Mary:
In our reading of A Course in Miracles, this is what stands out in Workbook Lesson 69:
Try to remember that you are at last joining your will to God’s. Try to keep the thought clearly in mind that what you undertake with God must succeed. Then let the power of God work in you and through you, that His Will and yours be done.” (W-pI.69.8:4-6)
To let the power of God work in me and through me, I must become as a little child. I must let go of the reins. I ask Holy Spirit how to do this. The Holy Spirit reminds me to relax and let go of all body tension… Holy Spirit reminds me again and again and again to relax and let go of the past, to let go of thinking that I know anything… I need to continue to let go until there is a strong feeling of quietness… I must place all I think I know on God’s altar, where all that is not helpful disappears in the Light… I continue this process of letting go… I am reminded once again that it is not my job to make anything happen.
In this place of quietness there is a growing sense of peace… I am more willing to follow where peace leads me in my mind… I see that joining with God’s power lies in my willingness to accept God’s peace… I am aware that my job is to continue to accept God’s peace and follow where peace leads me all day today. As I practice this everything falls into place, with God’s Will leading the way… Easy does it…
Robert:
Every day I make plans. Every day I am reminded to let them go and follow Holy Spirit’s lead. It is interesting to observe how tenaciously I hang on to the belief that I can make meaningful plans on my own. I certainly have had plenty of demonstrations that my self-made plans do not get me what I really want. But in line with the ego’s motto, “seek and do not find,” I keep trying again to make some plan that I think will get me something I value.
Still I see progress. I more quickly recognize when I’m trying to take control and I more quickly step back. I still hold some areas back as ones that I am clearly more qualified to plan for. Of course I get the consequences of those plans and eventually get the message that I’m not as qualified as I think. These self-made attempts to plan and analyze to resolve problems simply delay my return to the happiness and peace that God has already given.
I am grateful that I have gotten a taste of the happiness and peace and Love that is within me when I am willing to set aside my little ideas of what I am and what the world is. I am grateful that I have the means in my mind to learn to see past the false images of the dream and see the reality of Love everywhere. I am grateful that as I forgive the past I move into the happy dream, where I see all images with forgiving eyes that let the Light of Love shine through. Today is another happy day of practice.
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