Only Love is Real~All the rest is just so much silly noise...

Gosh, it’s been a while since I posted on this blog.

Vacation was perfect. While in Salt Lake, holy encounters ruled the day. Many old friends and new showed up for luscious communion, delightful gatherings and miracles all around. We laughed a lot. One friend shared the following poem:

Hokusai says Hokusai says look carefully. He says pay attention, notice. He says keep looking, stay curious. He says there is no end to seeing He says look forward to getting old. He says keep changing, you just get more who you really are. He says get stuck, accept it, repeat yourself as long as it is interesting. He says keep doing what you love. He says keep praying. He says every one of us is a child, every one of us is ancient every one of us has a body. He says every one of us is frightened. He says every one of us has to find a way to live with fear. He says everything is alive -- shells, buildings, people, fish, mountains, trees, wood is alive. Water is alive. Everything has its own life. Everything lives inside us. He says live with the world inside you. He says it doesn't matter if you draw, or write books. It doesn't matter if you saw wood, or catch fish. It doesn't matter if you sit at home and stare at the ants on your veranda or the shadows of the trees and grasses in your garden. It matters that you care. It matters that you feel. It matters that you notice. It matters that life lives through you. Contentment is life living through you. Joy is life living through you. Satisfaction and strength is life living through you. He says don't be afraid. Don't be afraid. Love, feel, let life take you by the hand. Let life live through you.

Words to live by, yes?

How absolutely blessed I am! Thank you, all my holy companions.  

  I have felt inspired to play with my new blog. It is about the addiction to the body. I am using a different blogging system, so there is a lot for me to learn. And I am loving learning about it. Here’s the link if you want to check it out. 

THE LOVE DIET MIRACLE BLOG

 HEALING THE BODY/FOOD GAME LOVE’S WAYI 

“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

Love and gratitude over-flowing…

 

 

  

 

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!

 

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.

LISTEN AND LOVE...

I love God. I am learning to hear only His Voice. It’s like listening through a translator for the language of tongues.  So everything my brother’s say is some expression of love… My job is to listen only for that.

When the goal of purpose is singular, which is God, it re-establishes the premise within the mind. Then everything shifts on its axis. The entire experience of the dream becomes a watching from mind, an experience as the dreamer of the dream. And though bodies and things animate within the dream, one is awake to the fact of being the dreamer. As consistency of choice remains steady, each encounter within the dream is brought into the touchstone of truth where it’s assimilation into the whole of love, is accepted as inevitable.

One can only see from the premise assigned by God. It is NOW! It is only Now where God speaks to His Son though the Holy Spirit within mind. It is the Eternal Now; outside the construct of time and space, where communication has never ceased... NOW: unending present peace ~ the presence of God ~ where stillness and quiet are the language of the day and calm extends…forever, now. It speaks the experience of certainty already completed ~ of love all encompassing… where stresses “need not be”…

We can’t leave this Mind~ it is not of our making. Though imagination has tried to pretend a scenario “apart”, this quiet haven will not go away. Haven’t you noticed? Every time you turn around, turn inward, there it is ~ “The Kingdom of God is within ~ the Kingdom of God IS”… and God is the experience of communication. Receiving is my job. Tune-in and God speaks to me always, already now…

As various needs and problems seem to arise throughout the day, we see our special flavor of attachments and aversions, which merely are an attempt to disguise the underlying belief in scarcity. When tuned to the Holy Spirit frequency, those specialties then become the backdrop to forgive; shine the light and happily fulfill the function given us by God.

Now, this can appear much sketchier than I am making out, I know.  The ego puts out a diverse procession of requirements (Hierarchy of needs). It’s trick and slight of hand is to get you to look without at what it is displaying, so you’ll loose your perspective of premise and forget you’re not really here and that the seeming problem appearing is for the purpose of remembering where the solution lies; within the mind, with the Holy Spirit’s perception of abundance inherent in who we are.

 As we consistently choose His guidance and Purpose all specific needs are resolved, often without our even realizing it at the time. The idea of needs eventually dissolves into a single awareness of love, as all the tentacles of scarcity are released and forgiven.

