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.
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!
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
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
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.
Love is always transmitting: The Holy Spirit within our minds is the pure translator-station.
Love is. Love is the nucleus. God is Love. Love is where God is. God is where Love is. I am where God is. I am where Love is. Love is where I am. I am love.
Love is not something extra we add to a situation or relationship we bring the situation or relationship into the love that we are.
Love has its way; every moment of everyday. It is relentless with its presence. It compels all with in its frequency. Its reaches are limitless; giving all to all, inexhaustibly.
Upon awaking, there is Love, already, burning life in heart and belly, delivering light to mind and sight to eyes.
Love expands at the speed of light, energy moving limbs and actions into the original day within and before, reaching out touching everyone in mind and path.
I am tuned-in. Withdrawing belief in fear in favor of Love, zeros one into Love’s frequency. Withdrawing belief in illusions in favor of truth through the systematic mind training by the Holy Spirit is intended for this direct experience of God, of Love, of Heaven, Now. Here’s where I like to operate; at the frequency of love. Which is the same frequency Jesus can be found. And incidentally, it is where I find you, my brothers.
Joyously, gratefully I join you there. Tune in.
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.
Everything goes my way!
Here’s why: I have invented the world I see.
‘Everything goes my way’, is one of my favorite mantras and directives. It always reminds me that nothing is ever happening without my say so. I started saying this all the time when I realized that I am not a victim, EVER. I look within and project out what I would see there.
Therefore, whatever is happening is my fault.
Upon first recognition of this fact, the tendency was to judge myself, feel overwhelmed, guilty, ashamed and hopeless. I could not make thing stop going wrong. I sabotaged every “good” thing that showed up… anything to restore a sense of futility and pointlessness…
Then l I got it! Yeah, duh! My invention of this world is meaningless. Identified with it, I am completely powerless to make good out of $h!t.
I recognized my total dependence on GOD! ~YEAH!
Talk about AH HA! What naturally followed was a piercing willingness to look within to the part of the mind that remembers God and can create with Him.
Jesus tells us in chapter 6 “The Lessons of Love” in the ‘Lessons of the Holy Spirit section that once we have taken the first step we will be helped. Once we have chosen what we cannot complete alone, we are no longer alone…
He’s got it wired for all things working together for good.
This is the reason I can rest assured that everything goes my way. My way is God’s way.
I signed on with Jesus and follow Him. He gave a new blue print to follow as a creator. It’s called A Course in Miracles.
When you’re coming out of being scared of your own shadow; operating from a premise of fear, looking toward the light, it’s nice to have some specific direction. Isn’t it.
So here they are from chapter 6 “The Lessons of Love” in the ‘Lessons of the Holy Spirit:
To have, give all to all…
To have peace, teach peace to learn it…
Be vigilant only for God and His kingdom…
If you want to give yourself a real treat today. And I suggest you do, go read this most awesome section and join my love for it.
I love you!
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.
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:
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.
Thank you for uniting in faith and love and purpose…
I love you
