Saturday, April 21, 2007

Lesson 112:

Light and joy and peace abide in me…

I am as God created me….

This is a solid statement of cause and effect. God created eternally changeless love from the eternally changeless nature of God … All that is, is all that is. God is Cause. His Son is effect.

Because of my experience with the capacity of the mind to deceive itself once a belief in some idle wish has been accepted, I can’t say enough about how critical it was for me to finally allow into my awareness, how ones ‘authorship premise’ is the father of perceived reality. Do I believe “I am as God created me” or is my belief rooted in the premise that I authored myself? The later is always disguised as ‘self-improvement’ using guilt, regret, planning and worry to manipulate seeming circumstances in my so-called life

It is our belief in this authorship premise that seems to give us our experience of reality. Where our belief lies becomes the fleshing out of what seems to be reality. Everything we perceive is within the realm of effect. Now try this on for size: “The entire perceived world is the effect of an authority issue”. It is the effect of the belief that reality is ours to select from. In other words, “I am the author of my reality and myself, and God for that matter”...

This wish to somehow make different or more than what God created is the basis of the ego thought system. This is the premise from which all perception arose. This premise, which fathered this entire world including my so-call life, is what the Course aptly calls the ‘authority problem’. And because we believe it is true, we don’t question the premise, but rather attempt to correct the symptoms. Every symptom the ego makes involves a contradiction in terms, because the mind is split between the ego and the Holy Spirit, so that whatever the ego makes is incomplete and contradictory. This untenable position is the result of the authority problem which, because it accepts the one inconceivable thought as its premise, can produce only ideas that are inconceivable”. (T-VI.7)

I am forever humbled by to unforgettable moment when I died to my-self, and remembered my Self. ‘Trying’ is a bizarre tool of the ego, keeping one always a step away from recognition… Yet somehow, that tiny willingness to ‘not know’, and be shown, one instant of willingness to cease to exist as ‘me’ and there it was… finally after trying/avoiding the recognition of Self as well as the dynamic that was blocking my awareness of it.

I’d been dancing around the subject , using ‘intellectual understanding’ (boobie-prize) for years, even while reading and studying the Course’s message. It was there in black and white. I just couldn’t see it. I just wasn’t ready to accept awareness of this critical premise in which I so believed, yet was oblivious to… Why? I had an authority issue. Plain and simple.

I didn’t want to give up being right, being the boss of myself, etc… Its funny how one can be drowning in the pool self-made destruction and still not want to be bossed around. It boggles the mind…

The Course says that, “The ability to see a logical outcome depends on the willingness to see it, but its truth has nothing to do with your willingness. Truth is God’s Will. Share His Will and you share what He knows… As long as you are in doubt about what you are, you will be confused about joy and pain. This confusion is the cause of the whole idea of sacrifice. (T-7X.2-3)

Now, one holy instant of complete surrender of the self-concept, of wholly desiring the truth brings into light the premise of truth, already within the premise of Reality/God/Christ… This is the critical juncture where we see the self-concept for what it is ~an image and the ‘Self’ shining within, undefined and pure…“ I am the home of light and joy and peace. I welcome them into the home I share with God, because I am a part of Him”... I am as God created me… I will remain forever as I was, created by the Changeless like Himself. And I am one with Him, and He with me”. We are God’s Will. Sharing His Will is not really open to choice, although it seems to be when we believe the in the reality of separation. As a matter of fact, the Course tells us, “The whole separation lies in this error. The only way out of the error is to decide that you do not have to decide anything. Everything has been given you by God’s decision. That is His Will, and you cannot undo it…” (T-7.X.6)

Every seeming problem, judgment or fear dissolves into this big cosmic belly laugh, once this is seen for what it is and we place our faith here, in the premise of reality. Now we can lean back and trust… Who we are remains untouched by all antics of the authority issue dancing with itself.

What a relief it is to dis-identify with this silly quest to make-up my self and you.

