The hush of Heaven holds my heart today.

“Father, how still today! How quietly do all things fall in place! This is the day that has been chosen as the time in which I come to understand the lesson that there is no need that I do anything.”

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I NEED DO NOTHING.

When I look back over my life, the things that were pure grace came to me with no effort at all. I had chance encounters with strangers, interactions that were effortless, and things just given to me. I was given a 2-bedroom house with a fireplace near the ocean in Cape Cod by a woman living in Boston. I talked to her on the telephone for 15 minutes, and she sent me the keys. No money down. No credit check.

Someone else gave me and Bastiaan the keys to their apartment in Grammercy Park, NYC during a time when we didn’t have a job nor a dime to our name. We were in the East Village teaching A Course in Miracles and someone said “You two need to be in this city. This city needs you” and then she gave us a phone number of a Dutch couple who was moving to Canada. We had no intention of moving to New York. We were only supposed to be there for one month and we had plane tickets back to Wisconsin. But what the heck, we thought. Let’s call. What have we got to lose? So Bastiaan called and had a 10-minute phone conversation in Dutch, and when he got off the phone he said to me, “We can go pick up the keys tomorrow. They said we can pay them when we have jobs and money.”

?!?? What?????

I know. Talk about unheard of. We lived there for 9 months.

Within a week of moving in, we both got great jobs. I worked for NYC’s premiere celebrity catering company Great Performances. That was the ride of a lifetime.

Another time I wanted to move from Cape Cod back to NYC, and I was waitressing in Cape Cod and I was at work complaining very loudly that I didn’t have a place to live in New York and that I had no money for the 3 months that is usually required to get an apartment (1st month, last month & security deposit), and how impossible it was to find a place in NYC, etc. and this waitress I had never seen before materialized out of nowhere and said: “I have an apartment in NJ, do you want to live there?”

Yes, in fact. I do. Thank you very much. And she handed me the keys.

Then another time … I answered an ad for an apartment in Brooklyn, and it was a ground-floor garden apartment and same thing: no credit check, and the guy just hands me the keys. I complained about the horrible floor and the landlord says: Do you want a new floor? I’ll put in a new floor for you. Do you have time now? Let’s go to Home Depot and you can pick out the floor you want and I’ll put it in before you move in. I have a car. Let’s go.

And off we went. I lived there for four years … in an apartment with a great hardwood floor and a backyard with benches and a stone table.

I need do nothing.

It is your INHERITANCE that life be effortless.

Sure, yes, I had to show up at various apartments. Sure, yes, I had to make phone calls. Sure, yes, I had to explain my situation. Sure, yes, I had to ask for help, send out resumes, and get a job. There was always monthly rent to pay.

But it was always easy. There was never a struggle.

Things normally don’t just fall from the sky into your lap (although, sometimes, they do!)

But I have never had to go through cumbersome circuitous routes of difficulty to get a job, a relationship, or a place to live. Things WILL just get handed to you if you have a little faith.

For me, I trust wholeheartedly in the GOODNESS of people. I love people. I’m not one of those individuals who think people are out to screw you. I don’t think people are lying and scheming. Call me naive. But whenever I go into a situation, I am always excited to meet a new friend. Finding a job or finding a place to live is always secondary to me. Instead I am always anticipating the possibility of extraordinary individuals. The primary goal in all my doings is to have a holy encounter.

And the result is that life is effortless.

I need do nothing.

Here’s a prayer from today’s lesson:

Father, God,
In You is everything I hope to find already given me. Your peace is mine. My heart is quiet, and my mind at rest. Your Love is Heaven, and Your Love is mine. The stillness of today will give us hope that we have found the way, and traveled far along it to a wholly certain goal.

Today we will not doubt the end which God Himself has promised us. We trust in Him, and in our Self, Who still is one with Him.