For much of my life I was a grumbler, a complainer and my attention was on an endless stream of attack thoughts. It took me many years to realize that I was ruining my own life, and I finally made the decision to replace the grievances with appreciation.
Think of it like this: Imagine you’ve been deficit spending. Not just a little. You haven’t been living on a budget, and you’ve been spending more than you earn. You can feel it reverberating through your whole financial life. Distress. Pressure. Anxiety.
What would a masterful person do?
A masterful person would decrease spending and increase income to quickly bring down the debt and get back into balance.
The same is true spiritually.
We can increase our spiritual income of Love and Light by replacing the grumbles with expressions of Love. “All expressions of Love are maximal.”
If we’ve been investing in that which is degrading to ourselves and degrading to others, we can divest ourselves right now. We don’t have to stay invested in attack thoughts just because we’ve been there a long time.
Here’s the beauty of it:
Spirit is now. The healing is now.
We can divest ourselves of the attack thoughts. “I’m not good enough.” “You’re not good enough.” The whole catalog of cruelty we’ve been rehearsing for years.
And we can begin investing in something else. Right now.
Invest in:
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Patience
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Kindness
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The small, unnoticed acts of Love
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The refusal to attack ourselves
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The refusal to attack our brothers and sisters
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The commitment to see one another as holy
This is how we build the spiritual muscle. One small investment at a time. One refusal to attack. One choice for Peace.
The power of Love is beyond our ability to understand. It works miraculously. It doesn’t require time.
But sometimes it appears to require tremendous effort to put down the attack thoughts, simply because we’ve held them so closely for so long. We’ve literally allowed them to become part of our identity.
And that’s the illusion dissolving.
The illusion has no power. God is the only power.
Our true Self has no attack thoughts. Our true Self is Love, peace, and joy. Every time we invest in that, we’re returning to what’s real.
Every minute of our day can be a time of healing, if we allow it.
If you’re ready to divest from the old patterns and invest in your true Self, our FREE Living A Course in Miracles Program begins THIS THURSDAY, April 30!
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NEW PODCAST EPISODE: What Is Justice? I thought I knew what justice was. Then I sat with Chapter 19 of the Manual for Teachers, and the word stopped making sense. A Course in Miracles offers a definition of justice that has nothing to do with punishment, fairness, or getting even. What IS it, then? Why does forgiveness depend on it? What’s the one word we use without thinking that may be silently blocking every forgiveness attempt we’ve ever made? Listen with me on Episode 735.
