Saturday, October 27, 2007

9. What is the Second Coming?

“Christ’s Second Coming, which is sure as God, is merely the correction of mistakes, and the return of sanity. It is a part of the condition that restores the never lost, and re-establishes what is forever and forever true. It is the invitation to God’s Word to take illusions place; the willingness to let forgiveness rest upon all things without exception and without reserve…”

This is the coming together of all the lessons we have decided to learn through the Holy Spirit and this Course…

I love this section from the text, which would be complimentary reading (T-12.VI.5-6)

The second coming is the final choice to see our brother only as our self…because we realize we want nothing else…

Ya know, I can hardly even remember when I didn’t have this goal: to see Christ in all my brothers, that I might know my Self… to look past the appearance of form to join with the love that I feel calling me out and inward…

Now, I’m not saying I have not made this difficult for myself. In fact there have been times when I have totally drunkened myself on the self-pity of failure to meet the goal on its own terms… But, that was only an illusion as well, tragic in time (which, at that point I confused as myself), but nothing in eternity. I see that now. In the eternal present moment, I recognize the ego but delaying the inevitable; and the delay ends up to be but a silly dream, long gone…

I look at the second coming as the time when all the residual heavy sleepiness affects of the drug; ‘belief in the ego identity’, has totally worn off for each and every one of us, and we have chosen the awakening to love’s presence in all others, events and circumstances through forgiveness. We are then totally ready and willing to let God take the final step in our return to Him, so we happily live out the healed vision of God’s Son in the real world where love alone reigns within our mind…

And how is it for every one of us, here? However it is that I see my brother is the only way it is… for there is only one of us in Christ… Here, is a relative term which only exists in time. I see from within Heaven or hell by where I place my brother…

It seems apropos to reference (T-II.) in the text which so beautifully speaks to walking with Christ… Joyously I join you in the only useful journey… re-membering…

Lesson 301:

And God Himself shall wipe away all tears…

Today’s prayer really says everything. Please join me:

“Father, unless I judge I cannot weep. Nor can I suffer pain, or feel I am abandoned or unneeded in the world. This is my home because I judge it not, and therefore is it only what You will. Let me today behold it uncondemned, through happy eyes forgiveness has released from all distortion. Let me see Your world instead of mine. And all the tears I shed will be forgotten, for their source is gone. Father, I will not judge Your world today…

Simple as that.

I’m done being interested in judging and assessing and rating… well, in thinking I know anything about anything without Voice for God giving meaning to it for me… Actually, nothing in the world I saw through the eyes of judgment hold any interest for me anymore… If I can’t share it equally with all my brothers, I don’t want it… it can’t possible be real.

Yet love; love is always available and can readily be accessed and given and received as one perfect moment in time, one holy instant shared by all… easily felt by valuing nothing else, yes? ‘I love you’ is the lamp that lights the way eternally now…

Friday, October 26, 2007

Lesson 300:

Only an instant does this world endure…

How true it is that all the so-called important issues, etc. I ever valued, came and went within the blink of an eye. Things that seemed ‘life or death’ critical, one moment, I can no longer even remember their dimensions. The lesson speaks of them as clouds upon a sky eternally serene… This is what I have noticed: the miracle drops the mind back behind the passing clouds of seeming values and beliefs into the eternality of peace and serenity of Heaven in which we recognize we never left.

Haven’t you noticed that when you have truly allowed forgiveness to replace grievances, that the memory of the event once taken issue with, fuzzes out? It’s like it wasn’t really real, but more like a figment of fleeting imagination…

It’s the wildest thing… In the world of time, something could have seemed to take over even years of one’s life, only to have it disperse completely into the ‘what can be truly helpful’ category of the worldly experience once single purpose miracle-mindedness begins replacing the wrong-mindedness of separate persons and events and problems, etc…

I live in the Mind of serenity where I resonate in my true identity. Each instant in time fleets by, what matters to me is if I choose love or fear; to allow love’s awareness or choose the forgiveness option which always follows any contact with fear’s tentacles, showing me where smudges still remain upon the clear and present mirror of love’s mind… which forgiveness inevitably removes, allowing my attention to slip back to the eternal peace where I always, already, reside in truth…

The world is but an instant of wrong-thought-corrected and we watch its play-back through the lens of forgiveness~ unaffected, and resting in the still serenity of the peace of God… This is the day in which we go beyond that tiny instant and into the full remembrance of our eternal reality… why not?

Thursday, October 25, 2007

Lesson 299:

Eternal holiness abides in me…

Eternal: always, forever. Holiness: pure, uncompromising, being… Life force, itself…. Love’s expansive extending… creation…

What is this eternal holiness which abides in us? Is it not the Christ we share as the Son of God; known only when our will is in unison with God, our Father…

Yet, we see the reflection of this eternal holiness everywhere, if we have eyes to see; in every act of kindness, every smile, and friendly hand. We feel its heartbeat as we observe children play, or recognize ourselves in a stranger’s story; bonding us as friends. It is the awareness of communication of the lover and the beloved. It is what is left of every experience in this so-called life once forgiveness has had its way with it. It is the only experience we really want … yes?

We can’t mess it up. We can’t acquire it. We can’t loose it.

We can know our holiness in answering the call to ‘know thy Self’… This is the same as accepting the Atonement for ourselves and letting all things be exactly as they are; as God created all creation to know itself….

