LESSON 80
Let me recognize my problems have been solved.
Oh, yes, please. It’s about time to recognize what has already been done. I have one problem and that problem is in my mind. I have one solution to the one problem, and that solution is right next to the problem. All that is required of me to be free is to accept the answer. I must have faith that the answer is here and that it will be the solution I need.
Here is what confuses the issue. Our problems take many forms and so we think there must be many answers. But all problems if followed to their root cause will inevitably take us to the tiny mad idea that we could and did separate from God. That is the only error that needs to be corrected.
Here is an example. I have to move my living room furniture. It is too heavy and awkward for me to do alone and so I need help. I asked my daughter to come help me and she says she will but when is in question. I really want to get this done. I notice that I feel anxious and looking with the Holy Spirit I am shown that I am afraid of being alone. What if I need something and there is no one to help?
Following this further, I see that I don’t feel safe. Further examination shows me that I have not felt safe since the tiny mad idea. I cut myself off from the awareness of perfect safety when I said I wanted to be on my own. So now I see that I don’t have a furniture moving problem. When I get help as I probably will, my furniture will be sitting in a different place but my problem remains.
I will still have the belief that I am alone and helpless and there is nothing I can do about it because I tore myself away from Safety. This is too frightening to contemplate so I go about my day waiting for the next problem to come up so that I can solve it and prove to myself that I am ok. But beneath my self-assurance there lingers the uncomfortable feeling that something is very wrong.
Today, things will be different. I am not running away from the problem. I am sitting with it and asking for the solution. I am not fooled by the form the one problem is taking. I don’t care if my furniture ever gets moved. I care about one thing only; I care about recognizing my problems, all my problems, have been solved.
Regina’s Tips for this lesson
[The only ‘problem’ is believing your mind. Remember not to believe it today.] One problem, one solution. Accept the peace this simple statement brings.”
We bring the problem to the answer when we remain aware that the mind’s chatter is the problem. The answer is our awareness.
My Thoughts
I see how my thoughts turned a simple problem into an impossible situation in which I saw myself as alone and helpless. Nothing actually happened. Eventually the furniture problem will be taken care of as someone will help me move it or everything will stay as it is. Either way, the problem will end. How I handle the issue is not the real problem, how I think about it is the problem.
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