Have you ever tried to “choose love” and felt that doing so was extremely difficult? This may be a sign that you are trying to choose love from within the ego thought system. For YEARS I would ignore the many prompts in A Course in Miracles that ask us to step out of the way of Spirit by allowing Spirit to choose for Love FOR us. Choosing Love is easy when our Right Mind is doing the choosing.
In this video, I share some reminders and some quotes from the Course on how you can let Spirit choose for Love FOR you. If this video resonates with you, let me know by leaving a comment below!
Fabulous teaching, Corinne! So simple, but, oh, how we forget and try, try, try!
The very message I needed to hear today, thanks so much
Sue
Thanks Sue! So glad it was helpful xo
Oh my! Yes! Whenever I tried to fix things myself, It always ended in failure! Asking the Holy Spirit to show me another way was that little bit of willingness that let some light in and set things in motion. Giving up control and allowing myself to fall into the arms of the unknown, so to speak, was so difficult for me to do in the beginning but with every little miracle that happened as a result, my Faith increased! I never had to worry anymore,
Great post!
God Bless you, my friend!
Bob
This is beautiful, Bob! It is so wonderful how we’re not asked to have “blind faith” in anything… when we work these principles the miracles build our Trust FOR us. Yay! 🙂
I have a severe anxiety disorder. I have to honestly say that when people say to choose love instead of fear, I am totally bewildered. When I’m anxious how do I choose love instead of fear? I really don’t understand it at all and am hoping someone can tell me what this means and how to do it. How do I turn my fear of going to the grocery store because I might have a panic attack (yes, I’m partially agoraphobic) into love, for example? Thanks.
Hi Sheila! You’re asking a FABULOUS question. When you’re anxious, “choosing love” simply means that you tap into your feeling of willingness to see the situation differently. You can then offer your willingness to your Inner Teacher, asking for the miracle (the shift in perception) instead. The miracle is always LOVE shining through. As I mention in the video, we alone cannot “choose love” but there is something IN us that CAN.
So with your grocery store example, can you find willingness within yourself to see your relationship to the grocery store differently? Once you connect with your willingness, offer that to your Inner Teacher (simply by saying something like, “Here’s my willingness! I need help!”). Another way of thinking about it is by saying “I am willing to see witnesses for LOVE instead of witnesses for fear.” Does that help a little? xo
Thank you so much for your answer. It will certainly give me something to think about and grow towards. Thanks again.xo
Shelia and Corrine,
Thank-you Corrine for your sharing, Shelia, I have suffered through my entire life since I had memory of always trying to get past the fear that agoraphobia seems to inflict upon me at times. Sometimes I am free of it other times I am paralyzed by it. Course has taught me how to set the goal to attain peace and love of self to get through those time.Just to get a little technical and detailed..this is what I do. I take a deep breath, ask Holy Spirit to bring me to present moment. Breathe in the present moment. That brings me out of projecting fear of future encounters all based on past fears and encounters that others are judging me and seeing me as I see myself as inadequate . Like Corrine said, I ask the Holy Spirit to do for me what I have not been able to do for myself, Ask Him to help me see His will for me. His will is for me is to see myself as enough to get past this moment (Love of self), right at this moment , Realize “Now ” is all there is. Stay in the present., and help me have peace of mind (Love) as my goal. If I keep peace and happiness as my goal I make little shifts ,back to peace/happy as a venture out. Taking that breath to get to being in the present with Spirit. I can be so full of self judgement, a losing script, as I will beat myself up for being anxious and fearful and surrendering to hiding and isolating and not venturing out, then when I ventured out I would again beat my self up for being afraid and anxious when I did get courage to step out. It was a no win situation for me. I was always going to beat myself up either way. I could not ever get to peace and acceptance with that thought process when I surrender my will to EGO, my “painbody” and take my direction from when “it” and go to that fearful place. Redirecting to Spirit for me has to be a conscious present thought and relinquishing the power that I give to ego and consciously surrendering to Spirit and believing Spirits direction. Hope that helps.
What a lovely and loving reminder ! Thank you !
It actually corresponds to the ”3-step proces of true forgiveness”: I’ve lost my peace/love, therefore I must have chosen wrongly – and give it to the Holy Spirit – so that it can be replaced…
Love and peace !
Hi Bente! Yes! You’re spot on! “Choosing love” and true forgiveness are actually the same thing 🙂
Beautiful message, Corinne! Thank you. ♡ Glad I chose to listen while having lunch. 🙂 I especially appreciated your re-reading with the term Spirit, encouraging me to get past that pronoun that often makes me uncomfortable. ♡
Thank you Julia! I’m so glad re-reading them with the word “Spirit” was helpful. xo
Hi Corrine. This spoke to my heart as I need to remember to listen to the voice within and get myself out of the way. Thank you for the words.