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 🌈

 

Workbook Lesson 104

A Course in Miracles

Workbook Lesson 104

 

"I seek but what belongs to me in truth."

 

Interpreted by Roberta Gallop

 

Daily Welcome:  Hi everyone, another day and another re-commitment to myself and God and to you guys to keep moving forward down the path to enlightenment no matter what comes up in my life. Whether it's a happy day or a gray day, I'm still working on showing up and moving forward. And nothing puts a smile on my face quicker than seeing you guys show up too. Well, time for those amazingly healing group hugs as we boogie on down that road, apparently for the 104th time, yay us.

 

Prayer: Blessings Creator, I know that one of my favorite thoughts starts out: "Now kiddies, God got bored one day and created you". I know it's a little mean of me, but I do it because I don't understand. Please help me to understand. Please help me to know that this isn't one great big cruel joke at my expense. I want to grow closer to you, I want to feel the love you have for me. Please remove the blocks that stand in the way. Thank you for teaching me, allways.

 

 

Workbook Lesson:  "I seek but what belongs to me in truth." – So, this tells me I'm looking for love and happiness, and I feel like no bleep Sherlock, I've been searching for that since I came out of Mama, but, in all the wrong places. This lesson brings out the wonderful point that love and happiness are already mine, and the truth is I don't have to seek, I just need to accept the beauty that I already am. Which once again highlights the importance of releasing the image of the little self I have made by dismantling (forgiving and releasing) the thoughts which made it in the first place.

 

 

Thinking it Over: The illusion of free-will can be a real trip, and one of my favorite Course concepts. It's actually pretty simple, in little self mode, we don't really have the ability to create, we have the ability to pretend to create. And the rub is we think that what we make is real. God wanted to have the experience of creating, but didn't wanna give us the powder to blow ourselves to hell with the permanent stuff. So, whenever I think myself an a-hole, think myself I don't count, that I am stupid and worthless, I believe it. Does it really alter the truth? No, but in my mind I think it does and I keep me from seeing the glorious truth. It also keeps me from accepting all the wonderment God has in store for me. So, the thought question for you today is if I think I'm polka dot and I'm really white (as God created me), does that make me polka dot or am I still white (innocent)?

 

 

Tips & Tricks:  learning to sit and quiet the mind I have found is so important to sensing my connection with God. It is important to slow the mind chatter down to a dull roar, so I can feel the deep peace that lies within. Many students of the Course have found great depth and understanding through meditation. I seem to be a little slow on the uptake when it comes to that, but I find being in nature, and listening to guided meditations very helpful in my awakening process. It's not that I don't believe in meditation, it's just when I try, my mind turns into a rebellious 2 year old right about nap time. One thing that does help a lot is being aware of my negative and rebellious thoughts, and when they come up truly forgiving myself and releasing them to the Holy Spirit. Remembering to be gentle with yourself and not pick up the big stick in the corner goes a long way too.

 

Upon Closing: We did it again my blessed buddies, the going was easy, and the company was astounding. Please remember to be kind to yourself along the way, eating well, sleeping well, and enjoying the lessons as much as possible. If you miss a day, get back to it as soon as you can, but don't hurry and do more than one lesson a day, a steady pace will help to order your mind. I so enjoy this. Love & Light, Riki 🌈

A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 103

A Course in Miracles

Workbook Lesson 103

 

"God, being Love, is also happiness."

 

Interpreted by Roberta Gallop

 

Daily Welcome:  A new day, a new walk down the road. For me this is what awakening is made of, I'm not sure of when it will happen, or how it will happen, I just know if I keep following the Course it will happen. So, my pretties another chance to wiggle, riggle and jiggle to the path of oneness and beyond. "Wherever we go, whatever we do, we're gonna go through it together". It sounds perfect, and high time for a yummy group hug. This is so much fun, and I am glad you decided to join me.

