A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 36

A Course in Miracles

Workbook Lesson 36

 

"My holiness envelopes everything I see. "

 

Interpreted by Roberta Gallop

 

Daily Welcome:  Blessed day, what a perfect day to discover, explore and enjoy our wholiness, our oneness with everything we see. How about we have a semi-nude, barefoot hike today along our path to awakening? Just taking it slowly, but being deliberate of intent and desire to enjoy the Wholly Spiritual Universe. For some reason this walk fills me with peace and extreme joy, and who better to share it with than my study buddies. Big group hug and let's get down to business.

 

 

Prayer: Blessed Christ, thank you through ACIM for helping us to awaken our minds and show us the truth of our reality. Please grant us the strength to go forward and persevere, to go to any lengths to find our way home. Thank you for loving us and being with us always. For having the compassion to never give up and to keep sending your Wholly Spirit to be with us, and to do for us what we can not do for ourselves. Allways.

 

 

Workbook Lesson:  "My holiness envelopes everything I see." This is a good one, but also for me kinda a tricky one. Since I am wholly, complete, everything I see on all levels and in allways encompasses my oneness. I am of God, there is no part of me that is not one with God. This lesson helps to remind me that I am innocent. That it is my perception of my pathetic little self, the illusions that I have made, which keep me from knowing and seeing my wholiness. It is a beautiful springboard for us to recognize we are love, the veil starts to be lifted and we can feel the totality of God in us. There is no part of us that is not one with God, because He made us, and God in His totality of all He is, could not create something separate from Himself. All we have is the illusion, through the knowledge of good and evil that we are separate, and that we are each a self and have the free will to choose. The reason we have the illusion of choice is because we can not be separate from God, because we are Wholly one with God.

 

 

Thinking it Over: Can you imagine there is no free will, that we are addicted to choice, making decisions? That is a really big factor when it comes to not recognizing our Wholiness, in some ways we truly don't want too. I like spending 3 hours on Amazon deciding what I want to buy. I enjoy going to a restaurant and deciding and ordering what I want to eat. In fact choosing can occupy my entire world. What do you like to exercise your free will on?

 

 

Tips & Tricks: Here is a good tip for today, lets practice on not being our little selves, not placing ourselves in situations of choice. Asking the Wholly Spirit to help us see things differently. And when we find us starting to define things and get into expectations, we stop and just say to Spirit I don't know, what do you think? And then wait for the answer and being willing to follow it knowing we are all one, and It sees a lot clearer than we do. I am exciting about learning to just say I don't know. To let the decision be made for me, as is God's divine design for me.

 

Upon Closing: That was a fun one, I might have got sunburned on my nipples, I will have to use aloe on them when I get back. I always enjoy our adventures together, I know it gets corny at times, but it is all in fun, and in love at the same time. Let's go crash spaghetti night at the local church hall and stuff ourselves, at least a little bit. Sometimes being outrageous is the most adventurous thing you can do. Please remember to be easy on yourself, these lessons can be very subtle, but they are in order this way for a reason, and this is a mind expanding program. That meal was yummy and cheap, thanks buds have a beautiful night. Love & Light, Riki 🌈

A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 35

A Course in Miracles

Workbook Lesson 35

 

"My mind is part of God's. I am very holy."

 

Interpreted by Roberta Gallop

 

Daily Welcome:  Hi everyone, I hope you had a restful sleep and a yummy breakfast. I had the chance to lay in bed today and just commune with God, that beautiful space of being. Kinda like what you and I got together, just this sense of being. Knowing it's here where we are accepted, that when we go on the path to the next lesson we are together, united in purpose and in our desire to share love that we are already in oneness and wholeness of God. Big hugs my precious students of the Course. Let's us go for it full on, wrapped up in the blanket of friendship and kindness. Yay God.

 

 

Prayer: My blessed and Wholly Spirit of which I am part, thank you for being in my life and guiding me to learn the lessons that keep me from knowing our oneness. Please teach me to be steadfast in my search, and open-minded and ready for what I find. Please grant me the knowledge of your Wholly will for me this day, and the power to carry it out. Please fill us with your compassion and teach us how to love. Allways.

