III. The Decision for Guiltlessness, P 6
6 No penalty is ever asked of God’s Son except by himself and of himself. Every chance given him to heal is another opportunity to replace darkness with light and fear with love. If he refuses it he binds himself to darkness, because he did not choose to free his brother and enter light with him. By giving power to nothing, he throws away the joyous opportunity to learn that nothing has no power. And by not dispelling darkness, he became afraid of darkness and of light. The joy of learning that darkness has no power over the Son of God is the happy lesson the Holy Spirit teaches, and would have you teach with Him. It is His joy to teach it, as it will be yours.
Journal
Here is something that happens to me when I am afraid and I wonder if it happens to everyone. Something happens in my life that triggers a fear. If I am afraid of loss, maybe I will experience some loss or hear about something that could mean a loss to me. For instance, when I had a 401K, and I would hear about a slump in the market, for a time it would trigger fear of loss. I would imagine losing my money and that would threaten my retirement. Eventually, I was able to let that go and I was free of that fear regardless of what the market did.
But while I was still afraid about that potential loss of money, I noticed something else would happen. I would become afraid of other things. I would worry about my money and pretty soon I was worried about my health or my children. I would be worried about the state of the world, and I would worry about an escaped convict showing up at my door and I would go around locking everything.
The thing is that these are all different forms of the same idea, that I could suffer, that I could be vulnerable, that I am a body and subject to loss. I open the door to loss and suddenly I am looking at many forms of loss. It seems like each one is a different fear but it is not. It is just the same fear taking a different form. Depending on how far I am willing to go with the idea of fear, my life could quickly become a nightmare even though nothing is actually happening, not even in the illusion.
It is so much better if I stop the fear as soon as I see it. I do this by asking for another way to see. I open my mind and my heart to the Holy Spirit. I tell him my story and I show him how upset I am and how afraid. I ask Him to help me with this. He helps me to see that I am the only one who is scaring myself, and I am the only one who can let the fear go. He might bring my attention to a writing or to a teacher who will help me to do this. If my mind is open to it, He will simply remove the thoughts I no longer want.
The thing I always have to remember is that I caused the problem with my thoughts and I can end the problems as I become willing to change my thoughts. Suffering is never God’s Will for me, so if I am suffering it can only be because I asked the ego mind for help in deciding what something means. I can join with the Holy Spirit instead and I will see differently, without fear.
The other thing I have noticed so often that it is now a certainty is that fear always stems from guilt. I found someone guilty and this triggers guilt in me, or I found myself guilty and then I begin to see the guilt in others. It is the same process with situations. When this happens it pretty soon gets out of control and fear overtakes me.
The answer is always the same, to allow the Holy Spirit to establish the truth in my mind; there is only innocence. I can say the words, but it is the Holy Spirit that helps me to know this as truth. The world cannot have power over me. I can pretend it does and then have that experience, but it cannot be true.
As I turn again and again to the Holy Spirit this is what He teaches me. As I learn it of Him and live a fearless life, I teach it alongside Him. There are only two choices I ever make. I choose the light or I choose the darkness. I choose joy or I choose fear and guilt, and I choose it for the world. This is my function, to be the light of the world through forgiveness. This is my happiness and my peace.
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