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August 08, 2018

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Drop all demands.
Serve God to the best of one's ability.

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I refuse to worry about anything

Today I affirm: I refuse to worry about anything. Nothing can affect me but my own thoughts, and I consciously reject all thoughts that do not arise from God, from love, from life, from trust, from faith, from confidence, from the Secret Place of the Most High, where all darkness is dispelled. I take any apparent darkness and bring it to the Secret Place, watching the light dissolve it into nothingness. It came from nothing and is returned to nothing, leaving not even a memory of its non-existence. That which does not exist, has never existed, and will never exist can never harm me. I believed momentarily in darkness, but the trick of the light has passed, and my error has been reversed. There is only Light, Life, Love, and Goodness. God is always with me, able and willing to direct everything I do, to control my affairs, and to lead me into the pathway of peace and happiness. I release all condemnation and animosity: God is Present in every person, drawing them to Him; I consciously u

The glass ceiling

I once knew someone who wanted to ‘sign up’ fully to religion was but was blocked by what he jocularly referred to as the ‘magic show’ of religion (essentially the notion of the existence and eternity of the soul or spirit as entities that pre-exist or at least exist without dependence on the material plus the notion of a God who intervenes via miracles, in the form of (a) the ‘major’ miracle-cycle of the incarnation and resurrection, (b) the ‘minor’ miracles of healing, the wedding at Cana, etc., and (c) the possibility of intercessory prayer activating actual intervention in the material world.) His view was that mind supervenes on the material, in other words that mind emerges from the physical body and dies with it, rather than consciousness operating through it . In other words, his view (if I may deprecate it) was that the radio programme [of consciousness] originates in the radio rather than being received through it: when the radio is destroyed, the broadcast is over.

Surrender of self-will

Surrender to God means surrender of self-will. This means that what I want is irrelevant. There is no ‘I’ to do the wanting. It means my needs are irrelevant to me. God satisfies them and gives me direction on what, if anything, I must do as part of His scheme. But such needs are not my business. I neither have boundaries nor lack boundaries. They’re not up to me. God tells me what to do and say. Some of those things might be construed by others as boundaries. But I needn’t concern myself with that. My life is not remotely mine. That’s the whole point of Step Three. It’s now God’s life, and I get given things to believe, think, say, and do. I’m the blank sheet of paper on which God writes. I cease to exist in the ordinary sense, as a drop of water in the ocean can no longer rightly be called a drop.

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