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    Lesson 205

    July 23rd, 2008

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

    (185) I want the peace of God.

    “The peace of God is everything I want. The peace of God is my one goal; the aim of all my living here, the end I seek, my purpose and my function and my life, while I abide where I am not home.”

    Aaaaaamaazinnnng.

    That’s amazing. The peace of God is everything I want. It is my one goal, the aim of all my living here, the end, my purpose, my function and my life.

    Now you see why yesterday I wrote that I have everything I need. I have the peace of God. It’s all I want. It’s all I ever really wanted. And it was given to me by my own decision.

    What else could I possibly want????

    What else do I need now that I have everything??

    I rejoice that I live in God.

    “Seek ye first the Kingdom of Heaven and all else will be added unto you.”

    It’s really astonishing to see this law in action. I mean, really really astonishing. You stand still - in perfect awareness of your true reality of God - you stop chasing, you stop planning, you stop visualizing, and things just come to you.

    And the best part: YOU DON’T EVEN CARE ANYMORE ABOUT THESE THINGS!

    You have the only thing you ever really wanted and that’s the peace of God.

    The peace of God is everything I want.

    It is entirely possible to stop circling around what we have already done and to move to a new place. It is possible to have the peace of God always. It is possible to move out of conflict and never land there again.

    Al, over there at View from a Mountain Top, describes it as raising the bar:

    RAISING THE BAR

    That is an endearing term from my business days. It is an awesome idea. Instead of reaching to achieve something that you have already achieved the idea is to move that level to the bottom and start from there.

    I see it as a ladder. I move from one rung up to the next then I go back down to the rung that I have already been at over and over. I’ve been doing that incessantly. Equate (is that an intellect word, or what?) that to an energy shift, one level to the next. I do that! I watched myself do that all day yesterday. I would realize that I had shifted “down” and I would just simply shift back “up.” It was simple and I did it automatically, over and over. But I will have to maintain that level in order to start to move up to the next.

    Carlos Castaneda explained that each time you focus your intent on achieving a shift you are developing cohesion resulting in an increased clarity of perception for that new energy level. Simultaneously you are gaining the cohesion and the energy to maintain that state indefinitely.

    How does acceptance fit in? I don’t know but I get the feeling that I will.

    Thank you Al!

    The bar has been raised. The previous highest goal “I am whole and perfect as God created me” has now been moved to the bottom. The bar has been raised. We start from perfection and rise to new heights.

    If there is anyone reading these posts who does not yet experience this, or who has no idea how happiness/healing is accomplished, or who needs a miracle, I want to remind you that I am here for this moment and available to you.

    I am reachable by email. I am offering audio classes. I answer questions. You can write to me.

    But it won’t always be this way.

    But for today, I am here.

    I receive letters from people who say they wanted to meet the Master Teacher and now they can’t believe he is gone. They write to me, saying: “I missed my chance.”

    Welcome to the whole human condition: putting off things till tomorrow not realizing that sometimes tomorrow doesn’t come.

    Now is the time. If there is something you’ve been wanting to do, you should absolutely do it today and not wait a second longer.

    If you’ve been thinking “some day I am going to write to Lisa, to ask her a question or ask for help, or to take advantage of what is being offered to me,” today would be a good time to take action. If you have been putting it off because of fear or other excuses, please don’t wait anymore. Most people do not recognize what is directly in front of them until it is gone.

    This goes for other things in life: If you have been wanting to tell someone you love them, don’t wait. They could be gone any second. You have no idea.

    Be aware how precious this day is. Be aware of the wonder that surround you.

    Every day is a gift.

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    Lesson 204

    July 22nd, 2008

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

    (184) The Name of God is my inheritance.

    I am totally out of it right now. Do you ever wake up some mornings and have no idea where you are, what day it is, what month it is, what you need to do, etc.?

    And then suddenly everything comes flooding back to you.

    Then you remember that it is Tuesday, that it’s your day off, that it’s July which means only 2 months away from the Europe trip, and that the car is being worked on having brake pads replaced, that the cell phone is temporarily not working and you might have to drive to Madison to the US Cellular store this afternoon, that you need to renew your license plate, that there’s no bread in the house and you need to go food shopping, and for all of these things you need money, and the list goes on and on and on.

    Suddenly your mind is cluttered with ideas. All within 5 minutes of waking up.

    This should be enough to show you that everything is a past idea … and that YOU, the maker, drag it into your awareness.

