You can just sink into that realization. It's like a little voice in mind that whispers you
don't have
to even lift a finger.
There are no have to's.
There are no times where God's inside saying you must,
you must, you must.
You don't have to lift a finger.
He says, I need to do nothing. He means, I need
do nothing. No doing
ever has to come out of a sense of need.
If you're done through,
hmm,
by the Spirit, what could be easier than that?
You don't think the Spirit does it through you out of need?
What does the Spirit need? Nothing. That's the
message of, you don't have to lift even a baby finger.
It's an acceptance and
the doer,
is not in line with that simple
acceptance.
Grace is that it's already done.
Grace is a free gift. Free. Free.
No cost. In a practical way, where is this all heading? It's just heading to you,
being the real you, in this moment. Being
spontaneous.
Having a spontaneous life.
Mm-hmm that sounds pretty good.
Instead of a rigid, ritualistic,
segmented, structured,
planned out
life. Just spontaneous.
You can start to feel the energy of that.
Hmm..
If I started to suspend
all of those future plans for a moment, just suspend them. Say, okay, all right God all right
Holy Spirit, I'll give you a crack there. I'll give you a shot. Show me what you got.
I'll suspend my future beliefs for
a moment here and you show me
what it is. So, we follow guidance and prompts.
Coming in to arrange your flights, and they're already
arranged,
better,
cheaper.
Jesus says in the course, your problem is you still
believe that you can can control some aspects of your life.
That's the problem. Some aspects, some aspects. You could say, I surrender them to you Lord.
I don't care what the outcome is. I give it over.
You decide for me. Holy Spirit, decide for God for me. Give it over. Then the belief that there's certain
aspects that need to be controlled personally, individually.
Oh the Holy Spirit is too busy, he can't take care of
certain things. I can take care of those things individually. That's where the stuck point is.
Where you think there's some aspects.
You see that a lot, where people seem to go through a period of relinquishment. They let go of
certain kind of control. Here, here, here, here.
But
maybe
they
want to keep control of the bank account. Or maybe they want to keep control of the body image.
The body's weight.
When they've done studies of anorexia and bulimia,
and
researched it over, and over, and over, what they find when the researchers go deep enough underneath,
the anorexia and the bulimia guess what it is?
Control.
The people that go through anorexia and bulimia issues around their body weight,
they feel like a lack of control
in their life and
they're going to be damned if they're not going to control some aspect of the world.
They may not feel like they can control their parents, the society, their life circumstances.
They may feel like a victim of the world in all aspects,
but they're damned if they're not going to control the weight.
Therefore, the bulimia, the overeating, or the anorexia, the refusal to eat....
That's what the research shows,
is there's a control issue going on underneath
the surface issues, whatever the surface issues seem to be.
That's what Jesus calls an authority problem, it's a control issue.
Can I make myself the way I want to be, any way I want to be, or was I created by God, perfect?
Hmmmm
You start to realize it
can't be both. If you don't accept the perfection of your spiritual creation, then that sends you off into time
trying to do a better job than God.
Make myself black, white, tall, short, fat, skinny.
When the mind starts to let go, and let go, and let go of a lot of aspects of
this control, it still wants to maintain a sense of control because it wants to maintain a sense of
identity,
individuality.
There's no control in an abstraction.
l used anorexia and bulimia, but another one is smoking. When they do studies
on smoking and all the different aspects when they go down, and I've had this conversation many times.
People start to let go, and relinquish relinquish, relinquish control of many many aspects of what seems to be their life in this world.
That cigarette...
Is like I'll be damned if
I don't have control over smoking. I'll choose whether to smoke or not.
They can call it whatever they want. It's not really the nicotine.
The nicotine really isn't
the addiction. It's a
control
underneath in the subconscious mind,
wanting to be in charge of identity. That's where the issue is.
This whole spiritual journey gives you the chance to
let go, let go, let go of the control.
Then an example is to watch how beautifully,
supremely,
supremely taken care of you are.
Supremely taken care of. Not,
okay, I'll get by. I'll get by with a little help from my friends, but we're talking supremely taken care of.
If that is your only goal in life is to
be the peace of God, to be the light of the world, to shine the light, you will experience a sense of everything
being taken care of.
Jesus says that in the course, not one seeming difficulty, but will melt away before you reach it. That's
pretty well taken care of, before you reach it.
That's the end of problem solving. You relinquish the control, and then you receive the grace.
The prayer of your heart is to
be happy, really truly happy. Not happy because of circumstances or outcomes.
Which is just the ego's trick and those things pass away. That's not true happiness at all. It's here and gone.
Like the Sun,
burning away the
dew and the mist. That's so fleeting. I mean to truly pray for happiness is to really become
accepting. To become
desireless. You open your mind to grace and contentment and then
that's the answer. That's the answer to everything.
It's very subtle on a spiritual journey because you take steps
and you start to feel that
care there, and the ego can't stand that.
That you absolutely have to do nothing and you're completely taken care of you. The ego cannot stand it.
The ego always comes in with you gotta work
for it.
Work, work, work, work, work.
There's no work in heaven. Why do you think the forgiven world would be work? So, when you
get into that ease,
with just being taken care of, being taken care of.
Well it can feel...
It feels a little more surreal when you get into that trust. It feels more like a fairy tale.
Remember when we would always read the fairy tales?
You never hear the concerns in the fairy tale.
Did you lock the door? How many times do you hear that in a fairy tale?
Right
in the middle of the dialogue of the fairy tale,
Did you did you remember to turn the light off?
Or did you remember to clean the kitchen?
Or you know all the little hundreds of little
worrisome,
little
niggling thoughts. They're never in fairy tales. Fairy tales don't have those. They're eliminated from the fairy tales.
In one sense, that's what happens. The more trusting you become in
divine providence and divine grace, then your life seems more like a fairy tale.
It can seem to some, unbelievable.
That's no life, you tell your life story, that's a fairy tale.
Thank you, yes, it does feel like that.
Fairy tales, can come true, it can happen to you.
I'm talking about fairy tales.
It's funny, that which seems the most impractical to the world, ends up being the most practical.
Ease... Who ever told you that your life experience could be ease...
Divine ease...