1 God's will for me is perfect happiness.
2 I share God's will for perfect happiness for me.
A miracle a day...
According to a Course in Miracles forgiveness gives me everything I want. We are also reminded that we do not do the the forgiving, we just need to show the tiniest bit of willingness and the Holy Spirit takes care of the rest. There is also apparently no order in the importance of miracles. No miracles bigger or smaller. Yet in this form my miracle today was seemingly minute.
I had to return a small parcel of socks that Christopher didn't like. Now there's a miracle that wouldn't be so minute, finding a pair of socks he likes! But about that perhaps another time. The link by the return code was telling me to go to a post office just up the road in a small village near us.
'Oh no!' I thought to myself. 'The lady who served me there last time was so grumpy!' And with that thought I was already looking for other post offices offering return services. But the lousy Internet signal and more importantly my small inner voice was whispering 'forgiveness opportunity' as is everything in this life from the smallest nuisance to the biggest of tragedies.
So i decided I was willing to forgive her and myself. When we need to forgive others it's really ourselves we need to forgive.
I calmly got out of my car and walked in the shop where this post office was. There was a lady ahead of me in the cue. Taking what felt like half an hour. Forgiveness opportunity number two! When she stepped away I took a deep breath and probably forgot to take another one for a few minutes half expecting the lady behind the window to tell me off again for something. But I managed to smile at her as if I was seeing her for the first time in my life. And she smiled back. And we exchanged pleasantries and she sorted my parcel and off I went with a peaceful heart and a quiet smile.
In the few years I've been practicing the Course I've been having more and more moments like this. With strangers, with loved ones, with myself. I've decided to pluck up the courage and start sharing them. Writing brings me joy, I'd almost forgotten just how much joy actually. If only one person is touched by these words, then me sitting here reflecting was worth it. May you be as blessed by these lines as I have been by the ones that inspired them. Nx
