I can escape from the world I see by giving up attack thoughts.
We’re on Day 23!! Wow. It’s been 3 weeks already. How’s it going?
You should be experiencing some happy changes by now.
The other day I wrote “if you say you are happy all the time, then I say you are a liar” and what that means is to come into an honesty and not try to sugar-coat things with your own ideas of happy and nice. Just be honest and see if you are truly happy with constant love as your daily experience or is “happiness” just a face you wear? Be honest. Beyond fear and anger is a happiness that endures forever, and is constant.
And that’s where we’re headed. We are uncovering the crap to get to the light, to get to the treasure.
I have found for myself, through the practice of the lessons of A Course in Miracles, is that I am happy – truly happy – almost all the time. I love my life. I love what has happened to me. I still have brief moments where I go through pockets of fear or confusion, but it’s very rare, and in these moments I have developed the ability to change my mind about everything in the minute it occurs … so those downswings come and go and I don’t even remember them.
It’s like going through pockets of dark energy and I move swiftly through them.
The trick is not to pick up any of that dark energy. Just move through it, and leave it behind. If someone says something mean to you, just move through it. You don’t have to respond. And you definitely don’t have to take it personally. Let it go. Don’t pick it negativity and darkness. It’s not worthy of the Son of God.
You deserve only love and full appreciation.
And you should be giving only love and full appreciation.
In situations when someone is attacking me I say silently: I’m doing this to myself. I want the peace of God. I don’t want conflict. I can see this situation differently … and in that instant, everything shifts. The whole picture changes.
I’ve learned that when I don’t pick up conflict, it doesn’t cling to me.
I don’t participate in drama anymore because I want to be happy and fulfill the function God sent me here to do.
I’ve chosen not to be a human being anymore. It’s much more fun to be the Light of the World. It’s much more rewarding to extend the light of Heaven here on earth than it is to participate in the nonsense.
This is what A Course in Miracles is really offering: the ability to change your mind in every situation. There is always another way of looking. Always. There is always another way of responding. Always.
I noticed recently that I’ve lost the ability to attack.
It’s an astonishing thing. I have trained my mind sufficiently to STOP before responding to anything. When I’m talking to someone, I remind myself “this guy is me, and we are One in God together.” When i do this, i find that I listen differently. I pay more attention. This is the holy Son of God talking to me! I want to hear what he has to say! I don’t want to attack him. I want to honor him. I want to love him. I want to give him everything.
This is the real miracle. You get aligned with God all through the day. You STOP first before responding to anything. There is a pause now where before you used to go charging ahead, oblivious.
Now, you stop before writing that e-mail. You stop before opening your mouth. You stop before gossiping. You stop before complaining. You stop before buying a super-size chocolate bar that you think will make you feel better. You stop before going on a wild shopping spree because you are bored and lonely.
You stop.
And you ask for guidance.
You ask for what you really want.
For me it boils down to this: I just want to be happy.
Maybe that chocolate bar or shopping spree will truly make you happy – it’s not good or bad – but at least be sure so ASK first if that’s what you really want … or is it simply to fill an empty hole? Get into the practice of stopping, pausing and asking what you really want before you do anything.
From the 50 miracle principles from the text: “God is the giver of life. His Voice will direct you very specifically. You will be told all you need to know.”
See?
So ask about everything … and you will be told SPECIFICALLY what to do.
Get into the habit of talking to God.
I don’t want conflict. I don’t want to feel sick. I don’t want to put myself in a situation that I’m going to have to fix later. I want to be conscious of my thoughts, behaviors and actions. Thank you very much. I want to be awake. I don’t want to sleepwalk through life. I want my life to be a full creative expression of the Love I feel.
How simple.
And the way this is accomplished is by giving up attack thoughts.
It’s a conscious choice. I choose to respond to everything with love. I choose to drop the grievance. I choose to forgive. I choose to see only the good in everyone, and forget everything else.
The audio is still not working. I got an e-mail from Talkshoe yesterday that says they had a “hardware failure” the night before and needed to replace the system. They said everything was supposed to be back up and running yesterday, but not so. The system is still down. Sorry.
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What a great message! It encompasses more than the day’s current lesson. It summarizes the whole meaning of ACIM. Thank you Lisa!
If we could master just this lesson, how different our lives would be.
I spent the whole day working this, and working this, then I read the post, and say. Gosh I should have read this and then gone thru the day. Oh well. This is lovely. ACIM,and this blog has been an absolute miracle for me. I cannot wait to see what tomorrow brings. Lisa I love the recordings, but the writing is absolutely fantastic too.