Lessons 361~365:

This holy instant would I give to You. Be you in charge. For I would follow You. Certain your direction gives me peace…

For years this statement has been my daily waking prayer … In actuality, this has the prayer in my mind ever since I truly accepted the miracle; since my I changed my mind from hell to Heaven, from illusory goals to truth as my only goal, from imprisoning myself as hostage to the ego to embracing my Self as host to God and accepting my function of happiness through forgiveness by making the one irreversible choice for the Atonement for my Self. This releases me from fantasies of ‘special-nesses’ of any kind. I so love what I seen now… You are my Self!!! …

It is with deepest gratitude, I reflect on this past year’s joining through ACIM lessons. I am so very blessed and as we move into the next year of time and space, I have but one New Year’s resolution:

I will to see what I denied~ because it is the truth. This is to say, I accept each person, place, thing, circumstance, and/or situation with equal value, without exception. Christ vision has now been received and opened the flood-gates of light behind and beyond which I experience as the great rays; full-love~

At last…. Our time of fantasy has come and gone~ Only God’s time, this present moment, is… The answer was gifted where it could be used. After all, God placed the answer together with the problem, so that they could not be separated by time…. Duh! How simple to see now; it is impossible that I have a problem that has not been -solved already. It has been done and Love is all that remains as viable for our forward path…

We cannot loose our way because there is no way but His, and nowhere can we go except to Him. We began this year with the happy decision to align our choices with the Holy Spirit by listening to the Voice for God~ using the daily workbook lessons… And we can rest in His certainty that this was no idle task…. You can feel it, can’t you?! We are as God created us! This one thing is sure…. Joy and gratitude are our natural state and our constant companion for direction…. We simply can’t loose what we are! ! ! ~ LOVE ! ! ! ~PURE, UNTAINTED, INNOCENT, GIVING~RECIEVING LOVE !

Happy New Year!!!

Lesson 335:

I choose to see my brother’s sinlessness….

As with all perception, I see only what I want to be there. This, in itself is a huge hurdle, perhaps the largest. Bottom-line, nothing exists outside my mind. I notice that as long as I endorsed (valued) a private mind, I could not wrap my mind around this idea of ‘you believe what you see, because you see what you believe’…. It was just too small to grasp, I guess…. Somehow my willingness to be wrong, allowed me to see that the same mind that seemingly chooses daily perceptions, with or without forgiveness, with or without love or attack, is the same one-mind that originated the crucial premise; the idea of separation, which instigated and maintains the entire sudo-reality of time and space, and rights and wrongs, and loneliness and bodies, fear and forgiveness, and you and me~ Gosh, if you boil it down to the zero point… all concepts, all seemingly real, all hinge on the self-concept; the idea called 'me'.

~Funny isn’t it, when ya really see that… It’s what I like to call ‘the big cosmic belly laugh’…. Cuz there is no me, or you…

There is only God and His Son; the extension of His Love. Another word for this ‘me’ I am referring to, is of specialness.

Specialness is the me that is always wanting more than everything~ it is the subject. The ‘you’ is anything or one ‘other’. It is the object for subject’s acquisition or enhancement…. That’s the dream… and none of it is real.

It was within the holy instant where ‘reality’/Love/truth, where I first experienced the clarity of oneness, which directed me toward the awareness that I am, indeed, the dreamer of the dream. Within this awareness , too, was the gift of the Atonement : that is my will, as God’s Will for me, to fulfill my function as the dreamer…

That function is to forgive and see this world differently; to see my brother’s sinlessness, to recognize my own.

I simply allow the Holy Spirit within mind to decide for God for me, and show me my forgiveness curriculum. I choose to see my brother sinless because that is the only way I feel loving toward him. And I, simply, can no longer tolerate less than loving feelings. The slightest attachment to outcome, the merest outside-Self referent, puts me on shaky ground. ~For peace is the only state where I know you or myself at all. And from peace I feel our oneness. Forgiveness is the answer: I choose to see the situation through forgiving eyes where you are sinless and so am I.

This is also the choice for freedom; returning me to Mind, because choice for forgiveness is the switch allowing me to listen to the Voice for God. This reminds me that I am the dreamer and whatever I might have originally perceived as an example of ‘sin’, I now choose to see as a chance to forgive, recognize what is my perception, is not really there. That the fear and guilt/ lack of peace is clearly in my mind….