Everything that appears on the stage of life has but one origin. It is an authority issue. It is not past. The past is, well, past. It is nowhere. The problem is a present decision to usurp the power of God. It is the present decision to author oneself. It is merely confusion of identity and has absolutely  nothing to do with the myriad forms and issues that seem so important to solve in the world.

We are training our minds to determinately look and listen within, to fine-tune to the Voice of Reality; to trust, to love, to truth… It is totally opposite in every way to the way the ego has it hard-wired. But the Holy Spirit will systematically rewire the system according to our willingness and trust. Subsequently, we learn to rely only on the truly reliable. And God’s Will is what is reliable. We come to recognize our total dependence on God with infinite gratitude fuelling our being.

We can lean back and trust for the Voice for God is always communicating exactly what we need to hear…I LOVE IT!

When the goal of purpose is singular, which is God, it re-establishes the premise within the mind. Then everything shifts on its axis. The entire experience of the dream becomes a watching from mind, an experience as the dreamer of the dream. And though bodies and things animate within the dream, one is awake to the fact of being the dreamer. As consistency of choice remains steady, each encounter within the dream is brought into the touchstone of truth where it’s assimilation into the whole of love, is accepted as inevitable.

One can only see from the premise assigned by God. It is NOW! It is only Now where God speaks to His Son though the Holy Spirit within mind. It is the Eternal Now; outside the construct of time and space, where communication has never ceased... NOW: unending present peace ~ the presence of God ~ where stillness and quiet are the language of the day and calm extends…forever, now. It speaks the experience of certainty already completed ~ of love all encompassing… where stresses “need not be”…

We can’t leave this Mind~ it is not of our making. Though imagination has tried to pretend a scenario “apart”, this quiet haven will not go away. Haven’t you noticed? Every time you turn around, turn inward, there it is ~ “The Kingdom of God is within ~ the Kingdom of God IS”… and God is the experience of communication. Receiving is my job. Tune-in and God speaks to me always, already now…

As various needs and problems seem to arise throughout the day, we see our special flavor of attachments and aversions, which merely are an attempt to disguise the underlying belief in scarcity. When tuned to the Holy Spirit frequency, those specialties then become the backdrop to forgive; shine the light and happily fulfill the function given us by God.

Now, this can appear much sketchier than I am making out, I know.  The ego puts out a diverse procession of requirements (Hierarchy of needs). It’s trick and slight of hand is to get you to look without at what it is displaying, so you’ll loose your perspective of premise and forget you’re not really here and that the seeming problem appearing is for the purpose of remembering where the solution lies; within the mind, with the Holy Spirit’s perception of abundance inherent in who we are.

 As we consistently choose His guidance and Purpose all specific needs are resolved, often without our even realizing it at the time. The idea of needs eventually dissolves into a single awareness of love, as all the tentacles of scarcity are released and forgiven.

Everything that appears on the stage of life has but one origin. It is an authority issue. It is not past. The past is, well, past. It is nowhere. The problem is a present decision to usurp the power of God. It is the present decision to author oneself. It is merely confusion of identity and has absolutely  nothing to do with the myriad forms and issues that seem so important to solve in the world.

We are training our minds to determinately look and listen within, to fine-tune to the Voice of Reality; to trust, to love, to truth… It is the totally opposite in every way to the way the ego has it hard-wired. But the Holy Spirit will systematically rewire the system according to our willingness and trust. Subsequently, we learn to rely only on the truly reliable. And God’s Will is what is reliable. We come to recognize our total dependence on God with infinite gratitude fuelling our being.

We can lean back and trust for the Voice for God is always communicating exactly what we need to hear…I LOVE IT!

 

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!

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.

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.

 

TO PEACE OR NOT TO PEACE: That is the Question~

To peace or not to peace; that is the question…

I love how the thing about doing the Course lessons as daily methodology for life, is you come to see how, every day, each lesson, is always, exactly the best possible guide for your day.

It trains your mind not to think that the day is real.

But rather that you are.

 Haven’t you noticed? If you apply the lesson to whatever is happening, you feel yourself transported from form or the space/time construct and directly into content or mind. And that’s where you find your Self and the Holy Spirit/God construct.

Mind is where the peace is; the joy and happiness as well. Mind is the activating agent of Spirit and Spirit is always, already completion in God.

So I love doing the lessons.

