FREEDOM #4
Combined Lesson from 7/7 & 7/14 p. 148-155 The essence of freedom is the freedom to choose. So many of our choices are based on impulse or reaction, mental and behavioral “programed” responses that we inherited or cultivated ourselves for whatever reasons. One of the primary teachings here is to start being aware of when we are simply responding out of habit rather than free choice. In other words to make our freedom conscious. A lesson that is up for me as I am doing this work is that fear need not be confronted or challenged, simply recognized and then taken to prayer to be released. “Release me from this thought of fear, scarcity, separation and let me know that it is so.” “I am now choosing to experience myself as free.” It is only the mind that wants to make this complicated. “Now understand this: If you believe yourself to be handicapped, and we use that word in the broadest sense, you will be. But always, always, always...