I’ll be giving a 90-minute talk on Paltalk tomorrow night – Sunday, October 19, 2008 – from 8:30pm-10:00pm EST.
The topic is: Entering the Real World: The Return to Sanity.
It is a live chat and you can ask questions.
The room is ACIM Gather.
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I hope to see you there.
love, lisa
A happy outcome to all things is sure.
God’s promises make no exceptions. And He guarantees that only joy can be the final outcome for everything. YET …
Yet …
Yet …
Yet …
Yet it is up to us when this is reached, how long we let an alien will appear to be opposing His.
IT IS UP TO YOU TO DECIDE WHEN THIS ENDING TAKES PLACE.
A HAPPY ENDING IS CERTAIN.
For God’s Will is done in earth and Heaven.
A happy outcome to all things is sure.
We thank You, Father, for Your guarantee of only happy outcomes in the end.
Help us not interfere, and so delay the happy endings You have promised us for every problem that we can perceive; for every trial we think we still must meet.
Your happy ending is today … if you choose. When the end is reached is up to you.
This is a day of stillness and peace.
“Christ’s vision looks through me today. He sight shows me all things forgiven and at peace, and offers this same vision to the world. And I accept this vision in its name, both for myself and for the world we see surrounding us!”
God, I do not know the way to You. But You are wholly certain. Father, guide me, Your Son, along the quiet path that leads to You. Let my forgiveness be complete, and let the memory of You return to me.
Under your body, this is what you look like:
You are the Christ. You are Jesus. You are love. You are everlasting peace, joy and happiness.
Paint your body features on top of this image and you’re looking at yourself.
Of course, this image/symbol is entirely wrong. Who you are has no form, but this is the closest I can come to expressing it. Underneath all your ideas of limitation, you are the Christ. Below all your false ideas of yourself as you constructed yourself (as weak, guilty, lonely, sad, sick) is perfection as God created you … holy, lovely, and beautiful.
You are all light.
Look through the eyes of Christ. Try it as a Great Experiment today. Allow Christ vision to look through your body’s eyes today. It will be something entirely different than you have ever experienced. In you is Christ Himself, and now let Him look through you.
This is a day of stillness and of peace. This is a day of miracles.
What do you see?
Natoli Mania:
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My present happiness is all I see.
“Unless I look upon what is not there, my present happiness is all I see. Eyes that begin to open see at last. And I would have Christ’s vision come to me this very day.”
Amen.
“I would not allow my mind to be deceived by the belief the dream I made is real an instant longer. This is the day I seek my present happiness, and look on NOTHING ELSE except the thing I seek.”
Today’s the day.
“With this resolve, I come to You Father, and ask Your strength to hold me up today, while I but seek to do Your Will. You cannot fail to hear me, Father. What I ask have You already given me. And I am sure that I will see my happiness today.”
The past is over. It can touch me not.
This is an interesting lesson. The past is over it can touch me not, but what about the present? There are things that seem to be happening to me RIGHT NOW TODAY that are disturbing my peace of mind. For starters, I have bills that I cannot currently pay because I don’t have the money.
Is this the past or the present?
THIS IS THE PAST.
This moment is the past. It is over. It can touch me not.
It seems like this moment is now, like it has never happened before, but in fact, in truth, this moment is the past and I am viewing it as a memory, thinking it is happening now.
If I am looking at my problems and my bills and my difficulties, then I am looking nowhere. But if I keep my eye on God, He will give me an answer and tell me the next step to take. It’s amazing.
Where does that leave me, on a practical level? What do I do?
I do nothing. I stop. I get quiet. I listen.
I calm myself down enough to remember the truth. That’s the best thing you can do in every circumstance. Stop. Calm Down. Relax. Breathe. Remember you are sustained by the Love of God.
Some days I don’t have a clue. Other days I am completely certain. It doesn’t matter. Some days I know exactly where to go and what to do. Other days I’m lost as puppy. It doesn’t matter. Whatever state of mind I am in, I keep finding my compass.
