THE LIGHT OF CHRIST BURNS THROUGH THE CLOUDS OF SELF DECEPTION…

THE LIGHT OF CHRIST BURNS THROUGH THE CLOUDS OF SELF DECEPTION…

“Share your salvation now with him who stood beside you when you were in hell. He is your brother in the light of the world which saves you both.”

This makes me weep, it is so glorious. I completely love this.

The exercise in this lesson, “My grievances hide the light of the world in me”, is like the perfect metaphor for how to address every single thing in life.

All the thoughts we think we think, the perceptions we come at life with on our own, our reactions and judgments, they are the clouds. If we do this example; have a little faith that, like clouds, they only appear dark and heavy and substantial, impenetrable, when in reality, they are mist. We can always move though them to the light within.

The pivotal thing here is the faith part.

But since ‘our’ way doesn’t deliver the promises it makes, why not take the highway to light this lesson offers. Yes? 

We are not being asked to just drop back into the cosmic trust-fall unassisted. Jesus is so cool. He never leaves us comfortless. This is just one example. We all can slip back into our minds and imagine that the darkness is a cloud cover. We can sense that there is light beneath and within. We can nearly taste the mist of the clouds as they brush our cheeks, dissolving in the warmth of our touch.  We can all lighten up taking this inward journey, in trust of the light within. We can feel the light of joy due to our commitment to finding our light and love and truth. Yes?

 So the transfer of training is as simple as doing this anytime we run up against anger, frustration, sadness, weariness, disappointment and the like. Turn inward, take Jesus’ hand, turn on the Holy Spirit lantern and move past the illusion to the truth of who we really are.

From the first time I went through the lessons I felt a sense of relief and welcome when I came to this lesson’s practice. This was a light in itself for me. I followed instructions and I found peace. I immediately claimed this practice as my own and put it in my spiritual toolbox. It is an access point for me to ask for the Holy Spirit to guide me. When I use it, it works.

 I have learned that my brother is my way to salvation. As I recognize the light of Christ in him, I totally see that I too, share his innocence. It is the way of the Atonement, the miracle in action.

This is how I take my place among the saviors of the world. The appreciation I feel for this recognition, gives me no option. There is nothing else I want to do. I am the light of happiness and I light the world along with you. Thank you. I love you.  

IF LOVE IS THE ANSWER~ WHAT IS THE QUESTION?

IF LOVE IS THE ANSWER~

WHAT’S THE QUESTION?

Honestly; love completes itself, so what is there to question. What is there to want or need, in that Love is everything forever?

Whenever I have been angry, frustrated, disappointed or held a grievance of any kind, once investigated honestly, I have seen that beneath whatever injustice I had associated with that person or situation, I found I was ashamed of myself such that it was intolerable for me to hold responsibility for creating the situation. I did not love and I could not bear the bare fact of my lovelessness.

Every time. Forgiveness is the only remedy. I see my mistaken association with my self-concept and recognize that I could not be my Self. I see that what I have laid over my brothers Christ light was but my own veil of shame, which could not be the truth about either of us. The relief from this awareness is immense and gratitude naturally overcomes me. I see that my brother is guiltless and as I see his pure innocence, I am restored to the awareness of my own.

Is there anything lovelier than the perfect love? Love really does run the show.

I am overwhelmed; right now, with the gratitude I call my life. Ah, but to fulfill my function and light the world with the joy that comes with an aligned unified purpose of salvation. I will but to live the demonstration that I have accepted   God’s Will for perfect happiness through accepting the Atonement for my Self.

Love is the theme. And quite frankly, love is always the theme, yes?

Just a few more thoughts in gratitude for an experience of love so real it cannot be described… Yet, something prompts expression…  

Love is whole, full, complete, totality. Love is the divine experience of the eternal. It is changeless and for all time, everywhere. Love is God, Mind, Self. It is known only by experience. Yet it is the experience of undenialbility.

Love being One, has no opposite.

God is Love. And Love is God

Not only is this our inheritance. It is all that is; all that we are.

Love created me like itself. And love can only be what it is, knowing only itself. There is no fear in love. Where God is, there is no other. Love is one

Love can be but Itself and knows only Itself. Love and fear, God and the world, have no meeting point. The awareness of One implies the nonexistence of the other.

 You, my Love, my brother, my Christ, my one Self show me the meaning of that which God created changeless and eternal Love.

Thank you.

I love you.

