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.
✨ Summary & practice
“I seek only what is truly mine.” This idea continues the thought that joy and peace are not vain dreams. You are entitled to them because of what you are. They come from God, and God cannot fail to give you what He wills. But there must be a place prepared to receive His gifts. Today, you remove all the worthless gifts you have made and placed on the altar, making room for God’s gifts.
His gifts are those that are truly yours. Those you received as your inheritance before time began. Those that will always be yours when time has passed. Those that are within you now, because they are timeless. You do not need to wait to have them, they are yours today. You choose to have them now, and by choosing them instead of what you have made, you unite your will with God’s.
This block of lessons (101–105) on happiness culminates in lesson 104. After declaring happiness as God’s Will (101), sharing that Will (102), identifying God as happiness (103), lesson 104 guides you to seek this happiness as your rightful inheritance. Lesson 105 concludes by declaring that the peace and joy of God are yours. This five-lesson block prepares you for the deep contemplation of lessons 106–110.
Today, begin your practice periods by saying: “I seek only what is truly mine, and joy and peace are my inheritance.” Set aside the world’s conflicts that offer other gifts. Clear a holy place in your mind before God’s altar, where His gifts of peace and joy are welcome. When a temptation arises to seek happiness elsewhere, in money, relationships, recognition, remember: this is not what is truly yours.
You seek what is already yours. And what is yours is the peace and joy of God.
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