No Idle Time and No Idol Time

“An idle mind is the devils’ playground.”

When the mind is idling, it often jumps to old habits and adopts past conclusions. When the mind is sitting unfocused and at loose ends, it often gets lost in worldly confusion. When we are waiting for something to happen, it usually does and we may feel blind-sided. When we are allowing others to make choices for us, we may feel helpless and hopeless.

Now is the time to focus our thoughts. Now is the time to make our own choices. Now is the time to trust in our inner guidance. Now is the time to make the difference we want to see.

What are you waiting for? What do you want to happen? What is yours to do? When will you stand up for you?

We can wait, delay, paralyze yourself, or reduce your creativity almost to nothing. ACIM We are here to create our experience by using our powerful creative minds. The mind filled with Love and Hope and Faith works for us. The mind filled with Fear, Despair and Doubt works against us.

We can choose to chew gum, play cards and gossip on the internet, but what will the outcome be? We can choose to learn and practice, speak with gratitude about the Good we see, and we will benefit. We can destroy your medium of communication, but not your potential. ACIM We are here to create what is good and beautiful and wholesome for all.

What are you doing with your time? Are you inspiring and educating yourself? Are you inspiring and educating your children? Are you teaching your world to be alive, alert and enthusiastic?

Are you giving your thoughts to others to control? Are you allowing your associations to conform to their beliefs? Are you speaking up and living what is true for you? Are you goals and priorities, your work and practice supporting your Good?

We are here to be and do and have the Good life we say we want. But are we engaged in living the Good life everyday in all ways? We are here to be happy and free, healthy and fulfilled, but do we live what we say we want? Are you actively and consciously engaged in living a meaningful and productive life.?

When we wait to die, we simply seek comfort. When we seek for what we do not have, we often complain and do nothing. When we wish someone else would do it for us, we may be lazy and play helpless. When we take total responsibility for our lives, we are active participants and contributors to a full life.

From A Course in Miracles The miracle is much like the body in that both are learning aids for facilitating a state in which they become unnecessary. When spirit's original state of direct communication is reached, neither the body nor the miracle serves any purpose. While you believe you are in a body, however, you can choose between loveless and miraculous channels of expression. You can make an empty shell, but you cannot express nothing at all. You can wait, delay, paralyze yourself, or reduce your creativity almost to nothing. But you cannot abolish it. You can destroy your medium of communication, but not your potential. You did not create yourself.

With love, Betty Lue

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