Miracles are seen in light.
“It is important to remember that miracles and vision necessarily go together. This needs repeating, and frequent repeating. It is a central idea in your new thought system, and the perception it produces. The miracle is always there.”
THIS NEEDS REPEATING, AND FREQUENT REPEATING.
I love it. The miracle is already here. If I don’t see the miracle, it’s because my eyes are closed, which obviously means I don’t have “vision” … because miracles and vision go together.
Do you see what this says??????
The miracle is already here. It’s not coming in the future to reveal itself to you at some later time. The miracle has already occurred. It is here today. Do you see it?
If you do not see it, then your eyes are closed. You cannot see the miracle in darkness.
Be prepared for the miracle to take a different form from the way you thought it would present itself to you. The miracle is already here, but you may be unaware of it because you were expecting different results. Perhaps you prayed to have a better relationship and suddenly your spouse is yelling at you and calling you an idiot and wants a divorce. Where is the miracle in this, you ask??? Or you ask to be happy and know God and suddenly you lose your job and you have no money to pay your bills. Where is the miracle in this??
It’s right there in front of you.
Do you see how you try to organize everything to go the way you think it should go?
When something is falling apart, let it fall apart. Don’t try to hold on or to patch it back together. It’s faster this way.
You asked for a miracle. You asked for vision.
AND THE LIGHT IS HERE RIGHT NOW, WHILE YOU GROPE IN DARKNESS WAITING TO SEE A MIRACLE.
The miracle is already here. This is the solution. What is happening right now in your life is the miracle. Accept it as perfection. Keep going. If you could see the invisible realm – where God and the angels are standing in the light right in front of you – you would never doubt again.
This journey is about learning to put your faith and trust in the invisible – in God.
There is another world going on all around you. It is here right now, while you struggle and search. The bright new world is literally all around you. In this moment. God is here. All your prayers have been answered.
But is your attention elsewhere?
“To be told that what you do not see is there sounds like insanity. It is very difficult to become convinced that it is insanity not to see what is there, and to see what is there instead. You do not doubt the body’s eyes can see. You do not doubt the images they show you are reality. Your faith lies in darkness, not the light. How can this be reversed? For you it is impossible, but you are not alone in this.”
I love it.
You are asked to put your faith and trust in that which you cannot see BUT WHICH IS TRULY THERE.
Already all your problems have been solved. You are being led to the next event, step by step, and if you listen carefully you will be told specifically what to do and where to go.
Are you listening?Are you asking? Are you paying attention?
OR are you trying to hold things together? Are you clinging to your job, your relationship, your little life (which never gave you real comfort and or lasting security)? Are you using mindless magic so that things go YOUR WAY?
Don’t forget: you asked to be transformed. You asked for changes to take place in your life.
I have learned that the “miracle” almost never takes the form I imagined. Often, it look like a disruption, like things are failing. It doesn’t seem like a miracle when my life is falling apart.
“Now is the time for faith”
Miracles are seen in light.
This path as the savior takes guts and courage. But you are not alone. There is nothing to fear. You are asked to follow Jesus – to follow your heart – and let that be your guide.
No one can tell you how this works, not even me. I cannot possibly know what you – or anyone else – needs to do. I cannot instruct you in the specifics. But you have a Guide who is with you now and you can ask Him and He will tell you what to do.
You are not a body. You’re a mind. You’re Spirit. You’re light.
The best instruction I can give is: “Don’t hold onto anything.”
This takes courage to let things fall apart and transform.
I ask you to read the section in Teachers Manual under “What are the Characteristics of a Teacher of God” under TRUST. There are 5 stages each of us will go through until we reach a period of achievement … and each stage in this journey totally sucks. You might as well hear it. Total disruption at every level, that’s why TRUST is necessary:
1. Period of undoing: this need not be painful, but is usually so experienced.
2. Period of sorting out: This is always somewhat difficult
3. Period of relinquishment: … it will engender enormous conflict.
4. Period of settling down: this is a quiet time, in which the teacher of God rests a while in reasonable peace … The teacher of God needs this period of respite. He has not yet come as far as he thinks.
5. Period of unsettling: were not each step in this direction so heavily enforced, it would be hard indeed!
6. A period of achievement.
So there you have it. This journey is NOT for the faint of heart. It takes courage to let your old thought system be undone. It takes willingness to let your old life fall to dust so your new life can rise up in its place.
