There is a peace that Christ bestows on us.
“Who uses but Christ’s vision finds a peace so deep and quiet, so undisturbable and wholly changeless, that the world contains no counterpart.”
“For love has come, and healed the world by giving it Christ’s peace.”
From Abraham/Jerry and Esther Hicks:
This is always true: What I think and how I feel, and what manifests, is always a vibrational match. But here’s the big kicker: What manifests isn’t manifesting instantaneously. So, you’ve got all this buffer of time leeway that makes you sloppy… If you thought a negative thought and a brick would instantly fall on your head every time, you’d clean up your thinking. But you’re not here to be punished about your thinking. You’re here to use your thinking—and your focus—to create.
Excerpted from a workshop in Washington, DC on Saturday, May 7th, 2005
Our Love,
Jerry and Esther
Let not my world obscure the sight of Christ.
Great lesson for me as I have a tendency to get sidetracked with details of the dream.
Someone wrote to me the other day and said I should make an effort to keep my teachings/writings strictly on the message, and not write so much about my personal life. I think it is good advice but often I can’t tell the difference between my personal life and the message as they feel identically the same to me. It’s ONE thing.
I am the message and the messenger.
I am not a separate body delivering a message of love and light. I AM love and light. It’s all one thing.
I am in the world, but not of it.
A Course in Miracles is about being yourself and DEMONSTRATING Jesus’ message through your own life. It is about integration.
So when I am talking about my cats or cooking or relationships, I am teaching. I am talking about the sight of Christ.
It’s impossible for me to differentiate between my personal life and my spiritual life as it’s one thing. It used to feel separate (now I am praying, now I am working, now I am thinking about God, now I am thinking about things in the world like a job and money), but over time an integration occurred and now there is no difference. I am praying while I am working (without even realizing that I am praying or that I am working!!)
The way I can tell if I am looking on the face of Christ or if I am looking on the world is by the way I feel.
If I feel happy, then I’m seeing clearly.
If I feel fearful or upset, then my sight is obscured and I need only to change my mind.
I used to think that if I saw the world of solid 3-D things that I was doing something wrong. But these lessons are simply teaching to use VISION. They are not is asking you to try to make the world disappear. This course is not about magic. It is about coming to know yourself as God created you, and realizing that you have within you the power to change your mind to see things differently. Where before there was sadness and sorrow, suddenly there is hope and happiness.
“What I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.”
It is Your gift, my Father, given me to offer to Your Holy Son, that he may find again the memory of You, and of your Sons as You created him.
It happened. I got Sam back!
I lost him in May and got him back today.
It’s been getting freezing cold around here in Wisconsin – snowing and freezing – so I decided to write to the local newspaper and ask them to do a write-up about a missing black cat, because it was pretty evident that the cat was nowhere around here.
I got a call this afternoon, from 10 miles away, and it’s Sam.
He went completely bananas when he saw me.
The people who called me said he showed up about a month ago – really skinny and scared – and they started feeding him and then he started getting friendly with them.
I’m in shock.
I am so in love with people who take care of strays. THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!
About an hour after I got Sam back, I got a call from a woman at the Humane Society saying she saw my ad about a missing cat in the newspaper and that a lot of people have dropped off cats this week because they can’t afford them, and that there were several black cats.
So if anyone out there wants some unconditional love, remember there are a lot of unwanted pets out there that need a home.
The holy Christ is born in me today.
These lessons are like clockwork!!
How is it that I come through the “Summer of Discovery” (as one reader beautifully put it) which included every emotion under the sun – fear, doubt, anger, gratitude, joy, loneliness, love, hope, confusion, pain, certainty, and happiness – to go through the whole spectrum of colors only to find that this is the journey!
My friend Greta said to me the other day that she is convinced that the path is designed like this – that you undergo every single possible emotion and this is the rebirth of Christ in you. You must dot every i and cross every t … and then you emerge into the light … healed, and whole and perfect.
Born Again.
The holy Christ is born in me today.
Let’s celebrate with music:
Do you hear what I hear by Anne Murray (not the best youtube visual, but absolutely my very favorite Christmas song – I listen to this version by Anne Murray all year long in my car, and usually 4 times in a row, every couple of weeks)
Said the king to the people everywhere:
Listen to what I say
Pray for peace, people everywhere
Listen to what I say
A child, A child sleeping in the night
He will bring us goodness and light.
He will bring us goodness and light.
Christmas songs are timeless. And today, this song heralds Christ birth in me.
