Day 56

SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY
1 Corinthians 2:16
Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
For who has known the mind of THE LORD JEHOVAH that he may teach him? But we do have the mind of The Messiah.

INTERFAITH PRAYER OF THE DAY
My Lord, You have heard the cry of my heart because it was
You Who cried out within my heart.

Forgive me for trying to evoke Your presence in my own silence. It is You Who must create Your own silence! Only this newness can save me from idolatry!
     You are not found in the Temple merely by the expulsion of the moneychangers.
     You are not found on the mountain every time there is a cloud. The earth swallowed those who offered incense without having been found, without having been called, and without having been known by you.
Thomas Merton

A COURSE IN MIRACLES
Lesson 56
(26) My attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability.
How can I know who I am when I see myself as under constant attack? Pain, illness, loss, age and death seem to threaten me. All my hopes and wishes and plans appear to be at the mercy of a world I cannot control. Yet perfect security and complete fulfillment are my inheritance. I have tried to give my inheritance away in exchange for the world I see. But God has kept my inheritance safe for me. My own real thoughts will teach me what it is.
(27) Above all else I want to see.
Recognizing that what I see reflects what I think I am, I realize that vision is my greatest need. The world I see attests to the fearful nature of the self-image I have made. If I would remember who I am, it is essential that I let this image of myself go. As it is replaced by truth, vision will surely be given me. And with this vision, I will look upon the world and on myself with charity and love.
(28) Above all else I want to see differently.
The world I see holds my fearful self-image in place, and guarantees its continuance. While I see the world as I see it now, truth cannot enter my awareness. I would let the door behind this world be opened for me, that I may look past it to the world that reflects the Love of God.
(29) God is in everything I see.
Behind every image I have made, the truth remains unchanged. Behind every veil I have drawn across the face of love, its light remains undimmed. Beyond all my insane wishes is my will, united with the Will of my Father. God is still everywhere and in everything forever. And we who are part of Him will yet look past all appearances, and recognize the truth beyond them all.
(30) God is in everything I see because God is in my mind.
In my own mind, behind all my insane thoughts of separation and attack, is the knowledge that all is one forever. I have not lost the knowledge of Who I am because I have forgotten it. It has been kept for me in the Mind of God, Who has not left His Thoughts. And I, who am among them, am one with them and one with Him.
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EDGAR CAYCE DAILY READING
Think on This...

All are in that position of being able to be used, if they will but recognize their opportunities day by day in their choices of dealings with their fellow-men. What is the choice? That as creates love, hope, faith, patience, kindness, gentleness in the experience . . .
Reading 1992-1

TODAY'S RELIGIOUS iCON

 SAINT OF THE DAY

Thomas Merton

 O.C.S.O. (January 31, 1915 – December 10, 1968) was an Anglo-American Catholic writer and mystic. A Trappist monk of the Abbey of Gethsemani, Kentucky, he was a poet, social activist, and student of comparative religion. In 1949, he was ordained to the priesthood and given the name Father Louis.
Merton wrote more than 70 books, mostly on spirituality, social justice and a quiet pacifism, as well as scores of essays and reviews, including his best-selling autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain (1948), which sent scores of disillusioned World War II veterans, students, and even teen-agers flocking to monasteries across the US, and was also featured in National Review's list of the 100 best non-fiction books of the century. Merton was a keen proponent of interfaith understanding. He pioneered dialogue with prominent Asian spiritual figures, including the Dalai Lama, the Japanese writer D.T. Suzuki, and the Vietnamese monk Thich Nhat Hanh. Merton has also been the subject of several biographies.



RANDOM ACT OF KINDNESS
Remind yourself that God is in everything you see today.