A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 43

A Course in Miracles

Workbook Lesson 43

 

"God is my Source. I cannot see apart from Him. "

 

Interpreted by Roberta Gallop

 

Daily Welcome:  Hi my sweet friends, getting ready to navigate a bend in the river can be stressful, the bend is not so steep that I can't kinda see what's coming up, but sometimes just the new scenery can make me nervous until I get used to it. The more I feel connected to God the better I do, and it is at times like this that remembering We see together makes a huge difference. I hope your night was blessed and you are enjoying the awakening of who we are. Big huggies and I love you guys sooo much. I am inspired by my adventurous friend Linky to have this day called backwards day. Let's put all our clothes on backwards and skip on down the road, learning how to embrace the innocence that we are. Ready, set, go.

 

Prayer: Our gentle Christ, We are still learning of you, please help us to enjoy the oneness and the exploring and play you bring to God. It makes me think of really enjoying being, doing, and exploring so deeply that we forget everything. Please help us to remember who we are. Please help us to not judge ourselves for playing with our Dad, having soooo much fun. Blessed and Wholly Spirit, please continue to guide us back to the place we started, the garden. Thank you for Teaching us, and loving us. Allways.

 

Workbook Lesson:  "God is my Source. I cannot see apart from Him. " This one is very direct as well, I love it cause it focuses on God being my source of everything, He created me, we are one, He is with me allways. I can't see without Him and I can't do anything without God. I can't see without God because God is all there is to see. God is everything I see. So, what tends to happen with us is the illusions we make distort the truth, so that we misunderstand everything we see, and we can't distinguish what God really is, us. I am in God, there is only God, slowly starting to accept that if we are made of God, we are inside God, and we can not see apart from God, then we are God, and just have an elusive thought that divides us from that knowledge. It's incredible that God had the thought of splitting His mind within us so that He could experience. I truly love the Course because it is logical and simple, I just tend to complicate it a lot, but even that is by design.

 

 

Thinking it Over: I had a cool thought today, since there is a part of me designed to believe I am not God, I am separate from God, and the Course teaches I can't be separate from God. What would it look like for me to just give up the illusion and accept I am God? I would feel like me, without the littleness and doubt, I would be all knowing and compassionate. How would you be if you knew you were God?

 

Tips & Tricks: Sometimes I find it's real important to just play, say to myself well I really am a God deciding to play and experience, and be. I can type on my PC, I can dance, I can make silly faces, I can make others laugh and I can use my senses to the fullest. The trick is to not get too caught up in the game that I am playing at the moment, and to remember that God and I are one, there is no separation. Also be gentle with yourself, a lot of times lessons like this can bring up resistances because we aren't ready to be anything more than less than. So that can bring on self-beating and judgement sessions that can leave us with a bigger need to forgive ourselves. The crazy shit I have done trying to hide this truth from myself, like laying on my bed for three years watching Netflix and trying to avoid my calling. Now I can think of nothing else, and wonder why I blocked the call in the first place.

 

Upon Closing: That was fun, I think I'm gonna take a dip in the creek before I put my clothes back on correctly, or the way I was taught anyway. Isn't it funny how there are so many things we do, and don't even question because we were taught to do them when we were little? I so completely enjoyed the pleasure of your company once again, please get lots of rest so we can get back at it tomorrow. If God wore clothes what would He look like? Me.  Love & Light, Riki 🌈

A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 42

A Course in Miracles

Workbook Lesson 42

 

"God is my strength. Vision is His gift. "

 

Interpreted by Roberta Gallop

 

Daily Welcome:  Hi sweeties, I hope your night was pleasant and you are ready to go on another jaunt down the road. Just enjoying the flow, and not defining the journey. I love having you in my life and am so excited that we get to share it together. Today is favorite color day, as we keep on keepin on, just where the colors that inspire you the most. Well for me no surprise is gonna be blue jeans and a tie-dyed t-shirt. That is how I feel best comfortable and rainbowed. This lesson should bring on some different thinking, so without further ado, let's hug up and go for it.

 

Prayer: Blessed Wholly Spirit, thank you for being with us always, helping us to know there is a way home, and you aren't asking us to find it, or even choose it, you're just asking us to be open to it, and accept it. Please grant us your strength and vision that we can know of your Wholly will for us and the power to carry it out. And especially do for us what we can't do for ourselves, please help us to see things differently. Grant us the ability to feel you and share you and see us as one. Thank you for creating us, thank you for teaching us, thank you for being with us. Allways.