It never gets boring or monotonous. Spirit is always fresh. And I am always brand new.

My life is delivered as a wonder to my mind. Hence, AWESOME!

So, case in point…

You all know how my family just moved to a new and perfect home/location. Well, being as it is a 100 year old home in the historic district, about the first thing I did was call the cable company to make sure we would be able to get cable for internet. (Major part of the family’s world, yes?...) They were awesome, of course, and assured me there was no problem. They told me that there had once been cable there and it would be hooked-up on move-in day. Yeah!

Turns out~ not quite the case. It seems a trench will have to be dug and the cable run underground through the back yard. This is done by a different company. Then the cable company can come back and run it into the house and hook us up....

Awesome, huh~ Perfect chance to see peace instead of the contraction that might have arisen.

So peace it is!

So, I didn’t post yesterday, sending my true communication of peace and love through the constantly reliable air-waves of the Holy Spirit mind-link. Well, you know…I felt your hook-up as well…

Today, I am going over to the library or Starbucks or some place with wi-fi and see what opportunities to heal and teach healing the Holy Spirit has in store for me in my travels.

Everybody just loves to have the opportunity to be helpful and they love to respond with solutions to someone expressing a loving mind, asking for assistance. I can’t wait!

Life is totally an adventure! Thanks for coming with me.

I love you.

MOVIN' IN JOY~THE NEW PERSPECTIVE

Love is only perspective that gives happiness. Because it is the joyful perspective.

God’s Will for us is perfect happiness. What does not bring joy, is not of God.

The ego, or the joyless perspective is not seeing at all. It is the addictive regurgitation of the separation, and attack God and on ourselves.

Let me give a common example. 

You’re driving down the freeway and singing away to ‘The Beatles’, say. Traffic starts to slow… things start feeling like slow motion. You can see flashing ambulance lights.

What do you do?

Let’s be honest here.

Do you start getting agitated, feeling personally violated, blaming whatever driver that seems the slowest and unconscious? Does a little gory fascination fantasy start running in your mind, wondering how many people got hurt and how bad~ sorta looking forward to checking it out?

… That’s how the ego operated. It’s got the personality on rote. This keeps us from seeing what’s really going on. Keep us from checking with our Source as to what is going on. What it is for and how we could be helpful.

What’s going on is a call for love and healing. This could look a lot of different ways in form. We are looking to content now. The form is not what’s real here. The unification of the purpose of love is.

Do you check within at your love wheel as to how you can be helpful? Do you see the slowing in traffic as more time with ‘The Beatles’ and sing away? Do you bless all the drivers with love and smiles?  Do you trust your brothers and the Holy Spirit and forgive any contractions that arise?

There is another way of looking at the world…

Today is moving day for my family and me. We’ve been having a ball.

The whole experience has been a witness for me of a shift in perspective.

As I have said here before, I was resisting living where I am and allowed a preference to live somewhere else to fog my mind. I could tell by the way I felt that my premise for viewing was off. I felt listless and living in limbo… the raging joy was missing.

Once I saw it for the detour into hell that it was, I CHANGED MY MIND!

The world changed with it! The world literally shifted on its axis and everyone in it shifted…

I found this absolutely perfect yummy house in just the perfect location. Everyone in the family loves it! From there, everything has gone like clockwork. It’s awesome! The boys said that doing the whole move thing was like being on a TV show like survivor or amazing race…

Love and a unified purpose of joy is fueling it.

There is another way of looking at the world…

Thank you.

I love you.

Attacking Invulnerability~ Guilt hides Christ from your sight, for it is the denial of the blamelessness of God's Son.

There is no way to identify with being a human being and feel invulnerable. The world projected from that identity is one of attack. It was made, after all, as an attack on God; as an attempt to establish authorship of myself and God. It is the quintessential mark of the separation. It is the compulsive need to be right.

The journey to the cross was the last foolish journey, Jesus asks that I but accept it as my own, and join his resurrection. This means I can literally discontinue in the hopeless repetitive compulsive attempts to re-enact the separation, the loss of power, the ridiculous attempts, as identified with the ego, to restore innocence through attacking myself through guilt or quilting  (murdering) my brothers in self-defense. …

I love this line from chapter 4:  “Do not make the pathetic human error of "clinging to the old rugged cross." The only message of the crucifixion is in respect for man's ability to OVERCOME the cross. Unless he does so, he is free to crucify himself as often as he chooses.” 

