Message From God: "My plan for you is perfect and will fall into place at exactly the right time. Never try to hurry anything along, but watch everything unfold and develop. If life appears to be going very slowly be not impatient. Learn to wait upon Me in absolute faith and confidence, and know that at the right time all things will come about, as there is indeed a right time and right season for everything.

Remember, you cannot change the seasons of the year. You cannot change the movement of the heavens or the tides. The universe is in My hands and no one can harm it. Go forward in complete faith and confidence allowing My wonders and glories to unfold. Do not be concerned about anything, simply be strong and of good courage.

When you are at perfect peace within, you will be able to withstand the stresses and strains without. Therefore let My peace and love influence and enfold you, and be at perfect peace as I do My will."


Nick Arandes

The Teaching Teachers
© By Liz Cronkhite

In A Course in Miracles you are told that you are always teaching, and that you are always teaching only yourself. What you are teaching yourself is what you believe that you are. Come from ego and you teach yourself that you are ego. Come from Spirit and you teach yourself that you are Spirit - you are being what the Course calls a "teacher of God". This is occurring within you every moment. You never really learn from others; you learn from the teacher within you that you choose at any given moment. Read a book, or listen to someone speak, and you will read and hear what you have chosen to learn about yourself.

The world thinks of teaching as something you do for others. You may accept that what you teach you learn, but if you are a teacher you are supposed to see yourself helping others in some way. But the Course shows us that there are no "others" to help. Everything is your mind. You do not live in a world, but in your thoughts about a world. You are always only relating to your own thoughts. So why do some students of the Course take a worldly teaching role and seem to teach "others"?

Sometimes students tell me that they just want to go off into a cave somewhere and commune with God for the rest of their lives. The Course tells us that that is a long way around to God, and it offers us a path to use right in the world that is a short cut. If you were to find peace by withdrawing from the world how could you be certain that you have really undone conflict in your mind? Conflict is not undone by avoiding it but by facing it, seeing its unreality, and letting it go.

By engaging with the world everyday you confront your belief in separation everyday, and you have the opportunity to forgive it. Teaching in the world is the same process. Ideas rattling around in my mind are never challenged, but a soon as I think of writing or saying it "out there" my own mind is full of projecting how others might respond to it. Of course what I think "others" might say are really my own thoughts.

Now I get to look at these thoughts that challenge the ideas I'm teaching. Some of them will help me hone the idea as I clarify it, others will help me see where I still have fearful or erroneous thoughts. Then when I do teach the thoughts "out there" I am confronted by opportunities to clarify, and hone, and overcome challenges presented by "others". Some of the comments that seem to come from outside of me will go right by me, but the comments that bother me give me an opportunity to see why I agree with them on some level, and what I have to work through.

Some students tell me that they hope that they never feel called upon to teach in the world - it doesn't appeal to them at all. And not everyone will. This is just the way that some of us learn. Just remember that you are always teaching, and that you are always teaching yourself through the thoughts that you project (ego) or extend (Spirit) about "the world" and "others".

Liz Cronkhite is a mentor for students of A Course in Miracles. She has been a student of the Course since 1984, and a life-coach since 2000. You can learn more about her, and the mentoring and resources she offers students, at www.acimmentor.com.

© 2007 by SEDNARA Publishing & Nick Arandes