My mind holds only what I think with God.
(131) No one can fail who seeks to reach the truth.
(132) I loose the world from all I thought it was.
The beauty of practicing the daily workbook lessons of A Course in Miracles is for the constant reminder of what you keep forgetting.
How often do you keep repeating the same routine every day? How many times do you tell (or think) a story or grievance that happened yesterday or a week ago? Are you being present? Who would you be without your routine or story? What would you do in this very moment if you loosed the world from all you thought it was?
Initially, you wouldn’t know what to do. You would simply be present, and allow yourself to be SHOWN where to go. You wouldn’t know how much money was in your bank account. You wouldn’t know about your past limitations. You wouldn’t have any fears if you just arrived here today. How could you? Think about it. All your fears are based on things you have experienced in the past. If you came here as a newborn baby today, with no ideas about this world, you wouldn’t have a single problem or a single plan.
Without the world you made, you would be in a present condition with no story.
If you just arrived here today, you would not have an identity. You wouldn’t be able to tell people you’ve been divorced, wounded, sick, hurt, depressed, angry, poor, or whatever story you’ve been dragging around with you.
This is the resurrection.
This is what it means to “loose the world.”
You loose your story. You loose your chains. You loose your tight grip on reality.
You let go. You surrender to this moment.
Think about it: without your story, without your time-based history … who are you??
Going forward, starting today, what would you tell people about yourself?
The practice of A Course in Miracles is to catch yourself when you drag a past story into the present moment.
“I went here…”
“I did this …”
“This happened to me …”
“I am this…”
“That person did this …”
Catch yourself as you tell your story. Realize how heavy this load is on your shoulders. Thinking your story in your mind is exactly the same as verbally telling it to someone out loud. So be consciously aware of what you are thinking and saying out loud.
Then loose the world.
Loose that story. Let it go. It never happened. You remain unaffected by your tales of service, glory, misery, pain or pleasure.
“Failure is all about you while you seek for goals that cannot be achieved. You look for permanence in the impermanent, for love where there is none, for safety in the midst of danger; immortality within the darkness of the dream of death. Who could succeed where contradiction is the setting of his searching, and the place to which he comes to find stability.”
Ha.
“Goals that are meaningless are not attained. There is no way to reach them, for the means by which you strive for them are meaningless as they are.”
Yet … searching is inevitable here. You came here for something. You’ve been looking for something, for meaning, for purpose, for happiness … something. Search you must.
You search for Heaven, and you will attain this goal because the ending is set. No one can fail to want this goal and reach it in the end.
“When he is wrong, he finds correction. When he wanders off, he is led back to his appointed task.”
I love these lessons.
This is a day of gladness, for we come to the appointed time and place where you will find the goal of all your searching here, and all the seeking of the world, which end together as you pass beyond this door.
John 10:7-9: Then Jesus said unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep. All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them. I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. I am the good shepherd.
To read whole chapter, click here: Whole Chapter, John 10
“Today I see and find all that I want.
My single purpose offers it to me.
No one can fail who seeks to reach the truth.”
I am Jesus’ sheep. He knows me and I know him. I hear his Voice – he is my shepherd – and I follow him.
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