 

 

Prayer: My beloved Creator, please help me to know you in every way possible. Please show me that it is my belief in separation that is causing my pain and not you. I Will so to awaken and awaken the world. Please help me remember to be gentle with myself and know I am never alone. I feel our oneness in between my crazy imaginings, please help me to make them stop. I love you, allways.

 

 

Workbook Lesson:  "God, being Love, is also happiness." - I like this one, it has kind of a bubbly flavor to it,  and it brings in that hope and faith that all is well whether I can see it or not. So, it puts a little bit extra pep in my step and helps me to know all things are possible with God. Step by step I'm being guided to know that I am God, and God is love, so therefore I am love. In my mind I can grasp the concept, but the dawning may take a little time. I'm not a totally cold you know what. So more and more I do feel that calm, and that happy and that indescribable sense of ok.

 

 

Thinking it Over: When the answer's there, the answer's there and in this case the answer really is to release, forgive and reach to the Holy Spirit for acceptance. The expression "what is, is" fits in so nicely here. And in the remembering that God is love and made me in It's image. I really don't have much to worry about, now do I? Now we can look at those places to think about what love is. I know it's a tall ask, like wanting you to think about the attributes of a rainbow unicorn, but slowly and surely as we get the gunk out of the way we will. So, back to the question, what is love? What does it feel like, smell like, taste like and look like?

 

 

 

Tips & Tricks: I woke up thinking today was a good day for a ham sandwich, I'm not sure why, I guess it doesn't matter really. What I can look at here is what I choose to think about it. Like "I am such a fat pig what gives me the right to have a ham sandwich"?  "I am so poor, where would I even get the money for a ham sandwich"?"Eating meat is cruel and nasty". Or "what a wonderful idea, if it's supposed to happen, than please let it happen". Which thought has love written all over it? The message here is learn to think loving thoughts, be kind, and know all is well.

 

Upon Closing: This was a confusing day for me, being on the hunt for the rainbow unicorn called love. But I still enjoyed myself, and you guys made all the difference because I felt loved, supported and not alone. As I walked today I pondered about what is loving and would I spot it if it did show up. When I got to the question of asking myself : What does God have for me that I do not have for myself or anyone else? The answer then became clear. Love equals acceptance, cause no matter what I do I am learning that God accepts me no matter what. So, in my grand spiritual hypothesis by being accepting just letting things be as they are and not as I would have them be, I am practicing love. I feel like a weight has been lifted, thanks so much for sharing the load. I love you guys have a wonderful day and enjoy. 

Love & Light, Riki 🌈

A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 102

A Course in Miracles

Workbook Lesson 102

 

"I share God's Will for happiness for me."

 

Interpreted by Roberta Gallop

 

Daily Welcome:  Another fine day in the neighborhood, and I'm so excited to share it with you, my buddies, my fellow Course students. I was thinking about littleness this morning and how it's a tricky thing, because I can go from feeling pretty good, to shrinking into that violet in less than two seconds all based on what thoughts come up into my mind. So, I think, I'll think, about friendship and sharing instead. Let's do some wonderful group hugs and get down to the business of moving on.

 

 

Prayer: Dear God, I'm glad you've got three functions because I never know what to call you at any given time. Please help me this day to know there is nothing wrong with me. To recognize the truth is I am your creation, a thought in your mind. And to remember that everything you thing is pure and good, so there for so am I. Please help me to learn that I may teach, and to be open that I may learn. I love you, and I am so grateful that you Will me happy, allways. Thank You.