    But then - PRAISE THE LORD! - you can remember to rise above all of it! You remember to change your mind. You re-direct your thinking. You can remember that you’re not a body. You can remember “THE LORD PROVIDES!” and all the meaningless small goals melt away in a flash.

    This is the day the Lord has given to me. The day is accomplished in God. There are endless opportunities for marvelous creative experiences! Today! I don’t have to drudge along, worrying about problems. I can be here now.

    I can live expectantly and in anticipation (which is different from procrastination and waiting for things to happen). It’s a different energy. Procrastination makes you slump in a chair, in boredom, waiting for external things to come to you. Anticipation is an excitement that good things are coming (that things are already happening and in motion) and that particular kind of energy moves you.

    The Name of God is my inheritance.

    For the past couple of days I have been talking about STAYING ABOVE THE LINE of “I am whole and perfect as God created me.”

    Above the line - above the space of knowing your perfection in God is creation, communion, revelation and joy.

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    I AM WHOLE AND PERFECT AS GOD CREATED ME.

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    Below the line - below this space - are problems, grievances, worry, fear, sickness, planning.

    Also below the line is forgiveness, faith, learning, miracles, healing, perception, praying and questions.

    This is not a typo. All of the above (forgiveness, miracles, healing, faith) no matter how holy and good they seem are still limitations, contained with time and space.

    But within you is a power to rise above all of this. Get above the line! You are as God created you. You are the light of the world. There is nothing to forgive! There is nothing to heal! You are bigger than your problems. You are bigger than petty grievances. You are bigger than sickness.

    Perception and prayer are no longer needed when knowledge has come.

    A Course in Miracles says to “rise above the battleground.”

    You do this in your own mind, and it doesn’t take time. Problems become challenges. They are not something to be feared, but rather problems become part of the adventure.

    Last night I was told I could switch over my cell phone to a local number, and that I could do so over the telephone (without making a 50-minute trip to Madison), and as soon as I got off the phone, my cell went out of service, and another call to US Cellular and they said: oh, we’re sorry, that was a mistake. We can’t reconnect it. You have to come to Madison to the store to get it reconnected. We can’t do that over the phone. We don’t know why anyone told you that. You have to physically be at the store to reconnect the phone.

    This is the kind of situation that makes most people crazy. Who the hell are these incompetent people? You wait on hold for 10 minutes. You do what THEY tell you to do (they’re customer service, they should know, right?), then they screw up and tell you it’s your fault.

    ??

    And suddenly you have this “problem” that seemed to come out nowhere, creating all sorts of havoc and a rearranging of your schedule.

    But then in one brilliant flash of clarity … you will relax. You will find the joy of God. You will experience the peace of God. You will remember that Christ is working through you. Your life is not your own at this level. You are simply a communication channel for the light of Heaven. Who knows where you are needed to go or why?? Who cares?

    It’s not a problem. I rise above it. Maybe I have to drive to Madison today and get my phone connected. The customer service rep told me it would be connected automatically within 24-hours without going to Madison. Someone else told me I had to go to the store. Which is it? I have no idea. I don’t even care. Wherever Christ needs me to go is where I want to go.

    Now there are no problems.

    I am whole and perfect as God created me.

    The Name of God is my inheritance.

    What is truly astonishing is that everything I need is given to me. And not just scraps and leftovers, but the best of the best. I don’t know how it works, but it does. I just stay above the line. I stay where God is. I don’t worry about things in time & space. What a waste of power and energy.

    Whatever I need is given to me. This is not a concept. Things come to me without asking, without prayer, and without visualization.

    Whatever I need to fulfill a function for God just drops out of nowhere and lands in my lap. It works because the Name of God is my inheritance.

    I am given everything because I recognize that I AM everything, and that I have no needs.

    Total glorious paradox. I am given what I need because I have no needs!

    This is a whole lot more fun (and consistent!) than the laws of attraction, which most of you have already figured out … sometimes works, and sometimes doesn’t.

    The Laws of God are always consistent and they never fail. Success every time!

    “God’s Name reminds me that I am His Son, not slave to time, unbound by laws which rule the world of sick illusions, free in God, forever and forever one with Him.”

    Amazing, right? You’re not a slave to time. You are not governed by worldly laws. You are under no laws but God’s.

