I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.

(193) All things are lessons God would have me learn.

Know this and you are free. All things are lessons God would have you learn. Nothing can affect you if you choose to see everything as a lesson. Every single thing that happens to you is a gift from God. There is nothing good or bad happening to you - only lessons that God would have you learn. The question then still remains: how long do you want to take to learn your lesson? It can take you 30 seconds OR it can take you 6 months.

I actually figured this out back in the 3rd grade. I realized I could put 100% of my attention on a problem (or homework) and have it done perfectly in an hour and get an A+ OR I could scatter my energy (tv on, radio on, talking to friends on the telephone, with interruptions for playtime outside) and I’d be stuck with that same problem (paper or homework) for 8 hours and get a C-.

Focused energy vs. Scattered energy.

Einstein said a change in speed results in a change of time.

I figured this out fairly quickly. It’s faster and better to focus 100% and simply do the work that is in front of you … with astonishing results.

You can do something fast OR you can do something slow. You decide.
You can enter into the peace of God now OR you can drag out pain and misery thinking it is real. You decide.

When you are confronted with a problem, realize that it’s a lesson that God would have you learn and focus all your attention on remembering this fact … and be done with it.

If it’s a lesson (and it is!) then you don’t have to focus on the problem anymore, rather you can redirect your energy to figuring out what the lesson is contained in that sordid mess. In the remembering, the problem is solved in that instant. It doesn’t take time.

Your mind has the ability to focus like a laser beam and cut through every problem and illness like a knife.

But when you scatter your focus it results in scattered light - like refracted light that bounces all over the walls - and it’s all over the place and nothing gets accomplished.

Look how practical and easy this becomes!

The reason I don’t get upset anymore is because I have learned to focus that light. I don’t mess around.

Through training my mind in a systematic way with A Course in Miracles, I have found a better way to doing everything. There is a solution to every problem and it’s always contained within the problem. I can see it immediately if I choose to see it.

OR, I can do it the human way which is to drag on pain and confusion for months. Humans love to suffer! If you want to really suffer, keep telling your story to people. That’s a surefire way to keep it alive.

Since I want the peace of God, I have made a decision to see the lesson on the day the problem is presented to me. Again, I don’t mess around. I don’t take anything to bed with me. I let all my problems be resolved the day they rear their ugly head.

Almost always the lesson I need to learn is this: REMEMBER GOD.

Remembering God solves all my problems.

Communication solves all problems too. If something has gone wrong with another person, I am very fast to go to that person or to pick up the telephone or send an email.

Why wait for Heaven? It is here and now.

Why wait?

Every day is a gift. Every moment is a gift. You don’t have to suffer. There is no need for pain. You’re doing it to yourself. How long are you going to crucify yourself? How long are you going to carry the cross (your pain, sickness, destructive habits, stories) around? How long, O teacher of God, how long?

You can let them all go today by realizing that all things are lessons God would have you learn.

For me, everything is a vibration of energy which is neither good nor bad. It’s just a vibration. It has no meaning. Some vibrations seem harsh and cold and seem to cause a pain in the body. Or vibrations are warm and soothing and make you feel marvelous.

What I do is make no distinctions. There is no good or bad. I recognize everything as energy … as a lesson God would have me learn. I integrate all vibrations immediately (the second they enter my body) into the ONE VIBRATION that is God. It’s a happy game I play. There is no good or bad anymore. There are no levels. There is no need for a “miracle” because everything has already been healed. There is total acceptance of everything that occurs without naming it or placing it a label on it. I simply allow everything to be exactly as it is. This is the true miracle. I let things come at me, and with the Power that has been given to me by God, I turn that “good or bad thing” into a Thought of God.

It’s alchemy.

I let everything remind me of the Love of God.

At this level, nothing can affect you.

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A change in speed results in a change of time.

If miracles are not occurring for you, something has gone wrong. There is no need for problems, sickness or suffering. None. God has given you an inheritance. Love is your reality. You decide how long until you accept it. Everything you have ever needed or ever wanted is right in front of you and can be accepted today.

Love, lisa

I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.

(192) I have a function God would have me fill.

“I seek the function that would set me free from all the vain illusions of the world. Only the function God has given me can offer freedom. Only this I seek and this will I accept as mine.”

