ROAD TRIP~MIRACLES' STYLE

Parker and I are on an adventure. We had a plan. Then, yesterday, seemingly out of the blue, I thought ROAD-TRIP, right now. Off we went. A super yummy thing about the practice of turning ones mind to the Holy Spirit for direction, and then giving up the reins, is that you have sudden shifts into adventurousness, unforeseen till right at the instant it shows up. I try to go with it.

We had this awesome ‘lost in the dark, don’t know where we’re going…itzybit scary moment’ last night~ Then, loud and clear, I thought to call Randi.

 Now, for those of you that don’t know, Randi is the Holy Spirit personal assistant incarnate. Turns out, she can find me clear over near Flagstaff Arizona (going the wrong way) and pick my car up, metaphorically speaking, and deliver it to the Hotel in Flagstaff to stay for the night.

Yep! She’s that good.

We had a totally holy encounter with Sky, the yummy hotel attendant gal, when we checked in. She was a riot. Plus she is reading the fourth Twilight book “Breaking Dawn”. Parker noticed and triggered a great conversation about letting go of old beliefs and ideas about what’s “right or wrong” and trusting that if Love is guiding, we need to shift around it or we will miss the gifts it’s bringing.

So yeah, that was that holy encounter.

I’m writing this from a hotel room in Flagstaff Arizona.~~~

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Another day with another view~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

We spent the most awesome evening with my father and his beautiful wife. They are amazing. They are real and holy and honest and engaging~ totally present and available. We shared and experienced each other and the miracles our lives have become.

Catch this! They are alive in the practice of A Course in Miracles. I am lifted up in their presence and the union of our purpose in God’s plan for the salvation of the world.

How lucky am I to have a forgiven and healed holy relationship with this beautiful man, my father. His journey has been as my own. And his humble willingness to share his healing and miracles blesses me with his holiness.

Does it get any better than that? To have your dad healed and forgive you and love you… And, also be in love with A Course in Miracles?

It totally rocks.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Now we are at my mother’s Bed & Breakfast.

Have I mentioned how everything goes my way? Everything, is happening for me… And everyone else…

So, we arrive and there is a boy so much like Parker, they could be twins, bell-hopping for Mama. They totally hit it off. And are having a ball. Which totally leaves me available to hang out with my Mama and sister. It has been an evening of rich sharing, massage and anointing with love. I have burst at the seams with the light of love… It’s awesome.

~So, yeah, I keeps being the most perfect moment ever. That’s just how miracle-living works.

Thank you.

I love you.

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!

 

PROFESSIONAL FOR GOD

I am a professional.

Atonement is my profession. It comes naturally. Once the desire for specialness has been abated, the communication that is creation is free to take its place. Or rather, to flow unimpeded.

Here’s my job; I accept the atonement for myself. Here’s how I do that. I am simply unwilling to see error in anyone including myself. Here’s where I join with Jesus. It’s a correction crusade. And it rocks! ~You can join~

By refusing to see error, a whole new world opens up before me. Everyone I see is like my favorite long lost aunt that I can't wait to catch-up with. So I treat these encounters with a level of respect and open-hearted acceptance that l learned from Jesus and how he has refused to accept my little opinion of myself, but rather relating to the magnitude in me. This is what I extend.

I teach only what I want to learn, so I teach only the love that I am and you are.

I see miracles happening everywhere. Where I used to see conflict between brothers, I now see the call for love and the opportunity for a miracle. I look to the spark of light within each brother and join them there, blazing the light with healing love… My holiness blesses them.

Whether or not they recognize this act of love is not my concern, healing my mind through seeing their innocence which is my own, is…. Forgiveness happens… “A miracle is a universal blessing from God through me to all my brothers. It is the privilege of the forgiven to forgive.”

I hung out in confusion for a long time; waiting for some miraculous event that would restore me to sanity. I studied the Course, prayed, meditated, did the lessons… But I still measured Heaven from a definition that placed it outside myself. Something that would happen “to” me once I was ‘good’ enough... It's all good...

Obviously, I didn’t see the trap this was; looping me back into the separation construct. 

Till I did. I decided for happiness, truth, love, the peace of God.

Here’s the thing. Up till then, because I didn’t want to be in denial or be wearing rose-colored glasses, I kept reinforcing the belief in error by continuing to see it, judge my progress by it, then forgive.

Yes, I found relief. Yes, I felt better. However, I was making error real by claiming it, then forgiving... That is not looking past the error in acceptance of its falseness. .

See the conflict?

That’s a split mind. The Course is accepted completely, or not at all. It says if we aren’t experiencing constant joy, we have not decided for happiness, because happiness is a state of constancy.

I took Jesus as my coach.

