Saturday, August 18, 2007

What is Salvation?

Salvation is merely the return to the truth. We are as God created us and no fantasy, no matter how real it may seem and how many so-called others agree to its reality, nothing can change the eternal, changelessness of what we are. We are God’s Son; complete and healed and whole, shining in the reflection of His Love. We are the very expression and completion of the Love that is Creation…

Salvation simply means God’s perfect Love holds us as we are forever, in other words, He has saved us for ourselves till we are done with dreaming. Salvation is the golden thread of innocence among our illusions of sin, of peace in thoughts of attack. Our forgiveness’s are salvation’s messengers of that peace, which join us in one purpose till full re-membrance of our Father and His Son is complete. It is the reckoning of Heaven on earth…

Lesson 231:

Father, I will but to remember You…

Of course this is the one and only goal. Remember our Father and know the truth of what we are, already, always. This lesson is the call to bring the deciding mind into alignment, placing first things first.

Please join me in the lovely prayer given in the lesson:

What can I seek for, Father, but Your Love? Perhaps I think I see for something else; a something I have called by many names. Yet is Your Love the only thing I seek, or ever sought. For there is nothing else that I could ever really want to find. Let me remember You. what else could I desire but the truth about myself?

We accept the Atonement for ourselves and the truth sets us free…

And we know our Father and our Self as one…


Friday, August 17, 2007

Lesson 230:

Now will I seek and find the peace of God…

When the searching in this world is finally done; when the sorting out of the valuable from the invaluable and the false from the true, all individuality is discarded and only the Self remains. And, the Self is peace. Peace is our necessary condition. It is the condition Love created us from, with and in… All creation has its being in peaceful harmony. And through forgiveness; recognizing all appearances are false and letting them pass, we systematically re-member the truth of what we are. Peace abides.

As I see it now, it is not so much that one seeks and finds the peace of God, although it appears so. For me, it was more a letting go of all I had placed before it in my mind. Which, by the way, was only the entire world according to danét. It is peace to let judgment pass by to forgiveness without having to hop on that train of thought. I accepted the Atonement for myself, and changed my mind about the world.

In peace, I joyously join with you in the one perspective we all share….

Only the truth is true… And we are as God created us, in peace forever, now…

Thursday, August 16, 2007

Lesson 229:

Love, which created me, is what I am…

This is really the zero-point ~Love~ the love that is my Self; what I am~ the all of all that I am, and from which, I draw-out my world. All seeming experience ultimately folds back into the zero-point ~ Love… It is the steady, yes? Even when we are seemingly blind to our own very Self, Love is the calling card that draws us out of hiding and into seeking… and, what we seek is the Self same Love which, unbeknownst to our private mind, whispered our true name to us: “Love”…

I, myself, have stared down the scope of love’s seeming opposite; gone to the mat with the horrors of hate and murderous thoughts of fear and destruction. I’ve met death square in to face and surrendered its nothingness… Only to find Love ~Light ~Life: Self, at the helm; waiting for mind to re-member… completely untouched by the shadows that once seemed to cross the mind. The ‘fear of God’; the ‘fear to look within’ turned out to be the ‘Love of God’; the ‘Love I am’… changeless and eternal…

In the zero-point, one knows it to all have been a dream and sings the merriment that is constant creation, which is Love. Gratitude showers in circling flow as mind re-calls the truth:

Love, which created me, is what I am…

“Father, thanks to You for what we are; for keeping our Identity untouched and sinless, in the midst of all the thoughts of sin our foolish mind made up. And thanks to You for saving us from them. Amen.”

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Lesson 228:

God has condemned me not. No more do I.

Thank Heavens!, the condemnation game is finally over, yes? Talk about a circular waste of energy. You can’t get anywhere with condemnation as a motivator. The basis of existence is freedom, the true nature of our being, as is perfection and wholeness. Where’s the room for condemnation here? Therefore, what but illusion can condemn and be condemned? It is merely a case of mistaken identity, taken seriously in a tiny tick of time, when the Son of God remembered not to laugh.… The natural self will reject the idea and in this world, that looks like a feeling of defensiveness. Now, looped into this falsehood/personhood, we have used this faulty tool as a means of correcting a problem in our person, which isn’t real and therefore doesn’t need fixing. Correction must take place by bring problem and solution together. In this world there is but one problem: we think we are separate from our Source. And but one solution: realize that we are not. So anything that feels at all like it needs correction (including improvement) in anyway is merely an opportunity to ‘forgive and see it differently’.