Remember the lesson from a few days ago: You are my goal, my Father, only You.
So this is a journey and God is the goal.
So everything that happens in your daily life is another opportunity to remember that your goal is God, and every step you take should lead you in that direction. The past is over it can touch me not.
Where am I right now? Where am I going?
Whenever you are in a shift or transition, you will feel immensely lost. You might feel like you are being pulled in different directions. Don’t panic. The worst thing you can do in unknown foreign territory is panic. When you don’t know what is happening to you, it’s good to stand still and let the Holy Spirit restore you to sanity. 
In the quiet moments, you will receive guidance and instruction.
The motto for Teachers of God is: Listen, Learn and Do.
That’s great advice. Listen, Learn and Do. If you start to feel paralyzed, just take a baby step in the direction toward your goal … God.
And that’s sufficient.
Father, let me not look upon a past that is not there. For You have offered me Your Own replacement, in a present world the past has left untouched and free of sin. Here is the end of guilt. And here am I made ready for Your final step. Shall I demand that You wait longer for Your Son to find the loveliness You planned to be the end of all his dreams and all his pain?
Let me forget my brother’s past today.
This is one of the most powerful lessons you will do … if … you actually do it.
If you do this lesson, you will be released from the bondages of hell, this very day … today.
Is there someone in your life who is bothering you? Is there a person who has done something to harm you? Said something hurtful? Done something mean? Is there someone who has been neglecting you? Treating you wrong? Doing something you don’t approve of?
Well, forget all that.
Forget your brother’s past today.
Can you do that?
At first it will appear difficult. How can you forget when someone gossips about you? How can you forget when someone stabs you in the back?
How can you forget when there is a knife in your heart?
How can you forget when someone treats you like a second-class citizen?
Just do it.
You’ll immediately begin to come up with excuses why you should NOT forget your brother’s past and then you will give reasons why you are an exception to this lesson.
The horror stories start to come up. The “yea, buts” start to rear their ugly head. Yea, but, listen to what so-and-so did to me. Listen to this story. You won’t believe it.
Then you’ll give reasons like you want to protect yourself and not get hurt again. You think that by holding onto a memory of your brother’s cruelty you’ll be able to protect yourself from it in the future.
HOGWASH.
Lame.
It’s all fear. If you hang on to even one story from your brother’s past, then you are a murderer. And furthermore, you like it.
Most people won’t admit it, but they like condemning other people and holding grievances.
You think other people are murderers, but it has never occurred to you that you are a murderer every time you hold your brother to his mistakes.
If you are talking or thinking about other people and the horrible way they treat you, then you are a murderer.
YOUR BROTHER IS YOUR SAVIOR.
There are no exceptions to this rule. When someone is pushing your buttons and pissing you off and ignoring you, he is still your savior.
Look at him. He is your savior.
You will say: But someone really is hurting me. How can he possibly be my savior? How can that horrible witch who intentionally destroyed my marriage be my savior? How can that dickhead who wrecked my career be my savior? I was the target of cruel behavior.
Exactly. I know you were. Me too. Horrible atrocious things have been done to me.
Now forget about it.
Forget your brother’s past today.
THIS IS THE LESSON.
THIS IS WHAT YOU ARE ASKED TO DO TODAY.
Let me forget my brother’s past today.
This is the thought that leads the way to You, God, and brings me to my goal. I cannot come to You without my brother. And to know my Source, I first must recognize what You created one with me. My brother’s is the hand that leads me on the way to You. His sins are in the past along with mine, and I am saved because the past is gone. Let me not cherish it within my heart, or I will lose the way to walk to You. My brother is my savior. Let me not attack the savior You have given me. But let me honor him who bears Your Name, and so remember that It is my own. Forgive me, then, today And you will know you have forgiven me if you behold your brother in the light of holiness. He cannot be less holy than can I, and you can not be holier than he.
