Below is an excerpt from A Course in Miracles further explaining today's meditation lesson:
You are indeed essential to God's plan. Without your joy, His joy is incomplete. Without your smile, the world cannot be saved. While you are sad, the light that God Himself appointed as the means to save the world is dim and lusterless, and no one laughs because all laughter can but echo yours.
You are indeed essential to God's plan. Just as your light increases every light that shines in Heaven, so your joy on earth calls to all minds to let their sorrows go, and take their place beside you in God's plan. God's messengers are joyous, and their joy heals sorrow and despair. They are the proof that God wills perfect happiness for all who will accept their Father's gifts as theirs.
Our part in salvation then, as the Course suggests, is to be joyous. Salvation is the same as forgiveness, which brings us joy. These, as mentioned in previous postings, are all derived from Love. Our function is one of Love, one of forgiveness and joy, and one of salvation. They are all the same.
If you ever doubt your worth in our world's salvation, consider this metaphor:
Those of you who have ever put up Christmas lights are probably aware that if just one of the tiny bulbs goes out, the whole string of lights becomes dark. Each one is connected. Removing one disrupts the whole circuitry. We are no different. Each one of us is joined together by the Energy Field of God. Each one of us is an individuated Aspect of Divinity. Each one of us is a tiny light bulb on a Great Circuit of Light. If our light goes out, so does the Whole. The beauty of God's design is that our inner-light can never go out, even in death. Our light, our spirit, the unit of energy currently inhabiting our bodies, will transform into another manifestation of God's Love. The Great Circuitry forever remains intact.
Another way to look at it is that we are each a link in a Great Chain which connects us all together. When our bodies die, links bind together where we once were, as a new link is created where we are reborn. The Chain can never be broken. Without each one of us, without each link in place, it could not exist.
On this day we remember the tragedy of September 11th, 2001. Many links in the Chain of Life were re-positioned that day. As a result, our nation had to bind together, both to mourn the loss of those who had passed and to grow in our strength and compassion for one another. There is great Joy in strength and compassion, but must it come at such a price? If our part is essential to God's plan for salvation, and joy is our function in that part, how do we maintain that feeling in the presence of such devastation?
We must remember that any perceived tragedy is an illusion of the physical world. We must recognize the errors of thinking that brought us to that event, but we must also look past the picture to See the possibilities for correcting our way of thinking. Even in the presence of devastation, there is Light. There is always the potential for a miracle to occur, for a shift in perception from fear to Love.
Though we were mourning as a nation on September 11th, the majority of us did become more loving and more compassionate with one another. This was the miracle hidden beneath the tragedy of 9/11. After our period of mourning, I believe that America's people did become more joyous than we were before. Yes, there have been missteps along the way, and yes, other devastating events and circumstances have occurred within the last nine years, but I believe that overall, our Light does shine brighter now. I believe we have more of an understanding than we once did that We are All One.
So let us truly realize our importance today. Let us each recognize our essential presence in the Great Circuitry of Light, in the Chain of Life. Let this awareness bring us an abundance of Joy, and power us with the ability to Love and Forgive. By this, we will come to know our Salvation.
Until tomorrow,
Journeyman
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