Do you remember the feeling of coming to the end of a long cold winter. It seems like only yesterday the ground was coverd in snow. But on this particular morning the sun is shining brightly through the window and as you look outside you smile as you see that overnight the grass has turned green and the garden has sprung to life. Daffodils everywhere!
That's just now I felt as I came into the Miracle Cafe this morning. My heart sang.. to find you all in here shining so brightly. A vision come true. Thank you all so much. It felt like an early spring..LOL!
I was reminded of this beautiful piece in a Course In Miracles:
The Thought of God surrounds your little kingdom, waiting at the barrier you built, to come in and shine upon the barren ground. See how life springs up everywhere! The desert becomes a garden, green and deep and quiet, offering rest to those who lost their way, and wander in the dust. Give them a place of refuge, prepared by love for them, where once a desert was. And every one you welcome will bring love with him, from Heaven for you. They enter one by one into this holy place, but they will not depart as they had come, alone.
The love they BROUGHT with them will STAY with them, as it will stay with YOU. And, under its beneficence, your little garden will expand, and reach out to everyone who thirsts for living water, but has grown too weary to go on alone. Go out and FIND them, for they bring your Self with them. And lead them gently to your quiet garden, and receive their blessing there. So will it grow, and stretch across the desert, leaving no lonely little kingdoms locked away from love, and leaving YOU outside. And you will RECOGNIZE yourself, and see your little garden gently transformed into the Kingdom of Heaven, with all the love of its Creator shining upon it.