MIRACLE IMPULSES

Your distorted perceptions produce a dense cover over miracle impulses, making it hard for them to reach your own awareness. The confusion of miracle impulses with physical impulses is a major perceptual distortion. Physical impulses are misdirected miracle impulses. All real pleasure comes from doing God's Will. This is because not doing it is a denial of Self. Denial of Self results in illusions, while correction of the error brings release from it. Do not deceive yourself into believing that you can relate in peace to God or to your brothers with anything external. (ACIM~ T-1.1)

You know what is so fun? I have been playing in the yummy freshness of this moment now. Old insights are circling back up in my mind and life with renewed aliveness and much more depth.

Let me give an example. Recently, I have been corresponding with an amazing woman; teacher of God and all around inspiring being. We’ve been addressing addiction and food/body addiction in particular. Years ago, in the beginning of my healing with A Course in Miracles, I was graced with freedom the insanity of an upside-down relationship with my body, eating and food. And actually with yours as well, I compared myself with everyone I met. That craziness was lifted and I was able to focus on the business of healing my mind.

Finding what did work for me was, at times, an absolute miracle. I would walk into a book store and find myself picking up a book that I hadn’t known I came for and no recollection as to what I had come there for in the first place. I had a sense of being in the right place at the right time that was poignant and I would buy the book without question.

Or I would meet someone that would lead to a conversation about freedom and addiction and food and weight and I would hear myself speaking from a place of true gratitude. Often in those times, if there was a particular struggle I was having with my body or cravings, as we began communicating, in that sincere request for a true answer, a specific one to my specific issue would unfold during the conversation.

I discovered quite rapidly that the more I shared my experience with healing and freedom from the body/food monkey around my neck, the less I had experienced cravings and body judgments.

So, being the junky I am, I started facilitating groups and individuals in upholding a single-pointed spiritual foundation as core sustenance, as a replacement for the obsessive focus of a body/food addiction.

I saw how my unhealed mind, having obsessed about my problems with food and weight and how to get the perfect body and what to eat, how to keep from eating too much, what combination of foods, how to work out and how often, accompanied with a commitment to feeling ashamed and guilty and deserving of punishment, yet feeling like a total victim, helpless to change, hopeless in the face of societal requirement of lovability, had kept me exactly where I was. My judgments and beliefs had made me the person I saw myself as: weak, unlovable, unworthy, a waste of skin, taking up room that a more deserving person should have.  I was wrong… that is all.

A fundamental principle in A Course in Miracles is that ideas leave not their source and that ideas increase when they are given away. We, being God’s Idea, remain in Him as He extends His love as Son. We are that Son; that very same Love. We therefore must allow our love to extend creation in order to know our Self.

We’ve all had so much appreciation for some miracle in our life that we couldn’t wait to share with everyone.

That’s how I felt. That’s how I feel, now. It’s the reason I blog.

I love God. I love Jesus. I love A Course in Miracles. I love you, my one Self.

 So anyway, I am again finding myself with this awesome opportunity to share the miracle down the body/food addiction avenue.

You know we all come to A Course in Miracles with body addictions. We mistake them for ourselves. We are wrong. That is all.

The course turns us around and points us smack in front of our mind.  We see without question that it is or identification with a false identity, in a life/death, duality based world in our mind that is the source of our pain. It trains us in a systematic way to dispel every belief you ever believed to be true, as false.

We see that our world is one of perception, but that everything that feel good comes from somewhere beyond perception, never from the thing or circumstance itself.

We come to see that learning to forgive is our most treasured tool in the reversal of a thought system based in fear back to the source of our being~ love.

Peace is the result of emptying our entire arsenal of fear thoughts onto the touchstone of forgiveness. 

We are born anew.

“Let us be still an instant, and forget all things we ever learned, all thoughts we had, and every preconception that we hold of what things mean, and what their purpose is. Let us remember not our own ideas of what the world is for. We do not know. Let every image held of anyone be loosened from our minds and swept away. Be innocent of judgment, unaware of any thoughts of evil or of good that ever crossed your mind of anyone. Now do you know him not. But you are free to learn of him, and learn of him anew. Now is he born again to you, and you are born again to him, without the past that sentenced him to die, and you with him. Now is he free to live, as you are free, because an ancient learning passed away, and left a place for truth to be reborn.” (T-31.1)

  I am going to be writing more about the healing of body appetites. It might be with this yummy woman, Lisa, I was talking about. A site about this is her idea. I am interested to see what comes forward. Grace has shown me that body appetites are misdirected miracle impulses. That in recognition of this fact, I open to act miraculously instead of ‘feed the need’,and look for magic soulions; to enliven and inspire rather than shut-off and separate into the dirge of the pleasure-pain syndrome.

