August 31, 2021
Lesson 243 –
Today I will judge nothing that occurs.
Perhaps today I can release my tendency to label everything that occurs “good”, “OK”, or “bad.” Everything that occurs just happens. I don’t need to invest in each and every occurrence. When I invest and judge I am perceiving something as separate from me. Everything I think about these occurrences is one of my thoughts that I project on that occurrence. I can let go of any need I feel to control a world that is beyond my control. But, I can control my own thoughts. And when my thoughts are mistaken, I can change them. I can accept Spirit’s guidance in how I [perceive the world’s occurrences.
I will be honest with myself today. I will not think that I already know what must remain beyond my present grasp. I will not think I understand the whole from bits of my perception, which are all that I can see. Today I recognize that this is so. And so I am relieved of judgments that I cannot make. Thus do I free myself and what I look upon, to be in peace as Source created us. W-pII.243.1:1-5
What do we feel as we look upon the world’s occurrences? If we do not feel peace within, we are using our egoic thought system to perceive them. We have the opportunity to change the source of our thoughts to our One Mind to which Spirit will guide us. One Mind is our natural state of being. We share Mind with Source and all of Creation, all that is real and holy and eternal.
In this shift we find our freedom. We find release from the stress and turmoil in which the world seems to engage us. Wouldn’t we rather experience a world of love, peace, and joy? Believe it or not, it is our choice to experience just that. This experience is there lying just beyond the chaotic world we think we see. The only block to our awareness is a mist, a fog, a veil we have allowed our egoic thought system to place between our mind, our perception and reality. The reality of creation is holy, filled with love and joy and peace. We can begin to step into the awareness of this reality by accepting the higher guidance of our higher Mind and Spirit as we allow the holy shift in our perception. The appearance of the world will change and our actions in it will be revealed. Let go of all judgement and set up the conditions that will let this shift happen. This lesson gives us this prayer to help us whenever we need to re-shift our thoughts or realign our thought system.
Source, today I leave creation free to be itself. I honor all its parts, in which I am included. We are one because each part contains Your memory, and truth must shine in all of us as one. W-pII.243.2:1-3
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