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Lesson 155: ”I will step back and let Him lead the way.”

AI Reframe: I will trust and allow guidance beyond my ego to unfold.

Suggested Practice:
Five-fifteen minutes, morning and evening, sit with today’s idea:

I will step back and let Him* lead the way.

From the Lesson:

“And now He* asks but that you think of Him a while each day, that He may speak to you and tell you of His Love, reminding you how great His trust; how limitless His Love. ²In your Name and His Own, which are the same, we practice gladly with this thought today:”

I will step back and let Him lead the way,
for I would walk along the road to Him.

*God/Him/He: an impersonal, formless, and infinite principle of pure Love. Substitute whatever term that resonates best and allows you to receive the message. The Will of God is our happiness.

Message

From the Lesson:

“The [ego-based] world is an illusion. Those who choose to come to it are seeking for a place where they can be illusions, and avoid their own reality. Yet when they find their own reality is even here, then they step back and let it lead the way. What other choice is really theirs to make? To let illusions walk ahead of truth is madness. But to let illusion sink behind the truth and let the truth stand forth as what it is, is merely sanity.” (ACIM, W-155.2:1-6)

Some people might call it intuition, the Holy Spirit, God, their Guardian Angel, or even a hunch. Whatever we call it, it comes from Truth, a Divine Source, a Power Greater than Ourselves. At least, that’s how I understand it.

Personally, I call it Truth. I often recognize it in my body before it registers as Inner Wisdom. For example, one day I was in a clothing store listening to two young women talking. One of them was planning to go to Spain alone for a few months. She was nervous and unsure if it was a good idea.

As she talked, my whole body buzzed with energy—like full-body goosebumps. Whenever I feel that (even right now as I write this), I understand that whatever I just did, said, or heard was an expression of truth. Normally, I wouldn’t intrude on someone else’s conversation, but the energy was so strong I felt I had to say something.

So I told her, “Yes! It’s a wonderful idea,” and explained how I knew. She excitedly said she felt it too. I also told her she could take or leave what I said—it was more important that she follow her own inner knowing.

This shows how sometimes Truth leads us through someone else or even something else. For instance, when something is repeated three or more different times, I take that as a message from the Divine leading the way.

Early on when I was creating my mandalas, I had a booth at a local Saturday market. Throughout this one day, different people came by and said, “You should make a coloring book,” or “Have you ever thought about creating a coloring book?” After the seventh or eighth time, I looked up at the sky and said out loud, “OK, I get it. I’ll make a coloring book.” Within a few months, I had created not one but at least twelve.

Looking back, I didn’t exactly step back and let Truth lead the way — at least not at first. But something tripped a circuit breaker in me: the full-body goosebumps, the seventh or eighth person mentioning a coloring book. That pause woke me up. In that moment, I recognized Truth trying to get my attention, and I agreed to follow through. The “stepping back” happened in that pause.

If this lesson feels scary or uncomfortable, start with a willingness to step back. Pick safe things first: what to have for dinner, a new way to get to work, or what to wear for a night out with friends.

Even better? Color this week’s mandala by letting your Inner Wisdom pick the colors. When you’re about to color a section, without looking, reach out and grab a color. Whatever you pick, go with it—you can look while you’re coloring.

Come to think of it, that’s what I’m going to do each day this week.

“Lesson 155…reminds me that the world is an illusion.”
— “The Course in Miracles Experiment” by Pam Grout

Blessings & Peace,

Maureen,
The Mandala Lady

transforming soul whispers
into mandalas & channeled messages
for clarity, peace, and joy

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