    But the laws only operate in Heaven. You have to get your mind in the place where those laws are operating. Does this make sense to you? You have to get out of the battleground. Get above the line. Rise up. Be in Heaven. Be in a place where problems do not exist.

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    Lesson 203

    July 21st, 2008

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

    (183) I call upon God’s Name and my own.

    Remember, make no exceptions.

    “Each lesson contains the whole curriculum if understood, practiced, accepted and applied to all the seeming happenings throughout the day. One is enough. But from that one, there must be no exceptions made.”

    Be uncompromising - be the Mind of God - and you will have no problems.

    Make no exceptions … and all Power is returned to you.

    Accept your perfection. You are whole and perfect as God created you. Now stay above that line, and don’t go below it.

    Have a great day.

    I love you.

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    Lesson 202

    July 20th, 2008

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

    (182) I will be still an instant and go home.

    Last night Greta said the most amazing thing. She said “Why don’t we START with “I am whole and perfect as God created me” and start with that, and let that be the bottom?”

    ha.

    What a great idea!

    She said “it’s time we go beyond A Course in Miracles and if I’m thinking it and can express it, then there must be other minds who are already thinking the same thing.”

    yes.

    I accept my perfection today, I accept my oneness with all things, and now stand in the expectancy of the new instructions from Christ, letting the past go, letting every idea go, taking that step beyond forgiveness, and simply being present here in this brand new moment where new experiences open up for me and the world.

    And now … to let all the rest go: forgiveness, healing, miracles, learning, faith. God does not know of these things. God does not even know of gratitude! God only knows perfect knowledge of all that He created. He knows only love.

    God only gives.

    And that’s our natural condition!

    Here we are all practicing to get to healed, whole and perfect - as if that was the HIGHEST GOAL of our practicing - when in fact, it’s the LOWEST GOAL.

    There are things we know nothing about, things that are yet to be experienced, and which cannot be seen or heard till we have gone beyond the current frame of thinking.

    Why not just accept healing and forgiveness as accomplished and let that be the BOTTOM???

    ha.

    Now, being healed is NOT the highest goal … instead it is the bottom of the barrel, compared to the new heights - communion, creation - which we are being offered.

    Healing is accomplished today through acceptance.

    I am healed and whole and perfect, shining in the reflection of God’s Love.

    That’s the STARTING point.

    I love when stuff like this happens.

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    Lesson 201

    July 19th, 2008

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

    (181) I trust my brothers, who are one with me.

    No one but is my brother. I am blessed with oneness with the universe and God, my Father, one Creator of the whole that is my Self, forever One with me.

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

    The Review VI Introduction to these next 20 lessons asks to give 15 minutes in the morning and another 15 minutes in the evening, along with hourly remembrances, and to use the idea as often as you can between them.

    Each one of these ideas alone would be sufficient for salvation if it were learned truly. Each would be enough to give release to you and to the world from every form of bondage, and invite the memory of God to come again.

    It says that each short review lessons contains the entire curriculum!!!

    **If … understood, practiced, accepted, and applied to all the seeming happenings throughout the day.

    And that’s the key. One paragraph would be enough. In fact, one sentence would be enough IF … understood, practiced, accepted, and applied to all the seeming happenings throughout the day.

    One is enough. But from that one, there must be no exceptions made.

    There it is!

    The Key!

    If you have been struggling with trying to have an experience, or if you are experiencing difficulty with this course, of if miracles are not happening …. Jesus just gave you the key to open the door.

    Make no exceptions.

    Make no exceptions - trust your brothers who are one with you - and miracles will occur.

    Make no exceptions.

    All problems and chronic conditions result from accumulation. That’s it. If you have a problem or a sickness, you have accumulated ideas in your mind. They might even be spiritual holy ideas. The practice is to be willing to let go of every idea - even the so-called true ones. You’ll need to change a habit. You might need to change your diet. You might need to change your routine. You’ll need to speed up your energy. How simple! If you are sick, you cannot keep doing what you have been doing. That’s logical. Sickness or problems are an indication that something needs to change. Sickness is not good or bad, it’s just a flashing yellow light to slow down, and look both ways. Be alert. Look at what needs to be changed.

    A good practice is the workbook lessons of A Course in Miracles:

    1. 15 minutes in the morning
    2. 15 minutes at night
    3. hourly remembrances
    4. and to use these ideas as often as you can between them.

    I trust my brothers, who are one with me.
    I am not a body. I am free.
    For I am still as God created me.

