One of the most relentless tricks of the ego is that we’re constantly tempted to jump off of our spiritual seat for fixing the world – managing and coping with situations – rather than remembering our divinity, our true identity and holding in our mind what we’d like rather than what we don’t like.

I talk with spiritual students every day of the week, and many times I get to talk with people who are feeling threatened or triggered by something.

We’re never upset for the reason we think, and we think that we know that’s true, but we still forget, and believe we’re upset about the world.

I trained myself to say things like, “I’m not upset because I drove all the way to the store and the store’s closed.  I’m upset because of the meaning I’ve made of it and I can let that go because if it were true it would be liberating.  Because it’s upsetting me it has to be false and I just don’t need to deal in those old stories anymore.  Something great is happening and I’m not going to get in the way of it by thinking this should be different.  I’d rather see the perfection and enjoy my blessings.  Grateful to God today!”

Honestly, I just got so tired of being upset all the time.  The more I learned about prayer and was prayerful, the more I was interested in the truth, the less distracted I was by the stories the ego can spew.

One of the smartest decisions I ever made was to decide I was on a path of awakening.

I decided to be willing to put my focus on awakening rather than trying to solve my problems or to get somewhere.

Here’s why I made that decision:

👉🏻 I did the math.

If I awaken to the Christ,

it solves all my problems.

ALL problems disappear.  Done.

I’m free AND I can bring benefit to everyone everywhere all of the time.

If I work on solving my problems, I might solve some of them some of the time, but it’s an endless game of whack-a-mole, and I don’t like anything about that game at all.  It feels pointless.

Setting my sights on awakening felt like hitting a home run even when I wasn’t winning at all and I felt like I was a LONG way away from being close to winning.  

I decided it didn’t matter how long it took.

I just wanted to walk in that direction because every day I would be able to feel good about where I was headed even if I didn’t feel good about anything else.

Awakening does solve everything.

Why let ourselves be distracted and detoured any longer?

It can be challenging to hold focus.

It can be very, VERY challenging.

But, you know what?

The challenges build skills.

And then, when your mind finally relents and changes, everything, EVERYTHING gets a whole lot better and stays that way.  So, it keeps you on the path in a good way – pulled by the vision instead of pushed by the pain.

And so that’s why it was the best decision I ever made – and it gets better every day.  No lie.  It really does.  It just feels so good not to be wasting my time anymore.

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LATEST ACIM PODCAST EPISODE: my topic is Worry Less with ACIM. Things are so insane in the world right now that it has a lot of people worried. ACIM has clear practices that assist us in eliminating worry by addressing the root causes. In this episode, I share from the ACIM Workbook and how to apply the lessons so that worry is dissolved at the level of cause. Now’s the time of our awakening and when we put our awakening first, we’re on the fastest path to eliminating suffering in our lives. Worry is optional, suffering is optional, Love is not.