Day 151: All things are echoes of the Voice for God.

Today we are asked to give all our thoughts to God so they may be purified.  That which is a false illusion shall be stripped away before the thought returns to us, Whole and True and unencumbered.  Then we may offer this Truth upon the world and reconstruct our perceptions so that they reflect the Gifts of Heaven.  As we do so, we are reminded of the following:

All things are echoes of the Voice for God.

Echoes are not real, but they do reflect the source from which they come.  Thought is always Source.  God has entrusted us with the power to create as He does.  When we are aligned with God, Who is our Source, we create only what is worthy of Eternal Being.  When we fall out of alignment and forget Who We Really Are, we make false icons, which may exist in time but never in Eternity.

Today's meditation lesson tells us that all things are echoes of the Voice for God.  That which is not timeless, then, is also an echo.  Yet echoes can become distorted.  It is for this reason we must hold all that we see, all that we hear, all that we touch and taste and smell and, especially, think, up to the Light of God.  Let any false representations of what we behold fall away and reveal the Purity of what lies underneath.  It's as though, through the daily practice of meditation and prayer, we are given a special pair of eyeglasses.  When we look through them, we are able to discern the True from the false.  That which is a reflection of Love shines brightly through the lenses, while the rest appears as a dark shadow in the backdrop.

While I meditated upon the lesson for today, I thought about the sinister creations of this world.  Where is the Voice of God there?  As the Course instructed, I gave it to God and waited for His answer.  The thought returned to me, and I saw that even in the grimmest of circumstances, Love is there.  When tragedy occurs, there is response so kind, so communal, so truthful, that it outweighs the tragedy and restores the Lightness of our Being where we had formerly forgotten it.  Must it take a tragedy, though, for us to remember Who We Are?  I'd like to believe that it doesn't.  But as long as we allow our thoughts to carry with them beliefs of separation and fear, we will continue to collectively create that which reflects such thoughts.

Let us make the small effort, then, to remind ourselves daily through prayer and meditation of our True Divinity.  As we connect with the Source of our Being, we will be reminded of our connection to all other things.  That is how we shift the frequency of our thoughts to begin manifesting only the echoes of our collective Joy and Peace and Love.  Let us not wait for another grim event to bring us together and remind us of our Truth.  Earn the right to wear those special eyeglasses so that we may behold a world far more beautiful than the one we now inhabit.

Until tomorrow,
Journeyman