Seven Years of JOYFUL Love Training

I've been joking in class lately that I've started a 7 years lecture series on relationships. Only really, I'm not kidding. My life seems to run in 7 year cycles and 7 is a very powerful, spiritual and symbolic number.

It was in 2005 that I made the most major shift in my life so far in order to add the DO part of "listen, learn and do" of the Course's motto. EVERYTHING good has come from that decision. And now here we are 7 years later and it is time to move to the next DECISION to DO.

I've always talked about relationships and what the Course teaches about them - after all, the Course is about nothing else anyhow. But the ego had me fooled for a very long time there with a lie, a distortion, which kept me from really focusing on teaching the Principles of relationships. In fact, I talked about relationships a LOT in my teaching from 1987 until around the mid 90's. Around that time the ego started attacking me with quite a vengeance and was very successful in getting me to stop teaching Truth about love and relationships and so I focused on applying Principle to other areas of life. And since there are no mistakes, I know now that I simply wasn't ready yet and I needed to spiritually mature quite a bit more before I could really teach the SIMPLE Truth about relationships.

This is what I love about the spiritual path - it gets simpler the farther along you get. It's not more complicated, it's simpler and simpler. And again, the spiritual path is not about learning as much as it is about unlearning. I'm unlearning a LOT these days and it feels so good. This is going to be SO FUN and feel SO GOOD. Life loves us and the better it gets, the better it gets.

The ENERGY in the room last Saturday in Santa Barbara as we went into week two of this series was INTENSE - very intense. In fact, the requests for recordings the past two weeks has been off the charts and broken all past records so far. Saturdays talk about "the myth of compatability" and the 4 Kingdoms of Loving Relathionships struck a major chord with us. And the miracles and synchronicitis that are coming each week as we beat this drum are . . . well, wonderful and inspiring as the practitioners commit to the DOING part of the lessons of love. And let me remind us all once again - they come mostly from practicing humility and willingness. "Pride will not produce miracles" the Course tells us.

As for me personally, I am marinating in love now. For about a day or so it get me SUPER agitated and activated my ego in a huge chemicalization process. And now I feel a calm and equanimity which I am loving. I had a wonderful date night Friday night with my hubby Jake and that relationship has become so JOYFUL and peaceful now - and yet it keeps going to newer and deeper levels with the going each old concept and belief that I unlearn.

Hope you like the new masthead on our page here. It seems appropriate that we shift things around a little bit as we enter this new 7 year course in JOYFUL love.

Comments

[Sharon]

The new masthead is AWESOME.

[dls]

I second that emotion!
xox

[mona caywood]

LOVE the masthead!
watch it....when you really are content with 'husband' Jake, someone is going to come along and physically fill his shoes. it worked that way for me. I married myself, fell totally in love with me and in walks the perfect fella'....met me a straight man in a gay bar....when it's meant to be, it's meant to be!
mona