Kate shares her experience as she goes about the business of giving up her ideas about herself and the world on her journey toward purification and awakening. Kate shares with wisdom and humor and allows us a glimpse into the beautiful and sometimes messy blossoming of life examined with an eye on Truth.
3-24-19 Weekly Gathering: “Awakening From the Belief in The False Self.”
Gentle Healing Year 3 ~ Daily Contemplation #46
Please read and contemplate quotes 158-160 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. This is the last quote today:
It is absolute truth and therefore not truth as a concept.
Note: The next Daily Contemplation will be available tomorrow morning after 2am ET at this link.
Gentle Healing Year 1 ~ Tip for Lesson 40
Lesson 40. I am blessed as a Son of God.
“I am blessed as a Son of God
I am happy, peaceful, loving and contented.
I am blessed as a Son of God
I am calm, quiet, assured and confident.”
Did you do today’s lesson the way Jesus asked you to? Did you repeat the idea, I am blessed as a Son of God, and then add several of the attributes you associate with being a Son of God, applying them to yourself?
Were these attributes difficult for you? If so, was the difficulty you found due to correlating the Son of God to yourself?
NTI Galatians 5 tells us, “You do not know who you are, but you are opening to the possibility that truth may be true. This is to create an opening in your conscious awareness through which Spirit can flow as you.” And NTI Galatians 1 began by saying, “I come to you on this day to teach you the joy of who you are and to teach you the glory and the truth that is forever and forever true.”
Did you have a different evaluation of yourself?
In ACIM, Chapter 9, The Two Evaluations, we are told:
His [the Holy Spirit’s] evaluation of you is based on His knowledge of what you are, and so He evaluates you truly. And this evaluation must be in your mind, because He is. The ego is also in your mind, because you have accepted it there. Its evaluation of you, however, is the exact opposite of the Holy Spirit’s, because the ego does not love you. It is unaware of what you are, and mistrustful of everything it perceives because its perceptions are so shifting. The ego is therefore capable of suspiciousness at best and viciousness at worst.
But Jesus continues and says the Holy Spirit does know you as a Son of God: “He is not deceived by anything you do, because He never forgets what you are. He judges every belief you hold in terms of where it comes from. If it comes from God, He knows it to be true. If it does not, He knows that it is meaningless.”
So the Holy Spirit knows knows the truth, and the truth is that the attributes that we associate with being a Son of God do in fact, apply to ourselves. And that is why NTI Galatians 5 admonishes us to, “watch your mind, for it is only your own thoughts that may enslave you. Whenever you do not feel free, you are believing illusions. There is a direct correlation between your thoughts and beliefs and your present experience.”
I am blessed as a Son of God
I am joy, glory, truth and free. The attributes that the Holy Spirit knows to be true are true and nothing but unaware thoughts could keep me from experiencing these holy attributes in myself.
Gentle Healing Year 3 ~ Daily Contemplation #45
Please read and contemplate quotes 156-157 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. This is an excerpt from the last quote today:
Belief (or imagination) gave rise to diversity; when that belief is dropped, diversity goes.
Note: The next Daily Contemplation will be available tomorrow morning after 2am ET at this link.
Gentle Healing Year 1 ~ Tip for Lesson 39
LESSON 39. My holiness is my salvation.
Yay!!!!! Here we go!
If this was an aerobics class, lessons 1-38 were the aerobic warmup; we were increasing intensity to get our heart rate up into the aerobic zone. Now our heart rate is up there, and it’s time to throw ourselves whole-heartedly into this activity.
Of course, we aren’t here to burn off fat or calories. We are here to burn off ego.
As you begin exercise 39, My holiness is my salvation, start by remembering how important healing/awakening is to you. Find your motivation. Realize your excitement about giving yourself fully to today’s workbook lesson. Feel your inner motivation. (That will come from the heart, not the mind.)
Once you are aware of how valuable this goal and its means (the workbook lesson) are to you, create a plan for accomplishing the longer practice periods. Set a stretch goal … aim to do more than the minimum … but stay with wisdom and do not set a goal that is beyond what is reasonable for you (and therefore possibly self-defeating.)
