Deeper and Deeper

"I choose the joy of God instead of pain." -- A Course in Miracles; Workbook Lesson 190

This morning while showering I had an image of a spring of water bubbling up out of the earth. Wherever springs bubble up, watercress will grow. It will only grow in the purest of spring water. The joy of God is like that... it bubbles up from deep within us, but we're only aware of it when we let go of all our stories and judgements about ourselves and the world. Happiness and fulfillment can only be known in this purest of springs. Joy bubbles up in us continually and permanently... but we become aware of it when we allow it, from deeper and deeper within our True Self.

This joyful awareness of our Oneness with All appears to deepen over time. I say appears, because the eternal is the same yesterday, today, and always... it's only our perception that's expanding and deepening, to remember what has always been. But this experience of deeper and deeper, immersed in the oceanic feeling of Spirit, filled with the bubbling bliss of joy, timeless and eternal... it feels new every day. God has been described by many as 'ever-new joy.'

What possible phenomena could attract my attention when I'm filled with such divine contentment? What possible need could there be in the midst of such divine completeness? What is there to do? Where is there to go? What is there to say? Who else is there to be? All that remains is the bliss of deeper and deeper awareness of effortless, endless, ever-new, bubbling joy. Deeper and deeper into Self. Effortless and free.

"Your Self is radiant in this holy joy; unchanged, unchanging, and unchangeable, forever and forever." -- A Course in Miracles; Workbook Lesson 190, 6:5