You can picture the attributes you choose as tiles in a mosaic, as large, small, resplendent, glowing and beautiful as you desire.

 

 

 

 

You are free to make your own mosaic.  Indeed, without your own freely chosen mosaic, all of your efforts to date must be haphazardly random. Sometimes you get it right and feel good about life, but more often you miss the mark.

To “miss the mark” is the original idea of sin. The result of missing the mark is feeling wrong, vaguely unhappy, anxious and off kilter.

You will know this feeling well.

 

Can you imagine

 

 

Can you imagine the life you could have, were you to turn every part of you in the same direction? You wouldn’t be pulled this way and that, riven by a false sense of duty to some old idol you accepted in the past: family harmony, not rocking the boat, being useful, whatever it may have been.

 

You will have your own worn out idols.

 

Were every part of you to turn in the same direction, you would stop having conflicting goals, each one pulling against another,  preventing you from doing anything.

 

What if

 

 

What if you instead took time and consciousness to make your own mosaic. Begin with one tile. What attribute would you most like to have in your life right now? You will know what this is. We proceed by contrast. The drowning man has no problem identifying air as his number one need. The thirsty desire nothing else but water.

 

 

What is your greatest need right now?  What do you want above all?  Indulge yourself.  What do you wish for and lament the absence of?  What is your heart’s desire and ease?

 

 

Select that as the first tile of your mosaic. Lay it upon the altar of your heart. Worship it, call it by name, thank it for being there. Realize that , because you have consciously invited it in, there it must always stay, gently increasing, drawing more of itself to you by law of attraction.

 

 

Make your wish

 

Thank You, Intimacy, for being in my heart. Now I will never again think, nor be thought of, apart from you, the merging of two into one. From now on, we go by one name. 

Thank You, Joy, for being in my heart. Now I have a place to always be acquainted with you, Joy. Increase your presence within me. 

Thank You, Intuition, for dwelling within me. I would have been lost so many times without You. Thank You for all you have done to guide me. Teach me gently what it is to always listen to You first. Let me remember:

 

I am not a body, I am free. I have the Voice which God has given me, and this is all my mind obeys

Lesson 199, Workbook

A Course in Miracles

 

 

You are welcome to make your mosaic as large as you like. Visit it often. You will quickly notice how much more one-pointed, deft, sure and effective you have become.