You peace is with me, Father, I am safe.
This lesson is beautiful and true and yet there was a time in my life when I had ZERO idea what it was talking about. There was a time when only fear and chaos surrounded me. I was constantly afraid. I was constantly trying to control events so that I could stay safe.
I got a disturbing email this morning from someone who read her horoscope for the month of September and has decided to pull the plug on her DSL and stop using her PC because the universe is going into retrograde (LOL) because, well, read the message for yourself:
Well I just read my horoscope which is something I do in a blue moon
seeing I was on the site to pull up yours to send out
I thought what the hey
lets just say this
everything is going into retrograde
see this is why I do not read such things
since you are now on your way to NY,
now only blogging, doing audios
I am having my DSL pulled this week
I no longer for any use for my pc
besides she says anything electrical is going to shit
we both know I cannot afford that
seems to me the most logical, less stress provoking thing to do
is pull the plug
before the rug is pulled out from me.
see you out there!
I think I am done with the Course.
Although I am still reading the chapters
and yes the lessons too.
I think I need to do it on my terms.
I want and need to control what is
going on with me. Maybe this is the
way to do it.
All I can say is that this kind of action (to pull the plug before the rug is pulled out from you and to “do it on your terms”) is NOT the way to do it, and is only delaying the inevitable. Better to just LET GO, surrender, and be swept up by the current of life.
THE UNIVERSE IS KIND.
God is good.
There is a force which surrounds you that keeps you safe in all circumstances. It is around you now. It’s so brilliant and so magnificent that I cannot figure out how I could have been blind to it for so long. How did I come to know this presence? It was like a GIFT given to me on a gold platter. Except even that description is too slow. It was given to me instantaneously, except … here’s the funny thing … I can’t remember the instantaneous moment! But one day, it was just there! I could see everything clearly, and suddenly I knew there was nothing to fear, that I was safe in all circumstances, and loved beyond any kind of love I ever knew was possible.
A few weeks ago, my cat attacked me. It was pretty brutal. He’d been sick and I picked him up the wrong way and it must have hurt him and he turned into a wild beast viciously biting and scratching my arm. At the moment it occurred I was very afraid for myself, because he had jaundice of the mouth and his nails were black and who knows what happens in the human body when a cat attacks! I searched internet sites and they are all fear based – time to panic! – and they all basically said that I needed to get to an emergency room ASAP and then it listed on sorts of horrible things that could happen to me, including possible death within 24 hours.
So I was faced with a bit of dilemma, as you can imagine.
But then I thought, well, death is going to come at some point (if not now, then at some time later) and if I’m going to die (which I am … at some point in this sojourn in time) … then within 24 hours sounds like a good idea.
What I thought exactly was this: Okay, if Christ needs my form for anything further (as a communication channel for His peace, His Love, His joy, His Light) then I will live and be fine. I don’t need to be concerned about protecting the body. But if His work is finished and accomplished and He doesn’t need me anymore, then this is the moment! I go rejoicing! The body will be laid aside … and that will be fine with me too.
And the most spectacular thing occurred! A terrific peace came over me like nothing else! I was instantly NOT afraid. It was spectacular. I could feel angels surrounding me. I laughed out loud at the adventure that is my life. I cleaned up the wound the best I could with soap and water and triple antibiotic cream from Walgreens, and thought: well, that’s sufficient. I have accepted my destiny and fate … whatever it may be … to stay on earth or to depart this world entirely. Whatever Christ needs is what I want for myself also. Bring it on.
And of course, you know the rest of the story: I didn’t die.
I woke up the next morning in my bed and laughed out loud, and I’ve been laughing ever since. This presence, this invisible force (which has become almost tangible in the sense that it is as real to me as things that are solid once appeared real to me) has been with me without leaving me.
So, to get back to that email about trying to control the universe (to pull the plug before the rug is pulled from under you), I can only SUGGEST to surrender and let the universe have it’s way with you. It’s faster that way. Stand before your worst fear and tremble not. As you let go of your need to control and manipulate events, the light rushes in!