We forgive. That is all. And actually, we make the decision to forgive and the Holy Spirit which is within our mind, whether we are currently in awareness of it or not, takes care of the work of forgiveness, giving it back to us as healed perception. What once we saw as noteworthy and in need of guilt as the punishment for our crime of not- enough-ness, we now see merely as a one more re-ally-zing of that which we thought we separated off from our Self. Forgiveness is the correction of the mis-identity; fathered in the silly belief that what is One could have separate parts, each sponsoring itself. Now, we see the false as false; insubstantial and irrelevant to our being, which is beyond. We experience the results of our decision for forgiveness within this world of perception, as a sort of bridge illusion (bridge-across-forever); or vision-spectacles, if you will, ~the healed perspective ~miracle mindedness… The ‘other’ has become our ‘brother’, one in purpose.

Still the Source, the still Source, resides within~ beyond… The power of the correction comes from our One Self; which has never been here at all, but has remained as God created and is like unto Himself…

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Lesson 227:

This is my holy instant of release…

Ah yes, it is today, this moment, this instant… we are free.

It is this instant we realize the true peace, the peace never really missing, but ever-present, beyond and within… It is this peace that now remains in our awareness as we continue on the forgiveness path of God’s plan for salvation. This holy instant, itself is beyond time and reminds us that none of our dreams of pain were ever real. True being is experienced and the Now of Heaven. We are the One; sharing One Will, and it is all there is…

The prime hindrance, as I see it, to this experience of ones true being is our addiction to running our lives by or desire for pleasure and our fear of pain. This pleasure-pain dynamic is the primary motivation for the choices we have made in the past and now we are addicted to that formula as a means of choice making. That stands in the way of any genuine experience.

When we “choose once again” as the Course invites, we give our choice mechanism entirely over to the Holy Spirit for correction. It is here we find our release. In this holy instant of release we experience what could be described as freedom from all motivation; a state in which no desire could possibly arise. Bliss is a symbol one might use in attempting to describe this state, but it is merely our natural state of being...

It is an experience outside of time/space and there is not enough time in all the world to experience this release. No, this release comes on welcome, by our mere decision for it ~only…

And how this then plays out in our lives is that we begin to see the falseness of the pleasure/ pain dynamic; the ego’s prime drug of our previous choice, when we are no longer motivated by fear of pain or desire for pleasure because we are beginning to see they are one in the same, and equally false, and that they are only of the imagination. We are released from being led around by the nose, motivating our choices from this point of reference. We naturally open ourselves up to be inspired in our choices, instead…

This is my holy instant of release…

We leave alone our addiction to the bondage of our desires and fears, and give our entire attention to the Self behind the experiences we thought were who we were, and experience the eternal Self beyond.

We see that we are indeed free because we were mistaken, but that our illusions of mistaken identity did not affect our own reality at all.

“Today, we lay them down before the feet of truth, to be removed for ever from our mind”. As the lesson’s prayer says:

This is my holy instant of release…

Monday, August 13, 2007

Lesson 226:

My home awaits me. I will hasten there…

Forgiveness merely allows us to open our eyes to the Self before us, instead of the contracted images of decayed beliefs and nauseating regurgitation of the ancient blinders to the truth. The truth shines so brightly that when we first glimpse it, it seems too bright to even open our eyes to. We don’t, at first, see that it is the light that was beyond, before, within, all along… the light that made seeing possible at all. But gradually, as we feel its warm inviting presence through forgiveness, we feel more and more compelled to open our eyes. Yes? And what we see of course, is the Self we were looking for in all our illusion, right there in our brother-beyond-the-judgment; Christ, in other words…

Whenever we so choose, we can depart this world in favor of the forgiven or ‘real’ world, by merely changing our mind about its purpose. Joy in creation is the eternal purpose we share as One. We don’t need to look for this or wonder how this is. We simply let the false go and truth is revealed already…. Heaven is with in us now, and it is our Home, right Here, right Now… relax the try, soften the eyes… and bingo… there, present/presence~ all along…

Sunday, August 12, 2007

Lesson 225:

God is my Father, and His Son loves Him…

That is, after all, our reason for being… Love completes itself, with or without this personality’s agreement, for giving and receiving are the same. Our curriculum, through this Course, is to bring our awareness into alignment with the Truth. And the truth is, Love extends and creates and adds unto itself in full appreciation, extending evermore…

The fullness of this truth is experienced in the Holy instant, when all personal identity dissolves into Love’s eternal oneness that is creation and the unspeakable completeness one experiences, forevermore, now.

It is by this grace that we gradually resign all of our false ideas and identities; the absurd special-ness coin with its phony currency and trumped up grandiose idols of disillusionment.

And it is by our willingness to let our love of the Father, rip through, that we begin to experience a glimpse of the grandeur that is our one Self.

“Father, I must return Your Love for me, for giving and receiving are the same, and You have given all Your Love to me. I must return it, for I want it mine in full awareness, blazing in my mind and keeping it within its kindly light inviolate, beloved, with fear behind and only peace ahead. How still the way Your loving Son is led along to you…”