I'll keep you posted as it unfolds. Thank you.

I love you! 

JOY: WHERE THE LIVING'S AT...

I love being the light of the world. It is my only function and one I am totally qualified for.

It feels good to love whole and full. It’s easy to accept whatever may be is the perfect thing. The past is gone. I have forgiven the world…

I hang with Christ: with open arms and mind and eyes. 

It’s totally fun to be of the same mind and watch and learn and listen. When there is no falsehood to defend, when one is no longer managing a self image, but rather recognizing the Self in everyone, life is a big party and Christ is the guest of honor.

This inclusive perspective is the experience of being open and seeing through the eyes of my brothers.

It’s awesome!

Everything is brand new and fresh. I’m always in a new country, learning the customs and language.

It’s natural to be happy because I have no previously formed idea that anything ought to be a certain way.

I am buoyant with gratitude and joy; infecting everyone I come I contact with.

This is living.

It is creation~ for it is love.

I love you. Thanks for everything!

 

MIRACLES OR MAGIC?

I’m interested in one thing. PEACE! Period. It is so easy to allow ourselves to get distracted or sidetracked from the one goal to which the Course aims. PEACE. Problems solving really appeals to the strategic mind. But peace is beyond it. I know, I’m a smart gal. I have never been able to solve a problem and while being in perfect peace. Peace and problems are incongruent with each other.  Sure, problem-solving can distract, feel grandiose and even sedate the focus of attention on the pain of the problem. That is its best shot. It is not peace.

Having been that route and failed. I look for one thing and one thing only in every situation: Does it meet the test of perfect peace. I judge the answer by the way I feel. Do I feel awesome? Free? Happy and joyous? Peaceful and content? Imperturbable? Unafraid? Do I want to share and give and blend? Do I see the same all about me?

Where’s the problem now? NOWHERE!

If I am not feeling this way, I have missed the mark in my perception and I need a re-focus. Forgiveness is that refocus. I invite the Holy Spirit to show me the meaning of what I behold, and wait. Here’s what I’ve found. If I will do just that~ bring my thinking under Jesus’ guidance and wait… ‘Patience is natural to those who trust’... the serene awareness that I need do nothing, but accept what has been done for me, a blanket of peace spreads within and settles over me.

For the longest time I didn’t get this. I was looking for an answer to my problem, unwilling to let the problem go. I was only making statements of my facts and then asking the Holy Spirit to be my errand boy for the solution I thought I needed. But here’s the marker~ even when I got what I thought was the answer, it did not satisfy. Only God satisfies. Only His Peace, and only His plan for salvation.

Here’s what I have found. No methods in this world work. All methods are stepping stones when the whole problem of separation is given over to the Holy Spirit. Seen from the addicted or problem mind, they are all what the Course refers to as magic. The temptation to fix on a new healing program, add more, seemingly new information about your body type or personality type or even how you run energy is just an attempt to raise body thoughts to the level of mind. I ask myself this question: what am I looking for? Why am I searching? Searching itself is a total distraction from my function of forgiveness. Where does my certainty and safety rest? 

Everything I did before in the name of safety no longer interests me. I am safe, and I know it to be so. I have a Guide Who will not fail. And it stops there. I have the answer. It is the love I am with which I light the world.

KINDERGARTEN OR ADDICTION CLASSROOM~ IT'S ALL LEARNING...

Someone said they learned everything they needed to know from kindergarten. I learned everything I need to learn about this world, from addiction; which is basically, kindergarten.

Let me clarify. Addiction teaches one thing; you are powerless to forces outside yourself. It shows you that if you look outside yourself for what you want or need, what you get is more looking. Nothing outside you satisfies.

You learn that thinking you need something different than what is, triggers a surrender of mind to that idol. Once you think you need it, it factors into everything you do. Until you give up what you think you want for what actually is, whether you realize it or not, your mind is being subtly or blatantly influenced by the getting or addictive mechanism. Without that surrender and total shift of perception into Now, you cannot be present, so you cannot think or feel or respond to what actually is. You are merely playing out a drama of denial and fixation.

