Day 112: Review: Lessons 93 & 94

Here are the links to my previous blog postings for lessons 93 and 94:

Day 93: Light and joy and peace abide in me.

Day 94: I am as God created me.

I looked up the word "abide" on dictionary.com, and here are the top three definitions:

1. to remain; continue; stay: Abide with me.
2. to have one's abode; dwell; reside: to abide in a small Scottish village.
3. to continue in a particular condition, attitude, relationship, etc.; last.

What a wonderful discovery it is to know that Light and Joy and Peace remain with us all our lives; that these  virtues not only stay with us, but live and reside in us; and that they continue to last, unaltered and in the same condition as they were given when God created us!

This concept may seem like a falsehood when we first hear it.  Many of us are so caught up in the illusions of our daily lives and "obligations" that we have forgotten our True Selves.  But amidst the darkness, there is Light.  Think about it.  If this weren't so, what is it then that keeps us going in our most trying times?

The moments we cherish the most in our lives are the ones filled with joy and filled with peace.  They shine the brightest of all our memories because they are filled with Light.  Even when we become swept up in the stresses of our day-to-day routines, or when we find ourselves in a particularly dark and painful chapter of our lives, we continue to march on.  We do this because we know that there will be joy again, and there will be peace again, no matter how many times we may deny that it is so.  Deep down we know this, for why else would we keep going?

For some of us (and I am guilty of having been there myself), we do give up.  We seek death, considering suicide to be the only way out of the hell we find ourselves.  For those of us fortunate enough to see through these trying times, we do find joy and peace again.  For those who tragically succeed in ending their lives by their own hands, they too, find joy and peace - for in actuality, they didn't die at all. 

We must remember that we never really die.  The end of one's life is only the end of their current body's life.  Our spirit is eternal, for it was created by God.  "I am as God created me."  God created us out of His Love, which is expressed through our inherent Light and Joy and Peace abiding in each and every one of us.  Even when the darkness of this physical world seems to engulf us entirely, our Infinite Nature remains - for not even death can extinguish our Light.

Let us rejoice today in remembering the Truth of our Being.  We are Beings of Light.  We are Beings of Joy.  We are Beings of Peace.  God created us so, and as such, so we will remain... forever and ever and ever.

Amen.

Until tomorrow,

Journeyman