My same Mind, which with the Holy Spirit, can now see beyond and into the heart of love we share. The choice for forgiveness; the choice to see your innocence, gives me back my dignity and changes everything.

It allows Love to rule the day, define the moments… and allow Presence to permeate everything, here and now… It is always enough….

Thank you for your holy light that shines eternal, that I may see my Self through you~ I love you~

Lesson 329:

I have already chosen what You will…

Lately I have been having a bunch of weird, mundane type dreams; some fairly fun to watch and some which have that feeling of doing life with one foot nailed down (a feeling I am well familiar with from the past). The common factor is that none of the scenarios seem to have any particular reason, or matter much. They’re okay. They might, or might not, include someone else currently in my so-called waking experience.

I haven’t really thought much about this until this morning in the contemplative part of my meditation and lesson time. A couple of things occurred to me. First was that they were a good sampling of every-joe’s everyday life, on planet earth. The other was that I couldn’t remember the last time I had dreams such as these.

So I ask myself what it was about my every-joe so-called life that might be affecting a message to me…. Here’s what I came up with. In recent weeks, I have been deliberately trying to make something about my life different; something in form. First uncovering what my belief-system around it has been, as judgment had apparently sneaked in, which is how I got in front of the mirror, so to speak, about it. Next, I started to look for what I have felt were solutions for change. You might ask, as I did during my investigation, where I had perceived a problem, so as to need solution-izing?

The ego is a tenacious thought system; always on the alert to slip in where it can, to redirect the mind away from truth… wouldn’t you agree? Here’s the groovy part, right there, within and beyond the very avenue the ego takes, the Holy Spirit serves up ‘the other way’. Right where I wanted to take this seriously and feel ashamed or think there really could be a problem that needed solving and that I didn’t have the resources within to deal and therefore must seek outside myself, a familiar voice whispers softly, “Relax. All that I have already belongs to you. There is no outside of God’s Son. You are as God created and only the truth is true.” That when my perception flipped and I saw, again, that everything I had been attracting information wise had come easily and I felt inspired to actions I have been taking. I also saw that none of it really mattered in truth, only my peace of mind was imperative… And, that is restored instantaneously by my desire for nothing else… Ahhh….

I love forgiving my mind for its little attempt to reinvent itself~ the transition experience from futility to gratitude, peace and certainty is so delicious…

I have already chosen what You will…

So too, is today’s prayer… Let’s partake together:

“Father, I thought I wandered from Your Will, defied it, broke its laws, and interposed a second will more powerful than Yours. Yet what I am in truth is but Your Will, extended and extending. This am I, and this will never change. As You are One, so am I one with You. And this I chose in my creation, where my will became forever one with Yours. That choice was made for all eternity. It cannot change, and be in opposition to itself. Father, my will is Yours. And I am safe, untroubled and serene, in endless joy, because it is Your Will that it be so.”

Lesson 306:

The gift of Christ is all I seek today…

And so, our Father, we return to You, remembering we never went away; remembering Your holy gifts to us. In gratitude and thankfulness we come, with empty hands and open hearts and minds, asking but what You give. We cannot make an offering sufficient for Your Son. But in Your Love the gift of Christ is his…

In other words, without the gift of Christ… I got nothin’! God’s Son can only be honored from the reality in which He is; in the truth of what He is. If I am not aligned with my source, all that I offer, all that I do, all that I seemingly experience, is false. I’m a fraud if I am operating in anyway disconnected from the inclusiveness of my relationship with Source which is, as well, my relationship with you and all things…

Here’s the thing. Of course there is no real disconnection possible in truth. So getting hooked in a loop of believing I can source myself, and need some-thing to sustain it, find happiness, etc., is but an ancient dream of nothingness. I look at this dream, from this my so-called life’s perspective and it’s like we’re a bunch of junkies with the ego-thought-system-dream as our drug of choice, as well as the dealer. Even the addictive mechanism comprised of those oh, so, familiar feelings of guilt, restlessness, escape, craving, obsession, compulsion, using and shame, are but the operating system of the separation dream.

