THE PRESENTS (PRESENCE) OF CHRISTMAS

Wow. Another year! I don't know how it is for you all, but the seemingly longer I am around, the more time seems to belong to the play of the psyche. What a gift this awareness is. I have noticed, as I'm sure you have, that time is the servant of presence. In love time stretch eternally into the now. Whereas resistance, well, it drags one back and forth through fear constructs; from past to anticipated future.

What I have seen for myself is that whenever I look into time directly, it is nowhere to be found. I find only the present of now; the attention and love which I, myself, come to this moment with, is exactly what I find.

I have chosen the path less habituated, the road less often traveled: The Joyous~Love expanse; THE PATH OF UNCONDITIONAL HAPPINESS... This is an irrefutable decision... It is unwavering.

No half measures, no yah-buts, no tomorrows... no excuses...

It is Joy Now; which is always.

I mean, why not be happy? In any situation from disappointment to death, how possibly could my choosing to be unhappy help, or even effect, the situation one iota? It can not. Furthermore, it is only when I am happy now, not burdened by worries or regrets, that I have any access to a clear mind with which to think.

Joy+faith=clarity

It is the most honest thing we can do. Choose the consummate expansive of genuine happiness! This is my invitation to human kind for 2010. Make the choice for happiness, NOW!

It's this easy. I open my heart, and keep it that way. I just keep releasing any contraction, which is merely a misunderstanding of energy. I just let go and keep letting go. I let that energy reformat to joy. I give you (everyone) back to yourself, by having no expectations or agendas 'for' you.

It is an experience of imperturbable inner peace to release the world. This release one to the recognition of being Awake now!

This is what I have delineated.

Everything is for~giving...

We are constantly given the chance to review our minds via the world around us and distinguish if we are happy with what we see, and if not, choose to see it differently, in other words change our mind. It is the science of forgiveness and I for one have never been bored a minute, nor without subjects for review.

A few years ago, I came to this analogy about the sliding effect while watching forgiveness reformat my life. It felt completely natural, whatever shifts were made, seemed like they had been there all along, no residual angst. Yet in attempting an analytical review, I could not reasonably connect the dots as to how a situation congested with guilt and shame, anger or resentment, could transform itself to one of unity and love, teeming with genuine care and kindness… How did it get that way? Perception-Slide………..

Deciding for happiness seems to be the portal…to...Peace of mind and the new world. Forgiveness imparts openness, where becoming takes a sideline to being. Point of view becomes Spirit-view…

Inadvertently, what reveals itself as well is that seeking anything outside oneness, including ‘spiritual-ness’, is the domain of the ego mind. Plain and simple.

I have felt that having children in this life has been a direct line to the purity of innocence and love (often through the main-line forgiveness I.V.).

As a parent, when anger, frustration, the desire to control outcomes, surfaces up, there’s not far to look to see the source of my discomfort.

I love you, see. So if I seem to be feeling something else, it must be that I have lost touch with my love. Which incidentally, is what I am and you are. In other words, I have slipped into amnesia, and forgotten who I/we are…. I wish only to re-member us…

The forgiveness is the perception magic button which invites the miracle of love to correct our unbelief in both our divinity. This frees us to respond generously to the ever-increasing desire to give all to all.

This reflection of our absolute oneness with each other rests certainly in our mind, as the memory that we are at the same time one with God.

How joyous it is to feel certain. Forever in peace.

It is the way of joy… There’s nothing personal about it.

We come to see that, truly, our thoughts are images that we have made, allows us to look deeper, feel deeper, trust deeper… into the stillness of Love...the certainty of God…. … The pure joy of unconditional happiness!

This is my Christmas prayer: May we recognize the light of joy within us as the Christmas Star it is and make the unbreakable vow to live the life of unconditional happiness and shine our light for everyone, everywhere to see.

Merry Christmas ~ Thank you~ I love you~

FIVE SIMPLE RULES TO BE HAPPY

• Below is the yummiest share... (Thanks Brian!) 