You are my goal, my Father, only You.
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The hush of Heaven holds my heart today.
“Father, how still today! How quietly do all things fall in place! This is the day that has been chosen as the time in which I come to understand the lesson that there is no need that I do anything.”
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When I look back over my life, the things that were pure grace came to me with no effort at all. I had chance encounters with strangers, interactions that were effortless, and things just given to me. I was given a 2-bedroom house with a fireplace near the ocean in Cape Cod by a woman living in Boston. I talked to her on the telephone for 15 minutes, and she sent me the keys. No money down. No credit check.
Someone else gave me and Bastiaan the keys to their apartment in Grammercy Park, NYC during a time when we didn’t have a job nor a dime to our name. We were in the East Village teaching A Course in Miracles and someone said “You two need to be in this city. This city needs you” and then she gave us a phone number of a Dutch couple who was moving to Canada. We had no intention of moving to New York. We were only supposed to be there for one month and we had plane tickets back to Wisconsin. But what the heck, we thought. Let’s call. What have we got to lose? So Bastiaan called and had a 10-minute phone conversation in Dutch, and when he got off the phone he said to me, “We can go pick up the keys tomorrow. They said we can pay them when we have jobs and money.”
?!?? What?????
I know. Talk about unheard of. We lived there for 9 months.
Within a week of moving in, we both got great jobs. I worked for NYC’s premiere celebrity catering company Great Performances. That was the ride of a lifetime.
Another time I wanted to move from Cape Cod back to NYC, and I was waitressing in Cape Cod and I was at work complaining very loudly that I didn’t have a place to live in New York and that I had no money for the 3 months that is usually required to get an apartment (1st month, last month & security deposit), and how impossible it was to find a place in NYC, etc. and this waitress I had never seen before materialized out of nowhere and said: “I have an apartment in NJ, do you want to live there?”
Yes, in fact. I do. Thank you very much. And she handed me the keys.
Then another time … I answered an ad for an apartment in Brooklyn, and it was a ground-floor garden apartment and same thing: no credit check, and the guy just hands me the keys. I complained about the horrible floor and the landlord says: Do you want a new floor? I’ll put in a new floor for you. Do you have time now? Let’s go to Home Depot and you can pick out the floor you want and I’ll put it in before you move in. I have a car. Let’s go.
And off we went. I lived there for four years … in an apartment with a great hardwood floor and a backyard with benches and a stone table.
I need do nothing.
It is your INHERITANCE that life be effortless.
Sure, yes, I had to show up at various apartments. Sure, yes, I had to make phone calls. Sure, yes, I had to explain my situation. Sure, yes, I had to ask for help, send out resumes, and get a job. There was always monthly rent to pay.
But it was always easy. There was never a struggle.
Things normally don’t just fall from the sky into your lap (although, sometimes, they do!)
But I have never had to go through cumbersome circuitous routes of difficulty to get a job, a relationship, or a place to live. Things WILL just get handed to you if you have a little faith.
For me, I trust wholeheartedly in the GOODNESS of people. I love people. I’m not one of those individuals who think people are out to screw you. I don’t think people are lying and scheming. Call me naive. But whenever I go into a situation, I am always excited to meet a new friend. Finding a job or finding a place to live is always secondary to me. Instead I am always anticipating the possibility of extraordinary individuals. The primary goal in all my doings is to have a holy encounter.
And the result is that life is effortless.
I need do nothing.
Here’s a prayer from today’s lesson:
Father, God,
In You is everything I hope to find already given me. Your peace is mine. My heart is quiet, and my mind at rest. Your Love is Heaven, and Your Love is mine. The stillness of today will give us hope that we have found the way, and traveled far along it to a wholly certain goal.
Today we will not doubt the end which God Himself has promised us. We trust in Him, and in our Self, Who still is one with Him.
My holiness shines bright and clear today.
“Today I wake with joy, expecting but the happy things of God to come to me.”