Here’s the important thing: It’s not real!

Each of us has had those moments when we awakened for a second and felt the overwhelming love and peace within; the eternality of what we are in truth; the gift of Christ… If we have not realized fully, that I have decided with God through the Atonement, today can be that day. What we do know, is the nothing else really gives us what forgiveness and the release into peace and oneness, does…

So, let it be today we go past all fear, and be restored to love and holiness and peace, as such is the promise of our Father’s Love; His gift of Christ which we receive by our acceptance today…

Lesson 303:

The holy Christ is born in me today…

Of course we talking about giving up the façade here and deciding to see as Christ; the Son which God created as Himself… whose vision replaces our faulty perception… by our decision for it…

This is to say, that while I wish to believe I am a body; identify with being a victim of circumstances, a character pawn in a heartless world, at the mercy of or on the guard for unforeseen enemies, competing for the scarce and limited resources to sustain my form until the inevitable death that will take us all, I can not see the truth about my self…

It’s like trying to look at the world through the opening in a drinking straw. Quite limiting, yes?

Imagine with me and follow my train for a second… So, you’re looking at your life and the world you live in with through this tiny opening… all your senses tell you there is so much more going on than you have access to, you begin to notice how limiting believing the straw-perception feels to your experience of your life. You begin to focus more on the information you are receiving from your intuition as to what the bigger picture must be. This feels freeing. It feels good; loving… So you increase your amount of attention given to the internal, experiencing a more natural and expansive experience of your life… You, simultaneously, are withdrawing attention from the limited little space you once believed to be the only perception… your belief in it, goes with it… the straw drops. For it was only your attention that kept it in place… Now, your eyes open wide… Light floods your sight and what you see is what you had come to believe you would… and oh, how you love what you first placed your faith in, then decided to trust; trusting inspiration toward life, verses preservations for the death script…

And JOY abounds for in trusting, you have found your Self; always, already here, waiting for your trust… shining in the brilliance of your forgiven brother’s eyes and warming your heart with her smile and filling your soul with the belonging that Christ has unified the Son of God, forever whole…

Let’s share in the prayer today’s lesson offers:

Your Son is welcome, Father. He has come to save me from the evil self I made. He is the Self That You have given me. He is but what I really am in truth. He is the Son You love above all things. He is my Self as You created me. it is not Christ that can be crucified. Safe in Your Arms let me receive Your Son…

Lesson 294:

My body is a wholly neutral thing…

Neutral, having no agenda of its own, the body is at the service of where I place my mind. Will I be hostage to the ego or host to God? This is a question served up in the text that I have use throughout my process to zero me back to a place where I could get honest and begin to question the meaning I had given the particular circumstance I was in…

Returning the mind to the service of the Holy Spirit when I had been engaged in body fantasies to hurt myself did not come so easily, for me. I felt: ‘I got myself into this, I better get myself out.’ Shame ruled the day. Even after I had felt the hand of the Holy Spirit on my heart, I still forgot and allowed myself to get totally caught up in body-identity… For the longest time, I saw body importance as a particularly unworthy form of worship that I had become, unfortunately, completely addicted to, and not only the problem, but solving it. It was undeniably a nightmare on the horror scale… but, it was nothing more.

The thing about our nightmares, or dreams of any kind, is that they are not real… and when we wake up, who we are has not been altered in any way. Merely a part of the mind made up another scenario for a second, while we remained as we always were…

The thing for me was that I got tired of being a loser, in the win-lose body world… And what I noticed is that if I stayed out of the body piece of it altogether, like “here, you deal with this. I can’t handle it right now,” and focused exclusively on my mind and returning it to the Holy Spirit; bringing every belief and value I held, up for review and correction, the body identity dropped away, as spirit identity took its place.

What interests me now about the body is how and if it is useful in communicating with my brothers and our communing with our Father… I am all about the love and how we can drop the façade and experience our Self as we truly are as God created…

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

“The body, Father, cannot be Your Son. And what is not created cannot be sinful nor sinless; neither good nor bad. Let us, then, use this dream to help Your plan that we awaken from all dreams we made.”

Lesson 285:

My holiness shines bright and clear today...

