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Comment by Danielle Boonstra on October 2, 2012 at 10:39am

Today my lesson is #236 and it's a doozie...

I rule my mind, which I alone must rule.

¹ I have a kingdom I must rule. At times, it does not seem I am its king at all. It seems to triumph over me, and tell me what to think, and what to do and feel. And yet it has been given me to serve whatever purpose I perceive in it. My mind can only serve. Today I give its service to the Holy Spirit to employ as He sees fit. I thus direct my mind, which I alone can rule. And thus I set it free to do the Will of God.

² Father, my mind is open to Your Thoughts, and closed today to every thought but Yours. I rule my mind, and offer it to You. Accept my gift, for it is Yours to me.

This seems to get to the heart of what I'm totally afraid of...complete surrender to God. I can feel myself tense up just typing this.

This is where that little willingness comes in!!!

Comment by Christy Eller on September 13, 2012 at 4:14pm

Thank you for that Danielle. I "do not know where I am going, who I am, or what it is I do." You can say that again!

Comment by Danielle Boonstra on September 12, 2012 at 10:53am

I just wanted to share the prayer from my lesson today because it's exactly where I'm at and I found it so helpful:

My Name, O Father, still is known to You. I have forgotten It, and do not know where I am going, who I am, or what it is I do. Remind me, Father, now, for I am weary of the world I see. Reveal what You would have me see instead.

xoxox Danielle

Comment by Wende Wylie on August 8, 2012 at 8:21pm

Yes, Susan, Thanks. That link is awesome.

Comment by Joanna on August 8, 2012 at 6:16pm

Susan thank you, yes it helped enormously. The link was really in depth and gave me a much better understanding. It's actually quite simple I think in essence, I just over complicate things waaaay too much! Also I am now finding peace in the 'little' bit of willingness that's needed.

Also related to what you said about the HS's answer, I had a flash of an answer that came to me quickly and I had to write it down before I forgot it: How I think something should be or how I want to see something turn out could be blocking something way better. My desired outcome are nothing compared to the glorious events that God and the HS have in store and I would much rather this, not the way I think it should come. Or like you said "The Holy Spirit's answer may not "look" like anything you think should happen". I understand this now. And I apply it to everything including money.

I keep forgetting God/HS is on my side - they don't want me to fail.

Thanks again Susan, much appreciated!

Comment by Danielle Boonstra on August 7, 2012 at 1:08pm

Susan, both of your posts were incredibly helpful to me.

especially this: The Holy Spirit will not go against YOUR decision because unless you are a little willing to let Him help you, or you may perceive His answer as more frightening.

I witnessed that in action this past weekend.  I get it like I never got it before :)

Thanks again!

Comment by Susan Dec Koelbl on August 7, 2012 at 9:24am

There is a very helpful 3-step outline of the practice of the Course's true forgiveness and prayer, "I must have decided wrongly because I am not at peace" with relevant stories -- at: http://www.miraclestudies.net/Forgive_3Step.html

Once you realize you've decided what the outcome should look like, you are stuck in it until you find the little bit of willingness that the Holy Spirit needs from you. The Holy Spirit will not go against YOUR decision because unless you are a little willing to let Him help you, or you may perceive His answer as more frightening. The Holy Spirit's answer may not "look" like anything you think should happen. This process of looking at the how we think things should be and then finding the little willingness that He needs from us is all part of the development of our trust in Him. Hope this helps.:)

Comment by Joanna on August 7, 2012 at 7:48am

Hi, I'm new here! I am on review 1 of the workbook, lesson 54 and I am about a quarter of the way through the text. I'm reading from the original edition of ACIM. Thanks Corinne for telling me about this place :-)

My query is about faith and belief. I was listening to the latest recording of Corinne's wednesday ACIM discussion group and it was my miracle of the day! Corinne, I hope you don't mind me quoting you but you said...

"The only thing I want manifest is the Holy Spirit through me. And so whatever the external picture ends up looking like, I know that my needs are going to be met. I know that I'll have exactly what I need to be taken care of, to do whatever work it is that I'm guided to do. That's where I really put my trust, for me that's the only thing that I'm concerned about manifesting." (Apologies if I have got some of this wrong, I was trying to transcribe).