You should be waking with joy every single day of your life.
Are you?? Are you waking with joy?
You should be. If life is not a happy adventure for you, then it’s time to pause and take a good honest look at your condition and situation. What are you waiting for? What do you think is going to happen later in the future that is not happening today? What are you putting off? What do you want to do? What is stopping you?
Most people say “money.”
“I can’t do what I love because I don’t have any money.”
What a load of crap.
Saying you have no money and waiting for some future magical time when you can do what you love IS WHAT HELL IS. The devil is laughing.
What do you love to do? What is your passion? What makes you happy?
You might not be able to start doing the thing you love today, but you can at least move in a new direction. You can change your sails today to point north instead of south.
You can’t change the wind, but you can change your sails.
Have you even left the dock? Are you going nowhere?
IS IT TIME TO CHANGE YOUR DIRECTION?
It’s taken me many years to get to the point where I am doing what I love. I don’t make a lot of money, but I wake up every day in joy. I feel happy to be alive. I get excited every morning at the prospect of a new day. I always know exciting things will happen, and they always do!
I know myself. I know my reality. I know God. I am awake.
This is the journey’s end! This is nothing else beyond this. There is nowhere else to go. There is nothing else to do.
The goal is accomplished. This is the Second Coming: Jesus has returned into my life.
THE SECOND COMING HAS OCCURRED. Jesus has returned, as promised.
Yesterday I had an epiphany/realization: I’VE ALWAYS BEEN AWAKE.
I was awake as a child. I was awake in high school. I was awake in college. I was awake while I was living/working in NYC. I’ve been wide awake all this time … thinking that I was sleeping! I came to an Academy to wake up. Who’s laughing now?? There was never a thing such as transformation or awakening.
I am exactly the way I have always been. It occurred to me yesterday. I laughed out loud. I am exactly the same! Nothing at all has ever changed! I am me, as God created me.
I thought “awakening” would be some grand spectacular special thing. I gave away all my belongings in order to have an experience. I am laughing like crazy. I stopped working. I stopped making money. I tried my darndest to stop being a body. I dedicated all my energy to “waking up.”
And yet, I was always having an experience, but I falsely believed there was some “other experience” besides the one I was having – that would transform me and catapult me into some other bright realm of reality.
And yet, I’ve always been awake. This is what it looks like!
This is the simplicity.
I am exactly as I have always been. The only difference now is that I actually recognize it.
“Enlightenment is not a change at all, but a recognition.” – A Course in Miracles
Throughout my whole life – from childhood to now – my holiness has been shining bright and clear.
I was always all light. I was always awake. There was never a need for transformation!
TRANSFORMATION IS THE BIG LIE!
Transformation will keep you trapped in time and space: searching, seeking, and never finding.
What would need to be transformed? Your false self-identity? It was never true in the first place. You remain as God created you.
Trying to “wake up” is what death is. You’re already awake.
You can stop waiting for life to begin. This is it! Today is the day.
If you feel like you are going nowhere, then for God’s sake, change your direction.
Your holiness shines bright and clear today. Your holiness is God’s. You’ve been restored to sanity.
I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.
“Loss is not loss when properly perceived. Pain is impossible.”
“There is no grief with any cause at all. And suffering of any kind is nothing but a dream. This is the truth, at first to be but said and then repeated many times; and next to be accepted as but partly true, with many reservations. Then to be considered seriously more and more, and finally accepted as the truth. I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt. And I would go beyond these words today, and past all reservations, and arrive at full acceptance of the truth in them.”
So, in the beginning as you undertake the journey to God, you’re probably only going to use these ideas from the workbook lessons as mindless repetition like a parrot who repeats something it has heard without having any recognition of the meaning of the words. This is a dream. I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt. This is a dream. I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt. This is a dream. I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt. This is a dream. I am dreaming. Nothing I see means anything. This is a dream. I am the holy Son of God Himself. This is a dream. DREAMING!!!!!