Ah, yes! This day, I am alive to the holiness which I had dreamed in time and space I had denied… In recognizing myself as the dreamer of the dream of unholiness and unhappiness, the realization of the Self; whole already, holigrapically expressed as the holy Love of God the father in creation as His Son is but my one Self, follows quickly into awareness, where stillness has replaced chaos…

This is my holy witness… I am as God created me and no dream has really changed that at all…

Let me ask you this; is there anything that recognition of our joyous holiness will not answer? Is there anything we think we want in this so called life, when it boils right down to it, but the happy things of God to come to us… to feel ourselves free of all guilt and feelings of completion and incompletion… we want only to feel the joy and innocence we know is must be our own, for these feeling come from within when we look deeply into a sunset, smell the fragrance of a flower or hold our infant child in our arms…

Today, we take it one step further and accept our holiness; totally surrendering to it in place of the old addiction to grief and pain which no longer fits us at all… And with this, we can lean back and we allow the happy things of God, that the thoughts of our holiness in God have lain before us…

This is our prayer:

“Father, my holiness is Yours. let me rejoice in it, and through forgiveness be restored to sanity. Your Son is still as You created him. My holiness is part of me, and also part of You. And what can alter Holiness Itself?”

Lesson 280:

What limits can I lay upon God’s Son?

None.

Ya know, it becomes impossible to maintain one’s defense against the truth once it has been glimpsed through the miracle. Forgiveness: at the ready in every seeming situation leads back to the simple truth that we are neither that situation nor the characters within it. ‘It’ is but a flimsy overlay of make-believe or illusion, yet the truth of what we are; the light of Christ shines within and through…

We are the Son of God! And we are still as God created us.

Even staring down the belief structure of this so-called life, in this so-called world, proves out to be the power of the mind which God created one with His. So powerful is it, so as to seemingly single out (separation idea) a particular thought expression (ego) and father a world of dense so-called reality, so seemingly opposite from the rest that it believes it is this single image… And furthermore, that it can hide-out here, from its true identity as one…

Not one idea about the limited identity of this single beam, has altered the sun/son in any way and when brought to the touchstone of forgiveness, the face of Christ, which is the truth, is all that can be seen… for it is the limitless, eternal oneness we all recognize in each other as brother and the love we meld back into…

Today, we give honor where honor is due:

“Today let us give honor to Your Son, for thus alone I find the you to You. Father, I lay no limits on the Son you love and You created limitless. The honor that I give to him is Yours, and what is Yours belongs to me as well…”

Lesson 277:

Let me no bind Your Son with laws I made…

Every problem; every uncomfortable feeling, every sense that something is amiss, come from a split mind, temporarily identifying with the false; with an ‘I’-concept of self attempting to bind God’s Son with laws I made…

‘X’ happens and I say, “It should have gone Y”, due to some thing in this so-called world and some fancied results I think I want, always having to do with persons and circumstances, past and future… In other words, they are the children of the belief in the body and time and space…

What it is never about is the truth; the Self which is God’s Son as He created… LOVE!

Always, the instant I am willing to release my agenda back to the abyss of unknown and ask to be shown the meaning of what I behold instead of what the bodies sentinel brought forth, I realize my Self as dreamer of the dream and I have already changed my mind… In other words, I choose once again what He would have me be instead of dreams. And allow the miracle to work its magic in the mind of all concerned ~ which, of course, is the entire Sonship, since minds are joined and One in God…

Deeper still at the center of my being, zeroed into Now, I feel the peace of God and the recognition of the ever-present, unchanging, unchangeable, Self; God’s Son, who cannot suffer pain…

Here, now, always, beyond time and space and persons and bodies and illusion of any kind, I am resting in quiet certainty knowing I am that Son…I am aware I have never left, and you are there with me in Heaven where we are at home…

Lesson 276:

The Word of God is given me to speak…

“My Son is pure and holy as Myself...”

