Lesson 115
(99) Salvation is my only function here.
(100) My part is essential to God’s plan for salvation.
As I have been doing for the last several days, I began with a short meditation for the purpose of being still and inviting my Self to come forward, or maybe it is being quiet so that I have the chance to know my Self rather than the chattering ego mind. I have tried some specific meditations, and thus far I am not inspired by them. Maybe it is too soon to expect them to be meaningful to me. One was helpful in that it suggests using an inspiring song to help me shift from the head to the heart. I do see the value in coming from the heart rather than the head. I used If You Knew How Much I Love You from The Untethered Soul.
Contemplation
Bentinho Massaro says that our life is not about our life and I agree 100%. We came here with a purpose and that purpose is what our life is about. I have only one thing to do here, that is to save the world and thus to save myself. I do this through forgiveness. I forgive the world means I no longer value the world, I let it go from my desires. The world exists because we wanted it. I change my mind; I no longer want the world. I forgive the idea of the world, which undoes the world.
I am essential to this plan for salvation because the Son can be seen as holographic in nature. What is in one is also in the others, so, even as we seem each of us to be unique, we are one. If even one of us loves the idea of the world, we all have the love of the world in us. So my part is to accept the Atonement (forgive) and let the world disappear from my mind and the idea of world becomes weaker in all minds.
Regina’s Tips
A common block to receiving wisdom through contemplation is perceiving the text that is being contemplated as straightforward and easy to understand. Maybe you are contemplating a sentence that is short, simple and clear. “I get it,” the mind says.
Well … that doesn’t mean there isn’t more to be gained through contemplation.
My Thoughts
I am typically impatient and though I do stop long enough to ask for clarity, I seldom give time and thoughtfulness to my answers, just to see what else might come. I suppose that is the value of contemplating the lessons during the day. I admit that I was hesitant to write these two lessons on a card and use them during the day, not because they are unimportant, but because I thought I knew what they mean and that I am all in. But now, I am going to put them on a card and carry them with me during the day, stopping as often as I can to contemplate further.
Manual for Teachers
“If you are offering only healing, you cannot doubt. Doubt is the result of conflicting wishes. Be sure of what you want, and doubt becomes impossible.”
Let me not get in the way of God’s work through me.
Healing is a simple thing. I need only allow the power of God to work through me. It becomes complicated or confused only when the ego mind is allowed to intrude on the healing. Then the mind begins to question; can this be healed, should it be healed? Have you ever had the thought that maybe it was the person’s classroom and maybe you should not interfere? The healer has become confused about his own identity. Conflict has entered the mind.
I was asked to pray for someone this morning. The ego mind jumped right in with questions about the problem and I saw my mind become confused about how to pray in this situation. So I stopped thinking. I let my mind go still and right away, I knew how to pray. I knew that this person was healed and whole and nothing else about her was true.
I knew she was energetic and in love with life, that she felt loving and joyful simply because that is her true nature. These things are true about her because of who she is and I cannot imagine anything else being true. My mind is clear about this and so my prayer is powerful as is the mind that holds it as true. I know what is true and so doubt is impossible and healing is certain.
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The Alternative to Projection
We began with a mind that knew only truth, only wholeness. There was Love and there was the extension of Love. This is all that was in the mind and so there was perfect peace. Then there was the thought of something else and the mind was split between Love and the idea of something not Love.
In order to explore the other idea, the thought of Love had to be dissociated. One cannot know unity and know separation in the same instant. To know separation and have that experience it was necessary to exclude oneness. The moment we remember oneness we lose the idea of separation. The idea of separation is not natural to us so we needed a device to sustain it and so we made projection.
Envisioning how we came to this place of a split mind and how we keep it going, it is easy to see how we reverse it. We undo the ego (separation thinking) by losing interest in separation and placing our mind on only the truth. We stop projecting and the thought system of separation must collapse. In A Course in Miracles, we learn what is going on and how to recognize it as it is happening. We learn that there is an alternative and that the alternative is preferable.
Then we start to back out of the separation idea a step at a time, but that can be accelerated the moment we decide that we want nothing else but the truth. The actual change in mind is that simple, we choose again. All of the work involved is to bring us to the place where we want nothing but God. This explanation may be too simplistic, and it may not be exactly the way it happened, but it is a helpful explanation that I was led to.
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