Happy St. Patty’s Day! Being half Irish with the Burke’s and the Maguire’s in my linage, I enjoy celebrating this day and appreciate the Irish wit and wisdom. To me the Irish are a happy, fun loving folk who tend to be healthy, wealthy and wise in spirit first and foremost.
As we go through Alan Cohen’s book, The Course in Miracles Made Easy, we find the book teaches the natural state for all of us is health, wealth and wisdom. But to experience these things we must first acquire the consciousness or spirit of these things in order to have them show up in our lives. Health is our natural state of being. As we are made in the image of God, that means we are whole, complete and perfect. It is just through ignorance that disease and illness are made manifest. Healing is the result in a shift in consciousness from separation to wholeness, a return to your true Self.
Wealth is also first and foremost a state of consciousness. ACIM tells us our greatest wealth is to remember our spiritual identity. “Now would I be as God created me”. To know that you have enough, you must know that you are enough. And when we live from the knowledge that “my cup runneth over” we freely give and freely receive. Give the spiritual gifts of love, kindness, patience and forgiveness and it will be you who gain the experience of the gift you are giving.
All good gifts of the Holy Spirit are already given. All can be received but for the asking. ACIM states: “Here the door is never locked, and no one is denied his least request or his most urgent need. There is no sickness not already healed, no lack unsatisfied, no need unmet within this golden treasury of Christ.”
Say with me: “As I go within and feel my oneness with the One, I am made whole, healthy, prosperous and wise. All the riches I could ever desire already exist right where I stand. I now open my heart and mind to the endless flow of the divine gifts of Spirit. And it is so.”
Wayne Dyer said, “Enlightenment is your ego’s greatest disappointment.”
This Sunday I’ve chosen to highlight “The Picture and the Frame”, one of Cohen’s chapter titles. Much of our life attention goes to looking at a frame rather than the subject or substance of the masterpiece within it. We dream of and buy fancy cars; we want to live in luxury. We talk about and make comparisons of lifestyles. All of this is the “frame”. When we focus on the outer “glitz” of life, the most precious gift goes unnoticed and unappreciated.
Say with me: “I am ready to let go of fear; let go of judging and accept the sweet peace of letting love heal all my wounds. I am ready to look at, acknowledge, applaud and truly love the masterpiece that I am within the frame of my life. I am so very blessed. And it is so.”