01.01.08

Not long ago you lived life as though it had no purpose. Now you know it has no purpose, save the one you give it. That's a very good sign.

Not Long ago you begged the universe to bring you Truth. Now you tell the universe your truth. And that's a very good sign.

Not long ago you sought to be rich and famous. Now you seek to be simply, and wonderfully, your Self.

And not so very long ago you feared Me. Now you love Me, enough to call Me your equal.

All of these are very, very good signs.

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So the question is not: Why start off on such a path? You have already started off. You did so with the first beat of your heart. The question is: Do I wish to walk this path consciously, or unconsciously? With awareness or lack of awareness? As the cause of my experience. or at the effect of it?

For most of your life you've lived at the effect of your experiences. Now, you're invited to be the cause of them. This is what is known as conscious living. That is what is called walking in awareness.

Now, many of you have walked quite some distance, as I've said. You have made no small progress. So you should not feel that after all these lives you've "only" come to this. Some of you are highly evolved creatures, with a very sure sense of Self. You know Who You Are and you know what you'd like to become. Furthermore, you even know the way to get from here to there.

That's a great sign. That's a sure indication.

~today's quotes from Chapter 9, Conversations with God

Today I am grateful...

• to have completed the year 2007 with no regrets and no wishes to shut the door on it
• for the past year of incredible growth and more acceptance than I have ever known
• that in the recent past I was granted physical care that has astonished me
• that although I make no New Years resolutions, I will strive for more conscious contact with my Higher Power. That I will search for more understanding so I can drop judgements and replace them with a common love.
• that I wish for you and yours the happiest and most prosperous year of your lives, that you truly find out Who You Are in 2008