Only the function God has given me can offer freedom.

What’s interesting to recognize is that mind precedes matter. Thoughts precede the physical. If you’ve ever broken up in a relationship or gotten a divorce … you’ll realize that you were actually single for months before the actual physical breakup. Your mind was already in the new space long before the words were uttered “it’s over”

So by the time the break-up occurs, you’re not even shocked (although many people pretend to be), because in truth, you saw the event coming long before it actually happened.

Everything that happens to me is caused by my thinking. I did this. Everything that occurs happens because I want it to occur. No exceptions. This is true responsibility.

It’s wild. What a great thing to know! My mind is the ruler of the universe! I have the ability to throw the mind out in front of the body, or in any direction, and the body will follow in perfect precision.

And this same Power is contained in you.

The question is: What do you want? What are you asking for?

I have a function God would have me fill. I already know about it. So it’s inevitable that the body will absolutely definitely follow, and accomplish the tasks of that function.

And that moment is now.

This is the evolution of the human species. Think about how the dinosaurs disappeared. Or how a certain species suddenly created wings to adapt to a new environment, or how water animals transformed into a land animals and developed new organs to adapt. Or how our ancestors were hairy apes.

We are in the middle of an evolutionary shift … The Great Experiment.

Einstein said that a change of speed (or a direction in movement) results in a change of time.

That’s a true thing. You can speed yourself up and the time factor changes.

This is not about becoming better, more loving, spiritual, successful humans, rather it is about changing the whole cellular structure so that the human itself changes into something else entirely.

I am standing in the mystery, beholding the wonder of it all.

You speed yourself up (and the entire world) by thinking about God and this changes the time frame of your life along with the history of the world - past and present. What might have taken 5 years or 50 years ( to finish or accomplish) will now take 6 months or 6 minutes. A miracle is a catalyst breaking up erroneous perception.

Thinking about God WILL change you.

It changes your cellular structure.

It changes the circumstances of your life.

It changes you.

It changes the world.

I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.

(191) I am the holy Son of God Himself.

“In silence and in true humility I seek God’s glory, to behold it in the Son He created as my Self.”

Yes. Yes. Yes.

It’s true. It’s all I seek. To glorify God and seek His Love, and extend that light to everyone and everything. It was inevitable that something dramatic happen to me. When you seriously start shifting your mind, your world changes.

The other day while giving a talk on Chapter 13 (you can listen in the blue Talkshoe box) I said something that surprised me when it came out of my mouth. I said that your mind is already capable of being in the new place where there is only love, peace, joy and happiness. It can already conceive of its wholeness and perfection. Every person reading this knows of a condition where you can turn off your mind’s chatter and be in a space of peace.

But the difficulty is that the body is much denser than the mind and so it appears to take time to catch up to that space.

But what is happening, that cannot be seen with the physical eyes, is that as you hold your mind in the new space (and not waver), the body begins to de-particle-ize (is that a word?? It is now). You starts to transfigure. You suddenly are in the process of resurrection. Rising out of the low density up into new frequencies, entering into new worlds. The cells start moving, and the body start to disintegrate as it rises up to meet the mind in the place of love.

But here is what happens. Because you can’t see it, you think nothing is happening. So you bring the mind back down into the body, back down into thoughts of sickness and limitation. Doubt creeps in. You think “this is not working. nothing is happening.”

And this halts the process. Immediately, you start becoming solid again. Meanwhile, you were “THIS CLOSE” to shifting yourself into a brand new place.

I just demonstrated it, physically.

What’s wild is that the change seemingly came out of blue skies. There was never a problem with my marriage. We are terrific friends. He is a great guy. There was nothing leading up to the event that we would be apart. It was simply time for me to stand alone. I was ready for it, and the Holy Spirit rushed in. On Saturday (the day before the disruption), we went to Devil’s Lake - which is a beautiful lake here in Wisconsin - and it was the most perfect day of my life. I wrote in my paper journal:

“I have never known such perfection.”

And then this:

“I would love to own a house here. This is where I want to live. This is the place.”

And then less than 24-hours later - KA BOOM - everything breaks apart - and now I’m living in a huge 4-bedroom house with an in-the-ground swimming pool, 1/2 a mile away from Devil’s Lake.