I am no longer interested in being exiled together as a way of bonding. The miracle has switched on the eternal light and shines on the world of perception with the reflection of our unity in light and joy and peace… Love … just as God created…

Friday, April 20, 2007

Review III~Lesson 111:

“Miracles are seen in light… Miracles are seen in light, and light and strength are one…”

Miracles are seen in light…. I cannot see in darkness. Let the light of holiness and truth light up my mind, and let me see the innocence within… Place the ideas within your mind, and let it use them as it chooses. Give it faith that it will use them wisely, being helped in its decisions by the One Who gave the thoughts to you. What can you trust but what is in your mind? Have faith, in these reviews, the means the Holy Spirit uses will not fail. The wisdom of your mind will come to your assistance. Give direction at the outset; then lean back in quiet faith, and let the mind employ the thoughts you gave as they were given you for it to use.

Miracles are seen in light…. I cannot see in darkness. Let the light of holiness and truth light up my mind, and let me see the innocence within…

As we begin this review period, we demonstrate trust that we are ready to s e e….

This review period speaks to the Christ within. It’s sort of a communiqué of trust from Christ to Christ, saying that we recognize, on whatever level, that our will and God’s Will are one in the same.

For the part of us still unsure, it is a leap of faith in undoing our doubt and replacing it in with the Holy Spirit as the only guide we want.

Also as we embrace this review, we find solace in its affirmation of devotion to healing and truth. Merely showing up daily to a practice, to the best of our ability at the time, is devotion.

It demonstrates a level of integration and trust that the Holy Spirit is running the show. Trust that every seeming situation has already been made ready, and our sight along with it, has been adjusted for vision and forgiveness as we look upon the world we see and move about in.

We are the messengers of God that light the world through forgiven sight. The past is gone. And what stand before us ~ is what stands within us. We are One Self, united with our Creator in perfect harmony and love… The Atonement answered to all we thought we thought. We but remember that we have a function to fulfill: forgive and be happy! …

God placed the whole of His Love within all; the entire holographic fabric of our true identity in Him, in full faith in His creation, which is you and I, each and every One… Dare we allow full recognition, NOW?

Breathe Spirit and we take our place among the ministers of God, NOW! Our so-called journey, so far has given us the re-cognition that no one walks alone. We made the choice to walk with him, our brother, our Self. And all the strength of God, administered through miracles, goes with us.

~Miracles are seen in light, and light and strength are one…. I see through strength, the gift of God to me. My weakness is the dark His gift dispels, by giving me His strength to take its place.

There’s simply no room for fear where love alone resides. It replaces darkness with light and weakness with strength. We walk lightly now, for we have the momentum of a unified purpose bringing freedom from the figuring it out ~the heaviness of doubt. Instead, we see miracles everywhere.

Haven’t you noticed that every situation is just people looking for any excuse to be kind, to receive your goodness; your smile, your love, to be seen through forgiving eyes? And haven’t you noticed everyone just wants to feel safe, so they can express the love within them in any way they can, if giving half a chance.

This is how the forgiven world looks~ a ‘big miracle exchange convention~ reflecting wholeness.

Miracles collapse time. And don’t you notice that while these exchanges are happening, you have no sense of time? There is an awareness of the light that hold us timelessly in peace, yes?

Thank you for blessing me in this joint purpose that sees with light another way of looking upon the world. You have my full faith and trust and love…

Thursday, April 19, 2007

Lesson 110:

“I am as God created me”…

It’s a strange thing that happens when, for an instant, we make contact with the truth. We can’t capture it. We can’t understand it, really. Our ‘understanding in this world is the mechanism designed to deny it. We can’t even be sure what happened, if anything… but we feel it … An instant is enough… Whatever the reason, for just an instant, we want the truth more that what we made…

It could be anything that breaks us open, although, it seems so often that it is our own failure at happiness “our way”, that leaves us shattered and scattered, rejected and alone, where we all that is left is an open heart, battered though it may be. The ego’s won it’s its war on nothingness for nothing’s sake, to make nothing better, and we are the heartbeat beneath the ashes of nothingness, ready for the rebirth into awareness of the truth about our Self. ~WE ARE AS GOD CREATED US~ nothing messed with nothing and we remain untouched…

I am as God created me… His Son can suffer nothing… And I am His Son.”