    All that is asked for these next 20 lessons is “a deep relinquishment of everything that clutters up the mind, and makes it deaf to reason, sanity, and simple truth.”

    Letting go of accumulation.

    We attempt, this time, to reach a quickened pace along a shorter path to the serenity and peace of God.

    *We close our eyes, and then forget all that we thought we knew and understood.

    *We close our eyes, and then forget all that we thought we knew and understood.

    *We close our eyes, and then forget all that we thought we knew and understood.

    *We close our eyes, and then forget all that we thought we knew and understood.

    “There is but one exception to this lack of structure. Permit no idle thought to go unchallenged. If you notice one, deny its hold and hasten to assure your mind that this is not what you would have. Then gently let the thought which you denied be given up, in sure and quick exchange for the idea we practice for the day.”

    We give these times of quiet to the Teacher Who instructs in quiet, speaks of peace, and gives our thought whatever meaning they may have.

    Wow. What a gift.

    says: “To Him I offer this review for you. I place you in His charge, and let Him teach you what to do and say and think, each time you turn to Him. He will not fail to be available to you, each time you call to Him to help you.

    Wow. This is great.

    We practice day by day, advancing toward the goal He set for us; allowing Him to teach us how to go, and trusting Him completely for the way each practice period can best become a loving gift of freedom to the world.

    Amen.

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    Lesson 200

    July 18th, 2008

    There is no peace except the peace of God.

    It cannot be stressed enough times - there is nothing in this world worth cherishing for even one minute. There is no peace except the peace of God.

    The only peace you will ever find is by shifting your thoughts away from your problems to thinking about the light, your grace, your holiness, the peace of God.

    It’s the only way.

    While you are thinking about your body and how to heal it, you are trapped in a nightmare.

    Bastiaan said a great thing yesterday - “A miracle is a miracle because it’s a shift in perception.”

    Ha. That’s it! Thank you for the reminder. It doesn’t take time. You keep shifting your perception AWAY FROM the body, and you focus your thoughts on God. That’s it. A miracle is a miracle because it’s shift in perception. It doesn’t take time.

    Come home.

    This world is not where you belong. You are a stranger here. But it is given you to find the means whereby the world no longer seems to be a prison house or a jail for anyone.

    What does forgiveness do? In truth it has no function, and does nothing. For it is unknown in Heaven. It is only hell where it is needed, and where it must serve a mighty function.

    Every day my function is to keep my mind aligned with truth. Which means I have to continually shift my thoughts. It doesn’t take effort or time, and it’s really easy, but I am aware that I do it. The #1 thing I do in the course of every day is watch my thoughts … and if a thought is not bringing me peace, I choose again. I change my mind. I align my mind to think with God.

    Yesterday I was listening to someone teach a class, and I started thinking about a person who has been causing drama in my life. I was having a conversation in my mind with this person (things I wanted to say to this person, perhaps in an hour) and within a few minutes I caught myself. I sat up in my chair and thought “What the hell am I doing??”

    I said in my mind “No! Out!” and the thought and darkness disappeared, and I was happy again.

    I recognized this thought as dark energy, which is dragging me down. Carlos Castaneda calls it “foreign energy.” He says there are forces all around us which are constantly trying to steal our energy and power. You have to be vigilant to not let the energy accumulate. It will slow you down. You’ll start to feel depressed and tired. There is never another person who is causing drama in my life. It’s just me, making up stories to feel conflict and drama. That’s all.

    When you begin thinking of people and events as energy (as opposed to thinking of people as people who are doing things to you) this journey will become a lot easier for you. You’ll start to notice when energy is being sucked out of you. You’ll start to notice when certain situations & people drain you.

    You’ll also start to notice what invigorates you and energizes you.

    As you start being quiet and listening, you’ll be told specifically what you need to do. You have a Teacher and a Guide within you Who will tell you exactly what to, where to go and what to say.

    All that is required is a willingness to listen.

    “Let us not lose our way again. We go to Heaven, and the path is straight. Only if we attempt to wander can there be delay, and needless wasted time on thorny byways.”

    I love that. All my thoughts about my problems are nothing more than an attempt to wander and this is “needless wasted time.”

    In that same exact space (where I am thinking about my problems), I could be communicating with the Holy Spirit. I could be flying. I could be in Heaven. I could be experiencing the peace of God.