 

 

Workbook Lesson:  "I share God's Will for happiness for me." - At first thought, I think God's pushing the envelope a little bit. Here I am just starting to get used to the idea that God wants perfect happiness for me and now I'm supposed to wanted it for myself. My head goes right to the place of you have to believe something's possible, before you Will it, right? These particular lessons are really bringing up my worthless mindset, and I'm sure that's what they're designed to do, so I can work on forgiving and releasing the thoughts that cause it. It hits me right in that place of I don't deserve it, I don't deserve the happiness God wants for me. So, this is where the previous lessons come into play, basically recognizing that I truly know very little about God's will for me, and I don't know my own best interests.  By calling in the Holy Spirit and remembering my true desire to awaken, I can breathe and recognize I am not doing this alone. My mind is lovingly and systematically being guided by the lessons in A Course in Miracles to recognize that God's been doing the driving all along, It just wanted me to have the experiencing of being behind the wheel.

 

Thinking it Over:  So, this brings in another place where we can work on acting as if. A great desire in my life has been to teach the Course. So that's a place God and I can meet in the middle, because It Wills for me to be happy and my ability to teach the Course brings me happiness. So what acting as is if might look like here, is by recognizing the thoughts that are standing in the way of my wanting and accepting God's will for me, the channel becomes open for me to teach through, because it's really not me teaching anyway, it's God teaching through me. And this is a place where my littleness was definitely getting in the way. Where are your littleness thoughts preventing you from Willing happiness for yourself?

 

Tips & Tricks: Here's something else I learned about happiness, that because of the dysfunction throughout my life when I do feel happiness I don't allows recognize it at first, and when I do recognize it, I don't always trust it. So a good tip here is to thank God for it, be grateful and relax and enjoy as much as possible. I like to remind myself that it's ok to be happy. So, again a little gentleness goes a long way. I don't stop doing what I was doing, I just keep going and doing the next right thing and be a little less critical of myself.

 

 

Upon Closing: This scenic excursion was a trip, I thoroughly enjoyed myself and I hope you did too. I'm feeling in one of those kick back moods, so let's lay down and do cloud pictures. Do elephants have wings? Mine do.

Love and Light, Riki 🌈

A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 101

A Course in Miracles

Workbook Lesson 101

 

"God's Will for me is perfect happiness."

 

Interpreted by Roberta Gallop

 

Daily Welcome:  Blessed day fellow travelers. Remember that old saying, "the truth will set you free, but first it's gonna piss you off"? For me this sums up the lesson in a nutshell. I always love watching you guys come up over that hill, some excited some not but all ready to go on one more day. I just love the pleasure of your company, and I'm sure that this is part of God's design for my happiness, cause nothing brings me more pleasure than that group hug before we head out the door and down the street. So, I guess there's nothing left to say except let's go for it.

 

Prayer: Blessed and Holy Spirit please continue to show me in every way possible what God's perfect happiness looks like for me in my life. And help me to know I am worthy of happiness and joy, just by the nature of who I am. Please continue to show me the truth regardless of the well meaning lies my mind is filled with. And most of all please help me to know God's love in every way possible. Thank you for being with me, and teaching me allways.

 

 

Workbook Lesson:  "God's Will for me is perfect happiness."  - This lesson has fake it till you make it written all over it. I know there's gotta be divine help out there somewhere, cause after all this the last thing it looks like in my life is perfect happiness. I've made that statement many times along my journey, because things have looked quite hopeless, and I've felt quite helpless. The good news is as I continue to trudge along this path to enlightenment, I get glimpses more and more and shown a whole new side to what happiness looks like. I can get a sense of a warm and loving God, and it can come right up out of nowhere. It's like I'm not doing anything particular, just going about my day, washing the dishes or something and then a smile comes to my face and I have that deep inner knowing that everything is exactly the way it's designed to be. So it's nice to believe that God Wills me perfect happiness, and I enjoy it when it's around. I think what helps bring it forward the most, is when I ask the Holy Spirit to guide me throughout my day asking only for knowledge of his will and the power to carry that out, (sound familiar?).

 

 

Thinking it Over: Another stumbling block here is I'm not really sure exactly what perfect is. I know the way I was raised perfect was kind of that lofty unattainable something that everybody strives for but nobody really achieves. At least I know I didn't get there according to the world's yardstick anyway. I know this sounds like a huge grumble session but it really isn't, I'm just being honest about the thinking process in mind that is being faithfully dismantled and reordered as I move forward through a Course in Miracles. So, I think a good ponder question here would be: If God was really giving me a perfectly happy world what might it look like?

