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Sunday, December 13, 2009
LESSON THREE HUNDRED FOURTY-EIGHT
I have no cause for anger or for fear, for You surround me. And every need that I perceive, Your grace suffices me…
Enough~ always, just exactly enough…
A wonderful awareness of my coming home to my Self, which frankly, took me by surprise, was that there is always just enough; it's always just right…
It takes a bit of peeking beneath the covers of false identity with its blaring horn of “more, more, more” which blasts constantly from the ego perception of the world… Yet beneath it lies the truth that grace suffices...
For the longest time, I felt haunted by ‘not-enough-ness’, feeling weak and unstable; always trying to do more, seemingly to get more. I was so busy paying the price of admission to enoughness, I didn't have anything I could really share or give of myself. Nothing really sufficed… I was merely caught up in a fantasy of false identity. Actually, I had forgotten it was not my Self…
Because no-thing suffices, it is destined to leave one empty. I felt nothing mattered or meant anything to me… It seemed I lost my mind…
I could not see the forest for the trees. I could not see that I was what I was looking for. That by Grace I live... It was by grace I was and am released.
The miracle came softly and rested gently on my broken sight… It showed me that within and beyond the crazy effort-ing, is what I call the zero-point; the eye of the storm, the empty fullness of potentiality~
Within each being and moment is the inevitability of love! What characterizes every person, event or circumstance is the grace of God which always, already, suffices…
To experience this grace, we need merely be willing to surrender mind. Which is to say, to surrender all perceived needs as they rise to forgiveness, to let go our tendencies toward defense of anger and fear, and allow trust to handle every problem ~now~
By grace, the light always dawns and we see that we have everything, because we are everything.
We begin to experience the truth of today’s lesson: We have no cause for anger or for fear, for God surrounds us… And every need that we perceive, God’s grace suffices…
Monday, October 26, 2009
LESSON THREE HUNDRED
Only an instant does this world endure…
After it has been said and done, all the so-called important issues, etc. I ever valued, passed by like the clouds floating by, 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… And so it is in my experience.
This is what I have noticed: miracle-mindedness drops the mind back behind the passing clouds of seeming values and beliefs into the eternalness of peace and the serenity of Heaven in which we recognize we never really 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 seemingly 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…
Why~ It's a miracle!!!
I live in the Mind of serenity where I resonate in my true identity.
Each instant in time floats by, like the clouds.
What matters to me is if I choose love or fear. Do I allow love’s awareness? Do I choose forgiveness?
Forgiveness always follows any contact I have with fear’s tentacles. It shows me where smudges still remain upon the clear and present mirror of love’s mind… It serves as an eraser of sorts, inevitably removing my identification with fear, 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. Webut 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…
Exuberant Joy holds us radiant in the abundant eternal now. Ours, for the asking price of accepting the Atonement for ourSelf.
“We seek Your holy world today. For we, Your loving Sons, have lost our way a while. But we have listened to Your Voice, and learned exactly what to do to be restored to Heaven and our true Identity. And we give thanks today the world endures but for an instant. We would go beyond that tiny instant to eternity.”
I love you.
Saturday, October 17, 2009
LESSON TWO HUNDRED NINETY
My present happiness is all I see…
This is what I notice. There is no place but here.
There’s no such thing as better or worse.
~ I am no longer interested in ‘improving’ the dream.
Improvement is a dream. All antics that validate time for changing are now seen as silly delay tactics employed by a false identity to hang on as long as it could.
The thing is, that the self-concept identity was false. ~It never actually had a place in the mind of God’s Son, save it be dreaming…
I have lost interest in figuring anything out. I don’t care about the story. ~And only stories feel something which seems different than love; happiness, peace and oneness…
I have seen that there is no way to do it right … or wrong…
~There is no place to get to and nothing to get…
The Atonement answered the idea of separation completely! ~Simply by accepting the Atonement for myself, the goal is changed.
I am interested only in God’s Will, which is my will. Therefore, I am interested in perfect happiness for all.
What I see through love's eyes is how the Holy Spirit orchestrates every minute detail for everyone so as to unify our awareness of the accomplishment of the universal experience of happy truth…
When the seeking was done, and my happiness is felt remarkably within, the present joy is the presence of Self, everywhere and in everyone…
The past and future have no home here.
Here, Now, only the present lives and gives life. I have no interest in what yesterday means and when I notice a conversation going in that direction, the obvious red-flag question arises: “for what possible reason would we reference past, whatever’s? To substantiate now?”
The past is gone and what it seemingly contains that we would apparently discuss, are the dynamics of a time/space continuum which has no basis in reality…
The present is complete. Now, stands on its own. The present is where forgiveness sees past the current dream-character identification into the ever-present eyes of love; giving and receiving as one… And it is always, already, a state of happy enough-ness…
My present happiness is all I see because any seeming variation on that theme, is merely an opportunity to fulfill my function of forgiveness, which instantly puts me in touch with my function of perfect happiness, present now…
I accept the Atonement as my only function here, and everything is enough. The certainty of the peace of God yields no need…
I can no longer see any ‘needs improvement’ signs. ~I see only love!
Thank you, my perfect mirrors of love ~ I love you.