My real worth is in my divine authorship. Jesus can only guide me from my ego if I am identify myself, however briefly, as Spirit; the guiltless Son of God. That is the essence of what I have come to.

It is only when I am identified with God; Christ and the sonship that I experience freedom from the impending vulnerability of a guilty past and the subsequent retribution or reciprocity. These are part of the time/space belief in separation.

The Son of God rests in the eternal now, and I am God’s Son, as He created. I identify with Spirit which is in a state of grace. This opens my mind to re-learn the meaning of the world… as well as my part in its salvation. I know that I don’t understand what anything means…and, I don’t try to understand. I ask, “How can I be helpful?”

I world I see reflects the thoughts I hold in my mind about what I think I am. Period.

I am only light. And I am here to light the world with the happy message of Atonement. I, personally, have no clue how to do this… WOW!

I just know that this is the only job I want. It is the only thing I believe in anymore. It’s the only thing I believe has any chance of lasting happiness and the only thing that brings me joy… always, constantly ~ NOW, always already….

I follow in the way appointed me by Jesus. The method given me that spells it out is A Course in Miracles. Thank you, Jesus.

It’s a matter of practice and repetition, practice and repetition. No one, including Jesus/Holy Spirit can do it for me. Prayer is not enough. The habit of engaging with God is developed the same way all my personal ‘comfort’ habits, like ‘attack to stave off vulnerability, were developed. Practice and repetition.

I have a standing appointment with God, to come as Spirit, first thing every morning. I get up at the wee hours as a dedication to the lack of interference and I get still. I have been doing this one act, even when I was hung-over and ashamed, since the beginning of my relationship with A Course in Miracles, over 20 years ago.

It’s a habit.

So too is the habit of getting still and turning inward when I truly want peace. When the world around me does not seem like it is my fault, I have the habit of looking inward at my thoughts and asking for another way of perceiving.

I had no language, except maybe the beggar’s cry, with which to talk to God when I first started this date with Jesus, called A Course in Miracles. The Course took my symbols and washed them clean, rearranged them in a way that felt honest and let them flow like love through my mind and lips.

It’s funny, even as a child, I knew deep down that all the apologizing and making promises and pleading were not what God would have of me, but what I need to do for myself. But I had no other point of reference that didn’t feel phony. Eventually, I quit trying. I had taught myself I was too ashamed to show up again with the same old dirge. See: practice and repetition. That’s how it’s done in this world.

I have a habit of using the lessons to correct my thinking, and restore my mind to peace. So I keep doing them. It’s a stabilizing recommitment to my singular purpose in God.

My attack thoughts attack my invulnerability. Today’s lesson shows me how t identify where attack thoughts are currently operating in my life and how to loosen there grip. I love it. It works every time! Don’t take my word for it. Try it yourself.

Try it yourself, try making and keeping a standing date with God; praying in gratitude that the answer is given. Appreciating everything as is; letting all things be exactly as they are… trust…

Practice and repeat. Practice and repeat.

 I love you.

PURPOSE IS MEANING

You know what really simplified things for me. Purpose is the only choice. That statement right there! Purpose assigns meaning. What is it for? What do I want and how much do I want it? These questions from the Course have been a steady blue-print for me toward clarity. If I want the light of understanding, I ask; what is the meaning of what I perceive? What is it for? What do I want and how much do I want it? This stills my mind so I can here the voice for God answer.

His purpose is the only one I am interested in. All joy comes from doing Gods Will.

The rest the so-called choices are not really choices at all. They are the voluntary re-forgetting of meaning. It is a willing addiction to the authority problem. All meaning is found in God.

And my purpose in this world is to forgive the world all that I assigned it to be. I give over every meaning I have to be reinterpreted by the One who know what meaning is. I forget what I though it was and wait for the Holy Spirit to show me how I can be helpful.

I hold in memory only the loving thoughts exchanged in what I call my past, or fantasies of the future, and shine the light.

I have a purpose God would have me fill.

