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Gentle Healing Journal Lesson 77 1-11-19

LESSON 77
I am entitled to miracles.

“You are entitled to miracles because of what you are. You will receive miracles because of what God is. And you will offer miracles because you are one with God. Again, how simple is salvation! It is merely a statement of your true Identity. It is this that we will celebrate today.”

What makes this a special day of miracles is my acceptance that miracles are my right and so I am going to ask with confidence expecting the miracle. I must say that I am a little confused about what I am supposed to ask for.  I have a power ball ticket sitting beside me. It would take a miracle to win this. But is this the kind of thing I should ask for?

How about if I ask that my mind be completely healed of the belief that I have any needs that will not be met. Then I would not have to win a large sum of money and have lots in the bank to fall back on. If my mind were healed of the belief in lack, I would be absolutely confident in what I need showing up when I need it. I have always thought that the miracle is the healing of the mind and that what shows up as form in the world is just witness to the miracle.

“You have been promised full release from the world you made.”

This is the clue I need to understand this lesson. I haven’t bought a lottery ticket in years and did so only because I was caught up in the excitement of the billion dollar payoff for the Mega Millions. I didn’t win that, by the way. But having bought one, I wondered what I would do if I did win or even if I won the lesser prize of a million.

What I discovered is that I wouldn’t do much because I don’t have many needs, certainly, I don’t have a billion dollars worth. I also discovered that it made me tired to think of the responsibility of having that much money and the potential distractions from what really matters to me. That would not be the promised full release from the world I made. But what would be helpful is to ask for the miracle of a mind completely free of the belief that I might not have enough. Not enough is the ego mantra.

The ego says I haven’t lost enough weight. I don’t have enough money. I don’t have enough friends. I don’t have enough love and I am not loveable enough. I am not enough. It doesn’t matter what form it takes, in the ego mind there is never enough. This cannot be true because to be true, either God, as my Creator, would have to be not enough, or, the ego, which is the idea of not enough, would have to be my creator. Neither of those possibilities is true. The miracle will heal my mind of any false belief about my identity if I ask for it and I do ask.

“I am entitled to miracles.”

“Ask for them whenever a situation arises in which they are called for. You will recognize these situations. And since you are not relying on yourself to find the miracle, you are fully entitled to receive it whenever you ask.”

So today, I will pause for a miracle. I will notice those times when my mind strays to ego thinking, and I will remember that I am entitled to miracles. I will ask with confidence for the change of mind that will bring me peace. I will pay attention to my feelings because they are like smoke to fire. If I feel restricted in any way that is the smoke that tells me there is a fire in my mind that is burning away my happiness. I will ask what this is really about and then I will ask for the perfect miracle and I will be certain that I will receive it.

Regina’s Tips
Don’t decide what this means. Ask God to show you. Be like a little child that cannot find her own way, but willingly, openly and trustingly takes her parent’s hand and lets it guide her into realization.

“There is no room for doubt and uncertainty today.” – Put the mind aside. Put your illusions about yourself and about God aside. Be innocent, trusting and curious.

“We are asking a real question at last.” – What am I? What is God/truth? What is a miracle? Show me, that I may know.

My Thoughts
I appreciate this from Regina. If I use my thinking mind to decide what I am, what God is and what miracles are, I will not know anything. I am reminded of Lesson 15 which says “the thoughts you think you think.” We don’t even really think. How is it we will discover anything of importance by thinking about it. What will work is to be still and let our questions be answered for us.

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Gentle Healing Journal Lesson 76. 1-11-19

LESSON 76
I am under no laws but God’s.

“There are no laws except the laws of God. This needs repeating, over and over, until you realize it applies to everything that you have made in opposition to God’s Will. Your magic has no meaning. What it is meant to save does not exist. Only what it is meant to hide will save you.”

We have made many laws to take the place of God’s laws. In our desire to separate from God, we imagined we separated ourselves from His laws that protect us. Our abandonment of our perfect safety left us in fear and in our fear and arrogance we made magical laws that we intended to take the place of God’s laws.

Like everything else in the world our laws do an imperfect job, and more importantly, they hide the truth from us. I suppose we don’t want to see the truth because we think we would be admitting failure. Really, I think we don’t want the only solution to our error because we still want our stories. We still want to try one more time to get it right.

As I read this lesson, I had two opposing reactions. First, I felt a surge of hope. I really do see how nothing I do saves me from this illusion of being a body in a world that seems to be getting worse all the time. Or perhaps it is that I have opened my eyes to new possibilities, to love and peace and joy as being real and possible. Now when I see anger and fear and guilt, it is painful to me. I want to wake up from this dream world. I do want salvation.

The opposing reaction is fear. I am afraid to give up all my magical solutions. What if I am not ready for this? What if all I do is cause myself more suffering? What if without my magic healing potions I cause the death of this body? I am not so in love with this body and this story that I would be devastated at ending it, but without true healing, I would just plunge right back into another story.

