Creation’s gentleness is all I see.
It’s Sunday morning. Let’s have some fun.
My cat Enzo has sprung to life. A few days ago I was tripping out a little realizing that he’s my creation and not even there, and that his sickness is due to ideas that I hold in my own mind. And here’s the trippy part: He healed entirely in that moment. He started eating and all the yellow jaundice disappeared! I am not exaggerating. It was the weirdest thing. I mean, yes, I know I teach this stuff, but rarely do I see such a dramatic example of healing, right before my eyes.
This is creation’s gentleness.
“I have indeed misunderstood the world, because I laid my sins on it and saw them looking back at me.”
I got a great message yesterday from a friend who wants to help a person who is seriously sick, but the seriously sick person is angry and doesn’t want help. I wrote back to my friend and said: that seriously sick person is YOUR idea of sickness. She’s not sick, you are. If you see sickness, then the only place that healing needs to occur is in your own mind. As you are healed, she will heal. Heal your friend by seeing her as she truly is: healed and whole and perfect. See no one as a body. See only the light. See only God in everyone and everything.
Sickness does not exist except as an idea in the mind.
This is the reason I don’t have to preach this message to anyone. I am grateful for this blog where I can express ideas that matter to me, and if you want to show up and peek through the window that is my mind though my writing and this website, well then … awesome. But in my daily life, I preach to no one.
When I am with my friends or family, I do the simple things: cook, read, play, shop, laugh and play.
The only person who needs to practice self-responsibility is me. When I accept Atonement for myself, the world is healed. My mind has the power to heal all sickness, in everyone, for all time.
This is the real work I do: to stay vigilant, to keep remembering the truth, and to remember God and my brothers.
The world of time is the world of illusions.
As you know, I have been in some serious transition lately. The old ways (that I depended on for safety and security) are gone and the new ways have not yet arrived. The world is in serious transition. It’s like everyone is waiting on pins and needles. You all saw what happened last week with financial markets collapsing. The housing market is failing. Marriages are failing. The banks are failing. The economy is failing. As a result, the government prints pretend money. We might as well start using Monopoly money. It’s the same thing. Paper that’s valueless.
Everyone is scrambling for dry land, to find a place where they can rest in safety and peace.
It should be evident by now: THERE IS NO SAFETY IN THE WORLD. Everything ends in death.
When the shit is hitting the fan, don’t let your emotions get the best of you. SLOW DOWN & STAY CALM. This is my own advice to myself. My mind is the only place in the whole world where I can find real lasting comfort.
When I can calm down my panic thoughts enough to listen to the Voice of God (which is the Voice of reason), I am told exactly what to do, where to go, and what to say … and life is one big miracle.
“Today I see the world in the celestial gentleness which creation shines. There is no fear in it. let no appearance of my sins obscure the light of Heaven shining on the world. What is reflected there is in God’s mind. The images I see reflect my thoughts.”
THE IMAGES I SEE REFLECTS MY THOUGHTS.
Yet is my mind at one with God’s. And so I can perceive creation’s gentleness.
A prayer:
Father, In quiet would I look upon the world, which but reflects Your Thoughts and mine as well. Let me remember that they are the same, and I will see creation’s gentleness.
In case of a disaster, here’s good advice: CLIMB TO HIGHER GROUND.
Climb to God.
Facebook comments:
John Maynard Keynes has nothing on you. Thanks. I love you.
I never heard of him.
Here’s what I found on Wikepedia:
John Maynard Keynes (5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946) was a British economist whose ideas, called Keynesian economics, had a major impact on modern economic and political theory as well as on many governments’ fiscal policies. He advocated interventionist government policy, by which the government would use fiscal and monetary measures to mitigate the adverse effects of economic recessions, depressions and booms. He is one of the fathers of modern theoretical macroeconomics.
I’m really dense in areas of politics and economics. Super dense. I don’t know anything. It just seems really stupid to me to bail out a failing company for $84 billion dollars – and then to spend an additional $700 billion to bail-out other failing companies – money that doesn’t actually exist, and then pass the bill on to taxpayers.
If a company is failing, let it fail.
How come the government doesn’t bail out mom & pop businesses?
If they are bailing out the large companies, then they should be bailing out the small companies too. But of course, everyone would call that insane.
