April Monthly Lessons

From Vernon Howard Classes

     Here is a wonderful opportunity to take these powerful truths and put them to use in your daily life. The goal is self-enrichment and the result is new life-command. Remember, the knowledge in these lessons already exists in your higher nature. You need only ascend to the location within yourself. Other people have understood them and so can you.

Stay Home

     Here's a sixteen year old girl. She’s supposed to meet her father at the airport. He's coming in on the plane, and she understands she's to wait by a certain door in the airport.
     There are thousands of people coming and going. And she waits and she waits and she waits, and the father doesn't show up, so she gets panicky, and she says, “I will find  my father.” So she wanders around the crowd. She sees one of the lady attendants, airport workers there, and asks her about it. That didn't help. She looked around for help. “But why is my father so late?” and can't find a solution to her problem. But she thinks she has to do  something about it, so she wanders around.
     Much later, she walks back to the original door where she's supposed to meet her father, and  there he was waiting for her. I know you're making this spiritual connection, but let's look at it a little bit. And her father says,  “Where were you? I was waiting here all the time for you.” She thought she had to save herself by her own plans, her own intelligence, and instead she got lost in the crowd. If she had just stayed where she belonged, her father would have come to her. To make the story a happy one, her father hugged her and she cried a little bit and told him how worried she’d been, not being able to find him. And they went on home, and the story ended well....
     God knows that you are lost. He knows that you're wandering around trying to find help. He also knows that you're not going to find it out there anywhere with anyone. They  don’t know. Lost people always tell you they're found and they can help you, and ‘please, give me the hundred dollar fee in advance.’ They always know how to fool you. The point is, if you’ll just stay home with your inner self, never mind the lures out there, you stay exactly where you are and let God come to you. Don't try to save yourself.