Also, take advantage of the flexibility in the instructions for today’s longer practice periods to rest with the lesson, allow related thoughts into the mind and to sit quietly paying attention to awareness. At our next Gentle Healing meeting, we will read the awareness-watching-awareness instructions from Michael Langford’s book, The Direct Means to Eternal Bliss. In a nutshell, Michael Langford describes it as: “My present awareness watching my present awareness. Awareness watching awareness. Not some unknown awareness labeled the Infinite Self. This awareness, my awareness, here and now watching itself, while ignoring thought, the body, the world, etc.”
Let’s begin putting at least a little awareness-watching-awareness into each practice session, either starting today or next week after we read the instructions. When the instructions for the ACIM lesson allow flexibility, like today, it can be interspersed anywhere during the practice session. If the instructions are more specific, you can linger a little longer after the practice session for a bit of awareness-watching-awareness. If you decide to include it in today’s practice, a few seconds to 2 minutes of awareness-watching-awareness is enough. Longer is also okay if awareness-watching-awareness is comfortable for you.
Regina coined the term, “divine greediness.” Be divinely greedy by being excited to practice the day’s lesson. Be excited to say it to yourself 4 or more times per hour today, like someone was handing you a gold coin 4 times per hour and all you had to do was remember to stick your hand out to receive it. The longer practice periods are worth a one ounce bar of gold!!
Be divinely greedy and love today’s lesson. We only have this lesson for today, and then it is gone. Eat it up while it is here!!!
This Sunday in the Sanctuary ~ March 24, 2019
Join us at 10:15am ET / 7:15am PST for our Weekly Gathering with Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert
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Join us at 7:00 pm ET / 4:00 pm PT for The Guiding Light with Rev. Regina Dawn Akers
Regina is reading and sharing from The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi.
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Join us at 8:00 pm ET / 5:00 pm PT for Movie Watcher Discussion Group
Jacquelyn Eckert will lead us in this month’s movie discussion of “The Sea of Trees”, starring Matthew McConaughey, who plays an American professor named Arthur. Arthur travels to Japan in the midst of a personal crisis. He visits “Suicide Forest” where he meets a mysterious stranger. Arthur and the stranger embark on a spiritual, life-changing journey of friendship, discovery, and healing.
Here is a link to the play sheet designed to assist with a Spirit centered movie watching experience: The Sea of Trees PlaySheet.
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Join us at 9:00pm ET / 6:00pm PT for Fully Human Fully Divine Satsang with Craig Holliday.
Craig Holliday continues his examination of what it means to be both free and human.
Gentle Healing Year 3 ~ Daily Contemplation #44
Please read and contemplate quotes 152-155 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. This is the last quote today:
Since the ignorant are bound fast to their own false notions, neither the transiency of the world nor the hard blow they suffer in their life is able to awaken them.
Note: The next Daily Contemplation will be available tomorrow morning after 2am ET at this link.
Gentle Healing Year 1 ~ Tip for Lesson 38
LESSON 38. There is nothing my holiness cannot do.
The workbook lesson, “There is nothing my holiness cannot do,” may give the impression that the mind can pick a problem or form of suffering and then decide to ‘heal’ it miraculously. This is not the best way to understand the lesson. There is too much ‘me’ and what ‘I perceive as wrong’ in that.
A better way to understand the lesson is along with the teachings from NTI Ephesians, Colossians and Luke 9: As we contemplate our truth, the clean energy of our truth goes into the world as grace. As grace, it will do what it does to correct misperceptions and miscreation. However, we are not to select the miracles or even look for their evidence. We simply continue our role of contemplating our truth, and we let grace take care of the miracles.
One thing is for sure: Since you receive what you give, you will experience corrected perception if you contemplate truth instead of focusing on false perception and its stories.
Gentle Healing Year 3 ~ Daily Contemplation #43
Please read and contemplate quotes 149-151 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. This is the last quote today:
At all times, everything is known only by direct experience.
Note: The next Daily Contemplation will be available tomorrow morning after 2am ET at this link.
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