It totally follows the lessons we have been focusing on as of late.

1. Our part is essential: forgive and forget

2. God's Will and ours are one: Perfect happiness!

3. Love is also happiness

4. Truth belongs to us: Joy and Peace are ours

5. Give all and recieve all

~~~~~SO CHECK OUT THIS STORY~~~ENJOY~~~~~~~

 A 92 year-old, petite, well-poised and proud man, who is fully dressed each morning by eight o'clock, with his hair fashionable combed and shaved perfectly, even though he is legally blind, moved into a nursing home today...

His wife of 70 years recently passed away, making the move encessary. After many hours of waiting patiently in the lobby of the nursing home, he smiled sweetly when told his room was ready. 

As he maneuvered his walker to the elevator, I provided a visual description of his timy room, including the eyelet sheets that had been hung on his window. 

"I love it", he stated with the enthusiasm of an eight year-old having just been presented with a new puppy.  "Mr. Jones, "You haven't seen the room; just wait." 

"That doesn't have anything to do with it.", he replied. 

Happiness is something you decide on ahead of time. Whether I like my room or not doesn't depend on how the funiture is arranged; it's how I arrange my mind. I already decided to love it. It's a decision I make every morning when I wake up. I have a choice; I can spend the day in bed recounting the difficulty I have with the parts of my body that no longer work, or get out of bed and be thankful for the ones that do.

"Remember the five simple rules to be happy:

1. Free your heart from hatred.

2. Free your mind from worries.

3. Live simply.

4. Give more. 

5. Expect nothing."

MIND AWAKE~ I LOVE IT!

I love this book "I Am That" by Nisargadatta Maharaj

I highly recommend it. 

Here are a few yummy quotes about being awake, I think you'll love. 

"To see clearly, your mind must be pure and unattached. 

Unless you know yourself well, how can you know another? 

And when you know yourself-~ you are the other". 

"You are the Self, here and now. Leave the mind alone, stand aware and

unconcerned and you will realize that to stand alert but detached,

watching events come and go, is an aspect of your real nature".

"Past and future are in the mind only - I am now".

~Nisaragadatta Maharaj

I LOVE YOU.

MY SALVATION~ AMAZING GRACE

A friend sent this gorgeous film out (thanks Brian). I remembered it while doing the lesson this morning so please click on the link below and join me in celebrating our salvation:

http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid271552717/bctid1913313052

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.

LOVEDANÉT

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

~lao tzu 

I absolutely love that quote!  Don’t you? Deep within, we all do know.  And we know we know; if only we would remember… yes?

Several years ago, I started to use the pseudonym or pen name: lovedanét

Using it reminds me of what I am and the reason I am here. I am only love, all love, and here to love. Lovedanét is a mission statement of sorts. LOVEDANÉT IS:

LOVE

L~ love, life

O~ one, open

V~ vision, vivacious 

E~ enlighten, energy

DANÉT

D~ Divine, delight

A~ Atonement, absolute

N~ Now, Namaste

E~ Eternal, equality

T~ Trust, totality

Isn’t that fun?

Find yours….HAVE FUN!

 

“The Holy Spirit, ever practical in His wisdom, accepts your dreams and uses them as a means for waking. You would have used them to remain asleep. I said before that the first change, before dreams disappear, is that your dreams of fear are changed to happy dreams.” ~Chapter 18

ABOVE THE BATTLEGROUND INTO THE FEILD OF HAPPINESS

I am for God. It is so simple. It is a decision for what is truly natural. There is no process to it. It is a present moment decision born out of willingness.

When the desire for otherness/specialness/me-ness has been let go, ones natural identity in God emerges as a single light of joyous identity. It is the frequency of love... Seek only the kingdom of Heaven and all else is added unto… Why? Because, this is not really seeking at all, but rather waking-up. It is remembering the present, which is the presence of God.

Forgiven, the past is literally forgotten as a point of identity. It (the past) takes on the essence of remembering a dream or a movie you watched.  

You know what I mean. We’ve all had miracles that have allowed us to see or remember something from an entirely opposite perspective, and with gratitude for it.  Miracles heal our identity with woundology. We forget the idea of harm as we accept our invulnerability in God.

Now, is experienced as the eternal fresh moment of love’s abundance.

