"Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven."
Enable us to know, as in heaven, so on earth, God is omnipotent, supreme.
"Give us this day our daily bread."
Give us grace for today. Feed the famished affections.
Life is effortless because it is reflection. It only becomes a pain when the "little ego" claims it is responsible for everything and has to do everything itself.
God is omni-action. And you are that Omni-action's perfect effortless reflection.
Think about this: there is no pain in reflection. There is no stress, no effort, no curse, in reflecting God, divine Love.
"All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all" - and all-harmonious. Honest labor and deeds of kindness are therefore effortless, all-harmonious, because they reflect God's good omni-action. This truth is a law of annihilation to every mortal belief in pain, in work being a pain, in work being painful, trying, tedious, difficult, fruitless.
Your work is the unfolding of Mind and its idea. It is an inspiration. It is a reflection. It is a revelation. Look for that. Listen to your intuition about what you do or don't do. Act from the point of view that God is working with you. Move from your spiritual sense - from that intuitively good perspective, from that one that includes the kind of expectancy and faithfulness which grows into a spiritual understanding. That perspective creates productivity because it is demonstrating - manifesting - Reality. In fact, your work - rightly seen - is to bear witness to Mind, God, in action as you. This witnessing is effortless, as powerful as Truth understood and as fruitful as Love lived.
"Let there be light" is how God works. God "spake and it was done" is how God works. And by reflection, this also your proper relationship to what you are called to do. This is how you truly do your work. This is how you truly live your purpose. This makes your activity light - brilliant - as well as light - weightless. Let there be light! Let your work be light. Let your light be shining. Let who you are as God's child pour out of the core of your being. Let your calling be made manifest, your purpose spoken, your work tangible. Let everything you are and do be all a reflection of God's activity in you, as you.
"As a drop of water is one with the ocean, a ray of light one with the sun, even so God and man, Father and son, are one in being. The Scripture reads: "For in Him we live, and move, and have our being." "
And your being includes everything - your relationships, your supply, your purpose, your activity, your work. In Him you live, and move, - and work - and have your being.
You only get into trouble when (to paraphrase Mrs. Eddy) you think you are an independent worker, personal author, or ever a privileged originator. But you're not. You are a reflection. God is the Cause. You are the effect. Your job is to be a reflection. Your job is to shine. Your job is to make manifest the action of Life, the light of Truth, the warmth of Love. In fact, spiritually speaking, this is already what you are and what you do.
Don't think so? Then shift your point of view. Shift it away from the fanatasy of a personal human "ego" and over to the reality of the Great I Am - the Divine Ego. What does that mean? Think about it. Think about the implications. How would you work and act if you actually understood yourself to really be the divine reflection - expression - of the Great I Am, the infinite One Mind? of the Holy Spirit? of Eternal Love? Try it! See what happens. As you do, step by step you'll demonstrate your action-as-reflection. Step by step you'll see what Love has already prepared for you. Step by step you will witness God at work through you, as you.
Think about this paraphrase of an amazing sentence from Science & Health (the original is here):
Jesus beheld in Science the perfect work where sinning mortal work appears to mortals. In this perfect work, the Saviour saw God's own Action, and this correct view of work healed the sick, labored, failed, boring, frustrated, painful, overwhelming sense of work.
"God rests in action. Imparting has not impoverished, can never impoverish, the divine Mind. No exhaustion follows the action of this Mind, according to the apprehension of divine Science. The highest and sweetest rest, even from a human standpoint, is in holy work."
God rests in action.
And by reflection, so do you.
Thy work be done in earth as it is in heaven.
Enable us to know, as in heaven, so on earth, God's work is omnipotent, supreme.
"Give us this day our daily ideas."
Give us graceful activity for today, support our awakening purpose.
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Thank you for this great post, Mark. This is very inspired. I love the idea of bread as "ideas" or grace. All we need to do to connect daily with that grace is to remove what's in the way of it and let it flow! And then, all our activities become inspired by that grace. "Let there be light! Let your work be light." So often I feel burdened by stuff to do, yet a simple shift in perception would make the same work light. There's a lot of food for thought here. Thanks!
I so appreciate your comments Aileen. I also was very grateful when that insight about light came to me - about light as brilliance and also light as weightlessness / effortlessness. I find many occasions to practice this "let your work be light" - especially these last few months, which have been very very busy with conflicting demands. But to simply remember my job as Witness to what divine Love is doing - that always makes me sigh with relief! and then inspires me to hasten to follow the intuitions that guide my next step at work. We sure get a lot of opportunities for practice! - Mark :)
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