After reading WB lesson 165, I had these words come to my mind.
“Let not my mind deny the Thought of God.”——“What could keep from you what you already have except your choice to see it not, denying that it is there?”——-
It is my choice to deny truth, deny Love because of lingering and devious hope that specialness can give me what I dream I lack. My silly thoughts, totally without meaning, cannot change or affect Love. If Love is unchanging, then I must be as Love created me.
Still I try to make specialness fill the lack I think I have or am. Any “relief” I perceive from specialness is very short lived. The respite from pain and guilt is meaningless because I have only exchanged illusion for illusion. Can this be do-able? Can this be sane?
If I deny Love, how can I possibly know Love, or recognize It? [Jesus teaches that I can learn of Love’s Presence by seeing It’s effects.] I can change my mind about what I seek, and seek what is all ready mine. With help from my true Teacher, I can learn the difference of false and true. I can learn not to keep fear disguised as love. Not to substitute pain for joy, tears for laughter, entrapment for freedom. I will stop inviting fear into my home, and welcome Truth, welcome Peace, and Love is then here, as It has always been.
How foolish and meaningless it is to try to ignore Love; to deny It’s effects; to keep pain and misery as my companions. That is how I truly “waste” time. If I will simply cease trying to run my own show, how simple and meaningful everything will be. How peaceful I will be when I stop making my choices based on bodily needs, on vacant dreams, on the past. Such choices are hopeless in themselves since they are based on nothing.
I need to constantly remind myself that I do have a choice. I can change the way I seem to think, and the way my day goes, by simply asking for and accepting Help. I do have the power of choice, to ask for the aid of my true Friend and Advisor. When I accept this Help, this relieves
me of the torture of “making life work” the way that I think (mistakenly) I want it to.
The way for me to accept this Help, is my willingness to spend some time with Spirit in the morning, to be silent and simply listen. If my willingness is not there, then the little mind runs it’s insane dialog, and I am entrapped. When my choice is strong, then the little mind is silent, and I move into Peace and Spirit shares whatever I may “need” for that moment or that day. That is not complicated in any way——Spirit always keeps it simple, I am the one that tries to make obstacles “insurmountable.” Thank goodness there is a part of my mind that holds the truth and never forgets it. Thank goodness, I can choose to turn to that place in my mind, and be restored to truth and Love.
Blessings to you all—- From Love & Mary
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