Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Lesson 179:

God is but Love, and therefore so am I…

It’s interesting to watch the mind in all its gymnastics, try to avoid single focus. Have you noticed? Just declare one single-minded thought as a sort of point-of-reference hub, and the monkey mind will attempt to take you anywhere else, yes?

It’s also interesting to watch how, gently, another force is at work in mind; a strong, silent force, gently redirecting, re-minding, and waiting with the power of truth… haven’t you noticed this as well? With a little willingness to allow Him, we find our minds back on purpose, identifying with the thought of God ~Love~ Life… As a matter of fact, at this stage, we feel restless in our own minds and feel peace, only when we have allowed ourselves to give up our own thinking in favor of His.

Actually, once we have decided that our own thinking didn’t serve to bring unwavering peace and joy and happiness, and we ask for a new teacher for our mind, the path is set; we will re-member our Self as the Love that God created as Himself…

Some place inside we continuously feel that tickle for the truth, yes? Always have. It’s a sort of relentless, “slow down here, you’re missing the point”, kind of feeling…

There is one life, and that I share with God…

It is our belief in the ego thought system, purporting the ‘death-around-the-next-corner ‘ scarcity act, that keeps us distracted and deflected. Yet we feel this tickle anyway, just behind all the busy mind-ruckus, yes? Something like, “this just might not be the whole story”... None of us are without it, deep within.

Each of us, at some point, stop for a breather, however brief, and declare, “There has got to be another way…”

And that is just the invitation needed for the Holy Spirit’s Voice to take the lead as teacher within our mind. His Voice is still and full and uncompromising in Love; saying essentially, through every tiny symbol we offer Him, “Teach only love, for that is what you are.” Then he shows us the way to do this using the very mechanics we used to screw ourselves out of our true-life experience, to unscrew us and grace us with a fullness and peace unforeseen in even dreams.

I keep thinking about the simple, few, powerful, and uncompromising lessons of the Holy Spirit, as described in lesson 6 of the text, which I joyously refer us to for reading in conjunction with today’s lesson: The Lessons of the Holy Spirit.

We are always placing our faith in what we want to believe. And at times, we take a leap of faith to believe what we sense we must know… These moments are enfolded in grace. We leap off the cliff of thinking-we-know- into the abyss of all-knowing grace. Grace asks but our willingness to claim it as ours to recognize its ever-presence…

Your grace is given me. I claim it now…

Reality has reentered presence of mind. And you know; there is nothing you can hold against reality. Love stands, unchallenged as all that is

In His Grace, we give up and rest, in this single truth:

God is but Love, and therefore so am I…

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