“There is an ever present goodness threading through the natural world, evident in every act of kindness and love made visible.”—Carrie Newcomer
On the plane ride home from Spain, I fell in love with a pair of four-year-old twin girls, wearing matching flowered dresses.
We first met in the Madrid airport where they had ingeniously created their own playground behind the airport terminal seats.
I couldn’t help but watch as they skipped, giggled and chased each other, exuding a natural sense of joy.
And I began to wonder. If that’s how little humans come into this world, wouldn’t it make sense that a 40-year-old or a 60-year-old, with considerably more years to enjoy their life, would be even more bubbly and gleeful? With normal development, seems they’d be ecstatic by now.
Today’s Course in Miracles lesson says that’s not just theoretical. If we can accept the truth about ourselves and allow our natural light to shine, we, too, can experience a natural sense of joy.
In fact, we already have it. It’s just temporarily covered up by all our crazy thoughts and beliefs. Over the course of our lives, we gather up a lot of ideas about who we are, what we’re capable of, what is possible.
But everything we have picked up and put into our belief basket is just a story that hides our inner four-year-olds, secretly grinning with love.
Have the best weekend of your lives, my loves. I adore you and am just so grateful for each and every one of you who takes the time to read my crazy musings.
#222 Forever!
Pam Grout is the author of 20 books including E-Squared, E-Cubed, Thank & Grow Rich and her latest book, The Course in Miracles Experiment: A Starter Kit for Rewiring Your Mind (And Therefore Your World)
26 Responses
Thank you, dear Pam, for being a blessing unto our “world.” 🙏🧡
Once I was that four years old twin girl. We were laughing and cycle with an old bike on a hill. We laughed so much and were happy with nothing. Nowadays I found it difficult to be happy..
I’m looking for my inner happy four year old self..
thank you for your article. ❤️
Thank you Pam. I adore you and am so very grateful for these reminders to just love life and say farewell to all of my stupid beliefs. Have an amazing wonderful weekend. 🤗
Love everything about you including and especially your crazy musings!! Helps all of us stay on track!!
I love hearing about the twins playing! Thank you for sharing that!
And thank you to the course for reminding us how electric the
world is!
Love this thought. My first employment was as Director of Early Childhood Programs for a local school district. I keep tucked away in my heart special moments and this is one of them.
Me-Jacob why are you so happy and excited today?
Jacob-Teacher because it is Tuesday.
Me-Oh do you have exciting plans?
Jacob-Tuesday is exciting plans!
How right you were and are Jacob…The wisdom of a 5-year-old….
Happy Weekend Everyone!!!
Kate
Love you too. Thank you , gracias , gracias . Love and light 💚🌈
I love all your crazy musings! The 4 year old in me, skips and giggles with the 4 year old in you! Safe travels and welcome home 🥳
Your musings are reminders of our natural right to experience joy, and all the tools we have to do that, thank you dear Pam for sharing them! Much love.
Dear Pam- hope you are home safe and sound. I really enjoyed this story, because I make it a priority to laugh and giggle about something every day, several times. Thanks to your musings, I know that the Dude is always providing me with these opportunities, and feel such gratitude for knowing this.
Warm regards, Shoshana
I adore you too x
Please don’t ever stop your crazy musings! We are so grateful for the reminders 😄🙏
Thank you for this. My great granddaughter and I are “Weird” in a beautiful amazing way! And, we now have our own Weird group! It’s so much fun!!! 😉🫶
Adoring returned, grateful so much to you for sharing your beautiful musings, so grateful I get to read this and remember the truth.
Lots of big Love to you💕❤
I adore you too dear Pam, and am so glad you share your crazy musings with us here. They often set off a ‘lightbulb moment’ for me, and always inspire or delight me, so it’s a pleasure to read them and to start my weekend off with a boost of joy! 🥳 My lightbulb moment today came from you saying that “everything we have picked up and put in our belief basket during our life is just a story that hides our inner 4 year old who is secretly grinning with love.” My mind lit up when I read the words ‘belief basket’ and I had a clear picture of myself carrying a basket and gathering up all sorts of ‘goodies’ and putting them in there. And it became so clear to me that I could easily let go of old limiting beliefs if I could picture them as an item in a basket I was carrying that I could just take out and throw away. Or blow away like blowing dandelion seeds into the wind. And likewise I can now easily adopt new nourishing beliefs because after all they are just an item I need to pick up and put in my ‘belief basket’. Yes!! So thank you for giving me the chance to have this ‘lightbulb moment’ today, and for reminding me that my joyful, delighted inner 4 year old is just hiding under those old, boring stories that I’ve forgotten to take out of my basket. 🧺🎈🥳 Have a wonderful weekend yourself dear Pam. I’m going to imagine all of us here dancing and giggling through our days like happy, carefree 4 year olds, loving life to bits! Amen! 😄💃👩🏽🤝👨🏼🕺🎉
PS I didn’t realise how long this reply was until I re read it to check for typos! So hopefully my own ‘crazy musings’ will be helpful or entertaining for someone here who happens to read this message! 😁
I absolutely adore you too Pam! Your muses are awesome!! You remind me of how cool the Dude is and how I can be do or have. Bless you ❤
Always love your words Pam and beautiful spirit you so happily share with us. To joy and embracing our inner child. Much love from down under. ❤️🙏
I love you too. Thank you so much for the inspiring notes.🐋🦋💝
Pam
Thank you for you uplifting messsges
I smile when I read them and it really makes my day 🌈❤️
ABSOLUTELY LOVE YOUR CRAZY MUSINGS!!!! The world is a better place because we have those crazy musings!!!
BRIT’ BUNNY DIANE.
We’ll have to clone you Pam! Imagine having your musings as we awaken
each morning – yippee! Love and giggles to all friends out there.
My Dear Pam Friend–Ain’t you a delight! What a gift it is to know you! Thanks for coming back from Spain to brighten our waiting Midwest. Yes–Joy! Joy! Joy! Joy! “I came from Joy. For Joy I live. And in sacred Joy I shall melt again.” –Yogananda Love always, Bobaloo
I adore your crazy musings; They are not crazy, I believe they are true!
Thank you, I love it! I believe all your word! #222 Forever
Well, we are grateful you have crazy musings to read, thank you.
I am grateful that I discovered you and I appreciate you ♥️. Can anyone answer a question for me. I have gone through the Scavenger Hunt in the 10th anniversary book. I found some and didn’t find others. Is it ok to start over until I get them all? I’m not willing to declare that “it doesn’t work”. Not when O have manifested some of the things. Thank you! ♥️