 

 

Workbook Lesson: "My mind is part of God's. I am very holy." I enjoy this lesson cause it talks about how it really doesn't matter when it comes to the image of what we think we are, because our minds are part of God's, and therefore complete, no matter what phase of the story we are telling ourselves here. I am a princess, you have to do everything for me, I need a man that can instantly see my worth and buy me everything I want, whenever I want it for the rest of my life, who needs God. So in this state of mind I am not very aware of the total of Christ that I am, but it does not change the fact that I am. These are the ways we develop perceptions about our person and others, that block us from seeing the truth of our wholliness, our oneness with God. The interesting thing here, is that we not only see our little self with these limitations, rules, and scripts, we also see the others that way too. She is my mom; she has to love me, and always be here for me, and never treat me in an unkind, manipulating, or threatening fashion.

 

 

Thinking it Over: We use the labels to cut down on the percentage of our awareness of our true nature as the Christ. When I look at the boxes I put on myself and others it's a wonder I can fit a concept of God in at all. So I have been examining the labels today, those unspoken expectations that go with the territory. I love being with women, so that means I am considered lesbian, queer, I am either fem or butch, wearing either dresses or jeans. If I am butch I work and am only attracted to fems, if I am fem than I am only attracted to butches. When I was caught in the homosexual box it really interfered with my ability to know myself and others. I wasn't able to be authentic in myself. What labels do you use? How do they limit you from being your authenticity?

 

 

Tips & Tricks: A good tip at this point in our process, is that as we discover the labels we put on ourselves and others, it is a real good time to surrender, release, and forgive by asking the Wholly Spirit to help us see things differently, and truly be open to the challenges and changes that will surely come. See when we ask God for a change in things, it usually means lesson I call to myself that help me find a new perspective.

 

Upon Closing: Hey you guys, we got through this one as a complete and total unit, none the worse for wear. I so love our hanging out and finding our way home together. Thank you for being in my life and have a gentle and peaceful night. I'll see ya in the morning. Love & Light, Riki 🌈

A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 34

A Course in Miracles

Workbook Lesson 34

 

"I could see peace instead of this."

 

Interpreted by Roberta Gallop

 

Daily Welcome:  Good morning my pretties, and your little selves too. Another day of getting down to the business of learning, accepting, and releasing, oh my. I just love you guys, my best buds I never met, but feel constantly. Just a casual stroll is in order today, leisurely smelling the flowers, enjoying the gentle breeze and being grateful, like Zeppelin says, "there's still time to change the road you're on." Let's remember that God is with us allways, and awakening can be a barrel of laughs. So. group hug and last one to the path is a smelly banana.

 

Prayer: My blessed Christ, my most loving and special brother, please guide us out of the pool, please show us the truth, and help us to release enough of our little selves to feel the oneness, to feel your total serenity and deep peace. The Course teaches us we are not little, that we are God, please help us, to see us through your eyes. Your love is with us always, please help us to know your joy. Also please grant us knowledge of your Wholly Will for us and the power to carry it out. May you grant us the eyes to see no differences. Thank you for teaching us, thank you for loving us, allways. 

 

Workbook Lesson:  "I could see peace instead of this." This is an interesting lesson, because it reminds us that we are paying a high price to stay in this illusion of a world, where we see ourselves as little and ineffective. Where we feel victimized and believe that God is out to get us because we are bad, and God wants us to be punish us to make us good. What this lesson is saying to us is that instead of this craziness I have brought on myself through my thinking, as I release and forgive it, I can actually feel the peace of God. That what hides behind my illusions is the true peace of God, which is my inheritance. As the workbook reminds us that as we realize we are connected to God's peace in our minds, we bring God's peace forward. What tends to happen to me is, when I am in my peaceful mind, that is the signal for myself to bring up fear thoughts. It is too calm, too foreign and I start manufacturing fear thoughts. So, I can block off the love and peace of God one more time, and reclaim my tortured, pathetic, little self.

 

Thinking it Over: So, this is telling me that what I think in my mind, affects the state of my mind. That I have control over whether I choose to believe in God, or the illusions I have made. I use thoughts like, "'I am old and stupid and ugly, and no one would ever want to be with me, and I will die alone," to keep me in a state of fear, sadness and self-hate. But when I can release those attack thoughts against myself and ask the Wholly Spirit to help me see things differently, my mind becomes quiet, and I feel Serene and one with God. What thoughts do you choose? How do you choose them?

 

 

Tips & Tricks: This is a good lesson to pay attention to because it starts really spelling it out for you. If you haven't been doing the lesson exercises or fudging on them, now would be a real good time to start doing them as close as you can to the real thing because they are showing you the true way out. So when it comes to this one I tend to do extra practice on feeling the yuck, then reaching in and asking for the change that brings about the peace of God.