This is the only happiness there really is. Yes? Yes! Here’s why. God is… This is the one Reality that unveils joy and laughter and peace, impervious certainty and imperturbability. It is the experience of PERFECT HAPPINESS.

I LOVE IT!

To have all this, be it. It  but requires a wholehearted decision. To be as God created. In people-talk, that is love; think love, think light, look only for that everywhere. You will see what you expect to see. I know.

It takes no time at all. In fact, it is the belief in time that keeps looping us back into the dream, on the battlefield.

Here’s the trick! Rise above time and all the constructs that make the world. Rise into thoughts of God and love and light. Think of timelessness, limitlessness, changeless, eternal completion.

Check it out for yourself. It always works. If we do it, it works. This is what the Course is training us to do. 

Here is the mind we share with God. Now is the Holy Spirit viable in our lives.

What happened for me is that I finally realized that what the Course says that if you don’t hear the Voice for God it is because you don’t choose to listen was true. I simply valued trying more than being. Time, more than eternity, little ‘me’ more the Grandeur of God.

Here’s the point though. That didn’t make me happy. And, after all aren’t we all (ignorant to it though we may be) just trying to be happy? Isn’t that the end game?

The only thing that has ever given me true happiness is God.

I accepted the Atonement for myself. Period. That is the end game of this world.

The idea of God rises us up. It is a joining in the most simple of terms.

Here is where I live. It is where I was created and what I was created as. I am as God created me.

 I am the energy of love extended and extending naturally. I am only light. I am pure Spirit. These thoughts lift the mind into its creative agreement with God.

Naturally, all one wants to do now is shine that recognition forth. Here is where we see that our brothers give us the chance to give the gift of miracles. We get to be helpful through the Holy Spirit and save the world. Gratitude abounds... 

We are Christ. And we are not alone...

All Glory to God.

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!

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.

 

MIND TRAVEL

My mind is part of God’s. I am very holy.

I’m like a lighthouse in the fog, shining the light I share with God for the weary traveler. Often, the weary traveler has been me. Yet, however dimly, or seldom; passionately of often I turned toward it, it is always on...

You can’t really loose your way. You can sure convince yourself you have, sicken and dishearten yourself. Believe me I’ve run the whole sad story out. You could even kill the body off to prove you’re right, but it’s all just a dark and scary dream.

The instant you turn in the true direction; the light is on.  There, within range is the lighthouse guiding you home. 

So forgive and go home.

There is virtually nothing you can do to affect the past. 

Nothing!

Why concern yourself with it?

 Why wish it would have gone differently?

Why ruminate about what was said and what you wish you would have said?

It’s past.

Why hope it doesn’t affect negatively on how someone sees you or on future events.

They don’t exist.

They’re not here and now, and you’re not there.

Why not concern yourself with the facts?

1. I am mind.

2. My mind is part of God’s.

3. I am very holy.

4. I am not this person that experienced the thing in the past.

5.  I am not here.

6. I am mind asleep; projecting error and making up stories.

Or

 I am mind awake; extending love and creating with my Creator…

I see what and where I believe I am.

I am the thought of God.

Always have been~ always will be.

My mind is part of God’s. I am very holy.

Now doesn’t that make life so much more fun?

Together, we say YES! to God…

I love you.                                                                               1.

 

GOD IS... NOW!

I LOVE LOOKING AT GOD.

GOD IS IN EVERYTHING I SEE.

Here is what I came to realize through my commitment to follow Jesus on the path appointed me, A Course in Miracles. Seeing God is a present moment experience. It is not a function of the physical eyes. It is, however, the purpose of the physical eyes in this world, used as a communication device for the Love of God. The alignment with purpose is the authoritative directive. 

It is only the identification with a set of ideas (ego) which are in competition with the Real, or God, that pulls the wool over our eyes, denying the truth. This identity shows us our stories of trying to see, while attempting to ensure its own survival.

 For me, it starts with the commitment to see as God would have me see, above all else.

Try this little exercise for fun. It works for me:

