Ego - Friend or Foe? (You can make a copy by highlighting and copying to your files)

                                          A Spiritual Snippet

                       Ego – Friend or Foe?

          You’d be surprised! So, let’s unpack this surprising thought.

          Ego is the body’s Swiss Army Knife and ultimate survival tool.

Ego Fear looks for danger and prepares you for flight or fight.

Ego Guilt shows you the mistakes you made and need to correct.

Ego Anger is the explosive justification to change your world.

Here is the ego working hard as protector of the body.

But, here’s when ego the protector becomes ego the evil torturer:

Ego can only create thought loops.

When lost in the loop of fearful thoughts, anxiety paralyzes any successful production.

When lost in the loop of guilty thoughts, like a cancerous growth of unworthiness, it slowly eats you alive.

When lost in a loop of anger your poisonous thoughts of revenge end up destroying you.

Dark, this is really dark! Let’s get out of here.

Instead, you can just notice those red flags of ego’s guilt, fear and anger. STOP THERE before the loops drag you in. Immediately turn your mind to the quiet Inner Voice and allow a miraculous new perspective to swell up within you.

O.K. then. Fear, guilt and anger will happen but now you can use ego’s red flags as springboards to Inner Peace and receive the healing gifts Heaven offers.      

                                                        

Walking on Water?

       (You have permission to make a copy by just highlighting the words and copying to your files)

                                                   A Spiritual Snippet

Bette Jean Cundiff

          How come you aren’t walking on water yet after all you the hours spent studying your spiritual lessons and consistently practicing them for years?

          Ahhh, but wait. You are!

          Each time your rage cools to calm.

          Each time your fear turns to comfort.

          Each time your guilt transforms into insight.

          And each time all this opens compassionate understanding for others.

          Yes, each of these many times you have walked on the emotional waters of your mind. And you have accomplished these miracles instant by healing instant by holy instant.

          And what about all those in between instants when you kept sinking instead of walking? Not to worry, another holy instant is always right by your fingertips – a lifesaver thrown to you by the Love of the Universe – and it’s easy to grab when you ‘choose once again.’

And there you go gliding on top of the water. Glorious!

Special to Holy - a mini course - Chapter 10 Courtship, an oldie but a goodie!

 

COURTSHIP – AN OLDIE BUT GOODIE!

        Courtship is wonderfully romantic, old-fashioned, yet absolutely essential. Courtship is when you can spend thoroughly enjoyable days and evenings getting to know each other.  This is when it is appropriate to ask the following questions, and discuss the answers honestly and fully.

1.  Are you truly committed to fidelity?  Are you truly willing to be in a marriage mode rather than a dating mode, specifically with each other?

2.  Are your desires and goals, your philosophies and attitudes, your behaviors and methods aligned.  Do you really like and respect each other?  It’s not that you each must do everything perfectly.  It is important, however that you don’t drive each other crazy most of the time.  As you each stumble through life’s challenges, on the whole do you find each other charming rather than irritating?  Are you willing to watch with concern yet keep a respectful distance, then swell with pride at each other’s achievements?

3.  Are you sexually attracted to each other?  If you are committed and truly like and respect your partner then you can learn to grow into a loving and tender sexual relationship.  Are you willing to create this?

        If all the signals are a go, then courtship has done its job. Hand in hand you both are now ready to take the next step into a successful relationsh

Questions to Contemplate and Discuss

1.    If you are starting or wanting to start a new romantic relationship this is the section to study carefully. Review all three area carefully and fully.

2.   Are you already in a romantic relationship? Then review these three points and let them remind you need to keep it successful.

3.   Create a final prayer of commitment to holiness and the constant correction of specialness as it crops up.

 

Great! You are on your way to a truly happy, loving and yes, holy relationship.    

You have been called. . .and you have answered!

 

   Here’s a quote from ‘A Course in Miracles’. . .

                              ’“The host of God has called to you,

                         And you have heard.”

                            

And  now enjoy the introduction to. . .

“Sacred Steps A Program for Soul Progress”

 

Your steps continue on the pathway home.

No one comes this far without

an awareness of the journey he takes.

The years roll by.  Lifetimes unfold.

Opportunities present themselves again.

Each instant becomes another glorious lesson

filled with the learning of the ages,

reflecting the wisdom of eternity.

You have begun to open your eyes to the

wonder of your spiritual progress.

No more are you blind to the deeper purpose of life in this world.

But now a rich new meaning shapes every moment,

every action, every encounter.

You have been called. . .

And you have answered!

 

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For the whole Sacred Steps program see that and more on the left panel.

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