A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 14

 

A Course in Miracles

Workbook Lesson 14

“God did not create a meaningless world.”

Interpreted by Roberta Gallop

 

Daily Welcome: Hey precious travelers, I pray you are well rested and happily motivated, because this is another one of those high energy days that promises to lead to all good things. The sun on our path is shining, birds are singing, and we have a very fresh and gentle breeze, it doesn’t get any better than that, except Heaven and that is where this road leads. I hope you are enjoying our time together; I know I do. Doing the Course can be sorta tricky, so it is a blessing to have my friends with me. It’s kinda like when you smell something bad and then say yuck this smells just awful, it will kill ya, here you smell it, and then hold it in a buddy’s face, togetherness. Let’s get a wiggle on, singing “all ya need is love, all ya need is love…”.

 

Prayer: Blessed Christ, thank you for creating us and for walking us home. Please help us to feel you and know you are with us. Please grant us the awareness to see, and the strength to keep on going even if sometimes we are resistant to continue. Please help us to know how glorious we truly are. Thank you for teaching us. Allways.

 

Workbook Lesson: “God did not create a meaningless world.” What I love about the Course, is just as soon as they rip the band aid off, while you are laid open and utterly bleeding everywhere, within a few lessons they are giving you the suave to heal the wound they just opened. Today is another one of those exciting days when you get a two-fer from my teacher. When he gets on a roll the miraculous truths of God start flying out, and I am honored I have his permission to share them with you. My teacher says, “Ascension is a natural occurrence when you think in correspondence with the reality of what God thinks.” (Rev. Devan Jesse Byrne, ACIMi, L14, ex.) I chose this quote because it gives me such hope that Ascension does happen naturally, when we think as God does, and we release and forgive our own thinking.

 

Speaking of our own thinking, this second quote from the Rev. sent chills coursing through my whole body. “You’re not seeing objects, your misunderstanding reality. God is there, but you are distorting Him, the word of God, into an object. You’re making the glory of God a pathetic box, a book, a computer, a wall, and you are completely misunderstanding the truth of what is reality. (Rev. Devan Jesse Byrne, ACIMi, L14, ex.) Well at this point I am left with a couple choices, I can either pull in, hate myself more, feel more guilt and shame continuing the cycle. Or run screaming to the Wholly Spirit begging to see things differently. Even as hard as stuff gets sometimes, I am reaching out to the Wholly Spirit, and I am getting some measure of serenity.

 

Tips & Tricks: Each day, each hour, each minute, release, forgive and trust. It’s not so much get frantic, freak out, and be neurotic about doing it right. It feels to be a more of an internal decision to reach, to believe, to understand. When I ask God to do for me what I can’t do for myself, I feel a whole lot better, like God’s got my back, my front and everything else. As you keep moving forward lesson after lesson, and not judging yourself or your progress, you stay open for wonderful things to happen. Please remember to do your lessons as suggested in the workbook, and connect to the Wholly Spirit in the morning and at night.

 

Upon Closing: How are you doin? How do you want to be doin? You have just got to two full weeks of the workbook lessons in the Course, and I am so proud of you to stick to it and joining me every lesson for a group hug and a joyous stroll. Sometimes we just need to stop, breathe, and ask for guidance from the Wholly Spirit. After all remember they are on this epic stroll with us, we are never alone. Let’s eat some apples from the apple tree in the corner and talk about the nice weather. Hugs all around. Love & Light, Riki 🌈

 

A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 13

A Course in Miracles

Workbook Lesson 13

 

" A meaningless world engenders fear."

 

Interpreted by Roberta Gallop

 

Daily Welcome:  Hey you guys, I was a little sore from the workout I got in yesterday's lesson, but I just need to get the kinks out and keep on a goin. I hope you all had a restful sleep and are ready for an emotional one today. I must say I love having you in my life, and though my teacher would probably spank me for saying this, I think you're all sooooo special (even Him). So, time to go for it, you are becoming old pros at this. Enjoy, race ya to the next resistance.

 

 

Prayer: Compassionate Christ, thank you for loving us and showing us a way home to you. The truth is we never left, but sometimes it's hard for us to see the truth when we are covered up with crud. Please help us to know our worth and own it. Please help us to release the grievances and resistances that stand in the way of our really loving you, and please through your blessed and Wholly Spirit help us to apply forgiveness to everything and see the world differently. Allways,

 

 

Workbook Lesson:" A meaningless world engenders fear." This lesson can thoroughly get your grundies in a bundle, fear of the unknown is a really scary place to be. My teacher says, "We don't know exactly which is the right direction to go, we don't know exactly what to let go of, and what's real and what's not." (Rev. Devan Jesse Byrne, ACIMi L13, int.) I really like this quote cause it so accurately shows what was going on in my head around this lesson. It is assuredly something that helps to keep us stuck, because the devil you know, is better than the one you don't. A lot of what I said yesterday applies to today also, because the lessons are so close. It has been said that we have such great fear because we feel we are in competition with God. I just know on so many levels I feel like I let Him down, so my motive has not been that I made a meaningless world because I think I am better, but because the guilt can be overwhelming sometimes, almost crippling.

