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Study of Manual for Teachers 3-5-12

Day 65

3 The text explains that the Holy Spirit is the Answer to all problems you have made. These problems are not real, but that is meaningless to those who believe in them. And everyone believes in what he made, for it was made by his believing it. Into this strange and paradoxical situation,—one without meaning and devoid of sense, yet out of which no way seems possible,—God has sent His Judgment to answer yours. Gently His Judgment substitutes for yours. And through this substitution is the un-understandable made understandable. How is peace possible in this world? In your judgment it is not possible, and can never be possible. But in the Judgment of God what is reflected here is only peace.

If what I believe is true for me, and I believe that peace is not possible then the first thing I want to do is to let God’s word substitute for mine. He says peace is possible therefore it is. I am fully ready to accept God’s judgment of this. I may have trouble doing the rest, but I accept that peace is possible regardless of the appearance of things.

The next step is to accept God’s judgments in place of mine. First I would have to be aware of my problems and willing to look with Holy Spirit at my judgments, then allow new thoughts about them to take their place in my mind. When we get down to specifics like that I notice that it is sometimes harder. After all, the reason I have these problems is because I believe in them, and now I will be asked to see them as meaningless. This may sometimes require a significant shift in my thinking.

For instance, when I lost a large customer and at the same time was threatened by the loss of another, I knew that I could see peace instead of the panic that was in my mind. But I was having trouble letting go of my belief that this was a real problem. The solution seemed to be out of my hands, while the boss still expected a solution, or at least someone to accept the blame. It seemed such an impossible situation that I didn’t see how I could have peace. Every time I reminded myself that I could see peace instead of this the ego showed me another objection to peace.

What Holy Spirit was finally able to help me see is that I was trying to find peace within the situation. I was trying to find a way to change what was happening so that I could be peaceful, and when I couldn’t change it, I thought I couldn’t be peaceful. I knew I was making a mistake but my mind was so confused that I couldn’t figure out what the mistake was. But I did continue to ask for help, and my consistent desire for correction finally out-weighed my desire to judge what was happening.

As soon as I stopped trying to fix the situation and instead let go of what I thought the situation meant, I felt the peace of God flood me. I gave it words later, or maybe the Holy Spirit gave me words because I still need them, but the peace was simply there. I only needed to stop what I was doing in order to have the peace of God.

The other kind of judgment I deal with is the habitual ones. They don’t necessarily come with a lot of drama, but are simply there in what seems small, and often insignificant, problems, and there are lots of those judgments. The mistake I make is to think that because they don’t upset me as much that they are not important, but all forms of judgment on my part must be let go if I am to have peace.

I see a person at the store act rudely and there is an instant judgment. I am for a moment out of peace as I believe she is guilty and I am her victim. I have just taught the mind that we are separate, we are guilty and we are victims. This is not the way to peace, and I do this sort of thing many times a day. But now that I am more aware, I see what is happening and this gives me many opportunities to choose differently. Each time I notice I practice my willingness to let go of my judgment so that God can give me His judgment instead and with it, His peace.

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