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Gentle Healing Lesson 155, Manual for Teachers, Text.  7-26-19

Lesson 155
I will step back and let Him lead the way.

“The world is an illusion. Those who choose to come to it are seeking for a place where they can be illusions, and avoid their own reality. Yet when they find their own reality is even here, then they step back and let it lead the way. What other choice is really theirs to make? To let illusions walk ahead of truth is madness. But to let illusion sink behind the truth and let the truth stand forth as what it is, is merely sanity.”

I am determined to know my Self and to let that Self lead the way. But I am not waiting for that total remembrance. I ask for guidance every day. When I notice that I am not at peace, I go back over my thoughts. I know that I must have been listening to the ego voice instead and so I choose again.

“Many have chosen to renounce the world while still believing its reality. And they have suffered from a sense of loss, and have not been released accordingly. Others have chosen nothing but the world, and they have suffered from a sense of loss still deeper, which they did not understand.”

There is another path and this is the one I walk. I know the world is not real and so I don’t renounce anything of value, nor do I feel attached to it, because why cling to an illusion. It is sometimes difficult to live in the world but not be of it, but that difficulty is lessening all the time. It requires practice and commitment. And most helpful is turning away from it for a little while every day. At least these are the steps that are helping me to remember reality even while I am experiencing the illusion.

“Walk safely now, yet carefully, because this path is new to you. And you may find that you are tempted still to walk ahead of truth, and let illusions be your guide. Your holy brothers have been given you, to follow in your footsteps as you walk with certainty of purpose to the truth. It goes before you now, that they may see something with which they can identify; something they understand to lead the way.”

I do walk carefully because I am aware that I can still slip into ego thinking. I remain vigilant for this but in a more relaxed way than before. I understand now that vigilance does not mean I watch every thought or that I work hard at this. Vigilance to me now is the practice of being receptive to guidance. Suddenly, I notice a judgmental thought. It is probably not the first ego thought that has crossed my mind, but it is the one that I noticed. This is my Inner Guide pointing it out to me because this is the one I am to release now.

My motivation for this work is peace of mind in every moment and awakening to my true Self. But I am also motivated to help my brothers awaken to Love’s presence because what good does it do me if they are not awakened as well. This desire to let my life be a guiding light for my holy brothers is as strong a motivation as my own awakening.

“Step back in faith and let truth lead the way. You know not where you go. But One Who knows goes with you. Let Him lead you with the rest.”

I know I must be closer to awakening than I was before because I am perfectly happy to admit that I don’t know where I am going. I am sure that knowledge is in me as my Self, but it is not available to me at this time. Why would I try to lead myself if I am lost? That makes no sense. I do have a guide and that guide gladly leads away from illusions and to the truth. I would but follow. This is our final journey and each of us does it for us all. “We must not lose our way. For as truth goes before us, so it goes before our brothers who will follow us.”

“We walk to God. Pause and reflect on this. Could any way be holier, or more deserving of your effort, of your love and of your full intent?”

Jesus wants us to be aware of the importance and the sacredness of this journey we make. He wants us to become fully committed to this effort. I’m with you, Brother.

“Your feet are safely set upon the road that leads the world to God. Look not to ways that seem to lead you elsewhere.”

I agree that I am on the right path and am devoted to that path. I do sometimes get distracted by the mundane and take a side trip. I do this when I worry about one of my kids, or when I get obsessed with body things, and occasionally when I start trying to provide for myself. But I notice this happening and I pretty quickly let it go and remember my purpose which is never about the body or making plans and decisions with the ego. It is never about fixing others or being afraid for them. As soon as I become willing to step back and ask my holy Self what to do next, or for a different way to see this, I am back on my path.

And now He asks but that you think of Him a while each day, that He may speak to you and tell you of His Love, reminding you how great His Trust; how limitless His Love. In your Name and His Own, which are the same, we practice gladly with this thought today:

I will step back and let Him lead the way,
For I would walk along the road to Him.

Regina’s Tips
“Let today be a day of contemplating our willingness to demote self-will in favor of truth. Amen.”

My Thoughts
Self-will is the same thing as ego-will. Truth is the same as willing with God. I am certain that I want to do this. I will bring my attention back to this decision frequently. But I will also walk carefully, not because this path is new to me because it is not, but because I still sometimes get tempted to walk ahead of truth. I will watch my mind for signs that I have slipped into ego so that I can correct my course quickly.

Manual for Teachers
M-15.2:9-13 9 What is your judgment of the world, teacher of God? 10 Have you yet learned to stand aside and hear the Voice of Judgment in yourself? 11 Or do you still attempt to take His role from Him? 12 Learn to be quiet, for His Voice is heard in stillness. 13 And His Judgment comes to all who stand aside in quiet listening, and wait for Him.

The reason there is no order of difficulty in receiving miracles is that the miracle only corrects the illusion and one illusion is not bigger or worse than another. It’s like zero minus zero is still zero. I bring my challenges to the HS and ask Him how to see the problem. He reminds me that there is no problem, only an illusion of a problem. This is His judgment.

There may be something for me to do in the world, and if there is, I will be told. But acting on an illusion does not make it less of an illusion. He will also help me to use the problem as a way to undo more false thoughts, because false or not, they must be undone in my mind. As long as I believe in them they will appear true to me and affect me as if they were true. I gladly stand aside in quiet listening and wait for Him.

Text
T-28.II.8:4 And as he hated his Creator, so the figures in the dream have hated him.
We write in the script that the figures in the dream hate us. We conveniently ‘forget’ that we have done this and this then becomes the ‘proof’ that we are not responsible for making up our own dream. We reverse cause and effect and dream the world is creating us rather than acknowledging that we are the cause of the dream. We are making it up in our minds. 907: The Power of Decision - Cause and Effect

After reading The Reverse of Effect and Cause, I understand more than every why I decided not to use the ego to make my decisions. I want the Holy Spirit to decide for me in everything. I used to be so confused about cause and effect that it was impossible for me to make good decisions, decisions that lead to happiness. I am not so confused anymore, but I do understand that if I listen to ego, I will fall back into confusion. I try always to use only my holy mind, that is, to turn to the Holy Spirit in my mind when making decisions.

I have dreamed of a world that is the opposite of reality, and then deliberately forgot that I am the dreamer. This made it seem that the world made me instead of the other way around. I had turned my back on God and so imagine that the same was happening to me by what I made. Turn about is fair play, I guess. From this point of view, I was certainly going to make more bad choices and feel guiltier and punish myself more severely until I finally died from my choices.

But as I let HS show me that I am the dreamer of the dream, I became open to dreaming something different, something kinder. As I ask the HS to decide for me, He decides on a happier dream and this became the proof I needed to finally accept that I have actually done nothing except dream. Nothing I dream is real and so none of the effects are real. I am innocent and without the belief in guilt, I wake up.

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