete.
- God
is Love and Happiness and this is what He created us to be, as like
onto Himself; this is our God-given inheritance and we cannot loose it,
even though we have forgotten it. So let us be determined now to seek
within ourselves for what we know to be there, God's gifts of love and
peace and joy, and offer these gifts to all others, denying none, and thus receive it for yourself.
I and my Creator are One. 
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