Take a look at what is in front of you; these words, that face, those hands, the chair you’re sitting on… Now, close your eyes and shake off the images you just saw. Toss out every idea you have of what you thought you saw, every judgment and evaluation perception showed you, and open your mind.  Feel the love that remains beneath and within.

Now, look again. See, God is right there in front of you, in the paper, your hands, the cat, the wall... God can't be missed. 

It is Christ within that does the looking for us. We just do what the lesson tells us to do.

It is as simple as that. I clear my mind and be present here, now. It is His Presence that does the seeing for me. God is all there is. Everything else is a dream.  Wake up now and see! This is the invitation of today’s lesson.

This is the only time. And today’s lesson invites us to experience God, now!

I finally realized that there is no future moment, when I’ll be more prepared... The future never happens. Everything happens now. The experience I'd  been waiting for happens right now … 

God is in everything I see.

Whether we accept the invitation or not, God is in each and everything we see. It couldn’t be anything else. We’re looking at God when we look at the inanimate as well as our children, friends and strangers. God is every one of them. He is in every thing and every moment and a beyond.

God is in everything...

He’s everywhere. Look and see. Doesn’t that feel right? Like Love is in the air...Like everything is perfect now. 

It’s absolutely enlivening, isn’t it?

That’s the experience of God.

Today’s lesson says: “Try to begin to learn to look on all things with love, appreciation, and open-mindedness.”

I love this idea, why not love everything? It just feels better. And it improves your sight taboot.

God is in everything I see, in you and me…

I love you.

 

PERSONAL DELUSION OR THE FACE OF CHRIST: The art and science of seeing…

Above all else I want to see this differently.

Here’s my life.

I see things differently. I see them differently than I did yesterday. I see things differently than I did last month, last year, a decade ago, than I did in my childhood.

The question is how open my mind is.

I am in Heaven. Right now.

From here, everything looks basically the same; a bunch of forms shimmering in the light of love.

Then there are the times when I find myself smack-dab in a personal story, and actually believing for a minute that it matters.

The thing about a wholehearted commitment to follow Jesus and learn the skill set of A Course in Miracles is that I am never more than an instant away from recognizing the classroom for what it is. Forgiveness is always at the ready, lighting the back of my mind. I forgive the personal delusion I place in front of the face of Christ and trust vision to reveal the truth.

There is only love. This I know. This world is a world of perception. Period.  There are no classifications; right or wrong, good or bad. They are exactly the same~ false. Only the truth is true. What I perceive doesn’t matter. It is what I perceive with that does. I set the goal at the beginning and decide to look upon the face of Christ.

I love the classroom analogy. I am on a mission from God.  My life is the classroom where I, taking direction from my teacher, apply the lessons to whatever seems to happen. None of it matters. It is a curriculum.

If you don’t take it personally, you can just take direction. Curriculum isn’t personal. It is a means to an end.

Here’s a case in point for you. When I was in college taking psychology courses and learning about diagnosis and mental illness, whatever particular disorder we were learning about, I met the criteria. I began to think, “OMG, I have a borderline personality disorder. I’m totally narcissistic. I am obsessive-compulsive…what the bleep do I think I’m doing becoming a therapist?”

Then my instructor told us that everybody displays some of these characteristics. And I was like, “whew”, and let it go.

See, now that’s all we have to do with the ‘disorder’ we call our personal life, our perceptual world. LISTEN TO OUR INSTRUCTOR and quit taking it personally.

I am only light.

You and I are One Love united in our Creator.

I love you.

COMMUNICATION WITH GOD IS LIFE

Pick an experience… any experience. I pick resistance.

Resistance is funny, yet an effect tool deployed by the dark side. You want to do something that, when you do it, you feel awesome about yourself, but the mere decision to act makes your limbs go numb. Your mind goes blank and it seems you can’t remember why you wanted to do it in the first place. Any other time seems like it would probably be a better time for you. Why did you tell yourself you‘d so it anyway? You wish you hadn’t made the promise to yourself, because the one thing you are sure of is that if you cop out now, you’ll once again feel the horrid flogging of self betrayal. It’s just the program hard-wired into the world we see… That’s the merry-go-round.