Screeeeeeech!!!!!!!!
But none of it will have any meaning for you because it’s just mindless singsong when you are merely repeating the words.
But then as you go on, you will start to consider what you are saying. You’ll pause. You’ll be alone in your room. It will be a moment when there are no other people around to hear your parroting voice. You’ll look around and wonder for the first time honestly: “Am I dreaming?”
Can I really elect to change all thoughts that hurt?
How do I do that?
What if what A Course in Miracles is saying is really true?
WHAT IF?
What if you really did have an inheritance from God?
What if you knew you could change pain and sickness to happiness – in one second – simply by changing your mind?
Wouldn’t that be something spectacular?
Wouldn’t that be a great gift to possess?
How would today be different for you if you knew the world you see is wholly unreal? What would you do differently if you recognized that everything that is happening to you is your own perception?
What if you KNEW your freedom today? Where would you go? What would you do? What would you say?
You all know I love Emmet Fox. He is the man.
I read a great article by him last night which I am going to type in entirety for you.
NO WAITING
by Emmet Fox
Don’t wait about for God to act dramatically – because He won’t. If you want anything to happen, you must bring about a change in your own mental outlook, whereupon your outer experience will automatically change to correspond. When people expect a dramatic miracle from the outside, they are really hoping to change conditions without changing themselves; to get something for nothing, in fact, and that would be a violation of Cosmic Law.
Don’t wait for God to tell you what to do from the outside – He won’t. People have said to me, “Well, I am ready. Whatever God wants me to do, I am ready. If He wants me to go to California, or to Europe, or to start any work for Him, I am ready.” Such people, I have noticed, are apt to go on “being ready” indefinitely without anything ever happening. The fact is that they are waiting for a dramatic experience such as came to Moses on Sinai, and to Paul on the road to Damascus. Or probably they expect a Western Union boy to arrive with a telegram of instructions from Heaven. None of these things will happen.
If you are really “ready to do God’s work” you will have a clear idea of what you are going to do and how you propose to go about doing it, and probably you will know approximately where you are going to do it too. THIS IS BEING READY. If you do not have any definite desire or plan, then you are not “ready”; so don’t deceive yourself, but get ready by treating for guidance.
from the comments:
remember, you wake up in the morning and you are still you. nothing has happened. you are just you, watching and reacting to the scenes that your body’s eyes see. yet they see nothing real. nothing is happening here good or bad.
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My true Identity abides in You.
That You is God.
My true Identity abides in You, God.
The shit is starting to hit the fan here in the world.
The time we knew was coming has arrived. The tide has turned and now is the time for faith. You’re going to see a lot of changes. Abundance books are about to take a nosedive in sales. Mark my words.
When people are on the verge of foreclosure, with no work and no money, and are having to sell their cars to pay their credit card debt, and have no food to eat, believe me, they are not thinking about how to get their millions.
Suddenly, IT’S BACK TO BASICS.
You realize that STUFF is just stuff, and it means nothing.
When you are stripped of everything you thought kept you safe, when there is nothing left for you to cling to, when you are standing naked and exposed, YOUR TRUE IDENTITY IN GOD is revealed to you.
I find that most people use God as a past-time, like a hobby. As if being spiritual is something hip and cool, rather than a total necessity, like water.
It is said you cannot survive without water for more than 10 days, and so it is with God. You cannot survive without God. You just can’t. It’s impossible. You can go for a very very very long time, but there will come a time when you simply start to dehydrate.
I used to work for the University of California, Berkeley Wellness Letter and our editors wrote a sentence that put our newsletter on the map: “Water is a very good drink.” Every health magazine in the country picked up that sentence and reprinted it, as if it was cutting-edge leading information. Water is a very good drink.
Well, guess what? It is!! Water is a very good drink.
And guess what else?
GOD IS A VERY GOOD DRINK.
You should be sipping from the cup of life every day.
