LESSON 109
I rest in God.
“There is no suffering it cannot heal. There is no problem that it cannot solve. And no appearance but will turn to truth before the eyes of you who rest in God.”
Yesterday, I gave peace of mind and happiness. I specifically thought of my son and then I thought of others I love and saw the peace and happiness spreading further and further. Today, I rest in God and I call upon my son and all the others to draw them to their rest along with me.
“You will be faithful to your trust today, forgetting no one, bringing everyone into the boundless circle of your peace, the holy sanctuary where you rest. Open the temple doors and let them come from far across the world, and near as well; your distant brothers and your closest friends; bid them all enter here and rest with you.”
This is one of the most beautiful lessons and I feel my heart swell with joy at the thought, I feel a longing to take this rest for myself and for all my brothers. It calls to me so strongly. I must be one with everyone, not just those who are here with me, but those who passed and those who have not yet come. I must be connected to them because my efforts are a gift to them. We are all, each of us, a Thought of God and we rest within His Mind where we were born and where we remain.
As I sat in silence trying to sink below my thoughts, I realized that if I rest in God for five minutes, I could be free of these thoughts. There are no such thoughts in God. I would be free of any physical distress or distractions because there are no bodies in God. There would be no writing, no phone calls, no one to help, because nothing in God needs help.
There is no house to clean, no one to visit, no Christmas gifts to buy. There is only rest and in that rest is perfect peace. It is hard for me to imagine, but for five minutes I did my best to experience it. The little I succeeded was lovely. I look forward to the next five minute interval of resting in God.
Regina’s Tips
NTI Luke says, “Sickness must rest and be quiet. This is the way to health. Let your sickness rest.”
This is why we want to rest. When our attention is caught up in our mind’s conditioned thought habits, the neural pathways that are related to those habits are well worn and as slippery as water slides. When we rest from our habitual way of thinking, those same neural pathways begin to dry up. Later, we will experience this as the ability to pause and discern before going into a habitual way of reacting. Or a neural pathway may be completely healed through our rest, and we will notice that our happiness is unaffected by a situation that would have upset us before.
My Thoughts
I am continuing my practice of choosing happiness in the midst of life experiences regardless of what they seem to call for. I am also practicing loving what is, also regardless of what the world thinks is an appropriate response. I am surprised how quickly this became easy and how quickly it began to feel like the best response and to make sense to me.
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