So, how is that what I need to learn, you might ask? Flipped upside-down and looked at with the Holy Spirit from above the addiction you see patterns and avenues to show you there is no half way to healing. You are either as God created or you are drunk, sleeping it off…

The thing about having an addiction identity (residual self-image) stored in the body brain is that when given over completely to the Holy Spirit, those same pathways that addiction used, can now be used in training the mind in the contrast.

Let me clarify. Addiction has definable characteristics or symptoms increasingly pronounced as the addiction persists. If you are a slow learner, and take all the advanced classes, there are certain things you will learn.  You learn for instance, how to listen; you listen carefully for the voice for addiction and take direction from it. You learn how to surrender your will to a power greater than yourself. You learn to give yourself over, and let it take you wherever it wants to take you~

You learn to notice the subtle things that either align or don’t align with its purpose. You get to know your mind real well, though much of the time you don’t want to.

Here’s the thing; what has a beginning has an end. You see first hand what nothing looks like; how blatant falseness presents its flimsy promises at high prices. And you learn, too, how willing you are to reach deep into your pockets until the price is paid; only to see the promise fade before you.

At the end of it all, in the pit of the darkness of disassociation, as annihilation ensues, something else inevitable happens. From somewhere deep within, the light of peace begins to spread, enlivening the mind in recognition of the Self that cannot be annihilated.

From within the darkness the light naturally emerges, to be seen because darkness cannot hide; falseness cannot last~ Fear cannot stand. The instant the thought of love is recognized, Love is always left standing…

My point to telling this story is that it is so easy to see how perfect it is; how the Holy Spirit has been steadfastly behind me, bringing me home to the light. When I was ready to forgive what I thought life was, when I saw that I had been wrong about everything, the Holy Spirit reinterprets all my symbols to a meaningful purpose. He now uses those same pathways (cleansed and purified) for the single purpose of salvation.

If I think I have a will apart from God, if some sort of preference or resistance construct shows up, there is the light, the light of forgiveness, right in the deep stillness of my mind, being powered by Source.

I burn through the barrier to loves awareness and get on with shining the light of gratitude for my brothers.

What was once the programming of the addiction matrix becomes reprogrammed as a forgiveness matrix. Once seen in the light of understanding, I see how those programs are being redirected to joy, toward the goal of truth.

I use your ability to listen and take direction, to listen to the Voice of God. I surrender my will to a Greater Will and lay aside judgments. I ask only for what is meaningful for the purpose of Atonement, and go willingly wherever He would have me go.

Trust develops naturally as one continually places ones faith in His direction. Alignment with the Atonement principle becomes increasingly fine-tuned.

Where I was so personally familiar with my powerlessness and aloneness, I see that alone I can do nothing, because alone I am nothing. We are not, and could not be alone. Wholeness has no separate parts. I have come to realize that I am as God created just as I recognize my brother is myself.

Self evaluation turns over in favor of God evaluation .Mastery in the art of denial is turned toward denying anything not of God as real; denying the denial of truth.

 I accept the Atonement for myself, and heal the whole Sonship as I let Him teach me to heal.…

Joy abounds for the happy learner and teacher for God.

I love you.

WOW!!!

WOW! We have completed the first round. The first fifty lessons of A Course in Miracles; complete with the integrative review. How do you feel?

I feel awesome! Read the lessons through, again; back to back, right now… CLICK ON THE FIRST FIFTY,link right NOW and READ all fifty!

 Isn’t that powerful? Can’t you feel the spirit of Atonement? Yes,

If have been showing up each day and merely taking direction, you have chosen yourself to be on Jesus’ crew. You have answered the call. Can’t you feel it? You’re not alone…. There are mighty companions along side you. You have a sense that you know, somewhere inside, Who walks with you… Yes?!

In those 50 lessons, in sixty days, you literally shed the skin of self you knew when you started 60 days ago. You are brand new.

A newborn world lies before us now. We are its ministers. We are the miracle workers that light the world with God’s Love.

Can you feel it?

I am completely in love with the statements that wrap-up the section we just went through.

“I am sustained by the Love of God. As I listen to God’s Voice, I am sustained by His Love. As I open my eyes, His Love lights up the world for me to see. As I forgive, His Love reminds me that His Son is sinless. And as I look upon he world with the vision He has given me, I remember that I am His Son.”

 

That’s where we launch today from. Brand new in mind, it is simple to follow that we are, indeed, the light of the world. So here’s the mantra:

I am the light of the world.

That is my only function.

That is why I am here.