Please join me in today’s prayer:

“Father, my holiness is not of me. It is not mine it be destroyed by sin. It is not mine to suffer from attack. Illusions can obscure it, but can not put out its radiance, nor dim its light. It stands forever perfect and untouched. In it are all things healed, for they remain as You created them. And I can know my holiness. For Holiness Itself created me, and I can know my Source because it is Your Will that You be known…”

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Lesson 298:

I love You, Father, and I love Your Son…

This is the one true statement, yes? Love is what I am. Every encounter, experience, action or idea within this world is gently being guided by the Holy Spirit within mind, to assist the full recognition of this simple fact. Absolute Realization of this one true fact is realization of the Self at one with all that is… In other words~ LOVE.

Let’s slip into the prayer of facts in today’s lesson, together, right this moment, and sit for a while in the truth of our sure way in God…

“Father, we come to You today, because we would not follow any way by Yours. You are beside us. Certain is Your way. And we are grateful for Your holy gifts of certain sanctuary, and escape from everything that would obscure our love for God our Father and His holy Son…”

Let this be the day of complete release from all former resistance; from valuing what cannot ever serve the holy Son of God… Let only the love that we are sure of, be our guide… waiting until we feel the inspiration born of love to move us into action in any circumstance that might arise. What do we have to lose? We’ve exhausted all the half-measures and obligatory duties as a method back to the love we are and have for our brothers, our Father and our self… We forgive it all, NOW! And come with open minds and hearts and arm unto the truth:

I love You, Father, and I love Your Son…

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Lesson 297:

Forgiveness is the only gift I give…

Actually, Forgiveness is the only gift I have to give in this so-called world. It is the only thing that makes life interesting here~ seeing past the labels and their meanings and their linking belief structures that make up a false self for you and for me…

Yes, forgiveness is the gift I give myself which opens my eyes to, instead, the actually of the present moment. The world of time and space are a past memory; gone simply by withdrawing valuing it. Now is where the ‘real’ world can be experience here. The present moment stands out with a sense of the ‘real’ even within the dream of time… haven’t you noticed? Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the gates of time into the world of the miracle, where you and I are one.

The present is all I am interested in now; the fresh, the alive; vibrant livingness itself… memory and anticipation in their best dress, pale miserably to provide any real sustenance. Everything about relationship with God is now, and cannot be outsourced to time… Forgiveness is the declaration of leaving the past in the past and the future with it, and allowing spirit to rip, now as we are. With nothing in its way, Love shines so brilliantly, it is impossible to miss. It looks like you and it looks like me in all our full innocence and glory.

The Self in truth, always now, in the eternal present, become me and now shares my reality. And it is within this realm of perfect acceptance that I impart to the present which makes it what it is… where forgiveness bestows its gift of perfect love…

Please join me in today’s prayer from the lesson:

Father, how certain are Your ways; how sure their final outcome, and how faithfully is every step in our salvation set already, and accomplished by Your grace. thanks be to You for Your eternal gifts, and thanks to You for our Identity…”

Monday, October 22, 2007

Lesson 296:

The Holy Spirit speaks through me today…

Like yesterday’s lesson, today’s lesson represents the decision to accept the Atonement for our Self… And in practice, that means that we set the goal for truth at the outset of the day, dropping all defenses that tell us that we know the meaning of what it beholds. We then step back into the vast peace of trust and let the Holy Spirit give us the meaning in each and every circumstance as the fresh single moment that is, arises… We understand that do not know what anything is, or how to be, without His Voice giving us the meaning we need in each single now, where truth is always found… For the Holy Spirit is our Self. We are united in one Self and we chose to teach only what we want to learn. And what we want is truth…

The body-mind mechanism is now a superb vehicle for the communication of love from brother to brother. We can trust that what we say will be for the good for all, since our voice has been consecrated for truth and given to the Holy Spirit today… Forgiveness is the benchmark of our relationships and love is the experience…

Please join me in this prayer:

“The Holy Spirit needs my voice today, that all the world may listen to Your Voice, and hear Your Word through me. I am resolved to let You speak through me, for I would use no words but Yours, and have no thoughts which are apart from Yours, for only Yours are true. I would be savior to the world I made. For having damned it I would set it free, that I may find escape, and hear the Word You holy Voice will speak to me today…”

Sunday, October 21, 2007

Lesson 295:

The Holy Spirit looks through me today…

This is the decision we make when we choose the Atonement for ourselves; we step back and let the Holy Spirit’s vision (interpretation) replace the body’s eye’s program. We no longer value a program for sight that separates out and limits the Son of God, neither in our brothers nor Self…

What once appeared as the world’s horrors; pain and suffering, and terror, loss, and death is seen as falsehood drawn on a flimsy overlay stretched across the light of truth, which now lifts and disappears, as only truth is valued… and the Holy Sprit given reign to see…

In place of hopelessness, we now see salvation, ancient hatred’s have become present loves, and as each pair of eyes is lifted; the seer and the seen, recognize the face of Christ~ which is one…

The peace of God has settled over the mind that sees only for Christ and Love is one… Join me in offering today’s lesson’s prayer in union:

“Our Father, Christ has asked a gift of us, and one we give that it be given us. Help us to use the eyes of Christ today, and thus allow the Holy Spirit’s Love to bless all things which we may look upon, that His forgiving Love may rest on me…”