Daily Readings for Monday, April 1st

24 Hours a Day

Meditation for the Day

God is all around us. His spirit pervades the universe. And yet we often do not let His spirit in. We try to get along without His help and we make a mess of our lives. We can do nothing of any value without God’s help. All our human relationships depend on this. When we let God’s spirit rule our lives, we learn how to get along with others and how to help them.

Prayer for the Day

I pray that I may let God run my life. I pray that I will never again make a mess of my life through trying to run it myself.

Language of Letting Go

Going Easy

Go easy. You may have to push forward, but you don’t have to push so hard. Go in gentleness – go in peace.

Do not be in so much of a hurry. At no day, no hour, no time are you required to do more than you can do in peace.

Frantic behaviors and urgency are not the foundation for our new way of life.

Do not be in too much of a hurry to begin. Begin, but do not force the beginning if it is not time. Beginnings will arrive soon enough.

Enjoy and relish middles, the heart of the matter.

Do not be in too much of a hurry to finish. You may be almost done, but enjoy the final moments. Give yourself fully to those moments so that you may give and get all there is.

Let the pace flow naturally. Move forward. Start. Keep moving forward. Do it gently, though. Do it in peace. Cherish each moment.

Today, God, help me focus on a peaceful pace rather than a harried one. I will keep moving forward gently, not frantically. Help me let go of my need to be anxious, upset, and harried. Help me replace it with a need to be a peace and in harmony.

Procrastination Time…Literally

Here we are, a full three weeks into Daylight Savings Time and there’s only one clock in the house showing the correct time. All the others, except for the clock on my computer, are still one hour behind. And for some reason, I find it hard to go through and change them.

I have to ask myself why I keep procrastinating changing all the clocks. I’m one of those people who loves clocks, so there are quite a few to be changed. I’ll also add that I have a “rule” in my house that says the clocks must have ALL the numbers on them. None of this 12, 3, 6 ,9 stuff for me. So why would someone so particular about the types of clocks not also want them showing the correct time?

So I’ve made a promise to myself today to go around and change ALL the clocks to the correct time. It will probably take no longer than ten minutes and the world will be well again. Well, there is that large clock on the wall in the living room that has a dead battery and I’ll need to carefully take it off the wall and find out what size battery it uses. But even this, I will do today.

Patient progress, not perfection….

**Note – I guess I’d better do my taxes as well…they’re less forgiving than the clocks in my house.