My mind holds only what I think with God.
(121) Forgiveness is the key to happiness.
(122) Forgiveness offers everything I want.
Your only purpose is to keep aligning your mind back with God. There is no other purpose here in the world .. because the ONLY THING that needs to be accomplished is to “accept Atonement for yourself.”
That is your only function.
You don’t have to go anywhere. You don’t have to “do” anything. There is no location in time that is any better than another, because all places are unreal and God is in your mind.
Everything is happening in your mind!
And it’s all happening right now!
Year ago, as an experiment, I decided to “draw my circle” (as Jesus did in thd desert for 40 days) and not move from it. I was curious to see what would happen. It was an extreme experiment where I decided not to call anyone, to not write anyone, no emails, no driving my car, nothing. The experiment consisted of me being present. I would wait expectantly and not push my agenda (as I was often famous for doing back then). Back then, I was constantly networking, constantly on the telephone, constantly leaving messages on internet chat groups, emailing, trying to get my life MOVING. I thought I could move the energy in my body and that’s what I attempted to do. I didn’t realize the MAGNITUDE, back then, that God is in my mind. I didn’t realize that “My mind holds only what I think with God.
And so there was a tremendous amount of “activity” in my life, which I now can see was wasted time & wasted energy. I was trying to heal things, to be a teacher of A Course in Miracles, using a lot of “mindless magic” to produce “miracles.”
Then it occurred to me that I should just STOP.
I wanted to see what it was like to be “lifted and transported” without me making any plans.
What happened is that eventually someone called, or stopped by.
And I would think: okay, look at this. This is the first person to appear in my brand new life. My first friend! Okay! Look at this!
Because when you stand still, SOMETHING will happen. Guaranteed. I don’t know what it will be exactly for you, in the specifics. But I guarantee something will happen. If you make a decision to be still today and “do nothing”, just keep practicing the lesson in your mind – TO FORGIVE – and to “make a decision to not make a decision,” I guarantee something will happen.
Because the only thing you are asked to do now, in time & space, is forgive.
Forgive yourself. Forgive others.
Spend today doing nothing except practicing today’s workbook lesson. Drop all your plans. Just “be here now” in a state of forgiveness for all your own insanity, and forgiveness for your brother’s insanity. Forgive yourself all your grievances.
You cannot change anything at all in a body HOWEVER everything is changed by the power of your mind, which happens as you sit anywhere. Your mind holds only what you think with God.
This is a fact, and represents the truth of What you are and What your Father is.
“Your self deceptions cannot take the place of truth. No more than can a child who throws a stick into the ocean change the coming and the going of the tides, the warming of the water by the sun, the silver of the moon by night.”
Nothing you do or say changes reality. All your good deeds simply remind you of the truth. That is all. Nothing is affected by what you say or do. Everything you do in time & space either brings you closer to God OR it’s a lot of frantic hurrying and planning. These are your choices.
This knowledge will save you a lot of effort.
You can relax today. You can stop all your planning and let yourself be SHOWN what to do. Or better yet … let the Holy Spirit do it for you, while you observe.
This is A Course in Miracles.
Today is when everything is given to you, as your practice these lessons of forgiveness:
“Each hour of the day, bring to your mind the thought with which the day began – MY MIND HOLDS ONLY WHAT I THINK WITH GOD – and spend a quiet moment with it. Then repeat the two ideas you practice for the day unhurriedly
1. Forgiveness is the key to happiness.
2. Forgiveness offers everything I want.
and spend enough time to see the gift they contain for you, and let them be received where they were meant to be.
“We add no other thoughts, but let these be the messages they are. We need no more than this to give us:
1. happiness
2. and rest
3. and endless quiet
4. perfect certainty
5. and all our Father wills that we receive as the inheritance we have of Him.
God offers thanks (!!) to you who practice the keeping of His Word.
And as you give your mind to the ideas for the day again before you sleep, His gratitude surrounds you in the peace wherein He Wills you be forever, and are learning now to claim again as your inheritance.
Amen.
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Thank you, Lisa.