Ok, so God’s Son (you and me) is pure and holy as God Himself… in other words, ‘I am as God created me… pure and holy and eternally unchangeable in nature due to Source Itself… Which is to say that what is Love; whole and innocent and eternal cannot be something else…tainted by imagination’s concepts and falsehoods…

Now, in terms of daily application, this really simplifies things. If I am experiencing anything that did not spring forth from this initial idea (God’s Son is pure and holy as Himself) as the fundamental cornerstone of my perception, then I need to stop and ask “What is the meaning of what I behold?” Then be still and listen…

Forgiveness will serve its meaning up to me in purified form and as I see you as myself, I know exactly what to do and say, for it is the present we now share…

Here, now, all I see is that you are my one Self in the holy exchange of the false for the true; the call for Love ~ Love answering…

We are as God created… this is the only message worth of sharing in this so-called world of for-getting and re-membering and for-giving and re-cognizing and real-izing…

YOU, my Christ brothers, are my holy relationship in this world as eternally in God… His Son is pure and holy as Himself…

And as messengers of God (which ultimately we all are), the word of God is given us to speak…

What is Christ?

Lesson 271:

Christ’s is the vision I will use today…

Ya know, once you really get rockin’ and rollin’ with forgiveness… looking for the quickest route back to love’s awareness in every given situation. When the transient and flash no longer attract and only what is permanent and that can be shared with all is found to be meaningful. When the mirror of brotherhood is anticipated with wholehearted joy on a daily basis and resistance has lost its appeal, for the brotherhood mirror of one’s mind is seen with pure and innocent and accepting eyes; for what is seen is nothing less than the face of Christ… life really begins to get interesting… wouldn’t you say?... I say…

The appreciation I feel for the full participation of each and every member of the Sonship, doing his part, lifts me into the timeless contentment of the peace of God… is truly beyond what words could express. But, thank God, not beyond what Love can extend and therefore find expressing in the little and the grand… whatever Christ can use…

Each day I make the choice which is no choice in eternity, but the essential choice within the concept dream of days. I decide it is only Christ’s vision I will use to see what He would have me see… And everywhere I look; I can’t help but see love exchanging itself through seeming acts of kindness and gratitude. So too, I see love’s exchange in calls for love in what seem to take the form of ‘problems’; that love might have the chance to answer, whispering “you are not alone, for we are one in Christ, so this ‘problem’ could not be”…

Each day I see personhood melt into Christhood as forgiveness heals my sight and all around me…

The changeless wholeness of the Christ within reaches but unto itself… it’s so obvious…

Lesson 262:

Let me perceive no differences today…

Father, You have one Son. And it is he that I would look upon today. He is Your one creation. Why should I perceive a thousand forms in what remains as on. Why should I give this one a thousand names, when only one suffices? For Your Son must bear Your Name, for You created him. Let me not see him ads a stranger to his Father, nor as stranger to myself. For he is part of me and I of him, and we are part of You Who are our Source, eternally united in Your Love; eternally the holy Son of God.

Remember as we began this year; we took the suggestion offered at the end of chapter 15, to make this year different by making it all the same…? How are we doing? Today’s lesson is tuned to the same single perspective where all is included in God’s Love extended as His One Son in which we are all united…

Life for me has become merely a softening of the eyes, in many ways. You know, like when you look at a sunset or watch the waves roll in and out upon the beach…Judgment has ceased to attract me as a means of organizing my life due to the desire for true meaning replacing it. Today I value only truth, and look only for its messengers of love’s awakening. This way I see from behind the body’s eyes…For this I must rely on the Holy Spirit within my mind for definition. And what I have found is that all the solid edges that fenced off differences in my perception were made of judgment, which crumbles at the sight of forgiveness. Looking out from the forgiven perspective, all is seen a one beautiful tapestry. And joyous union and belonging well up and fill the being in the place where differences, defenses and fear used to reside.

Let us place our faith the TRUTH today; we are God’s One Son as God created and we are not alone…

Lesson 252:

The Son of God is my Identity…

This series of lessons are just so simply, profoundly obvious in their representation of our state of being; always, already.

The Son of God is my Identity…

“Father, You know my true Identity. Reveal It now to me who am Your Son, that I may waken to the truth in You, and know that Heaven is restored to me.”

