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What Happens When I Oppose God with My Thoughts.

What happens when I oppose God with my thoughts. (Question from Pathways of Light course 904)

I thought of a few ways that I try to make real what is not real. These are times when I believe my story is actually happening now and that I must control it in some way. When that happens, I feel stressed because, really, what can I control? My ex-husband spent his life being financially responsible, saving, and investing so that he would have a pleasant retirement. Then there was a crash and he lost half of his retirement right before he retired.

Who plans to get cancer? Who thinks they can control their adult children? No one can control what Congress does or the decisions made by the president. No one can control whether we go to war or stay at peace. I can’t control whether or not I will get robbed. I have no control over whether I get a headache or if I will sleep well on any particular night.
The point is that I cannot control this life. The script is written and certain things are destined to happen within the story, but I am not in the story. In Lesson 168, Jesus says this about us.

“The mind can think it sleeps, but that is all. It cannot change what is its waking state. It cannot make a body, nor abide within a body. What is alien to the mind does not exist, because it has no source. For mind creates all things that are, and cannot give them attributes it lacks, nor change its own eternal, mindful state. It cannot make the physical. What seems to die is but the sign of mind asleep.”

How much clearer can it get? The mind cannot make a body, nor abide within a body. So this story is just that – a story, imagination, a hallucination, an illusion. If I cannot be a body or in a body, I am not in this story. I can only be dreaming it.
When I believe in my story, I become anxious and rightfully so. But when I realize that this is not reality and I am not actually living it, I can use the story to further my purpose. Instead of trying to think of some way to change the story, I can focus on the question, “What is it for?” I can use the story to undo the story. When I do this, I am stress-free. It is a much happier dream and as a lucid dreamer, I experience it without fear.

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