 

Tips & Tricks: I have found that every lesson seems to have a theme that goes with a bunch of other lessons, so a lot of times the tips are gonna sound pretty similar to the last, which is the case now. I believe it's just so important that as those old ways of thinking come up through the lessons, that we really quietly challenge them by releasing and forgiving and accepting that the way we were taught was not always the truth. And those who taught us didn't know any better than we did, It was just what they were taught, and on and on and on. So, practicing a lot of gentleness with self and others I think it's the best tip of the day. Learning to relax as much as possible and stay in that place of peace and acceptance will go a long way in this ascension process.

 

Upon Closing: Yay team, we got a little bit further down that road and don't it feel good. I absolutely loved it when you turned around and blew raspberries at the rest of the class, it made me feel so wanted and accepted. Maybe God would like some raspberries too. Let's head on over to the church for some biscuits and gravy, after all God wants us to be perfectly happy, right? Have an awesome day.

Love and Light you guys. Riki 🌈

A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 100

A Course in Miracles

Workbook Lesson 100

 

"My part is essential to God's plan for salvation."

 

Interpreted by Roberta Gallop

 

Daily Welcome:  Hey you guys, group hugs and moving on down the road, is starting to become a routine at this point, a pretty wonderful one. It makes the course go a whole lot easier and I don't feel quite so alone. When it comes to this lesson I know my mind is thinking backwards, so let's just have a backwards day. You can wear anything you like, just make sure you're putting it on backwards. It's pretty simple, it may make the going a little slow, but it sure will be funny to  watch the guy in front of you. So, let's have that big beautiful group hug and get on down that road.

 

 

Prayer: Dear God, please help me in every way possible to see the truth of who I really am, of how you made me to be and to be able to accept it. I want so much to awaken the world. Please guide me and help me to have the motivation and willingness to keep going, to keep trusting, no matter what I've been told. And most of all please help the lessons I go through to be able to help those that come along with me cause that's what makes it all worthwhile.  I love you, thank you for guiding me and teaching me along the way. And thank you for being with me allways.

 

 

Workbook Lesson:  "My part is essential to God's plan for salvation." - This lesson has been quite a stumbling block for me, because I have a tendency to play little. I learned that coming from a negative upbringing, and the messages that I was taught, the thoughts that filled my mind were about how awful I am, that I would always be alone, and I would have to try twice as hard to be half as good. So, when I come across a lesson that's telling me that my part in awakening the world is essential to God's plan, I wanna say BS. How could someone as pathetic and worthless like me possibly have any part in God's anything? He turned his back on me years ago. So, it's this kinda crazy mind thinking that has really cost me a lot of trouble when it comes to just having the faith that God created me the way I am, and he created me to help save the world.

 

Thinking it Over: I've been doing the course for a long time, and I'm starting to have a little bit better self esteem than I did in the beginning and my mind is I'd say maybe 1/3 ordered at this point, So the thought that I could be used in this fashion, isn't as big a stretch as it used to be. I'd say when it comes to keeping it real the thing that's helped me the most applying this lesson is forgiving myself and releasing the resistances and just accepting things the way they are. It's slowly dawning on me, that The Who I am is far different than the whom I was taught I was growing up. Asking why wouldn't God use me is a real good start. It helps to target those places where I am having blocks. So why wouldn't God use you?

 

 

Tips & Tricks: A little tip here is that this kind of thinking, this way of getting in there would really stir up some hornets nests for me, so it's a good place to be gentle with yourself and realize God probably knows a hell of a lot more than all of us combined. I just know that this is a place where my ego went nuts, and I came pretty close to closing the book a couple times at this point. So being gentle with myself, remembering to eat well, drink well, rest well, connect to the Holy Spirit a lot are all good ways to have the faith to stick in there.

