Day Sixteen: Paradise Re-Found

“When you feel an ‘intuition’ you respond differently than you do to unwanted feelings that you are quick to want to ‘do something’ about.  If all feelings were treated more like intuition is treated–with a ‘knowing’ that the feeling has come to tell you something that is as yet unknown to you, but nevertheless for your benefit, you would go a long way toward acceptance.  (A Course of Love:  Dialogues)”

Affirmation:  “May I treat all feelings more like intuition–with ‘knowing’.”

Reflections:

We need to accept all feelings, even those that seem borne of fear rather than love.  By so doing, we encompass all feelings with the spacious Self of Christ-consciousness, and the fear, held within the love, is dissipated.

Illness is a form of rejected feelings.  When sickness comes upon us, we are likely to try to reject it as an unwanted intrusion into our world.  But we must hold within ourselves these feelings, knowing that illness is a form of external searching.  When we accept all feelings, whether of loneliness or despair, anger or grief, we join with the spacious Self.
When we live in the present, we are accepting of all feelings by living the Christ-consciousness that we have all so desired to call our own.

Paradise is re-found when the fear that had been expelled is welcomed back by the embrace of love.  No feelings are bad; all are to be accepted, and kept if we deem them good and “loved” into a better feeling if we deem them bad.  The rejection of fear thoughts helped to create the hell that overcame our world.  Welcoming back the fear thoughts, while encompassing them always within love thoughts, will lead us back to paradise.

Prayer:

Dear Father/Mother,

May I come to understand my feelings in the same way that I have, over the years, come to accept intuition as valid guidance.  May I come to understand and to act on what my feelings are telling me, but only if they are loving feelings for my brothers and sisters.

May I encompass fear with love, rejecting nothing, because rejection will only act as a force field to make the fear stronger.  Thank You for these thoughts by Jesus for this day.

Amen.

ACIM Workbook Lesson for Day 109:

I rest in God.