Yes, it's progressively learning to open up and trust the Holy Spirit and
really what it's about, because it's not really about the car, but it's about
letting go of the self-concept.
You know for example, for human beings an identification with a car can be a security identification.
That's where the fear is coming in, but if the car starts to be choppy
and it has trouble driving and everything, and there's the threat of it breaking down,
then that's a security breach in the mind. Because
even though lesson 50 from the Course says "I am sustained by the love of God."
He said you, "In this world you believe you are sustained by everything else but the love of God."
Pills, money, protective clothing, being liked, knowing the right people.
He lists physical things, he lists psychological things.
He says "you really believe you're sustained by everything in the world but the love of God."
And yet the lesson is always taking us in to, starting to trust more.
Like we have a friend, Lisa who's in Hawaii now and oh, for many many years Lisa's
always used to having a car, to go out with the keys, hop in and start the car and drive where she wants to.
A symbol of freedom.
A symbol of security.
You know there could be a number of things that the car is part of the self-concept image that seems to provide.
Recently she's had an experience where she's been in Hawaii with no car,
and fear started to come up, just like for you the choppy
car started to bring out fear, well fear started to come up for Lisa as well around not having this car.
And I talked to her about a week or two ago and
she was in this house,
with no car and she was just meditating and the spirit
said "go to Pahoa," which is this town.
And so she started walking towards the main road and
it was very strong, she was to do that and
she's had now a series of
hitch hiking experiences, something she's never done in her life.
But she's had a series without a car of the Spirit telling her exactly
where to go, when to go and she keeps getting picked up
and given rides by David characters.
She said every time she gets the car, it's David.
Then the next one's David the next one's David, so she told me recently that she was guided, go to the road
and she put her thumb out, this man was between 60 and 70 years old.
How often do you find people that between 60 and 70 will pick up a hitchhiker, picked her up, his name was David again.
And he said, when she got in the car, have you ever heard of quantum physics? He said.
She said yeah, yeah,
I love quantum physics and
proceeded the whole drive to tell her that there's a quantum shift going on and that she better really be open
to be very flexible, but to really hang in there, to
stay with what is, to stay in the moment.
That the only way that she would survive the quantum shift of what's happening is to stay in the moment.
in to this Pahoa town, where she was guided to go, she sat there, talked to the people at the store, finally
she felt she was to go back.
She asked if anybody at the store was going back her way and she was given two,
two rides back, all the way to her door, all the way, the hitchhiker.
She hitchhiked all the way to the door, she didn't even have to walk on the way back.
Two rides and she said, of the guy that picked her up and asked her, 'David,' about the quantum shift
and if she knew about quantum physics.
She was only standing on the road for two minutes, with her thumb out.
And all of that was teaching her, 'I am with you, I am with you always'
and 'you need not be afraid.'
You know it was just symbols the Holy Spirit was using to teach her that she could be perfectly peaceful and joyful and happy, without a car.
Without a car handy, without that set of keys hanging
right there that she could always just grab.
It was just another step in divine providence really, showing
'you're safe, your safety and security does not rely on that car or on the car starting or even if there is a car or not.'
And so, that's what's happening and really, you know
once you start to realize that that's the lesson then you start to just be open
to whatever comes and you start to pay close attention to your emotions.
So if fear is coming up, then there's something important to look at with the Holy Spirit.
And that's when you want to just go into prayer and not right away
be so concerned about the car, but say what is the deeper lesson here.
Because I want to like, sell the car and buy a new car
or don't have a car at all go by bus, because that's sure.
So that's not the solution then?
No, if you want to go to the Svenson family solution, you should get a new Volvo.
But the Holy Spirit would rather have peace of mind instead of being the Svenson family, being the Spirit's family.
Thank you.