Love holds no grievances!

A Course in Miracles says in Lesson 68, “Love holds no grievances.” And adds: “To hold grievance is to let the ego rule your mind.” Later:

“Perhaps you do not yet fully realize just what holding grievances does to your mind. It seems to split you off from your source and make you unlike him.”

And later “When I let all my grievances go I know I am perfectly safe.”

I love letting go grievances yet they can come back to haunt me and I have further work to do!

When religion has become an ideology, when men use and abuse scripture to have power over human beings, they inflict great pain by denying sensual pleasure through our animalistic bodies. I suggest, if you repress the energy of love, love will become abusive and addictive.

So I invite you to listen to your body and the wonderful animalistic virtues it has—like I did with Freddy the Dolphin.

However, we need to experience this inner body that is eternal. Your love, together with the divine love, is going to lift you up.

I am playing “Love Is Going To Lift You Up” by Bobby Womack.

This reminds me of “The Smuggler,” a story of the obvious—yet so unseen—just like how doctors or so-called experts are not prepared to see the connection between mind, body, and soul!

The Smuggler

Every day, Mustafa took his straw-laden donkey across the border. But one day, he was stopped by a customs officer, who eyed him suspiciously.

“What have you got in that straw?” he asked. “Are you carrying any contraband goods across the border? If you are, you’ll have to pay a fee.”

“Look for yourself,” replied Mustafa. “I’m hiding nothing!” The customs officer poked about and found nothing.

This went on, day after day. Sometimes he would look in the donkey’s mouth, even under the tail! Nevertheless, the customs officer vowed he would never stop searching.

This went on for ten years, and the customs officer retired. However, the ex-officer thought one day he might have been smuggling gold dust in the donkey’s fur.

One day he was walking through the market and he saw a familiar face. It was Mustafa without his donkey. “Hey you! Come here! Aren’t you are the man with the donkey laden with straw?”

“Yes I am,” replied Mustafa.

“And you were smuggling weren’t you? I am convinced you were. I searched you every day but I couldn’t find anything, because you were very crafty. But you can tell me now. Were you smuggling?”

“Yes I was!”

“I knew it! What were you smuggling?”

“Donkeys!” said Mustafa with a big smile.

What negative thoughts do we smuggle into our beautiful minds, bodies, and souls? Our bodies never lie. We, in our minds, lie to it. Then we wonder why we are full of fear and dis-ease!

My love to you!

Choosing beliefs that truly support you.

Choose beliefs that support you, including beliefs about God

Here is a very important suggestion from Louise Hay: “Get a concept of God that supports you!”

I love this thought. My religious upbringing did give me one benefit—it got me out of the house on Sundays, for peace. My parents came once to church; they thought it would be good for us children to go to church and have a religious education!

My spiritual journey has, at times, been very disciplined. And then it waned, as I felt there was always basic criticism and fear at the heart of religion. In my opinion, fear based religion develops from the reaction of souls who have not learned to love themselves! (That could start a conversation!) I could not cope with feelings of being so wrong and guilt ridden when I came out of church services.

As a counselor, I listened to so many stories of adults having been sexually or spiritually abused in so-called religious families as children. I could not match what Jesus said with what came out of the mouths of “often angry pulpit priests” (whose own childhood was very suspect) and what truly was going on in reality. The Roman Catholic Church is facing a deep truth about the celibacy of their priests leading to sexual and emotional abuse. Please hear me: I am not against religion; yet I do feel each of us is naturally highly spiritual, and we don’t need an “expert” middleman or woman. Enough said.

The Sailor and the Teacher

Ayra earned his living by taking people on short boat trips. He came from a nautical family, and although he’d never had any formal education, he had learned all about sailing from his father and grandfather.

One day a schoolteacher, who fancied a few hours at sea in order to rest from the rigors of the classroom, hired him. He’d not been on Ayra’s boat long before he asked: “What do you think the weather’s going to be like today, Ayra?”

The sailor assessed the strength of the wind, examined the sky, looked at the sea and then said, “I think we is going to have a storm.”

The teacher looked shocked. “What? Can’t you speak properly? You shouldn’t say ‘we is.’ You should say ‘we are’! Didn’t anyone teach you grammar?”

“I’m a sailor,” replied Ayra. “What do I need grammar for?”

“Because, if you don’t know grammar, half your life is wasted!” the teacher sneered, as he settled down to read his book. Within minutes, and just as Ayra had predicted, the storm clouds began to gather, and the waves became choppy. Ayra became anxious as the boat was tossed on the rough sea.

“Did you ever learn to swim?” asked Ayra.

“Why should I learn to swim? I’m a schoolteacher!”

“Well then your whole life is wasted, because this boat is going to sink any minute now!