Lesson 41: God goes with me wherever I go.
The one thing we do not do, says Jesus in Lesson 41, is question the reality of the problem.
The problem is that we, “the separated ones” feel so lonely and abandoned that it leads to depression, “anxiety, a deep sense of helplessness, misery, suffering and intense fear of loss.” But these feelings are the effects, the symptoms, of our fixed belief that we are separated from God and can never go Home. They are not the cause.
Jesus tells us, “…despite the serious and tragic forms” our idea of separation produces, this idea is not reality. Jesus knows we are convinced life in human form on planet earth is reality, but he lays out the truth for us anyway:
“Deep within you is everything that is perfect, ready to radiate through you and out into the world. It will cure all sorrow and pain and fear and loss because it will heal the mind that thought these things were real, and suffered out of its allegiance to them.”
He goes on, “You can never be deprived of your perfect holiness because its Source goes with you where you go.” And he adds, “We understand you do not believe all this. How could you, when the truth is hidden deep within, under a heavy cloud of insane thoughts, dense and obscuring, yet representing all you see?”
Jesus advises that we “sink down and inward, away from the world, and all the foolish thoughts of the world. You are trying to reach past all these things. You are trying to leave appearances and approach reality.”
Lesson 41 is so full, it offers so much. It tells us “It is quite possible to reach God. In fact it is very easy, because it is the most natural thing in the world.”
Quite importantly, for so many of us, Jesus concludes, “You can indeed afford to laugh at fear thoughts, remembering that God goes with you wherever you go.”