 

Workbook Lesson:  "God is my strength. Vision is His gift. " Kinda like through God's strength I see. The ability to use God's power, and the gift is to see the truth and not the illusion, to have that inner knowing to see the light, the dimensions, not looking with your eyes, but with your 3^rd eye. Those who have the ability to see can truly have the awareness of God, and not be caught in the perceived reality of the separateness of the little self. When we have the gift of vision we experience the oneness, without separation, and we feel the might of God as our strength. We don't have the fear we can go where we are guided to go, and experience everything with the ability to handle all things. Right now for me life gets a little maddening because I can have the gift of clear sight and use it one minute and not the next. Like coming in and out of the dream. I got it, and then I thought with the separation of purpose again and clarity goes right out the window.

 

 

Thinking it Over: My strength comes from the energy of God within me, ever ready, never failing, always there. I know when I am in the pocket, cause that is one of the first things I feel is the unwavering strength of God. I just know, the next step, I am not concerned with outcome, I am just flowing with the next right thing, not caught up in defining or expecting, just being with. What are those moments like for you when you are certain of God's strength?

 

Tips & Tricks: As we get further into the Course now is a real good time to take a little teeny weeny self-evaluation of how you are working your program, not all freak out crazy looking at it, but more about just taking a poke around in your business to see what you might want to strengthen up on like more rest, healthier food, connecting to Wholly Spirit in the morning and at night, and also as you are called too as much as you can in between. Asking yourself have I skipped any lessons? Have I played catch up doing more than one at a time?   Not as a stick to beat yourself up with, but as a way to remind yourself of those places that are a little loose, and giving yourself kudos for those areas where you are right on and goin strong. Also remember having emotional support and being good to yourself are equally important. I don't think I have ever done the workbook lessons when I felt like this is it, I have it all sewed up, because I tend to be very hard on myself.

 

Upon Closing: Whew, that was a good lesson, but a little confusing one. Sometimes I find it so interesting that the lessons are very straightforward, but they still leave me a little confused. I think it's ok to be confused because at least I have something going on in there. I love you guys, and you are never alone. Have a loving night and I'll see ya in the morning.

Love & Light, Riki 🌈

A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 41

A Course in Miracles

Workbook Lesson 41

 

"God goes with me wherever I go. "

 

Interpreted by Roberta Gallop

 

Daily Welcome:  Hey sweet buddies, I enjoy the feeling I have in my heart when I start feeling you show up.  The cool thing about love is the more you give it away, the better you feel it, I am soooo grateful for my fellow students of ACIM, of the adventures for God club. We aren't big, but we are mighty. Our desire to grow and awaken to the Light we already are, is the driving force of our bond together. Today we get to put on our superman capes and move on down the road, determined to feel the God within. Big hugs and loving devotion, let's fly around for a while. Enjoy.

 

 

Prayer: My blessed and beautiful Creator, thank you for not just creating me, but for making me within you, from you, for making me that precious thought in your mind, that never ever leaves you, even though I don't always understand it or see it. Please help me know, please help me see. Please guide us and show us not only that you are love, but that we are love too. Please help us to show kindness, and compassion so that as I we do we are seeing you. Thank you for being with us every step of the way, thank you for teaching us and for sending your Wholly Spirit. Allways.

 

Workbook Lesson:  "God goes with me wherever I go. " This is another one of those fuzzy wuzzy lessons, like knowing I am blessed. That God is with me always feels so comforting, recognizing that God and I are one, and wherever I go God is. The thing here is my recognizing it. If I am caught up in my little self I will block myself off from the awareness of God, it doesn't alter the fact that God is there, we just can't sense it. So, what I got caught up in was when I was confused and couldn't feel God, I believed He wasn't there and it led me to feeling abandoned by God, and never feeling whole or loved and sure that I was God's mistake, the unwanted. So, I find this lesson very near and dear to my heart, and it brought about a beautiful miracle, leaving me feeling God, feeling loved and accepted. A lot of wonderful things happen when you are open to knowing your right size and the Son of God.

 

Thinking it Over: I really do love this lesson, it helps me to recognize and remember who I am. Feeling unwanted and separated from God led to so many things I did in my life just to feel special, like doing drugs, getting into many relationships, destroying many relationships. Thank God, He is allways there whether I can feel Him or not. What led you to believing God didn't care about you?  How did that decision effect your life?

