I will be still an instant and go home.
My horoscope freaks me out a little today (yes, I get my horoscope – Taurus – by email every day, and yes, I love it)
TAURUS
See if you can stick with present-day activities today — you need to let the future take care of itself. Of course, eventually you’ll need to make a plan or two, but now is not the time for that.
This freaks me out because I really feel like I NEED to make a plan. On July 10, I fly back to Wisconsin and I don’t have a job or a place to live. I woke up this morning thinking “Okay, today’s the day I’m going to organize for something to happen in the future. I’m gonna make something happen.”
And then I open up my email and it says “Stick to present day activities today – you need to let the future take care of itself.”
Wow. Okay.
I will follow instructions and “stick to present day activities today.”
Which is really today’s lesson: I will be still an instant and go home.
“The world you seem to live in is not your home And somewhere in your mind you know that this is true. A memory of home keeps haunting you, as if there were a place that called you to return, although you do not recognize the voice, nor what it is the voice reminds you of. Yet still you feel an alien here, from somewhere all unknown.”
Boy, is that the truth!
I have always felt like an alien here in the world, ever since I was a little girl. Nothing has ever made sense to me. Sure, I have learned to adapt but that doesn’t mean that I ever thought anything was logical here. Death, sickness, sorrow, murders, war, pain, suffering, and anger never made any sense to me, and no one could answer any of my questions. I wanted to know WHY.
Why do people die? Why do people kill? Why do people get sick?
And no one could answer a single question.
Which also baffled me, because I thought the adults and teachers knew all the answers.
But no one could answer my questions. And then in the 3rd grade, I started going deaf. My whole life I have wondered about it, but it seems to me now that I made a conscious decision to shut out the noise and live in God.
Being deaf has not slowed my mind down. Instead it has made me more active. It’s made me more focused and aware. I have to really listen and pay attention, and that’s a gift.
Some people say they can do 5 things at once: watch television, type on the internet, have a conversation, smoke a cigarette and hear their kids in the next room, but I can only do one thing at once. ONE THING AT A TIME. I cannot have a conversation with music going on the background. Being in a room full of talking people is mass confusion for me. I can’t write and talk at the same time.
My whole life people have been saying to me: “wow, you’re a great listener” and I would think to myself: yea, that’s because I’m deaf. I HAVE to pay attention. I have to be face-to-face with you in order to hear you. I don’t have a choice.
But mostly, I wanted to be left alone in the quiet … where worlds upon worlds and universes upon universes would open up to me.
To this day I am more fascinated by what goes on in my own mind than what happens in the physical world. It’s far more interesting to me to “go home” than anything I could do here in a body: travel, make money, go to parties, etc.
So today’s lesson confirms what I’ve always known: there is a Child inside of me who does not belong here.
And the same goes for you.
“Yet there is a Child in you Who seeks His Father’s house, and knows that He is an alien here. This childhood is eternal, with an innocence that will endure forever. Where this Child shall go is holy ground. It is His Holiness that lights up Heaven, and that brings to earth the pure reflection of the light above, wherein are earth and Heaven joined as one.”
In Chapter 9 of the Text (audio is now posted in the right sidebar, on Talkshoe), there is a great sentence that says:
“The Second Coming is merely the return of sense.”
There is not going to be any physical reappearance because Jesus is in his resurrection proved that the body isn’t real and death does not exist. He’s not going to “reappear” because he never went anywhere and he’s here now. He didn’t die. He’s here now. There is not going to be an appearance in a body of flesh, because there is no such thing as a body.
There is ONLY the Mind of God.
Why would Jesus, who proved once and for all that life is eternal … why would he backtrack and show up in a body?? Why would he do that?? (he wouldn’t) His entire message is that life is eternal and that this world is not your home. You are the light of the world. You are the Son of God. You are Spirit. You are love.
What are you waiting for??
Everyone seems to be waiting for something to happen, which is what being trapped in time and space is! You are a prisoner here while you wait for something in the future to occur. Everyone is waiting for something to happen in the physical world – which is a contradiction of the whole message of Jesus! There is nothing in the physical world. There is only love, and it surrounds you now. What could possibly happen in the future that is not happening now?? You can be happy today. You can find God today. You can reach Heaven today. You can go there now.
The Second Coming, which is everyone is so terrified of is “merely the return of sense.” Which obviously can occur for you in this moment, or any moment.
It is the return to sense that this world is not your home. This world is not where you belong.
So my horoscope does make perfect sense. Thank you Yahoo for the great reminder.
I can forget about the future and be present today. If I do what is in front of me, the future will take care of itself.
“When you are still an instant, when the world recedes from you, when valueless ideas cease to have value in your restless mind, then you will hear His Voice.”
Nice, huh?
“This Child in you needs your protection. He is far from home. He is so little that he seems to easily shut out, His tiny voice so readily obscured, His call for help almost unheard amid the grating sounds and harsh and rasping noises of the world. Yet does He know that in you still abides His sure protection. You will fail Him not. He will go home, and you along with Him.”
I love it.
This Child in you trusts in you.
“He came because He knew you would not fail. He whispers of His home unceasingly to you. His patience has no limits. He will wait until you hear His gentle Voice within you, calling you to let Him go in peace, along with you, to where He is at home and you with him.”
“Rest with Him frequently today.”
The Child in you wants to go home. All He asks is that you give a few minutes during the day today and shut off all your plans, all your preoccupations, all your goals, forget everything … and go home. Be still. Remember God.
Be still an instant and go home with Him, and be at peace a while.
Wow….I am also a Taurus….although I never regarded myself as stubborn! Good horoscope message though. I now try to go inside my own head when things get too chaotic around here. Sometimes it is the only place to find peace, and to regroup to bring myself “home”.
Let me understand the freak that I am is Good, I have been told many times your not from this planet and always took that as a negative. Now I see being an alien in this hell is Good. I am growing everyday and acim and you are my salvation. I am coming home my precious Jesus