Day 55
9. ARE CHANGES REQUIRED IN THE LIFE SITUATION OF GOD’S TEACHERS?
1 Changes are required in the minds of God’s teachers. This may or may not involve changes in the external situation. Remember that no one is where he is by accident, and chance plays no part in God’s plan. It is most unlikely that changes in attitudes would not be the first step in the newly-made teacher of God’s training. There is, however, no set pattern, since training is always highly individualized. There are those who are called upon to change their life situation almost immediately, but these are generally special cases. By far the majority are given a slowly-evolving training program, in which as many previous mistakes as possible are corrected. Relationships in particular must be properly perceived, and all dark cornerstones of unforgiveness removed. Otherwise the old thought system still has a basis for return.
I have noticed how true it is that our training is highly individualized. I have been given a few teachers to assist in my training, and it is hard to avoid the temptation to judge my own path by how much it resembles theirs. I think I am finally starting to understand that this is not helpful. If I try to step only in someone else’s footsteps I will miss the path Holy Spirit has laid out for me, or at least I will be uncomfortable because I am deciding for myself what my path should look like.
One teacher Holy Spirit brought into my life is Regina Dawn Akers, scribe to the Holy Spirit’s Interpretation of the New Testament, and The Teachings of the Inner Ramana. Her path more closely resembled the first example Jesus gives us. Nearly right away she was asked to change her whole life, and it continues like that for her.
My path has been like most. It is a very slowly evolving training program. I see why this is the better path for me. I began with a great deal of fear that I had to learn to let go. If I started with great change I may have been overcome by my fear. In retrospect, I see that I began my training in the early ‘70’s and found the Course in 1981. It was not until 1999 or so, when I chose to accelerate that training through the Pathways of Light courses, that I became ready for major changes of my life circumstances.
I always enjoy hearing someone else’s story. Everyone’s is a little different, but some things are going to be common to each story. No matter what is asked of us as far as our external situation goes, we are required to first make certain changes in our thinking.
Even Regina, whose life changed dramatically and very quickly, had to make certain attitude changes before she would be ready to accept these changes. She was given the words of peace pilgrim to help open her mind to these changes and then an accelerated year with the Course with assistance from her Inner Guide. Something she said made a real impression on me. Well, lots of things she says make impressions. ~smile~ But the one I’m thinking of now concerns Peace Pilgrim.
Peace Pilgrim was talking about our Oneness and Regina had never heard of such a thing and didn’t understand. She doubted this, but she didn’t say that this can’t be true. What she said in her mind was, “I wonder how this could be true?” This was her way of saying that she was willing to be taught, and all that is asked of us in the beginning is a little willingness.
The Holy Spirit is still working with me to help me correct as many errors as possible. As my willingness grows, my fear diminishes and my progress becomes steadier. Jesus says that relationships especially must be “properly perceived, and all dark cornerstones of unforgiveness removed.” I certainly see that.
When I divorced my last husband I thought I was getting out of something. I quickly saw that this was not the case! I could leave the body, but the relationship stayed with me until it was healed. Since it is all in the mind to begin with, the results of my beliefs, I see how it is that the relationship goes with me wherever I go. I chose to become a teacher of God, and healing this relationship was part of that choice.
It is often only in retrospect that I recognize a situation I had been through was part of this training. I often become distracted by the form the situation has taken, and not realized until later it was really the purification of another relationship, or more purification of a relationship. This has been especially true of my relationships with my children and close family. Many of the learning situations with my children have had the goal of allowing the specialness to fall away.
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