HE WILL BRING US GOODNESS AND LIGHT.
The amazing thing is that the child WAS SLEEPING, and he was sleeping in me, but today he is born, awakened in me.
Joy to the World by Anne Murray.
Joy to the world is straight out of the bible; a word-for-word translation from Psalm 98 from English cleric Issac Watts, made in 1719. Over 100 years later, American composer Lowell Mason put the words to music, and attributed the final product to his hero, George Fredrick Handel. The attribution of this carol to Handel lasted for more than a century, but it’s from the bible. Word for Word.
Joy to the world! The Lord has come:
Let earth receive her King.
Let ev’ry heart prepare Him room,
And heav’n and nature sing, and heav’n and nature sing,
And heav’n and heav’n and nature sing.
Joy to the world! The Savior reigns:
Let men their songs employ,
While fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains,
Repeat the sounding joy, repeat the sounding joy,
Repeat, repeat the sounding joy.
He rules the world with truth and grace,
And makes the nations prove
The glories of His righteousness
And wonders of His love, and wonders of His love
And wonders, wonders of His love.
And my third favorite song, O Come All Ye Faithful, by, yes, Anne Murray. I listen to this song all year round too.
O come all ye faithful, joyful and triumphant,
O come ye, O come ye, to Bethlehem.
Come and behold him, born the King of angels;
O come let us adore him, O come let us adore him,
O come let us adore him, Christ the Lord.
Glory to God in the highest.
Yea, Lord, we greet thee, born this happy morning,
Jesus, to thee be all glory given.
Word of the Father, now in flesh appearing:
O come let us adore him
O come let us adore him
O come let us adore him, Christ the Lord.
The holy Christ is born in me today.
Yea, Lord, we greet thee. Born this happy morning.
Where darkness was I look upon the light.
Today was a remarkable day. Everything was pure light: easy, effortless and fun. Where before there was drudgery and disappointment, now I look upon the light, seeing a world full of new possibilities. It’s interesting that today’s lesson is “Where darkness was I look upon the light” because it’s physically become true. There was dark before and now there is light … and I’m looking right at it.
“Father, our eyes are opening at last!”
“Your holy word awaits us, and our sight is finally restored and we can see.”
How is this accomplished??
Look again.
Look again.
Look again.
What happened exactly? I hired a marketing coach. I’ve been receiving emails now for probably over a year and I always delete them without looking at them, but for some odd reason I never unsubscribe from the list.
Then last night I gave a radio interview with Michael Lyon, from the Miracles Prisoner Ministry and he was talking about being healed from alcoholism and he said ‘You can’t do it alone.”
And that sentence – You can’t do it alone – made me sit up straight. I’ve obviously heard that sentence a million times before but it really stood out for me last night. I can’t do it alone. I can’t do anything alone. I need help from my brothers. I need to accept help when it arrives, and not to think that I know what I need. To not think that I’ve got everything figured out, or that I know what I should do, but rather: to let my brother take my hand and show me something new.
So this morning I signed up for an afternoon teleconferencing marketing class and it rocked my world!! It was completely brand new information. The reason I never signed up or took any interest was because I thought I knew all about marketing, but turns out, I don’t know a damn thing.
It was so brand new. I took 15 pages of notes.
It was so unbelievably great. It was like being back in college again.
And not only that, but during the class, the teacher Steve Harrison said: “You need to develop a support team. Hire other people. You don’t want to be in a situation where you are doing everything by yourself. You don’t want to operate alone. You can’t do this alone.”
!!!!!!
You can’t do this alone.
It’s like someone is sending me a message.
I can’t do this alone.
Thank the good Lord.
“We thought we suffered. But we had forgot the Son whom you created. Now we see that darkness is our own imaging, and light is there for us to look upon. Christ’s vision changes darkness into light, for fear must disappear when love comes.
God is in everything I see. He is in the emails that I delete without reading.
My eyes are opening at last!
Light is all there is. God is in everything.
It is merely the correction of mistakes, and the return of sanity.
Most people think the Second Coming is an event that will come later in the future when some historical figure that looks a lot like Jesus returns.
But Jesus has already returned! He resurrected. He never died. He lives in you.
Jesus on earth is The First Coming.
You on earth is The Second Coming.
So the journey, then, is the search for sanity.
From Chapter 8, Section 4 of A Course in Miracles, The Holy Encounter:
“The goal of the curriculum, regardless of the teacher you choose, is KNOW THYSELF. There is nothing else to learn.”