The universe is constantly disrupting each and every one of us in order to show us this MAGNIFICENT WONDER AND PRESENCE, but unfortunately, we get a glimpse of the light, a glimpse of reality, a glimpse of truth … and then there is an attempt to rush back to darkness, back to the old fear-based identity .. and then you have to be disrupted again.
Chapter 18 in A Course in Miracles says: “Truth has rushed to meet you since you called upon it. As the light comes nearer you will rush to darkness, shrinking from the truth, sometimes retreating to the lesser forms of fear, and sometimes to stark terror. But you will advance, because your goal is the advance from fear to truth. The goal you accepted is the goal of knowledge, for which you signified your willingness. Fear seems to live in darkness, and when you are afraid you have stepped back.”
Amazing: Fear seems to live in darkness, and when you are afraid you have stepped back.
That’s all. When my cat attacked me and I was afraid that meant only one thing: that I had stepped back. Fear = Stepping Back Into Darkness. As soon as I called upon the truth to remind me of something true: the fear disappeared.
And not only that! The fear was replaced by a light so brilliant that I haven’t yet recovered and I hope I never do!
So today’s lesson – Your peace is with me, Father. I am safe – is no longer a concept. It’s a living breathing force that surrounds me and is me.
This peace has been brought to my awareness (it surrounded me always, but I was blind to it) that I may extend it.
“Where I go, Your peace, Father, goes there with me. It sheds its light on everyone I meet. I bring it to the desolate and lonely and afraid. I give Your peace to those who suffer pain, or grieve for loss, or think they are bereft of hope and happiness. Send them to me, my Father.”
SEND THEM TO ME, MY FATHER.
“Let me bring your peace with me. For I would save Your Son, as is Your Will, that I may come to recognize my Self.”
Amazing, huh? We take our rightful place as the Savior of the world.
And so we go in peace. To all the world we give the message that we have received. And thus we come to hear the Voice for God, Who speaks to us as we relate His Word; Whose Love we recognize because we share the Word that He has given unto us.
And if you would like to hear the Word of God in audio format in the voice of Lisa Natoli, click here:
Love is all there is. All else is meaningless.
Facebook comments:
Lisa,
I LOVE YOU!!!
Jim
I know you’re thinking that i’ve got a crush on my teacher and Lisa’s so lovable that everyone loves her. Well i’m here to say to the other 6.8 billion people:
I LOVE YOU !!!
ha. which is only ONE person: you.
We have chosen such a gorgeous teacher! I am truly grateful you have accepted the role and put 100% of yourself into it and also for my first laughter of the day! The “cat fight/ I’m going to die” story really cracked me up! LOL!
I hope this year’s Lessons blog makes it to book form…. Gorgeous For God, The Beauty Continues! It would be awesome!!! A candid shot of where we’ve all been this last year! Our 2008 road trip with God and Lisa Natoli!!!!!
6.8 billion people = one.
And one = none.
The mathematics is brilliant. It’s a big comic joke.
I am laughing like crazy. Thank you God. Thank you all. What a ride.
Gorgeous for God: The Beauty Continues.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA.
Hilarious. Good one.
Now, you have to really seriously consider it!
Every single Lesson~ 1-365! That’s a true Light tool!
In the format that only Lisa can deliver!!!!!
It’s such a great title. (I’m still laughing). It’s such a good idea. A companion guide to the Workbook of A Course in Miracles. The Beauty Continues.
If anyone has contacts in publishing (6 Degrees of Separation!), please let me know. I need all the help I can get.
This is one of my 5 wishes.
YOU HAD ME AT ‘THE UNIVERSE IS KIND’
MAY I STAND IN THE KINDNESS THAT I HAVE RECEIVED… THIS IS HOLY WEEK HERE..THERE IS A GREAT ETERNAL KINDNESS THAT HEALS ALL.
THIS IS MY EASTERTIME.
WOWWOWOW.
J