My present happiness is all I see.
I appreciate this lesson because it reinforces the fact that once I became aware of truth, of right action, of pure potentiality, I could no longer continue the illusion of running from myself. I could no longer mask my feelings, my fleeing responses, without seeing their negative impacts; in that, you can run and you can try to hide, but eventually it is laid bare. I can make that experience whatever I want to make it.
Even though I have a pile (several piles, actually) of work, a pile of study, a pile of prep to do....my present happiness is all I see. Everything is getting done and life is good. My old response would have been to worry and fret and become aggravated because I was interrupted and couldn't get things done in the time frame I had established. I more fully recognize now that life happens and I can't predict the myriad ways things will unfold. My acceptance of that and my release of rigid expectations makes feeling happiness that much more readily available.
Today's lesson's prayer ends with this:
What I ask have You already given me. And I am sure that I will see my happiness today.
And, indeed, I have.
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