May 2024 Week 4

“Don’t be so hard on yourself. I can bring good even out of your mistakes. Your finite mind tends to look backward, longing to undo decisions you have come to regret. This is a waste of time and energy, leading only to frustration. Instead of floundering in the past, release your mistakes to Me. Look to Me in trust, anticipating that my infinite creativity can weave both good choices and bad into a lovely design. Because you are human, you will continue to make mistakes. Thinking that you should have an error free life is symptomatic of pride. Your failures can be a source of blessing, humbling you and giving you empathy for other people in their weaknesses. Best of all, failure highlights your dependence on Me. I am able to bring beauty out of the morass of your mistakes. Trust Me, and watch to see what I will do.” Jesus Calling. I read this in class last week, please make the references to Me (God) whatever it is you believe in.

Well I Need this on repeat - “Because you are human, you will continue to make mistakes. Thinking that you should have an error free life is symptomatic of pride. Your failures can be a source of blessing, humbling you..” This reading lines up with our intention this month - Everything Is As IT Should Be - in a very powerful way for me. I can waste time and energy looking backwards, analyzing mistakes I have made and not letting go of them, not letting myself off the hook. This is exhausting and such a total waste of time! My happiness is based on my diligence of my spiritual practices and simply my perception - what am I focusing on and how am I perceiving my circumstances? I am going to end this month strong and truly believe Everything Is As It Should Be - whyt not?? It’s certainly better than the alternative!

Next week I will write more on the Sutra for this month, 1.7. In life, sometimes we get things right, and sometimes we get things wrong. Oftentimes, what we get wrong we only see in hindsight. Sutra 1.7 emphasizes the importance of right knowledge, and says that there are three sources of right knowledge (or truth.) We can gain right knowledge from three sources: perception, inference and testimony. More to come next week, we will unpack this.