You are told ahead of time what will happen. You will be undone. All your ideas of safety and comfort are stripped away so you can be shown REAL safety and comfort in God.
Here is some good advice: “Let go and let God.”
Miracles are seen in light.
Review Lessons:
Let me recognize the problem so it can be solved.
Let me recognize my problems have been solved.
Look at this amazing sentence:
“I seem to have problems only because I am misusing time.”
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That is amazing to me. I have problems because I am misusing time. Lately I have been realizing that I wait around a lot, waiting for something to happen. I don’t stay in constant communication with God, praying and talking to Him as much as I know I should. I wait for something to happen or to reveal itself to me, as if by “miracle.”
Now, this is neither good nor bad. Sometimes I am supposed to “wait” or to let something be “revealed” to me. But only if I ask and am told specifically “to wait” or “be patient.”
Waiting and Being Patient is not always the right thing to do. The correct thing to do is to ask the Holy Spirit what he needs me to do on a moment-by-moment basis. Sometimes the answer is to do something. Get a job. Quit a job. Talk to someone. Drive somewhere. Be active.
The only way I can know in every moment what I am meant to do (or not do) is to ask the Holy Spirit TO TELL ME & SHOW ME WHAT TO DO, WHAT TO SAY, AND WHERE TO GO and then I am not misusing time. Then I am listening and following His instructions, His direction.
“I seem to have problems only because I am misusing time. I believe that the problem comes first, and time must elapse before it can be worked out. I do not see the problem and the answer as simultaneous in their occurrence.”
“That is because I do not yet realize that God has placed the answer together with the problem, so that they cannot be separated by time.”
” THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL TEACH ME THIS IF I LET HIM”
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Dear Lisa,
One of the things I read in your book Gorgeous for God was about “no compromise”. I’ve been making sure the last couple of days that I do exactly how I am instructed in the workbook lessons of A Course in Miracles. I’ve also been trying to be more mindful of my thoughts. Yesterday’s lesson was #17, I see no neutral things. On lesson #16 I was thinking, “I know I don’t have any neutral thoughts, I know thought is cause.” But, no, I didn’t really know because during the last couple of days I have been paying attention to the thoughts I have and if I knew I have know neutral thoughts I wouldn’t dare think some of the thoughts I had. Yesterday, I had some terrible negative thought and I don’t remember exactly what it was, but after I had that thought, I said to myself, “Yuck! That was NOT a neutral thought!” And immediately the part in your book that came to mind was when you were talking about mistakes and you make mistakes a lot and you used the example of gossip. You knew it was wrong and then you did it anyway and you felt so terrible about it that you would never do it again. That’s how that thought made me feel.
I’ve also been keeping in mind to be like Jesus said and give twice as much as someone asks. I tried to do that as much as possible all day yesterday and I had a great day at work. I made sure no matter how stubborn or cranky the kids were that I would still give them my full attention and make sure they completed everything they needed to. And they did! And they liked it! When my boss asked me to do something I went above and beyond what she asked. I helped everyone I could see that needed help and we all managed to get done with preparing for the next days class earlier than we normally do. We actually left on time yesterday which is rare for a Thursday.
I know I’m ready to give these lessons all I’ve got. I’m done playing around! (These words may come back to haunt me, but right now I mean it.) I can do it. Ok, enough with the pep talk.
Have a great weekend and I will talk to you again soon.
Love, Carrie
and here is her follow-up letter that I rec’d last night:
We’re back! We had a great trip. The town was beautiful, our neighbors performance and the musician were absolutely awesome and the food was really, really good. The weather wasn’t great though. It was cold and rainy the whole time.
I am continually amazed at the effect these lessons are having on me. This weekend it was like someone turned the volume of my thoughts up. I can not believe how judgmental I am! I noticed there is some judgment thought following everyone and everything I see. I was starting to really get annoyed. All I could hear in my head was, “that house is pretty, that one is ugly, where did that person get those pants, what were they thinking, I like that, I want that and that and that!” When I noticed those thoughts though and then changed my thoughts to love and gratitude not only did I feel happier but my body actually relaxed. No wonder my neck is always stiff. With every change I see I become more and more motivated. The Course is so great!
