Max is a genuis. My computer died last night and I couldn’t even shut it down. It wouldn’t do anything. It was stuck. I couldn’t even watch movies since I watch them on my computer. At first I was frustrated, but then I was laughing since just two days ago I wrote that I wanted to get away from the internet and all things electronic, and then my computer dies. I’m always getting what I asked for. What a cosmic joke.
So I spent last night reading A Course in Miracles. Chapter 27. Since I had nothing better to do. Ha ha. Amazing. I was reminded, once again, this is a dream.
I’m in the 2nd half the of the dream – the happy dream – but it’s still a dream. I’ve come to the point where I realize there is nothing outside of me. I know that whatever is happening, I asked for. There are no accidents. I realize I am the cause of everything that seems to occur and the effects are not real.
I’m looking at the reflection of my own mind. And here is where my devotion increases.
I wrote a contract with God this morning. More like a RENEWED contract. The old one expired. I like the new agreement. We’re working together, as always, but with a new dedication. A new beginning. I am intrigued at how differently my mind works away from the computer. It’s works in a whole other manner. It’s fun to witness.
Once the contract was written, I met up with Max at Starbucks and I told him about my crashed computer and he said: take out the battery.
I did that, and my computer started right up again, and here I am.
But with a new contract and new awareness.
I am here only to be helpful. To be the physical message of Jesus: the total demonstration of the Love of God and the Laws of Heaven on earth.
“Thy Will be done. On earth as it is in Heaven.”
Cool, huh? We’re fulfilling the prophecy of the Lord’s Prayer. We are Jesus’ disciples. Now the bible has become practical in our own daily lives. Not something that was written 2000 years ago, but A LIVING BREATHING LIFE-FORCE that is applicable today in our own lives.
Suddenly, we ARE the bible. We are the message. We are the words.
I was thinking, once again, how everyone is “tuned in” 24 hours a day/7 days a week. It’s astonishing.
People say: “you need a cell phone.”
I say: why?
People say: so you can be reached, in case there is an emergency or something. Or if someone is running late and needs to call you and let you know they can’t meet you at the appointed time.
And here’s where I shake my head and laugh. I need to get a cell phone so you can cancel with me? That’s marvelous. I’d rather make it difficult for you. I’d rather have you cancel your others plans and have your reason be: “I have to go meet Lisa, because she doesn’t have a cell phone and I can’t reach her. I guess I have to go meet her in person.”
I read recently that the way we interact with people is changing because of technology. People cancel more, and people are late more because they can text message on a cell their excuse. And usually their excuse is that they were delayed because of some other electronic device.
If I was to meet you in a restaurant and you needed to cancel, and I didn’t have a cell phone, what would you do?
You’d figure out a way to reach me. Or you would simply show up as planned.
Ten years ago, how did we manage without cell phones? Fifteen years ago, how did we manage without the internet? Fifty years ago, what did we do in our spare time without television? Without the telephone, how did we communicate?
You say: but that was then, this is now.
I say: I don’t want to live in a world of text messaging when I can walk down the street and see my friend in person (thank you Ankie, for that story!)
I don’t want to live in a world where we communicate through voice-mail messages, without ever actually speaking to a person.
I don’t want to live in a world of pre-packaged sound bytes, and photo-shopped images. Come on. Time to put away our toys.
I want to stay continually focused, with constant reminders, in order to not be sidetracked or distracted. I am asking for help.
Jesus asks: “How willing are you to escape effects of all the dreams the world ever had?”
I say: VERY.
How willing are you to see that you are the cause of EVERYTHING that is happening in the world?
How willing are you to take responsibility for every person, place, situation, event?
VERY. VERY. VERY.
It’s gets simpler once you answer the basic questions. Do you want to be happy? How willing are you to see things differently? How willing are you to let all things be exactly as they are?
Nothing bothers me. My computer dies. Who cares? I must have asked for it.
And now it’s working again. In the meantime, I wrote a contract with God which makes me tremendously happy and which I never would have done while I had the distraction of the internet. You see? You ask for something and you receive it, and often it takes the form of your life falling apart. Be grateful.
Whatever is happening to you, no matter how bad it looks, you asked for it.
Be exceedingly glad.
It is given to you to change your mind about what you want. To start speaking with the Holy Spirit. To start listening. To pause. To disrupt your usual routine. To pray. To count your blessings.
First day of Christmas Advent, and I cannot think of a better way to spend it than by writing & signing a renewed contract with God.
Facebook comments:
hhaha., lisa i am cracking up ! we have met pretty much everyday for the last , what? 6 years , and all we ever talk about is the course and our experience of waking up, with a few side issues along the way and you have finally recognized me for the genius that i am based on 2 non descript comments . 1. quit yur job . 2. take out the batttery .! ( more laughter
i love you forever,
maxi