Lesson 278:

If I am bound, my Father is not free…

We are of course referring here to the perceived imprisonment of the mind through the belief in illusions... We identify with what we believe in. And if we believe that we are people in bodies, living in time and space, we cannot know our Self as God created us. And we certainly cannot know the magnitude we share with God. What we end up doing with our relationship with God, is we attempt to squeeze God into ‘small-mind’, assigning Him attributes we identify with, and some we don’t, then fearing what we don’t know and ultimately binding the mind from its natural state of creation. It is our free will to believe what we choose. But belief is not truth… belief is about where we place the focus of our attention…

Fidelity to premise is the law of mind. And if our premise is one of separation and limitation, we use fear to manage the relationship we have made with the God we have made up… Within the premise of separation, our options are limited to… well ‘specialness’ ~and separations sentinels; subject or object special relationships, special-love, special-hate… Exclusion plays a staring role, for without it specialness looses all meaning… Fear reigns… for the ‘other’ is the threat…

The premise of truth where love reigns, on the other hand, is all about inclusion. Each has looked within and seen no lack and therefore extends creative thought to join in holy gratitude for the glorious eternal relationship extended in creation of the Son by and with the Father…

Where, as the lesson says, truth is free…

Let’s just fine-tune the dial on our attention to the premise of truth, as we offer this prayer:

“Father, I ask for nothing but the truth. I have had many foolish thoughts about myself and my creation, and have brought a dream of fear into my mind. Today, I would not dream. I choose the way to You instead of madness and instead of fear. For truth is safe, and only love is sure…”