{"id":46907,"date":"2011-06-25T14:04:20","date_gmt":"2011-06-25T18:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/46907\/god-lights\/"},"modified":"2011-06-25T14:04:20","modified_gmt":"2011-06-25T18:04:20","slug":"god-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/46907\/god-lights\/","title":{"rendered":"God Lights the Way"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\nGod Lights the Way
\nBy Marianne Williamson<\/p>\n

Finding your own mountaintop!
\nIn 2007, having been reading A Course in Miracles for three decades and lecturing on it literally thousands of times, I came out of meditation one day and thought, I\u2019ve become an advanced student of the Course! Not an advanced practitioner, mind you, but an advanced student.<\/p>\n

And that took 30 years. What is it about spiritual knowledge that takes so long to digest? The trendy nature of much contemporary seeking would lead you to think that you spend a year or two at the ashram and voil\u00e0!\u2014you\u2019re at the mountaintop. But my experience argues otherwise. It takes a decade to understand the basic nature of spiritual principles, another decade while the ego tries to eat you alive, another decade while you try to wrestle it to the ground, and finally you begin to walk more or less in the light. Anyone who thinks a spiritual path is easy probably hasn\u2019t been walking one.<\/p>\n

What does all this mean: to embrace the light, walk in the light, and so on? What is all this light, light, light talk? In A Course in Miracles, light is defined as \u201cunderstanding.\u201d What a beautiful thought, that to see the light is to understand.<\/p>\n

By midlife, we\u2019re usually aware enough to understand which of our issues most need attention. We\u2019ve learned where we\u2019re strong, but also where we\u2019re weak. We know what parts of ourselves to be proud of and what parts of ourselves should change. We know what our issues are this lifetime. It might not be a time when we\u2019re learning new things about ourselves so much as understanding more deeply what we already know. And new levels of self-awareness bring new opportunities for breakthrough.<\/p>\n

This is not the time to stop working on ourselves; it\u2019s the time when we\u2019ve finally accumulated enough clues to help crack the case and solve the mystery of why and how we\u2019ve kept ourselves bound for so long.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not the time to give up and say, \u201cThis is just how I am. It\u2019s too late to change.\u201d Quite the opposite\u2014it\u2019s time to take a stand, once and for all, for your own potential.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t worry that it took you so long to get to this point. It takes everyone this long. We know nothing until we know all the ways that we\u2019re not who we should be. Only then do we have a chance at becoming the people we\u2019ve wanted to be, and God intended us to be, from the day we were born.<\/p>\n

You can\u2019t really build a life till you\u2019ve pulled together all the things you\u2019ve finally come to understand about yourself. And life would be cruel if at just about the time you\u2019ve finally figured it out, it reached some sort of predetermined disintegration. Just as adolescents must separate from their parents, you need to separate from the person you were before this point, to whatever extent that person was not the real you.<\/p>\n

Finding out who we actually aren\u2019t, we begin to understand at last who we actually are.<\/p>\n

Dear God,<\/p>\n

Please soften my heart<\/p>\n

where it has hardened.<\/p>\n

Please help me reach<\/p>\n

for higher thoughts.<\/p>\n

Please pave the way<\/p>\n

for a better life,<\/p>\n

for me and all the world.<\/p>\n

Amen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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