The world is in an apparent crisis. Don’t forget: It’s a dream. Please don’t take it seriously. If you take it seriously, you will get sucked in, sucked down, dragged down, and torn to shreds.
Shit Hitting the Fan is the very best analogy to what is happening right now. Shit is flying everywhere. It’s affecting everyone. I read yesterday that retirement funds have lost $2 trillion dollars in the past 12 months. That’s interesting. What’s going to happen to the way we live? How do you survive when your safety net is taken away?
One of my readers was served foreclosure papers yesterday, and another reader who is on disability and receives money from the government for housing is convinced she will be homeless soon because the government will stop sending her a check every month.
What is happening?
We are forced to ask for help and start communicating with each other. It might be that people have to start living in family structures again. Who knows? Can you imagine! All these people who have been living alone and single for all these years suddenly living together with others in communities.
What I do know for certain is that God is good.
Do you pray every day?
Prayer is essential. It’s like water. You absolutely NEED it on a daily basis.
I pray hourly for guidance, grace, direction and wisdom.
The form doesn’t matter. Religion doesn’t matter. There’s no special clothing required. You don’t have to get on your knees if you don’t want to. You don’t need a private sacred space. You don’t need candles nor music nor special mat. All of that is distraction.
All that is needed is that you take a few minutes throughout the day to get quiet and start listening, looking and hearing.
All that is needed is a little willingness to see things differently.
The great Emmet Fox said, “Have you ever noticed that God gave you two eyes and two ears but only one tongue?”
Most people just talk talk talk talk talk – about their problems, about their worries, about their concerns, about their solutions, about their situations. Talk talk talk talk talk.
It’s time to start listening and looking.
Now is the time for faith.
I will not be afraid of love today.
If I could realize but this today, salvation would be reached for all the world.
This the decision not to be insane, and to accept myself as God Himself, my Father and my Source, created me. This the determination not to be asleep in dreams of death, while truth remains forever living in the joy of love. And this the choice to recognize the Self Whom God created as the Son He loves, and Who remains my one Identity.
I will not be afraid of love today.
Most people pray for love to come to them, while at the same time they are BITTERLY AFRAID of it.
Most people don’t even know they are afraid. They keep looking for the ideal partner. They keep thinking that love is “out there” somewhere for them.
But love is not out there. It’s in you.
If there is a lack of love in your life, then there is only ONE THING TO DO: Look at the source of the problem – THE FEAR THAT IS IN YOU.
Here’s the human condition:
You cannot attract love when you are in fear. All you attract is more fear.
I am an expert in this department. Back in the 90s, I was in love with a man who broke my heart into a million pieces. We lived together for four years and I thought we would live happily every after. The first year was a fairy tale, the next two years were slow deterioration, and the fourth and final year I was living, quite literally, in hell, with him in the bed beside me.
I kept thinking things would improve, if only I was patient, perfect and beautiful.
Instead it kept getting worse and worse and worse, until finally one day I couldn’t take another minute and I packed my bags and left.
You would think it would be over then, right? That I was free to move on and find a wonderful relationship with someone who treated me like a princess, right? Wrong.
I was so shattered that I put up a cement wall around me, and put up a sign saying “Closed for business, indefinitely.”
Of course, when you are in the midst of this kind of thinking, it’s never quite so obvious that this is what you’re doing. It’s easier to say “There are no good men (or women) around.”
Here’s the thing: THERE ARE TONS OF GREAT MEN AND WOMEN EVERYWHERE! Everyone you meet is the perfect partner.
I laugh like crazy when I hear people say there are no good people in the world anymore. What insanity! I meet extraordinary spectacular individuals every single day of my life. Believe me. If you are not meeting great people every single day, it is because you are afraid of love.
You should be falling in love every single day. There are opportunities everywhere.
You think you can protect yourself from love. You put up all sorts of walls. You create all sorts of rules of behavior. You think you can control love. You think you can keep yourself safe from getting hurt.
