My thoughts* on Workbook Lesson 284 for October 9, 2024. I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

* Ok, I am going to really put this into practice.

* It is difficult to be able to SEE all of the ego games that the wholly Spirit shows me. I know that they are NOT REAL but they still HURT and SEEM to do so much DAMAGE.

* I am going to let the wholly Spirit show me how to reside among those who choose to deny the existence of God or Christ at this time with compassion even while I must witness what I do so that I may TESTIFY that it is not REAL and does NO HARM.

1. Loss is not loss when properly perceived.

* In Father, ALL THINGS REAL are ours ETERNALLY.

²Pain is impossible.

* It was NOT created by Father.

³There is no grief with any cause at all.

* What appears to be taken is just smoke and mirrors. What appears to separate is only smoke and mirrors. Hmm.

⁴And suffering of any kind is nothing but a dream.

* I get the feeling that I might want to look at what I had thought of as ‘life’ in the past as a ‘dream in which I am lucid, or able to maneuver in.’ THAT REALLY RESONATES!

⁵This is the truth, at first to be but said and then repeated many times; and next to be accepted as but partly true, with many reservations.

⁶Then to be considered seriously more and more, and finally accepted as the truth.

* So, we can think of it as a process that the wholly Spirit will take us through.

⁷I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

* ‘To HURT’ is not an emotion I have to accept.

* debi, HEAR THIS.

* ‘To HURT’ is not an emotion I have to accept. And I already know it has no cause or reality.

* So, what if I looked at the hurt not as mine to process?

* Could it be ~ IF/WHEN hurt comes along, I will witness it, BUT NOT ALLOW IT TO DETERMINE what I do or how (or where) I live. because it occurs to me that the situation may be presenting itself so that ~ emotional release (from past generations, even, or other parts of the United Consciousness) can be expressed on this level that may have not been allowed in their lifetimes.

* I would NOT have to claim it as MY OWN at all! Regardless of how real the story appears to be for me personally.

* I will release it to Father by asking Mother Earth to absorb and neutralize it for me.

* This would be something that could become a ritual for me (you accept it only if it makes sense for you) during the New Moon and Full Moon cycles so that I might release hurts from whatever their source to be healed by Father’s Love in whatever manner is appropriate. This way I honor the emotions without attaching to them and allowing them to impact form from my place.

* Now, do not think I am ready to be an example of this in an intimate relationship; I suspect it does not belong there. In general, though, I will use this as a tool to allow me to help dissolve the dream while I RESIDE in Heaven with Father.

⁸And I would go beyond these words today, and past all reservations, and arrive at full acceptance of the truth in them.

* Again, from within the Atonement I understand that the pain-causing components of our stories are NOT REAL.

* From there, the stories can be given to the wholly Spirit for renewal and rebirth.

2. Father, what You have given cannot hurt, so grief and pain must

be impossible.

²Let me not fail to trust in You today, accepting but the joyous as Your gifts; accepting but the joyous as the truth.

* You may be inspired to different rituals or thought processes that allow you to release attachment to hurt. Listen to them, experiment, and do not hesitate or be afraid to change a pattern or habit as you outgrow it. Father Will Guide you through the wholly Spirit.

(ACIM, W-284.1:1–2:2)

Till next time, God bless, debi.