I met a new friend almost a year ago, although, at that time we had no idea how the friendship would transform who we both were. Yesterday, I asked only to be guided to where I needed to go; open to all possibilities. So upon opening the door to her shop, I asked only to experience what I needed to experience; to gain insight and clarity.
There were many gifts from within the conversation. First and foremost, I recognized a friendship that is based on non-judgement & honesty. A friendship that is unclouded by fear. I have learned to allow this to be, significantly, more and more over the past year. The second gift was a chill that ran through me when she shared her lesson during her morning walk, 'I am Here.' That is the gift of each moment.
I am here. I am present. Of this I am grateful. Of each and every moment, I am here. Let me experience ALL that I need to experience in this moment, creating and bringing forth greater opportunities and abundance.
As we moved forward in conversation I asked her thought, 'If God is within, then is God not within every thought and idea?' If He is within all of us, than is each thought not divinely inspired, given to us as a gift, to experience all that we are meant to experience?
We are all born of love♡ we are all born of a path in which we most wish to experience greatness of self. Everything leads us forward, aligned with this wish; time and space unlimited; always experiencing, always creating where our heart and soul knows that it needs to be. My messages are from Spirit. The separation, I am now aware, is the fear and doubt that we are taught and allow to govern.
I have studied many books that have helped to shape who I am. What I am most aware is that I have always allowed my intuition, along with my connection to God to discern my truth. Each book, beginning with the Bible, asks for us to take it at its word. That word, I feel is subject to personal interpretation and ego. That word, I feel, is often unrecognizable.
The message that I heard is 'but it is from within our own experience, only in love, that the interpretation has any real value or meaning.'
I said yesterday that God is Love. It is from this place that interpretation and experience has its greatest value and meaning. And know that this is ever changing, as we grow and experience more. Furthermore, that this change is okay, it is what is necessary to our state of enlightenment and oneness with God. I only believe in what I feel is the truth, each moment changing as I experience and learn. So it is with A Course in Miracles. So it is with Conversations with God. So it is with The Secret. So it is with To Dance with Angels. So it is with The Power of Now. So it is with My Lessons.
The reason that so many of us don't achieve what it is that we feel that we are meant to achieve is that we are trying to allow another's experience to fit into our own, and it rarely ever does. So we struggle, question ourselves, beat ourselves up, believing that we might be missing something or not doing it exactly as instructed. Why?
Because we must experience it for Ourselves. It's up to us to seek from within, what it is that we need to experience. In this moment. For our greatest good of our souls experience.
This is where I am, my journey, my experiences, my growth; used only by you to help see and maybe awaken the light within; to know that it is there and begin your journey to discover and experience what you most need to experience. Or maybe not. Perhaps your experience is to challenge my experience. This being the case, you have been set before me, as an opportunity, is to allow for a greater awareness, for both of us.
Beginning with our experiences of childhood, we can be drawn further and further away from the love of God; often consistent with the relationship & separation of the parent, friend, teacher, boss, whomever & God. The separation of self and love; self and God. God is only love. We come to share experiences with one another; each person intricately placed before us to teach us what we need to learn and experience. Some get it, some don't, some aren't supposed to; their greatest experience is only to teach.
If we are to believe, as I do, that we live many lives, with each life taking on a different set of circumstances to learn, create and experience, then we are able to see a greater picture. We are able to see a divine connection; that what happens is meant to be, for the greatest good of our experience, and our experiences as a whole. This is why judgment is only of self, and why forgiveness begins within. This is why some are able to forgive the most brutal and 'insane' events, because they know that there is a higher calling of the experience. One self knows that which he is meant to give to another,
So today's lesson honors our connection and relationship with one another; connected to one with God.
A Course in Miracles~ Lesson Day 75~ To give and to receive are one in truth. I will receive what I am giving now.
Vision is essential for today's idea. 'The light is in it, for it reconciles all seeming opposites. And what is light except the resolution, born of peace, of all your conflicts and mistaken thoughts into one concept which is wholly true? Even that one will disappear, because the Thought behind it will appear instead to take its place. And now you are at peace forever, for the dream is over then.'
This is the light that shows no opposites, and vision, being healed, has power to heal. This is the light that brings your peace of mind to self and to other minds, to share it and be glad that they are one with you and with themselves. This is the light that heals because it brings single perception, based upon one frame of reference, from which one meaning comes. Here are both giving and receiving seen as different aspects of but One Thought.
Today we practice perhaps a new awareness of giving and receiving. To give is to receive. Today we will attempt to offer peace to everyone, and see how quickly peace returns to us. Light is tranquility, and in that peace is vision given us, and we can see. So we begin the practice periods with the instruction for today, and say:
To give and to receive are one in truth. I will receive what I am giving now.
Then close your eyes, and for five minutes think of what you would hold out to everyone, to have it yours. You might, for instance, say:
To everyone I offer peace of mind. To everyone I offer gentleness.
Say each one slowly and then pause a while, expecting to receive the gift you gave. Our very simple lesson for today will teach you much. Effect and cause will be far better understood.
Bless everyone you meet today for the experience in which they gave to you♡ for their willingness to help you to grow♡ to find your truth♡ above all else, Love♡ Lori-Lynn
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