AND THIS IS WHAT HELL IS.
All your rules are what hell is.
What is needed is for you to look at the source of the problem: fear.
Once I realized that I was terrified of love, a miraculous thing happened: the wall started coming down. I started to become softer, more open, more receptive.
Sure, yes, I have opened myself up to getting hurt again. Sure, there are scrapes and bruises.
But it’s okay. The strength of God is always there for me.
Opening your heart is 100% times better than hiding behind the wall.
I will not be afraid of love today.
“The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart.” – Carlos Santana
I can be hurt by nothing but my thoughts.
True, true and true.
I can be hurt by nothing but my thoughts.
This is being shown to me in glaring brilliance this week with the new 10-day job at Costco. At first I was excited, then I was frustrated, then I changed my mind, then I got excited again.
Nothing external changed. The job didn’t change. I changed. I made a decision to change my mind and lo and behold! The situation changed.
I am loving it. I am working really long hours but I am being shown some great things this week:
A. I love working
B. I love making money
C. I love having money
D. I love paying bills
E. I love shopping
F. I love nice things
G. I love traveling
Nothing spiritual here!
Just a desire to be fully awake and fully alive!
I was waiting for something to change in external circumstances (having pre-decided how those changes should look – that I would make money for writing inspiring articles, and book sales would go through the roof, etc.) and I was wrong, wrong, wrong.
Ha!
I’m being shown that only I am capable of putting my life on hold. If it seems that I am stalled, it is only my thoughts that are stalling me.
ALL POWER IS GIVEN TO ME ON HEAVEN AND EARTH.
My life is the way I decide it will be.
If I am bored, it is because I am choosing boredom.
If I am in poverty, then I am choosing poverty.
If I am sad, I am choosing sadness.
And if I am happy, it is because I am choosing happiness.
MY THOUGHTS DECIDE.
I love being active. I like having time to myself in the morning to drink coffee at a leisurely pace, blog, check email … and then I like to be with people. It suits me perfectly. I am a people person.
ENFP is my Myers-Briggs personality. I have taken the test 3 times over the course of 20 years and the results are always the same: ENFP.
Extroverted, Intuitive, Feeling, Perceptive.
When I spend too much time alone, I have a tendency to start making up stories in my mind. I tend to go a little stir-crazy. If I spend too much time alone, suddenly I am wildly interested in People magazine and The New York Times.
Duh.
It’s best for me to stay active. I prefer to engage and interact with people face-to-face.
I’m having a fun time with the job. I’m actually selling the clothes. I am shocked to the core because I don’t consider myself a salesperson, but people seem to like me a lot. I’ve got a few women who come to see me every day since I started working. When I see the pace they are walking towards me, I know they came to Costco just to see me.
And the best news is that I’m not doing anything at all. Literally. I do nothing. I just hang around, organizing clothes racks and waiting for someone to come by that I can talk with.
I have never once mentioned the word “God” nor “A Course in Miracles” nor “Gorgeous for God” … but they still keep coming back. I make them laugh. I talk about the clothes.
One large woman picked up some white see-through pants, and held them up and then she cringed and I walked up to her and said: yes, that fabric in white is unforgiving.
She laughed like crazy. She said: “Unforgiving. What a great word to describe it.”
Then she went on to buy 3 shirts.
So you see? I’m not doing anything at all.
I’m just showing up in a location and making a decision to have fun with it.
No more procrastination. No more waiting for my life to begin later. No more hoping circumstances will change or improve.
My life is this very moment.
This is it.
This is the day. This is the hour.
I can be hurt by nothing but my thoughts.
I get Abraham-Hicks quotes in my email box every morning. They are all GREAT – a perfect way to start the day – but this one I especially love:
When that which is god — or that which is that which man wants to call “God” — is being understood by man, man has to translate it into the format he understands. But this Energy — this Source that man is giving the label of “God”, cannot be quantified in anything that man understands. And as man attempts to do it, the distortions are enormous.