Let me talk to the weirdness of my experience. When I first started studying the Course and then doing the lessons, I had this major AH-HA! , SO THAT’S IT feeling in connection with this idea, “I am as God created me”. Indistinguishable as it may have been, it’s presence invaded even my so-called ‘private’ thoughts…

I couldn’t shake the feeling that I had awakened something within myself of such magnitude that not only could I not bare to look upon it directly, least I cease to be, but that I would never be able to escape this companion within. I was literally afraid of my Self.

Oh, of course it didn’t play out like this on screen… No, no, no. I wanted to be special, plain as day. That’s all. I wanted to moreMy secret (even from me) plan included dressing up my ego-self in spiritual garb and visiting its alter daily for guidance, making out this was ‘my mission’ in life. And, I got what I ask for (well always at the cost of peace, paid for with the assignment of ‘guilt duty’) but nonetheless, I got the ego’s guidance on how to get ahead, make a niche for myself, do something ‘special’ ~be somebody ‘special’

~ Pulling ‘guilt duty’; the secret, special assignment of the elite is a painful, lonely post. … I became weary. ‘Specialness’, it turned out, didn’t taste so good as I had imagined it would.

There was never enough (fill in the blank) to replenish the soul emptied out to make room for specialness. After a long while of disenchantment and disillusionment, I no longer cared… I just wanted out of the contract…

And there it was… Just like that, shining in my awareness was this one idea, “I AM AS GOD CREATED ME”, plain as day, right here, right now… “This is the Word of God that sets you free”...

On a very subtle level I was going, “Isn’t this just the biggest DUH! on the planet?” And on another level, I was completely dismayed that I hadn’t seen it. It was too real.

~It seemed impossible that the obvious be so lost to me. I am as God created me. How could I possibly have mutated into something “other than”, something built of the stuff of ‘more than God, more than everything? Is there different-ness within sameness?

All creation is created from the only stuff God has: Himself: all in all extending forever as Love, returning all back onto itself its completion. You can’t separate out the ‘special’ in that.

Aahhhhhhhhhh, the awesome glory of God! He is our truth. His word, our creation…

~ How glorious is the magnificence of this experience which we speak to today, where for just an instant we forgo our special identity for the truth of Who We Are…

“I AM AS GOD CREATED ME” This is the key that opens up the gate of Heaven, and that lets you enter in the peace of God and His eternity”…

As God created us… This is the Holy Instant of recognition and nothing can intrude upon what God created as Himself. Nothing else is or could ever be…

This was/is my experience… Reason visited my mind and I allowed myself to listen…. And nothing else makes any sense at all, now…but love or a call for love, in other words, l o v e . . .

This makes me think about a part in the Course text where it talks about reason, its role and relationship with healing and the spit mind. Here’s a couple passages that seem apropos: “Let us look closer at the whole illusion that what you made has power to enslave its maker. This is the same belief that caused the separation. It is the meaningless idea that thoughts can leave the thinker’s mind, be different from it and in opposition to it. If this were true, thoughts would not be the mind’s extensions, but its enemies. And here we see again another form of the same fundamental illusion we have seen many times before. Only if it were possible the Son of God could leave his Father’s Mind, make himself different and oppose His Will, would it be possible that the self he made, and all it made, should be his master.

