The Happy Learner
Several times this past week I’ve experienced some of the deepest feelings of peace I’ve ever known.
Each experience had one thing in common: it came when I clearly saw myself as a student, with Jesus as my teacher, and the world as my classroom. When I take that mentality into every single moment, situation and event – when I ask, ‘How would you have me see this, Jesus? And this? And this?’ – I feel His love wrapped all around me like a soft, soothing blanket.
We do not learn the Course in a vacuum. It is a self-study course, but if you do the Course on your own, as an intellectual and ’spiritual’ undertaking, you’re missing the whole point. Jesus is the point. He is the miracle. Without Him, it is nothing, and becomes just another ego course. Jesus gives it its spirituality. And it is His Spirit that heals us.
The methodology is simple, but not easy. We are healed when we resign as our own teacher and invite His perception into our mind in exchange for our self-taught fearful perceptions. As we do this, His Holy perception gently flows across our mind like a cool mist in a long parched desert. This is the course in its entirety. His loving perception offers us everything.
Our only job is to humbly allow him His rightful place as our Teacher.
July 8th, 2009 at 7:16 pm
What a wonderful bedtime story for me after hanging out in the foyer all day long trying not to hear Ken’s “hungry dogs of fear” stories you relate so well. (No wonder you evacuated. I mean the room.) It’s tough for me to read my computer from out in my foyer, but I found a way.
Thanks for the breather (even though written 3.5 years ago), it’s very nice, and very loving.
July 8th, 2009 at 10:59 pm
Debbi – Thank you for commenting on this post. I love it when old posts resurface through someone else reading it, and I am brought back to the experience I had on my first reading, though with new eyes. I agree with you, this is a very loving and helpful post.
July 9th, 2009 at 10:23 am
Thank you Debbi and Meredith for your comments that guided me to this beautiful post. The sentence “Our only job is to humbly allow him His rightful place as our Teacher”, really touched me. We are always trying to do things on our own. This remarkable post reminds us of our only job, a shared job, no more a job of our own.
January 22nd, 2010 at 4:04 pm
Thank you, Monk, for everything that you do here… this post continues to be one of my favorites and really touches me every time I read it…
I love you,
Mother