Lesson 105:

God's peace and joy are mine….

I give all to you in order that I recognize that it is mine. We obviously can’t give what we don’t have. So if I can give you, for you, total peace and joy, it must be mine to give…. Ah, the feeling that immediately accompanies this giving, it’s like slipping into a warm bath after a long cold night, surrendering to its ability to release…
Thoughts increase by being given away. I want for you perfect peace, which in turn release us to receive our joint inheritance. It is the holiest, most joyous experience I know. While immersed in it, there is not a trace of anything but the total extending, expanding forever, looping back to itself becoming all with all. It is the experience of limitlessness, speaking only to itself…

I have to give it to all, once received. I have no other choice but to complete myself in you and slip quietly into timelessness, allowing total immersion in the eternal waters of peace and joyous celebration of completion ~ How else could it happen?
Right now, I can hardly remember how used to think. How something was other than my Self… When there seemed to be a separate piece of nothing made to take the place of this glorious state of grace forever. It all seems surreal ~the world and all its ‘special’, separate, rejected parts.
It’s amusing to watch the mind make-up the world by attention to its memory. It seemingly starts with the erroneous desire for recall of the past, which starts bringing it into focus. Next, other ‘supporting’ thoughts magnetize together and things start to formulate. And simultaneously, present reality of limitless, joyous peace, gets push to the back of the mind, through the vigilance to realize something that is not there. Once fixated, the ego lays out innumerable possibilities, endless choices, options and alternatives to keep the mind busy and distracted and mindlessly involved in the scene on the screen. Win-lose hierarchies unfold; between the important and the not so important, the crucial and the critical, the better, stronger, and faster, the good, the bad and the ugly… And there ya go~ off to the races… or…
It is ours to slip with presence, back and beyond in the mind, and watch the traveling show from here, this place of total peace and joy, resting in the belly of creation and visit or gifts of the same to all we see before us… This is the presence of my Self as dreamer of the dream…. Ah, yes… this is the vigilance for only God and His Kingdom…
“Do only that”… The lessons of the Holy Spirit, laid out in words in chapter 6 of the Course text, give us the detailed instruction to allow the Holy Spirit to undo everything we have made, and translates it into a learning device which shows our belief in unreality by reinterpreting everything the ego uses to maintain the pretense of ‘separation’, to demonstrate against it… Click here to read some excerpts from this section:

It is with the deepest appreciation that I am joined with you in God’s peace and joy. I offer you the these gifts and my desire for your full acceptance of them, that full realization of the truth of what We Are as one be restored to full realization to all the Sonship.