{"id":191,"date":"2017-05-14T09:14:24","date_gmt":"2017-05-14T13:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marshasummers.com\/wordpress\/?p=191"},"modified":"2017-05-14T09:16:53","modified_gmt":"2017-05-14T13:16:53","slug":"the-horse-and-buggy-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marshasummers.com\/wordpress\/?p=191","title":{"rendered":"The Horse and Buggy Story:"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Excepts from a talk by Dr. Bob Gibson in Salt Lake City October 1970)<\/strong><\/p>\n

[from Marsha\u00a0\u00a0 All my life I\u2019ve heard people say I\u2019m waiting for God to tell me the right thing to do and sometimes they say, \u201cit was the will of God\u201d when things don\u2019t go to suit them.\u00a0\u00a0 I believed these words since it was so common a saying, but where did that leave me?\u00a0\u00a0 Where does it leave you? The following excerpt from Donna Lancaster\u2019s library gave me another way of seeing.\u00a0\u00a0 It is a lovely idea to work with and observe.]<\/p>\n

The discussion this morning will be relationships. When everything is in its proper relationship it works real conveniently. Let\u2019s take a buggy, a horse and you have a driver sitting on the seat. So you have the vehicle. You have the motive power. You have the driver. If you put them in the proper relationship you have transportation.\u00a0\u00a0 You have a function.<\/p>\n

Now you have heard of putting the cart before the horse. If you tie the horse behind the cart, the driver gets on the seat and hollers \u201cGitty-up\u201d, and nothing much happens. He hasn\u2019t got it in the proper relationship. If he puts the buggy behind the horse and the driver is sound asleep, the horse usually doesn\u2019t go very far in any particular direction. If the driver gets drunk and falls off the buggy, not much goes on. Now if the driver got up on the seat and said, \u201cI\u2019m going to sit here and wait to see the will of the motive power here and then we will go\u201d, the horse could care less which way he goes. His nature is to provide power. So who is responsible for the direction the motive power takes? The driver.<\/p>\n

We can use this parable to see our various aspects \u2013 when all of this works as a unit, everything works smoothly. We have transportation. The driver is going where he wants to. The horse is furnishing the motive power and the vehicle gives the transportation to the desired destination.<\/p>\n

However, does the driver take on the responsibility or does he sit down and whine and want to be told what to do and where to drive the horse. He waits for the horse to tell him where he wants to go and what to do?<\/p>\n

The horse really could care less. His nature is Power. The nature of X is to express energy. Where would X express it without an awareness, the driver here, to decide what to do with it? Let\u2019s put the driver to sleep with an anesthetic, maybe ether. What does the motive power do then? Nothing. Its nature is the expression of energy. What would you say then is the \u201cwill of the horse\u201d? To please the driver? Now the driver is trying to get the horse to tell him what to do. Stays up all night trying to get the horse to tell him what to do. And what happens? Nothing. And the horse is sitting there with all the power of the universe ready to go.<\/p>\n

And what are we doing? We don\u2019t want to be responsible for directing the pony down the road. So we sit and say we want to find out the will of the Power. The Power loves the driver very dearly. The horse loves the driver very much or he would have already left the driver and the buggy. But he has only one thing, \u201cYou tell me what you want\u201d. It\u2019s up to you. And if you don\u2019t do it, it won\u2019t get done.<\/p>\n

Now the will of the horse is for you to make up your cotton-picking mind, then we\u2019ll do it. Now usually the driver doesn\u2019t know what he wants. He pleads with the horse to tell him what to do. The horse will do anything the driver directs him to do. It will be happy to work with you as long as you drive. But when you don\u2019t drive, everything comes to a stand-still or never starts. We have a responsibility and we avoid this responsibility, because if something happens and we\u2019re criticized. we can blame the horse and say the horse did it. It was the will of the horse.<\/p>\n

All our limitations have been chosen because we don\u2019t want to be responsible for the outcome. Who is the director of the motive power? We are. Now with all this conditioning in the awareness we have, how many drivers are sitting on the driver\u2019s seat?\u00a0\u00a0 (see the picture of man on the website under illustrations to see who the driver\u2019s are.) But when the driver (awareness) tells all these Not-I\u2019s to shut up and he\u2019s driving the horse, everything goes well. It is a matter of making up the mind and giving the command to the motive power. We are through with conditioning, right there. We are the driver of this most wonderful steed who loves us dearly. But we like to use the phrase \u201cit\u2019s the will of whatever\u201d to not be responsible. It there any excuse not to be the driver?<\/p>\n

Do you see where you fit in the Picture of Man? Do you see what your position is? We not just going along for the ride, even though that\u2019s what we try to do. There is only one thing that keeps us in eternal bondage. We don\u2019t want to be responsible. \u201cNow you just tell me what to do, and I\u2019ll do it beautifully\u201d, we say. But we have all the Power of the universe at our direction. The driver is always with the horse. That is the most perfect union in relationship there is. That is when the motive power and the direction are ONE. That is real marriage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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