Lesson 175
God is but Love, and therefore so am I.
(159) I give the miracles I have received.
God is but Love, and therefore so am I.
(160) I am at home. Fear is the stranger here.
God is but Love, and therefore so am I.
Journal
Fear is the hardest belief for me to give up. I have succeeded in giving up many forms of fear. For instance, I realize that my grandchildren are going to begin feeling very real effects from global warming and their children will truly suffer. I don’t know what to do about that except to keep trying to get someone who cares elected.
At one time this sort of thing scared me and I would be anxious every time I thought of it. Now, I do what I can to change this, but I am not afraid of it. The same thing is true about the possibility of Trump getting us into a nuclear war. I recognize the possibility and do what I can but I am not afraid of it.
But I am still afraid of heights and I still fear for my son. I even get fearful for my granddaughter who is a fearless little explorer. What I do know about fear is that it is not real. It is the effect of believing in separation. As long as I identify with my humanness, I will have fear, but that fear lessens as I remember who I am. It lessens daily now. One day, I will shoo that stranger out of my mind altogether.
Past Entry
Holy Spirit, how would you have me use this lesson today?
Holy Spirit: When you see some form of fear in your mind today, Myron, remind yourself that God loves you. He loves you with a love that is complete and unchanging, that is unaffected by your imaginings. He delights in you and all that you do. He doesn’t know judgment, only love. By using the ego’s fearful moments in this way you are allowing the root of fear to be shaken loose. Each time you do this, fear’s hold on you is permanently lessened.
Me: Of course. I see that when I try to avoid or change what seems to scare me I am just teaching myself that it is real and the cause of my fear. If I am worried about money then try to earn more to alleviate my worry, I have brought myself deeper into the illusion. I have caused myself to believe that the world is real and the cause of my concerns.
Holy Spirit: Yes, that is true. Fear found a place in your mind and the mind created images to explain the fear. The fear came first. The circumstances that you see with the body’s eyes are simply a reflection of this fear. All are within your mind; the fear, the story, the body that seems to be experiencing the story. Healing, therefore, must occur within the mind. Do not worship fear for it is a false god. Turn your back to it, and look toward your Creator Who is Love and does not offer fear. In this way are all fearful symbols relinquished for all time.
I had an evening awhile back where fear caught my attention and I let it consume me. But even then I asked for help and received it. When it happened again the next night, I caught it faster and let go faster. The next night the ego mind tried to engage me in that fear and I simply turned away from it out of disinterest. The Holy Spirit wants me to know this, to know that healing occurs in the mind and that I can trust that healing.
I had fear in my mind and projected it as a story in the life of Myron. I believed the fearful story, but instead of trying to change the story I asked that my mind be healed of this belief. Once done, the ego mind could no longer entangle me in that fear story. This happened pretty quickly for me because I have been doing this practice long enough that fear is not quite the hook it used to be.
Using this process in each fearful circumstance is helping me to undo the belief in fear itself. And that is how we undo the ego and this makes it possible for us to see what has been true all along. The fear stories are the illusion. The truth is that we are love. We are loved. We are perfect and perfectly innocent. We are safe in God.