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Gentle Healing Lesson 116, Manual for Teachers, Text.  3-29-19

Gentle Healing Lesson 116
(101) God’s Will for me is perfect happiness.
(102) I share God’s Will for happiness for me.

Since happiness is God’s Will for me, the only way I can be unhappy is if I believe in a will different than God’s. That belief is fading away for me. It is not completely gone because I can see its effects at times. Sometimes it is just the thought that something shouldn’t be happening or that if something different were happening then I could be happy. But I don’t hold those beliefs very long. I notice them and then remember they could not be true.

Once in a while, I will feel disheartened in a kind of hazy way for no apparent reason, but then I share God’s Will for happiness for me and the feeling dissolves. When something important to me is not going as expected, generally when my children seem to be endangered, I can be unhappy until I am able to return to normalcy again.

I return to sanity as I choose happiness and by remembering that we are not these bodies and this world is not real and we cannot be in danger. So, I have not entirely accepted God’s Will for happiness for me, but I am doing so more and more frequently and in so doing, I am beginning to believe that there is no will but God’s Will and that I want nothing else.

Ultimately, I will fully accept God’s Will is my will and that is all that exists and all that I want as I accept my true Self. I am continuing to meditate every day in as much patience and heartfelt desire as I can. In a few minutes, I will be still in expectancy of knowing my Self. Each time I sit down for this meditation, I do so with the happy thought that this might be the day. I am also beginning to have moments during the day when I am still, waiting, expecting.

Regina’s Tips
Sometimes we may be asked to contemplate material we do not like. Maybe the material uses words or symbols we do not like. Maybe we don’t have any mental understanding at all, and we feel frustrated about that lack of understanding. Maybe we don’t like the source of the quote. Maybe we have judgments against the person who spoke or wrote the quote, or maybe we have judgments against the text or spiritual path the quote comes from.

Any judgments we have about the material we are contemplating will get in the way of receiving wisdom. If we have any judgments at all about the material, we serve ourselves best by being willing to look at our judgments and let them go.

Grievances block wisdom, and that includes any grievance we may hold against any written word.

My Thoughts
I know that Regina is right about this. At times, I have grievances against the written word that comes from Regina. It caused me grief and distrust, not the writings, but that Regina had embraced teachings that I didn’t care for. She and I had shared a love of A Course in Miracles and she was my teacher of those words for years. We both loved NTI and she taught me with those words. Even Inner Ramana, which was beginning to move out of my comfort zone was a wonderful teaching device and again, I learned from Regina.

But then she began to teach from writings that did not inspire me and I felt abandoned and resented the writings since I loved Regina too much to resent her. But my desire to awaken is stronger than any grievance and so, somehow I wound up here studying this information in Gentle Awakening. The barrier I erected against my own good is crumbling a bit at a time. There are teachings that still do not inspire me, but they are not irritating me anymore and I am open to feeling differently if that is where my own true Self wants to take me.

Manual for Teachers
“The belief in order of difficulties is the basis for the world’s perception. ...What the body’s eyes behold is only conflict. Look not to them for peace and understanding.”

I understand this problem. Life can appear to be very chaotic as I am bombarded with people and situations that vie for my attention. Because of past learning, I categorized them according to importance to me and according to urgency. This is the way we are taught have to live. There are books written to help us learn how to best juggle these choices because for some, it becomes confusing and overwhelming and there seems to be a desperate need to get it right.

Two common categories are good and bad. But, I am learning not to judge anything that occurs, that I don’t need to separate and categorize my life at all. Experience is teaching me to be in this present moment, trusting that I have a loving Presence ever ready to help me whatever my need?

I have already seen that when I surrender my life to God, I am gently uplifted and carried. But this desire to decide on my own what everything means and what should be done about all the separate elements, how to categorize them and to decide which ones are important and which ones are not, takes it out of God’s hands and leaves me on my own again.

Instead, I am learning to see my life as a series of events with only one meaning and one purpose, not good or bad, important or unimportant. I imagine every event being perfect in its time and then being gone to make room for the next perfect moment. I use each moment in whatever way the Holy Spirit would have me use it. I imagine being in joy regardless of what seems to be happening because I am living a life of purpose that is not my own, but God’s.

Text
6.III.4 Since you cannot not teach, your salvation lies in teaching the exact opposite of everything the ego believes. This is how you will learn the truth that will set you free, and will keep you free as others learn it of you. The only way to have peace is to teach peace.

Being a teacher is not a choice we make; it is simply what we are. We are teachers because we teach all the time. Our choice lies in what we teach. When I notice that I am teaching something I don’t want to learn, I stop. This is because I am clear now about my purpose, about what I want. I want the peace of God. I want to wake up to my reality, to remember who I am. I don’t want to teach anything that does not bring me closer to my deepest, truest desire.

How do I teach peace if I don’t feel peaceful? I shift everything through my desire. I am in this ego belief system because I desired an experience of separation. I get out of it by shifting my desire to one of peace and love. I already have a built-in solution which is the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit works from outside the closed system and will shift me from chaos to peace. The Holy Spirit is activated through my desire for peace.

The more I teach peace the more I want it and the faster my desire changes. When my only desire is for peace, I will teach only peace and there will be no more chaos because there is no desire for chaos. I am, through my desire and with the Holy Spirit, creating a different cycle. Recently, I was being judgmental of some people.  I thought I let it go but judgmental thoughts kept showing up in my mind.

Finally, I just stopped what I was doing and with great conviction, I told Jesus that I am through with those thoughts. I had no use for them. There is no one else to be judgmental about, so when I judge those people, I am judging myself and losing my peace. I was very certain that I was through with that judgment and because I was certain, it all went away and has not returned, nor do I expect it to. I am set free.

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