I’ve given up voluntary dis-spiriting. Where once I gave over to temptation, I now quickly forgive, forget, and get on with the business at hand, blessing the world with holiness. I look for the face of Christ as a replacement for what I once thought I saw. I have joined Jesus in the only purpose I can see in the world. I merely follow him.

My willingness brought miracles and the experience of the power of love as communication through miracles. This then, brings about the proper alignment with purpose, which makes being vigilant for only God and His kingdom, increasingly desirable and natural. Re-acquaintance with the Self is inevitable and as certain as God. And here’s where it gets fun. Once you know yourself, you are free. The choice is made to stand in the singular purpose of Love and join the mighty companions on the way home. I love it!

Joy to the world forgiveness unveils!

Look at this gorgeous passage from chapter 30 of the text. It is just too beautiful. Listen:

When brothers join in purpose in the world of fear, they stand already at the edge of the real world. Perhaps they still look back, and think they see an idol that they want. Yet has their path been surely set away from idols toward reality, for when they joined their hands, it was Christ’s hand they took. And they will look on him whose hand they hold. The face of Christ is looked upon before the father is remembered. For he must be unremembered till his son has reached beyond forgiveness to the love of God. Yet is the love of Christ accepted first. and then will come the knowledge they are one. How light and easy is the step across the narrow boundaries of the world of fear, when you have recognized whose hand you hold!

Within your hand is everything you need to walk with perfect confidence away from fear forever. And to go straight on, and quickly reach the gate of heaven itself. For he whose hand you hold was waiting but for you to join him. Now that you have come, would he delay in showing you the way that he must walk with you? His blessing lies on you as surely as his Father's love rests upon him. His gratitude to you is past your understanding, for you have enabled him to rise from chains, and go with you together to his Father's house. An ancient hate is passing from the world, and with it goes all hatred and all fear. Look back no longer, for what lies ahead is all you ever wanted in your hearts.

I love it!

Thank you for uniting in faith and love and purpose…

I love you  

AMBITION TO MEANING

Have you seen this? I just watched the trailer...LOVED IT! ~Love Wayne Dyer!

http://www.ambitiontomeaning.com/

I STAND FOR GOD

I love this.

 I stand for the love of God!

 I don’t care to figure out another thing, I am only interested in being shown how I can be helpful in any situation. I love not making plans or caring one way or another. I love that anytime I even sense a conflict or confusion seemingly arising in my children or others around me, that I immediately stand still. I cop to it all being my mind; on or off the mark of holiness and ask for restoration… “There is nothing the miracle cannot do.” I merely draw a circle of light and see who enters and what happens next. I suit up and participate in love’s bidding. I stand for God only, and let the miracle do what it does.

Turns out, this is the responsibility for sight. Duh! Not whatever it was that I was not thinking I liked or designing how I wanted it different… there is no ego to decide with. Blimmy!

I am as God created. I am the light of the world. I bring peace to every mind through forgiving mine, thereby fulfilling my function of lighting the world with perfect happiness…

 All the rest; the details… jah, the symphony of the living...

It’s all good… it’s all good… IT’S ALL GOOD…IT’S ALL GOD!

I LOVE YOU!

I am responsible...

I AM RESPONSIBLE

When it comes to this world and my perceived life, it simply means for me, what I want it to. I have spent oh, too many wasted hours looking for meaning outside myself both in an effort to find someone/thing to blame, or to tell me what to do, to define my life on or after~ Well, let’s face it. I have looked outside myself to run away from the responsibility for it being exactly as it is for me… in other words: blame.

I hasn’t worked.

And, at the end of the day, in the raw honesty of my own soul, I have been left with the workings of my own mind. It doesn’t matter where I adopted my perceptions, opinions, point of reference. It has all turned out to have a faulty premise as far as what I am in truth, incidentally. Still, the responsibility for all comes back to me.

When I first realized this, I was terrified. I had this subtle, yet profound awareness that I was using most of my life force just trying to manage the denial of this fact~ I am 100% responsibility… Nonetheless, it is the fact!

Facing it sets me free.

“I have given everything I see, all the meaning that it has for me.”

“I am responsible for what I see... I choose the feelings I experience, and I decide upon the goal I would achieve. And everything that seems to happen to me I ask for, and receive as I have asked.”

I LOVE IT!