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Study of Manual for Teachers 4-4-12

Day 95
7 How simply and how easily does time slip by for the teacher of God who has accepted His protection! All that he did before in the name of safety no longer interests him. For he is safe, and knows it to be so. He has a Guide Who will not fail. He need make no distinctions among the problems he perceives, for He to Whom he turns with all of them recognizes no order of difficulty in resolving them. He is as safe in the present as he was before illusions were accepted into his mind, and as he will be when he has let them go. There is no difference in his state at different times and different places, because they are all one to God. This is his safety. And he has no need for more than this.

Jesus is not suggesting in this paragraph that nothing untoward will ever again happen in my life when I accept God’s protection, but he is telling me that all problems will be resolved. He is saying all problems are the same, there is no big problem and little problem, and it doesn’t matter where or when. My safety is guaranteed. My guide will not fail me.

The only thing that keeps this from being true for me right now is that sometimes I would rather guide myself and solve my own problems. And then I ask for help only when I’m knee deep in the consequences of insisting on deciding on my own. I am completely connected to the Mind of God and have all Answers at my fingertips. Instead, I’m here saying, “No, no! Don’t tell me. Let me guess.”

Yesterday was a lovely day. I began with that wonderfully loving message from Holy Spirit that encouraged me to spend my day in joy and peace. But as I was getting ready for work the migraine I had the day before started coming back, and I was disappointed because this was supposed to be a happy day. Then I heard my Voice ask why I could not be happy with a headache. Okay, why not. So that is just what I did.

When I have a migraine I can take medication to dull the pain, but the medicine does not prevent me from feeling victimized and vulnerable. It doesn’t prevent me from projecting blame and feeling sorry for myself. Pain is just pain, but all that other stuff is suffering. It is the ego’s answer to adversity. Believing these thoughts is the way I keep my identity firmly in the ego. Yesterday, because of a different decision, I was delighted to realize that there is no reason to feel bad that I have a headache. Peace and joy were still right there for me and were not dependent on my physical condition.

I also noticed an interesting thing. The ego was resentful that I was not interested in looking pitiful when I got to work. I was aware of a desire to be noticed, for my boss to say, “You look sick. Are you ok?” Jeez, I came to work with a migraine. Shouldn’t someone feel bad for me? Shouldn’t I at least get credit for it?

I bet my boss would be nicer to me if she knew I was sick. I bet she would think I was a dedicated worker and be glad I worked for her. Maybe she would tell the big boss. (Ha ha, I wonder what the payoff is for sickness.) These were just thoughts passing through, hoping I would sit up and take notice, that I would act on them. But I decided not. I decided to have thoughts of joy and peace instead.

Another kind of thought tried to take up residence in my mind. The medicine I was taking seemed to dull my thinking somewhat. I was slow remembering things, just not as sharp as usual. I thought about losing my peace over this… for about a nano- second. Then I decided that if I needed to remember something that thought would be given to me.

I do not need the ego thinking mind for anything but the most mundane tasks. Anything more than that and it just gets in the way, making decisions based on the past and so keeping me stuck in old cycles. Yesterday was a lovely day, a happy day, a peaceful day. I feel very grateful to realize that circumstances have so little to do with my decision to choose thoughts of joy and peace.

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