 

 

Tips & Tricks: A good idea is to start believing that God is there, no matter what you tell yourself.  When you do find the lies, illusions and stories that you have told yourself as to why God doesn't love you, please challenge it, forgive it and look deeper, also asking the Wholly Spirit to help us see it differently. There is a lot of growth through these well placed lessons, and praying for open-mindedness and willingness is a very good idea. Please remember to do your lessons regularly, only one a day and connect to the Wholly Spirit regularly. And also my loves, remember you are never alone.

 

Upon Closing: I had the most lovely time flying around the universe with you. This lesson felt soooo good, and we all looked mighty fetching in our superman capes, there is just something, about a hero in uniform, and also that leaping tall buildings in a single bond is totally the bomb. Let's go to an all you can eat sushi place and get down with our bad super selves. You guys are so deep in my heart, I am glad we are together and that I am getting to know you better as I know myself. Please have a joyous and blessed night. Love & Light, Riki 🌈

A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 40

A Course in Miracles

Workbook Lesson 40

 

"I am blessed as a Son of God. "

 

Interpreted by Roberta Gallop

 

Daily Welcome:  Hi everyone, it is nice to see you all bright-eyed and bushy tailed already to embrace the day and enjoy all God has given us as His Son. I enjoy you guys so much; this writing is fun and being with you is even funner. Let's pretend we are all blessed and wholly, playfully and lovingly pretend we are sprinkle fairies and heal the path as we walk barefoot on it all the way through the next lesson. Then giggle, laugh, and run some more, feeling every blessed inch of our beingness. I am a rainbow sprinkle fairy, what color are you? Hugs around and off to the dance.

 

 Prayer: My glorious Wholly Spirit, blessed messenger between us and God, please show us, show us how to awaken in the garden, how to know we are indeed blessed and beloved. Please show us how to grow and accept and see things differently. Also please do for us what we can not do for ourselves, show us our true worth and help us release the world, and take us with us as we go. You are the way home for us, you are allways there, to guide us, and to help us feel the God within us. Please help us grow in faith, in acceptance and in love. Thank you for loving us, and for teaching us. Allways.

 

 

Workbook Lesson:  "I am blessed as a Son of God. " I find this such a sweet confirmation of my true nature, I am blessed and as such I bless the world, as I am light, I bring light, I share light. Love is my true essence. So, my happiness makes others happy, I bring the state of grace forward to everyone. We are all together and bring the Christ energy forward raising the vibration of the world. It is nice to hear the benefits of our true nature, because up until now, most of the lessons have been about how I see backwards, can not understand what I see, and it would benefit me to see differently. But now this lesson gets down to the good stuff, the benefits of being who I am as the Son of God. Not just that I get to ascend, but that I can feel and give the peace, happiness, joy, sense of wholeness, that I can bless the world. I do so enjoy this lesson because this is where all kinds of resistances come up as to why I couldn't possibly be blessed. 

 

Thinking it Over: As a kid I would play dress-up in my mom's old clothes and would usually be a loving fairy princess or angel that would bless the world that would grant wishes and give love to everyone. Bring smiles to their faces and happiness to the world and other kingdoms, and the people and animals would honor me and call me a hero, and I would feel so good. How have you felt blessed?

 

Tips & Tricks: Here the trick is to allow yourself to truly believe, that you are the Son of God, even though everything we know will tell us that we are stupid, unlovable, dreaming, nuts, crazy and delusional. So, a healthy way is to just let the thoughts flow through and ask the Wholly Spirit to see things differently. And then say I bless the World, I desire to bless the world, it can help to turn the corner nicely. Besides, the peace of God is an awesome gift to share. Please keep hangin in there.

 

Upon Closing: I enjoyed being the rainbow sprinkle fairy, I blessed the land everywhere my feet touched upon. I enjoyed seeing you guys being creative with all the different colors. I'll go to the apple tree and get some apples for us, so we can just love, laugh, and be. Let's go looking for fireflies in the light, it sounds really cool and challenging all at the same time. I enjoy sharing with my friends, cause love and joy are meant to be shared with those we care about. Please may your night be blessed, and filled with forever. Love & Light, Riki 🌈

 

A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 39

A Course in Miracles

Workbook Lesson 39

 

"My holiness is my salvation. "

 

Interpreted by Roberta Gallop

 

Daily Welcome:  Yay, my fellow adventurers are here, all rested and ready for the next phase of the journey. The next little jaunt down the road. Yes, I have been through the Course many times, but it is the thrill and enjoyment of sharing it, the love of it, the excitement of it, the shear pleasure of knowing I am making a difference, that I am showing others the way out, is a feeling I just have a hard time describing, but I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world or out of it. So, you help me every step of the way, you motivate me. So, for today let's all grab our little touch of Heaven and move on down the road, group hug and off we go.