He told me, “Deny the denial of truth”. He said, “Recognize your errors and choose to abandon them and follow my guidance.”

There! Clear as day! Recognize my errors and choose to abandon them and follow Him…

I finally listened. I abandon error in favor of truth.

“Forgiveness recognizes that what you thought your brother did to you has not occurred. It does not pardon sins and make them real. It sees there was no sin. And in that view, are all your sins forgiven… Forgiveness merely sees its falsity, and therefore lets it go. What then is free to take its place is now the Will of God.”

I was coached in-spirit to be happy and that joy was a better environment for learning than pain. I was already totally familiar with the contrast, I don't need any more lessons through pain. When I am dis-heartened or dis-spirited I have suspended my usefulness until I change my mind and Think with the Joy of Love.

Ya know, when you accept the Atonement as your profession. And you take the oath of office as a miracle worker, there are certain guidelines you follow.

1. TRUST; trust your brother, trust the Holy Spirit, trust Jesus’ guidance, trust God.
2. Do no harm.
3. Be happy.
4. Be truly helpful.
5. Be grateful.
6. Be honest.
7. Forgive and see your brother innocence.

 

“Spirit is in a state of grace forever.

Your reality is only spirit.

Therefore you are in a state of grace forever.”

 

THANK YOU.

I LOVE YOU.

SONSHINE~BLESSED SONSHINE~

SONSHINE~BLESSED SONSHINE~ God is my strength, vision is his gift.

It is a cloudy day here in the world. Yet, I see only light. It’s an inner light I project~ It is the sun of perfect oneness. You might say I see only the Son. I see with the light of forgiveness; a forgiven world.

Here’s where I place my focus as far as my brothers are concerned. Which is, lets face it, everything.

            I am here only to be truly helpful.

            I am here to represent Him Who sent me.

            I do not have to worry about what to say or what to do,

            Because He Who sent will direct me.

I am content to be wherever He wishes,

Knowing He goes there with me.

            I will be healed as I let Him teach me to heal.

 I love it!

It’s really something when you absolutely recognize that your brother, each and every one, no matter what, holds the key to your getting everything you want, to Heaven and the peace of God. I don’t mean ‘getting’ it in conceptual terms, I’m talking about SEEING~ you no longer attempt to order your brothers into hierarchies, you accept them completely, with full gratitude, and accept nothing else. Here a joining so grand takes place, the world is healed, as the mind is healed in the recognition of oneness through purpose. We are miracle-workers. We are the light of the world.

 As we accept only God’s strength we trust and see…  

God is my strength, Vision is His gift 

 Listen to this from chapter 16:

            The recognition of the part as whole, and the of the whole in every part is perfectly natural, for it is the God thinks, and what is natural to Him is natural to you. Wholly natural perception would show you instantly that order of difficulty in miracles is quite impossible, for it involves a contradiction of what miracles mean…

            You have done miracles, but it is quite apparent that you have not done them alone. You have succeeded whenever you have reached another mind and joined with it. When tow minds join as one and share one idea equally, the first link in the awareness of the Sonship as one has been made…

Astonishing, yes? Not really, is it? You are familiar with this experience, aren’t you? I know! Awesome isn’t it!

Now here this, from the same section of the text:

            The Host of God has called to you, and you have heard.

Hear that? You know it’s true. Nothing else will ever substitute again…

            Never again will you be wholly willing not to listen.

Yeah! Believe it. And trust…. Look what it says. This is the YEAR OF JOY! Listen:

            This is a year of joy, in which your listen will increase and peace will grow with its increase. The power of holiness and the weakness of attack are both being brought into your awareness…

              Today, let us resolve together to accept the joyful tidings that disaster is not real and that reality is not disaster. Reality is safe and sure, and wholly kind to everyone and everything.

And here it is; the final say:

            There is no greater love than to accept this and be glad. For love ask only that you be happy, and will give you everything that makes for happiness.

Honestly? Who could ask for anything more?

Happiness!

MY HOLINESS IS MY SALVATION

LESSON THIRTY-NINE

HOLY FREQUENCY BATMAN~ I SEE THE LIGHT!!!

The truth is present now. It resides at the frequency of God. Our holiness or wholeness is the center of creation radiating inclusion in completion. In other words, it is the frequency of light, of love, of creation.

You can’t search for it. You are it. There is no holiness outside yourself, because there is nothing outside of you. There is nothing excluded in your holiness, because holiness by definition is inclusion.

This is God. He leaves nothing out.

Exclusion is the ego’s game. It is a very dense frequency and uses the body to prove its validity. If the mind is trapping itself in the space/time continuum; looking at the world from a past/future, me and others perspective, then the mind is identified with the ego identity.  

