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The Garden-Now
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Joan Haber
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1/12/2009 10:40 AM
Good Morning!
Today’s lesson acknowledges the fact that these lessons may be upsetting us a little bit. (Is that an understatement?)  It is saying that not only have we created the world we see, but that what we are seeing is quite meaningless in itself.  Paragraph 5 is important in sorting out what this lesson is trying to explain to us. If the world is meaningless and actually a blank slate, why should this upset us? We could be “indescribably happy” if we just “let the truth be written upon it for you”. 
 
I think the answer to this paradox is that we feel that we need to control what is written upon the world. To insert our ego-driven intellect onto the blank piece of paper so that we gain some sort of recognition of our place in the world. We feel compelled to “do” something in order to be alive. 
 
I believe this lesson is just asking us to “let Go and let God” as the saying goes. Allow the truth of God to be written upon the world and then allow ourselves to see that truth and be “indescribably happy” with it. I am open to this today.

 

 Joan

Jerry Jordan
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1/12/2009 11:15 PM

If I truly accepted this world as meaningless, I would no longer be the self associated with the ego's thought system of separation and guilt. Thereby opening the way to allow the Atonement principle to become my only reality. This is the truth that would make me "indescribably happy". Unfortunately by continuing to identify with my special and separated self, I am continuing to choose not to be "indescribably happy". I guess being "right instead of happy" is more attractive to the ego. But I am very willing to let go of this today.

So far today, I think I have seen an angry world, a sad world, a depressed world, a decaying world, a funny world, a silly world, an impatient world, a loud world, a hungry world (just to name a few). But I am upset because I see a meaningless world.

Today, I really appreciate the words of understanding for my resistance at the end.

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