    Now is there silence. Seek no further. Look up and on toward Heaven, with the body’s eyes but serving for an instant longer now. Peace is already recognized at last, and you can feel its soft embrace surround your heart and mind with comfort and with love.

    Peace be to us today. We have found a simple, happy way to leave the world of ambiguity, and to replace our shifting goals and solitary dreams with single purpose and companionship.

    There is no peace except the peace of God.
    And I am glad and thankful it is so.

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    Lesson 199

    July 17th, 2008

    I am not a body. I am free.

    It certainly doesn’t feel this way sometimes, huh??

    This is the reason I love the idea of moving the assemblage point, because it’s a matter of shifting your focus.

    Either you are focused on the body *OR* you are focused on the light. Either you are focusing on your mistakes or you are focusing on your holiness. It cannot be both at the same time. It is one or the other. Which is it for you? Where is your focus?

    Please do not just keep repeating this phrase “I am not a body. I am free” like a parrot thinking that will do the trick. You have to literally shift from being a solid body to a mind that is free. It takes some work. It takes vigilance. It takes patience. It takes commitment to make the shift entirely.

    Everyone has had GLIMPSES of being pure light, brief moments when you feel like you are in the flow, when everything is going right, when time disappears, when you feel happy, when you have no problems, when you forget about your body, when you don’t feel any pain, and peace envelops you so completely that you actually don’t even notice anything in the physical world.

    And then something snaps you out of it - the phone rings, someone enters the room, you remember a bill you have to pay, you start remembering your problems, you start thinking about all you need to plan and accomplish - and ZOOM … you’re back in the world again. Back in a body. Back in the heaviness. Back in the seriousness.
    And then you start feeling your aches and pains again. You start thinking about your limitations.

    But you’re not a body. You’re free.

    It is up to YOU to keep disrupting your solidness. Keep shifting your focus to the light. Keep shifting your focus to God. Keep your focus on the truth: that you are a Mind, Spirit, Eternal, Whole, Creative, and Perfect.

    You encompass all things. All power has been given to you to heal the sick and raise the dead. You are loved. You are not alone.

    You are the Savior of the world.

    Salvation of the world depends on your remembering.

    “The mind that serves the Holy Spirit is unlimited forever, in all ways, beyond the laws of time and space, unbound by any preconceptions, and with strength and power to do whatever it is asked. Attack thoughts cannot enter such a mind, because it has been given to the Source of love, and fear can never enter into a mind that has attached itself to love. It rests in God. And who can be afraid of Innocence, who only loves?”

    This idea (of being in service to the Holy Spirit, of being perfect, to be only love, to give only love, and to not be concerned about the body at all) is insane to the ego. It will fight you to the bitter end.

    One thing that may start to happen (or already has happened to you) as you start to shift from being a body to the light is that the body appears to fall apart. Either that, or your world starts to fall apart. I’ve seen this happen a thousand times. And at this point, people get really scared and rush back to “assemble” the pieces again. They try to be a body again. They take a pill, a drink, a bag of cookies. They try to go back to the crumbling house, except that it is no longer there. They rush back to that place that they was “safe” … in their sickness and limitation … despite the complete illogic and irrationality.

    They forget that they prayed for a change. It’s funny when you look at it with sanity. You asked for a change, you prayed for something new to occur … and when it starts to happen, you frantically try to stop it. And then in a moment of quiet - usually that same evening - you are back to praying again for a change to occur in your life.

    My guess is that you have already done this. I speak from deep personal experience. When you start to enter into the light, physical things start to happen. Things break. Things fall apart. Going into the light is not like riding up an escalator. It’s not a walk in the park. It’s really dramatic. I’m not trying to scare you. I’m just telling you how it is. Don’t be afraid.

    What I can tell you is this: the reason most people struggle is that they try to hold onto their body and the world (they try to control and manipulate the experience) while at the same time trying to get into the light. They have one foot in the world and one foot in Heaven … and this is the reason it is painful.

    The minute you LET GO and lift your foot from the world, lift your defenses, let go of your control, let go of your ideas of how it is supposed to look … you will bypass all the pain and suffering and struggle of the transformation, and it will not be dramatic at all. You will catapult into the new world.

    And you will be amazed.

    Most people struggle because they are still holding on. They are afraid they will lose their job, their relationship, their identity, their money, their house, their pride, their body.

    A lot of people are really afraid to go the full distance because they are afraid of death and afraid of God.

    So you really do have to be a little fearless, at least momentarily.

