ROAD TRIP~MIRACLES' STYLE

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

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

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

Yep! She’s that good.

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

So yeah, that was that holy encounter.

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

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

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

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

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

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

It totally rocks.

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

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

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

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

Thank you.

I love you.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The pivotal thing here is the faith part.

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

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

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

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

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

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

SALVATION IS THE HAPPY END GAME

SALVATION IS THE END GAME

I love house cleaning.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is an absolute ball.

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

Thanks for playing.

I love you.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

That is its purpose.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Yes, I said Gratitude List.

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

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

 Start here;

1.  I am grateful for God.

2.  I am grateful for the Atonement

3. I am grateful for Jesus

4. I am grateful for A Course in Miracles.

5. I am grateful for willingness

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thank you.

I love you.

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.

 

PROFESSIONAL FOR GOD

I am a professional.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

See the conflict?

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

I took Jesus as my coach.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

“Spirit is in a state of grace forever.

Your reality is only spirit.

Therefore you are in a state of grace forever.”

 

THANK YOU.

I LOVE YOU.

SAVING THE WORLD ONE LIGHT AT A TIME

I am deeply in love with God.

God Love is the constant of my life. I feel it even when I misplace myself in my life and play god with plans and guilt, I feel His Love deep within tugging in my sleeve, pulling me back home. This is the Holy Spirit, awaiting with a smile behind my craziness, a sane and clear perspective to the insanity I am here to forgive… reminding me of my purpose.

 I was sitting with Jesus in my meditation this morning. I was lifted from my self in the frequency of wholehearted gratitude for this unending Love and how it is always reaching me exactly where I’m at…

 I love A Course in Miracles! It has given me the context for sanity in the mixed-up, insane world, where nothing has ever really made sense to me.

From moment one, word one, the Course instantaneously called-up the memory of truth within my mind, and though at the time I first began my relationship with the Course, and I couldn’t wrap my mind around what it was that was so compelling, I was drawn unthinkingly ~ It was my first experience of not trying to fit what I was experiencing into one of my ready-made constructs… I intrinsically knew it was something entirely the opposite of everything I was familiar with. It was like landing in a parallel universe where all the symbols are the same but the meanings~ well, had meaning… I recognized the Voice for God woven into the concepts and applications, as I recognize that Voice within my right-mind.

Then a few years ago in time, which has now collapsed in on itself, as it seems that it was going on all along, I fell madly in love with Jesus! I’m not really sure how it happened. I didn’t seem to be wired-up for the holy-roller, born-again, ‘Jesus love’s you’ stuff.

Yet, here I am: born again, rockin &rollin’ with holy brotherhood of saviors of the world, and hand in hand with Jesus.

Well I am attempting the impossible here to speak of what is actually unspeakable appreciation to Jesus for his unwavering companionship. Yet I am so lifted and inspired that the belly of the share within me, beckons to be expressed. Honored by his living, visible, expression of love through A Course in Miracles, the perfect guidance inward to the Voice we share with God and the eternal love that sustains us as One, I am devoted to his ministry, which is my own.

Who’d have thought?

Thank you Jesus!

Here’s what he states clearly in the Clarification of Terms in response to our ego based thought system:

“Your questions have no answer, being made to still God's Voice, which asks of everyone one question only: "Are you ready yet to help Me save the world?"  Ask this instead of what the ego is, and you will see a sudden brightness cover up the world the ego made.  No miracle is now withheld from anyone.  The world is saved from what you thought it was.  And what it is, is wholly uncondemned and wholly pure.”

Are we ready to help Him save the world?

I AM!

Honestly, after attempting things, ‘my way’, getting no closer to happiness, and then joining with Jesus and having my heart and mind cracked wide open to Love’s light, I can say without reservation, this is my bliss! It is my one purpose which I joyously fulfill through forgiveness and appreciation! You are my one self. How can I be helpful?

Let’s join in the stillness born of innocent perception and ask candidly; ‘Am I ready? Are we ready to stand in singularity for God? Are we ready to join the mighty companions as saviors of the world? Are we willing to lay aside all our own ideas and come with open hearts and empty hands in order to experience the peace and joy of God? Are we willing to teach only love and know that love is ours and we are love?

I AM! ~ Sign up here!

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!

 

THOSE WHO ARE CERTAIN OF THE OUTCOME CAN AFFORD TO WAIT, AND WAIT WITHOUT ANXIETY.

PATIENCE IS NATURAL TO THE TEACHER OF GOD... Blessings everyone! Thanks for hangin’ out while the internet miracle-working has been going on. It’s been fun to watch.

 Apparently, our minds are healed, cuz we have lift- off!

I LOVE IT!

I LOVE YOU!