Haha. The universe doesn’t mess around.

Ask and receive.

I’m typing from a 2nd story bedroom, looking out on green pastures and majestic trees. This is a miracle to me because I’ve spent the past 10 years living on ground-floor apartments, which I can’t stand. I love space and height and 2nd-story bedrooms with lots of light and windows.

I’m not sure how long I can continue living here, but that’s part of the adventure.

I’m here now. For this moment, this is where I live. No one can take this moment away from me. My dad wrote me yesterday and said: “Never lose the adventure of your ENLIGHTENED spirit. Enjoy yourself.”

We are being led, gently, step by step, into a new world. YOU ARE ALL COMING WITH ME, WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT. I’m bringing you all to Heaven with me because you are in my mind. That’s not a threat, but a blessing. I’m healing the chaos by allowing it to be gently swept away in my own mind. It’s not about teaching the message of Jesus to other people, but rather, to live Jesus’ message in your own life, to demonstrate love and joy in all of your actions, and to let peace encompass all that you think and do.

I’m allowing it to occur. I won’t halt it. Let’s keep going.

I feel like I’ve left ordinary laws behind. And now I am suspended in midair. I don’t know what will happen next, and that’s the exciting part.

My dedication is to not dip back down to where I came from, to not attempt to pick up the pieces. I don’t care about anything except the salvation of this world.

A Course in Miracles says over and over and over and over and over: the past is gone, let it go.

This is a real practice. To forget about events from yesterday or a year ago, and to constantly find myself in a new place … which is now.

I am the holy Son of God Himself.

Amazing, right? God is my father.

That’s it! What more do I possibly need to know? I am forever safe.

My father is God!

What could possibly frighten you? What could possibly frighten me?

Our Father is God.

It’s as if all my wires and circuitry of reacting/interacting has been removed and eliminated. Nothing bothers me anymore. I am happy. I suddenly find that my past habit of reacting to external events has completely disappeared.

It’s wild.

There’s nothing there. No thinking. No judgment. Just acceptance of things happening as they are happening, like I’m watching a movie with me in it, but it’s not affecting me.

I’M SIMPLY RIDING THE WAVE.

Going with the flow.

Letting events happen as they happen … and not reacting, controlling, manipulating.

This day is all there is and all there ever will be. There is nothing before this day and there is nothing after this day.

The other thing I am finding is that all disruptions create greater strength and flexibility. I am feel stronger than ever. I feel more flexible than ever. I feel a sense of freedom I have never know. The scenery is terrific.

It’s true the saying: “What doesn’t kill you will make you stronger.”

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I love you.

I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me.

(190) I choose the joy of God instead of pain.

Yesterday I received an email from someone who told me that what I wrote about Lesson 209 “broke them apart” and I had to laugh because that’s exactly what happened to me yesterday. My life broke apart. My marriage disrupted into a million little fragments yesterday morning and I had to move out of the apartment. It all happened really fast: without any warning, and without any conflict. Angels rushed in. I had my stuff moved within an hour. I’m actually amazed by the speed in which everything transpired.

And now I’m in a new space. What can I say?

I am blessed indeed.

God is good. I choose the joy of God instead of pain.

“Pain is my own idea. It is not a Thought of God, but one I thought apart from Him and from His Will. His Will is joy, and only joy for His beloved Son. And that I choose, instead of what I made.”

And right after all this happened, I gave a one-hour talk on Chapter 13. You can listen to it by going to the blue Talkshoe box in the right-hand sidebar of this website, and scrolling down to Chapter 13 and clicking Play.

I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.

(189) I feel the Love of God within me now.

I find the only way to know this love, and to truly feel it, is to leave the world behind.

There is no meeting place between this world and Heaven. You will not find Heaven in this world, and you cannot bring Heaven to this world, so you might as well stop wasting your energy. You will not find Heaven while thinking about your problems. You will not find God while contemplating the world’s insanity.

There is no world!

It must be stated from time to time that this is a dream. The world is not real. It wholly illusionary.

But you will think you are here while things bind you. Problems and people can pull you down, like gravity, and you will think you are here, and you will believe that the world is real. You will believe that people are doing things to you that demand your attention.

When in fact, in truth, it’s just you - YOU - binding yourself to a world of time and space.

