Let this day be a day of stillness and of quiet listening.

Angels, watch my thoughts and guard my mind against my “enemies”.

Let no thoughts of anxiety, anger, fear intrude the holy Altar, Where He abides.

Let all my thoughts be quiet!

My Father wills I hear His Word. He calls to me from deep within my mind where He abides.

Let me hear Him! The world needs me to hear my Father’s Word! This world will change through me. No other means can save it, for God’s plan is simply this: The Son of God is free to save himself, given the Word of God to be His Guide, forever in his mind and at his side to lead him surely to his Father’s house by his own will, forever free as God’s. He is not led by force, but only love. He is not judged, but only sanctified.

In stillness I will hear God’s Voice today without the intrusion of my petty thoughts, without my personal desires, and without all judgment of His holy Word.

Let me not judge myself today, for what I really am, cannot be judged.

Let me not listen to the world today, but wait in silence for the Word of God.

Let me hear my Father speak. His Voice would give to me His holy Word, to spread across the world the tidings of salvation and the holy time of peace.

Angels, help me and guide me, today! Let me find time set apart from listening to the world, and gentle listen to the Word of God. He speaks from nearer than my heart to me. His Voice is closer than my hand. His Love is everything I am and that He is; the same as me, and me the same as He.

It is my voice to which I listen as He speaks to me. It is my word He speaks. It is the Word of freedom and of peace, of unity of will and purpose, with no separation nor division in the single Mind of Father and Son.

Let me listen, in quiet, to my Self today, and let Him tell me God has never left His Son, and I have never left my Self.

                                                                                                    Some thoughts based on Lesson 125

From "A Miracle Course that is The 12 Step Program"

How exciting that, at last, this world has a purpose: to teach and learn together the unlimited power of the whole universe that is ours through the creative love of God - the revelation that you are experiencing in the release of your own conceptual self-identity.

The core of the curriculum is that you are no longer feeling responsible for the sickness and pain and death that is inherent in the human mind; and that you are, in fact, undergoing this enlightenment or experience or miracle of the turning of your self-will over to the Will of God.

All right.

And it's the act of doing it, that is what miracle is. And it is continuous and it is going on all the time.

What an incredible discovery!

From Jesus is praying..

Verily, verily, I say unto you.

The Son can do nothing of himself.

but what he seeth the Father do:

for what things soever He doeth,

these also doeth the Son likewise.

"Father, I give You all my thoughts today.

I would have none of mine. In place of them, give me Your own. I give You all my acts as well, that I may do Your Will instead of seeking goals which cannot be obtained, and wasting time in vain imaginings. Today I come to You. I will step back and merely follow You. Be You the Guide, and I the follower who questions not the wisdom of the Infilite, not Love whose tenderness I cannot comprehend, but which is yet Your perfect gift to me."

Today we have one Guide to lead us on. As we walk together, we will give this day to Him with no reserve at all. This is His day. and so it is a day of countless gifts and mercies unto us.

Pollyanna is a fictional character. She is a wonderful example of a miracle worker!!

No wonder that the culture of this world invalidates her.

However, I have made up my mind to be like her!!

I want to be a Pollyanna!

I have decided to extend my perception beyond what my physical senses reveal to me, to what my heart knows to be true about every human being.

I know what I have to do.

I will let the Holy Spirit transform my perception and I will let the Christ’s vision look upon all thing for me without judging them. I will let the miracles of Love do their work.

I know what I will not do.

I will not interfere!!

It doesn’t matter how anyone behaves. I have faith in the love I know exists behind anyone’s fear, and in this way I invoke their love into expression.

I will not interfere!!

I will not attack or defend myself!

I prefer to be peaceful and joyous than “right”.

My power lies in remaining nonreactive. When I attack back, and defense is a form of attack, I initiate a war that no one can win.

I seek a miracle, instead. In seeking a miracle, I don’t take part in life’s battles, but rather I am asking to be lifted above them. The Holy Spirit reminds me that they are not real.

The Holy Spirit also reminds me that contrary to how it feels when I’m lost in the emotions that tempt me to judge, there’s no such thing as righteous anger.

It actually doesn’t matter who started first. Whether I’m attacking first or attacking back, I am an instrument of attack and not of love.

But I want to be an instrument of love!!

Even in political and social issues, I know that an angry generation cannot bring peace. Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. As Gandhi said, “We must be the change”.

All the missiles of the countries “defense” or “attack” establishments are but a projection of the missiles we hold in our mind. The only guns we need to get rid of are the guns in our heads. The rest will follow.

That is why I choose to be a Pollyanna.

Inspired Marriane Williamson's "A Return to Love".

 “ What is an idol? Do you think you know? For idols are unrecognized as such, and NEVER seen for what they really are. That is the only power which they have. Their purpose is obscure, and they are feared, and worshipped, both, BECAUSE you do not know what they are for, and why they have been made. An idol is an image of your brother, which you would value MORE than what he IS. Idols are made that HE may be replaced, no matter what their form. And it is this which NEVER is perceived and recognized. Be it a body or a thing, a place, a situation or a circumstance, an object owned or wanted, or a right demanded or achieved, it is the same.”

“Let not their form deceive you. Idols are but substitutes for your reality. In some way you believe they will complete your little self, and let you walk in safety in a world perceived as dangerous, with forces massed against your confidence and peace of mind. They have the power to supply your lacks, and add the value which you do not have. No-one believes in idols who has not enslaved himself to littleness and loss. And thus must seek BEYOND his little self for strength to raise his head, and stand apart from all the misery the world reflects. This is the penalty for looking not within for certainty, and for a quiet calm which liberates you FROM the world, and lets you stand apart in quiet and in peace unlimited.”

“An idol is a false impression, or a false belief; some form of anti-Christ which constitutes a gap BETWEEN the Christ and what you see. An idol is a wish, made tangible and given form, and thus perceived as real, and seen OUTSIDE the mind. Yet they remain ideas, and CANNOT leave the mind that is their source. Nor is their form apart from the idea it represents”

An idol is like a veil which hides the Light from us , the Christ – our real self. Yet, the Light is there. A cloud does not banish nor put out the sun. It just hides It from our sight.

So, what is an idol?

NOTHING.

Only when you believe in it you make it come into life. And when you believe it you give it power over you. This power is based on fear. Its life and its power are your faith’s gifts to it.

When you withdraw your belief the idol dies.

Where is the idol?

NOWHERE.

“Can there be a gap in what is infinite, a place where time can INTERRUPT eternity? A place of darkness set where all is light?”

Is there anything that can interrupt eternity?

So, let us make the only necessary “sacrifice”.

 Let us sacrifice fear.

 Let us sacrifice fear and all that comes with it.

Misery, suffering, worries and doubts.”

With this “sacrifice”, all idols fall one by one, as they have no reason for existence anymore.

This is our only debt towards truth.

To release all our illusions and all images we used to worship falsely.

And Love will return to our awareness again.

And we will be peaceful into the Light again, because the idols will have been replaced by Reality.

Based on ACIM, chapter 29