This is Day 3 from the 6-week coaching program.
The program for members contains 42 daily topics, 42 audios, plus private one-on-one interaction.
I like this lesson a lot because it shows the immediacy of the miracle – it doesn’t take any time at all – IN GOD ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE – and like the first miracle principle says “There is no order of difficulty in miracles.”
All it takes is willingness, because there’s only ONE ROOT (conflict) and once you get that out, all the problems in your life will disappear because the root has been removed.
“This course is simple.” – A Course in Miracles
Enjoy.
“Perhaps it is not yet quite clear to you that EACH DECISION THAT YOU MAKE is one between a grievance and a miracle.”
- A Course in Miracles, Lesson 78
“Today we go beyond the grievances, to look upon the miracle instead. We will REVERSE THE WAY YOU SEE by not allowing sight to stop before it sees. We will not wait before the shield of hate, but lay it down gently and lift our eyes in silence to behold the Son of God. HE WAITS FOR YOU behind your grievances, and as you lay them down he will appear in shining light where each one stood before you.”
-A Course in Miracles
AMAZING!!!!! You know that guy or girl who pushes all your buttons?? The one you hate?? The one who causes your blood to boil in anger?? Well … THAT’S YOUR SAVIOR – waiting for you on the other side of your grievance. He’s calling you to Heaven. He’s standing in the light – he’s already back home with God – while you’re standing in the dark holding on to a grievance about him!!!!!
Boy, do I love A Course in Miracles!!
You think that “other” person doesn’t get it, and that they’re just denser than dense and meaner than mean, but if you’re standing holding a grievance, THEN YOU’RE THE ONE WHO NEEDS HELP, NOT THEM. They’re totally fine. They’re already home in Heaven, waiting for you to drop your resentment and join them where they stand in the light. They’re whole and perfect, and you’re holding yourself in hell while you think they should be different.
I am not sure if you have yet noticed, but there is an ACTION ELEMENT in every single workbook lesson. Only once or twice in the Course does Jesus say “wait silently” but mostly what he’s asking is for you to shift your thinking to see a situation/person differently. It requires an ACTION, a shift, an active involvement on your part to allow your seeing to be reversed so that you can see what is truly there.
It’s NEVER about trying to change the person or situation – never, never, never – because the person/situation is NOT REAL. But if you see it and it’s causing you a grievance, then you DO have to change your mind to see it clearly. Are you starting to get this? Exciting, right?
Everyone gets to be EXACTLY as they are – they get to be the biggest pain in the asses they want to be. Because they cannot affect you when you have made a decision to see everything through the eyes of Christ. You’ll just be watching them like you’re watching a movie. Thinking, “OH THAT’S NICE.”
You don’t have to react to anything anymore. You don’t react to the characters in a movie as if they are real, do you? You just watch the action and it doesn’t affect your life in any way. You’re not participating in the conflict – you’re just observing it, and you realize it has nothing to do with you. It’s just up there on the screen. You don’t have to solve anything or fix anything because it’s just a movie.
And this is how you want to get thinking about your life. None of it’s real. You don’t have to fix anything or solve anything. But you DO need willingness to see it differently if it’s causing you pain.
But what could possibly bother/upset you if none of it real?
“Would you react at all to figures in a dream you knew you were dreaming? Let them be as hateful and vicious as they may, they could have no effect on you unless you failed to recognize IT IS YOUR DREAM.” -A Course in Miracles
These first two weeks (of this 6-week program) are all about clearing the space so that the Holy Spirit can build a rock solid foundation for the Temple of God… IN YOU.
Today is Day 3 and we’re clearing a space for our Father’s house which has many mansions, and pulling up the roots so it can be built.
“The basic decision of the miracle-minded is not to wait on time any longer than necessary.” -A Course in Miracles
“Miracles are everyone’s right, but purification is necessary first.” – A Course in Miracles
“Each day should be devoted to miracles. The purpose of time is to enable you to learn how to use time constructively.” – A Course in Miracles
So this 6-week program is a dedication to use every day to do the work that Jesus is asking and not “wait” for “something” to happen. We’re building it now. We’re doing the work. We’re not “waiting” for a “miracle” to happen.
It’s exactly like building a house. It doesn’t just magically happen. Someone had to get their hands dirty. Someone had to create the plans. Someone had to clear the space and pull out the roots to make room for a house. Someone had to lay the foundation. Someone had to build.
And that’s the work of A Course in Miracles. Your participation is NECESSARY and REQUIRED. Only YOU can do the work. Helpers are sent in who can shine a light, show you where the potholes are so you avoid them and show you where the shortcuts are so you can get to your destination faster, but ultimately, YOU HAVE TO DO THE WORK. No one can do it for you because you’re the only one who knows the way your mind works and “the power of decision is your own” – and that’s a beautiful thing.