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Sunday, October 11, 2009
LESSON TWO HUNDRED EIGHTY-FOUR
I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt…
This is the great gift of accepting the miracle, yes?
Once we see through the disguises of the ego’s emergency death threats and realize that the thing all hurt, grief and pain have in common, is that they are false ideas about an anticipated situation we fear~ which also is false.
Now we begin to instantly see the next step…
We can elect to change a thought that hurts to one of forgiveness… Understanding rests in the knowing that the Holy Spirit has got it wired for the return to love which brings immediate peace…
I’ll tell you what, capitalizing on this gift; changing my mind ~ being willing to see things differently ~ reaching for the thought that feels better or even offers some relief has truly been a life-saver for me. And I mean this quite literally. I saw pretty quickly that the ‘mind-changing skill was worthy of practicing, honing and mastering…
I have received so many miracles as a result.
For instance, taking responsibility of changing my thought so I wouldn’t be in pain gave me a sense of accountability and integrity and lessened the desire to blame someone or situation for my circumstances… Additionally, the more I did this, the more I wanted that experience of feeling in my integrity and 100% responsible.
Quite naturally, I saw that forgiveness was the obvious avenue for the quickest investment in my happiness.
This made me all the more willing to look more deeply into my core belief structure which brought these things about, serving them up as opportunities for happiness-by-way-of-forgiveness lesson accountability…
This blessing helped me to see that the script is written. And inevitably that the problem has been answered by the Atonement.
My changing my thoughts from fear to ones that allow love to express itself, joins me with everyone and every thing…
This is my part…
In recognition of this, I can easily have faith in my brothers, that they, too are doing their part perfectly also…
I am so very grateful that I elect to change all thoughts that are not the truth of what I am and you are… and let the Holy Spirit handle the details…
Father, what You have given cannot hurt, so grief and pain must be impossible. Let me not fail to trust in You today, accepting but the joyous as Your gifts; accepting but the joyous as the truth.
Thank you ~ I love you
Friday, October 9, 2009
LESSON TWO HUNDRED EIGHTY-THREE
My true identity abides in You…
“Father, I made an image of myself, and it is this I call the Son of God. Yet is creation as it always was, for Your creation is unchangeable. Let me not worship idols. I am he my Father loves. His holiness remains the light of Heaven and the Love of God. Is not what is beloved of You secure? Is not the light of Heaven infinite? Is not Your Son my true Identity, when You created everything that is?”
That prayer unfolds gently uncovering the false and laying open the truth of who we are, and the promise of our Father's indubitable Will.
Todays lesson is a beautiful affirmation that our question of life is already answered true identity in God. Plus, the Atonement answered our mistaken identity.
We are Christ, the holy Son of God, for God's sake.
For the love of God, can we just quit the farce today?
Admit it. It's exhausting doing it our way. Not to mention, it's no fun anymore.
We have each recognized the truth.
Whenever we give up the game and listen... it's always there... waiting with love's embracing arms...
In between plans that fail (as they always must) and the onset of guilt, there in the empty space where nothing we have made is, love rest patiently, holding it all.
Today, can we allow identity be itself only. Can we not insist on the ''nothingness-identity overlays' we seemingly 'worked so hard to design', and let our awareness rest in the beam of Christ that lights all creation and all dreams as well?
Ah, yes! of course we can and will... for it is God's Will, which is our own...
Now are we one in shared Identity, with God our Father as our only Source, and everything created part of us. And so we offer blessing to all things, uniting lovingly with all the world, which our forgiveness has made one with us.
Together, abiding always, already in our true identity in God~LOVE we broach our day.
Thank you ~ I love you.
LESSON TWO HUNDRED EIGHTY-TWO
I will not be afraid of love today…
Doesn't this seem ludicrous? We are created cuz Love extends as is its nature. Then, we deny our identity as Love, and identify with fear.
And then, spend our lives looking outside ourselves for the love we think we don’t have. How twisted is this?
Furthermore, we make ourselves believe we are afraid to find love, just in case we could… what, get hurt?
That’s crazy!
Love is what we are.
It is our Spirit DNA, so to speak. It couldn’t really have gone anywhere… Our being proves it out… The very awareness of thinking, proves us out…
~insanity~ Love holds space in its womb even for insanity, till we change our mind and recognize the truth…
~ ONE CANNOT LOSE WHAT ONE IS…~
Love is it. Period. The Father, His Son, Creation…
Even the slightest experience of the miracle; the simplest forgiveness, smallest or random acts of kindness puts one in touch with the love that is always, forever, the coded being-ness of what we are in truth.
Sanity visits the truth upon our mind the instant we want only truth…
As we choose the miracle, instead of illusion, Atonement instead of death, all fear and its sentinel are seen for the shadow figures made to appear real and seem alive entirely by the smoke and mirrors of illusion…
Each one handled with the hands of Love, gently kissed with forgiveness, transforms fear to love.
The tapestry of Love unfolds before our very eyes as vision is accepted and unity is seen…
Take the leap of faith if you haven’t yet, and find that there is nothing to fear as we join in the lesson prayer for the day:
“Father, Your Name is Love and so is mine. Such is the truth. And can the truth be changed by merely giving it another name? The name of gear is simply a mistake. Let me not be afraid of truth today…”
I love you.
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