II. The Happy Learner, P 5
5 When you teach anyone that truth is true, you learn it with him. And so you learn that what seemed hardest was the easiest. Learn to be a happy learner. You will never learn how to make nothing everything. Yet see that this has been your goal, and recognize how foolish it has been. Be glad it is undone, for when you look at it in simple honesty, it is undone. I said before, “Be not content with nothing,” for you have believed that nothing could content you. It is not so.
Journal
Jesus is telling me that the world I see is nothing and not worth my effort. It will never content me. I can try to manipulate it and control it, learn enough to overcome it, and it is all wasted effort. This is not a sad or depressing thing to learn, it is good news! I can give up all that wasted effort and turn it toward what will actually bring me joy and peace.
Here is what I have learned so far about this. When the world seems to be the problem, I turn my attention to my mind. It is the mind that makes the world and so it is the mind that must be changed if I want the world to change. I used to be confused about this. I came to accept that the mind was the cause of all I see, but if all I see is an illusion, then why change anything? Why do I care? Why do I want to change anything in the world?
Now I see that changing the world is not my goal, but in changing my mind, the world seems to change as well. This only makes sense. If the world as I see it now is a reflection of the state of my mind, then the healed mind will show me a healed world. I will have a much happier dream and that is good. I am the Son of God. I am not meant to live in poverty, chaos and despair. I am meant for love, joy and peace.
As I change my mind about the world, as I begin to accept my true nature and release the separation thoughts, the world I see will witness to this change. I have seen this happen and I know it is true. It is like the world is a perfect mirror of my mind and so I look at it to see how I am doing. Does it still reflect a desire to attack and defend? Then there are thoughts in my mind that are not healed. Is the body in pain or sick? Then there are still beliefs that need to be undone.
Because the Sonship is one whole and indivisible creation, this transformation must be inclusive. I have come to believe that it is my function to save the world through saving myself. But salvation cannot occur if any are left out. It would be like saving the body but not including certain organs because I don’t find them worthy. The body will not function and so will not be saved. I see the body of Christ in the same way. It must all be included, no part left out or it will not be saved.
So this defines my function. This perfect mirror that I think of as my life and my world will allow me to know my own salvation in relationship to the salvation I offer all parts of the Sonship. Here is an example. When my ex-husband showed up in our life recently and in a way that was uncomfortable for us all, I felt resentful. I tried to avoid him. I tried not to think about the situation when I didn’t have to. My reaction to him was like cutting the heart out of the body and then wondering why it was no longer functioning.
In trying to cut this man out of our life, it was like I was trying to cut him out of the body of Christ. Then I was trying to act as if I was still whole and functioning when I was actually limping along, and feeling the effect of my foolishness. I lost the sense of love and joy and peace that is mine when I meet its conditions, and really, there is only one condition. I must love unconditionally and universally. Excluding someone from that love is not unconditional and universal love.
When I was tired of this miserable dream, I invited the Holy Spirit to heal my mind of the belief I needed to deny love to this one integral part of Self, or even that he needed to meet certain demands to receive welcome in my heart. I stopped thinking he was the problem and amputation was the answer. I stopped thinking I knew anything at all. Instead I welcomed him into my circle of love and I began to take him and the entire situation to the altar. There I allow my holiness to do its work without my input or my interference.
Will my world change because of this decision? It already has. I am at peace and that is my goal. Will the situation shift? Yes it will. I don’t know what that will look like, but I know it will be in the best interest of everyone concerned, because the Holy Spirit answers for all, not knowing us in parts. I can’t see how this will happen, but I don’t need to. I trust the process. I trust the Holy Spirit to know what I cannot know.
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