If you ask me, we all came into this human experience with a false belief system that we’re intending to heal, therefore, everything in our life serves that holy purpose serves a holy purpose. I think we all come in with this intention – to heal the mind, and to be of service.
A Course in Miracles tells us we’re here “only to be truly helpful.”
We bought into that belief system in a past incarnation, and this lifetime we’re going to heal it. So, we literally have a script of our life. It’s very complex, and it’s laid out in front of us to assist us in doing that deep, deep healing and to have a holy relationship. Which means things are going to come up that seem like a betrayal. That seem like a terrible hurt or a terrible disappointment.
And then we have a choice. We can increase that belief in separation, increase that judgment, increase that whole belief system of the ego.
Or we have the chance. The opportunity. The Divine Appointment. To forgive.
Here’s the passage I go to, and we all quote it so often. It’s Lesson 135, Paragraph 18.
“What could you not accept, if you but knew that everything that happens, all events, past, present and to come, are gently planned by One Whose only purpose is your good?”
That means the seeming betrayal you might be struggling to forgive was gently planned by One Whose only interest was your good.
Doesn’t it stand to reason, then, that encoded into that betrayal experience is some benefit to you Something that waters that Wisdom seed in your heart? Some Divine Opportunity?
If you reject the experience, and you say in your mind, “That should not have happened. That should not have happened to me. I should not have done that to them. I should not have done that to myself” then something happens.
If there’s any kind of a should in there such as: That should not have happened. That was wrong and bad. And you hold to that opinion and that judgment.
You’re literally holding at bay the good that was encoded into that experience for you. You’re holding at bay the learning. You’re holding back.
You’re refusing to accept all the benefits that were gently planned into that experience for you to harvest for your awakening.
As long as we don’t fully forgive, as long as we hold on to any judgments, opinions, or beliefs about what something was for, that it shouldn’t have happened, we’re putting our judgments and opinions on it. And we can’t harvest the learning that’s encoded into it. We’re literally refusing it. Then what has to happen in our life?
We have to recreate a kind of experience like that in order to possibly accept the learning from that experience.
And it goes on, and on, and on.
This is why so many people repeat the same kind of experiences with greater and greater intensity. Because they’re refusing to release their judgments and opinions. That shouldn’t have happened to me. I shouldn’t have done that.
We just completely drag out our suffering, endlessly.
That’s the mechanism. That’s it, right there.
If you hold those situations in resentment, and regret, and blame, and unforgiveness, then you can’t harvest the Wisdom that was encoded into them, and so you’re literally doomed to repeat them.
But here’s the good news, and it’s very good news.
As spiritual beings, we have the ability, we have the power, to work in the invisible and to shift that script. To turn it on a dime, as they say.
It’s just our decision.
We don’t know how to heal these experiences. What we do as spiritual students is we learn to allow them. We learn to allow our healing.
There’s so much healing available for us if we’re willing to learn to allow it and stop trying to figure out how to make it happen.
We can stop trying to enforce our opinions, judgments and beliefs on everyone.
We can stop telling everyone what they did to us.
Instead we can move into that place of connection with the One Who gently planned that experience for our good.
When we’re willing to connect with that One, so much healing is possible. Here’s my invitation to you today. Get really clear on this one thing:
What are your judgments about that experience that still bothers you?
And then, as a gift to yourself, would you be willing to give them to the Higher Holy Spirit Self for healing?
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After the storm there’s a clearing, and we can find the treasure at the end of the rainbow.
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