 

For me these lessons are the toughies because I am already beating myself up extremely well, and then it becomes like throwing salt in an open wound. Ya know, when you sincerely want help, but ya don't want the pain that goes along with the really going there? As a kid I was taught right and wrong by being punished (usually spanked) when I did wrong. So, I learned when I do something I view as wrong, I spank myself because I feel I deserve it. The idea of seeing myself as innocent doesn't really cross my mind because I am too busy being motivated by guilt and shame. I am so grateful God measures me by a different yardstick.

 

 

 

Tips & Tricks: My point is to pppllllleeeaaaassseee be gentle with yourself, especially here. While the Course exposes us to the error of our thinking, it is only to make us aware enough to be open and ready to change it, not the gunpowder we can use to blow ourselves to hell (if there truly was such a place). My teacher, myself and many others have found benefits from doing the Course which are beyond our wildest dreams. I believe one of the most needed things here is the faith to hang in and wait for the ability to see the meaningful world. I just need to remember that when Christ seems far away, it's only because I am holding Him at a distance in my mind.

 

 

Upon Closing: Hey I got an idea, let's go skinny dipping in the creek over there, last one in's a rotten egg. I don't know about you, but I sure enjoy a good splash in the water, it calms my nerves, cools me off, and changes my perspective. Let it all hang out. You are totally among friends, others that are seeking the way home like you are, no judgment here. Get the rest, enjoy the ride, and above all know you are loved. Love & Light,  Riki 🌈

 

A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 12

A Course in Miracles

Workbook Lesson 12

 

"I am upset because I see a meaningless world."

 

Interpreted by Roberta Gallop

 

Daily Welcome:  Hi adventure lovers, I don't think I'd put my hiking boots away quite yet, today feels like another long one. I mean we get great millage on these lessons, but the altitude starts getting a little much. Let's take a little time out for a mini powwow. So how ya feelin? How's it goin? Are ya sleepin enough, eatin right? Self-care is so important anyway, but especially when you're getting your brain expanded. Are you all set to rock and roll? Let's go for it, my buds, we got this all day long.

 

 

Prayer: My glorious Father, I am so glad you are with us on our journey to you. Sometime the road gets rocky and long, and we get discouraged so it is wonderful to start getting that warm glow of love coming in. Please help us to know you, to feel you, and to help us release all these crazy thoughts we imagined, and this nutsy coocoo place we think we are in. Also please teach us to be compassionate along the way, to ourselves and to others. Please help us to remember a little kindness goes a long way. Please grant us knowledge of your Wholly will for us and the power to carry it out. Thank you for being here and guiding us, and for sending us your Wholly Spirit as a blessed light in the darkness.

 

 

 

Workbook Lesson: "I am upset because I see a meaningless world." Yes, righteously pissed off. God made me, God is with me always, and because He wants to experience, we end up on Fantasy Island, I mean you are God, God. Is that the best ya can do? But it's not that the world is really meaningless, I just see it that way. In the words of my teacher, "Once you start getting rid of your thoughts, the words of God, the thoughts of God are behind them." (Rev Devan Jesse Byrne, ACIMi L12, ex) That is so encouraging to me because I get so disheartened in the process, especially when I realize I did it to myself, I created this meaningless world that upsets me.  I start forgetting that there is a point to it. And this validates for me that there is a reason, to remove the clouds that are covering the son. That I will flourish, that I do matter, that God does love me, and just beyond the gibberish I defined, is the most blessed of rainbows and bluest of skies.

 

Have you ever tried to scare yourself? I mean as a little kid I'd start imagining a monster under the bed. You know the sneaky kind that waits until your asleep so he can pounce out and get you while you're sleeping. And the more I would think of all the horrible stuff it would surely do to me, the more outlandish it got. Until I had convinced myself that it was bigger than the house, it was definitely hiding under my bed, and it had glowing red eyes and huge spiked fangs, it was all black with purple stripes and worst of all it was invisible. At that point it would be safe to assume that a trip to Mom and Dad's bedroom with my blanket and pillow was clearly in my immediate future. That's how I see this lesson, as a self-induced hallucination that has me completely out of my mind, being concerned with things that are meaningless.

 

 

Tips & Tricks: What comes to my head is the acronym for fear. F- alse E- vidence A – ppearing  R- eal.

Which so effectively produces the Twilight Zone world I see. This is a wonderful time to whistle a happy tune and reach to the Wholly Spirit screaming "Please help me to see this differently".

 

 

Upon Closing: Whew, let's take a load off and give our illusion muscles a break and a gentle rub. We put so much work into the marching along this happy trail, that sometimes it is all about the company. Being with those that are trudging right along beside me and just being grateful for the love. Have a yummy day sweet buddy, I'll see ya for the next one tomorrow. Love & Light, Riki 🌈