I know when I read the the 50 principles
of miracles at the beginning of A Course
in Miracles that was I was one of them
that really jumped out of me a number of
them jumped out over the years but the
one that jumped out pretty early to me
was miracles are involuntary and they
should not be under conscious control
and when we're talking about the doer
the doer wants everything to be under
conscious control the doer is so
concerned about behaviors and being
doing the right thing and being correct
and not making mistakes the focus is
always on the form and not on the mind
and as we had a beautiful witness from
Eska there in Japan she loves her job
she's teaching English from 9:00 in the
morning till 9:00 at night and she's
having a ball and she's extending all
this love and it's her attitude that's
doing the teaching she's not really
teaching English she's teaching love and
that's what all of us are called to do
away from concern about outcomes and
productivity and what does it mean to
the world it's it's the feeling of love
in our hearts and the extension of that
love that is what it's all about
even Helen Schucman described of the
course you know she hung in there for a
lot of years it took seven years to
bring through the course from 1965 to
1972 but then there were came a time a
little bit later in her life where she
felt like wow at least I did it at least
I completed the mission
and then Jesus basically told her well
actually it wasn't about the course and
she was like astonished like what what
do you mean is what the course and Jesus
said I love you because that's what it
was all for all that taking down those
words all those
clarifying things and going back to
sentences where there was resistance and
getting it straight you know all that
was just a backdrop for I love you
that's the only thing that is important
not even the book itself was important
to Jesus it was the love I love you and
that's what we're being asked to accept
when we release the doer so today I
thought in a in a practical way what we
could talk about is as most people have
that question always the question comes
up how how do I undo the door here I've
got my pad and pencil ready you just
give me the formula and I will write it
down and I will follow the steps like a
good student and then at the end I'm
undone and you know we know that that
the undoing involves forgiveness but the
that has to be under the Holy Spirit's
guidance
you cannot take personal responsibility
for the the seeming journey you cannot
as a person direct the undoing because
the person is the doer why why would you
put the doer in charge of the undoing
that that's not doesn't sound very good
oh I don't like the warden in this
prison so I'm just gonna put all the
prisoners in charge of the prisoner okay
our first decision is let's unlock all
the doors and get out of here you know
you you can't look to the doer to do the
undoing you have to look to the Holy
Spirit and yet there is no formula so
it's not like you can be given a formula
you could be given the essence of of the
teachings which is what the course is
but then you have to apply it if the
practical application is what is needed
and Jesus even says that a theoretical
basis is helpful the text gives a
theoretical basis but it's in actually
doing the exercise
and experiencing that peace and
happiness that's where the undoing of
the doer occurs
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