A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 98

A Course in Miracles

Workbook Lesson 98

 

"I will accept my part in God's plan for salvation."

 

Interpreted by Roberta Gallop

 

Daily Welcome:  Hi spiritual seekers, another day forward on down the road, learning as God would have us learn, sure together and open.  Group hugs as we get ready for another step closer to enlightenment on the installment plan. I can't say it enough it's so wonderful to have company thank you with all my heart, and now without further ado, let's get to it.

 

 

Prayer: - Blessed Father, Almighty God my Creator, waking up is hard to do and I rely on you every step of the way. Please help me to love myself as you do, and to know that no matter what it looks like on the outside, we are all one on the inside because you made us that way. Please help me to learn it's OK to relax and experience, that is why you brought me here. Sometimes. many times, I'm not sure what to do or where to go or who to talk to. Please show me, please teach me. Thank you for guiding me and loving me allways.

 

 

Workbook Lesson:  "I will accept my part in God's plan for salvation." - This lesson really gets me to thinking that there's a whole bunch of parts to it. It brings up the questions of what is God's plan for salvation? Who's God? Does he really have a plan and what the heck is salvation? Even though I've been at this course a long time, I still have those kind of thoughts flying around in my head when I think about the plan God has for humanity.  It feels like the plan is at totality, but each part depends on trillions and billions of people running around somewhere doing whatever God has chosen for them to do at any particular time and in any particular fashion.

 

I do believe that when it comes to the endgame regardless of who's doing what at any given time, the final result is salvation brought about by forgiveness. Whether it's Aunt Harriet forgiving, or George the milkman's forgiving,  or the kids down the street forgiving, or anybody is forgiving, the result is still At-one-ment and how we get there is forgiveness/ erasure of everything. So, as I go forward in this, my acceptance of God's particular design for me, how he would have me be, where he would have me go, who he would have me talk to and in what way is crucial.

 

 

Thinking it Over:  This one gets me to thinking about when I'm getting upset with myself or others, about how I'm acting or they're acting, and how nobody is following the plan according to me, then I am definitely in the need of some accepting and forgiving. I've found along the way getting to that place of taking things as they come can be as easy or difficult as I make it. The course teaches us that the body is only used as a communication device, so we can all get the memo the way we most need to hear it. How do you carry the message? What message do you need to hear? Are you listening?

 

 

Tips & Tricks: This seems like a really good time to remind ourselves we need to be gentle with ourselves and others, that we are designed as God would have us be, whether we believe it or not and beating ourselves up on 1000 levels in 1000 ways is not gonna help anything, it's just gonna prolong the process, the process that has been going on for trillions of years, I might add. It's such a conundrum you know, we come to earth knowing the plan, forgetting the plan, covering up the plan, erasing the plan and waking up to whom you started out as in the first place, the Son of God. so breathe easy and just know God's got it no matter what it is, or how weird it seems on the surface, especially when you don't think He does.

 

Upon Closing: -  This was a kinda tricky one, it felt good and a little quirky all at the same time. It seems getting to that place where I can accept God's plan is harder work than I anticipated, and I was really grateful for the company. I think it's time to kick backing and have a nice dip in the creek and remember everything happens in God's time anyway. Have a gentle day and an awesome night you guys, see you again tomorrow.

 Love and light Riki 🌈

A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 97

A Course in Miracles

 Workbook Lesson 97 

"I am spirit"

 

Interpreted by Roberta Gallop

 

Daily Welcome:  Welcome my sweet and blessing buddies, it's just so much fun and I truly do look forward to hanging out. We are just walking down that road, just chit chatting and talking about the lesson and time goes by and before you know it we're down at the end of the bridge and it's time to fly back up and have a sit for a while.

 

I remember how lonely doing the course could feel. I had been on the path for about 30 years before my teacher showed up, and I finally had someone to really learn from and share it with. So when it came time for me to teach, and do this blog  of my interpretation of the lessons, this is why I chose the format I did, because I don't want anyone when they're doing the lessons to feel alone. That here I go stepping into this great big universe, and I don't have anyone there for me. I hope you've learned by now that I'm here for you, that we climb this mountain together. So, a big group hug my pretties and let's just move on down that road.

 

Prayer: - Blessed God, my Creator, I don't know you very well, but now that my mind is being decluttered and not filled with all that junk, I'm starting to know and be grateful you stuck around. I guess it's kind of funny to say sticking around, because we're made from you, so where could we go where you are not. Blessed and Holy Spirit please help me to get closer to you and to be the teacher you have made me to be. Thank you, Allways.

 

 

Workbook Lesson:  "I am spirit" - When I think of this lesson it's like kinda coming at the previous one but from a different angle. The previous one talks about salvation coming from who we truly are and this one is telling me all we can be is spirit because that's all there is, everything else is an illusion. I get so much hope from this, and many times I have thought that all I am is just this little piece of something down here and I feel so lost and helpless, and this really helps to open my being to recognize that who I am is one with God. The freedom this brings just fills me right up, and I feel more connected to the Christ Consciousness and know I am never alone, because there is no separation.