This was the miracle I asked for, this part of the discussion. It was like a soothing balm hearing this - thank you. Since then I have been so calm and at peace. Even my ego thoughts of "yeah but how? how? how?" were disolved when I re-read Corinne's quote, I have been walking on air for the last 6 days until today.

Now the ego is a canny thing and I am cool with faith and belief in every area of my life except money. I thought I had surrendered my finances to the HS and money is what i have always felt uneasy about and it was the miracle I was asking for when I listened to last weeks discussion group recording. But today I am back in panic mode. I am nearly flat broke (and God is it awful and acutely embarassing to admit that) I am self employed and I cannot see how I am going to be able to pay my bills beyond August (mortgage included).  This is scary as hell (again I know an ego projection) but I am struggling with this one thing. My new found faith and belief in receiving all that I need is crumbling when it comes to my money. Can things really turn around in three weeks? I do feel like I'm on the right path in terms of service to the world and doing the work the HS wants me to, I felt led to it by the HS and it feels right. But I have a lack of faith that in 3 weeks I will be given all I need to be taken care of. My ego is saying "if the HS and God say all your needs are going to be met, then they are cutting it *really* fine in terms of timing".

So I suppose my question is how do I put true faith and have absolute belief in my material needs being met by God especially in an urgent time-frame when my ego is shrieking like a banshee that's it's not going to happen in time for me?

And I suppose my next question is how do I definitively let go and surrender an issue to the HS without then re-worrying about it and trying to fix it myself after I already handed it over? Again I feel this might be lack of trust.

But yeah, my main problem is money. I read somewhere that the more something is important to you the more you should surrender it to God. I thought I did with my finances too but I obviously didn't....

I'm not into manifesting or the LOA, but I am aware of my fear thoughts creating more fearful illusions in my external picture. I would so love to really really surrender it all to the HS and not even have to worry about material things. It's just that food, shelter and clothing, like basic needs I do feel that I need whilst I am in physical form. Does God and the HS get that?!?!

Any thoughts would be so gratefully received. Thank you.

Comment by Susan Dec Koelbl on August 6, 2012 at 8:50am

If it helps clarify what the Course is talking about re forgiving... contemplate what the Course says in Chapter 25, I. Introduction: "The Christ in you inhabits not a body. Yet He is in you. And thus it must be that you are not within a body...

No one who carries Christ in him can fail to recognize Him everywhere. Except in bodies. And as long as he believes he is in a body, where he thinks he is He cannot be. And so he carries Him unknowingly, and does not make Him manifest. And thus he does not recognize Him where He is. The son of man is not the risen Christ. Yet does the Son of God abide exactly where he is, and walks with him within his holiness, as plain to see as is his specialness set forth within his body. The body needs no healing.

{It is simply our level confusion when we focus on healing the body first instead of turning to the Holy Spirit and asking Him to heal our MINDS of the desire to judge and keep separate...The next paragraph doesn't talk about the zillions of bodily ills--it talks about our denial that we are pure Mind, in God's Mind and only Mind.}

But the mind that thinks it is a body is sick indeed! And it is here that Christ sets forth the remedy. His purpose folds the body in His light, and fills it with the Holiness that shines from Him. And nothing that the body says or does but makes Him manifest. To those who know Him not it carries Him in gentleness and love, to heal their minds. Such is the mission that your brother has for you. And such it must be that your mission is for him.

Chapter 25 is replete with explaining this further: "III. Accept God's frame instead of yours, and you will see the masterpiece. Look at its loveliness, and understand the Mind that thought it, not in flesh and bones, but in a frame as lovely as itself..."

And.."Forgive your brother, and you cannot separate yourself from him nor from his Father. You need no forgiveness, for the wholly pure have never sinned. Give, then, what He has given you, that you may see His Son as one, and thank his Father as He thanks you. Nor believe that all His praise is given not to you. For what you give is His, and giving it, you learn to understand His gift to you.."

Comment by Joe Wolfe on August 2, 2012 at 8:34pm

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