Anytime we exclude anyone in the Kingdom – any part of the Kingdom from ourselves – we move into separation thinking. Our mind splits. We can’t perceive the fullness of God as our life and being and then …
We have no Joy.
Judgment is a joy killer. Complaining is a joy killer. We know this. But here’s what doesn’t get said often enough, and it’s been so helpful to me to understand:
I didn’t used to feel worthy of Joy. I thought Joy was impossible for me.
That was one of the main thoughts I had all the time. “This stuff works for other people, but it doesn’t work for me – because I am fundamentally bad. I’m not a good person. I can do good things, but that will not make me good.”
A Course in Miracles Chapter 7 tells us: “Exclude any part of the Kingdom from yourself and you are not whole. A split mind cannot perceive its fullness and needs the miracle of its Wholeness to dawn upon it and heal it.”
That fundamental misperception – that I’m basically bad – kept a split mind going. Think of a frozen yogurt store. We’re not going to go there at 5 a.m. on a Sunday morning because we know it’s closed. It’s never going to be open then. We just don’t go there.
That’s how I felt about Joy. I didn’t go there – not even to the possibility that I could have it. I didn’t think about really giving up complaining. I didn’t think about really stopping the judgment.
I condemned myself to that suffering. Nobody else did. I did.
Every day, my Higher Holy Spirit Self was trying to liberate me, saying, “That’s just not true.” But I wasn’t listening – because that message didn’t agree with what I believed.
I had to be willing to give up that belief. To come to the place where I felt worthy of Joy.
That’s when everything shifted.
If the judgments we’re carrying – especially about ourselves and our family – are blocking our Joy, my Family Liberation Deep Dive Workshop on Saturday, June 13 is a powerful space to release the judgments and reclaim the Joy that’s already ours.
FREE Forgiveness Workshops in June – we have 2 on Father’s Day weekend – Saturday and Sunday June 20 and 21. All are welcome! Let’s clear out the past so the Love can flow! These will be deeply healing. Click here to learn more and register for 1 or both.
Quantum Counseling Training Intensive in July – Registration is OPEN! If you have an interest in training to be a spiritual counselor or simply doing some dealing work to open up your intuition and improve your relationships, I’ve been offering a professional training intensive for the last 15 years. This year we’re doing the training intensive – open to anyone whether or not you have any interest in becoming a counselor – the Quantum Counseling Training Intensive in Asheville NC Sunday, July 12th to Saturday, July 18th with Jennifer Hadley and Mark Anthony Lord, as well as Guest Teachers Alan Cohen, Jon Mundy and Lisa Natoli joining us online – we’re finalizing the Resort Hotel details, and if you’d like to be notified as soon as registration opens so you can qualify for early-bird bonuses please click here now.
NEW PODCAST EPISODE: Lisa Natoli: Joy of Being. For so many years, I lived as if joy was something I’d feel later, once the body cooperated, once the relationships settled, once the world looked safer. Many of us have. My friend Lisa Natoli, who you may know as a teacher of A Course in Miracles, just released a beautiful new book called The Joy of Being, and we sat down this week to talk about what she discovered while she was still very sick. What if we’ve all been waiting for something we already are?
