I Am Joyful in the Joy of God
Thou hast made known to
me in the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance. –Acts 2:28
Emerson said that prayer is the
proclamation of a joyful and beholding
soul. And throughout the Bible, we find so many references to the joy of God
and the gladness we should have in God’s Presence. How can we help being glad
and filled with joy if we believe that the Presence and the Power back of
everything is one perfect Life, forever giving of Itself, forever imparting
Itself to us, forever flowing through us in wondrous light and power? Jesus
said that if the multitude did not break forth in song, the very stones would
be compelled to, by which he means all nature is alive and awake and aware with
the Divine Presence, and that all nature and everything in life responds to the
song of the heart.
Therefore, today I am filled with
joy. I let every sense of depression or heaviness depart from my mind and let
my soul be lifted up in song to the Giver of all life and to the joy of living.
Joy shall accompany me like a companion, and happiness shall be to me as a
comrade. There is a song in my heart, singing unto the Creator of all things,
and there is an invisible chorus responding through everything in nature,
through every person I meet, for today I am meeting everything with joy and
happiness, with song and laughter, with gladness in my heart. I proclaim this
day to be one of happiness, one of thanksgiving and praise to the Most High
God, to the Divine Presence that inhabits eternity and finds a dwelling place
in my own soul. Today I express gratitude to this Inner Presence, and this
Presence in which I am enveloped is one living Spirit of color and
responsiveness—the Author of Joy, and peace, of freedom and wholeness. Ernest Holmes
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