It doesn’t exist!

All your problems can melt away this very day.

You can be in Heaven today. You can walk away from events, situations, places and people today. Don’t try to solve things. And don’t try to sort it out. You can spring into Heaven and feel the Love of God within you now.

How is this possible??

Loose everything.

Stop trying to solve your problems. They are not solvable because they are not real.

However, they will continue to seem real while you hold onto them. Let them go!

Get with God.

Today we pass illusions by. We learn the way today.

Simply do this:

“Be still, and lay aside all thoughts of what you are and what God is; all concepts you have learned about the world; all images you hold about yourself. Empty your mind of everything it thinks is either true or false, or good or bad, of every thought it judges worthy, and all the ideas of which it is ashamed. HOLD ONTO NOTHING. Do not bring with you one thought the past has taught, nor one belief you ever learned before from anything. Forget this world, forget this course, and come with wholly empty hands unto your God.”

Is it not He Who knows the way to you? You need not know the way to Him. Your part is simply to allow all obstacles that you have interposed between the Son and God the Father to be quietly removed forever.”

God will do His part in joyful and immediate response.

Ask and receive.

But do not make demands, nor point the road to God by which He should appear to you.

The way to reach Him is merely to let Him be. For in that way is your reality proclaimed as well.

And so today we do not choose the way in which we go to him. But we do choose to let Him come. And with this choice we rest.

Amazing, right? You don’t have to know the way to God, in fact, it’s like a prerequisite to be lost and have no clue. The more clueless you are, the better! Just stand still. Be willing. Let go of all your ideas. Let go of all your thoughts and beliefs. God will find you. He knows the way. You don’t have to do anything.

God knows the way. You need not the way to Him. Your part is simply to allow all obstacles that you have interposed to be removed.

Father, I ask but that your Will which is our own will as well, be done in the world that it become a part of Heaven now. Amen.

I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.

(188) The peace of God is shining in me now.

These past few days have been interesting. I’ve had diarrhea non-stop (I tell you guys everything - probably more than you want to know - sorry!), and then two days ago I spent the entire day sound asleep - like Sleeping Beauty. It wasn’t just like resting or lounging - it was sound asleep, knocked out from 11pm-5pm.

I did get out of bed in the morning to post the daily lesson, and the most I could do is post it with no further commentary.

And now I’m still slightly out of balance … like a newborn chick that’s just been hatched.

It’s a real happening to crash into a new frequency of energy. These are not just nice ideas we throw around. When you really make a decision to change a habit, to set aside your present way of doing things, your current way of thinking, your present views and judgments and prejudices … you change!

The world changes!

The mind lands in the new place BEFORE the physical solid body lands there. For example, you conceive of peace in your mind before your physical world actually become peaceful. You visualize a new house or a new job or a new relationship in your mind first before it appears in your physical world. This is because the body is denser than the mind. It takes a little time to catch up.

But the mind is capable of traveling to new dimensions and new possibilities all the time.

The difficulty is that most people have a tendency to slump back into the old place (in their mind) without realizing what they are doing. You must keep your mind in the new place in order for the body to come to where your mind is. As long as you keep moving your mind back to the old place, the body doesn’t move. Nothing changes.

So, when you make a decision to keep your mind in the new bright place, aligned with God and truth, the body has no choice but to come to where you are.

And when the body does try to catch up, it can appear like it is falling apart. At least this is my experience. Maybe you’re making the journey like a stroll in the park. This is not how it happens for me. When I enter into a new world, my body falls apart. I remember 7 years ago, when I had my first contact with the light I vomited for 4 days straight. I had given up alcohol and smoking and I had switched my diet to vegetarian for 30 days, and I felt great, better than ever, alive, free … and then out of nowhere I started vomiting gallons and gallons of fluid. I couldn’t stop it. It went on for days.

I was exhausted. I would drink one baby sip of water and immediately vomit 3 gallons of fluid.

And then one day, it was over … and I was a changed person. A newborn baby.

I never ever never call any physical symptom “sickness.” I simply acknowledge “Okay, this is what is happening to me now. It’s neither good nor bad. It just is what it is. I accept what is happening to me, with gratitude.”