 

Upon Closing: Whew, we made it to the end of another lesson, it was so satisfying for me to know there truly is a way out. We are becoming like a well-oiled machine as we move on through the lessons. Own your light, my lovelies, enjoy all peace has to offer.  You can go on home if you like, but for now I think I am gonna lean up against that big oak and just read a trashy romance novel. May your night be filled with Faith, hope, and the knowledge that we are never alone.

Love & Light, Riki

A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 33

A Course in Miracles

Workbook Lesson 33

 

"There is another way of looking at the world. "

 

Interpreted by Roberta Gallop

 

Daily Welcome:  Hail glorious ones, it is so wonderful to see you again, my night was good I hope yours was too. It is so much nicer to do the lessons knowing I have my buddies doing it with me. Sometimes when they start getting particularly wonky I love to think about the outrageous in the beginning and that happy energy gets me through. Speaking of which, today is Jammy day. I just bought a couple pairs of fuzzy pajama bottoms and I've been just itchin to try them out. So, I am wearing my fuzzy red ones and a pink polka dot tank top. If I feel comfy on the outside, I'll probably feel comfy on the inside. Let's do some sweet group huggin and move on down the road.

 

Prayer: Blessed and perfect God, my joy and trust is with you, I walk with you, I feel you beside me and I feel accepted and comforted. Please help me to see as you do, love as you do. Please grant me knowledge of your will for me and the power to carry that out. Please send your Wholly Spirit to teach and guide us and to help us to see things differently. Only with you we are one, please help to learn how to be kind to others and to ourselves. Allways.

 

 

Workbook Lesson:  "There is another way of looking at the world. " I love this one, cause they are showing us in a gentle and easy way that there is another way to see the world, and that goes a long way for me, because I have been looking out for so long. Using the internal eye of Christ, I can see the world as it is intended to be, with joy, peace, and most of all love. There is only oneness, we are all the same, no judgement or separation thoughts, just a completely neutral regard for all we see. Seeing the world as one, is a beautiful thing. One of the memories I have of an awakening was the deep sense of peace, the constructs of the world was still there, but how I saw the world had changed. I was without fear, I totally felt the presence of God with me, and I could feel His spirit everywhere. So, the cool thing about this lesson is that I know it to be true. 

 

Thinking it Over:  This lesson gives me so much hope, that there is a different way of seeing, and I can do it. As my mind changes how I see, and what I see changes. I so desperately want to see us as one, not feeling in competition with everyone for love. Just enjoying the Wholly Spiritual Universe, and knowing we are together. What would you most want to see differently? Why?

 

 

Tips & Tricks: Please remember to try every now and then to sit and just enjoy those seconds and minutes, when your mind can go blank, and you can think as little as possible. Sometimes I don't even recognize I am doing it. That my mind is not filled with the what ifs, the he saids, she saids, and preoccupation with the future. I am just sorta being, feeling God, feeling the oneness, kinda at peace and blank. The more our thinking changes the more often this will happen.

 

Upon Closing: Whew, I must admit it got a little hot in my fuzzy red jammy pants, but it was fun, and I looked so cute, like a giant furry lobster. It was an exciting, but playful time, and it was great to see that you were enjoying yourselves as much as I did. Please continue to do your lessons to the best of your ability and realize as you do the Course your abilities will grow ever so nicely, in so many happy and surprising ways. Maybe it is the best time for a picnic, I'll get the picnic basket from behind the tree and you guys can lay down the tablecloth, all I brought was peanut butter and honey, but honey bears are the most yummy thing in the world. Would you please go to the creek and get the cider and we can relax for a sec and enjoy the companionship. Choose peace my caring warriors. Love & Light, Riki 🌈

A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 32

A Course in Miracles

Workbook Lesson 32

 

"I have invented the world I see."

 

Interpreted by Roberta Gallop

 

Daily Welcome: Good mornin, my sweet and amazing companions. I hope you had a good night's rest and got your hiking gear on because we are starting to increase to some small hills and steep, sharp rocks. But there is always time for a fashion statement, so let's take a sense to paint our nails. My right hand is for Indigo blue and my left hand is for blue-green, with sparkles of course. It's ok to be a little confused, even pissed, after all we are being told we made all this crap ourselves. Big hugs and love yous all around. We can do this, do you realize we have been at it for over a month.  Yay us, let's pogo to the next lesson.