What’s wild to me is when large banking companies are successful then the CEO’s become billionaires with private jets and fancy homes … while ordinary folks struggle with their own bills. But when these companies fail, the taxpayers pick up the bill.
??
It’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.
I don’t even know what the word macroeconomics means…
Micro is individual business and macro is the whole economy.
These bailouts don’t seem fair, but at times they are the lesser of two evils. More of us little people are hurt in the long run if the bailout doesn’t happen in the short run.
The folks with all the marbles make the rules of the game.
from today’s New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/business/21econ.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
New York Times:
A $700 billion dollar rescue plan for Wall Street, but will it work?
If it all comes to pass — if Uncle Sam becomes the repository for the radioactive leftovers of bad real estate bets — will the crisis lift? Will the fear that has kept banks clinging to their dollars, starving the economy of capital, give way to free-flowing credit?
Most broadly, what are the long-term costs of the government’s stepping in to restore order after so many wealthy financiers became so much wealthier through what now seem like reckless bets on housing — bets now covered with public dollars?
Significant skepticism confronts the plan. Under a proposal circulating Saturday, the Treasury could spend as much as $700 billion to buy mortgage-linked investments, then sell what it can as it works out the messy details of the loans. But no one really knows what this cosmically complex web of finance will be worth, making the final price tag for the taxpayer unknowable. One may just as well try to predict the weather three years from Tuesday.
Also, what message does that send to the next investment bank caught up in the next speculative bubble and contemplating the risks of jumping in while wondering who is ultimately on the hook if things go awry?
Many economists say such questions are beside the point. The nation is gripped by the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Before Thursday night, when the Treasury secretary, the Federal Reserve chairman and leaders on Capitol Hill proclaimed their intentions to take over bad debts, the prognosis for the American financial system was sliding from grim toward potentially apocalyptic.
It looked like we might be falling into the abyss.
The financial crisis gripping the United States is the direct outgrowth of the speculative orgy in real estate that began early this decade. Once home values began falling two years ago, the financial institutions that had poured capital into real estate confronted a very big problem.
just a little nudge…. remember the ‘shift’…. things are as they should be. It is our own judgement that says “the nation is gripped by the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression’. It could be the greatest thing that has ever happened to us!
It is soooo easy to get sucked in (for me too). Are these not the challenges to our faith in the teachings of Jesus and ACIM?
Love to all,
Laura
Laura, great insight for us all. It is as we define it, no more no less.
Amen Laura~ thank you for talking for all of us. Sometimes, we need help to see our fear based perceptions…. that is one more reason why “Oneness” is so grand! Love to all!
You’re absolutely right – everything is exactly as it should be.
I’ve been reading The Teachers Manual and loving it. From Who Are Their Pupils:
“The world of time is the world of illusion. What happened long ago seems to be happening now. Choices made long since appear to be open; yet to be made. What has been learned and understood and long since passed by is looked upon as a new thought, a fresh idea, a different approach.”
This is over and accomplished, and I’m living in a memory of what already occurred. Amazing. It seems like it’s happening now, with a future yet to be determined, but it’s already happened, over and gone … and I’m home in Heaven.
Beautiful post again, Lisa.
It’s funny, I was feeling that way this morning about just stepping back and being calm — and wrote this blog: http://awakeningfromthedream.blogspot.com/2008/09/spaciousness-of-questions.html
Also, what you said about your cat resonated with me because the same thing happened with my cat earlier this year. We did the vet visits, the panicking, etc. It was the moment lying in bed with him in which I told my mind, well Harvey there asleep looks just like my healthy cat Fritz. He’s just resting. Next thing you know, Harvey perked back up again and was fully healed.
Hi Lisa
I do enjoy your blog…I mean, how could I not enjoy words of light and love…
but you know, I have a problem seeing the world that way… it all sounds fine and dandy until you hit the rough spots in the road. How can I live todays lesson about healing when I saw a loved one die in front of my eyes with ‘a disease called’ cancer’?
“If you see sickness, then the only place that healing needs to occur is in your own mind. As you are healed, she will heal. Heal your friend by seeing her as she truly is: healed and whole and perfect.” ???
How can it be more than words to me?
Thanx a bunch