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.🌈