 

 As we awaken the whole world awakens, since the world was never more than a misperception. As perception becomes whole, the single mind sees only wholeness.

Today we are ready to see with Inner Vision. We are at realizing that "physical sight" was merely an illusion of being in the dark.

The Light has come and it is time…

I’ll leave you with this, from the Clarification of Terms:

“The end is sure and guaranteed by God…You are a stranger here. But you belong to Him Who love you as He love Himself. Ask but my help to roll the stone away, and it is done according to His Will. We have begun the journey…Be now afraid. We only start again an ancient journey long ago begun…upon a road we traveled on before and lost our way a little while. And now we try again. Our new beginning has the certainty the journey lacked till now…Look up and see His Word among the stars, where He has set you Name along wit His…  and find you certain destiny…Let us wait here in silence, and kneel down an instant in our gratitude to him Who called to us and helped us hear His Call. And then let us arise and go in faith along the way to Him…”

I LOVE YOU!

HIGH BEAM~ ON! ~ MIRACLES ARE SEEN IN LIGHT...

I am surrounded by miracles.

Today was one of those days where gorgeous people around me, were calling me to share their miracle; epiphanies, insights, breakthroughs… Like I said~ MIRACLES.

One fabulous brother, a man of pure integrity, called to tell me that in the midst of his wife telling him she was moving out, he was moved inwardly. Rather than resist, ask for explanations, or whatever defense might want to arise, he rose up, above the battlefield. He simply asked the Holy Spirit to take over. He said, “This is it. This is what it is all about. In an instant when the possibility of defense right in hand, I was able to choose peace instead. I was able remain the truth of who I am and truly be actually helpful. I listened and remembered neither she nor I were the story, but kept my focus on the love we are instead.

Isn’t that awesome?

Miracles are natural. When we aren’t experiencing them, something has gone wrong.

Another dazzling brother, a dedicated and devoted women called to tell me of her recognition of her guiltlessness while recognizing it in her ex… She told me she had two amazing epiphanies.

1.      I can’t do it wrong. I’ve never done it wrong. What is, is what is.

2.      I am not alone. I have never been alone. I could never be alone. There are always others along the path to help along the way.

These are the lights the Holy Spirit turns on in our minds that reveal the path before us… the path before us. Just that, too; just this we find before us now. And that is just perfect; just enough to keep our focus on God: to keep our eye single, and shine our light.

MIRACLE!

I just got off the phone with a brother, a dynamic and stunning, vividly alive friend whom I haven’t seen or spoken with for several years.

I knew to call her.  Miracle-prompt.

Yet, we had an absolutely astonishing conversation about truth, living in true integrity, thinking in honestly and not mistaking ‘appropriate’ emotion-for-circumstance, but rather turn inward and allow the peace of God to spread the warm blanket from heart to hand…

What appeared to be a lover’s death by overdose, turned out to be a story; that when undone, left only the love that was exchanged ~Spirit in a state of grace forever.

See, MIRACLES!!!

Ah, bright and shiny beam… I’ve had the brights on all day… Miracles are seen in light… I see smiles and miracles everywhere I look.

 I love it!

I love you!

SALVATION IS THE HAPPY END GAME

SALVATION IS THE END GAME

I love house cleaning.

Yesterday, I was in the middle of waxing the hard-wood floors throughout this beautiful home of ours, thrilled to be in paradise. And the paradise of which speak was my not the house, but rather I was noticing my thoughts and watching the procession…

Here’s what I was thinking, “I love cleaning house. God is constantly on my mind when I’m cleaning and/or cooking… or listening to the children or hanging out with my husband… or talking on the phone… or walking to the library with the boys, talking to the librarian… visiting with my sisters…” I was warmed in gratitude as I found myself reviewing the day… “God is always on my mind it seems.”

I could feel the holiness of the whole exchange. So, it got me thinking. “God is always on my mind… The only time I’m not aware of God is when I not present with exactly what is right now. Example: I judge something ‘should be different than it is’. Like for instance, if I thought someone else should be helping or that I’d rather be ____ than being with exactly what actually is. You know what I mean.

We always, already, love what is… It is the distractions of false identify that give us trouble. (You know, it has that irritating, fingernails-on-blackboard itch to its voice that won’t seem to go away once you focus on it…it takes you out of now.

But more to the point, what I’m talking about is not so much being present with, say, cleaning this thing right in front of me, this floor, etc. Although for years just that kind of redirection is how I brought myself present.