I did concentration exercises nearly everyday for six years and it worked very well to improve my attention, but the one thing that seemed to get over looked was what my thoughts actually were. I learned how to keep my mind still, but the focus of the exercises weren’t concerned with the quality of thoughts in the mind. There was some work done to eliminate obvious negative thoughts for health reasons, but I have never been so aware of my thoughts until now. Even though I’m not happy with some of my thoughts, I am happy that I am aware of them now. Now I can change them.
Review Lessons:
I am entitled to miracles.
Let miracles replaces all grievances.
Review lessons:
The light has come.
I am under no laws but God’s.
Everything is shifting. Be patient. Practice. Trust. Laugh. Be grateful. And don’t be worried if things start falling apart. It’s part of the process. Often it appears like things are getting worse (when you are expecting miracles) but in fact: a space is being cleared. So don’t be concerned. Let everything shift. Accept the “good” and the “bad” as perfection, and don’t judge what is occurring.
If you are not seeing results, don’t worry about it. Just keep going. Don’t turn back. Straight ahead. Pray. Ask. Talk to God. Sing. Dance. Rejoice. Fall apart. Cry. Listen to music. Read. Write. Run. Lie on the bed. Take a bath. Relax.
You asked to be changed (transformed) and the tendency always is that once a shift begins to occur, a lot of people tend to get scared and try to find stability and comfort by returning to their old habits and ways. They try to hold things together, clinging for dear life for something familiar. But remember: you asked for this. You asked for a change to occur … you asked for a miracle … and now that a change is actually occurring: you should be very happy.
When it looks like you are about to lose your house, your job, your relationship, your health: BE HAPPY. You are moving out of your old life and into something brand new.
Don’t be afraid. There is nothing to fear.
My experience is that when you are in a transition period, it can take the appearance of looking like a complete & absolute failure. You’ll think you’ve made the biggest mistake in the universe in starting on this journey in the first place.
Now is the time for trust. “Trust will solve all your problems now.”
It’s working because God’s plan is accomplished and you cannot fail.
It might not be taking the form that you thought it would take, but it’s working.
The light has come.
Review Lessons:
I will there be light
There is no will but God’s.
One important thing I have realized is that COMMUNICATION SOLVES ALL PROBLEMS.
Recently I was talking with a friend who is in a chaotic situation with other people involved, and she is trying to see that this situation is not real. She is saying “these people are not real, this situation is not real, and I don’t have to do anything.”
But … that’s not it!
You are responsible for everything you see.
The world is not real in its totality and that’s the reason you can be truly helpful. You don’t ignore it, you don’t turn your back, but rather you become fully activated, listening to instructions, doing whatever needs to be done. This shortens time.
“Waiting” for a miracle will take forever.
But you have been given a tremendous gift: God is speaking to you.
He will tell you exactly what to do in every situation. He is speaking. Are you listening?
In Chapter 1 in the original manuscript of a Course in Miracles, Jesus says: Listen, Learn and Do.
In the original manuscript, Jesus says something very important that got deleted when the book was published: “The real members of my party are ACTIVE workers.”
“Having been restored to your original state, you naturally become part of the Atonement yourself. You now share my (Jesus) inability to tolerate lack of love in yourself and in everyone else, and MUST join the GREAT CRUSADE to correct it. The slogan for this Crusade is Listen, Learn and DO. This means:
“Listen to my voice, learn to undo error and do something to correct it.
The first two are not enough. The real members of my party are ACTIVE workers. The power to work miracles belongs to you. I will provide the opportunities to do them, but you must be ready and willing.”
If you come upon a hungry child, feed him. It’s that simple. You don’t say the child is not real. You open your mind to true communication and you became entirely responsible and then the “miracle” presents itself.
Some people might say: but I don’t have time to take care of a child, and I don’t want to get involved with that person, and I don’t feel like having a conversation because it’s too awkward.
And so you wait and wait and wait for a “miracle” to happen.
As if events, situations and people are separate from you. It’s much faster to get into the practice of talking to God. There is nothing outside of you. The only “miracle” that happens is a change in your own mind. God will tell you exactly what to do in this day, so that your problem is solved in this day. God doesn’t hold back. He’s not testing you or your patience. He simply wants to give.