Behold the great projection, but look on it with the decision that it must be healed, and not with fear. Nothing you made has any power over you unless you still would be apart from your Creator, and with a will opposed to His. For only if you would believe His Son could be His enemy does it seem possible that what you made is yours. You would condemn His joy to misery, and make Him different. And all the misery you made has been your own. Are you not glad to learn it is not true? Is it not welcome news to hear not one of the illusions that you made replaced the truth?

The introduction of reason into the ego’s thought system is the beginning of its undoing, for reason and the ego are contradictory. Nor is it possible for them to coexist in your awareness. For reason’s goal is to make plain, and therefore obvious. You can reason. This is not a play on words, for here is the beginning of a vision that has meaning. Vision is sense, quite literally. If it is not the body’s sight, it be understood. For it is plain, and what is obvious is not ambiguous. It can be understood. And here do reason and the ego separate, to go their separate ways”. (T-22.II.9-10, T-22.III.1)

I am joined with you in the obvious truth: WE ARE AS GOD CREATED US! This is the Word of God we’ve all been looking for, the guide to follow, the promise of eternal life… together forever as One.

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Lesson 109:

I rest in God…

I rest as well in the deep, stillness of gratitude I have to have come home at last. God is the resting place I find and am my Self…rest... In rest is God, and you are here with me… Here... In Him you have no cares and no concerns, no burdens, no anxiety, no pain, no fear of future and no past regrets. In timelessness you rest, while time goes by without its touch upon you, for your rest can never change in any way at all…

Truly, nothing in this entire, crazy, mixed-up world can lure me out of my resting place. Oh, sure, I notice the temptations of the ego thought system passing by, ‘important-izing’ itself. It’s just that, by some grace of God, I just don’t get on the train and take the ride any more.

It’s like the famous words from the timeless masterpiece The Matrix: “…been down that road and know where it leads…” It leads to support its own need for survival. That’s its role; entice, ‘catastro-phize’, problem-ize, seduce. It uses every tool at its disposal to keep us in addicted consciousness within the dream, so as not to become aware that we are the dreamer, not dreamed by the dream. It’s like a drug dealer hooking us in, using such specialty designer drugs as materialistic acquisition, with your standard compulsion and obsession which perpetuate chaotic, out of control and ultimately mindless thinking, long enough to pounce and capture its prey. Its prey: the willing mind of the Son of God, asleep… Yet, it still remains that we are the dreamer of this dream, where we are perp and prey. Only our belief in it, makes it real to sleep away…. Oh, how I have been there, lost in the wilderness of mind asleep….

It wasn’t all that long ago that I could have described the prison walls, down to the last shadow of profane graffiti and the cracks and dents and un-removable bloodstains on the floor, left from the un-winnable war against the self, battled out on the train to nowhere…

That horror now rests in peace within forgiven mind where the past has been laid for the Holy Spirit’s use if helpful….. All rest is in God… Personhood is seen for what it is in truth ~nothing…

The truth is: We are Christ, the holy Son of God, and we rest in Him…. This is all I see and this is all there is for me… What else could there be to do or say?

We rest in quiet surety and move and speak according to the instruction given from this place within: from Now. All manner and deeds and simple exchanges are seen in joy and unity within the forgiven world…

Once the mind has been given over to complete rest in God, one need never be concerned with what to say or when or what the effects of said expression is, it already belongs to the entire Sonship. It is already being used, precisely in the manner of healing to wholeness, designated by the One Whose role it is, to bring all seemingly private, personal minds into full alignment, disappearing into the One-Mind at rest in God.

Life is satisfying when one has recognized our will and our Father’s Will are One in the same. The answer has already been place within each seeming problem or question or relationship. Our job is to not jump the gun and think we know any thing about anything except from this quiet place in which we rest, while our happy gift of peace brings peace to all minds willing to receive.

We have become addicted to thinking that what we ‘do’ or ‘say’ is of some kind of importance, when half the time, it just a time-filler to medicate our own discomfort with where we’re at with our current ‘identity’.

