DAD'S BLESSING

Let me bless you with a story about the light of the world:

Last night I read a memoir of my father’s life in mind… What I mean is that he shares his belief structure and development over a lifetime of more than 80 years. He describes his willing in-doctrine-ization into the thought system of his familial and religious structure; the specifics and ‘specia’l-izations inherent to it. He shares his beliefs, interpretations, acceptances, justifications, denials and faithfulness. 

The story is a good one; well researched and well written. It is an honest account of one man’s life, written from the perspective Self-love; from one who has faced himself; evaluated the true from the false and forgiven all that didn’t meet the criteria of peace.

I found reading this account compelling and healing. Also very intimate. I experienced the joining that comes with absolute faithfulness, meeting brother to brother in the truth of Who God created as Himself.

As I read along the path my father described, I experience myself reading as if from his own perspective, like I was in his mind, watching his movie of his life perspective…

Then, in a holy instant I fused with him as Christ, united in the purpose of the recognition of the truth. His story was my story. His mind, my own...

Dad tells how he began to ask of himself the honest, the real questions deep within about life and God and self. He asked for the truth. And the path was set. 

Turns out the Holy Spirit is hanging out in the ether of the walls and shelves and words and minds in the BYU library, just as everywhere else, available by sincere asking, and asking honestly. 

My father then shares the progression of this internal inquiry. He proceed to show how his honest request led him to A Course in Miracles and to the curriculum that would reinterpret and give meaning to his purpose in life. His gratitude for the forgiveness, miracles and healing received by accepting the Atonement for himself, is obvious and cannot be missed as it gives light to the glorious gratitude that praises God…

I experienced the lifting-out of the construct of world and story into the shared, healed perspective of one-mind which forgiveness reveals… Gratitude and grandeur and beauty and magnitude spilt tears of appreciation and joy and light and love and blessed the world, as I finished reading… yum.

Thanks Dad for your integrity and your willingness; for forgiving, sharing and joining. Thanks for lighting my mind and every mind and saving the world.

Thanks for being my mighty companion on the road back home. I am blessed beyond measure for your sincerity, communion and love.

I LOVE YOU.

The Course is relentless in reminding us that there is no world so not to look to it for truth. Look to it for the false veil we have drawn across the face of Christ and the Real world.

Don’t ever forget~ the world we are looking upon, without exception, is reflecting what we believe we are. It reflects the image made of the self by the mistaken identity construct of the mind; which is by definition an attack/victim image, which is actually an attack on what God created perfect as Himself. This is the same as to say it is an attack on God, who, being only love cannot attack or be attacked. In other words, we are to ourselves a case of mistaken identity

No worries…

What is not true is but illusion and illusion has no subsistence in the truth. This is the code of the Atonement; that false will not stand.

An image will never satisfy, will always fall short, want more, and betray the ones it claims to love… yada yada yada… Well, you know the drill. You’ve rehearsed it for millennia.  Miracles reveal a different Self, one already complete, healed and whole, joined in purpose with all creation, and one in God.

When the choice for truth is made this world is seen as the flimsy overlay on the overhead-projector of Christ Mind, and recognized as merely false.

“It is but the first few steps along the right way that seem hard, for you have chosen, although you still may think you can go back and make the other choice. This is not so. A choice made with the power of Heaven to uphold it cannot be undone. Your way is decided. There will be nothing you will not be told, if you acknowledge this… and so you and your brother stand, here in this holy place, before the veil of sin that hangs between you and face of Christ. Let it be lifted! Raise it together with your brother, for it is but a veil that stands between you…and peace has reached you even here, before the veil. Think what will happen after. The love of Christ will light your face, and shine from it into a darkened world that needs the light. And from this holy place He will return with you, not leaving it nor you. You will become His messenger, returning Him unto Himself… Think of the loveliness that you will see, who walks with Him! …” (T-22. IV)

Give over your life to the Holy Spirit, bring all of your decisions under Jesus’ guidance and join us at the branching of the road as we lift the veil of falseness together. The light is on… you can see the lighthouse from there… just look and you will see ~above all else you want to see…

I LOVE YOU!