A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 107

A Course in Miracles

Workbook Lesson 107

 

"Truth will correct all errors in my mind."

 

Interpreted by Roberta Gallop

 

Daily Welcome:  Hey, my spiritual sweeties, it's awesome to see you once again as we take on another day of walking on down the road. It feels so nice to be accepted and supported, cause doin it alone is such a yucky feeling. Big hugs around, get your hiking gear on, and let's go for it. Learning, singing, humming, smiling, and jiggling together all the way. I love you guys.

 

 

Prayer: Blessed Spirit, please help me to know the truth. I have got myself so confused, I am realizing I don't know anything. Please teach me, please show me the real world in all its glory. Please show me the way to clarity, to see the world as it truly is. I need you, I get so scared, lost and lonely. Please guide me home. Thank you. I need you allways.

 

 

Workbook Lesson:  "Truth will correct all errors in my mind." – This lesson for me is one of those pivot point places. It reminds me I could have had a V-8. That the sooner I become open to the truth and stop imagining and defining my reality the sooner my thinking will be corrected.  This is the place for me where it really pays off to be aware of the thoughts that are in my mind, and when I find one or two or 1000 that are taking me all over the place. To just stop Relax, breathe and be open to releasing and forgiving the mindset to the point of acceptance of what it is, is. The more I can stay neutral and not define things as good or bad, write or wrong, the more I can just be free to hear the thoughts of God within me. What He has designed me to be, what He would have me do, where He would have me go.  This lesson has a lot of moving parts, one of the things that stands out is that my mind's not thinking clear. That I've got some screwed up thinking in there. Again, it's not a bad thing or a good thing it's just a thing, it's the way God chose for us to experience. For without the split thinking, the ego mind, I wouldn't be able to experience anything here at all, because the split creates the illusion of the world. This way I get to play with God the way He intended.

 

 

Thinking it Over: So now the question becomes, since I know the problem is my crazy thinking. How do I find out what is the truth? I think this is a place where meditation has really been able to get me in there so I can bypass my runaway mind. The more I can forgive release and accept what is not my true nature. It leaves space for my true nature to shine in all over the place. What is the truth? What is keeping you from it?

 

 

Tips & Tricks: The biggest tip I can think of today is to stay in your own lane.  I know, that sounds kinda counterintuitive. How can I find oneness and stay in my own separate lane at the same time? I find for myself once I've been doing the course for a few months, I start getting into a rhythm with it. I go to the lesson first thing when I get up in the morning, and then set up my reminders so I will remember to focus at the times I need too.  Then continuing on with my day and remembering to have my spirit time again at night. As the lessons work on my mind I tend to expand and contract all over the place and this simple little routine keeps me on track, so I don't get into resistance and stop doing them for a while.

 

Upon Closing: Yay, we got a bit further on the path to enlightenment today. I loved the oneness of purpose and the determination. You guys make all the difference for me, you give me strength and purpose when I can't seem to find it myself. You guys make it so giving up isn't an option. Let's head on over to the church supper, it's been awhile and I am jonesing for those biscuits and gravy all over the place. See ya again for next lesson, have a blessed night.

Love & Light,

Riki 🌈

A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 106

A Course in Miracles

Workbook Lesson 106

 

"Let me be still and listen to the truth."

 

Interpreted by Roberta Gallop

 

Daily Welcome:  Hi and welcome to another fun filled day in the neighborhood. Missing a lesson is like a day without sunshine. I so enjoy the company along the way, and I am grateful for your commitment to move forward with your awakening. Sometimes it just feels like I have a million things I can be doing that would feel better and less scary. But I can tell ya there are none more rewarding than having the deep peace that comes from moving forward in the right direction especially with other like-minded people. I appreciate all of you and I love the company so much. Let's have a pokemon dress-up day.  Get all dolled up in your favorite character (mine's Ditto). Big hug and move on down the road. I find learning to be with my true self is probably one of the most terrifying yet rewarding things I can do. No bull, just God.

 

 

Prayer: Dear Father, please show me the way home. I get so weary, and the way seems so long. I know I am already there with you, but when I can't see it, things get awful lonely, and I feel so lost and little. Please send your Wholly Spirit to help me, to guide me through the maze of craziness in my head. I know you, feel you, want you and need you more than anything, the way just seems so clear and uncertain. Please guide me deep within to know the truth, in the stillness only  you can provide. I love you my Divine Creator, and want only to go home. Thank you for being with me allways.

 

 

Workbook Lesson:  "Let me be still and listen to the truth." – Such a simple and humble lesson. Reminding us that we make our world with the thoughts we think, and when we are able to resist nothing and release and forgive everything, we will hear the truth and know the love of God. Like many of my simple lessons it can take lots and lots of practice. But I find each time it gets a little easier as my mind becomes more ordered. I believe the skill of meditation can be very helpful but unfortunately for myself when the word meditation comes up my mind goes into instant resistance. It's like trying to get a little kid to eat spinach. I find when I sit quietly even if I'm doodling it becomes easier to become still, like sneaking the spinach in with ice cream or something.

