I know how to turn anticipation into a small religion.
I decide that a purchase, invitation, achievement, or change will finally settle something in me. For a while, the wanting gives the day direction. I research, imagine, and count down.
Then the thing arrives.
It may be useful or genuinely enjoyable. But the deeper feeling I assigned to it rarely lasts as long as I expected.
I remember ordering something for the house after weeks of comparing options. When it arrived, I felt the quick satisfaction of having chosen well. By the next afternoon, I was looking at another part of the room and imagining what should be improved there.
The object had not failed. I had given it a job no object could complete.
An illusion is not necessarily a bad thing. It is anything temporary that I ask to provide a permanent experience of worth, safety, or completion.
The disappointment comes from confusing a pleasant form with the Source of satisfaction.
Today I want to enjoy what is enjoyable without asking it to save me.
I can appreciate comfort, success, beauty, and companionship. I do not have to make them responsible for proving that life is whole.
God’s Son cannot be satisfied by illusions because what I truly want is not another improved form.
I want the peace beneath the wanting.
A PRIVATE REFLECTION
What is coming up for you?
Share what you are feeling, noticing, or struggling with. The companion will respond through the lens of this lesson—not as the final truth, but as another way of seeing.
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A QUIETER WAY TO PRACTICE
Color the lesson
Slow down and spend a little longer with today’s idea. Print this page and reflect as you color.
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