    I am the demonstration that it is perfectly safe to let go. Your whole life will be transformed. A Course in Miracles is true: there is only love.

    I can guarantee you, absolutely, that miracles are your natural inheritance and should be happening every day. But you cannot see this while you do it half-heartedly. And you definitely you cannot be in two places at once. You have to let go. You have to trust.

    I’m standing here before you telling you IT’S PERFECTLY SAFE UP HERE. There’s nothing to fear. Come on in.

    A good example is like trying to go into a cold pool of water by taking baby steps. Many people who go the “baby steps” route never actually make it fully into the water. They stop around their thighs and say “okay, that’s enough!” and then they have no idea what they missed. They stop the experience before they go the full distance. This is what most people do with transformation and awakening. They go up to their thigh and say “okay, that’s enough!” and they have no idea what they are missing.
    It’s better just to jump in from the deep end and be shocked for 30 seconds.

    You will love it.

    Be free today. And carry freedom as your gift to those who still believe they are enslaved within a body. Be free, so that the Holy Spirit can make use of your escape from bondage, to set free the many who perceive themselves as bound and helpless and afraid. Let love replace their fears through you. Accept salvation now, and give your mind to Him Who calls you to make this gift to Him. For He would give you perfect freedom, perfect joy, and hope that finds its full accomplishment in God.

    I am not a body. I am free.
    I hear the Voice that God has given me, and it is only this my mind obeys.

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    Lesson 198

    July 16th, 2008

    Only my condemnation injures me.

    Condemn and you are made prisoner.
    Forgive and you are made free.

    SUCH IS THE LAW THAT RULES PERCEPTION.

    I love it.

    It’s possible to associate only with the light in you. It is possible to be the “body double” that is only energy - pure perfection, pure creation - all the time.

    It is possible to live in the highest frequency of energy where there is only love.

    It is possible to be as God created you - complete and flawless.

    The body is nothing. It’s a vehicle of communication to extend the light. That is all. What an amazing new way to look at the body! It’s nothing! It does nothing! It needs no care at all!

    Simply place all your focus on the truth and do not be deceived by illusions.

    “Jesus remains a Savior because he saw the false without accepting it as true. Christ needed his form that He might appear to men and save them from their own illusions.”

    “In his complete identification with the Christ - the perfect Son of God, His one creation and His happiness, forever like Himself and one with Him - Jesus became what all of you must be. He led the way for you to follow him. He leads you back to God because he saw the road before him, and he followed it.”The image “http://www.annabelgreenhalgh.com/channel/1/images/dappled-path-web_1.jpg” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.

    What is amazing is that the path appears before you, and all you have to do is follow it. You don’t have to figure out where to go or what to do. All you have to do is follow the path that is right directly in front of you. A Course in Miracles says you can forget about the body entirely. Forget about visualizing a perfect life. Forget about dream/wish boards. Just follow Jesus. See the vision of Christ in all you look upon. Be grateful. Give thanks. Rejoice. This doesn’t take time. There is no visualization involved. There is no future reference. There is no “hoping” you manifest things. You see only your own gratitude in this very moment. You see that you are connected to everything and everyone.

    Who could possibly condemn then?

    “Forgiveness is the only road that leads out of disaster, past all suffering, and finally away from death. How could there be another way, when this one is the plan of God Himself.”

    And this is great: “And why would you oppose it, quarrel with it, seek to find a thousand ways in which is must be wrong; a thousand other possibilities?”

    Is it not more intelligent to thank the One Who gives salvation, and accept His gift with gratitude? And is it not a kindness to yourself to hear His Voice and learn the simple lessons He would teach, instead of trying to dismiss His words and substitute your own in place of His?”

    Ha. Lovely.

    “Do not forget today that there can be no form of suffering that fails to hide an unforgiving thought. Nor can there be a form of pain that forgiveness cannot heal.”

    There is no condemnation. There is no need to attack. There is no need for defense. There is no need for plans. Simply remembering your own Identity in God. That’s it. Remember your own perfection. Remember your wholeness.

    “This is the gift the Holy Spirit holds for you from God your Father. Let today be celebrated both on earth and in your holy home as well. Be kind to Both, as you forgive the trespasses you thought Them guilty of, and see your innocence shining upon your from the face of Christ.”

    Now is the time for your deliverance. The time has come. The time has come today.

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    Good advice

    July 15th, 2008

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