 

Upon Closing: Phew, that was quite the rush, it seemed to be kinda deep in places and overrun with prickers, but once we got the hang of it we made good progress. I think what this moment calls for us is to rip all our close off, and make a beeline for the Creek. I don't know about you but there's just something about relaxing in water that makes it all worthwhile. Have a blessed day my buddies and remember to get that rest and know we're all with you.

 Love and Light, Riki.🌈

A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 99

A Course in Miracles

Workbook Lesson 99

 

" Salvation is my only function here."

 

Interpreted by Roberta Gallop

 

Daily Welcome:  Hi my friends and buddies, I must confess I just went through the biggest scare, I had this blog post all ready to go pushed the wrong button and it was gone. After some careful reading on the help section I was able to save over half of it, be grateful and move on down the road. Kinda like what we're gonna do after that big group hug, which is oh so yummy. I just saw it as God's way of asking me, how much do you really want it? It's a good day for moving on down that road, and I'll see you on the other side.

 

Prayer: Dear God, whoever you are, however you are. I love you, I haven't figured it all out yet, I'm probably not supposed to know until I actually do and that may be a while. I think recognizing that it's not up to me anyway is half the battle. Please guide me along the way, show me what I need to know, teach me what I need to do,  and help me to remember I'm never alone. Thank you, Allways.

 

 

Workbook Lesson:   " Salvation is my only function here." - I love it when the lessons fit like hand in glove. In the last lesson we learned that God does have a plan for getting us out of this pickle we find ourselves in, and in this lesson, we learned that that plan has to do with salvation. I'm starting to learn slowly over time that salvation has to do with forgiveness, so forgiveness is the only reason I'm here, it's that get out of jail free card. I find that forgiveness can be real elusive at times depending on where I am in my awakening process. When I first started focusing on forgiveness I thought it was like a magic wand, I would feel in a bad space about something, I knew I was in resistance, and I would just say forgiveness, forgiveness, forgiveness, like I was clicking my heels three times and expecting it to be gone. I've since discovered it's really not that easy, but I can reach a point of recognizing my resistance, releasing it on a deep level to God, and forgiving myself. That usually brings acceptance which goes a long way in this Salvation process.

 

 

Thinking it Over:  I love how this lesson says it's my only function, because when it comes to living here on Earth I feel like I've been taught that I have many functions. I need to be a good girl for my parents, I need to go to school so I can learn and have a career, I need to grow up and get married and have children and be a good wife and mother. I need to be kind to everyone I see. I need to look a certain way, act a certain way, and teach others to act a certain way. And now I find out all these years later that is not so, my only function is to forgive and release. What were you taught were your functions? How do you think you are supposed to act in the world?

 

 

Tips & Tricks: This tip goes to trying to kick back and let God do the heavy lifting. It becomes so easy for me to get caught up in every aspect of my life, trying to control things to the way I think they're supposed to be. Being mad at her because she doesn't see things the same way I think she should, vowing to never ever go to see them again because they don't understand me. Not wanting to buy this product or that product because they believe in things that I don't agree with, and the list goes on and on add infinitum. So, when I'm able to get in a space where I can recognize that this is all by design, that God really does have it all mapped out for me, and all I need to do is to act like I believe that, it makes things a whole lot easier. So, I guess the trick here is to not second guess the process and just let it play out the way it is going to, whether I understand it or not.

 

Upon Closing: This was an interesting one, I walked down the path, and then lost part of the path, had to come back and walk down it again, but it's all good cause I was with you guys. I know that the Course is kind of an individual inside job, but it sure doesn't hurt to have love and support along the way. I'm glad you guys are in my life, we've made it a little further in this mind ordering expedition. Let's kick back and just enjoy the beauty of what is. Have a blessed day, gentle sleep and I'll see you tomorrow.   Love and Light Riki 🌈