You have now located the Source of all your power – in you. I can’t change your mind for you. Only you can do that.
“ALL shallow roots have to be uprooted, because they are not deep enough to sustain you. The illusion that shallow roots can be deepened and thus made to hold is one of the corollaries on which the reversal of the Golden Rule, referred to twice before, is balanced. As these false underpinnings are uprooted (or given up), equilibrium is experienced as unstable. But the fact is that NOTHING is less stable than an orientation which is upside down. Anything that holds it this way is hardly conducive to greater stability.
The whole danger of defenses lies in their propensity to hold misperceptions rigidly in place. This is why rigidity is regarded AS stability by those who are off the mark.”
I want you to see this. You have to literally pull up the ROOT that is causing all your grievances and problems and not just push those problems aside.
MIRACLES ARE EVERYONE’S RIGHT, BUT PURIFICATION IS NECESSARY FIRST.
A Course in Miracles is ALWAYS practical. It’s not some spiritual mumbo-jumbo, it gives clear instruction about what to do to see immediate results. I love it.
Last year I encountered the dandelion flower for the first time in my life. I never really knew what the dandelion was until I actually had a lawn to mow. Not knowing the root of the dandelion, I thought I could just mow my John Deere over them and lop off the yellow flowers. So I did that. It took me a couple of hours, but I did it. And you can guess what happened. I looked out the window, one hour later, and the whole lawn was covered in yellow dandelion flowers again!!!!!!!
WHAT?????????????
So I went out there to look more closely, and that’s when I realized that a dandelion has a DEEP STRONG ROOT with many flowers, so if you cut off one flower, there are many more flowers ready to bud and rear their little yellow heads. The only way to get rid of a dandelion once and for all is to dig out the root.
And so it is with all your problems. You can’t just fix them one by one. Because more will be back by this afternoon. They’re endless!! They’ll just keep popping up until you gut out the root.
A Course in Miracles says “Conflict is the ROOT of all evil.”
That’s why before I had you sign up for this program I asked if you were willing to give up conflict. All of you said YES. That was the requirement for being in this 6-week course – a willingness to give up conflict.
Because until you have done that, nothing can change.
Without pulling up the root, problems can change momentarily, and you will think “there I fixed it, all solved.” But as you may have noticed, just a couple of hours later (or even sooner) there is another problem staring you in the face!!
Until you pull up THE ROOT OF CONFLICT – your mind will make up more images of conflict for you to deal with. It’s never-ending. The way to be done with conflict is to be done with it. It’s like quitting cigarettes or alcohol. You decide you don’t want it anymore, that it’s a terrible habit, and you give it up.
When you pull up the root of conflict, all your grievances will disappear, because grievances are the yellow dandelion flower and when you pull out the root, they’re gone.
Just as the yellow dandelion flower doesn’t exist without its root, all your problems don’t exist when there is no root to support it.
1. Do Workbook Lesson 78: “Let miracles replace all grievances”
This is a continuation of yesterday’s topic about how to turn grievances into gifts. It’s very much like alchemy – you don’t change the starting object by trying to fix it (your problem), it simply transforms. The elements are exactly the same, but the form is now different. It’s a miracle!
2. Now look at your list of grievances. Look at the work you have done for the past 4 days, and instead of trying to fix those problems one-by-one, I want you to realize all those grievances are like dandelion flowers with one root: CONFLICT.
Today, start uprooting that root by taking a close look at it. It might seem deep and strong, but A Course in Miracles says it’s “shallow.” It can easily be pulled up with your willingness to be done with conflict, once and for all.
You might experience fear or resistance as you are making a decision to give up conflict. Don’t fight yourself. We’re still at the beginning.
Today, begin considering if you’re ready to do this. It’s one thing to SAY you’re done with conflict, it’s a whole other ballgame to actually DO IT. Today, simply be honest – look at where all your problems come from – and ask if your ready and willing to let them all go.
Basically today, just keep it simple. You’re just looking out over the plot that is your life with all your stories and a past and a future, you’re wearing your construction hat, your surveying the land, you’re seeing what it looks like, and you’re asking yourself what needs to be done to clear the space before the construction crew comes in to start building the temple.
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Bless you, bless you, dear Lisa for all that you share so
beautifully!!!!!!!!!! THAT WAS JUST WHAT I NEEDED TO
REMEMBER TODAY AND WHAT I NEED TO REMEMBER ALWAYS!!!!
I AM DONE WITH CONFLICT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THANKS BE TO GOD!
XO AND THANKS TO YOU FOR SHARING!!!!!!!!!