Or, we actually think we’re needed~ perhaps one of the necessary ones. Or we feel obliged that the “show goes on”… This is ego, all ego… (100% of nothing is still nothing).

This is what I have come to see and to forgive… What I have found to be so: When one truly gives the self over to the ‘rest in God’ (or Self); nothing else will do. There is no mistaking this ‘perfect-fit’ once it happens. For a long time I had only my imagination of this and desire to turn … until I did…. Till now…

There’s just no way to explain what it is … I always wanted some one or book or something to explain, give me a hit of the true experience, because I just wasn’t sure. Yet it turns out, that little willingness is enough…

I rest in God. Right now, at the zero-point, where all seeming chaos cannot intrude…. I move and breathe in Him. It is a certainty without questions about or within. It is the state of Holy Peace… And from this quiet place, all seeming movement comes as inspiration…. All has been set aright within the world, reflecting this state which hears all calls for love, and answers with forgiveness and extending love~

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Lesson 108:

To give and to receive are one in truth….

This is such a powerful and simple lesson. It speaks to the sanest part of our mind and appeals to what we all really know inside… We are having the experience we are putting out… Is there anyone that isn’t aware of this on some level? We are always giving attributes and attitudes and interpretations based on what we want to experience at the time. This is often extremely difficult to cop to when things really suck, and defense seems to be the only attitude available to offer and receive… But are we completely void of some sense that we could ‘see this differently and feel differently’? No.

Usually we don’t want to give up being right, even if we could feel better instantly by conceding to not knowing, we won’t do it.

The reason for this (besides the obvious all-inclusive addiction to separation) when detailed out, looks kind of like, “I’d rather suffer than give you the satisfaction… I don’t want you to feel good when I feel bad… hopefully knowing you’re miserable will make me feel better”… We undergo the horrible feeling of hate and guilt for hating and yet we sacrifice each other and ourselves on the alter of , using whatever justification ‘for your own good’, ‘you hurt me more or first’… Well, whatever will keep the blaring truth at bay.

~ “I have done this unto myself!”~ This one thought, that we are so afraid of, hold’s the key to complete peace. Once we cop to this, we begin to see clearly that what we give we receive…. ‘To give and to receive are one in truth’… Ultimately, we all just want to be happy, peaceful and free. Yes? One begins to see the pattern: that if I can give you the right to happiness by wishing it for you, well, instantaneously, I feel it overcoming my present state. “I will receive what I am giving now”…

Today’s lesson: “To give and to receive are one in truth”…. builds on this neutral premise and asks that we value our Self by valuing each other. What we can truly give, what we can give in truth, are attitudes and attributes of truth, or love. Since love is what we are in truth, fathered by Love, like unto itself. So we offer, deliberately, these attitudes and attributes, which are our goal to receive. We remind ourselves, “I will receive what I am giving now”… Peace already begins to settle in, don’t you think? To give and to receive are one in truth….

Ummm Yummmy… There is just no end to the happiness and peace of mind, safety and certainly and joy, to the trust and freedom and light and forgiveness, and healing and companionship and love that we can have, but for the giving it to all…. It makes one want to get right after the practice of giving it all away to keep it, yes? It feels so good to hope for you your happiness, after all, doesn’t it.

I have always been one for immediate gratification. I have been way into wanting it now, and, I have to admit, wanting proof of effectiveness (preferably immediately).

The very first time I did this lesson, wow, over 20 years ago, now, I was swept into an option for peace and happiness, I would never completely forget again. The choice for right-minded perception was as close as my willingness to love and receive love.