Remember~There is no floor or cleaning, or me, for that matter. These are the dream and I the dreamer.

No, I am talking about the mind. I am talking about the experience of acceptance; letting all things be exactly as they are. I am talking about being free. I talking about keeping the light shining brightly so the shadows of judgment, guilt and fear have no place to hide. I am talking about keeping my mind fixed on salvation. The players and circumstances merely background the chance for salvation and to play in miracles.

Salvation is God’s game here on earth. (For God so loved the world that He gave it ‘to’ His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him shall not parish but have everlasting life.) Salvation is the game of miracles; the joyous gathering of brother to brother in happy dreams. Like Jesus says in lesson 153 “We pause a moment more, to play our final, happy game upon this earth. And then we go to take our rightful place where truth abides and games are meaningless. So is the story ended.”

Salvation is the end game here. It can be thought of as the fun game that happy children play. It is played by those who have chosen to hear God’s call for ministers and accepted the appointment. It is for those willing to forgive and forget all thoughts of hurt and sacrifice and loss. We allow all the fearful war-games we made to be replaced with happy games of Love, and certainty, and safety, and togetherness.

In light and laughter dawns the happy awareness that fear is nothing and nowhere. In God’s game everyone wins, for the concept of loss has been forgiven. And everyone’s winning is a gain to everyone.

It is an absolute ball.

It’s the only game in town. It is the only way to fly… And we soar on the wings of angels in a state of grace forever.

Thanks for playing.

I love you.

NOTHIN' LIKE GRATITUDE TO KEEP MIRACLE-MINDED ATTENTION ON GOD!

God, You are my One Source; my Only Goal, my Purpose and Meaning. May every voice but Yours be still in me. May the Holy Spirit which lights my mind help me remember my only purpose here is the salvation of the world; to  shine with  joy and teach only love, to forgive and see things differently, to give of myself as You give, and to be truly helpful. May I remember to keep the eternal light of Heaven burning brightly, shining forth for all to see and enter here, together, the arc of peace, into the gates of Heaven, now...

This world is false. Whatever the body’s eyes look on is false. It doesn’t matter if it is seemingly ‘good’ or if it seems awful. It’s not real. So there’s no point in trying to ‘fix’ or ‘change’ anything. This is what the Course means by ‘tragic in time’. Trying to affect our peace of mind by manipulating situations, events, people, even thoughts, won’t work. 

The world is false. There is no power in it. It is a projection of images outward from a story in the mind. The script for the story of separation has been written... That instant the Atonement was given. The Atonement undid it in that very instant. When we accept the Atonement for ourself, instantly  the mind is tuned to the frequency of Spirit, now reflecting a corrected version of rhe world story: the forgiven or real world…

So the only choice, the only chance at change in the world, is to let go the world we see in favor of vision. This takes place in the mind. The alignment with Spirit activates the power of the mind to the correction principle, healing miscreation by healing misperception.

So it is to the mind we must go, requesting the Holy Spirit as reinterpreter and guide, surrendering all we thought we knew and forgiving it as false, in favor of the truth.

Everything in the world is designed to take attention away from God.

That is its purpose.

The Miracle is designed to zero attention on God. Accepting our brothers as our saviors, we see we are one Mind of one Spirit, of One Source.

We bring our thinking under Jesus' guidance... A Course in Miracles is His gift to us, which is a commplete thought reversal curriculum that systematically trains our minds to return our attention to God. Through the function of forgiveness of the false, we are literally training our minds on Spirit .. Forgiveness is the most powerful tool at our disposal. It is the fast-track to the peace of Heaven Now.

Forgiveness literally realigns the mind to correction and the miracle can do what it does, collapsing time, visiting charity upon forgiver and forgiven. It virtually lifts us from the structure of time/space we were in before and drops us back in to a healed perspective that it is impossible to measure from within the perspective of the problem, well, because it is a miracle and we simple can’t understand it from within the time/space construct.

So, say for instance, I am on a seemingly direct path to destruction, say with booze, (go figure), or a destructive relationship... You know one.

Then, say I ask for a miracle and give over my life to deity. I literally die to that place and time life. The Holy Spirit picks me up and drops me into a time and space further on in my correction learning curriculum, that is appropriate for healing now. In other words, an experience totally unavailable to me, had I stayed the course I was on without accepting the miracle.  The miracle, the Course tells us, saves ‘thousands of years’ that correction would have taken otherwise.