But you need to be listening and following His instructions.
Two years ago I came upon 4 abandoned kittens, who I could see hadn’t eaten in days. My first response was: Oh shit. I can’t take care of 4 cats. But I listened. And I was told exactly what to do: call the vet. The vet said she doesn’t take cats, but I still just listened. I sat on the phone and didn’t respond, because in truth … I didn’t have a response. The vet kept talking, and mid-sentence she changed her mind. She said: okay, well, i don’t ever do this, but bring them over. I’ll keep them for a week and try to adopt them. And if they are still here in a week, I’ll call the Humane Society and they’ll come pick them up.
So I brought them to the vet, where they were fed and looked after for a week. During the week, i went to the vet every single day to visit them. I fell in love with 2 of them. Really, I fell in love with all of them, but 2 in particular I could see needed to be together. And so I made a decision to take those 2 cats – and they have been the absolute best thing that has ever happened to me – and that day the vet called me and told me the other 2 cats were adopted into good homes.
Just like that.
But I didn’t say: the cats aren’t real.
I saw them as very real, and I saw they needed help, and I listened to instructions that were coming into my mind and I followed through with actions.
And the problem was solved within a week. Actually, the problem was solved within a couple of hours. Whereas if I had left those kittens up on that hill to die of starvation (saying they weren’t real), I’d most likely still be carrying the idea of those 4 baby kittens who needed my help in my memory 2 years later.
Do you see why you can’t ignore a problem if you see it? You’ll still be carrying the guilt that you didn’t help. You might not be the person to ultimately solve the problem, but you will get instructions that will help you find other people who can help solve the problem. You are not alone. Helpers are all around.
Listen, Learn, and Do.
I will there be light.
Light shall be my guide today. I will follow it where it leads me, and I will look only on what it shows me. This day I will experience the peace of true perception.
There is no will but God’s.
I am safe today because there is no will but God’s. I can become afraid only when I believe there is another will.
Do you see what this is saying? It’s amazing. There is a solution to every problem. You don’t ignore problems, you simply open your mind up to remembering there is only the Will of God.
Your practicing is geared toward learning to listen to the Voice of God.
Sometimes the OVERALL SOLUTION is not always evident. My experience is that you get step-by-step instructions. Baby steps. One foot in front of the other. With those cats, it didn’t immediately occur to me to call the vet or to bring them home. My immediate thought was to get them food and feed them. So I walked home, got in my car, drove to the store, bought cans of cat food and brought it back to them. Then I sat on that hill and listened, and I was told what to do.
And I followed through with action.
That’s the main thing. Don’t just pray. Do what you are being asked. Follow through. You might have to do something that you don’t really want to do – like talk with a brother, or drive somewhere when you’d rather sit at home, or do something you don’t want to do.
But in those moments, I remember my morning prayer:
I am here only to be truly helpful.
I am here to represent Him Who sent me.
And then everything becomes easy and effortless.
I hope you have a great day.
The Power of Now.
A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose.
Week 4 on Oprah is great:
Watch it now by clicking here.
Review Lessons:
Only God’s plan for salvation will work.
Holding grievances is an attack on God’s plan for salvation.
I am grateful for these lessons every day. Some days I wake up and everything is pointless and meaningless to me, and I cannot find any joy. On these days, I feel tempted to make something happen: to insert my own will and speed up the process.
On these days “ushering in a new forgiven world” feels lonely, thankless, boring, and quite possibly a big cosmic joke on me.
But I have learned something valuable along the way: TALK TO GOD.
Forget about feeling sorry for yourself and do the #1 thing that will work: Talk to God. Ask Him what He needs. Ask to be shown the next step.
Ask:
Where would You have me go?
What would You have me do?
What would You have me say, and to whom?
Ask God what He needs you to do.
He knows.
Forget about praying or asking for things to be different. Forget about wishful thinking. Forget about positive thinking. Forget about trying “to pull yourself up by your bootstraps.” Forget about pretending to be happy. Forget about acting like everything is okay, when everything is NOT okay. What I am talking about is COMMUNION: talking to God and asking for clarity.
He’s got the map. He sees the whole picture. He knows the directions and the fastest routes. He’ll tell me what to do, and where to go, and what to say … IF I ASK HIM.
