VIII. The Problem and the Answer, P 4
4 No one can withhold truth except from himself. Yet God will not refuse you the Answer He gave. Ask, then, for what is yours, but which you did not make, and do not defend yourself against truth. You made the problem God has answered. Ask yourself, therefore, but one simple question:
Do I want the problem or do I want the answer?
Decide for the answer and you will have it, for you will see it as it is, and it is yours already.
Journal
It seems the answer is always available to us because the answer has already been established and is ours. The only way we could not be aware of the answer is if we deliberately choose the problem over the answer. I have been asking myself what are the problems I am choosing to keep when I could have the answer instead. Obviously, they are the problems I still have.
I still look in the mirror and see an image of a chubby woman and that feels like a problem to me. The image is of my own making, a projection of the beliefs in my mind. I see it as a problem, and yet, if the image is a representation of my beliefs, and if my beliefs can be changed, why am I holding onto this problem image? I must be defending myself against the truth. This is true of all the problems I perceive in the world.
All of them are the same problem. They are just different forms of the one problem; I think I am separated from God. What am I afraid of? Not enough money? Not enough love? Sickness? Loss of some sort is always involved in my fears. All of those fears are really the fear that I am separated from God. Could loss of anything be found in God? Could even the idea of loss and lack be found in God? All forms of loss have something to do with the body. Could a body be found in God?
These are problems that I made and the solution to those problems, the one problem, was given in the instant it was needed. It is in my mind waiting for me to want it. For right now I am still looking at my problems as if each one was discreet and allowing myself to find the answer. But each time I do so, I remind myself that it is just a form of the one problem and the answer is for all forms of that problem. In this way I am learning not to defend against the answer and that I don’t even want to defend against it, because it is a defense against God. I am learning that I want God.
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