Christmas Eve 1979
God as Friend
We tend to forget that God is our Friend. Jesus is our friend. A Christian Hymn says: “What a friend we have in Jesus.”
We celebrate the presence of Christ and not only the history of Christ’s appearance years ago.
Everyone grows toward God in their own way, and it may not be our way. Be supportive to everyone. Yogananda treated everyone like a child of God.
The friendship God and Jesus extend to us is to our soul. This is the kind of love we must strive to cultivate for Jesus and God, and for the God in one another.
A good affirmation: say that from today onward, I will be closer to God.
Also affirm for the new year to keep your meditation time, your appointment with God.
When you learn to live in the present moment you will find a sense of fulfillment and joy coming to you.
To give the spirit of Christmas, realize that it is conscious that we are giving, by our vibration, the tone of our voice, our smiles, through the light in our eyes, even more than by words.
This was one of Swami Kriyananda’s regularly scheduled classes in the series “Pathways to Superconsciousness.” I just happened to fall on Christmas Eve!