 

Prayer: Blessed and Loving God, thank you for creating us so you could hang out and experience this world we have made together. Please grant us the perseverance to keep going no matter what. Please let us never get to resentful to walk away, and please grant us knowledge of your Wholly will for us and the power to carry that out. Please remove the scales from our eyes that we may know our true identity. You are love, we are love, all is love, please help us to know that and stand strong as we go forward. Thank you for life, thank you for love, thank you for teaching us. Allways.

 

 

Workbook Lesson: "I have invented the world I see." The strangest thing of all is that since I made it, I can release it anytime I want to. But we have a tendency to not want to, because in the world we have made we have the illusion of free will. We can be anything we choose to be, decide everything, where to live, what to eat, what to where, what other bodies we choose to have in our lives. The getting locked in illusions can be very addictive, so addictive in fact that we have lost our true selves. But please remember this is totally by design because God wanted to explore this illusory world with us. Since God created the reality of who we truly are, Christ His Son the experiencer, we enjoy, play, love and be. So, when we are ready, we will release to light. I love it when we put this lesson and the previous one together, because they fit together like puzzle pieces. I am not a victim of the world I see, because I created this world, it is the one place I have the illusion of   free will, only in my dream.

 

 

Thinking it Over:  We wear so many hats, and play so many parts down here. The illusion I love the best is the one where I am helpless and weak, no one loves me, I am abandoned, unlovable and alone, and less than. God has completely forsaken me, and I will never be special loved, or desired. So please do a little soul searching, and ask yourself, what are the illusions you love the best? How do you like to present to the world?

 

Tips & Tricks: Now is the time you might think about a little reward for yourself, nothin too fancy, maybe a weekend getaway, or a new journal for yourself, so you can keep track of your insights, and resistances, or my favorite how about a chocolate and cherry pop tart, it just makes the world right, and it goes with everything. Please remember your time with the Wholly Spirit trying to keep that conscious contact, especially in the morning and at night. My trouble has always been that if I sit in a chair, I don't feel relaxed enough to connect to Him, and if I sit up in bed, I get sleepy quick and lay down and fall asleep. So I connect a little in the chair and a little in bed. But in the morning, my favorite connecting time, I got it all going on cause I am awake enough to lay in bed and just chat away and not fall back to sleep.

 

Upon Closing: Hey fellow explorers, I don't know about you but, I am frazzled and pooped. It was a wonderous expedition, just a deep and intense one. Let's rub each other's backs and go to the nearest mall for a little retail therapy. A shopping we will go, a shopping we will go, high hopes and up we go, a shopping we will go. Blessed night sweeties, see ya tomorrow.

Love & Light, Riki 🌈

A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 31

 A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 31

 

"I am not the victim of the world I see. "

 

Interpreted by Roberta Gallop

 

Daily Welcome: Hey there you are, I was hoping you would show up today, and I am so glad you did, I had this really cool idea of walking on all fours, it will be a little slow, but more grounded. Maybe being on all fours we will feel like victims, little and weak, but inside we know we aren't, cause we are Christ the experiencer. What would a hero wear to crawl on all fours on the path to enlightenment? Well, this hero is gonna wear my favorite purple and black leggings and a huge tie dye t-shirt with a black bow tie. I so love you guys, let's boogaloo on down the road. Oh, group hug first of course. Enjoy the oneness.

 

 

Prayer: Blessed Adoni, guide us, love us, and please show us how to love you back and how to remove the dense areas of uncertainty and doubt. Thank you for showing us our true power and please teach us how to see how truly beautiful we are. Please show us there are no victims because love has no victims, we are innocent. Blessed Wholly Spirit, please be with us and show us how to see things differently, thank you for being with us, thank you for teaching us, thank you for showing us the way home. Allways.

 

Workbook Lesson: "I am not the victim of the world I see." I can totally understand why I would feel like a victim, this world has taken on a life of it's own, and I feel used, and little, and hurt, and totally misunderstood, and very very out of control. Living life as the little self is based on lies, upon lies, upon lies. I can remember I would think I was missing something. Thinking what is the point of this, what is the point of red and green for Christmas and orange and black for Halloween? There had to be something I was missing, but I didn't know what it was. All this questioning kept getting stronger and stronger within my soul, and I was driven to seek for answers outside of this world. Which led me to reaching within myself, to Metaphysical Sciences, like energy healing, and paranormal sciences. But the problem was I kept taking me, with me and I kept making things about bodies, and fantasy. Finally, I found the Course and God helped me to see He was already in.

