Don’t wait another day for your gifts

“What modest dreamers we have become.”—Zadie Smith

I’d like to start with a ginormous shoutout to Danielle Cross whose four-word comment on a recent FB post inspired me to write this blog today.

Her kind words, brief though they may be, catalyzed me to share a few thoughts, the first of which is you never know how important a simple compliment can be in another person’s life. It could be a sign, an answer to a prayer or, as in this case, much-needed motivation.   

Every last one of you, who take the time to read and comment on my crazy musings, means the world to me. As Ram Das famously said, “We’re all just walking each other home.” So thank you one and all for the overwhelming kindness you’ve shown me over the years.

Today’s Course lesson included the sentence I used for the above headline. Indeed, why wait another day, even another minute to claim your gifts?

The gifts come when we let go of the past, when we quit believing that today is going to be a clone of yesterday, and the day before and the day before that. Absolutely anything could happen today. You could meet the person you’ll marry or start a business with. You might learn something that will propel your life onto a whole new trajectory. Who knows?

Our gifts can only come when we quit investing in the world woven from false premises. Atul Gawande, professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School, says 80 percent of the fibers going to the brain’s visual cortex do not come from the retina. Rather they come from the region of your brain that controls memory functions. Our minds remember what to think, what to see. They don’t process what’s really there. They’re certainly not open to infinite potentiality.

Lately, I’ve been using the term “going old” when I fall back into a familiar pattern or choose an option because it feels “safe.”  I no longer want to return to what I’ve known. I don’t want to think the thoughts the news media tells me are important. I don’t want to “go old.”

I prefer to get my vision, my thoughts, my marching orders from the Infinite Transmission. When I do, I find that everything I need to know, everything required to live a life of meaning and joy is right there in the now, streaming in loud and clear. Without emotions of the past, without stories from “the old” to disrupt the Infinite Transmission, there is no anxiety, no illness, no anything but everlasting peace.

#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)