{"id":40703,"date":"2019-05-31T23:10:55","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T05:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awakening-together.org\/dev2\/?p=40703"},"modified":"2019-05-30T11:41:55","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T17:41:55","slug":"gentle-healing-year-1-tip-for-lesson-104","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awakening-together.org\/dev2\/gentle-healing-year-1-tip-for-lesson-104\/","title":{"rendered":"Gentle Healing Year 1 ~ Lesson 104"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h4 class=\"entry-title\">Lesson 104, I seek but what belongs to me in truth.<\/h4>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"at-above-post addthis_tool\" data-url=\"https:\/\/awakening-together.org\/dev2\/tips-from-regina-lesson-104-i-seek-but-what-belongs-to-me-in-truth\/\">This week we are looking deeply at happiness. I\u2019ve said that happiness is natural, and when we are not happy it is because we decided we wanted something else. We judged a circumstance as something that should not be, and we decided we want it to be different.<\/div>\n<p>Right now I sit in bed in Branson, Missouri. In about 90 minutes I will take my suitcases, go out to my car and drive to Springfield, Missouri for a gathering. It is storming outside. There is heavy rain and lightening. It\u2019s been this way for hours. If there isn\u2019t a break in the weather, I will get soaked when I leave. I have no umbrella, no raincoat and my car is parked far enough from the front door that remaining dry is an impossibility in the heavy rain. Once I am in the car, I will drive nearly an hour in the weather to the gathering I am to teach today. It\u2019s possible some people will not come because of the weather. At least one person has already cancelled. I might have heard hail last night. I could go outside today and find my car has hail damage.<\/p>\n<p>Should I choose to be unhappy? Will my unhappiness get me what I want? Heck, what do I want? Do I want sunshine and bird\u2019s singing and lots of people at the gathering? Maybe I at least want dry clothes. Can\u2019t I at least have a break in the weather when I carry my luggage out to the car? If God loves me, I will at least get that, right?<\/p>\n<p>This is an example of the kind of thinking people choose everyday, probably multiple times everyday. \u201cI want this!\u201d our mind screams, and if it isn\u2019t given we are unhappy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want things my way,\u201d but maybe the trees, bushes and flowers want rain. Maybe the thunder wants to roar. Maybe the storm clouds want to dance in the sky like native Americans around a drum circle. Maybe, just maybe, if I look at today with a little bit of openness, I will enjoy this weather powwow.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s lesson tells us there must \u201cbe a place made ready to receive His gifts. They are not welcomed gladly by a mind that has instead received the gifts it made where His belong, as substitutes for them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We prepare the place for happiness when we let go of wanting what isn\u2019t present. If it isn\u2019t present, it isn\u2019t a present. ~ha ha~ That\u2019s just a silly play on words that just came to me. Get it? If it isn\u2019t present (here), it isn\u2019t a present (gift).<\/p>\n<p>But seriously \u2026 It\u2019s okay to want what\u2019s here. Wanting what is here will never bring us unhappiness. If the sun is shining, love the sunny day. That is okay! But if the rain is pouring, love the rain. If you are wet, love being wet. If you have no money, love having no money. If you don\u2019t know what is going to happen tomorrow, love not knowing what is going to happen tomorrow. The truth is, none of us really know that anyway. We only imagine we know.<\/p>\n<p>Happiness isn\u2019t really a choice. Unhappiness is a choice. If we stop choosing to be unhappy by wanting something that isn\u2019t present, we will find more gifts here now than we can count, and happiness is one of them.<\/p>\n<p>This life as this person is a temporary experience, like a novel or a movie. What\u2019s happening in your scene now? Enjoy it! Love the temporary. Also take time to notice, you aren\u2019t the temporary. The more you see that you aren\u2019t the temporary, the more you relax, and the temporary can be loved just as it is now.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lesson 104, I seek but what belongs to me in truth. This week we are looking deeply at happiness. I\u2019ve said that happiness is natural, and when we are not happy it is because we decided we wanted something else. 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