If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.

Do you know the fast track out of sickness and suffering?

Stop thinking about your problems. Stop talking about your difficulties and remember the Love that you are.

Remember your holiness. Remember your innocence. Remember that you are not alone. You have an Inner Guide that is with you always.

This might seem impossible to you because from where you stand your problems seem very real to you.

Your pain seems real.

I know because I had pain for years.

I had problems, debt, no money, suffering, depression and now these things are gone, and there is only joy and the Love of God.

How did this shift occur?

I made a decision to stop giving my so-called problems the car keys and letting them drive the car! I acknowledged that I was not powerless.

I stopped digging the hole that I thought I was in. I stood still.

It was really THAT simple.

Remember that miracles are natural and easy, and there is no order of difficulty. One problem or sickness is not harder or more difficult than another to heal because they are all the same – a belief in separation.

This is the fast track out of suffering.

There is nothing holding you to the thoughts that seem to often occupy your mind and occupy your time, except that you keep holding on to them, telling stories about them, thinking about them.

You might think this is impossible to stop telling stories because your problems seem quite real to you, but that’s only because you keep thinking about them and talking about them and that keeps them right in place!

If you would be free from sickness and suffering, it’s important that you see this and that you see it clearly.

“Deep within you is everything that is perfect, ready to radiate through you and out into the world. It will cure all sorrow and pain and fear and loss because it will heal the mind that thought these things were real, and suffered out of its allegiance to them.You can never be deprived of your perfect holiness because its Source goes with you wherever you go. You can never suffer because the Source of all joy goes with you wherever you go. You can never be alone because the Source of all life goes with you wherever you go. Nothing can destroy your peace of mind because God goes with you wherever you go” -A Course in Miracles, Workbook Lesson 41

You might think: “But I can’t help having these thoughts!” (about your problems and difficulties) but if you are honest and if you pay attention closely you will absolutely see and know that YOU CAN HELP IT.

You are not powerless.

If someone was to give you a million dollars to stop thinking a thought and to stop telling a story about it, then could you do it? Could you focus on the Light and Love that you are instead?

You might think: yes, IF someone was to give me a million dollars then yes, I could stop thinking a thought but no one is offering me a million dollars so I’m just going to continue to think of all the bad things happening to me.

So, ah-ha!

You COULD do it! If you wanted to.

You are not powerless.
You are not weak, but strong.

If you say you cannot do it, then you have not tried because you are powerful.

Anyone and everyone can stop thinking a thought and think about God instead. Everyone.

In the same space that you are thinking about your problems, you can just as easily be re-directing your thoughts to the Truth of your holiness, which is What You Are.

A Course in Miracles is a systematic way to train your mind to a different perception of everyone and everything. You see what is truly here: Oneness with God, Oneness with each other, holiness, innocence, joy and peace.

The new 40-Day Program (offered 3 times a year January 1st, May 1st and September 1st) has you “watch yourself like a hawk” for the entire 40 days just like Jesus did in the desert 2000 years ago as he willingly went, led by Spirit, to be tempted by the devil (ego thoughts) so that you can see that you absolutely CAN banish doubt and fear from your mind. They’re just thoughts! And you’re not powerless.

That’s an amazing idea to me! To willingly ask to be tempted by whatever is buried in my mind (doubt worry, attack, blame, sickness) just like Jesus did.

Remembering that God is with me, no matter what comes upon me I see and know that it has no control and power over me.

Instead of being gripped by fear, I quietly and calmly observe it and let it go.

Most people have no idea how easy it is to let fear go, because they allow fear to grab them and run the show.

All problems are a belief in separation, and there is no such thing as separation – all is One – therefore you have no problems. All your problems have been solved.

If you think you have problems, it is because you handed them the car keys and are allowing your problems to drive the car (by the thoughts you continually think and the stories you continually tell) and you’re in the passenger seat as a hostage.

But the prison door is open!

You can tell your problems to stop the car and give the car keys back to you. They do not have power to run your life. They do not have the power to hold you hostage.

I opened A Course in Miracles up to Workbook Lesson 57 this morning, which is a review, and a great fantastic reminder to use whenever you think you have a problem.

Workbook Lesson 57

(31) I am not the victim of the world I see.

How can I be the victim of a world that can be completely undone if I so choose? My chains are loosened. I can drop them off merely by desiring to do so. The prison door is open. I can leave simply by walking out. Nothing holds me in this world. Only my wish to stay keeps me a prisoner. I would give up my insane wishes and walk into the sunlight at last.

(32) I have invented the world I see.

I made up the prison in which I see myself. All I need do is recognize this and I am free. I have deluded myself into believing it is possible to imprison the Son of God. I was bitterly mistaken in this belief, which I no longer want. The Son of God must be forever free. He is as God created him, and not what I would make of him. He is where God would have him be, and not where I thought to hold him prisoner.

(33) There is another way of looking at the world.

Since the purpose of the world is not the one I ascribed to it, there must be another way of looking at it. I see everything upside down, and my thoughts are the opposite of truth. I see the world as a prison for God’s Son. It must be, then, that the world is really a place where he can be set free. I would look upon the world as it is, and see it as a place where the Son of God finds his freedom.

(34) I could see peace instead of this.

When I see the world as a place of freedom, I realize that it reflects the laws of God instead of the rules I made up for it to obey. I will understand that peace, not war, abides in it. And I will perceive that peace also abides in the hearts of all who share this place with me.

(35) My mind is part of God’s. I am very holy.

As I share the peace of the world with my brothers, I begin to understand that this peace comes from deep within myself. The world I look upon has taken on the light of my forgiveness, and shines forgiveness back at me. In this light I begin to see what my illusions about myself kept hidden. I begin to understand the holiness of all living things, including myself, and their oneness with me.

 

 

You are the light of the world.

Love,

Lisa

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