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 🌈