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Free Will is Real
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Remember this! You can always start Home from wherever you are. And one starting-point is not worse or better than another. You are either Home or not-Home.
Defining “where” you are and determining “why” you’re there may seem to be the “correction” called for, but it is really nothing more than a delaying or distracting tactic. Why? Because at the bottom line you are where you are because that’s where your Attention is . . . and the issue is simply a matter of redirecting your Attention!
Have you been stupid? Have you been self-destructive? Have you been arrogant? Self-righteous? Controlling? How long is the list?
Or, do you simply have to abandon the quest for uncovering your flaws and become diligent in Listening for the Voice for Truth—shifting from “my will be done” to “Thy Will be done”?
You may think guilt trips are laid on you by others who are more spiritually advanced (or think they are) and mope around for awhile longer. But if you choose to “believe them,” you are lying to yourself to cover up the fact that guilt is inseparable from your attempted independence from your Source, and you, alone, are responsible for your misery.
Uh-oh! Does that sound like a guilt trip?
Is it, actually?
After all, how stupid must you be to be the sole creator of your misery . . . and not know it? At the least, you must be retarded. Right?
Guilt! Guilt! Guilt!
And, of course, the verdict: Penalty! Penalty! Penalty!
You have to pay for it.
But, of course, I introduced a little bit of misdirection, didn’t I, and played right into your sense of “having” an independent sense of self? After all, “you, alone, are [NOT] responsible for your misery.” Your choice is—the object of your Attention!
It IS all a matter of Attention. Yours!
Lesson #26, the lesson for today, states:
“The idea for today introduces the thought that you always attack yourself. If attack thoughts must entail the belief that you are vulnerable, their effect is to weaken you in your own eyes. Thus they have attacked your perception of yourself. And because you believe in them, you can no longer believe in yourself. A false image of yourself has come to take the place of what you are.
“Practice with today’s idea will help you to understand that vulnerability or invulnerability is the result of your own thoughts. Nothing except your thoughts can attack you. Nothing except your thoughts can make you think you are vulnerable. And nothing except your thoughts can prove to you this is not so.”
[The underlining is mine.]
The thing to remember is that your Attention is Real.
What you give It to, is up to you . . . and this is where all-important Free Will comes into play. To give It (invest It) in What is Real is what It is for. To invest It in anything else—which would be pure imagination—is not!
You see?
Co-creation is what it’s all about. Co-creation requires two! In terms of Mind . . . Mind moves. But in order for that Movement to be Realized, something must be conscious of It! Simply put, this amounts to Self-awareness. But in order for it to be Actualized, That which IS Aware cannot be That of which it is Aware. For lack of better words, That which IS Aware must be a “free agent” else there is no perspective. As the example goes: The sound of a tree falling in the middle of a forest cannot hear itself and confirm the event.
So . . . God, infinite Mind, moves, eliciting the experience of Consciousness in which the Movement registers. This elicits a conscious response of confirmation which has been translated into the Biblical words, “And God saw everything that He had made, and behold, it was very good.” In other words, “. . . verily, it was God!”
As I have said before: Conscious Individuality—your conscious experience of Being—is the part of God which recognizes God in everything, and instead of saying, “that is ME,” says, “that is God.”
Again: Conscious Individuality (Man) is the part of God which acknowledges God and is therefore the forever confirmation and completing of the Movement of Creation in the eternal Now.
This is succinctly put in another lessons in A Course in Miracles, which says: “My mind is part of God’s. I am very holy,” and does not say, “My mind is mine, and I have free will to accomplish anything I set my mind to.”
What this ultimately means is that freedom lies in the holy instant in which one yields to the Truth that . . .
The only right use of Will
is for me not to use It
for myself!
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Rajpur
Kingston, Washington
January 26, 2024