In moments of doubt, I talk to God. I come wholly empty handed. I have nothing to give. I have nothing to say. I am lost. It seems like nothing will ever change.
In these moments, I scrap my routine, along with every idea I think I know about anything. It is my experience that you have to be jolted out of your habits and your day-to-day schedule.
Without God, I am nothing.
You can see when something is not working. A Course in Miracles says “When miracles are not occurring, something has gone wrong.”
So, I talk to God.
I say: Okay, what now? I’m lost here. I could use some assistance. I need help. Show me what to do next, because I don’t have a clue.
And then I wait to hear an answer. I wait to hear what God has to say to me.
He gives specific answers. He tells me what needs to be accomplished, and then He tells me how to do it.
But I need to ask, otherwise I’m just flailing around in the dark.
One thing I have learned with A Course in Miracles is that it collapses time. It helps me to remember TO ASK GOD. My moments of doubt and confusion used to last for weeks and months. Now doubt and confusion lasts for 10 minutes or an hour, at most.
Doubt is not the problem. I still have it. Of course. I find myself here. That’s not the problem. Forgetting to ask God for directions and help is the problem.
Remember: there is only ONE PROBLEM and ONE SOLUTION:
S-E-P-A-R-A-T-I-O-N.
So the only problem I could ever have is that I forget to ask God. I try to solve my problems, doubt and confusion on my own, through my own will and plans. That’s what separation is. But the lessons help me to remember to talk with God.
And talking to God is the end of separation, problems, doubt and confusion.
It goes along with today’s review lesson:
Only God’s plan for salvation will work.
“It is senseless for me to search wildly for salvation. It have seen it in many people and in many things, but when I reached for it, it was not there. I was mistaken where it is. I was mistaken about what it is. I will undertake no more idle seeking. Only God’s plan for salvation will work. And I will rejoice because His Plans can never fail.”
This is extraordinary. Only God’s plan for salvation will work. My plans will fail. So I can give them all up now, and trust in God’s plan, even though I don’t know what it is.
But if I ask Him, He will tell me. What a beautiful lesson.
Holding grievances is an attack on God’s plan for salvation.
“Holding grievances is an attempt to prove that God’s plan for salvation will not work. Yet only His plan will work. By holding grievances, I am therefore excluding my only hope of salvation from my awareness. I would no longer defeat my own best interest in this insane way. I would accept God’s plan for salvation, and be happy.”
Review Lessons:
My grievances hide the light in the world in me.
My salvation comes from me.
I don’t really talk about my personal life so much anymore – either in this blog or in person. I feel like my “body’s serial adventures” are really not that interesting. I am much more interested in what goes on in the mind.
Last night the energy shifted in me. It is always amazing to witness. I was lounging around, reading, like I always do, at 11pm, and suddenly I realized I was in a slump. I felt heavy and tired. I realized I’ve been sleepwalking through life these past few weeks. In a coma. Taken over by unconscious habits.
It’s interesting how unconscious habits sneak up on you, and take over. You don’t even notice it till you snap out of it.
It was interesting to witness. I suddenly became aware of my condition.
And then I made a conscious decision that I was done with that life – done with being tired and heavy – and in that instant, the energy moved.
It catapulted me out of bed.
I am sure you have all experienced this before. Where one minute you are lounging around, cruising the internet, bored, and the next minute your coat is on and your car keys are in your hand (or your running shoes are on) and you don’t even know where you’re going, but suddenly you have a tremendous amount of energy, you feel all excited for no particular reason at all, and without any effort the energy MOVES.
It moves you. It moves you out of your chair, out of the bed, out of your old life.
So last night at 11pm, I came out of a coma. It felt like coming out of winter hibernation. I started cleaning out my fridge and cupboards and starting chucking all sorts of junk into garbage bags. Then I decided to take it out to the garbage, right then and there, which required me to get dressed, and once I was outside I decided: I might as well take my neighbor’s dog (who I am taking care of for a week) for a walk. The dog was thrilled. We started running.
That’s right. Running!
Me!
At 11pm in the dark. I live out on a quiet country road. No paparazzi. We just kept running and running. I had my winter coat on because it’s still freezing cold here in Wisconsin but it was one of those moments where you think: I’m going to remember this forever.
