God is the Mind with which I think…

LESSON 45:

God is the Mind with which I think…

“Nothing real can be threatened.

Nothing unreal exists.

Herein lies the peace of God.”

This is the introduction to A Course in Miracles~ and, in my experience, THE TRUTH: ONE TRUTH ~ONE LOVE ~ONE MIND ~The One I share with God…

… and only this is true. All the senseless thoughts are just that ~ senseless images I have made projected out ~thus misusing of my extension component natural of creation ~ to deny the truth. Deny the truth and believe the lie…what does it take to make it possible to believe the impossible? In chapter 2 of the text, in the section called “The Origins of Separation” details the process the mind went through:

“The inappropriate use of extension, or projection, occurs when you believe that some emptiness or lack exists in you, and that you can fill it with your own ideas instead of truth. This process involves the following steps:

First, you believe that what God created can be changed by your own mind.

Second, you believe that what is perfect can be rendered imperfect or lacking.

Third, you believe that you can distort the creations of God, including yourself.

Fourth, you believe that you can create yourself, and that the direction of your own creation is up to you.

These related distortions represent a picture of what actually occurred in the separation, or the "detour into fear." None of this existed before the separation, nor does it actually exist now. Everything God created is like Him. (T-2.I.2)

So, the time is NOW (the closest approximation to our eternity in God) in which we change our mind.

Memory is an ability we developed to keep the past in our minds. I has truly blessed to learn and then come in to the glorious recognition that memory can be used to remember NOW ~to remember God in our mind ~

To re-member and re-cognize that only God could be ‘the mind in which I think… and to deny all the senseless thoughts and mad ideas with which you have cluttered your minds ~till now… this has been the most amazing, rewarding experience for me…

I’ll tell you what, there is no more spectacular witness than to truly commit to vigilant 24/7 mind-watching; to watch the mind’s brilliance and the ingenious, elaborate schemes it’s capable of… It’s effectively imposing in fact… Frankly, I haven’t found a more interesting or rewarding pastime ~nor any thing I’d rather do (thank God ~since here, is where my salvation lies). The ego’s ingenuity is rather remarkable… This is making me think about the part in chapter 7 of the text where He’ talking about how the ego doesn’t really “know” anything ~Here it is:

“The ego cannot afford to know anything. Knowledge is total, and the ego does not believe in totality. This unbelief is its origin, and while the ego does not love you it faithful to its own antecedents, begetting as it was begotten. Mind always reproduces as it was produced. Produced by fear, the ego reproduces fear. This is its allegiance, and this allegiance makes it treacherous to love because you love. Love is your power, which the ego must deny. It must also deny everything this power gives you it gives you everything. No one who has everything wants the ego. Its own maker, then, does not want it. Rejection is therefore the only decision the ego could possibly encounter, if the mind that made it knew itself. And if it recognized any part of the Sonship, it know itself. (T-7.VI.4)

…Ahhh… the power of the mind… Happily, I have learned to look beyond the ego’s ingenuity to the reparation of that very ingenuity by the Holy Spirit ~the Mind I share with God… now that is Something to behold! The miracle comes gently to the mind willing to accept nothing else… Only the truth is true. ‘Miracles arise from a mind that is ready for them’…

Through the simple practice of exercises such as this lesson, we learn to observe, not believe, the ego thoughts, and turn our minds back to our origin in God…

“Under all the senseless thoughts and mad ideas with which you have cluttered up your mind are the thoughts that you thought with God in the beginning ~and this Foundation on which it rests is wholly changeless… My real thoughts are in my mind. I would like to find them.”

This is where we can use that well developed ability of denial ~ deny anything that is not of God. Anything not loving and eternal is mind asleep and not happening in reality at all…beneath that dream, are our real thoughts, the ones we think with God…

I love that only thoughts I think with God are ‘real’ thoughts, and the proper use of denial is to deny all else (it’s hard to totally give up a skill you’ve spent a lifetime perfecting, eh…) God is the mind in which I think… How blessed Love eternal is… One Mind~ the mind we share with God…