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Gentle Healing Journal Lesson 104 2-25-19

LESSON 104
I seek but what belongs to me in truth.

“Today’s idea continues with the thought that joy and peace are not but idle dreams. They are your right, because of what you are. They come to you from God, Who cannot fail to give you what He wills. Yet must there be a place made ready to receive His gifts. They are not welcomed gladly by a mind that has instead received the gifts it made where His belong, as substitutes for them.”

“Today we would remove all meaningless and self-made gifts which we have placed upon the holy altar where God’s gifts belong.”

“I seek but what belongs to me in truth.
God’s gifts of joy and peace are all I want”.

God’s gifts will bring us joy and peace because His gifts remind us of who we are and that we are one with Him. How could we be anything but joyful to remember that we are God the Son. All that we need to do to receive these gifts is to desire them more than anything else, to desire them instead of anything else.

What are the gifts we have given ourselves, the gifts that we chose over those our Creator gave us in our creation? We gave ourselves a separate self. This is a self very different than what we are. What came from this separate self were beliefs that do not exist because there is no separation in reality.

We seemed to have gained the right to choose outside the will of God and with this gift we gave ourselves came the right to be wrong, to experience strong emotions like rage, the right to experience sickness then health then sickness, back and forth until finally at the end, we suffer and die.

These are the “gifts” we gave ourselves. They do not, nor could they ever exist, but we, the Son’s of God can have that experience because we want to. For that very same reason, we can change our minds and awaken to reality. This is what we are practicing today with this lesson. We are choosing reality over illusions.

We are reminding ourselves that it is still possible to accept God’s gifts because they belong to us and because that is what we want. We must have thought that being “on our own” would be freedom, but it only imprisoned the mind that knew true freedom. Today, as we lay aside our conflicts, we release our mind and return to true freedom.

What a relief that will be! And if we need to stretch out the instant of freedom so it seems to take time, that is okay. Nothing can keep us from God because there is nothing but God. I choose to do this as quickly as it is possible because I want to be free again, free to be what I am and free of even the memory of the dream of separation.

Regina’s Tips
We prepare the place for happiness when we let go of wanting what isn’t present.

Happiness isn’t really a choice. Unhappiness is a choice. If we stop choosing to be unhappy by wanting something that isn’t present, we will find more gifts here now than we can count, and happiness is one of them.

This life as this person is a temporary experience, like a novel or a movie. What’s happening in your scene now? Enjoy it! Love the temporary. Also take time to notice, you aren’t the temporary. The more you see that you aren’t the temporary, the more you relax, and the temporary can be loved just as it is now

My Thoughts
I have continued my practice of accepting this experience exactly as it is happening and choosing to be happy while I do so. I woke up this morning in some bit of pain. I got my flu and pneumonia shot yesterday and this morning both arms hurt. I decided to be happy anyway. Why should pain stop me from being happy. I can be miserable while I am in pain, or I can be happy while I am in pain. It’s my choice.

What I have noticed is that when I decide to be happy, I am not accepting the ego gifts of depression, rage, fear or guilt. In my decision to be happy, I am making room for the gifts of God, the gifts I prefer. This is working out very well. Regina also said that while I notice my experiences are only temporary, also notice that I am not temporary. This body having separation experiences isn’t me. I’m the one learning to love the temporary as well as the permanent. I am learning that I am in the world but not of it.

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