We have been encouraging ourselves and everyone else to work with feeling our feelings and fully experiencing our experiences(all of which we have asked for and created).
Jack reminded us that we are all asked to join in the prayer/vision to see ourselves and everyone else as whole, perfect and complete. We do not look at ourselves as sick and needing healing, that simply gives energy to the false idea of sickness. We affirm, as Jesus did, our wholeness, our perfection, our Oneness. And as we hold Jack and all our Brothers ands Sisters in that Truth, we hold ourselves there as well, for that wholeness, perfection, and Oneness must be our Truth also.
Before we get into Chapter 5 I wanted to share one of my favorite passages:
Galatians, Chapter 3 (v 6 – 9)Let Me tell you what I see when I look at you. I see faith and willingness and love. I see a heart that is so strong, not even the heavens of your universe can contain it. I see a mind that is awakening to its own Heart. I see gentleness through awakening, and I am grateful to have come to welcome you back unto your truth.
The major theme we wanted to explore today is THE ENERGY OF WILLINGNESS. We wanted to go deeper than seeing willingness as simply an idea or a wish. It is an energy. In essence, it is the energy of creation.
Notice the difference between wanting and being willing. We discovered that willingness has a quality of openness to it. It is a surrender and letting go, and at the same time the realization that we are tapping into the Source of unlimited energy.
Notice the difference between wanting and being willing. We discovered that willingness has a quality of openness to it. It is a surrender and letting go, and at the same time the realization that we are tapping into the Source of unlimited energy.
From Galatians 5(2-6) 4-5
“But if you will focus your willingness on the part of your mind that wants the truth above everything else, you will find that willingness will grow. And with it, joy will expand within your conscious awareness.”
Notice how it feels inside you to focus on your willingness. It is as if your willingness is showing you not what you want so much as Something that already IS.
(7-12) 4-5 “I have asked you to focus on your willingness, and I have told you that willingness is Light in the mind. You will know this is true when you focus on that willingness, for it will give you the feelings of Light.”
Here is a brief overview of our journey{
(7-12) 6-12 In the beginning of your acceptance you see yourself as an individual, separate from everything, within a very real world. And yet, you call for love. That call is your willingness, eager to be reunited with Itself in awareness. That call, being a spark ofLight, is your link to your Source. Therefore, it comes to you with all of the power and strength of the Source. You only need focus on it to become aware. Nothing else is needed.
Please follow up by reading p. 334 from 13 “As you focus on your willingness…” to “Suddenly you are everything..”
We would encourage you to continue to get a sense of the Energy of Willingness, how you can choose your focus and how that energy can guide you.
This last section towards the middle of the chapter is just beautiful. It lets us know that willingness is not just a wish or a desire, it is not based in the future about something that is going to happen or something we want to happen. No, willingness is about what already is NOW. The energy of Willingness opens us to the truth of who we are.
Focus on your willingness as if it is your truth, because it is.
Focus on your willingness as if it holds the answer to all questions, because it does.
Focus on your willingness as if it is everything to everyone, because it is.
Focus on your own willingness.That is Love Alive within the world.
And
For to know your willingness is to know God. 5To love your willingness is to love Him.
Finally, be aware that from time to time(for me, quite often) I will lose sight of my willingness. I will become lost, distracted, self-righteous, closed, guarded, angry, tired, lonely, depressed. (What happens is I begin to identify with these states of mind and go into the dream where I think they are me!)
(16-18)5-11You will be tempted to think with the world. In times of unknowing, you will think and act with the world. But your willingness is in action, and so you will see what you have done. Each moment of noticing is an opportunity for immediate repentance. Repentance is nothing more than remembering what you truly want and returning joyfully to the focus of your willingness. This is the dance of love. And the dance of love is the spreading of Light within a welcome mind.
Next week we will be traveling back to finish Corinthians 1&2.
