In class you listened to tracks 63 and 66 of Martha Giudici's series "You Have the Power." To listen to the entire series (highly recommended), go here.

Objective for this week:

The Quest is a year-long discovery of the inner self, our Christ nature based on The Quest, A Journey of Spiritual Rediscovery by Richard and Mary-Alice Jafolla. “Discovering” our inner Christ nature can be difficult, sometimes taking a whole lifetime.

This week we explore the question, “If God is good, why is there bad?” This lesson is actually an extension of last week's lesson on heaven and hell.

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Metaphysical Lesson:

• “Good” is not an external standard to which we must conform. Rather it is an internal light.
• Since it is not external, we do not “follow the light” but rather allow the light to shine through us.
• Evil, or darkness, is the result of not allowing that light to shine through us. This occurs when, through our thinking, we constrict the flow of light and attempt to live apart form God.
• Darkness, being an absence of light, has no existence of its own. Darkness is overcome by “high road thinking” which relaxes the obstruction of light and allows light to shine on the apparent evil we are experiencing.
• Therefore the first step in overcoming evil, in all it's apparent manifestations, always begins with our awakening to God's presence and light.

Process for "Allow your light to shine":

• The goal for this week is to identify, explore and relax some thinking habits and patterns that restrict the flow of light through our consciousness.
• Sometime this week, when you're faced with a frustrating experience, stand back and look at it from the perspective of light and darkness.
• Ask yourself, “Am I allowing this situation to be blessed with the full force of my inner light?”
• Commit, for that brief moment, to relax whatever is constricting the flow from your higher consciousness and to observe any difference it may make.
• View this as an experiment. Make note of how the situation changes, if any.
• Continue your experiment of allowing your light to shine throughout the week.

Affirmation:
“This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine.”