Let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.

Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces. Psalms 122:7

"When you want peace of mind-get away from things," counseled Emmet Fox, "and dwell

upon the Presence of God instead." Your palace is your own consciousness. The walls spoken of in this Bible verse are

invisible, but just as real as any stone wall. Your walls are your convictions of Truth which protect you from the negative suggestions that are broadcast all around

you. Have a conviction of peace, entertain ideas of peace, seek to be a peace-giver to your world. God does not withhold your good, but neither does

 He force any good upon you. Instead, you must cultivate within yourself the equivalent of what you desire to be made

manifest in your life, whether it is peace, joy, prosperity, health, advancement, or whatever good you seek.

First, know that it is your birthright to claim your good. Second, prepare for that good by building the equivalent of the good you seek into your own

consciousness.

Third, be grateful for the good you seek even before you receive it. As you practice these steps, you will have peace and prosperity within the walls of your own

consciousness. Affirm now with feeling: I prepare for my good by being grateful for it now.

(Author unknown)

         The Eternal Incarnation - Emmet Fox

Christmas is the festival of the rebirth. Sooner or later we all have to be born again as Jesus said because it is no use trying to patch up the old man.

The way of salvation is to let a new man be born. This new birth is brought about by realizing our essential oneness with God, and this is the real meaning of

 Christmas. That this can be done, that we can really become the conscious expression of God, is the most wonderful news in the world,

 and that is why it is called the Gospel.

For the same reason, everyone should be happy at Christmas; and the best way to be happy yourself is to make others happy.

To find the Christ in yourself is to find It in all others too. Most people have some extra leisure at Christmas time.

This year try the experiment of spending some of that time in definitely seeking the Wonder Child in yourself.

Think about it, affirm it, listen for the response.

The reason so many people miss the best Thing in Life is that their hearts are so cluttered up with the intimate details of everyday living

that there is no room for the one thing that matters. The Christmas holiday is an ideal time to prepare

your soul for the great in-carnation. Seek, and you shall find.

"At the center of my being is Peace; this is the peace of God. In this stillness

I feel strength, guidance, and the love of His Holy Presence. I see God in everything

and personified in all men everywhere. I am full of joy and harmony."

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Live from within, if you would have power and peace.

The world, as never before, needs you and me. It needs our unwavering faith in

God. It needs our positive certainty of God-in-man -- the Christ. It needs our

steadfast love. It needs the power that comes to one - - who through faith and

love attains the Christ Consciousness. Let us radiate this consciousness at this

blessed season and throughout the year, and thus help bring greater light to the world.

Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.

Deep down in every heart is an unquenchable desire for happiness. Man is never satisfied with his life: he is for ever seeking something that is better. Until he learns wisdom, he looks for it in pleasure, in sense gratification of various kinds, in wealth, luxury and possession. The less evolved a man is the more convinced he is that happiness can be gained in these ways, and the lower are his desires. For instance, those who form what is called the underworld of our cities, seek happiness in vice and debauchery. Those who are more evolved seek pleasure in more refined things, hoping to find happiness in intellectual pursuits, friendships, and in pure human loves. These more evolved types get much more pleasure through the senses than do those who are more elemental, but they are capable also of greater and more acute suffering. They can derive great pleasure from a picture gallery, whereas a savage would see nothing interesting at all: they can also suffer from things which a savage would not be capable of feeling. Yet, in spite of this developed refinement and ability to derive pleasure from art, science, literature, etc., happiness is still as far off as ever. All attempts at finding happiness lead finally to "emptiness." There is no satisfaction, either in wealth and all that it can command, getting on in life, or in fame and power. They allure at first and promise happiness, but they fail us, and finally are seen to be but vanity and vexation of spirit.

This desire for happiness is good, for it leads us through innumerable experiences so that the soul can realize, by practical experience, the emptiness of all self-seeking, and thus learn wisdom. After running the whole gamut of experience the soul learns at last that happiness is not something that can be found by seeking it, but is an inward mental state. Although work, well done, brings a quiet sense of satisfaction, and success in one's career may also be a source of gratification for a short time, yet even these cannot satisfy the deep longing of the soul. One has only to observe the lives of those who are always selfishly seeking and grabbing, who are hard in their dealings, and always "looking after number one," in order to see how impossible it is for self-seekers to be happy. It does not matter whether they acquire riches or remain poor--they are equally unhappy. In contrast to this, you have only to go out of your way to do a kind and perfectly disinterested action and experience the glow of sheer happiness that it brings, in order to realize that you are dealing with a law of life that is as sure and unalterable as the law of gravitation. There must be a purpose in life, and this must have for its object the betterment of the lives of others, either few or many. The law of service must be obeyed, otherwise there can be no happiness. This may fill some readers with dismay, for they may be employed in an occupation that apparently does no good to anybody. They may feel that if they were engaged in some noble enterprise for the uplift of humanity, then they could truly serve, but in their present occupation this is impossible. To think thus is very natural, yet the truth is we can all obey the law of service, and can begin now, in our present occupation, no matter what it may be. We have only to do our daily work, not as a task which must be "got through," in order to bring us a living, or because it is expected of us that we should work, but as an offering of love to life and the world, in order to come into harmony with the great law of service. Our ideas of values with regard to occupations are altogether erroneous, from the "inner wisdom" point of view. The scrubbing of a doorstep, if faithfully done in a true spirit of service, is of as much value and real importance as the writing of a deathless poem, or dying for one's country. We can never truthfully say that one act of service is of greater value, or is more important than another. All that the higher law looks at is the "motive". Therefore, if your motive is right, you can be engaged in the humblest and, apparently, most useless occupation, and yet be happy because you satisfy the law of service.

Another road to happiness is the conquest of the lower nature, the overcoming of weaknesses, the climbing to higher and better things. There is intense happiness in realizing daily that old habits are being overthrown, weak points in the character built up, and an ever-increasing state of liberty and freedom entered into. Thank God, we do not have to remain as we once were, but can progress upwards, indefinitely, for there is no limit to our upward climb. But there is a state that is far higher than happiness, and this is JOY. Happiness comes through service and overcoming, but joy comes only to one who realizes his oneness with his Divine Source. The "reality" is ineffable joy. Behind this world of shadows is the real, spiritual world of splendor and delight. When the soul, after its immense journey through matter, time and space, at last finds its way back to its Divine Source, it becomes aware of this intense joy, too great to be described in words. It not only realizes that the "reality" is joy, and the universe filled, not with groans or sighing, but with the sweet, quiet laughter of freed souls! it also is filled itself with this ineffable joy. What has all this got to do with practical, everyday life, it may be asked? Everything, for the one who possesses this quiet joy can never be defeated in life's battles. He has something within him that can never be quenched and which will lead him from victory to victory.

“Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.”