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Study of Text, Chapter 11, VIII.The Problem and the Answer, P 7. 12-3-15

VIII. The Problem and the Answer, P 7

Journal
I am teaching myself to ask for the truth without fear. I watch my mind as I ask for healing and I notice if the asking is coming from fear or from love. If I see that I am asking with fear, I stop and think about being that little child approaching her Father with absolute trust knowing He loves her and wants only her good. I pause long enough to get that feeling, the openness and acceptance, the trust and love both given and received, just in the way it was when I was very young.

When I was a little child I asked my parents for what I wanted never considering that maybe this was not an appropriate thing to ask for, or that they would not want to give to me. I never asked myself if I deserved to receive. It never occurred to me that I would have to “pay” in some way to receive what I asked for.

I didn’t wonder how they could give me what I wanted, how it would come to me; I just asked and trusted. There was no fear in my asking. This is the attitude and the feeling that I am recovering. I am learning how to become as a little child again, and approach my Father with child-like innocent expectation. In doing this fear of God is falling away and joy is taking its place.

The ego mind is very distrustful of this openness and wants to close off again in the old defensive posture. It remembers how the world taught it to be suspicious and wary of other’s motivations and wants to protect against this. But I know that the ego defended against ego, and that while the ego mind thinks of itself as savior, it is actually the cause of what it would save me from. I am willing to know that I need no defense against God and so I continue my practice and allow my mind to be healed as I do so.

Holy Spirit, please help me today to be as a little child, open, trusting and joyful.

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