 

Prayer: My blessed Father, thank you for going on this adventure with me, but also thank you for showing us that it was only a journey of the mind. You have held us tight every step of the way. Feeling joy at our playing, at our adventures, at our silliness and thinking for one crazy second that you could ever leave us. That you would want too ever not be beside us. Please help us to accept the truth, to share the truth, to want the truth above all else. Please guide us home in our minds and the totality of your love. Allways.

 

Workbook Lesson: "My holiness is my salvation. " For me this lesson is the way out, the key to the kingdom and also why we truly are already saved, by the virtue of who we are. We are whole as God our creator is whole. So, no matter what we think, make, have a perception of or anything else, we are already saved, we are already one, we are already out of the pool because we never went in it. We are still in the garden, we are still whole, we are still dreaming yes, but where we are is one, we only dreamed we are separated, we have never truly been separated. So, our salvation from oneness is guaranteed because we have never been separated from God. As that fact starts dawning on us, then we are faced with the only choice we truly do have. When we finally recognize the game, the only choice we have is to play or not play. And in the totality of who we are, we will recognize the decision was made a long time ago. 

 

Thinking it Over: It has never been about if we walk up, it is a question of when. The more we do the things that release and forgive all that we have imagined, the more we get closer to the truth. The more we get closer to the truth the sooner we reach the understanding and acceptance of at-one-ment, and we recognize the truth of our salvation, being we never left the garden and the illusion of the knowledge of good and evil is released. How does the illusion of good and evil effect my life?

 

 

Tips & Tricks: Just hold on and go for it with everything you got, not like running until you fall down, but more about the desire that stirs in your soul. Following and accepting and not blocking the spark of the Wholly Spirit that will lead you closer and closer to awakening. When it shows up, love it and let it move you, while not trying to define it. I know it can sometimes feel like a balancing act, but the more I pray for the power to get out of my own way, the more it will happen.

 

Upon Closing: Hey you guys, this was the fastest walk ever, but greatly appreciated, may we all celebrate with a leisurely soak in the creek. I love how that creek always seems to be there on these crazy hot fast days, and I am so energized by the unity of us and our singleness of purpose to awaken the world. Please take the time to know the blessed creature that you are, and celebrate our ability to bring the dawn of awareness to everyone. Get a gentle rest and see ya in the morning.

Love & Light, Riki 🌈

A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 38

A Course in Miracles

Workbook Lesson 38

 

"There is nothing my holiness cannot do. "

 

Interpreted by Roberta Gallop

 

Daily Welcome:  Sweetest of days my precious buddies, another day to work on our awakening and on the awakening of the world. These lessons can be so deceptive, we just keep on keeping on, one day at a time doing the lesson of the day, and inside we are changing, our minds are clearing ad releasing, most of the time it happens so subtly we don't even notice too much, and then all of a sudden, we find ourselves reacting in different ways than we used to or making different choices. I enjoy your company so much on our journey. It matters so to know I am not alone. Tambourine time, let's shake it and shake it as we are struttin our stuff up hills and down valleys, hugs around.

 

 

Prayer: Loving and gentle God, thank you for creating us, and for giving us a world to play in and a chance to play dressup all kinds of ways. We can be anything we wanna be, and most of all please help us to be your Son, to remember the love and the joy of oneness, even the play of oneness with my best friend, my dad. Please help us to experience life allways, and to know we are never alone. Please most of all do for us what we can't do for ourselves. Allways.

 

Workbook Lesson:  "There is nothing my holiness cannot do. " This is an eye-opening and beautiful lesson. When I look at it using the awareness of holiness as wholiness and completeness, it really spells it out clearly that my wholeness with God leaves me open to do anything. Especially when I am coming from that one mind and not from my little self, that is also in my split mind. Because when I come from my separate self, forget it. I am in charge of my life, I have free will, I only focus on my illusions and fantasies, and I am clearly not in touch with the mind of God, in fact I try really hard not to be. But the awesome thing is that I truly am allways connected to God, even when I don't think I am. So, as I continue to be a student of the Course, my mind is expanding and opening to the truth of my oneness, so that at the right time I will release the focus on my little self and walk in the Wholiness as my Christ Self.

