January-March, 2012
I observe in the split mind that when I experience bodily symptoms like throat soreness and difficulty in swallowing, which blocks the passage of food, the ego wants to take these symptoms and make up a story and give it a meaning. Oh, it must be cancer; I (ego) am going to die. This is a story that has been in the family for generations past.
This is a story that is blocking the truth of what I Am and is the story of egoic resistance to healing and returning to Wholeness.
January-March, 2012
In Chapter 4, Section 1 of A Course in Miracles we are told: The Bible says that you should go with a brother twice as far as he asks. It certainly does not suggest that you set him back on his journey.
As I read this passage I asked myself, “How have I set my brother back on his path?” It came to me that I could do this if I correct my brother. Our ACIM group has guidelines to keep this from happening. They are as follows:
January-March, 2012
The Team
Holy Spirit and I are a team.
I do nothing without Him,
for I am nothing without Him.
We go hand in hand,
Holy Spirit and I.
We walk together,
we talk together,
we breathe together.
And most of all,
we live together as One,
in the inner stillness
which is God.
January-March, 2012
This past month has been very eventful for me. The book I had been writing for the past two years has been self-published and now has become available to the general public. My relationship with my son, Kevin, while he descended into opiate addiction over a seven year period is the backdrop of my story. The message that I wish to convey is that in any situation in the world — only the Love is real.
January-March, 2012
“You will be happy when_______,” instructs the ego. Jesus responds, “Until you experience contentment within, with who you are as a creation of God, you will never be happy — no matter what.” Doing housework, dirty laundry in my hands, dinner cooking on the stove, rushing into the kitchen, thoughts of Christmas in my mind, truth manifested within literally stopping me in my tracks. The word, “contentment” moved me to silence and an inner contentment washed me from the inside. Here and now I am content.
January-March, 2012
I have an “important” meeting tomorrow. I still have about 200 pages of material to read before then. Income tax stuff for the US and Canada is due. I have bills to pay and business paperwork to be completed. My body is fat and tired. My skin is sandpaper dry. My lips are chapped. My house is unlivable after a broken water line caused tens of thousands of dollars of damage. My husband and I are sleeping in a wellsite trailer but showering and eating at my sister’s house which is nearby. Spring in northern Canada is messy, muddy and cool. I could go on and on. (You know how ego can make up sad stories).
January-March, 2012
Yesterday, I received a frantic call from my daughter, who is attending a university out of town. She had slept through her alarm, and missed her exam. She arrived 20 minutes before the end of the allotted time and the classroom was already empty. (Anybody ever have a dream like this?)
January-March, 2012
I shuttered with fear when I noticed an envelope the mailman just dropped off, had “IRS-NOTICE OF LEVY” prominently stamped on it. Although the exact words going through my mind are not printable in this magazine, you can be assured they were not words of acceptance and gratitude. “How can this be happening to me?” And, “This cannot happen to me!” Are two thoughts I can share. Remember, I still hadn’t even opened the letter yet! My mind (ego) went straight to the worst case scenario: ”Life is so unfair and now I’m going to die!” (Footnote: it used to be my ego would take me down that path in stages, but since studying The Course, it just slams me there.)
January-March, 2012
I recently had a disagreement with a friend of mine. I lost sleep over it. I felt insulted and I thought negative thoughts about her. I wanted it to be about her.
Then I remembered that what we think are our own projections. I remembered to take it to Holy Spirit. I asked Holy Spirit why I had created this in my life. What in me needs to be healed? I’m innocent, I said.
I felt the warm comforting feeling that comes over me whenever I go to Him for help and heard the softest voice whisper, “If you find yourself feeling angry at her, look deeper.”
January-March, 2012
As many of you know, Tomas, my soul buddy, left the body in December 2010. He left through what appeared as cancer of the body. Tomas ‘awakened’ prior to leaving the body. However he was very aware that he chose cancer as a means by which he could apply vigilant discipline to prioritize peace, in order to achieve only ONE goal — to awaken.
January-March, 2012
Spirit: You are the Light of the world. You are Divine Light, right now, right where you are.
Dear Child, how little you see of Truth, how little you really comprehend. You need only ask, and it is given you. But still you do not ask, because you think that you will not like what you hear, or that you will be forced to disagree with your first choice.
January-March, 2012
I have worked with the ACIM lessons for seven years now. There have been times when I did them as thoroughly and as sincerely as I could, and there have been times when I didn’t touch them. Living with these lessons has been like a golden thread weaving itself through my life story.
January-March, 2012
Who are we to judge lessons presented to us as long, short, large, small, great, minor, important or irrelevant? Or both?
January-March, 2012
As the Course teaches, one of the biggest ways the ego keeps us trapped is through our own judgments or projections we place on the world, which is inherently neutral. Most of these judgments involve things I must be afraid of or reasons why I am guilty, not worthy and failing (and occasionally the arrogant flip side of the coin — why I deserve more/to win, am better than others, am not responsible, etc.). Forgiveness to me actually means working on/being at least a little willing to release these judgments (and the value I place on them) and letting something else entirely be shown to me by Holy Spirit.
January-March, 2012
As I reflect upon my past, I can find countless things that I feel that I should or could have changed or done differently. For example, here I am in my 50’s working on a doctorate degree in psychology that my ego tells me I should have completed 30 years ago.
I hear the ego’s voice scolding me, ”If you had only done the right thing, you could have had a different life. You could have had a better job and a successful career and a lot less pain brought on by near poverty.”
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