Then I came home and scrubbed my bathroom like it’s never been scrubbed before. What the heck??? I had out the Clorox, the mops, and the sponges. I was down on my hands and knees scrubbing like my life depended on it. haha. Resurrection. Thank you God. Then I slept like a baby.
Maybe coma is not the best word for it. Or maybe it is the perfect word. I feel like I just woke up from a long nap. I don’t know if words can describe it, but I’m gonna try. It’s like you live within a certain energy frequency, and it feels comfortable & safe: you have your routine, you do what you do, but suddenly it’s not comfortable anymore. You start to feel like you want things to be different. I have the experience that before the energy shifts, everything feels stale and old, like life is just a routine and you are simply going through the motions.
Suddenly what was once comfortable and safe becomes uncomfortable and intolerable.
You suddenly realize you need to make some changes.
So for example, I used to drink and smoke. That was a particular frequency of energy that I lived in. But then it started to get uncomfortable and I wanted to move into a new frequency – to have a new life – and then the energy shifts, and that world of drinking and smoking was left behind.
Here’s the cool part: you keep moving higher and higher and higher.
It never ends!
This is the reason I never say that I know something definitely as if it is written in stone, because then I would be stuck in that particular frame of time & space, when really I always want to be going into brand new territory, to keep releasing the past, releasing my habits, releasing my ideas, keeping an open mind, and letting myself be brand new every moment.
So, today’s review lessons:
My grievances hide the light of the world in me.
This has become so obvious now. Why would I hang onto a grievance? It serves absolutely no purpose whatsoever. I can let all grievances go. Right now. Today. Reminding myself:
“I have no need for this. I want to see.”
My salvation comes from me.
“I will not look for it outside myself. It is not found outside, and then brought in. But from within me it will reach beyond, and everything I see will but reflect the light that shines in me and in itself.”
Review lessons:
Love created me like itself.
Love holds no grievances.
These lessons are like yesterday’s lessons, and the other review lessons. Do you notice they all say the same thing? They simply repeat the attributes that God gave you – light, love, happiness, joy – telling you that these attributes are your function.
Love created me like itself. God is love, meaning that God created me like Himself.
If a=b and b= c then a=c
It all equals love.
God = Love
Love = Me
Me = God
It all equals love.
This is a very simple equation. There is nothing complicated about it.
“I cannot suffer. I am not a body. I would recognize my reality today.”
I am whole and perfect as God created me.
Great lesson for the start of your new life, isn’t it?
There is no more pain. Problems do not exist.
You are in the likeness of your Creator, and there is no flaw in you.
You are the light of the world.
“If I hold grievances, I am attacking love, and therefore attacking my Self.”
“I am determined to not attack attack my Self today, so that I can remember Who I am.”
BE DETERMINED TODAY TO REMEMBER YOUR FUNCTION.
BE DETERMINED TODAY TO REMEMBER WHO YOU REALLY ARE.
You are God’s Son, complete and healed and whole, shining in the reflection of His Love.
Review Lessons:
My only function is the one God gave me.
My happiness and my function are one.
I’m still stuck on two sentences from yesterday’s lesson that rang through my head all day long:
“I cannot fulfill my function if I forget it. And unless I fulfill my function, I will not experience the joy that God intends for me.”
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It is similar to a sentence in Chapter 4: “You are not at peace because you are not fulfilling your function.”
This is amazing. I cannot be at peace or joy unless I am fulfilling God’s function. And I cannot fulfill my function if I forget it.
This is so funny to me!
(and practical and logical)
I have to fulfill my function to be happy!
I also read a great line in the Teacher’s Manual last night in the Section “Joy” under “What are the Characteristics of God’s Teachers”:
“God’s teachers trust in Him. And they are sure His Teacher goes before them, making sure no harm can come to them. They hold His gifts and follow in His Way, because God’s Voice directs them in all things. Joy is their song of thanks.”
Joy is their song of thanks.
Amazing, right? Joy is my way of saying thanks to you and to God, and to the Holy Spirit and Jesus.
Joy is their song of thanks.
So today’s lesson remind me that my happiness and my function are one. I am the light of the world.
Joy is my function because that is what I am. Love is my function because that is what I am. Being happy is my function because that is what I am.