 

 

Thinking it Over:  It reminds me of when I was growing up there was just me and my brother and outside the house my dad had brought this great big mound of dirt and we were little and loved it so much. I could make so many wonderful things, houses, roads, people, and animals sometimes out of the sand. It was still all the dirt regardless of whether I said this is a house, and this is a road it was still all on the stand and that's how I see us when I think of we're all spirit. We are all the dirt regardless of the shape or implied function. This one looks like that, or that one looks like that. We're all made of the same stuff from  the Wholly Spiritual universe God gave us to play in. What have you made from the dirt in your sandbox?

 

 

Tips & Tricks: Today's tip is about going back around and remembering what brought me to the course in the first place, and what motivates me to move forward. Because I found along the way that if I don't have some motivation, I won't do it. It's hard to make the commitment every day to do a lesson, and at certain times of the day to remember to do the suggested part. It takes motivation and conviction to want to do it, and especially when my mind is screaming this is stupid, this isn't right, and I just wanna burn the book and run. So, it's a really good practice to every once in a while, every month or so, or more frequently if I'm getting frustrated. To re-examine why I'm here and why I do this, because as my mind gets more ordered and I come more into clarity and sanity my motives change.

I can remember when I first got involved with the course my motives for doing it were just more about looking for a way out. I felt in my gut that this was a book that could help me get there, but I wasn't sure where there was, I just knew where here was, and here sucked. So, I've hit many different phases along the way and when I start feeling like I don't wanna do it, I just don't wanna do it, then it's a good time to remember, and if I have forgotten come up with another good reason why I do.

 

Upon Closing: - Well we did it one more day, one more lesson, and a little further down the road. This was a good one, the birds were singing, I could feel that beautiful coolish breeze on my face, and my buddies panting at my side, it doesn't get any better than that. Have an awesome day, a restful night and we'll see you again real soon.    Love and Light, Riki🌈

A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 96

A Course in Miracles

Workbook Lesson 96

 

"Salvation comes from my one Self."

 

Interpreted by Roberta Gallop

 

Daily Welcome:  Hi my workbook buddies, I am back again inviting you to move on down the road with me in as graceful a fashion as I can in raw and bleeding bare feet. I got lost in the pucker brush for a while and the thorns and prickers pretty near ended me, and not in a good way. I learned a very valuable lesson, "when someone is mirroring for you, pay attention as quick and thorough as you can so you can get to the miracle hiding inside" as expedient as possible.  I also missed those yummy group hugs and atta girls. Today let's make our romp down the lane into  a "worst fears" costume party and dress up as our worst fears come to life. Mine is the whole of the donut, being not seen and not heard, being nothing and completely abandoned. What is yours? Big group hug and tally ho, onward and ever upward.

 

 

Prayer: Blessed Wholly Spirit, please help me to see things differently, please grant me the strength to release and forgive no matter what, no matter how horrible or justified I feel. Please help me to feel valued when I feel worthless, to feel beautiful when I feel broken, to feel seen and loved when I feel invisible and abandoned. As I feel your love I learn to love myself, and know you didn't make a mistake. Please show me how to accept my own innocence and not judge myself and others. Please strip me of this little self I have made, whether I bleed or not, whether I cry or not, whether I die or not. Thank you for teaching me and guiding me. I'm sorry for screaming in your ear. Thank you for loving me allways.

 

 

Workbook Lesson:  "Salvation comes from my one Self."- This is a beautiful lesson that reminds me that my way home is from listening to the one true voice of Self, the Consciousness of Christ. That my little distorted mind self is focused and concerned with body, and the eyes of the body see only conflict and separation, because of the things I believe and the thoughts I tell myself. This lesson clearly points to the way out for us, it tells us that the only way to bypass the illusion is through unity, and the release of the little self, and the way out of the little self is stay neutral through forgiveness and acceptance, until we are not " thinking" at all, just being, doing the next right thing God has designed us to do. Also to breathe, experience and enjoy the journey.

 

 

Thinking it Over: I know that "breathe and enjoy the journey" sounds like a fairytale ending, and it is much easier said than done. In my over 30 years of going through the Course, the only thing that is consistently working is to ask God to help me release the little self I see myself as every way possible. The one thing that this lesson screams loud and clear is that I can not bring about my own salvation, I was not designed too, and my best delusional thinking got me totally lost and crying for a way out. This is the place where I really started seeing the benefits of working the ACIM workbook as it's laid out, because I can not order my own mind. How are ways you think you can bring about your own salvation?

 

 

Tips & Tricks: So, since I brought it up, let's talk more about the ordering process. The Course is laid out in a specific fashion to help us to be brought slowly to a place where we aren't defining and making our own reality anymore. The best thing we can do for ourselves is to step up, strap on our seat belts and enjoy the ride. Just let it happen no matter how it feels or where it takes us. Get into a routine of doing the daily lesson to the best of your ability, doing the daily exercises as they are laid out, and trying to just stick to the routine, the motion of the ocean. For so many years I would define the way I thought I was supposed to do the Course and what it looked like. I thought I was being honest and fearless, but now I truly do know what honest and fearless feels like. What a difference when I just started letting the process do me.

 

Upon Closing: That was so nice and refreshing, I loved the company and the laughter along the way. I really felt supported and part of this beautiful process. Let's set out a blanket and drink apple cider and eat some cheese and crackers and make cloud pictures again. Have a blessed day and a gentle night, you are a wonderous part of my life, thanks for being here.

 Love & Light, Riki