 

Thinking it Over: It is interesting to me that actually the only choice we have is which mind we will think with and believe me that to be at the space where I recognize that, is a miracle all in itself. It is not to the point where I go, I think I'll put on the Christ mind or the ego mind, but by the things I think, and what I do, and my openness of mind it leads me further away from separateness. The recognition that my split mind sees everything separate is a large awareness already. What do you recognize? What choices can you make to connect to the Christ mind?

 

 

Tips & Tricks: The learning to just let me be in my awakening through the Course is soooo important. I have been critical of myself most of my life, so, the just letting myself be has taken some practicing. Especially when I first started the Course I was so focused on where I thought I should be, and I could never please myself. I was always thinking I was either behind or ahead of the lessons and couldn't allow the grace to come in to see I was exactly where I was supposed to be. Acceptance goes a long way and just trusting that I am where God would have me be.  

 

Upon Closing: I LOVE YOU GUYS, that was an exciting time, sometimes I forget how everything goes better with music, Rock on. Enjoy the love there is plenty of it to go around, enjoy your night, please remember the reaching to the Wholly Spirit along your journey, asking to see things differently. May your night be blessed and your heart be open and free.

Love & Light, Riki 🌈

A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 37

A Course in Miracles

Workbook Lesson 37

 

"My holiness blesses the world."

 

Interpreted by Roberta Gallop

 

Daily Welcome:  My awesome sweeties, so glad you made it. You are the son to my morning; you bring the light that keeps me going forward. It's funny, sometime my mandatory 700 words just fly by in what seems like seconds, and other times 700 words feels more like 70,000. But what does remain constant is my love and devotion to you and my commitment to God. Hanging in with you guys is so easy to do, I feel your strength and eagerness to learn, to be expanded spiritually and it makes me shine like the son too. So big group hug and then let's go arm and arm moving on down the road, ready to tackle anything, celebrating the power of oneness.

 

 

Prayer: My blessed love, all that we are we receive from you, all that you are you give to us. In our total oneness we bless all, everywhere, everyway. Sometimes even trying to be in oneness, while we see only separateness is a huge frustrating challenge. Please grant us what we need to overcome, please help us to awaken, bright, true and beautiful to the presence of Wholly. You are our love, you are our light, with you we are, without you we are not. We love, we need you, we are you. Allways.

 

 

Workbook Lesson:  "My holiness blesses the world." As I become more in touch with the Wholiness within me I bring it forward, and it blesses us all, because we are of one wholly mind. This quote from today's lesson helped me a lot, "It lets you teach the world that it is one with you, not by preaching to it, not by telling it anything, but merely by your quiet recognition that in your holiness are all things blessed along with you." (ACIM Workbook L37) I chose this quote because right about here people can get caught up and misread how they are to carry the message. Simply by being, by the recognition of your completeness with the world, raises the awareness of oneness in the world. I'm sure if called there is a place for teaching by speaking or writing and bringing forth the concepts you feel guided to share with the world, but it is not necessary. It is a beautiful thought, that just by my being in oneness, I bless the world.

 

 

Thinking it Over: This is a lesson dear to my heart, because the more I have felt and been blessed with the wholeness of Spirit, I have been called to bring the message forth, more so in written form than anything else. But I can sure get caught up in comparing myself to my teacher and others who share the spoken word so deeply and eloquently. As you awaken, how will you awaken the world?  

 

 

Tips & Tricks: This is a fast-approaching time when we will be paying more attention to the responsibility of blessing the world. Being diligent with our lessons, not just skimming, rushing through the thought for the day and forgetting to do the exercises or half-assing it. A helpful suggestion is to reaffirm to yourself why are we doing the Course, why were we drawn to it. Maybe put up a couple messages on the fridge or bathroom mirror, like God is with me always, or I will awaken, anything that will help us focus on our primary reason for being here.

 

Upon Closing: Wow, that was majestic, the way we move as one through the ins and outs of the lesson, the curves in the road, the simple, but beautifully designed challenges to help us release and forgive everything. To know love in a new way, to share love in a new way. As we grow we become so much stronger, so much more aware, it's just so lovely. My heart is with you always, remember to reach to the Wholly Spirit and to let Him do for you what you can not do for yourself. May our dreams be blessed and allways upward. Sometimes it is nice to have a little journal by the bed so as ideas get kicked lose you can write down the concepts so you can revisit them in your waking time. I wish you peace.

Love & Light, Riki 🌈