The one thing we always already are, whether we are focusing our attention elsewhere (like the false) or not, is the Son of God. And the one thing we can never be without is….awareness, yes? Can you think of a time in which some part of you is not aware? This awareness is the Son of God… Spirit itself. We all have basic awareness, we come that way. And it is this basic awareness in the form of the ability to witness whatever arises, that is the Son of God, breathing the animation of our so-called lives. So too, the Son of God is all that can be witnessed… Behind the shadows of falsehood, and directly in to the light beyond, seen with and through, is the Son of God that we are, aware and alive. We can’t miss it… Can we even imagine a state where awareness is not? No, because we would still be aware of imagining it… and that would witness to the Son of God, all over again.

Furthermore, there are not two different types of son’s; holy and unholy. There is but One Son and it is us… and in actuality, we always, already are aware of this…. Any attempt to get it, is redundant, and frankly, totally beside the point. We merely quit resisting what we know is true.

Mistaken identity was but a dream dreamed by the Son of God without tampering with our Identity at all… And this Identity, exactly and precisely as it is, without correction or modification at all, is itself Spirit… And, since there is nowhere Spirit is not, there is nowhere in eternity where we are not the Son of God.

The purpose then of these lesson’s guidance is to bring our attention to full and present recognition of our Identity; our true face as the Son of God that we always, already are… And as so, we can begin to recognize the already present awareness of Spirit, and in turn recognize the Self, and abide as that.

The entire world is but a mere reflection of the Self and seen from our Identity as the Son of God which we are, the life we live and world around us is a beautiful place indeed… Heaven: restored to present awareness…

4. What is Sin?

Those of us who have been known to describe ourselves as ‘sinners’ will certainly agree, from personal experience, with the statements laid out in the first paragraph of this section… Sin is insanity. It is the means by which the mind is driven mad, and seeks to let illusions take the place of truth. And being mad, it sees illusions where the truth should be, and where it really is. Sin gave the body eyes, for what is there the sinless would behold? What need have they of sights or sounds or touch? What would they hear or reach to grasp? What would they sense at all? To sense is not to know. And truth can be but filled with knowledge, and with nothing else”.

Definitely, for me, during my stint as a ‘bad-girl/sinner’, insanity ruled the day… I constantly felt ‘driven mad’, desperate to make illusions take the place of truth. And oh, how the body was the central, inescapable reality in which I found myself trapped; hopelessly hooked on its addictions to feed its reality through the pleasure/pain, acquisition/consequence dynamics… It ruled my logic and imprisoned my soul…

‘It’, the sin premise, of course, was still my responsibility. It was my choice, my decision to believe real ~ no victims here~.

Yet, once this choice is made and the premise set (as we all know, cuz that’s how the world got real for us) this trap is hidden from view…

From the sin premise, the acceptance as reality, of victim and perpetrator appears to be too obvious to question. Denial is the primary symptom of the sin disease… No one wins. Everyone is guilty. This totally justifies the convoluted means one uses to meet one’s so called needs… And, incidentally, it requires a body to make this experience viable. “The body is the instrument the mind made in its efforts to deceive itself…Its purpose is to strive”.

Now, if we’ve been lucky, as I have, and in a moment of temporary death-by-sin, chose Life; the life of truth instead of sin, we understand that all things, the striving and the body and even denial, can be used by forgiveness (Holy Spirit) toward the awareness of ever-present truth… We deny the denial of truth each time we look honestly at our beliefs and values and question their validly, each time we look beyond the body to the Christ spirit which is constantly unifying us as brothers, each time we allow an ancient hate to become a present love…

Lesson 251:

I am in need of nothing but the truth…

Today, let us recognize this simple fact as the premise from which we operate our day and let truth guide our choices and relationships. We do nothing that is of the ‘should/have to’ nature … Instead, we wait for truth’s messengers to arrive and show us the way that we must go…

Lesson 244:

I am in danger nowhere in the world…

I am not in the world. I am the beyond; the vast freedom expanse in which the world arises. I am the Self; forever one that which is, from which creation springs. And, I am the Son which God created one with Him, blending in fullness and completion. All danger and suffering and time and space arise from me. But I am not it. What arises from me cannot possibly, now, overtake me. I am beyond in the Now-eternity-in-God, before time was... aware and witnessing… In truth, that which is what I am, has never been here at all…

If a dream of danger or doubt plays out upon the screen of time and space and seems to doubt or endanger myself or you in the world, I witness to that dream play, and I, too, am the forgiveness that remembers it is not the dream, but the dreamer.

