A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson #307
“Conflicting wishes cannot be my will.”
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| Marsha in Mad Hatter Ball Hat |
To be wide open, with no expectations, frees us in many ways. This state of Being opens us to the demonstration of the One absolute will. I'm reminded of an occasion where I really wanted to assert my own will. I was going about my business when the thought came to me, "Go to the Mad Hatter's Ball". Well, I didn't want to do this! I don't go to balls, I don't dress up in outrageous garb, and I most certainly don't pay cash money for doing what I don't want to do! A week or so later, (to my chagrin!) I was given two tickets to the ball. What am I going to wear? A stop by the Doggie Thrift Shop answers this question, and I leave with a wonderful hat, in a style I love, with crazy red polyester curls. So it seems as though I'm going, and at this point I acquiesce. And then while talking to someone in the post office about the event, the postal worker behind the counter tells me she's been working on a hat for three years and asks if I want to wear it. Perhaps, I tell her (as I'm already pretty attached to my hat with the red hair.) This is a long story to tell about a concept so simple that it requires no thought: Do whatever you hear/feel is the thing to be doing. There's no right or wrong with this yielding to intuition. I don't know why I needed to be at this event, but everything came together beautifully and I had a great time, and even won first prize in the wildest hat contest. Maybe I needed to be there to stretch my so-called comfort zone a bit. The possibilities are endless, and I don't have to know anything other than this: Thy will be done. And It is done.
Mary Baker Eddy quote:
“We cannot serve two masters nor perceive divine Science with the material senses.”
Science and Health Page 167:11-12