So the Second Coming then has nothing to do with Jesus, and everything to do with you.
It also has everything to do with your brother because you cannot find yourself alone. You come to know yourself THROUGH your brother. There is no other way. Your power and glory are in your brother and you will know yourself clearly when you see your brother clearly. That’s how that works.
“The Holy Spirit teaches you that if you look only at yourself you CANNOT find yourself because that is NOT what you are. Whenever you are with a brother, you are learning what you are, because you are TEACHING what you are. He will respond either with pain or joy depending on which teacher YOU are following. He will be imprisoned or released according to your decision, AND SO WILL YOU.”
(caps from the Urtext, not mine)
Never forget your responsibility to him, because it is your responsibility to YOURSELF. Give him his place in the Kingdom and you will have yours. The Kingdom cannot be found alone, and you who are the Kingdom cannot find YOURSELVES alone.”
That’s why it’s good to be with other people and not to isolate yourself. I’m sure you’ve had experiences where you feel all warm & fuzzy when it’s just you alone with the book, but the second you add someone else to the equation you immediately start to feel irritated.
The Second Coming is the place where you can be with other people and never get irritated. The Second Coming is where you see your brother truly in all circumstances and love him with the Love of God.
Jesus is already whole and perfect. He never changed. He remains as God created him. In truth, you are whole and perfect, so the question is: DO YOU KNOW YOURSELF AS WHOLE AND PERFECT? A Course in Miracles simply takes the fragments (the false illusions, the limited ideas) and removes them and what you are left with is a whole idea – that you are forever loved, as limitless as your Creator, and completely changeless and forever pure.
The Second Coming is your recognition of all that is true. It is simply a remembrance of all reality in God. It is the return to sanity. It you recognition that there is no world, that there is nothing outside of you, that your brother is one with you, and that there is only love.“The Second Coming ends the lessons that the Holy Spirits teaches, making way for the Last Judgment (”You are my beloved Son in Whom I am well pleased.”) in which learning ends in one last summary that will extend beyond itself, and reaches up to God.
“The Second Coming is the time in which all minds are given to the hands of Christ, to be returned to spirit in the name of true creation and the Will of God.”
“The Second Coming is the one event in time which time itself cannot affect.”
When the Second Coming occurs is up to you.
It is the time in which you become aware of your union with Christ and all things. How simple!
“Pray that the Second Coming will be soon, and do not rest with that. It needs your eyes and ears and hands and feet. It needs your voice. And most of all it needs your willingness. Let us rejoice that we can do God’s Will, and join together in its holy light. Behold, the Son of God is one with us, and we can reach our Father’s Love through him.”
We are almost at the end of this one year! We’ve gone though 300 lessons! Who would have guessed we’d come this far back in January? Remember how daunting it seemed??
But we are almost there.
Only 65 days to go, and you will have completed the entire Workbook of A Course in Miracles.
Congratulations Teachers of God!
I don’t know what next year will bring as far as the blog goes. I would like to continue to teach and inspire every day, but in a new format that challenges me: like being on the radio.
In 2008 I wrote about the lessons.
In 2009 I would like to speak about them.
And God Himself shall wipe away all tears.
“Father, unless I judge I cannot weep. Nor can I suffer pain, or feel I am abandoned or unneeded in the world.”
Wow. There’s a huge gift. I cannot suffer, or feel I am abandoned or unneeded in the world.
I have started reading A Course in Miracles again at night in bed before I drift off to sleep. I love this book, and I forgot how much peace and joy it brings to me every single time I open it up and read. Last night I was reading from the Teachers Manual:
How Do God’s Teachers Deal with Magic Thoughts?
And Workbook Lesson 73: I will there be light.
In the presence of God, the world disappears.
“God’s world is happy. Those who look on it can only add their joy to it, and bless it as as a cause of further joy in them. We wept because we did not understand. But we have learned the world we saw was false, and we will look upon God’s world today.”
A great lesson for me today, especially since I’ve been crying lately.
I was mistaken.
God Himself shall wipe away all tears. I wept because I did not understand. But the world I see is false, and I will look upon God’s world today.
3 people sent this video to me!!!!
LOL.
Lisa = Loser.
haha.
Click to watch:
I’m registered. I’m ready!
Election Day is November 4th, and in some states you can vote early – now.
I love this blog because interesting things get sent to me that I would never hear of otherwise. Thank you very much! I’ve got angels and helpers all over the place.
This just fell out of clear blue skies:
G.I. Gurdjieff (1866-1949) and The Fourth Way.