And you know, I learned this from my cats. This is not rocket science. Animals know instinctively how to heal themselves. When they need to rest, they rest. They sleep all day and play all night. They don’t push themselves. They eat when they are hungry. If they hurt themselves, they lie low until they are well again.”

And the “miracle” is that they heal quickly.

The body will naturally heal itself if you learn to listen to what it needs. If it is telling you to go to bed at 6pm, then go to bed at 6pm. Don’t push yourself to stay up till midnight just because that is what you have always done.

The peace of God is shining in me now.

What I’ve been looking at lately is the idea of CONCENTRATED FOCUS.

Concentration of energy will heal all heals.

All problems stem from scattered energy.

The mass majority of people have no idea how to concentrate. They have lost their ability to focus.

Look honestly at how you read the lessons or the text of A Course in Miracles. Now, I could be totally absolutely wrong here - and maybe you are able to read a chapter from start to finish - and maybe your life is one big miracle filled with love, peace, joy and abundance and you don’t need any help at all - but it is my guess that your mind starts to wander immediately within the first couple of sentences.

It is my guess that you would like a miracle to occur.

It’s not the words that will change you - IT IS YOUR CONCENTRATION AND FOCUS. This is what most good students do not realize. They are still trying to understand the meaning of the words, forgetting Lesson #1: Nothing I see means anything.

The words in A Course in Miracles don’t mean anything. You are given them the meaning they have for you. It’s not the words that will change you. It is your dedication, willingness and commitment to simply show up and do the work where you will see fundamental lasting change.

The words themselves are nothing.

Your commitment and willingness is everything.

That’s what the Classes are designed to do: to help you focus.

There is nothing to understand. There is nothing “to get.”

I created these classes to help you stay focused and on track.

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There is no need for confusion or suffering. There is no need for transformation to take lengthy periods of time. It need not drag on for years.

It’s like in yoga, you can do the poses yourself at home alone … of course … but it is much better to have a teacher who is standing over you helping you hold the pose for a longer period of time. It pushes you past your comfort zone. It strengthens your core.

Have you ever seen the difference between doing yoga at home by yourself vs. doing yoga with a personal trainer? It’s like night and day. In the first scenerio you give up within 10 minutes as soon as it gets a little difficult. In the second scenerio, you have to go the full hour because the teacher is standing over you and won’t let you get lazy. Yes, it’s hell. But it’s worth the money because you see faster results.

The more you stay focused on God, the more you will change, and the more the world will change. This is the collapse of time.

“The basic decision of the miracle-minded is not to wait on time any longer than necessary.”

“To delay in time is tragic.”

“Complete restoration of the Sonship is the only goal of the miracle-minded.”

Just so you know, I myself am constantly coming into a deeper awareness. I haven’t seen anything yet. That’s the beauty. It’s always a new beginning. It’s always a brand new day. Every time I give some time to God, He reveals something new to me.

And just so you know, I love you.

I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.

(187) I bless the world because I bless myself.

Every morning, it’s the same thing for me: I wake up and think: okay, I’m here to bless the world. I’m here to give. I’m here to extend the light of Heaven. I’m here only to be truly helpful.

How simple!

My only function is to let Christ work through me. I do not have a plan beyond that. I don’t know the specifics. I don’t know where I will be sent or what I will do. I don’t have a single clue what the day will look like in advance.

But I know it will be good because God is with me.

So I don’t have to be concerned or worried about anything. What problems could you possibly have when you know God is with you?

I bless the world because I bless myself.

This means to bless everyone and everything, no exceptions.

I bless the world because I bless myself.

“God’s blessing shines upon me from within my heart, where He abides. I need but turn to Him, and every sorrow melts away, as I accept His boundless Love for me.”

There is a law that exists throughout all the lower realms of Light, which is the law of cause and effect. That cause and effect is simply action — yours, mine, and that of this physical world and many other realms of existence. It is neither negative nor positive, neither good nor bad; it is action, change, and experience. It is governed by a simple dynamic: As you sow, so shall you reap.

- John-Roger

I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.

(186) Salvation of the world depends on me.

I am entrusted with the gifts of God, because I am His Son. And I would give His gifts where He intended them to be.

I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.

(185) I want the peace of God.

“The peace of God is everything I want. The peace of God is my one goal; the aim of all my living here, the end I seek, my purpose and my function and my life, while I abide where I am not home.”