My only function is the one God gave me.
God created me as light and love, and that’s all he gave me – and my function is identical to WHO I am. They are not separate or apart. They are one. My function is to be myself: light and love.
My happiness and my function are one.
I am sure you have all seen this by now – the video with Jill Bolte Taylor. I’ve rec’d at least 20 emails from different people telling me to watch it (thank you!) and it’s all over the internet, but just in case you have not seen or heard about this yet, it’s very interesting.
“Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened — as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding — she studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another.”
You can read the transcript of Jill’s talk or you can watch a video
The light of the world brings peace to every mind through my forgiveness.
Let me not forget my function.
Very basic. Just keep remembering these 2 things throughout the day.
Just a reminder to those of you following along to complete the text in 31 weeks (one chapter a week): we are on Chapter 4.
I haven’t received the video yet of me with Chapter 3, and that’s why i haven’t posted it, but THE SHOW MUST GO ON!
I started reading Chapter 4 last night and it’s brilliant.
I’m only a few pages into it, and it’s got some zinger sentences that stopped me in my tracks, made me sit back and go: Wow.
One sentence that made me laugh out loud was: “Such repetitions (continuing to crucify yourself, holding onto anger and grievances, harming yourself) are endless until they are voluntarily given up.”
It’s right there on the page:
“Such repetitions are endless until they are voluntarily given up.”
You must voluntarily STOP crucifying yourself.
Voluntarily.
Greta once said to me that as long as you still enjoy conflict, your mind will make up a thousands images & situations to be in conflict about because you always get what you ask for. If you enjoy being in the “process” of awakening, looking at your problems, being in the action of grievances followed by forgiveness … then your mind will make up conflict situations for you to heal and forgive. But when you are finished with that game and you are tired of “process” and you are bored by forgiveness (it’s so slow!) and you want to go to a new level, then you will say ENOUGH! From there, it will become reasonable and natural to say: “I want the peace of God” and when you really mean it you won’t see conflict anymore.
Those conflict images disappear because you are in a higher frequency of energy.
Here is creation.
Conflict is over when you declare you want peace above everything else. You have to really mean it. Then you are standing in the light.
“The journey to the cross should be the last “useless journey.” Do not dwell upon it, but dismiss it as accomplished. If you can accept it as your own last useless journey, you are also freed to join my resurrection. Until you do so your life is indeed wasted.”
What does this mean? It means stop crucifying yourself. Stop attacking yourself. Stop attacking your brother. You can get off the cross now.
It’s not going to happen by a “miracle.” You must voluntarily get off the cross yourself and give up all that hurts you.
All your problems have been solved. The journey has been accomplished. As you accept that fear and pain are of your own making you can easily let them go … and now you are freed to join the resurrection.
Happy Easter.
Chapter 4 will make you very happy. I highly encourage you to read it. It goes along with Easter, and it also goes along with our recent lessons about leaving all that hurts you behind.
About fear: “Leave it behind!”
“Listen only to God.”
“You are not at peace because you are not fulfilling your function. God gave you a very lofty function that you are not meeting.”
I love this, from Jesus:
“I need devoted teachers who share my aim of healing the mind.”
Jesus needs devoted teachers. He needs me. He needs you.
“Whether or not you recognize it now, you have agreed to cooperate in the effort to become both harmless and helpful, attributes that must go together.”
HARMLESS & HELPFUL
I have agreed to be these things: harmless and helpful.
It’s my absolute joy to serve the Holy Spirit and God and you.
In this dedication, the ego dies a painless quick death.
I am here to be truly helpful.
I am here to represent Him Who Sent me.
“Your worth is not established by teaching or learning. Your worth is established by God.”
Happy Easter.
Oprah talks about why she chose Eckhart Tolle’s book A New Earth as her Book Club selection. It’s great. It’s 4 minutes and I totally love her. She is the light of the world.
Click here to watch:
Review time again, but only with 2 lessons a day this time so it’s easier than our last review with 5 lessons a day.
I am the light of the world.
Forgiveness is my function as the light of the world.
Thank you for your letters yesterday! Wow. They were all so amazing. I cried on a couple of them. My mailbox was filled with the most inspired beautiful letters of my life and it’s wonderful to be in contact with you.