But you are not the ego. You are Christ. And there is nothing your holiness cannot do.

So here’s the groovy part about holiness; it includes everything equally and perfectly.

What I have come to realize is that it is my frequency that needs attention. And it is actually very simple to shift to a higher frequency.

Think of God.

Think love.

Think oneness~wholeness~holiness.

Think peace.

Smile.

Forgive.

Be still and listen.

Laugh.

Hug.

Apply any Course lesson to anything.

Read poetry.

Pray.

Be grateful.

Okay, if you did as instructed you should be feeling light and happy.

This is what the mind-training of A Course in Miracles does for us.

We begin to vibrate at the frequency of peace. Even the slightest disturbance to our peace of mind, is quickly given over in forgiveness in the name of wholeness or our holiness.

All of creation is happening simultaneously. What we experience is in direct relation to our relationship with God.

When we are tuned to the frequency of our holiness, we literally see and hear our oneness in all our conversations and encounters. Every encounter is experienced as holy and it totally makes sense.

My holiness is my gift. I keep the light on and the love frequency signal strong.

This is the only conversation to have and the only place to be.

Thanks for tuning in.

I LOVE YOU!

 

   

DON'T YOU LOVE IT WHEN SOMEONE BLESSES YOU WITH A SMILE OR KIND GESTURE? YES! IT IS OUR NATURE TO BLESS...

People love it when you are doing this lesson. They see the look of sincerity in your eyes and your determination to see the light in them and see them blessed and happy.

On some deep level they recognize themselves as the very light you are extending.

It’s a beautiful thing.

“This idea contains the first glimmerings of your true function in the world, or why you are here. Your purpose is to see the world through your own holiness. Thus are you and the world blessed together. No one loses; nothing is taken away from anyone; everyone gains through your holy vision. It signifies the end of sacrifice, because it offers everyone his full due. And he is entitled to everything, because it is his birthright as a Son of God…”

So, there you have it!

If you were looking for your purpose, there it is!

For years I just wanted to “find my purpose in life”; took seminars, did therapy, education, yada yada… You know, we’ve all done it.

And here it is in black and white. The Course is uncompromising.

My purpose is to see the world through my own holiness.

This is how I shine as the light of world. I bless you with my holiness by seeing the light in you. And recognizing that light is mine and we are one.

Jesus shows us the direct route. He says there is a spark of light in every one of us. No one is excluded. So our job is super simple.

Look around. Whatever your eyes light upon, Bless it.

You can feel the love you have within, just by the act, yes?

Now whatever brother you come upon, know he is your savior and that as you bless him with holiness you will recognize his light and your wholeness.

This is our salvation. I love it!

I bless you with my holiness, and receive you gifts of holiness, now.

Thank you.

I love you.

 

THE TAO OF HOLINESS: Or A Day in the Life of Ambrose and Sparta

My holiness envelops everything I see…

I’m laughing my head-off right now, watching the cats. It’s crazy how much fun I’m having, watching them try to figure out what the bleep is going on.

I love it!

They are so present. Right now they are going crazy over the washer. They’re like a kid in a candy store. Scratch that. They’re a couple of cats watching a frontload washer. The level of attention they are paying to each single move…I’m looking at that right now as a model for mind watching. Yes! Right?...

Have you ever really paid attention to a cat watching a mouse, rat or gerbil or hamster? I have. (The boys have had every sort of rodent. I think it is fair to say that Ambrose and Sparta have seen these rodent pets a bit more like bait than intended.) My point is that a cat watching potential prey is a marvelous teacher in presence.

Being present is a completely awake experience: all systems are at maximum effectiveness. Everything is set to go and at perfect readiness to be used, to be helpful…

This is our perfect holiness! It envelops everything we see.  

We undergo a radical reorientation once we make the definitive, wholehearted decision to take the required course. And once we begin the curriculum with the Holy Spirit. Jesus, the countless holy encounters of student/ teacher relationships; nothing can be taken at face value again. We are undertaking a meticulous mind-training.

It is not for the faint-hearted. I know. I require true commitment. It is all. It is total. It is whole. It is holiness in action.  And transformation of all that is seen takes place before your very eyes. I KNOW. Miracles replace all errors in sight and thinking. A new, or better yet, original Self begins to see through to only holiness.

My holiness envelops everything I see…

I cast about and see the holiest of sights: LOVE; everyone, everything, everywhere. It’s all God to me.

Where once there was judgment, hurt, anger and fear; I see only forgiveness. I see myself everywhere I look.

The holiest of places on earth, is where an ancient hatred has been replaced by present love…

 Thank you for blessing me with your holiness, which is my own.

I love you.