Lesson 75

The light has come.

For several days now I have been wanting to tell you all about my friend Tanja’s blog. She is amazing. She blogs every day about her experiences with A Course in Miracles workbook lessons. I go there daily. I never miss a day. She is a daily dose of bright light. She is clear and uncompromising, a pure channel of communication for God. Lately I’ve been loving her blog so much that I’ve been wanting to lift and steal sentences from her! I think to myself: “I wish I’d written that!” The good part is that I don’t have to steal, because she’s over there giving freely. She has a different way of expressing the message than I do, but the content is exactly the same. She reminds me of what I want to remember. She’s a beauty. She keeps it simple and is constantly reminding me of the IMPORTANCE of practicing.

Every day: practice, practice, practice. Apply, apply, apply.

So head on over to Tanja’s blog: THE LIGHT HAS COME.

Because the light has come.

“You are healed and you can heal. The light has come. You are saved and you can save. The light has come. You are at peace, and you bring peace with you wherever you go. Darkness and turmoil have disappeared. The light has come.”

Notice this is written in the PRESENT tense???

The light has come. It’s accomplished.

You are saved and you can save. Accomplished.

You are at peace, and you bring peace with you wherever you go. Accomplished. True now.

Darkness and turmoil have disappeared. Accomplished.

The light has come.

You are at peace. Is this true for you? Darkness and turmoil have disappeared. Is this your experience?

Or are you still standing in a dark cloud? It’s not raining anymore. The light has come. If you are not at peace and if you still see darkness and turmoil, it means you are doing it to yourself. The light is all around you. You can put your umbrella away. You can put your grievances and judgments away. The sun is shining brightly. You don’t need to cover up or protect yourself anymore. You can be happy. The light has come.

Here … is the new beginning. Here is the start of your new life.

Today, you begin looking only with Christ vision. You stop looking at form to see where you are in your own mind. You stop looking at your broken body and your broken relationships because they cannot show you anything at all, because form is not real. It is meaningless. What your body’s eyes show you is not what life is!

You start training yourself to relate only to what is real and true and eternal: in you and in others. Only the light is real. Form has no meaning, so stop relating to it as if it has importance. Relate only to the light.

What you will notice in about 90% of the population is that this light is covered over by darkness, stories, sadness, clouds, sickness, and depression. BUT THE LIGHT IS THERE! It is your job to find it! It may be just a spark, but it is there! Your brother is waiting for release and only you can give it to him!

It is your job, function and purpose to see the light.

Look beyond people’s stories of addiction and sadness, and see the light and relate only to that.

You can heal your brother and the world. How? By giving your brother what he cannot provide for himself: attention, appreciation, a smile, a helping hand, or a kind word.

You can listen with all your attention to what someone is saying. Just listen. Stop what you are doing and LISTEN. Stop injecting your story. Give your full attention, without adding your own commentary. Just listen. This, in my opinion, is one of the easiest & fastest ways to heal. Try it with someone today and watch what happens.

Give your full attention and listen.

There is a great story in Eckhart Tolle’s book A New Earth about a woman from Nazi Germany who was filled with grievances, anger and was a huge ego and loved to complain. One day this woman went to Tolle’s house to complain some more and he just sat there listening while she raged on and on. He sat listening with non-judgment and total presence. He didn’t respond to her story. He just listened. And then all of a sudden in the middle of an angry tirade, she stopped. She stopped and said “this isn’t important, is it?” Then she laughed. Then she went home and the next day she said to Eckhart “what did you do to me??????” She said that night was the first night in her life she felt at peace, and she slept like a baby the whole night through.

Great story. See. You can heal.

“What did you to me?”

I listened and gave you what you really needed: love and attention.

It’s easier than you think. Just give someone your full attention. You heal someone by joining them, by being present, by listening.

I kept reading Tolle’s book yesterday and I’m really in love with it. It’s great stuff. It gets better as I go along. I really struggled with the first half of the book which is all about the ego and the pain body, but then it gets good. Have you bought it yet? It has some nice practical advice in here.

I love this sentence: “If you can neither enjoy or bring acceptance to what you do – stop.”

HA!

If you can neither enjoy or bring acceptance to what you do – stop.

Stopping will bring a moment of stillness – an empty space not filled with your frantic rushing, planning, old ideas in which you can remember the truth.
The light has come. I have forgiven the world.

It’s almost Easter now: your resurrection. Born again. Raised from the dead. Brand new. The past disappears. The space is clean. You are whole and perfect as God created you.

“Your forgiveness entitles you to vision.”

Listen to this:

“From this time forth you will see differently. Today the light has come. And you will see the world that has been promised you since time began, and in which is the end of time ensured.”

From this time forth you will see differently.

Jesus is talking to you and he’s talking about now. From this time forth you will see differently. That’s a miracle. From this time forth, you have the ability to see only light everywhere. From this time forth, you see only love.

You will still look upon chaos and problems, but you now have within you the power and willingness to see beyond form & falsity.

Your response will be differently. It will come from a place of clarity and you will remember there is only one appropriate response to all situations: appreciation.

Why? Because the light has come.

You have forgiven the world. Your forgiveness entitles you to vision.