LESSON 142
My mind holds only what I think with God.
(123) I thank my Father for His gifts to me.
(124) Let me remember I am one with God.
My mind holds only what I think with God. That chatter is in the ego and not in my real mind, my Self, Awareness. I am not always aware of what is in my true mind because the chatter distracts me and brings me into the virtual reality show going on there. But I am learning to let the chatter be and to sink below it to the sweet silence beneath.
There I don’t find words so much as feelings; not emotions, feelings. I feel love and joy and mostly peace. Those are God’s gifts to me and they come because for those moments I am in the stillness of my true mind, I feel God. I don’t feel the bliss of it, but the reflection of that oneness. Doubtless, I will go deeper as I continue this practice. I am thankful for my Father’s gifts to me.
What I bring back from those moments is a lingering peace and lightness that blesses the day and those who share it with me. I also, at times when it is needed, bring inspired thinking with me, ideas that guide me in my life and toward my awakening. I am grateful to my Father for those gifts as well.
Regina’s Tips
My mind holds only what I think with God.
Each day during the review period, be sure to start with five minutes contemplating this thought. You don’t need to write anything about it, although you can if something begins to come that you want to write down. However, be sure to spend five minutes marinating in this thought. Assume that it is preparing you for what will follow next, even if you do not notice the preparation at all.
Manual for Teachers
13. WHAT IS THE REAL MEANING OF SACRIFICE? P 6
6 You may believe this course requires sacrifice of all you really hold dear. In one sense this is true, for you hold dear the things that crucify God’s Son, and it is the course’s aim to set him free. But do not be mistaken about what sacrifice means. It always means the giving up of what you want. And what, O teacher of God, is it that you want? You have been called by God, and you have answered. Would you now sacrifice that Call? Few have heard it as yet, and they can but turn to you. There is no other hope in all the world that they can trust. There is no other voice in all the world that echoes God’s. If you would sacrifice the truth, they stay in hell. And if they stay, you will remain with them.
Journal
I used to think I was being asked to sacrifice. I thought that giving up my special relationships was a sacrifice I could hardly imagine. I have discovered that it is no sacrifice at all and what is arising in those relationships is so sublime that I can hardly believe it. And this is not complete as yet, so who knows how much better it becomes as I allow the Holy Spirit to transform them into holy relationships.
I thought I was being asked to give up the little joy I had in the world, that I had to hate the world and do my best to undo it. But I discovered that, like my relationships, letting the world be transformed was not a loss but was actually a wonderful thing. I enjoy the world so much more now that I am learning to see it differently. Instead of focusing on what I made of it through my judgments, I am focused on seeing the Love that holds it together, seeing the holiness in it that is in everything because God is in everything.
I never forget that I have been called by God and that the Sonship depends on me to do my part in the Atonement. I never forget how important this is and I never forget that the salvation of my brother is as important to me as is my own because they are the same. No one returns to God without all of us because we are one.
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The world as we see it has never existed anywhere except in our minds, and now it exists only in our memories of it. We are so entangled with that memory that we believe it is happening right now and this is our life. We keep the memory alive by believing in it and we believe in it because we are using our ego mind to interpret and judge it. As long as we keep doing this, we will suffer the illusion.
We can stop remembering the false world we made simply by deciding with God rather than the ego. First, we must accept that our decisions are the cause of what we see and then we must accept that there is another way to see. I love Lesson 152 because this is the clearest statement of fact. There is no compromise in this lesson. We make the world with our decisions and we undo it with our decisions.
For a decision to have this power it must be made in union and so for every decision we make we must join with either the ego or the Holy Spirit. So, if I feel angry it must be that I asked the ego what the situation meant and from that interpretation, anger arose and I fall deeper into the memory of a world outside God as if it could ever have been real. But I believe it is and so it is true for me and I suffer for it.
Eventually, the pain will be too great and I will have to make a different decision. This time, I will ask the Holy Spirit what it means and as I accept His answer, the miracle is inserted into the dream and everything changes and I am saved from a thousand years of suffering.
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