I’ve been reading A Course in Miracles again.
When I moved to Sedona years ago I got through to Lesson 68. That was around the time that I first noticed miracles happening all the time in my life. I’m only on Day 8 of the lessons now. I’m reading the book from start to finish while I’m studying the lessons and it has already had such a profound impact on the way I am looking at my life. I’m experiencing a freedom in my thinking all the time.
I’m wondering why I didn’t continue doing the 365 lessons years ago. Well, if you’ve read the course you know it is dense, so that might be part of it. But I think it has more to do with self-sabotage.
Can you think of something that you’ve done it the past that was working and then for no apparent reason you stopped?
I can think of scores of things.
How about you? Was it a healthy diet that you were following where you felt energized and looked great and then stopped abruptly? Was it a spiritual practice like meditation that you did regularly and then abandoned? Did you journal about your feelings and then just stop? Stop exercising?
I realize human nature and life sometimes get in the way. Doesn’t it sometimes seem like there just isn’t enough time?
The thing is when we do something good for ourselves we really are rewarded, with good health (mental and physical), with tangible success-like the creation of a product or a business venture…you get what I’m saying.
So, I challenge you today to pick back up something that you have abandoned that brought you joy, peace or a sense of accomplishment in the past and re-commit.
And I’ll leave you with a few lines from A Course in Miracles to think about:
“You who want peace can find it only by complete forgiveness. No learning is acquired by anyone unless he wants to learn it and believes in some way he needs it. ..
You can never control the effects of fear yourself because you made fear and you believe in what you made…..
All aspects of fear are untrue because they do not exist at the creative level, and therefore do not exist at all…”
(VI. The Illusion of Needs pg 13-14)
Forgive and Be Free,
Brenda