Here is what I am being asked to do. I am being asked to be still and open my mind to Him. I will be enlightened to the truth and to God’s love and care for me, about the endless joy He offers me. I think that this is how it must be done. Changing my behavior while still keeping the belief in magic and the fear of loss will not bring me to the truth.

As I open my mind to His Voice I will learn the truth. Listening to His Word is not frightening and is certain to bring salvation. I think that meditating with the intention of letting the laws of God permeate my mind is the same as finding the light. I am going to continue my meditation practice and now I will add to it as I remember that I am under no laws but God’s.

Regina’s Tips for this lesson
“Salvation is not divine intervention to receive the cures and fixes we think we need in order to be happy. Salvation is seeing beyond the belief that I am a body-mind. Salvation is realizing what I am, something real that cannot be threatened.”

My Thoughts
As Regina points out sometimes we do get what we need sometimes, but that only provides temporary relief. What we want to do with this lesson is to let ourselves be open to knowing who we are and what are God’s laws. This is our salvation. When we know this we will know that we are perfectly safe.

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Gentle Healing Journal Lesson 75. 1-2-19

LESSON 75
The light has come.

“The light has come. I am healed and I can heal. The light has come. I am saved and I can save. I am at peace, and I bring peace with me wherever I go. Darkness and turmoil and death have disappeared. The light has come.”

This is my prayer for today, one I will repeat often. It is not a prayer in the sense of something I don’t have and wish for. It is the truth and just a fact that is irrefutable except in illusions, and what is the point in believing in illusions. The light has come and I am so grateful this is true. May I see only the light.

How has the light come? It comes because I have forgiven the world. I don’t want to burden the world with more unforgiveness. I don’t want to dim the light in even one mind with an unforgiving thought. I have been at the computer since early this morning so I got up to rest my eyes and stretch my legs. As I walked through the house, I saw so many unfinished projects, so much that need to be done. I felt guilty for not doing them and overwhelmed at the sheer volume of work undone. I also felt the light dim with these thoughts. Oops! Never mind, house. You will be dealt with in time.

Today, I have no interest in dark thoughts because, today, the light has come and I am rejoicing!

“From this time forth you will see differently.”

Holy Spirit, I know that I cannot fail to see the light today. I cannot fail to see the world differently. I cannot fail because I trust in You and You have told me that the light has come. I will not be tempted into the darkness.

“I dedicate this day to the serenity in which God would have me be. I Keep it in my awareness of myself and see it everywhere today, as I celebrate the beginning of my vision and the sight of the real world, which has come to replace the unforgiven world I thought was real.”

Regina’s Tips on this lesson
Read this lesson slowly at least 3 times today.
That’s it. That’s my tip. Love

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Gentle Healing Journal Lesson 74. 1-1-19

LESSON 74
There is no will but God’s.

“The idea for today can be regarded as the central thought toward which all our exercises are directed. God’s is the only Will.”

Acknowledging this is the way to perfect peace. For instance, if I have the thought that I need more money, I know this is not a real thought because it is not the will of God that I experience lack in any way. It doesn’t mean I can’t experience lack. If I believe in lack that is what I will know.

What it does mean is that I have accepted a conflicting thought as if it is true, but I can change my mind. If I know that God’s Will is abundance and if I know that His is the only Will, then I know my will is abundance as well, and abundance will be my only experience. Even if I seem not to have money, my mind will interpret the situation differently and it won’t feel like poverty.

Even more importantly, is the realization that since there is only God’s Will, what has been made with the ego mind cannot exist because it is not God’s Will. And, since there is only God’s Will, the world cannot exist for me, either, because I cannot have a will apart from the only will that exists and so I could not have willed this world into existence.
When I look at this computer and the fingers on the keyboard and the words appearing on the screen, I realize this is not happening. It could not happen because it is not God’s Will that I be separate from Him.

And yet, since I see myself here, I am grateful that what does not exist is being used to bring me to this realization. As I take in the truth that the idea of Myron is an illusion, I feel happier within the illusion. Is that strange? Maybe not. Maybe it is like enjoying acting in a play, or enjoying an interesting book. It would stop being fun if I forgot I was acting or reading and thought it was happening to me. I want to remember that only God’s Will exists and God’s Will is my will. How different this life will seem, then.

Regina’s Tips for this lesson.
God’s will is what you are, life-awareness-intelligence-open-freedom. You are that, and in being that you are God’s will.
The funny thing is, you can’t stop being that (even though you can deny you are that), so you can’t stop being God’s will.
You are God’s will.

My Thoughts
I know that this must have been a little scary or unbelievable at one time, but now I love these words. I long for them to be all that I believe. Mostly they are, but not entirely. I mean, I believe they are true, but I still act as if they are not. For instance, when I am afraid for myself or someone else, I obviously think that I am separate from God’s Will.