I can escape the world I see, by giving up attack thoughts.

Resistance always means that I am in doubt of what I should do. I have made a decision by myself and created an agenda. This then furthermore must be fulfilled, because by doing this I am assigning it the value of my (and everyone’s) worth. It is the attraction to guilt. I have decided wrongly. I am not at peace. I made the decision by myself so I must now decide to ask the Holy Sprit to decide for God for me. I think of His presence in me and remember:

He leadeth me and knows the way which I know not. Yet he will never keep from me what He would have me learn. And so I trust Him to communicate to me all that He knows for me...

I let Him teach me quietly how to perceive my guiltlessness, which is already there. Learning applies only to the condition in which it happens of itself.

To escape the world pain, replaced by the happy world of forgiveness, which is already there, I but accept my brother’s quiltlessness. This is my atonement.

This is the same really as today’s lesson.

I can escape the world I see, by giving up attack thoughts.

Ya know, in this world we resist giving anything up, yes? What the Atonement shows me is that what I thought was real, that I give up, is not real, but that behind that shadow is the world I want.

I give up my attack thought and the light of my brother’s guiltlessness comes flooding in my mind. Truth is offered first to be received, even as God gave it first to His Son.

I apply the lesson; I can escape the world I see by giving up my attack thoughts about…….. I forgive and see the guiltlessness of all concerned within the apparent situation and peace is restored…

This is, as the Course says, when Atonement becomes real and visible.

I LOVE IT!

COMMUNICATION WITH GOD IS LIFE…

THANK YOU!

I LOVE YOU!

I CAN SEE CLEARLY NOW~ THE RAIN IS GONE…

Whatever shows up in my life; persons, situations, events, circumstances, show up exactly as they do for a reason. It does so because I have within me, the answer of highest good which each person involved is capable of at the moment. This is the life of the miracle worker. Today’s lesson is: I am determined to see things differently. It works. It shifts the world as you know it. I am living this paradigm shift on a daily basis. I am a living demonstration. What once I would have met with frustration, I am now meeting with wonder and curiosity. Isn’t that something? It is because of an uncompromising decision to see differently. It’s funny ~I mean, I'm right here, laughing about this. 

I see that I don’t have to make any decisions about anything. In fact, I really can’t. I determined to see differently and I what I receive is the clear picture of what to do next each circumstance that arises. The course tells us that we will be shown very specifically what to do and where to go, the moment it is needed so that time isn’t relevant. That’s the miracle in action. Yah! I shine brightly as the light of the world. This is the way I pay it forward for the gratitude I have and will have for perfect guidance in whatever circumstance and wherever He would have me be.

 I set forth the faith that I am here only to be truly helpful, and trust. 

So I am certain that whatever shows up, that’s what I’m there for. I feel/breathe the surety of exactly what the miracle-workers creed in chapter 2 of the text states. Here it is: I am here only to be truly helpful I am to represent Him Who sent me. I do not have to worry about what to say or what to do, because He who sent me 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 will there be light, and I shine... My face beams with welcome. After all Jesus is right there beside me, coaching my every thought...I love it!

I LOVE YOU! THANKS!

ISN’T THAT AWESOME!

