Candle Lighting & 4th week of Advent Love

What magnificence awaits us?
Now is the time to glide into our next greatest yet to be. What magnificence awaits us? It’s up to us how we step up, out, and into higher excellence.

Affirmation: I walk with confidence and step into my best self.
Reading:Do you wish to be happy? This is a foolish question, for who would not be happy? Someone has said that we used to think we had to be well in order to be happy, but now we know that we must be happy if we wish to be well.

Happiness must be based on an inward sense of security, a sense of belonging to life and to each other; a desire to give, to be kind and compassionate, and to be able to put ourselves in the other person’s position.

Most of our unhappiness comes from our relationships with others. If we cannot be happy unless some other individual or some group of individuals admires and loves us, we have not yet realized that every person is complete within himself. For when we reach back to the true Self, which is God in us, we shall have penetrated to the innermost depths of all people.

—      Ernest Holmes, Living the Science of Mind (1984), p. 431