Don’t get me wrong, I didn’t decide for the bed of roses, and stay there. No. More like, tasting the light seemed to bring to the forefront all manner of unacceptable, unlovable, unbearable, attributes and beliefs about myself that could only be labeled ‘self-loathing’. I had been in denial of having identified myself with these mistaken thoughts about myself, due to my ‘self-made’, cover-over identity self, which was ‘doing it right’, protecting me from my secret assignment of guilt and unworthiness. My readiness to accept and allow the truth was miniscule, dressed in grandiosity, at the time,( though I was, as they say, the last to know)… When you know there is no one ‘out there’ to blame and you get exhausted from blaming yourself, the vigilance for the ego identity gets weak, the mind opens… Thank God, because finally, after years of denial and immense heartache for self, I became ready to see what life ‘being wrong’ and ‘giving all to all’, looked like.... The Holy Spirit enters at the slightest invitation and the plan for salvations accomplishment has been set… And now, gratitude is all I am and all I can seem to offer. And with it, a host of heavenly feelings inherent in Who I Am in truth…to give and receive as one…

This little willingness to let all things be exactly as they are and offering everything I want to keep, as fast as I can give it away, has truly given me heaven on earth. I want only what I can give away. I see now, that nothing else has any value whatsoever.

I think this is one of the easiest lessons to remember. One can just feel the effects so powerfully and immediately… I join with you in the peace of God and perfect rest and happiness… let us remember to give and be happy…

Monday, April 16, 2007

Lesson 107:

Truth will correct all errors in my mind…

And I will rest in Him Who is my Self…

This is the practice that allows one the faith that “trust will settle every problem now”. Developing the habit of engaging with God by way of inviting the Holy Spirit within mind, Who is my true Self, has been a gift of inestimable value in my life. It has transformed every situation of seeming difference to one of sameness; every seemingly insurmountable problem into a pile of dust, lifeless and silly and hardly worth giving my attention to, let alone my time or effort…
Now that is a miracle…It is certainly a miracle to see the futility and agony of solving problems, of trying to be fair, of trying to ‘take care of myself’, simply be lifted from my mind and replace with peace and surety and trust. The perfect unity of God Son is revealed instead. The burden of having to know has been replaced by the comfort that the Holy Spirit does know, and has only God’s plan and the specific needs of each seemingly individual person, circumstance, belief, and encounter already in place for the perfect accomplishment of awaking the Sonship, together as One, from illusions to truth.
Judgments of better-than and less-than and all forms of competition blend together in the quiet acceptance that each and every being is doing their part perfectly. It is really none of my business what their part is. As a matter of fact, one comes to realize that only a mind taking directions from the ego, could even have thoughts such as those of parts, which is merely a slip into allowing the temptation to revisit the old habit of separation upon my mind. Once seen for what it is, simply error, the next step is easily taken. One simply invites in the mechanism for correction; the Holy Spirit who employs the truth to correct the error, along with all error in mind… “Truth will correct all errors in my mind… And I will rest in Him Who is my Self…”
This brings with it of a state of such love for the apparent brother who has witnessed to my mistaken thought, that it might now be healed. Where once there might have been a ‘battle of the fittest’, we rest in the quiet certainty that all things work together for good. Full appreciation and the desire to extend this abundance to all, now becomes the Love-current flow of life…
How joyous are we who trust the truth to correct all errors in our mind. Our faith in the Atonement ~God’s plan: in our brothers, in the Holy Spirit, as the reflection of our one Self stabilizes us in generosity and patience. Since we know we don’t have the ‘big picture’, the natural tendency to relax and allow the mind to open, due to a lack of defensiveness, there is no need to judge what anything is or what it is for. Our eyes look with gentleness upon our holy brothers, on this holy ground, where truth has entered to correct all error in our mind.
Rest in calm certainty knowing that the precision of perfect love is routing out all calls for love yet unanswered, to be completed through our One Self, united in purpose, complete and healed and whole… Nothing can disturb the Mind that has been given to truth.
I am so filled with gratitude and joy ~ I have received and it is my glorious mission to share all that I recognize as ours that I may maintain my awareness of it… you are my mighty, holy companions, all in all and hand in hand we come before the gates of Heaven in this one declaration of trust we make together today: “Truth will correct all errors in my mind, and I will rest in Him Who is my Self”…. All Glory to God and His one Son in Truth!!

