| Dear Friends, This week's quote is from spiritual awareness class CC 75, which was published in Volume 4 of The Living Light Dialogue.
"We all know that divine will is acceptance, total acceptance. If you are ready to accept into your consciousness a better way of thinking than you already have, then you're on the first step to being the vehicle through which divine will may express itself without the limitation of past experiences. How does one know whether or not they're truly ready to accept the will of the Divine without limitation? All we have to do is to look at the present so-called problem that we have. And we all have some type of situation that we want settled, some type of problem in our life, this moment, that we are seeking a solution to. If the thought, the thought of the situation, the thought of the so-called problem, continues to entertain your conscious mind, then you may be rest assured you are still controlled by patterns and experiences of the past. If you are ready to make the change, then you will move to another level of consciousness and you will do what we have all been taught here: you will release it to the Divine.
Now, how does man release something to his own divinity, to the only level of consciousness that is able to see clearly, not just in this moment of the now, but is able to see what will be in the best interests for him, for that is his divinity? It knows what's right for us as individualized souls. We know when we have released it to the Divine within us when we no longer give it thought. Now, each and every moment when we're consciously awake and when we are asleep, the so-called computer of our mind is playing what we call, in this understanding, tapes. It's playing experiences of the past. It is doing it whether or not you are consciously aware, for that is the very nature of mind stuff. There are moments when we have an awareness of a thought that continues to repeat itself in our mind, and we find that condition most disturbing. But, my good students, that process of thought—and thoughts—is taking place in our mind day and night.
So, my good students, does it not behoove us to permeate our consciousness with potent and positive affirmations, to introduce into our tape recorder of the mind tapes that will reap us a beneficial harvest? It's like a student striving to learn one of the many affirmations that are given here, a most important affirmation, which simply states, "God is the source of my supply." The students work on that. Perhaps they say it a few times. Maybe they say it fifty or a hundred times. But what happens? As that affirmation strives to record itself in the gray matter of our mind, a multitude of contradictory experiences of this life flood into our consciousness. What does that reveal to us? It reveals that we are in self-will, not divine will; that we are still controlled by yesterday. How can we truly progress when we permit ourselves to be constantly controlled by yesterday's experiences?"
When I was first introduced to these teachings, I had difficulty understanding that total acceptance was the divine will or the will of God. Until a co-student asked me, what is it that God does not accept? At that moment, I had a somewhat broader understanding because I realized that there is no human endeavor, however base or uplifting, that the Divine Intelligence does not accept. We may or may not appreciate the consequences of our choices, but the Divine accepts whatever path we choose.
One example of how a greater acceptance benefits us is in our interactions with our friends and acquaintances. When I feel that a friend has behaved in a way that I judge to be selfish and inconsiderate, I often allow myself to experience hurt feelings, which often trouble me for quite some time. In those moments, I often hear a voice in my mind say, "I would never treat them like that!" But those thoughts are not the voice of my soul. If I had greater acceptance of my friend's behavior, I would grant them the right to express on whatever level of consciousness they chose. And by accepting their right of expression and their right to their own growth on their own path, I would not have to experience my own hurt feelings. I would have the presence to remind myself, "That is just a level of consciousness they are expressing on. It is a level that I have often expressed. And I know that they will not always be expressing on that level." Through a greater acceptance of the divine right of expression of all, I would experience a greater harmony and not be so affected by the growth steps of the people I merit encountering.
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Sincerely yours, Russell Fitzgerald Vice President |
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