We can’t change our core nature. Fidelity to premise is the law of mind. In this holographic dynamism of creation, we see this fact regardless of the level at which we are looking at it; fidelity to premise is the law of mind. So, whatever the premise is, fathers what is seen. Period. The thought of God’s love is the premise of our being… it cannot leave its Source.

The process of forgiving all that seemingly happens, by seeing beyond it, back to the truth of where we already reside in the peace of God, is all we can do within the premise of this world, for we are beyond and exist not within the illusion of ego-identities. This re-collecting brings us back into alignment in mind with our Self in God, which is what we are …

Today’s lesson offers us another chance to choose once again what we will see:

“Your Son is safe wherever he may be, for You are there with him. He need but call upon Your Name, and he will recollect his safety and Your Love, for they are one. How can he fear or doubt or fail to know he cannot suffer, be endangered, or experience unhappiness, when he belongs to You, beloved and loving, in the safety of Your Fatherly embrace?”

Lesson 234:

Father, today I am Your Son again…

This is a day in which we ‘lean into’ the reality of the truth. Of course we are God’s Son, today and ever more; in truth, where time and space exist not at all and wholly unaffected by a day in time, we have our being in God.

However (t0 state the obvious), the mind has sufficient attention here in this illusion of world and time and space and peoples and things; full of doing and regretting, worrying/planning and forgiving. Salvation, here, is about where we place our faith. Having placed it in the observable, and found it wanting (usually culmination in disillusionment), one comes to request ‘another way’… Here, now (as in the beginning), it is given… And all manner of opportunity to see differently begins delivery…

When ready, one places one’s faith, wholeheartedly in, well, what looks like, we choose one idea beyond the tangible; one idea that feels us into an experience of our Self in the ultimate realm which could only be pointed to as ultimate Love. Of course it is a glimpse; a holy instant… but it is enough. (Enough to make nothing, just of this world, satisfy anymore…)

It is here, in this holy instant, that we make the decision we must make, for the answer has already been given. We choose once again; deciding to trust this instant of truth’s lead in deepest honestly, following it to its ultimate culmination… in God.

The gifts received along the way are the negation of all we once believed; reviewing, scrutinizing each under the light of truth and watching it dissolve into forgiveness, like sugar in hot water, making our drink from the cup of life, sweet and refreshing. Gratitude and oneness become a part of every experience and a natural outpouring from trusting truth as the guide…

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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…”

Lesson 224:

God is my Father, and He loves His Son…

This is not personal, you know~ It is a fact. Who can dispute a fact? Only opinions find conflict and only with themselves… and opinions, by nature, are not real…

God is Father ~first Cause~ the All-in-all… His Son; His effect…

It is the equivalent, in this world, as the sun is shinning, or the ground beneath ones feet…

I am God’s Son. Period… God extended His Love in natural creation and His Son is the result. There is nothing else…

Now, one could argue semantics certainly. But the beseeching nature of that request, already points to insanity… Does it not?

One knows what one is. ~It is~. The questioning essence is the mark of forgetfulness which is referred to in the Course and the tiny mad idea, where the Son remembered not to laugh, or the detour into hell…

Now, I’m interested in where this line of thought is going, so please bare with me and we’ll find out together.

At some point, even at accidental quieting of the mind due to exhaustion from futile ‘trying’ and running, etc., a prayer of truth finds a space to eek out room for the truth to real-ize… Mine was something like: “whatever is haunting me from behind the scenes of my so-called life that makes it impossible to satisfy, if you’re not there, I’m screwed~ cuz there’s got to be another way…” Today’s lesson is a clear, honest and present prayer of truth, coming form a place of willingness for the truth to be true: “My Name, O Father, still is known to You. I have forgotten It, and do not know where I am going, who I am, or what it is I do. Remind me, Father, now, for I am weary of the world I see. Reveal what You would have me see instead”.

See, as we begin to still the raucousness of the busy, little, strategic mind, we can’t help but notice that most of what we seemed determined to think, plan, regret and ‘learn from’, are just ridiculous, irrelevant ideas; designed to distract the mind from its natural state of stillness and beingness. In other words, sanity…

But then, simultaneously, we realize… we already knew that, too. Yes?

