I must arise from the death of sin and selfishness and put on a new life of integrity. All the old sins and temptations must be laid in the grave and a new existence rise from the ashes. Yesterday is gone. All my sins are forgiven if I am honestly trying to do God’s will today. Today is here, the time of resurrection and renewal. I must start now, today, to build a new life of complete faith and trust in God and a determination to do his will in all things,.
Word for today
Peevish: irritable, cross, complaining, fretful, ill-humored and impatient, difficult to please, full of complaints
Prayer of the day
I pray that I may share in making the world a better place to live in. I pray that I may do what I can to bring goodness a little nearer to the earth..
FLOW
76th The Flow
The illusion that you’re the thinker. “What do you mean? If I’m not the thinker of my own thoughts then who, or what, is? It certainly feels to me like I’m the one doing the thinking.”
Yes, and for good reason too. Whether in our waking life, or in the dreams that visit our evening’s rest, thoughts and feelings fill our every present moment. But just because you can feel or sense all of their diverse characteristics such as worry, fear,
fantasy, impatience, relief, courage, or compulsiveness doesn’t make the you that experience these movements real; anymore than standing under the cascade of a waterfall, and feeling its flow, means that your nature is water.
Thoughts and feeling are energies. They’re forces that we have passing through us continually. And each has a distinct nature. But neither any one, nor all of these mental or emotional qualities put together, is who we really are.
Again, we feel the heat of the sun on our face, but we know better than to think that we’re a blaze. And yet when we feel the fire of an angry thought or emotion, we believe we are that burning sensation. We are not! We only make the mistake of thinking that we
are; which is why these painful and unwanted internal fires go on and on, but never out.
“This is unbelievable. And yet it all makes perfect sense please continue. What else do I need to understand to cut myself loose from these invisible psychic strings? More on tomorrow.
75th The Flow
Anxiety or confusion over our inner condition is usually a sign we’re nearer the truth of something about ourselves than we’re ready to admit. Our primary fear here is in not knowing what will happen to us if we open our eyes all the way and consciously
acknowledge what we see. Yet, if we’re to succeed in our quest for freedom, we must dare to make our invisible lives as clearly visible to ourselves as we can. So, which is it? Are we in charge of our own thoughts and feelings, or are we really their secret captives.
Here are some examples of how the mind has some control over us. It seems to me that I’m capable of starting my own thought process rolling. But, on the other hand, there are also those times when I’m powerless to stop the cascading momentum of those same
thoughts for instance, I may begin thinking about one of my past pleasant experience and before I realize what’s happening, I’ll be taken over by some sad memory I never intended to consider. Or maybe I’ll be planning how to better secure my future and the next thing I know I’m
anxious wreck for fear I won’t be able to succeed with my plans! And when I’m shackled by these sorry or stressed out feelings, there nothing I can do to get them off my back. Thank goodness they eventually fade away: or something nice happens to me and their unpleasant presence
is replaced with a brighter one.
74th The Flow
The sure way to raise your life level that what we will talk about today. As we will eventually come see, almost every kind of unhappy feeling is the result of mistaking the partial for the whole. What this means is that when we don’t see the whole picture, we
are likely to act in a way that is self-defeating. One example of this would be that terrible sinking feeling that comes with learning too late, after you’ve become upset, that things weren’t the way you were so sure they had been. That, in fact, it was you who had misjudged or
misunderstood the person or event; and now that you can see the whole situation, there is no reason at all to be angry or sad, anxious or afraid. How many times have we regretted some thoughtless action on our part once we found out all of the facts? I promise you that everything
can be explained. Nothing that happens to you or through you need ever go without you understanding why. You can be self-enlightened instead of self-frightened. You have a choice. This discovery that you can always choose in favor of yourself is real excitement.
You do not have to accept your present life-level. Life-level is what determines whether you sail through this life or sink in it. At present, it may seem to you as if there are times when you don’t have much choice in your own life. I want you to know that
this is a lie.