II. The Answer to Prayer, P 3
3 The Bible emphasizes that all prayer is answered, and this is indeed true. The very fact that the Holy Spirit has been asked for anything will ensure a response. Yet it is equally certain that no response given by Him will ever be one that would increase fear. It is possible that His answer will not be heard. It is impossible, however, that it will be lost. There are many answers you have already received but have not yet heard. I assure you that they are waiting for you.
I have often heard people say that sometimes God’s answer is no. It is their way of understanding why they don’t seem to receive an answer to their prayers while holding onto the idea that God hears them. I used to do that myself. Now I understand that all prayer is answered and that I know the answer when I am ready to receive it. I do not lose an answer because I am afraid of it, because it waits for me.
Sometimes I accept the answer in little tiny bits at a time. I understand that the world is an illusion and that includes my body. How is it then that I think the body is in charge? Weight problems have plagued me since I had my first child in 1969. How could that be? My body is an illusion; how can an illusion decide what it should weigh? How can it do anything?
I understand the logic behind the idea that the body is not stronger than the mind, but I still have this same problem with weight and so I become confused. I asked for clarity and healing and I received it, but I have accepted it in little bits at a time. I should go through my writings and find every one where I learned something new about body issues, and just look at the progression.
The most recent part of the answer that I have been willing to accept is two fold. First I suddenly understood that I needed to stop asking the Holy Spirit to prove I am right and instead to simply ask Him to show me what He wants me to know. The second part came with Lesson 325, the keynote to salvation.
I accepted that weight problems don’t happen to me and do not occur in the world. They are desires in my mind being manifest in the world. I totally accepted that this was true and so I stopped trying to lose weight from my body and started giving my full attention to the beliefs that were sourcing my desire to fight this never ending battle.
When I see such a thought or belief, I ask the Holy Spirit to remove it from my mind. I ask Him to clarify what it is He wants me to know about this and I wait patiently to see if I have understood Him. If my mind is healed then the body will reflect that. I read that lesson on November 21st. I stopped dieting or watching my food intake. I stopped giving meaning to the things Myron puts in her mouth. I did not do this immediately, but I became vigilant for the old beliefs so I could master this decision.
I have eaten absolutely anything I want and during the holidays this included lots of sweets I don’t ordinarily indulge in. The result is that I am sick of sugar, but I have not gained an ounce. During this past month I have weighed myself once or twice a week, not to see if I am successful, but to see if I am understanding what the Holy Spirit wants me to know. I guess I am. Now I am asking Him to help me understand my desire to not only fail to gain weight but to lose weight. I wonder what will happen.
This is far more important than having a slimmer body. This is the answer to my prayer that I remember what I am. The relationship with the body has been a hard relationship for me to release to Spirit. I am learning lessons about this through my weight issues, through recognizing that pain is not real, and through the healing of the body as I heal my mind.
Weight is just another container for the same error. It is like a jar that is now holding my belief that I am a body and the body is my prison. It is holding the belief that the body is stronger than the mind. It is holding my belief that I have sinned in my desire to have a body. It holds fear and guilt. In asking for help in seeing this differently, I am asking for much more than to change the size and shape of a body. I am asking to remember that I am the Son of God.
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