Inspiration, by Emily
My lesson for today is Lesson 129, “Beyond this world there is a world I want.” It feels very fitting to where my mind is at in this moment. I feel a deep desire to give and my prayer to Spirit has been to show me how. I can see the temptation to try to achieve this in form. I have always looked for security in form, which was often accompanied by obsessive planning and wanting to be on top of things. There is the tendency to still want to do the same thing now but to try to put a spiritual twist on it. I asked Frances about this the other day, I said that I wanted there to be a shift in my...
Read MoreLeading, Following, Guidance and Honesty
Thoughts expressed at lunch: If you don’t feel confident to assert yourself in leading and in telling people, “This is how it is,” you will feel off, uninspired; you will have projections. When we are following we learn to relinquish our own judgment. We are here to learn to release the “I know” mind, which is competing with the Spirit’s Voice all the time. Now in a leadership role, it’s challenging because there will be a fear of delivering what you feel, especially when it seems there is no obedience. Are you to address it or not? How? All of you, see how much you can follow the person in...
Read MoreFirst Impressions at La Casa de Milagros, by Ross
How did I get here? I don’t know, really. It didn’t feel like a big choice or even a big deal. I was simply led along the way. There was some minor resistance from the ego-mind, lame little
Read MoreBe Authentic and Happy in the Undefined
Frances spoke with us at our Sunday gathering and we covered a lot of ground. Below are some of the thoughts Frances expressed. We think we can control the world, we want to fix things with glue so they won’t change. But to forgive is to unglue our judgments, our attack thoughts. If we don’t know who we are, how can we know what we want? We don’t know anything, so we can’t judge. Don’t draw any conclusions. Rather, can we withdraw our conclusions, the meaning we give to specific things? Let “undefined” be an experience, not another concept. You don’t know the larger context. Allow the bodily...
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