 

 

Thinking it Over: When I am in victim mode my focus is backwards, it is on me and the things that are hurting me, judging me and causing me pain, it is all about the little me. When I am focused on God mode it becomes about my connection to the love within us all. That is why I am not a victim. How are you a victim? How are you not a victim? Sometimes it can be hard to tell because we have worn the costumes for so long we don't know where we put the one we came in with.

 

 

Tips & Tricks: This is just a good reminder to only do one lesson at a time. It is ok if you are at a meeting or reading or discussion of any of the ACIM lessons, but it is suggested that you do only one lesson completely at a time. When I first started I would get very confused on that point, I didn't know what to do about people discussing other lessons, and I would feel guilty if I went to listen, so I just thought you might find this little tip helpful. But most important is love yourself, be kind to yourself and others, it is a big deal that you care so much about the world that you have been drawn to the Course in the first place.

 

Upon Closing: Well, that was a blast, but I must admit my knees and back are kinda tired and sore, how about you. Maybe it's time for a leisurely soak in the creek, clothes are optional. Sometimes you just gotta let your freak flag fly all over the place. Please remember to celebrate yourself, the gloriousness of what God has created. The amazingness of you guys fills my heart so full. May your night be blessed with joy and peace. Be kind to yourselves and see ya in the morning.

Love and Light, Riki 🌈

A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 30

A Course in Miracles

Workbook Lesson 30

 

"God is in everything I see because God is in my mind."

 

Interpreted by Roberta Gallop

 

Daily Welcome:  When I see you coming it reminds me of in the movies when people are coming together from a distance, and they run for each other with arms outspread for a big hug. It seems like a long time between when you leave and I see you again the next day. But when I see your smiling faces already to go again it makes the wait worth it. I enjoy your company, and I'm not just saying that cause I feel like I'm supposed to. My teacher knew what he was doing when he suggested I teach through a blog. You guys are awesome, and it motivates me to get up and write every day. This lesson brings with it a kinda V8 moment when you understand why God is in everything. Get out the red hats and purple boas as we make a fashion statement today playing hopscotch all the way down the road, my BFFs and me. Yyyyaaaaayyyyy.

 

 

Prayer: My beloved, thank you for being with us allways, and for teaching us it's not about trying to act perfect, or doing anything to find enlightenment, but simply to accept ourselves as you have made us. Please help us to have the patience and perseverance to push forward, especially when we start to lose our way and get resistant and think the Course is a bunch of bull. Please guide us to know love, and accept we are love regardless of what our programming tells us. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.

 

 

Workbook Lesson: "God is in everything I see because God is in my mind." God is in my mind so He can experience everything with me. So, as I stop resisting and trying to push things out of my mind and get to an acceptance of what it is. Going with the flow, and really asking for knowledge of God's will for me and power to carry it out, I am able in my mind to hear, sense and feel God's well. We work on joining to the energies we see instead of trying to separate ourselves from them. There is nothing outside of our minds at all, it is all a projection of our illusions that we see through the body's eyes. We have the thoughts, we make the images, we make the definitions, have the expectations, and tell the stories, layers and layers of them. This is where we start to recognize where we can connect to God's thoughts, and God's will.

 

 

Thinking it Over: When I was in early recovery, and I was doing the 3^rd step, where I make a decision to turn my will and my life over to the care of God as we understand Him. I used to get all caught up in is it God's will and my will, and I decided that when things were going awesome it was God's will, but when things were going very very bad, then it was my will. From the Course I have come to understand that actually it is all God's will, every last little bit of it. How do you decide for you, the difference between when it is God's will and your will?

 

 

Tips & Tricks: I know as we get further into the lessons it can get a little bit strange about how the Course wants certain lessons done. Often, different times, and different lengths, and other times they will switch without much warning. But what I have learned is that each lesson and how it is applied all works together to release my disordered mind, and create a structured one, where I can connect to God. If you can, setting a timer has been found to be very useful in remembering when to do your lessons. So though the lessons seem to take on a life of their own, please do them anyway, as prescribed.

 

Upon Closing: That one was an eye-opener, but a slow eye-opener. I have so much joy running through my heart right now, for all of it. For you, the company, the lessons, and especially for realizing I am never alone, ever. Because God lives in our mind, we can all play, run, jump, swim, and be together. Have a blessed, cute, and yummy night and get plenty of rest, so we can go play again tomorrow. I enjoy you guys, soooo much. Love & Light, Riki 🌈