Gurdjieff taught people how to increase and focus their attention and energy in various ways, and to minimize daydreaming and absentmindedness. According to his teaching, this inner development in oneself is the beginning of a possible further process of change, whose aim is to transform a man into what Gurdjieff taught he ought to be.
From the Gurdjieff Foundation in California:
Man, Gurdjieff taught, is an undeveloped creation. He is not really man, considered as a cosmically unique being whose intelligence and power of action mirror the energies of the source of life itself. On the contrary, man as we encounter him is an automaton. His thoughts, feelings, and deeds are little more than mechanical reactions to external and internal stimuli. He cannot do anything. In and around him, everything happens without the participation of his own authentic consciousness. But human beings are ignorant of this state of affairs because of the pervasive influence of culture and education, which engrave in them the illusion of autonomous conscious selves. In short, man is asleep. There is no authentic I am in his presence, but only an egoism which masquerades as the authentic self, and whose machinations poorly imitate the normal human functions of thought, feeling, and will.
Many factors reinforce this sleep. Each of the reactions that proceed in one’s presence is accompanied by a deceptive sense of I—man is many I’s, each imagining itself to be the whole, and each buffered off from awareness of the others. Each of these many I’s represents a process whereby the subtle energy of consciousness is absorbed and degraded, a process that Gurdjieff termed “identification.” Man identifies—that is, squanders his conscious energy, with every passing thought, impulse, and sensation. This state of affairs takes the form of a continuous self-deception and a continuous procession of egoistic emotions, such as anger, self-pity, sentimentality, and fear which are of such a pervasively painful nature that man is constantly driven to ameliorate this condition through the endless pursuit of social recognition, sensory pleasure, or the vague and unrealizable goal of “happiness.”
According to Gurdjieff, the human condition cannot be understood apart from considering humanity within the function of organic life on earth. The human being is constructed to transform energies of a specific nature, and neither his potential inner development nor his present actual predicament is understandable apart from this function. Thus, in the teaching of Gurdjieff, psychology is inextricably connected with cosmology and metaphysics and even, in a certain sense, biology.
How are human beings to change this state of affairs and begin drawing on the universal conscious energies which they are built to absorb but which now pass through them untransformed? How is humanity to assume its proper place in the great chain of being? Gurdjieff’s answer to these questions actually circumscribes the central purpose of his teaching—namely, that human life on earth may now stand at a major transitional point, comparable perhaps to the fall of the great civilizations of the past, and that development of the whole being of man (rather than one or another of the separate human functions) is the only thing that can permit man to pass through this transition in a manner worthy of human destiny.
But whereas the descent of humanity takes place en masse, ascent or evolution is possible only within the individual.
Only an instant does this world endure.
“This is the thought which can be used to say that death and sorrow are the certain lot of all who come here, for their joys are gone before they are possessed, or even grasped. Yet, this is also the idea that lets no false perception keep us in its hold, nor represent more than a passing cloud upon a sky eternally serene.”
I am thinking of Jennifer Hudson whose mother and brother were shot to death two days ago in their home in the South Side of Chicago. Here we have a fairy tale Princess story, rags-to-riches – Jennifer Hudson rises to stardom out of dirt-poor beginnings – only to find now she always had everything she wanted already before the Academy Award, before the movies and money.
She had a family who loved her.
And while she always openly acknowledged her gratitude for her family’s love and support, I bet she would give up everything she has worked so hard for in order to change this situation, in order to see her mother and brother one more time, and to talk with them again.
You realize in a flash that everything you ever wanted was always right there in front of your eyes to look at.
WHAT AM I TAKING FOR GRANTED THAT IS IN MY LIFE RIGHT NOW, WHILE I SEEK FOR OTHER GOALS?
All things are lessons God would have me learn.
There is always a tendency to keep striving for things, while being blind to what is directly in front of you. I find I don’t usually appreciate something until it is gone, and then it’s too late.
Only an instant does this world endure. We seek Your holy Word today. For we, Your loving Sons, have lost our way a while.
For we, Your loving Sons, have lost our way a while.
That’s good to know. At least it gives me the option of continuing to wander lost and aimlessly OR to let it be a reminder to me that I can stop where I am, and take a good look around, to pause, and find my way again.
It means to open my eyes and count my blessings. I have everything I’ve ever wanted right now. It’s all here for me today. You could give me all the money, Academy awards, honors, achievements to me and it would not add a single thing to the treasure that is before me right this minute.
What are you taking for granted?
