Eternal holiness abides in me.
“My holiness is far beyond my own ability to understand or know. Yet God, my Father, Who created it, acknowledges my holiness as his. Our Will, together, understands it. And Our Will together, knows that it is so.”
THANK THE LORD.
Of my own self … I am nothing.
THANK THE LORD I AM NOT ALONE.
My holiness is not of me. It is not mine to be destroyed by sin. It belongs to God.
Eternal holiness abides in me.
Last night a reader left me a comment, saying that I seem upset a lot lately, and that maybe I should take a sabbatical from Gorgeous for God and from the computer.
That sounds like a great idea, except for only one thing: it impossible to get away from the energy of the place I find myself. Even if I stopped blogging and stopped using the computer, I would still find myself in a place where things are shifting immensely. If it seems like I am upset a lot lately, it’s because this world is upsetting to me.
I look around and I don’t know what the hell this place is. Hell is what it is. My only salvation is to keep remembering that I don’t belong here and that my home is in Heaven … and thankfully, I know how to find peace, joy and happiness on a moment by moment basis by changing my mind.
What would Jesus do?
I always think of Jesus as the ultimate perfect example. He still got upset. He was all the passion in the universe. He turned over the money tables. He called a spade a spade. He didn’t look away from death and destruction, rather he looked directly at it with love and compassion. I imagine him crying when people were suffering.
Yes, I get upset. I cry. I can’t get away from the way I feel when I see people hurting. It affects me directly. I can actually physically FEEL healing and cellular movement within my own body. It doesn’t feel like pain or pleasure – it feels more like mountains moving in me. Sometimes I just start crying for no reason at all. It has no source, but it’s like something that breaks in my heart. Not as a metaphor, but as a real pressure that seems like my heart cracks. And then tears start coming out of my eyes. It doesn’t come from memories or thought, but rather it is like something pushing through me … like a newborn baby or a newborn world.
It always surprises me, in a good way.
Eternal holiness abides in me.
But yes! It is a good reminder and great advice for me to STOP BEING UPSET – to take a sabbatical – and to start being helpful – to simply stand in this place without participating in it – and so I am immensely grateful for the comment. Thank you.
I have the willingness to give it a try – to be a happy learner of the Atonement – and turn in that direction towards God. A Course in Miracles aims at a complete reversal of thought. My primary goal for myself is to remember this:
Holy are you, eternal, free and whole, at peace forever in the Heart of God. Where is the world and where is sorrow now?
It says in the Teachers Manual that one who lives constantly in the light cannot sustain a physical body for long:
“If God were reached directly in sustained awareness, the body would not be long maintained.”
“Those who have laid the body down merely to extend their helpfulness to those remaining are few indeed. And they need helpers who are still in bondage and still asleep, so that by their awakening can God’s Voice be heard.”
DO NOT DESPAIR, THEN, BECAUSE OF LIMITATIONS. IT IS YOUR FUNCTION TO ESCAPE FROM THEM, BUT NOT TO BE WITHOUT THEM. IF YOU WOULD BE HEARD BY THOSE WHO SUFFER, YOU MUST SPEAK THEIR LANGUAGE. IF YOU WOULD BE A SAVIOR, YOU MUST UNDERSTAND WHAT NEEDS TO BE ESCAPED.
Salvation is not theoretical.
Ha!
I love these words from Jesus.
“Let us not, then, be concerned with goals for which you are not ready. God takes you where you are and welcomes you. What more could you desire, when this is all you need?”
“The world will end when it’s thought system has been completely reversed. This final lesson, which brings the ending of the world, cannot be grasped by those not yet prepared to leave the world and go beyond its tiny reach. What, then, is the function of the teacher of God in this concluding lesson? He need merely learn how to approach it; to be willing to go in its direction. He need merely trust that if God’s Voice tells him it is a lesson he can learn, he can learn it. He does not judge it either as hard or easy. His Teacher points to is, and he trusts that He will show him how to learn it.”
As I am typing here, it is occurring to me that maybe it is time for me to be willing to go in a new direction!
“To turn hell into Heaven is the function of God’s teachers, for what they teach are lessons in which Heaven is reflected.”
Gorgeous.
“And now sit in true humility, and realize that all God would have you do you can do. Do not be arrogant and say you cannot learn His Own Curriculum. His Word says otherwise. His Will be done. It cannot be otherwise. And be you thankful it is so.”
What, O teacher of God, is it that you want? You have been called by God, and you have answered. Would you now sacrifice that Call? Few have heard it yet, and they can but turn to you. there is no other hope in all the world they can trust. There is no other voice in all the world that echoes God’s. If you would sacrifice the truth, they stay in hell. And if they stay, you will remain with them.
There is one thought in particular that should be remembered throughout the day. It is a thought of pure joy; a thought of peace, a thought of limitless release, limitless because all things are freed within it.
So, there it is: Let’s have a day of pure joy.
Facebook comments:
Wow! Thank you Lisa…teacher of God…I really needed to hear EXACTLY the words you spoke today through your writing. Today is a better day for me because of you. You are loved and appreciated!
today for the first time your blog made me cry…
i do not know why..usually it uplifts me and i feel all grateful and inspired after reading. but now i am just feeling sad and do not know why…i notice when i feel sad that there is immediately a tendency to feel guilty about it…should i not be grateful instead..don’t i ask for help to see things different..am i addicted to drama…?
why am i a burden instead of the light of the world…all my judgements which even make me feel worse
i guess sometimes just feeling what i feel is it…without trying to change or understand it
…thank you lisa…anyway..anyhow
I started ACIM on January 1, 2008 with Marianne Williamson on XM156 Satellite Radio. I found your website in the spring so I have journeyed with you through this Summer of Discovery. I know from your writings that you will take the question of sabbatical or not to God in prayer. From that prayerful place, His Will is your will and the decision will be the right choice.
I want to thank you for sharing the highs and lows; I appreciate your challenges and learn from them. You demonstrate admirably how to use the principles of the Course in Miracles. Through your trials and triumphs, you confirm that this journey in this human dimension is ultimately worthwhile and joy-full. I love the gorgeous graphics and the warm personal narrative. So may I add my prayers in to the Universe that you continue to teach and inspire your readers, even as you navigate the changing seas of this wonderful, though sometimes crazy, world.
In Light and Love, Donna