I gladly make the “sacrifice” of fear.
These lessons are so perfect and systematic. It’s freaky-deak on some days.
I am laughing my ass off over here at the sheer mathematics of these workbook lessons. They always equal my thoughts. Lesson 323 = where I am right now in my mind. These lessons add up. They subtract fear thoughts. They balance, restore, and harmonize.
It’s like science.
Today I gladly make the “sacrifice” of fear.
I obviously pushed some buttons yesterday, hit a few nerves, with the post about my cat.
You guys only get to see the public comments posted here on the blog … I get to see all the private comments sent to my email box! I love it because you guys get to see where I am in my own mind, and when you write to me I get to see where you are in your own mind. I love comments! Keep them coming!
Total exposure.
I love the practice of A Course in Miracles. It includes everything – all my ideas, all my thoughts, all the activities going on in my life, every interaction … it is all-inclusive. The bible says you gotta cross every t and dot every i.
Turn over every single rock and expose whatever thoughts are under it to the light.
Have the willingness to look at your fears in order to let them go.
Be honest.
Be yourself.
Today’s lesson is a great reminder that I am only asked to let go of suffering – ALL SUFFERING – all sense of loss and sadness, all anxiety and doubt, and freely let God’s Love come streaming into my awareness, healing me of pain, and giving me eternal joy.
All.
I am asked to let go of ALL suffering, ALL sense of loss and sadness, ALL anxiety and doubt.
These lessons are uncompromising.
These lessons are not asking me to give up a cat or not give up a cat … but rather to use the cat to see where I am still holding onto to ideas of suffering, loss, sadness, anxiety and doubt.
That’s all! Everything is a lesson God would have me learn!
There is no sacrifice. There is no loss.
I am laughing like crazy.
How the story will end??
It will end in joy, in peace, in benediction, with a blessing, in a blaze of bright light.
The story ends in laughter.
So that’s the HOW, but what about the WHEN?
“The world will end when its thought system has been completely reversed. Until then, bits and pieces of its thinking will still seem sensible. The final lesson, which brings the ending of the world, cannot be grasped by those not yet prepared to leave the world and go beyond its tiny reach.”
WHAT, THEN, IS THE FUNCTION OF THE TEACHER OF GOD IN THIS CONCLUDING LESSON?
“He need merely learn how to approach it; to begin to go in its direction. He need merely trust that, if God’s Voice tells him it is a lesson he can learn, he can learn it. He does not judge it either as hard or easy. His Teacher points to it, and he trusts that He will show him how to learn it.”
Just this second Enzo walked in through the window, walked across the computer, and is now chowing down on food over there. LOL. Everything is good. God is good. I don’t have to worry about a thing. I don’t have to plan anything. I can be here just for today and do the lesson. Nothing more than that is asked.
I am asked to “sacrifice” my limited ideas, and fear-based thoughts.
Such is the “sacrifice” the Holy Spirit asks of me, and one I gladly make; the only “cost” of restoration of God’s memory to me, for the salvation of the world.
Good Lord Almighty.
This is awesome.
I am laughing.
“And as we pay the debt we owe to truth – a debt that merely is the letting go of self-deceptions and of images we worshipped falsely – truth returns to us in wholeness and in joy. We are deceived no longer. Love has now returned to our awareness. And we are at peace again, for fear has gone and only love remains.”
I love this (from the Teachers Manual, How Will the World End?):
“To turn hell into Heaven is the function of God’s teachers for what they teach are lessons in which Heaven is reflected. And now sit down in true humility and realize all God would have you do. Do not be arrogant and say you cannot learn His Own curriculum. His Word says otherwise. His Will be done. It cannot be otherwise. And be you thankful that it is so.”
Absolutely!