I love this one from Debi because she brings up some very good points:
Thank you Lisa. I have been with you every day since the 1st day of January … Yes, I am experiencing Miracles everyday, having peace, joy, love, an inner calm that could not be described in words! I am still experiencing frustrations, anger, fear and confusion ….although as soon as I am “aware” of this I stop and KNOW, I can change that! I am so excited to be on Lesson #80, the day before Good Friday..It is perfect, I love knowing today, Is the day, All my problems are solved~ I will experience this Easter with Jesus, differently than ever before! I understand what your saying about the next part of the course moving forward…and I embrace that…and also know, although I still have darkness to bring to Light, I am not alone! Love~ Debi
Exactly! It’s not WRONG to have fear, confusion, anger or frustration but now you have THE TOOLS to change your mind in one instant – one second – and all the fear and anger disappears in that moment and is replaced with peace and gratitude. Whereas before you might have hung on to fear, confusion, anger or frustration for a day, a week, a month, a year, or ten years. Now, you can change your mind instantly. What a gift to know how to do this! If you wake up sad or angry in the morning, you can be happy before you get out of bed or at least before you leave the house. If someone says something mean to you (or disappoints you or attacks you), you can choose to see it differently and instead of reacting with anger, you act with love.
it’s a miracle!
This is A Course in Miracles. In every situation you have another opportunity to change your mind and see things differently. That’s the miracle. It’s gets faster and faster and easier and easier. You don’t hang onto grievances as long anymore. You realize one day that you’re not complaining or gossiping so much as before. You suddenly know how to solve your problems with ease and effort. You begin to feel real joy.
I love this letter from Carrie:
You know, I’ve noticed lately I have been feeling less stressed and I’m starting to feel at my best again. It’s been a long time since I’ve felt like myself. I’ve been more silly and playful and laughing a lot more.
Amazing, right?
So, it’s Good Friday. I posted some great clips from the movie Godspell below. The entire movie is on youtube. I posted one clip in the beginning where ordinary New Yorkers decide to give up their life and be free, with a great baptism scene in the fountain in Central Park, where they are shedding their uniforms that had defined them.
Then I posted 4 clips that cover Good Friday-Easter, ending with the resurrection. I especially love the ending here in this particular Godspell, because Jesus himself does not physically resurrect but all his disciples do!!!! It was a good twist on a great story. They knew he had risen – Long Live God! Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord – and they instantly resurrected: happy, free and rejoicing.
This is the story of Jesus. He is risen, and in His resurrection is your own. You suddenly start to feel happy again. That’s the resurrection. It’s not 2000 years ago: it’s now.
I also like what Debi said, how perfect it is that Lesson 80 is the day before Good Friday! It’s like a perfectly orchestrated plan: you realize all your problems have been solved the day before Jesus’ crucifixion (which means you surrender and stop crucifying yourself, you give yourself entirely over to God because there is nothing left for you to do, it’s finished) and now is resurrection: a new life, a new beginning, with only peace, joy, love and happiness.
Here you move into creation, into the creative active Mind of God, recognizing your Oneness.
The old you dies on the cross, the body disappears in the tomb – there’s nothing left to heal – and the new you resurrects … emerging as God created you: perfect.
You are the light of the world.
Happy Easter.
Oh Dear Lord, 3 things I pray:
1. to see Thee more clearly
2. to love Thee more dearly
3. to follow Thee more nearly day by day
Prepare Ye The Way of the Lord.
This is so awesome. I did NOT know Godspell was a movie.
Victor Garber as Jesus in NYC in 1973.
The Gospel according to St. Matthew
Wow. Perfect timing for Good Friday/Easter:
Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord
(i actually started crying!)
Click here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tmb0VtL-DFE&feature=related
Here’s more. The whole movie is on youtube, but here is Good Friday/Easter:
Jesus’ assignment begins:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaEJLxT40BY&feature=related
The Last Supper:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMDXHUWTYKQ&NR=1
Garden of Gethsemane:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb2UMjNHwi0&feature=related
Crucifixion/Resurrection: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMWo7eHqhQU&feature=related
Long live God.
Long live God.
Long live God.
Long live God.
Prepare Ye The Way of the Lord.
Long live God.
