God is the Mind
Although I hadn’t previewed it, and I honestly didn’t remember Lesson 45 in A Course in Miracles, I was certain today’s lesson would require another meditation, and I knew going in that I would be required to let go of things. This morning, I awoke with the awareness that my tenant has yet to pay the rent and that the drop-dead date before a late fee applies on my mortgage (the underlying that I don’t have sufficient funds to cover by myself) is tomorrow. He is aware of this. I spoke with him on the 5th about it. I’ve texted him with no response thus far. I’ve had days of circling around fear.
These are not my “real thoughts.” I know this. I am too far along the path to enter upset or anger over any of it, but I know my “real thoughts” would not be fearful. God is not fearful. That honor goes to the ego.
Today’s lesson:
Lesson 45
God is the Mind with which I think.
Today’s idea holds the key to what your real thoughts are. They are nothing that you think you think, just as nothing that you think you see is related to vision in any way. There is no relationship between what is real and what you think is real. Nothing that you think are your real thoughts resemble your real thoughts in any respect. Nothing that you think you see bears any resemblance to what vision will show you.
You think with the Mind of God. Therefore you share your thoughts with Him, as He shares His with you. They are the same thoughts, because they are thought by the same Mind. To share is to make alike, or to make one. Nor do the thoughts you think with the Mind of God leave your mind, because thoughts do not leave their source. Therefore, your thoughts are in the Mind of God, as you are. They are in your mind as well, where He is. As you are part of His Mind, so are your thoughts part of His Mind.
Where, then, are your real thoughts? Today we will attempt to reach them. We will have to look for them in your mind, because that is where they are. They must still be there, because they cannot have left their source. What is thought by the Mind of God is eternal, being part of creation.
Our three five-minute practice periods for today will take the same general form that we used in applying yesterday’s idea. We will attempt to leave the unreal and seek for the real. We will deny the world in favor of truth. We will not let the thoughts of the world hold us back. We will not let the beliefs of the world tell us that what God would have us do is impossible. Instead, we will try to recognize that only what God would have us do is possible.
We will also try to understand that only what God would have us do is what we want to do. And we will also try to remember that we cannot fail in doing what He would have us do. There is every reason to feel confident that we will succeed today. It is the Will of God.
Begin the exercises for today by repeating the idea to yourself, closing your eyes as you do so. Then spend a fairly short period in thinking a few relevant thoughts of your own, keeping the idea in mind. After you have added some four or five thoughts of your own to the idea, repeat it again and tell yourself gently:
My real thoughts are in my mind. I would like to find them.
Then try to go past all the unreal thoughts that cover the truth in your mind, and reach to the eternal.
Under all the senseless thoughts and mad ideas with which you have cluttered up your mind are the thoughts that you thought with God in the beginning. They are there in your mind now, completely unchanged. They will always be in your mind, exactly as they always were. Everything you have thought since then will change, but the Foundation on which it rests is wholly changeless.
It is this Foundation toward which the exercises for today are directed. Here is your mind joined with the Mind of God. Here are your thoughts one with His. For this kind of practice only one thing is necessary; approach it as you would an altar dedicated in Heaven to God the Father and to God the Son. For such is the place you are trying to reach. You will probably be unable as yet to realize how high you are trying to go. Yet even with the little understanding you have already gained, you should be able to remind yourself that this is no idle game, but an exercise in holiness and an attempt to reach the Kingdom of Heaven .
In the shorter exercise periods for today, try to remember how important it is to you to understand the holiness of the mind that thinks with God. Take a minute or two, as you repeat the idea throughout the day, to appreciate your mind’s holiness. Stand aside, however briefly, from all thoughts that are unworthy of Him Whose host you are. And thank Him for the Thoughts He is thinking with you.
© Foundation for Inner Peace • PO B
Lately, whenever I’m on point, a chill runs through my body. It’s like my own private signal from Spirit. Perhaps it’s always been that way and now that I am better at shoving the ego aside, I just notice it more. I feel like I get a lot of chills lately, including during this exercise! During this morning’s exercise, when I went into meditation, I suddenly knew that while I wasn’t having attack thoughts regarding my tenant, I was experiencing fear because
a). I didn’t trust him and
b). I wasn’t trusting God to provide an attractive outcome.
This has been a central theme for most of my adult life – not knowing how I could possibility make ends meet and wanting to get in the middle of things and take control because I’m having a hard time letting God run the show. The challenging part for me is that I know I am working against myself. I see clearly how the fear that runs through me is throwing blocks in the road. I need to finish healing these trust issues.
Here is what came to me this morning: I must be comfortable with the uncertainty knowing that God’s got my back. What happens is that I notice the uncertainty and then I experience the effects of my fear (since thoughts leave not their source) and I’m upset. Upset with myself because I know I’m getting in my own way. Upset with life for not treating me better; wanting to blame God and yet knowing it’s not God’s doing, it’s mine.
Sigh.
Yesterday, I was out with my boss looking at a couple of houses, one of which I will be listing before the end of the month. She is trying so hard to help me to be successful and I am praying that I turn things around soon because I seriously don’t want her giving up on me and thinking I’m a lost cause.
Fear. It always goes back to fear.
I’m accustomed to being poor. I need to get back to being accustomed to being rich.
I turn my thoughts over to the Holy Spirit (even though I know it’s my responsibility to eradicate the fear since I am the one who let the bastard come in! The Course says, “Fear cannot be controlled by me, but it can be self-controlled.”) The saving grace is that I know I am a good person. I don’t struggle with blaming anyone but me and I’m not too hard on myself. God is gentle with me. I am willing to be gentle with myself.
My real thoughts are in my mind. I would like to find them.
My real thoughts are not afraid. My real thoughts have confidence in things working out. They do not get hijacked by appearances.
God is the Mind with which I think.
“To share is to make alike, or to make one.”
There! There is the answer – it is found in love. My real thoughts are only loving, they contain no fear because they are sure that I am loved! If I am loved and cared for, I have nothing to fear because God goes with me wherever I go and loves me and is looking out for me.
Seriously, I need to get over this fear habit so I experience the good that is constantly trying to happen to me!
Thank you, God. Thank you! I will get over this very bad habit. I am getting over it.
There I am. High again. How I love that Spirit comes in with body signs to show me I am on track! There’s hope for me yet my friends.
God is the Mind with which I think. Let not my miscreations mislead me. Let the Holy Spirit lead me back to the thoughts of God. May I experience that goodness that surrounds me. May I see the beauty. May I forever trust in Your Love, Lord. Thank you for Your Eternal Love.
Namaste, my friends, Namaste.
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