Lesson 307. Conflicting wishes cannot be my will.
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Lesson 307. Conflicting wishes cannot be my will.
Father, Your Will is mine, and only that. There is no other will for me to have.
Let me not try to make another will, for it is senseless and will cause me pain.
Your Will alone can bring me happiness, and only Yours exists. If I would have
what only You can give, I must accept Your Will for me, and enter into peace
where conflict is impossible, Your Son is one with You in being and in will, and
nothing contradicts the holy truth that I remain as You created me.
And with this prayer we enter silently into a state where conflict cannot come,
because we join our holy will with God's, in recognition that they are the same.
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Below, is from Kenneth Wapnick's commentaries on this lesson, from "Journey
Through the Workbook of A Course in Miracles," which can be purchased at the
following site: ~ M. Street.
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Lesson 307."Conflicting wishes cannot be my will."
*Being in a perpetual state of conflict is common to all of us. Part of us
recognizes our misery and wants to return home. As its students, we recognize in
A Course in Miracles our form of truth, and so we sincerely want to practice and
live it. <Yet we don't >. Thus the conflict within our split minds: one part
wants to return to our Self, while the other part -- usually out of awareness --
is terrified of losing its identity and being wrong.*
(1:1-3) "Father, Your Will is mine, and only that. There is no other will for me
to have. Let me not try to make another will, for it is senseless and will cause
me pain."
*We have seen how Jesus hopes to gain our allegiance through our selfishness. We
do not want to be unhappy, nor do we want to be in pain. He tells us that if we
let go of judgment and our stubborn insistence we are right, we will be happy.
"You do not think like that now," he tells us, "because you think you know
better than I. But your pain comes from thinking you have a will that is in
conflict with mine, and so you believe it is in conflict with God's." That
belief is how the separation began, and our acceptance of the Atonement -- "Your
Will is mine, and only that" -- is its end.*
(1:4-5) "Your Will alone can bring me happiness, and only Yours exists. If I
would have what only You can give, I must accept Your Will for me, and enter
into peace where conflict is impossible, Your Son is one with You in being and
in will, and nothing contradicts the holy truth that I remain as You created
me."
*Again, Jesus wants us to understand and accept that we can never be happy if we
are in conflict, believing that God (or any authority) is our enemy. Not only is
our will one with God's, it is also one with our brothers', since the one Will
of Heaven is our Self. Only through accepting our united mind will we find the
real pleasure of happiness, and peace, as this early statement from the text
explains:
"All real pleasure comes from doing God's Will. This is because not doing it
is a denial of Self. Denial of Self results in illusions, while correction of
the error brings release from it." (T-1.VII.1:4-6).*
(2) "And with this prayer we enter silently into a state where conflict cannot
come, because we join our holy will with God's, in recognition that they are the
same."
*The end of conflict is the acceptance of the unity of will -- Father and Son --
that undoes all thoughts of pain and suffering. Indeed, our prayer for this
silent state of peace is the only meaningful words we can utter, for there is
nothing else we need. Forgiveness is the means the Holy Spirit uses to answer
our prayer for help, by correcting our misperceptions of our brothers and
ourselves. This inevitably leads to the healing of the split mind through the
vision that reflects the Oneness of God and His Son.*
Love and Blessings,
Lyn Johnson 719-369-1822
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