“Your work is that of creation. Your creation is your service to the world as your Father’s work is his service to you. As you cannot imagine God toiling, so you should cease to imagine yourself doing thus. (A Course of Love, 29.10)”
Affirmation: “I would refrain from ‘toiling’ today.”
Reflections:
1 – Protestant Work Ethic
Many of us think that God is a hard taskmaster, because the Protestant work ethic is embedded in our culture here in the United States. God is not a hard taskmaster; it is ourselves that merely think this, erroneously. God would have us work effortlessly, and when we are living the Self/Christ that we really are, we are at peace, relaxed, and capable of great service to others (and ourselves) without strain. We work the easy way.
2 – Toil Unnecessary
It is only our perchance for toil that seems to bring it upon us. We do not need to toil in service to ourselves, and we also do not need to toil in service to others. Easy does it. The best and hardest work is that which is the easiest to do. We may not immediately believe this assertion, but let us reread the passage for today, and, if we believe it, we will know this to be true.
3 – Creation
Our creation is not the “making” that was of the ego. Instead, our creation is creating in the real world, the world beyond illusions, the world of joy, peace, harmony. These intangibles of God find concrete form when we listen to His guidance to us. And only then. We work amiss when we try–try–to do “good works” for Him. He would not have us strive to please Him by such means. He will teach us the easy way to work, if we will only listen.
4 – Hardest Work Becomes Easy
So, let us have no more of hard toil. The hardest work, objectively, becomes easy when we invite God into the mix. Let us do so today.
Prayer:
Dear Father/Mother,
When we relax in Your embrace, the most stressful day becomes smooth. We do not need to toil, wearing ourselves out. When we are at home in You, then we can work very, very hard–but the work will seem effortless. And, of course, effortlessness is the easy way to work.
Thank You that Jesus said long ago that his burden was light. And when the burden is light, it truly is not a burden at all. May we spend the rest of today thanking You with grateful hearts for the burdens that no longer weigh heavily upon us.
May we cease fretting and worry. These are among the most common burdens, and with You in us, with us aware of You in us, fretting and worry are understood to be needless.
May the day go well. May we bless our brothers and sisters with our words, our thoughts,
and our actions.
Amen.
MIRACLES EACH DAY 