One of the most important experiences that we have in our life, most often repeated is the need for decisions. Joel says multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision. If you’re ever at the crossroads of personal choice, the freedom to choose is the important difference between human creatures and the lesser forms of life.

Consciousness provides freedom to choose and the responsibility to make the choice. That’s the hard part. We have the freedom to choose anything we want but we have the responsibility to make the choice often.

So it’s in the third dimension that Christmas makes sense. And this is the inner meaning that is not very often acknowledged or even given any thought at all. It’s an idea that’s so important that it has several handholds by which we can lay hold of it according to our consciousness. Whether like the shepherds in the field, in faith and simplicity. Or whether like the wise men in reason and intellect…

Because you see, the true Christmas, third dimensional Christmas, the Christmas of the inner self, deals with giving oneself which actually involves a giving way to our greater potential. It’s a kind of birth of the Christ in the manger of consciousness. A commitment to the continued unfoldment of the greater possibilities of our nature.

One of the fundamentals of truth that we encounter early on in our quest is the statement, “everything works for good.” Sometime in your life, you may have been confronted with such a statement. At a time when you weren’t too familiar with the context. You might have thought, while facing some very difficult experience, even some strategy, what kind of wacky thought is that?

Everything works for good? What’s good in this? So first the things to be extremely Pollyanna attitude. Terribly naïve. Even irritating. You’re often told by the Truth student, “If you’re feeling down, feel unhappy or concerned about something, things are not going well, hold firmly to the thought, everything is working for good.” It’s hard to do at first, isn’t it?

By the time we come to realize that it is not Pollyanna at all. It is an expression, recognition that you are an expression of the activity of God. And Jesus said, “It is the Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.” All the time. It’s the divine will to resolve all difficulties in harmony, all the time. Even when you’re bogged down exceeding limitation. There’s a natural force for good underlying your experience. Always.