Lesson 116. Review of Lessons 101 & 102.
How to Contemplate, continued:
Sometimes we may be asked to contemplate material we do not like. Maybe the material uses words or symbols we do not like. Maybe we don’t have any mental understanding at all, and we feel frustrated about that lack of understanding. Maybe we don’t like the source of the quote. Maybe we have judgments against the person who spoke or wrote the quote, or maybe we have judgments against the text or spiritual path the quote comes from.
Any judgments we have about the material we are contemplating will get in the way of receiving wisdom. If we have any judgments at all about the material, we serve ourselves best by being willing to look at our judgments and let them go.
Grievances block wisdom, and that includes any grievance we may hold against any written word.
Connie’s personal contemplation of Lesson 116:
Review lesson 101, God’s Will for me is perfect happiness.
Review lesson 102, I share God’s Will for happiness for me.
There is such irony for me as I contemplate today’s reviews. I remember years ago, probably 30 years ago, I remember telling my Mom that I didn’t believe these lessons. I thought at best the lessons were misleading. I thought they were misleading because God’s interpretation of happiness was not mine. What is perfect happiness anyway? To me, the word perfect implied that Jesus was talking about something other than real, ordinary, just plain happiness and that was why he felt the need to qualify the concept of happiness with the word perfect.
Thirty years later I get it. The fact is, the review is unequivocal when it says, “God’s Will is perfect happiness for me. And I can suffer but from the belief there is another will apart from His.” This is exactly what I was doing. I was suffering because I believed the happiness I wanted for myself was a different happiness than what Divine Wisdom was offering. I felt it was coercion from an outside source rather than my own true nature lighting the way for me.
In fact the next review lesson says this and now I am able to hear the message. “I share my Father’s Will for me, His Son. What He has given me is all I want. What He has given me is all there is.” Is it possible that any spiritual student would believe that Inner Wisdom would have a different will for them other than their own? Apparently, I was oblivious to the fact that I am one with Conscious Awareness and that I have no existence without Consciousness. Consciousness is Godness.
I feel with some certainty that there isn’t a being that determines what constitutes happiness or unhappiness. I think the message of the Code is that there are opportunities to create happiness and as we get closer to Truth/God/Conscious Awareness, happiness is the likely scenario that we find ourselves in because happiness is our natural state. Happiness is naturally, joyously, True.