The Song of Prayer, all of which is so beautiful, comes to mind. Here is the passage running through my mind right now:

 “The secret of true prayer is to forget the things you think you need… in prayer you overlook you specific needs as you see them, and let them go into God’s Hands. There they become your gifts to Him, for they tell Him that you would have no gods before Him; no love but His. What could his answer be but your remembrance of Him? Can this be traded for a bit of trifling advice about a problem of an instant’s duration? God answers only for eternity. But still all little answers are contained in this… there is nothing to ask because there is nothing left to want.”

Isn’t that so yummy! That is the zero point of perfect peace and all of the recent lessons have been leading us to the mind-trust-fall into it: this moment, the present moment, the only one~ the presence of God. It is the joyous totality of now, where form is irrelevant. It has been replaced with the certainty of love’s inevitability.

I love keeping it simple.

I am the light of the world.

Whatever is happening is for the purpose of saving the world.

Why resist? Love is … Recognition of this one fact is inevitable.

To read commentaries on the lessons from the past few days, just click on the lesson found in the archive section on the side panel. That should take you there…

 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.

 

LIGHTEN UP! QUIT HOLDING YOUR BREATH, AND LAUGH A LITTLE~ JOIN IN THE BIG COSMIC BELLY LAUGH…

“Into eternity, where all is one, there crept a tiny mad idea, at which the Son of God remembered not to laugh. In his forgetting did the thought become a serious idea, and possible of both accomplishment and real effects.

Together, we can laugh them BOTH away, and understand that time can NOT intrude upon eternity. It IS a joke to think that time can come to circumvent eternity, which MEANS there is no time.” (T-27.9)

I love to laugh. I love to lighten any room in the joy that comes with joining in a good laugh. Laughter is the best medicine. Here’s how I know.

I used to take my life so freaking serious. I took healing serious; for you and for me. I took the Course serious. And all my seriousness reinforced the problem.

Let me see if I can shed some light here… I had in my mind that there was a problem to be solved.

I know the Course says it over and over: ONE PROBLEM ~ ONE SOLUTION!

Still I kept trying. This really boils down to attempting to bring the truth to illusion.

I had to get out of time and space. Period. So I could see the obviousness of what was right before my eyes. Alone, my eyes could not see. Like the forest for the trees, I needed a true vantage point from which to see truly. Here is where Jesus takes the hand that is willing to be led…

For me, it was a matter of recognizing that I could not establish survival on my own behalf in this world. I had give up my futile attempt at one-uping God. I was a failure at it. I had to recognize that the world of my making was designed to fail.

For what possible purpose, you might ask. 

Failure is the new success!

In my failure to seriously make life work, I lost all stability in my perception.

And there I still was. This message came to me:  “I am and will always be!”

I had to laugh! And keep laughing… everywhere I look, I see myself. I am in the Mind that created me. 

 The secret of salvation is but this: That YOU are doing this UNTO YOURSELF…For you would not react at all to figures in a dream you knew that YOU were dreaming. Let them be as hateful and as vicious as they may, they COULD have no effect on you, unless you failed to recognize it is YOUR dream. This single lesson learned will set you free from suffering, WHATEVER form it takes.

The Holy Spirit will repeat this ONE inclusive lesson of deliverance, until it has been learned 

Forgiveness is the great release of time.

The whole direction of A Course in Miracles is aimed at dis-identifying with the body and recognizing oneself AS A MIND.  Jesus is speaking to our awareness and very deliberately directing our minds to sync with God.

In order to accomplish this sync, I entirely refuse to see what is not there. If it isn’t love, it is a block to love’s awareness. The remedy is forgiveness.

Accept today’s lesson wholeheartedly and you rise above the battleground and recognize Heaven already present.

I accept 100% responsibility for what I see. I decide to see NO VICTIMS and in their place the call for love and healing is revealed.

As long as I am attached to anything in this physical world, I was vulnerable to the victim lie and stuck in time and space. By deciding with the Holy Spirit for purpose, I am transported out of time and space constructs, and into purpose and into Heaven, where the impossibility of victims is seen.

Let’s look at this logically. How could I be a victim of something I made myself and have all power over its existence? And why would I want to? It’s crazy. But that’s thing isn’t it. This world is insane.

LIGHTEN UP! This world is insane and when we identify with it; bodies, personalities, etc, we are insane. But here’s the reason to rejoice and be glad:

WE ARE NOT A VICTIM OF THE WORLD WE SEE~

WE ARE STILL AS GOD CREATED US…

It is your declaration of release: Read the lesson. Do what it says….

It’s very specific. It shows that our outer world is identical to our inner world. The world we see is a reflection of the thoughts we hold in our mind about ourselves and the world. Today is a loosing and release from the self-made prison.

Remind yourself that you are making a declaration of independence in the name of your own freedom. And in your freedom lies the freedom of the world.

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.