Sunday, April 15, 2007

Lesson 106:

Let me be still and listen to the truth…

The stillness is true… the listening is as well… The truth reveals itself to the mind prepared to receive. When I began doing the lessons many years ago, sitting in meditation wasn’t enough to both quiet my mind and listen for the truth. For a very long while, much of this time of quiet inward earnestness was fragile and inconsistent. I would return daily to a practice of prayer and meditation, as I understood them, burdened by the belief that there was a ‘right’ way and the awful fear that I didn’t have it.
Yet, there were moments, apparently beyond my ability to deliberately duplicate, where I felt free and loved and loveable. There were moments when I experienced wholeness or oneness with no sense of a separate self. Most often I felt a deep peace and the sense that I was attempting something very holy. Still, I was rarely feeling overly confident that this was the real McCoy, and seemed unable to carry it with me throughout the day.
I developed a building desire, perhaps addiction, to ‘my time in the morning’, a place where even when the judgments came, which they always did, I could relatively easily release them in this consecrated space of mind…
The miracle shifted my perception about what this was and what it was for. It showed me that this space of forgiven peace was right in front of my nose, closer actually that the morning ritual. It began to reveal itself in the people around me. I began to offer forgiveness and innocence, in my mind, whenever I remembered, to those seemingly around me (And I seemed to increasingly remember).
A couple of things that happened over time is that when I did this, I really did feel a fondness for the ‘target’ person of my choice, which was accompanied with underlying peacefulness, even if it was just a remnant, and covered over with judgment again.
Still, as they mounted upon each other, several things occurred. Besides seeing that the experience I was seeking by making ‘special’ time for myself with God in my morning meditation was actually right in front of me all the time, I saw that by releasing my brother from what I had made of him in my mind and letting him be what he was in truth, I was doing the same for myself through the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit's vision is no idle gift, no plaything to be tossed about a while and laid aside…
I sensed the significance of this practice, which ultimately completely altered the way I saw and experienced the world and my so-called life. Subsequently, I began to desire it, more and more. It just felt so much better. Turns out, not only does one not need to know the particulars of meditation or prayer, but merely a willingness to be still and receive…. For, these are not the gifts particular to intellectual understanding or the strategic mind. The light of understanding looks nothing like intellectual perception and cannot be understood by the strategic mind. It is a resonance with truth, a certainty without ‘some-thing’ to be certain about. It is all in all ~ one mind.
Another thing experienced by way of practicing forgiveness, was the sense that there was no separating out ‘my special time with God’ without reinforcing the idea of separation in my mind (which, of course just has to be forgiven). As a matter of fact, there is no ‘separating out’ from Now; in fact, there’s a conflict of interest in the very idea. Now is… And, Now, cannot be prepared for.
It’s funny; I realized that all these years, I had been using my meditation time and sort of a vehicle to ‘get’ some place… It took some practice from my designed space to see that from within the thought system that designated this ‘special’ place, I join my brother’s mind through forgiveness recognize and receive; there’s no place to ‘get to”, for the only ‘special’ place on earth is within the special function, given me by God, to forgive by seeing no thing and no one apart. This is the homing mechanism which sees that every one and place and time and situation or circumstance, is a holy encounter where the miracle transforms perception into truth.
By accepting this without any reservation or exclusion, one accepts the Atonement, fulfilling the function to be happy by giving it to all. I look within and stillness overcomes me and I see before me the face of Christ, my savior and my Self…
The lesson for today asks we begin the practice periods with this consecration and the willingness to be shown… “I will be still and listen to the truth… What does it mean to give and to receive?” Certainty guides our unified purpose in hearing the truth today…

“Let me be still and listen to the truth… I am the messenger of God today, My voice is His, to give what I receive”.

Thank you for joining in the message of resurrection and rebirth, Joy overflows~