 

 

Thinking it Over: I find being vigilant is an important skill when it comes to quieting my mind, watching my thoughts come in and go out like the tide. Staying as neutral as possible is a big help too. And then when I get resistant and caught up in certain thoughts, forgive them and let them go with the Holy Spirit's help, until I am in a neutral accepting space again. In this space the truth really does rise to the surface, and I know God. What is your truth?  What is blocking you from it?

 

 

Tips & Tricks: Back to the importance of being balanced in your life. Remembering to allow enough time for sleep and slowing down. Eating healthy is another place that is important, not just all sweets, but not just all good stuff either. Getting in walks and different forms of exercise, allowing yourself to just be. And also time for your studies, your commitments, and social stuff too. I found out the importance of staying balanced when doing the Course, because some of the lessons and my resistance to them would throw me for a loop and the more I felt centered the quicker I would come back into focus.

 

Upon Closing: That was an exciting and invigorating walk down the road. I think Ditto brings out the best in me, this lesson isn't too shabby either. I believe it's skinny dippin time again in the creek as I enjoy this happy hum I got going on. Feel free to join me, the water's fine and God's love is everywhere. Sometimes the best place for me to find stillness is in the business of life being life. Have a blessed day my friends and remember you are never alone. Take good care.

 Love & Light. Riki 🌈

A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 105

A Course in Miracles

Workbook Lesson 105

 

"God's peace and joy are mine."

 

Interpreted by Roberta Gallop

 

Daily Welcome: My sweet and gorgeous buddies and fellow students, I so cherish our time together. Another fun filled day of hand holding and tiptoeing through the tulips. Sometimes these lessons get a little challenging and it's just really nice to know loving support goes with me. We are not alone. Let's have that big beautiful group hug and move on down the road.

 

 

Prayer: Blessed and Wholly Spirit, please guide me along in my process of forgiving and releasing what I have made. Please comfort me along the way as I reach to light. This uncovery process can leave me feeling alone and sometimes actually desperate. Please show me a different way to see that I may know the truth and feel God's love and joy. Thank you for your guidance and awesome way of reaching inside me and warming my heart and calming my mind allways.

 

 

Workbook Lesson:  "God's peace and joy are mine." – This lesson floats in so slow and easy. I see this cluster of lessons like navigating a really sharp hairpin turn being ever so careful you don't fall off the cliff of self-destruction, or basically just say "f" it and leave.  God's peace and joy is what I've searched for my entire life, that's all I know is the searching of it. The finding it, and flourishing with it is soooo different. You know it really does come down to what I'm thinking and when I'm thinking it, because when I'm surrendering and forgiving I can get to a place that is peaceful and joyful. I have no angry or any negative, or even usually positive thought I just have a sense of well-being and love. I pray to the Holy Spirit a lot to help me stay vigilant as the thoughts keep creeping in so I can release them, because if I don't it turns into a crazy zoo real quick and gratitude just flies right out the window. This thought dismantling process takes time and I am willing to stick it out second by second, minute by minute. What I find interesting is I can actually have hours or chunks of time when I'm just sitting quietly in God's love and peace. It's worth it because I know it's working, and I'm so grateful to my teacher Rev Devan, for taking the time to show me and help me along the way. For some a teacher may not be necessary, but for me it's the absolute difference between day and night. The who I am, from the who I was, are light years apart and I give complete credit to El, ACIM and the Reverend and the way he teaches.

 

 

Thinking it Over: This is a wonderful chance to really think it over and to be willing to claim that peace and joy that belongs to me. I think willing is key here, because if it was something I could have done all by myself I would have done it a long time ago. So, willingness brings me to that place of I don't see it, but I'm ready and open to be guided there. Being resistant was a no brainer cause I was taught I could have all kinds of things but not peace or joy, that was only for people who deserved it. You know the good ones, that had it all going on. Can you be willing? Can you be open-minded?

 

 

Tips & Tricks: Today, we focus on the tip of acceptance. This is the phase where we just let everything be. Not seeing it as good or bad, right or wrong and so on, but just basically not seeing it at all. Releasing and forgiving to the point of not anything. Accepting what is because it is. I am on earth, I am female, I am old etc. Becomes I AM. Because there is ultimately nothing left to be.

 

Upon Closing: Another deep and revealing lesson, I loved today's gentle and easy walk. There was so much happiness and peace. Let's sit here for a while and make cloud pictures. A little apple cider and crackers would hit the spot too. Thanks for hanging in here with me as we discover the truth together. Please remember to get rest, do your lessons and enjoy the process.

Love & Light, Riki 🌈