2 To teach is to demonstrate. There are only two thought systems, and you demonstrate that you believe one or the other is true all the time. From your demonstration others learn, and so do you. The question is not whether you will teach, for in that there is no choice. The purpose of the course might be said to provide you with a means of choosing what you want to teach on the basis of what you want to learn. You cannot give to someone else, but only to yourself, and this you learn through teaching. Teaching is but a call to witnesses to attest to what you believe. It is a method of conversion. This is not done by words alone. Any situation must be to you a chance to teach others what you are, and what they are to you. No more than that, but also never less.
I am teaching all the time. This I have already established in my mind through yesterdays study and practice, but I need constant reminder so I am going to use this idea every day as part of my assignment. When I identify with the ego thought system, I teach separation as I did at Walmart and Books a Million. I put Walmart on one side and me on another. I made myself a victim of circumstance, a victim of Walmart’s decision to not provide enough cashiers, and a victim to my own impatience. Then I invited everyone else to join me in my beliefs, to witness to my beliefs.
My experience has been that I do not decide what thoughts are in the mind. I didn’t begin by thinking, “now I am going to decide to think about Walmart’s long lines.” If I did not have the thought to think this, I did not put the thought in my mind. It simply happened. Where my choice occurs is in whether I want to believe the thoughts in my mind or identify with the thoughts in my mind.
If they are not thoughts I would think with God, then I can recognize this is not a true thought and let it go on to wherever it came from. If I am identifying strongly with the ego thought I can grab hold of it with my mind and engage in it. Then more similar separation thoughts are attracted by my decision.
By the time I got to the cashier at Books a Million I had come to my senses and made the decision to let go of those ego thoughts. I felt to compliment the cashier on how quickly he was moving the line along. I could tell by his expression that he appreciated that I was seeing him in this way. He smiled and said he was trying. I am glad I made the decision before I got to him, so I when it was time to teach him what he was to me, I could teach him his innocence.
My assignment
Keep my reminder handy: My every word, thought and deed is teaching me and everyone else. Is this what I want to teach?
Holy spirit, help me to pause before I speak and consider what I am teaching my brother about himself.
Before I go to bed I am going to ask the Holy Spirit to review with me what I taught this day, ask Him to heal my mind of the errors, and then I am going to let go of the day so I start afresh the next day with a clean slate.
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