The distractions of the ego may seem to interfere with your learning, but the ego has no power to distract you unless you give it the power to do so. The ego’s voice is an hallucination. You cannot expect it to say “I am not real.” Yet you are not asked to dispel your hallucinations alone. You are merely asked to evaluate them in terms of their results to you. If you do not want them on the basis of loss of peace, they will be removed from your mind for you. T-8.I.2:1-6
A Course in Miracles (p. 279). Foundation for Inner Peace. Kindle Edition.
The question “How is that working for you?” can be asked consistently, and as we reflect we can ask the Holy Spirit to help us discern the will of God for us.
In Unitarian Universalism some of us join together to affirm and promote the free and responsible search for truth and meaning. We need not do this searching alone. We can ask the Holy Spirit to help us discern God’s will. Who is it that God wants me to become, and what is it that God wants me to be doing with the life I have been given?
Today it is suggested that we become aware of the power we give to the things of the ego to distract us from discerning and doing what we believe is God’s will for us.
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