“A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. Joy is not simply a matter of temperament, it is always hard to remain joyful–all the more reason why we should try to acquire it and make it grow in our hearts.” –Mother Teresa

Transformation: Bring to mind a most recent heart-felt, good feeling you had when someone did an especially nice thing for you or gave you a wonderful compliment–an incident that made you feel all-is-right-with-the-world. Bring the feeling forth. In this blessed internal environment think of something going on right now in your life that seems out of control, disappointing or distressful.

It may be a big and uncertain occasion coming up, a remodeling job with unexpected problems or extra expenses. Whatever the upset, it can drain us of peace of mind and comfort.

A personal example comes to mind when we bought a new home. So many little things needed fixing or repair so as to work properly. It was disappointing and took the joy out of having a new home. Besides, the builder was slow in correcting the numerous house problems. One day I had had it with feeling miserable in my new home.

I then took a lawn chair and sat at the edge of the back yard and looked upon the home. I asked the question, “How do I want to feel; how do I want to experience the new homestead? Certainly not the way I was feeling. I decided while observing the home from a distance to feel the happiness of the new experience and making the house into a warm and likeable home. I also chose to be Spirit centered in divine love–giving up the burden of sadness, taking on the Spirit of love and certainty that the Divine will is good and working in every way and in every thing, making all things new, smooth and operational.

Merging with the Higher Power’s energy and likeness gets the job done. Internally the drudgery of facing the things out of order was replaced with knowing things were coming into complete harmony and operable. I changed in a spiritual point of view. With patience everything was fixed, changed, or replaced and worked efficiently. Newness was restored. It took love from within me, faith in my heart and forbearance with the builder to cooperate with the process of divine good being realized.

Whatever the discord, out-of-harmony, or broken promise(s), we can choose to wake up and tune into the universal flow of divinity and follow the path of love and grace, unfolding through you and others, manifesting divine rightful results in the broken places and things.

In prayer, turning within in abandon to God’s presence of peace and comfort: We know all is well wherever we are and within and surrounding the things we hold dear, divine action and brilliant substance are working renewal and restoration. Within any doubt is an inner directive to reunite with divine light, love, and unity with God’s presence and power everywhere, in and as you! We are truly grateful and one with joy, Amen.