Review instructions: Spend at least 15 minutes in the morning and at least 15 minutes in the evening contemplating the lesson for the day. Repeat today’s idea to yourself at least hourly. In addition, use today’s idea throughout the day.
Today’s review idea:
I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me.
I bless the world because I bless myself.
Have you ever done something and when someone asked you why you did it, your only explanation was because it was just the natural thing to do. Let’s say someone asked, “Why did you feed that stray dog?” You might reply, “I was feeding our dogs and I saw the stray one so I fed him too.” Or, “Why did you cut that strip of grass between our yard and our neighbor’s yard when that strip is obviously the neighbor’s?” “Because I had the mower out and it needed cutting so I cut that portion of the neighbor’s yard. I was already in the act of doing it for myself and it just seemed natural and helpful.”
It is natural, and reasonable, and loving, and kind, and helpful to bless the world because I bless myself. Most of us have been reading, and learning, and studying what separation means our whole lives. Now is the time to take the practical steps, the easy steps, the natural steps. You don’t have to go out of your way, just bless the world as you bless yourself. When we believe the world is important, letting go of the value we have assigned the world is perceived as a sacrifice. When we are awake or aware that the world lacks value then the idea of sacrifice isn’t believed. Sacrifice is only a relevant idea if you think you can lose something of value.
We bless ourselves when we stop clinging to these old, familiar and comfortable thought patterns. Isn’t peace, salvation and the blessings they bring worth the risk? Wake up and be enlightened now. Awakening is the spreading of the light in the one mind (and in the world). There is nothing real here for you. You sacrifice nothing when you give up what you don’t want. Jacquelyn said, “As you draw knowledge and strength from the truth, you increase the strength of recognition of truth in all minds.” Trust that there is another way of being. It is like mowing that strip of grass in your neighbor’s yard. Demonstrate what you have learned and be enlightened now.
