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Study of Manual for Teachers 5-19-12

Day 138
6 No one on earth can grasp what Heaven is, or what its one Creator really means. Yet we have witnesses. It is to them that wisdom should appeal. There have been those whose learning far exceeds what we can learn. Nor would we teach the limitations we have laid on us. No one who has become a true and dedicated teacher of God forgets his brothers. Yet what he can offer them is limited by what he learns himself. Then turn to one who laid all limits by, and went beyond the farthest reach of learning. He will take you with him, for he did not go alone. And you were with him then, as you are now. 

It seems to be my time to wake up from the dream of separation. If not in this lifetime, then certainly very soon. But that is all I can say about it. I don’t know what that means because I haven’t done it yet. Jesus says that no one on earth can grasp what Heaven is or what its one Creator really means. So I guess living awake is just a step, albeit a significant step, on the path.

I have suspected that, and this seems to confirm what I thought. I used to spend time trying to figure this all out and making up words to explain the unexplainable. I don’t waste time trying to guess what comes next anymore. Maybe there is no end. Maybe we create as we go.

There are those who have gone before me and who offer me their help and their words. That is enough. I am content to take the next step and the next step.  I step forward in happy anticipation of being surprised at what I find. So far, so good! But if I don’t know anything how is it I can be a teacher of God?

I certainly don’t want to continue to teach that which has limited me. I don’t want to continue to teach separation ideas. Jesus says that there are those whose learning far exceeds mine and so it must be that when I let go of what I think I know, and open my mind, then I will be given the words I need, and the words my brother needs.

Then Jesus says that I can only teach what I learn myself. So teaching is not me saying words, no matter how enlightened the source. Teaching is speaking from the Heart, the place of knowing. It is not instructing. An English teacher can instruct us on sentence structure without having a Heart knowing. All she needs are the facts and when I get those facts I can write a sentence that is grammatically correct.

Being a teacher of God is different. What I learn is learned deeply. It is an awakening of an ancient memory. And I cannot think of words to describe this. And I cannot think of words to describe the process of teaching. The words are just incidental to the real process, sometimes needed and sometimes not, and I suspect that teaching and learning is not actually what happens.

But it doesn’t matter what I understand about this. My part is to be empty and open and a willing channel. My part is to realize that I don’t know so that I can be given knowledge, and then to share what I have learned with whomever I am sent to. To share in whatever way I am given to share.

I am not alone in this, and a good thing, that! I am being led by one who went before me. He is leading me just as he was led. And then, mystery upon mystery, I am told that I was with him when this happened. Well, I must be changing because I used to be driven crazy by these paradoxes, but now I just enjoy the mystery of it.

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