Ask and Ye Shall Receive

"You may still complain about fear, but you nevertheless persist in making yourself fearful. I have already indicated that you cannot ask me to release you from fear. I know it does not exist, but you do not. If I intervened between your thoughts and their results, I would be tampering with a basic law of cause and effect; the most fundamental law there is. I would hardly help you if I depreciated the power of your own thinking. This would be in direct opposition to the purpose of this course. It is much more helpful to remind you that you do not guard your thoughts carefully enough. You may feel that at this point it would take a miracle to enable you to do this, which is perfectly true. You are not used to miracle-minded thinking, but you can be trained to think that way. All miracle workers need that kind of training." - A Course In Miracles.

Later I find more of an explanation in the training this excerpt was speaking of. "The miracle worker must have genuine respect for true cause and effect as a necessary condition for the miracle to occur." Further down the paragraph it says, "By choosing the miracle you have rejected fear, if only temporarily".

I had wrote in my previous post that I wondered how I could achieve right-mindedness if my mind hasn't been right my whole life and also stated that rather than performing miracles I needed a miracle. I think it is quite interesting that one day while reading I'll inevitably have an unanswered question in my mind and the next day I'll get the answer.

In the chapter I read today it said that fear happens when you choose not to love. Also that fear happens when there is a conflict between what you think and what you do. Now what to do about fear? It says that the correction of fear is my responsibility and that the correction is always the same, "Before you choose to do anything, ask me if your choice is in accord with mine. If you are sure that it is, there will be no fear".

Now, I just need to figure out how to hear the Voice. I'll probably need to get my mind right and I think the lessons and exercises will help me to do that. But for now, I think there is much truth in this statement, "The true resolution rests entirely on mastery through love. On the interim, however, the sense of conflict is inevitable, since you have placed yourself in a position where you believe in the power of what does not exist (fear)."

As far as the lessons are going, I'm not sure what the point is for the exercise today. I'm sure there is a purpose for it, I just haven't figured it out yet.

I'm sure my questions will be answered tomorrow.