Today’s idea continues with the thought that joy and peace are not but
idle dreams. They are your right, because of what you are. They come to
you from God,Who cannot fail to give you what He wills. Yet must there
be a place made ready to receive His gifts. They are not welcomed gladly
by a mind which has instead received the gifts it made where His belong,
as substitutes for them.
Today we would remove all meaningless and self-made gifts which we have
placed upon the holy altar where God’s gifts belong. These are the gifts
which are our own in truth. His are the gifts which we inherited before
time was, and which will still be ours when time has passed into
eternity.
These are the gifts which are within us now, for they are timeless. And
we need not wait to have them. They belong to us today. Therefore we
will to have them now, and know in choosing them in place of what we
made we but unite our will with what God wills, and recognize the same
as being One.
Our longer practice periods today, the hourly five minutes given truth
for your salvation, should begin with this:
“I seek but what belongs to me in truth,
And joy and peace are my inheritance.”
Then lay aside the conflicts of the world that offer other gifts and
other goals made of illusions, witnessed to by them, and sought for only
in a world of dreams. All this we lay aside, and seek instead that which
is truly ours, as we ask to recognize what God has given us.
We clear a holy place within our minds before His altar, where His gifts
of peace and joy are welcome, and to which we come to find what has been
given us by Him. We come in confidence today, aware that what belongs to
us in truth is what He gives. And we would wish for nothing else, for
nothing else belongs to us in truth.
So do we clear the way for Him today by simply recognizing that His Will
is done already, and that joy and peace belong to us as His eternal
gifts. We will not let ourselves lose sight of them between
the times we come to seek for them where He has laid them. This reminder
will we bring to mind as often as we can:
“I seek but what belongs to me in truth.
God’s gifts of joy and peace are all I want.”