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Gentle Healing Lesson 143, Manual for Teachers, Text.  5-24-19

LESSON 143
My mind holds only what I think with God.

(125) In quiet I receive God’s Word today.

(126) All that I give is given to myself.

This morning I am alone in my house. It is peaceful and quiet. I am studying the Course and writing in my journal. I am receptive to God’s Word today. I notice it says His Word, not words. What is His Word? It is, I think, that I Am. I am What He created and I am as He created me. I receive that Word. I open my heart to it. I absorb it, not dissect it or think about it, just receive it. As I meditated on it, something occurred. If I were to try for a word, it might be, purification.

I will be leaving for lunch with my family today. I will no longer be cocooned in the peaceful silence of my home. But there is no reason I cannot continue to receive God’s Word because it is only my mind that needs to be quiet. I will also be aware of what I give while we are together this afternoon. If I remember that my mind holds only what I think with God and that in quiet I receive His Word, that is all I will give. In the giving of it, I will receive it. Imagine that! Imagine love moving from me and to me in an unending flow.

Regina’s Tips
Here is my contemplation of today’s review lessons with that thought in mind:

In quiet I receive God’s Word today. All of the thoughts that come and go in my consciousness are not God’s Word, because God’s Word is the Word, that which is before everything. In order to know God’s Word, I must look beyond all of the words that distract from it. I must enter into the quiet, where God’s Word is known; not heard, but known. God’s Word is not other than my Self. In quiet, I realize that today.

All that I give is given to myself. Why do my thoughts appear so mesmerizing, those words that are temporary and are not the eternal Word of God? If I close my eyes and look, I find only one power that infuses thought with power. That power is my attention. I am the power that infuses thought with apparent power. All that I give attention to, I give to myself. The question then becomes, what do I want to give attention to? That is the same as asking, what do I want to have power over me?

My Thoughts
In Regina’s contemplation on God’s Word, she expressed very well what I was feeling, that God’s Word is my Self. My intention today is to look past my thoughts and all the words that come from me and to me, to be aware of what does not change. In setting that intention, I expect to succeed. I wonder what that will look like this afternoon.

What really stood out to me in the “All that is give is given to myself” contemplation by Regina was that we give power to thought through our attention. As Regina says, The question then becomes, what do I want to give attention to? That is the same as asking, what do I want to have power over me?

All day long thoughts come and go, but what do I empower through my attention? No doubt, this afternoon with so many people gathered and a lot of conversation going on, thoughts about this will enter my mind. Some will be judgmental thoughts because that is what the ego does. If I am not interested in those thoughts they will simply pass through my mind.

If I become interested in a judgmental thought, I will have given it power over me. This is a good thing to know. Now I can make a good decision about my thoughts. If I notice a judgmental thought that attracts me, I can question it and then release it so that its power to affect me is minimal. I’ve noticed that the more I do this, the less often certain thoughts show up.

Manual for Teachers
13. WHAT IS THE REAL MEANING OF SACRIFICE? P 7
7 Do not forget that sacrifice is total. There are no half sacrifices. You cannot give up Heaven partially. You cannot be a little bit in hell. The Word of God has no exceptions. It is this that makes it holy and beyond the world. It is its holiness that points to God. It is its holiness that makes you safe. It is denied if you attack any brother for anything. For it is here the split with God occurs. A split that is impossible. A split that cannot happen. Yet a split in which you surely will believe, because you have set up a situation that is impossible. And in this situation the impossible can seem to happen. It seems to happen at the “sacrifice” of truth.

As I was reading this paragraph, I was struck by a thought. I tend to think of the separation, the tiny mad idea, as something that we chose a long time ago and now we are trying to awaken from that dream of being separate from each other and from God. But, really, I make that choice for the tiny mad idea every time I attack anyone. It is not something that happened once, but an ongoing choice. I undo the tiny mad idea with its hellish consequences by not making the choice for attack anymore.

I also understand what Jesus says about sacrifice being total. There is only God but in our mind, there is also the idea of not-God or separation. Because it is in our mind, it seems to be real. So, there is God and there is separation. I cannot be in both places at the same time. I cannot bring separation into God because that would change God and God cannot be changed. I cannot bring God into attack either because if God were in the illusion then God would be an illusion, too. When I choose to attack, judge, hold a grievance or any other separation effect, I sacrifice God. It is total. In that moment, I have, again, kicked myself out of Heaven.

I started being vigilant for my attack thoughts because I wanted to feel better and have a better life. The purpose of my practice changed as I realized that I wanted to awaken from the dream of separation and this would help me do that. Now, I have a slightly different perspective on this and it is even more motivating. Withdrawing my projections isn’t just helping me to awaken, it is awakening.

Text
“The Holy Spirit promotes healing by looking beyond it to what the children of God were before healing was needed, and will be when they have been healed.” T-5.II

When I think of this, I envision a timeline on which I exist with an ego error in my mind that is keeping me in hell. Then I ask the Holy Spirit to heal that error and He looks not at the error (because He knows all errors are the same error) but at what I was before the error and after the error. Because He does not acknowledge the error, it is not there. I see that chunk of time falling away. Jesus says that if we don’t want a thought, the Holy Spirit will remove it for us. This is how I envision it being done and how I imagine we save thousands of years.

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