If you’re ever having trouble coming up with the first item on your gratitude list for the day, start here! You’ve already been graced a thousand years! I love it!

Yes, I said Gratitude List.

One thing I have learned is that making gratitude lists instead of ‘to-do’ lists, gets a lot more accomplish and keeps being truly helpful at the forefront of my mind. Whereas making ‘to-do’ lists accomplishes nothing at all. It is a delay tactic of future-izing the past and making someone, usually myself, feel guilty. I’m sure you know what I mean.

So, how about it? Start making a gratitude list whenever you start thinking you need to make a to-do list. Everything will change. Gratitude places you at the disposal of the miracle. Watch the world eclipse in its light.

 Start here;

1.  I am grateful for God.

2.  I am grateful for the Atonement

3. I am grateful for Jesus

4. I am grateful for A Course in Miracles.

5. I am grateful for willingness

6. I am grateful for the transformation of my mind through forgiveness.

7. I am grateful for my brothers, who witness to Who I am, and that I witness for.

8. I am grateful for peace, now, and love always, in all ways.

9. I am grateful to see my brother guiltless and see his innocence shine.

10. I am grateful, for developing the habit of engaging with God.

11. I am grateful to have God as my only goal.

12. I am grateful I live serenely in a state of deep abiding joy; to live in freedom and happiness and clarity and right-minded willingness.

13. I am grateful to accept my appointment as a teacher of God and count myself amongst the ministers of God and the saviors of the world.

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!

 

EXUBERANCE IS LOVE'S NATURAL STATE.

I AM ABSOLUTELY BUBBLING OVER WITH GRATITUDE!

 I AM BURSTING WITH JOY AND LIGHT AND LOVE…

 EXUBERANCE IS MY NATURAL STATE.

 I LOVE IT!

I accepted the Atonement for myself… The world; its people, myself/life, shifted on its axis and spun into eternity.

Right here, right now, this moment, this holy instant of eternity... join me in the mighty crusade …Will you?

 It is inevitable. We, who never left our source, will return the mind to its up-right position… The players seemingly are the same, but the game is different. Everyone is in it to win together and no one can be left behind. Each relationship is seen as the holy moment of full healing, now. Whether it’s my turn to play, or I am witnessing the exchange of brothers, all is seen as the Self; potent and powerful and healing. My senses are fine-tuning to subtle nuances of love presence… its coin spinning on its edge of extension and request... healing both parties.

I don’t know how I didn’t see it for the longest time, looping back into the unreal… But suddenly it was so simple. I can’t believe I didn’t see it. Save it to say, that vision revealed the unreality of conflict to me.

I don’t know what your particular gig is. A major teaching device for me was a construct called alcoholism. In that curriculum, I learned that there was no compromise in choosing. It is all or nothing. You can’t think about drinking in any form and not be signing in for the next class. There are some trains of thought you just don't get on. Ones like drinking, that you don't even look at the 'travel brochure, for...  You train your mind not to go there. You deny it passage. I learned what it means to deny the power of anything not of God to hurt me. I learned to look past error to the truth of God’s creation; to deny fear and accept love.

Duh! How could I not have seen the simple generality of the training to the entire ego-thought system, right then, from the application to alcoholism, directly to everything… hard head!

Then Bing! There it was/is…

Deny anything that is not of God as real…  Deny the ability of anything not of God to affect you. This is the proper use of denial. It is not used to hide anything, but to correct error. It brings all error into the light, and since error and darkness are the same, it corrects error automatically.

True denial is a powerful protective device. You can and should deny any belief that error can hurt you. This kind of denial is not concealment but a correction. Your right mind depends on it. Denial of error is a strong defense of truth, but denial of truth results in miscreation, the projections of the ego. In the service of the right mind the denial of error frees the mind. And re-establishes the freedom of he will. When the will is really free it cannot miscreate, because it recognizes only truth.

Now here’s the transfer of training the Jesus tells us is critical to our training. With practice and application of the Course principals, apparently we ready ourselves to accept the whole change of mind~ and accept the Atonement for ourselves.

Seemingly, in the twinkling of an eye, I am now looking past conflict to the request love and my part in the miracle my love brings. My automatic response is now: How can I be helpful… I see my brothers guiltless. And see that they are my salvation. I feel my indebtedness to them as Christ and am instantly united in purpose of forgiving, blessing and saving… There is no conflict, only love is real…

Thank you.

I love you.