Aaaaaamaazinnnng.

That’s amazing. The peace of God is everything I want. It is my one goal, the aim of all my living here, the end, my purpose, my function and my life.

Now you see why yesterday I wrote that I have everything I need. I have the peace of God. It’s all I want. It’s all I ever really wanted. And it was given to me by my own decision.

What else could I possibly want????

What else do I need now that I have everything??

I rejoice that I live in God.

“Seek ye first the Kingdom of Heaven and all else will be added unto you.”

It’s really astonishing to see this law in action. I mean, really really astonishing. You stand still - in perfect awareness of your true reality of God - you stop chasing, you stop planning, you stop visualizing, and things just come to you.

And the best part: YOU DON’T EVEN CARE ANYMORE ABOUT THESE THINGS!

You have the only thing you ever really wanted and that’s the peace of God.

The peace of God is everything I want.

It is entirely possible to stop circling around what we have already done and to move to a new place. It is possible to have the peace of God always. It is possible to move out of conflict and never land there again.

Al, over there at View from a Mountain Top, describes it as raising the bar:

RAISING THE BAR

That is an endearing term from my business days. It is an awesome idea. Instead of reaching to achieve something that you have already achieved the idea is to move that level to the bottom and start from there.

I see it as a ladder. I move from one rung up to the next then I go back down to the rung that I have already been at over and over. I’ve been doing that incessantly. Equate (is that an intellect word, or what?) that to an energy shift, one level to the next. I do that! I watched myself do that all day yesterday. I would realize that I had shifted “down” and I would just simply shift back “up.” It was simple and I did it automatically, over and over. But I will have to maintain that level in order to start to move up to the next.

Carlos Castaneda explained that each time you focus your intent on achieving a shift you are developing cohesion resulting in an increased clarity of perception for that new energy level. Simultaneously you are gaining the cohesion and the energy to maintain that state indefinitely.

How does acceptance fit in? I don’t know but I get the feeling that I will.

Thank you Al!

The bar has been raised. The previous highest goal “I am whole and perfect as God created me” has now been moved to the bottom. The bar has been raised. We start from perfection and rise to new heights.

If there is anyone reading these posts who does not yet experience this, or who has no idea how happiness/healing is accomplished, or who needs a miracle, I want to remind you that I am here for this moment and available to you.

I am reachable by email. I am offering audio classes. I answer questions. You can write to me.

But it won’t always be this way.

But for today, I am here.

I receive letters from people who say they wanted to meet the Master Teacher and now they can’t believe he is gone. They write to me, saying: “I missed my chance.”

Welcome to the whole human condition: putting off things till tomorrow not realizing that sometimes tomorrow doesn’t come.

Now is the time. If there is something you’ve been wanting to do, you should absolutely do it today and not wait a second longer.

If you’ve been thinking “some day I am going to write to Lisa, to ask her a question or ask for help, or to take advantage of what is being offered to me,” today would be a good time to take action. If you have been putting it off because of fear or other excuses, please don’t wait anymore. Most people do not recognize what is directly in front of them until it is gone.

This goes for other things in life: If you have been wanting to tell someone you love them, don’t wait. They could be gone any second. You have no idea.

Be aware how precious this day is. Be aware of the wonder that surround you.

Every day is a gift.

I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.

(184) The Name of God is my inheritance.

I am totally out of it right now. Do you ever wake up some mornings and have no idea where you are, what day it is, what month it is, what you need to do, etc.?

And then suddenly everything comes flooding back to you.

Then you remember that it is Tuesday, that it’s your day off, that it’s July which means only 2 months away from the Europe trip, and that the car is being worked on having brake pads replaced, that the cell phone is temporarily not working and you might have to drive to Madison to the US Cellular store this afternoon, that you need to renew your license plate, that there’s no bread in the house and you need to go food shopping, and for all of these things you need money, and the list goes on and on and on.

Suddenly your mind is cluttered with ideas. All within 5 minutes of waking up.

This should be enough to show you that everything is a past idea … and that YOU, the maker, drag it into your awareness.

But then - PRAISE THE LORD! - you can remember to rise above all of it! You remember to change your mind. You re-direct your thinking. You can remember that you’re not a body. You can remember “THE LORD PROVIDES!” and all the meaningless small goals melt away in a flash.

