I’m back from my adventures back East! It was a wonderful mixed bag of people, places, and events, including 2 family reunions. Now my summer vacation is officially over and I’m back to the new school year at Ele’ele Elementary. Well, I’m furloughed today and tomorrow, but we can go in anyway after 2:45, which we have to do or chaos reigns Monday, when the kids arrive.

 

I’m meeting some challenging issues in my life. My 6 month old granddaughter has optic nerve hypoplasia, which means limited vision at the least, and possible brain damage at the worst. My son is meeting himself and a huge child support debt, and may face jail time, and my dear mother is fighting for her life with stage IV cancer of the tongue and throat floor. My “A Course in Miracles” lesson today is, “I am not a body, I am free. For I am still as God made me. I choose joy instead of pain.”

 

Yes, it’s always a choice. It may seem insane to some to choose joy when a mother is facing death, a child is facing jail, and a grandchild will have to live with a disability, but not if I choose to see them as they truly are, as Spirit, perfectly made, and incorruptible. It’s been a great help to remember Who they are in all of their life experiences. Also, what they are experiencing is some form of projection from their minds…. something that they think they have to experience. The  baby chooses joy instead of pain as well. She’s "reading”, rolling, babbling, and laughing a lot. My mother is going to summer concerts in the park in the evening after her biotherapy and radiation. My son is working on his house to sell it to pay off his fines.

 

I’m the one who has to remember to choose joy instead of pain or worry. I forget sometimes, and I can really bring  myself down. That is why I have to spend time repeating the lesson, or even meditating to shut out the 3D world with all of its misrepresentation. But I’ll soon be cutting out triangles, rectangles, and the like, and filling my room with the wonderful knowing that even though I teach Special Education, and my children have disabilities, they are perfect Spirit…worthy to receive love and give love, worthy to live a great life because they have what the world really needs, LOVE. We all have it, but sometimes we can accept if more from one with no guile.

 

Love rocks! Enjoy the wealth of the Love that you are, and give it away, and open to receive it. It will lead you to fulfillment in your life.