My life is awesome. Now, I use this word, awesome, not as in awe of my life, but in awe of the recognition of my Creator. I notice that I keep using the word awesome in my life to describe everything. I use it to answer every call and express every sentiment. It’s like I don’t have an entire repertoire of adjectives at my disposal. But in actuality, what’s happening is that I’m so very grateful to see with the light of love. I am totally in wonder as to what will unfold next in my life; this day or hour, or even moment. On a clear day, you can see forever!!! IT AWESOME!!! I LOVE IT! Having said that, I want to note that I don’t know how it works for you. But boy, darkness creeps up on me, and before I realize it (way before) I’m not in my right mind and I can’t figure out what went wrong. It is astounding how completely complicated perception can make things seem. Now, I know you might be thinking about right now that the first clue should have been the idea that I could figure anything out, let alone ‘what went wrong’… But, for me, denial is surely an old comfortable shoe. Definitely the shoe is completely worn through on the sole and the stitching is falling apart at the seams, but something in my mind doesn’t want to do what it takes to break in a new pair… As painful as it is with all the rubble getting in and the frostbite and all, my mind’s capacity to ignore the facts amazes me… And that lack of presence effects everything. I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my thoughts… I bless everyone in every moment by my presence; my light and love. Or I damn everyone to misery by my lack of presence and regurgitation of the dirge of death… Awake~ I light the world through my right thinking. Asleep~ I see only shadows of nothingness… I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my thoughts. I wanted to talk about this cuz this morning during my meditation and lesson practice time; I began thinking of living in Vegas, and in particular, why it was that I loved living there, and what it was that crystallized my mind to loving it as a place/homestead, so much so that I didn’t want to give it up, even after the body had moved to the new location. And here’s the thing I saw. I gave over my life to God in absolute surrender of the self I’d made; admitting to complete and utter failure as a human being. I accepted whatever came. The miracle literally lifted my mind from form to content. The specifics of my life were completely irrelevant to me~ I wanted only to serve God. I knew I was only here to shine my light. I felt my presence was not only enough, but the essential ingredient in every situation. I associate Vegas with that beautiful time of freedom, light and love. Now here’s where it got tricky… In associating the bright, changeless, eternal presence of love with a time/space element placed my mind at the disposal of lower level or contracted thinking. Before I knew it I was having preferences, judgments and justifications and excuses and then fogging up my mind with denial about the same. And for quite some time I felt pretty darn good... all but for a sort of nagging feeling of off-ness… ‘Like a splinter in my mind’… The thing about making the decision to give your life to God, and listen to His Voice, is that you really can’t hang out in denial that you need forgiveness, for long, without that denial driving you mad. ”As this (the better way) recognition becomes firmly established, it becomes a turning-point. This ultimately reawakens spiritual vision, simultaneously weakening the investment in spiritual sight… “The alternating investment in the two levels of perception is usually experienced as conflict, which can become very acute. But the outcome is as certain as God. Spiritual vision literally cannot see error, and merely looks for the Atonement. All solutions the physical eye seeks dissolve. Spiritual vision looks within and recognizes immediately that the altar has been defiled and needs to be repaired and protected. Perfectly aware of the right defense it passes over all others, looking past error to truth. Because of the strength of its vision, it brings the mind into its service. This re-establishes the power of the mind and makes it increasingly unable to tolerate delay, realizing that it only adds unnecessary pain. As a result, the mind becomes increasingly sensitive to what it would once have regarded as very minor intrusions of discomfort”. So that splinter in my mind started driving me mad. And I recognized a restoration to right mind was needed… After all, “The children of God are entitled to the perfect comfort that comes from perfect trust…” Ahhhhh…. “The basic decision of the miracle-minded is not to wait on time any longer than is necessary. Time can waste as well as be was be wasted". Now here’s how groovy this is: I changed my mind. No more half measures; no more 99% I give 100% of my life to being the light of the world. I dedicate 100% to being a minister for God. I devote 100% of my presence to being truly helpful I accept 100% responsibility for everything. I offer 100% forgiveness. I love you ~100% I quit playing at salvation, and quit playing God and I accept the Atonement for myself~100% The Course tells me that the Holy Spirit needs happy learners… I say sign me up; where and when you will… I trust the means God has appointed… I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my thoughts ISN’T THAT AWESOME!