This is the day the Lord has given to me. The day is accomplished in God. There are endless opportunities for marvelous creative experiences! Today! I don’t have to drudge along, worrying about problems. I can be here now.

I can live expectantly and in anticipation (which is different from procrastination and waiting for things to happen). It’s a different energy. Procrastination makes you slump in a chair, in boredom, waiting for external things to come to you. Anticipation is an excitement that good things are coming (that things are already happening and in motion) and that particular kind of energy moves you.

The Name of God is my inheritance.

For the past couple of days I have been talking about STAYING ABOVE THE LINE of “I am whole and perfect as God created me.”

Above the line - above the space of knowing your perfection in God is creation, communion, revelation and joy.

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I AM WHOLE AND PERFECT AS GOD CREATED ME.

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Below the line - below this space - are problems, grievances, worry, fear, sickness, planning.

Also below the line is forgiveness, faith, learning, miracles, healing, perception, praying and questions.

This is not a typo. All of the above (forgiveness, miracles, healing, faith) no matter how holy and good they seem are still limitations, contained with time and space.

But within you is a power to rise above all of this. Get above the line! You are as God created you. You are the light of the world. There is nothing to forgive! There is nothing to heal! You are bigger than your problems. You are bigger than petty grievances. You are bigger than sickness.

Perception and prayer are no longer needed when knowledge has come.

A Course in Miracles says to “rise above the battleground.”

You do this in your own mind, and it doesn’t take time. Problems become challenges. They are not something to be feared, but rather problems become part of the adventure.

Last night I was told I could switch over my cell phone to a local number, and that I could do so over the telephone (without making a 50-minute trip to Madison), and as soon as I got off the phone, my cell went out of service, and another call to US Cellular and they said: oh, we’re sorry, that was a mistake. We can’t reconnect it. You have to come to Madison to the store to get it reconnected. We can’t do that over the phone. We don’t know why anyone told you that. You have to physically be at the store to reconnect the phone.

This is the kind of situation that makes most people crazy. Who the hell are these incompetent people? You wait on hold for 10 minutes. You do what THEY tell you to do (they’re customer service, they should know, right?), then they screw up and tell you it’s your fault.

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And suddenly you have this “problem” that seemed to come out nowhere, creating all sorts of havoc and a rearranging of your schedule.

But then in one brilliant flash of clarity … you will relax. You will find the joy of God. You will experience the peace of God. You will remember that Christ is working through you. Your life is not your own at this level. You are simply a communication channel for the light of Heaven. Who knows where you are needed to go or why?? Who cares?

It’s not a problem. I rise above it. Maybe I have to drive to Madison today and get my phone connected. The customer service rep told me it would be connected automatically within 24-hours without going to Madison. Someone else told me I had to go to the store. Which is it? I have no idea. I don’t even care. Wherever Christ needs me to go is where I want to go.

Now there are no problems.

I am whole and perfect as God created me.

The Name of God is my inheritance.

What is truly astonishing is that everything I need is given to me. And not just scraps and leftovers, but the best of the best. I don’t know how it works, but it does. I just stay above the line. I stay where God is. I don’t worry about things in time & space. What a waste of power and energy.

Whatever I need is given to me. This is not a concept. Things come to me without asking, without prayer, and without visualization.

Whatever I need to fulfill a function for God just drops out of nowhere and lands in my lap. It works because the Name of God is my inheritance.

I am given everything because I recognize that I AM everything, and that I have no needs.

Total glorious paradox. I am given what I need because I have no needs!

This is a whole lot more fun (and consistent!) than the laws of attraction, which most of you have already figured out … sometimes works, and sometimes doesn’t.

The Laws of God are always consistent and they never fail. Success every time!

“God’s Name reminds me that I am His Son, not slave to time, unbound by laws which rule the world of sick illusions, free in God, forever and forever one with Him.”

Amazing, right? You’re not a slave to time. You are not governed by worldly laws. You are under no laws but God’s.

But the laws only operate in Heaven. You have to get your mind in the place where those laws are operating. Does this make sense to you? You have to get out of the battleground. Get above the line. Rise up. Be in Heaven. Be in a place where problems do not exist.