Facebook comments:
Thank You Lisa! Because you are sharing the “whole” experience of your being, it
allows us all, that choose to check in, and be committed to our Lessons each day,
(since the 1at of January) we all are learning through experiencing and being willing
to LOOK within…with you…and for the “whole” experience of each of us..we are
joined, since we all experience “daily stuff ” it will always be a Lesson each of us
can relate to, somehow…since it is all the same, just will keep arising until it is
completed! Just when I think I have my mind rightful, I can see another Lesson
come up, to embrace and learn from…And to keep with ACIM, at that moment, I
can CHOOSE again…and the reminder of the Truth, is always REAL…and that
is when I have peace…I can choose what I want in my experience as we all are
free to do…just being willing, to choose again…and not allow the “ego” to trick
us….Yes, I am laughing with you! Being Still and Doing Nothing, Allowing His
guidance with ALL things, thats what is Real!!! Thats why nothing else matters…
since we do not know why…we only need to know, HOW…Keep on Shining~
Hello Again, I wanted to share ..I did something different today….I have done
this before, with other books or cards…asking a question, for guidance/message,
type thing, but not with my ACIM book….With today’s Lesson, and the discussion
we have had this week…I asked to be led to another lesson to shine more light on
me today…I went to # 133 page 245 ” I will not value what is valueless”..Its a
great one to reread and see with our new eyes…I love to look at the lessons I have
already done and get more from it than the first time! This pretty much sums it
all up! Yep, like science…Its ALL right here:-)
hi Lisa,
I love all the flurry around Enzo. I know you will do as you are directed by your Christ self. How do I know this… You demonstrate it everyday here on G4G. You demonstrate/live the freedom that brings, freedom from all outside or ‘other’ inside influences. In The Present Moment… there is the voice that is unerringly accurate and you are that here day in and day out. What a gift you are.
I love … “It is a spiritual axiom that every time we are disturbed no matter what the cause, there is something the matter with me (us).
If somebody hurts us and we are sore, we are int the wrong also.”
from the AA 12 x 12
I see you as standing in the judgment of others and how i want to be… THERE IS NOWHERE FOR THEM TO STICK, as a brother once told me.
You are as God created you.
I have not been allowed to go and see my grandson since the end of June of this year…
That decision has given me so much of an opportunity for practicing acim…
I could retaliate in anger…. i have always done that
I could manipulate … i have always done that
I could just tell them to _____ off … I have always done that
Or in this case I asked God to change me. God change MY MIND.
I have been able to see that so much of my identity and happiness came from this relationship.
And there is the lie.
I got to see how dependent I am on outside circumstances to make me FEEL happy.
there is the lie.
I got to see that while I am so busy concentrating on ‘them’ I wasn’t looking at me.
That is what I have always done.
And acceptance is the answer to ALL my problems today. When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place or thing, or situation- some fact of my life – unacceptabe to me, and I can find no serenity until I ACCEPT that person, place, thing, or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment. Nothing , absolutey nothing happens in God’s world by mistake. Until I could accept my alcoholism, I could not stay sober; unless I accept life completely on life’s terms, I cannot be happy. I need to concentrate not so much on what needs to be change in the world as on what needs to be changed in me and in my attitudes.
AA Big Book – 449.
I am tired of doing this … I just want this to be over. I am waiting for something and it is already here. The tediousness of doing one thing at a time is more than I can stand now… I am ready for it all to be made new… in one brilliant instant…
Hanging on to doing this one thing at a time is what time is… and I am in denial of wanting everything.
Love gem
This is the Key, I think.
Lisa said,
I’m not making any plans. I’m not asked to do anything or not do anything. Just to be still, practice the lesson, trust and take a look at where I find myself. How simple.
No-body knows what is the “right” thing to do. We are under no laws but Gods. So in our TRUST We just throw our experience around , feel it, recognize it is only for the purpose of awakening and let it GO.
God always provides an answer. The healing, I think, comes in letting go of when or how it will be accomplished.
This is tough sometimes…… OMG.. You mean NO CONTROL..NO CONDITIONS.. YIKES
I may or may not be lead to the answer that I thought was “cool”!
But if I listen carefully I will hear! Mostly when I really listen…. what I SEE is what I am or not to do is totally irrelevant. The miracles is in recognizing that I am totally innocent always!
Love you all cats and ALL,
ME
ME