Only God's plan for salvation will work…
Thankfully and finally, I can say with honestly that this is the truth for me: I want no other and I have no other…
Each day and moment and holy instant within each moment I sing the prayer of gratitude for simple guide…
“What would you have me do?
Where would you have me go?
What would you have me say and to whom?”
The words of the prayer offered in this lesson have long been a beacon of light directing me back to right-mindedness, where hearing the voice for God could be available for present guidance.
Often, these simple, directive, words and my surrender into them in a holy instant of trust, have activated some ancient memory that I knew of ‘another way’; that somewhere, somehow, even if I couldn’t comprehend…
This Prayer has been a life-line coaxing me free when I have been immersed in petty personal designs on life. Yet, throughout all my little plans for salvation; nothing I had conspired could make me ‘feel better at the time’. This prayer would pull me out of that darkness into the light of hope.
“What would you have me do?
Where would you have me go?
What would you have me say and to whom?”
Salvation is NOW, it has already been accomplished and all apparent ‘time it takes’ to return to the memory of Him, turns out to be only lack of sincerity… Oh my, how invested is the self-concept in the competition game with God. Yes?
I have even used the ‘holy spirit’-concept (which is not actually Holy Spirit) to placate the self-concept I believed myself to be, rather than give-over to Love…This little tactic, I now refer to that as my ‘feel-better-so-I-can-control-better’ plan for salvation. Of course, I wasn’t in touch with it at the time, given that the purpose for the game is to render one mindless, alas… And as the Course says, “no goal survives its purpose.”
Joyously, gratefully, this hasn’t mattered a whit to God’s plan for salvation with the Holy Spirit as guide. The slightest instant of pure willingness on my part, and there, big as life, is the miracle. And with it all I once perceived shown before me, washed with the brilliant light of forgiveness.
The miracle waits on willingness not on time. And the Holy Spirit is always at-the-ready for the slightest invitation to fulfill His part in the glorious plan of Atonement. It’s like duh!, once you see it for what it is “ONLY GOD’S PLAN WORKS”, only God’s plan brings peace and happiness~ And, yet we persist in the seek-and-do-not-find game of winning over God… …as if… (silly ego).
Eventually, every silly, seemingly serious, problem we’ve dummied–up, when followed back to its logical conclusion, finds itself culminating in the big cosmic belly laugh… I just can’t take so-called problems all that seriously anymore… Now there’s a miracle!
… Love too, waits on welcome, not on time... Forgiveness is all there is left for us to dump all our little and seemingly huge concerns into, to allow the Holy Spirit to do for us through the miracle of Atonement, what we could never do for ourselves.
Our little part is our willingness to have our mind returned to love, setting our thinking aright. This allows us vision to see all things, people, situations and circumstances, in the light of forgiveness…
Today we take the leap of faith into trust; which allows us to rest a spell while our resistance is being dissolved… to trust our brothers are doing their part perfectly and that the One Who Knows is orchestrating and actually accomplishing it… ‘We’ need do nothing, except to channel all efforts into not interfering. (And to be honest, that’s pretty much a full time job).
Only God’s plan for salvation will work… It is at work…right here…right now… Can’t you just feel the peace that comes with this acknowledgement…?
“The Song of Prayer” says that the secret of true prayer is to forget the things you think you need and gift yourself over to the Holy Spirit…and here in this lesson is a template for that application in our lives, again:
…“What would you have me do…Where would you have me go…What would you have me say and to whom? …
… and off we go down the yellow brick rode together, as it folds back into nothing behind us through our forgiveness, hand in hand, through the ark of peace and the recognition of Heaven… right here…right now… united in purpose…
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