More from Regina
This is the same teaching that we find in NTI 1 Thessalonians:

“When fear intrudes on peace, you will hear it if you are listening. There will seem to be a slight upset, a stab thrust upon your peace, and an immediate desire to deny the thought or feeling that has intruded on your peace. … Do not accept temptation to deny the interruptions to peace. Pick them up and look at them in joy. For you have recognized that which you were tempted to deny. Do not deny the thought that has occurred, and do not accept it. Set it aside because it is not true. And continue joyously on the path of peace.”

Today’s workbook lesson and NTI 1 Thessalonians outline the practice that heals our mind.
1. Look at it.
2. Let it go.
And if you do that with joy or with the heart, it will be twice as effective.

My Thoughts
I have used this method for a long time. I look at it and let it go. However, I did not always do so in joy. I used to do it as if it was the hardest thing ever and as if I could possibly fail and that I might fail and then I would surely be condemned. Joy is much better. ~smile~ I do it in confidence now, knowing that I cannot fail in what is the Will of God and is my will.

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Gentle Healing Journal Lesson 73. 12-31-18

LESSON 73
I will there be light.

Jesus explains to us the difference between the ego’s idle wishes and the will we share with God. Because the ego’s idle wishes are not shared, they have no power. We can use them to make the world as we see it, but it cannot make anything real. Because we believe in what we make with these wishes, it seems real to us, but it is not. It is just an illusion.

“Idle wishes and grievances are partners or co-makers in picturing the world you see.”

Our wishes give rise to this world and the ego’s need for grievances people it with figures that seem to attack and call for “righteous judgment.” When we look at our brothers what we see instead of the beautiful beings they are, are these figures we made to carry out the ego’s wishes. This is why we have to give up grievances if we want to see what is actually there. No matter how beautiful and how loving our brothers are, we will see only enemies until we release all grievances.

On the other hand, the will we share with God has all the power of creation in it because it is shared. While wishes bring us war and suffering just by their very nature, creation brings us love and light, happiness and peace. Because we share the power of creation with God, we can reason that what we create with Him is also in Him. Would God create what would cause Him to suffer? Clearly, He had nothing to do with the world we made.

I talk to and read about people who have reached the light we have been trying for in these lessons. They see the world so differently than we do. I want that, badly. Jesus says that is not Heaven, but the light of Heaven shines on it, and it shines from us. This can only mean that the light of Heaven is in us and can be found there.

“Your picture of the world can only mirror what is within.”

Whatever we see when we look at the world is just a reflection of what we see when we look within. If we see darkness, it is because we hold grievances still. This is not what we want. I have given up nearly all grievances because I don’t want them anymore. It really is that simple. What I no longer want is no longer part of me. This morning it came to me that anything that is not loving is a grievance. It is a grievance against God. It seems I still have some work to do, but I am way ahead of it because I know what I want now.

The following is a clear and firm declaration of freedom and one I accept as my own.

“7 I will succeed today if I remember that I want salvation for myself. I want to accept God’s plan because I share in it. I have no will that can really oppose it, and I do not want to do so. Salvation is for me. Above all else, I want the freedom to remember who I really am. Today it is the ego that stands powerless before my will. My will is free, and nothing can prevail against it.”

Regina’s Tips for this Lesson

Today we cross a threshold. We have stepped into a new level of commitment within ourselves. We are more willing for truth-realization today than we were yesterday.

Now we know that we crave pain and suffering, regardless of whether we experience that as grievances, stress, arrogance, unworthiness, guilt, jealousy, anger, suspiciousness, self-hatred, fear, worry, inertia, or whatever. We also know that we want happiness-love-freedom more than we want suffering. It is the latter realization that has ushered us across the threshold to a deeper commitment.

That’s today’s tip. We are more committed now. This has happened naturally as we have practiced the workbook lessons one day at a time. Today’s deeper commitment is one miracle in a series of miracles that are bringing us home.

My thoughts

I can only agree. I am more committed now than ever before. I want to awaken. I want to be free of the belief in the ego as self. I want to be free of suffering. Above all else, I want the freedom to remember who I am.

NTI 1 Thessalonians Chapter 1

This is a short but powerful chapter that is a perfect follow up to this lesson. It assures us that we are not alone in our commitment to awakening. It begins by telling us this: “In peace, I come to guide you. Through peace, it is I that you shall know.” I said that I am committed to my awakening and, that above all else, I want the freedom to remember who I am. In this chapter He tells us:

“It is through peace that I come into your mind, and so it is through peace that you come to Me there. Welcome Me there in peace, with joy and gratitude. For I come upon you to remind you of That Which you Are.”

I do feel deeply grateful for all the help I am given.

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