It begins to unfold, that one does, indeed, know oneself and it is merely a matter discarding (through forgiveness) the overlays of false ideas, to reveal the light of truth behind and within…

I am totally bored with the disillusionment of the so-called world story. How could it possible hold ones interest for long? As the Son, God created as Himself, this dream of death we call a life, is much too small and ridiculous to take seriously any longer… One can only throw up ones metaphorical hands in final surrender to the great Cosmic Belly Laugh…

This world now, where life is present, because only present, is… looks lovely as far and close as seeing eyes can see. The reflection of the face of Christ smiles back from the far reaches, and from as close as the beating heart; in completion of each holy instant, of each holy encounter.

There is only the fact; the truth…

God is my Father, and He loves His Son…

Lesson 219:

I am not a body. I am free.

For I am still as God created me…

I am not a body. I am free…

I am God’s Son…

Be still, m mind, and think a moment upon this.

And then return to earth, without confusion

As to what my Gather loves forever as His Son.

I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me…

The body experience certainly feels real, yes? When anything seemingly happens in our lives, in this world, our body is where we seem to feel our experience. It is poignant, tangible, a mark of change, a major distraction device from the simple truth beyond, which is our Self; God’s Son…

But, there is not one of us that hasn’t felt, deeply within, that there is something much more ‘real’ beneath, within, beyond all this chaotic mechanism which is unmistakably our Self; the Self that breaths life into all these so-called physical experiences~ the Self that is God’s Son.

This lesson is inviting us to just settle into that holiness beyond this world, yet within our Self, and rest in the calm certainty of joy that is guaranteed when we release what we have made, and accept what God created as our Self.

It is the truth after all. ~ You know it, and I know it~ deep within…

Let’s just see how devoted to the truth we can allow ourselves to give to today; how present we can keep the lesson thought:

I am God’s Son…I am not a body. I am free…at the forefront of our minds. And when we notice we have lost contact, then quickly return to our memory-thought. Even when the slightest discomfort tempts us to forget our Happiness lies only in our joint Will with God’s…

Let this be the day where we release our grandiose childish game of ‘King of Bunkers Hill’ and let the grandeur that is our birthright and being, have its way…

Lesson 200:

There is no peace except the peace of God…

The search is over. Halleluiah!!!

All the bvll-shit efforting of pretending we are getting something out of nothing, today, let go…We no longer need hang on to the false just because we have invested so much in it and it seems terrible to waste all that investment ...yada, yada… simply because we did not know how to see because our purpose was based in falseness? Please….

There is the peace of God and nothing else… the peace of God… we all come this moment of truth, one way or another, sooner or later… It seems always that this awareness comes when all other avenues have been exhausted, and come up short. In this world, it is the beginning opening, of innocence’s eyes; when defeated by rightness and trying and right ways and wrong ways and goods and bads; we give up, too empty to even ‘know’ what we are looking upon… And here, the Holy Spirit enters that emptiness and makes itself home in peace…

We have all felt it. The peace of Home… (If only for an instant)… Yet, it is a feeling so very familiar to our being… because it is our being… It’s not so much a slipping into peace, but rather a slipping out, yes? Like it has been trapped there, imprisoned by our faulty thought system and its purpose for us and the world. Making us see ‘the survival of the fittest’ where there was only the abundance and peace of God. There is no peace except the peace of God, because He has one Son who cannot make a world in opposition to God’s Will and to his own, which is the same as His.

It is this one recognition, which we all come to, that sets the course for all the rest.

As it did with me a not so many years ago, when I wrestled to the death with the mind of guilt~ and lost... Abandoning it all, I accepted the miracle (the Atonement for my Self) and with it, the truth of what I am. Suddenly, I could see, for I was not alone in my seeing, and would never be alone in it again. With the Holy Spirit, I see all the sonship as one; hear his voice echoing in the innumerable calls for love, harmonized with Love’s halleluiah chorus, of gratitude and joy… Stable in the peace of God, I share a single purpose and a mighty companionship with you… Thank you for joining me with today’s halleluiah message taking the lead:

There is no peace except the peace of God,

And I am glad and thankful it is so…