~God is the love in which I forgive~ ~God is the strength in which I trust~ ~There is nothing to fear~ ~God’s voice speaks to me all through the day~ ~I am sustained by the love of God~
These are facts, as God is a fact…Or are they merely concepts in my mind? …Truth, or faking it… (as in, ‘fake it till you make it’)
Humph… how does one be sure?
We believe in that which we choose to place our faith. And by our belief we make real for us. That is what we make true for us, in particular: whatever “it” is, like a world of separate things, apart, for instance… Or, we place our faith in the sameness of a world forgiven… The matrix of this world deals in perceptions realm. Love or fear… I place my faith where I believe my identity lies. Hostage to the ego, or Host to God.
That one choice is the flip-switch. Truth or illusion.
Remember, fidelity to premises is the law of mind.
We are, after all, in the business of healing of the world of illusions, and this is where we must start… This is why the Course is so magnanimous!!!
Throughout my learning/unlearning experience with the Course, its message has irrefutably spoken to me of an ancient knowing innately yearned for. Much of my effort has often been misconstrued in interpretation, yes… as it is for all minds that sleep. But my desire to know, although lacking in whole-heartedness at times, has never been more than a quiet moment’s reach away… always available.
The appeal of the Course, more than just the extraordinarily intellectual articulation of this powerful and exclusively new thought system, is that it is uncompromisingly complete. And internal stirring toward its message, naturally accompanies reading it.
This lends itself to feeling so promising to the defeated and the hungry, that the possibility of dumping the failure of ones former efforts at life, in lieu of a whole perspective becomes a workable concept in the mind.
We sense the totality that heals the foreboding failure and self betrayal of our self image and glimpse a brand new perspective that could gift and receive complete redemption and renewal. The internal stirring is profoundly compelling.
[Now that’s what I call an extreme makeover]. It is, simply put, a way to ‘pull-ourselves-together’.
What reaches us is fundamental wisdom, a knowing of the True.
It is the Eternal “call for love” ~ All are called, few choose to listen… Not because we don’t want to… It’s just that we are misidentified with/as the ego.
It is the structural dynamics of the ego thought system to deny, to specialize, to distract, label and rename ~to make ‘mine’ and yours…
So naturally, when we encounter something this profoundly compelling, we want to make it ours. For me, it quickly became a transfixing obsession to conceptualize these ideas and attempt to fit them into my current belief structure. Not surprisingly, I would then think I understood what it meant and try to construe my experience of ‘life’ to fit…
The ego is compulsively drawn to give meaning where there is none and therefore, deny meaning where meaning is… and then give value to where it placed meaning, not realizing it was insubstantial and really ‘nothing at all’. This leads to valuing nothing, thinking its something… damn… the merry-go-round of the spiritual-seeker ego trap…
I’m sort of loosing perspective even as I write this ~its such a monkey-mind of upside-down concepts…How could one ever keep it straight? Is it possible? I think not!
Concepts are not real. They are the forms of separation designed to keep us from remembering the truth about what we are.
It was a long time coming for me, to understand this … I’m a smart girl, after all… Yet, the light of understanding doesn't come to the 'figuring it out -thinks it already knows' mind ~ It comes only to the mind emptied of concepts (however temporarily), in other words ~the 'open-mind'.
The course offers the simplest of procedures: question everything; every belief, and every idea ~ place each on the inner alter for review with Jesus; look closely with the microscope of non-judgment, in other words, with the Holy Spirit … Voila! ~Here’s the funny part~ not one of them stands! Flimsy holograms at best…
What we find is that all our fears and hurts were given dimension by the very avoidance of examination.
…Never underestimate the power of denial… ~words to live by…a phrase that has been in the background of my mind throughout this time together this morning.
"I" can’t know! …What is ~ is! And nothing else is! Period! “Only the truth is true and nothing else is true”...The only way to see the truth reflected here in this world is to look beyond effects to cause…And to look beyond, one has to look within and through…
There’s no going back …One cannot once the miracle is accepted. It shines the light of forgiveness, and blesses everything and everyone. The miracle becomes all there is to see!
In the end, delay is futile, too…
The mind that is addicted to this world has not been trained to pay attention …that is the purpose of the addictive mechanism… which is the ego’s attempt to make the Son of God, mindless.
The miracle shows that ‘the world is, as the Course says, “an outside picture of an inward condition,” gently guiding us back inward, first to the cause of the condition: the choice to align with the ego’s idea to ‘one-up’ God, where we see that impossibility. And then, in choosing the atonement, the Holy Spirit unveils First Cause: ~And nothing ever happened at all to interrupt the glorious song of gratitude for Creation, the chorus of which we are equally a part … one voice ~ one Mind ~ the Mind we share with God, singing truly:
~God is the love in which I forgive~ ~God is the strength in which I trust~ ~There is nothing to fear~ ~God’s voice speaks to me all through the day~ ~I am sustained by the love of God~
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