— Abraham
Excerpted from the workshop in Los Angeles, CA on Saturday, August 4th, 2001
This was just sent to me and like all things I love: I want to share it with you.
by Karen Bishop
October 6 , 2008
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As the fall of the old world continues in earnest, varying scenarios are becoming more and more evident. If we can remember that we are smack in the middle of the end times, it can perhaps ease our minds that all is in divine and perfect order. The end times…we are in the end times…and considering this fact, I believe we are doing very well indeed.
As the transition from the old to the new continues on, we may thus find ourselves enmeshed in a little of this and a little of that. This grand process of ascension was meant to be gradual in order to create the most ease possible. So then, the more we find ourselves enmeshed in the old, the more difficult our lives can seem. And the more we find ourselves embodying the new, the easier and more effortless our lives can be.
The energies of the old are frightened now. They know at some level that they are leaving. In this way, they are becoming ever more difficult to interact with, as fighting, fear, nastiness, and an extreme effort to maintain some kind of control has the lower vibrating energies by the coattails. When those of us embodying more light begin our attempt at departing into the higher realms, our departure can be met with grasping and holding on by the old. Like a swimmer attempting to rescue someone who is drowning, the rescuer can easily be forced under and dragged down by the one who is drowning.
It is ever important now to stay out of what is falling, or we will go down with it. And when we stay out of it, we can easily find ourselves in spaces of magical synchronicities, a new unity with others, and a new reality where all our needs are always met.
We cannot bail out the old. We are in the higher vibrating energies now, and thus, there is no more energy to sustain and fuel the old. There is nothing left for it to hold onto. If we go back, we can easily get sucked under, turned inside out, thrown off balance, and become lost in a whirlwind of fearful and grasping energies. What is creating this now rapid fall is the simple fact that so many souls have now arrived on “the other side.” This joyous fact signaled the next phase resulting in the fall of the old very rapidly now….and it took nearly the entire year of 2008 to complete this latest phase.
Enough souls had to be on board…enough had to be ready to let go and leave the old behind. Those struggling to hold onto what must now depart are in a space of unpleasantness, most certainly. It is time to surrender to a new way.
And in this regard, our time is finally here. It is finally time for us to jump in…to jump in to the new…not the old. Who is in your space now? Whom do you find alongside of you? In what energetic space are you now residing?
While the old continues its fall, those on the other side will be forming small communities of sustainability. In my small community here in the mountains of New Mexico, we are having talks of year round community greenhouses, mutual supports in building natural and earth sustained homes, and the like. Individuals are coming together now more than ever before. Putting our passions together to form a whole is the key.
The “temperature” has not been right in all ways until now. So now, it is time to jump in. It is time to move forward, to create, to unify, and to begin some new. And in this way, we will thus be supported.
Thus, October is bringing in some very new projects for many. Our time is now. We have completed our “re-connection” (although this process has different and varying timelines for everyone), and we are now very ready to roll along with the new, as we are the ultimate creators. It is those who are bearing the most light that will hold this planet up now as never before. By staying out of the old and out of what is falling, and creating new connections and a new grid of reality, we will most assuredly find ourselves in a very new Heaven on Earth.
Re-connecting to a new us, a new us with more and different responsibilities to the spiritual evolutionary process of the planet, has then ushered in these very new projects. In this way, all is in divine and perfect order. Some manifestations of this re-connection or new space can be felt as sleeplessness (as we now need to be here, more than ever before), various muscle pain, especially in the feet (as we are now very grounded here), feelings of pressure (as there is so much to do and these energies are arriving rapidly now), and even upper back and neck pain as we open more fully and connect to our angel wings.
The key to staying centered and on the other side during the fall is to align with your creativity and passion. Staying in this space as much as possible allows for anything and everything needed to arrive for us all on its’ own. And even though it may be difficult at times to watch what is occurring now within the old, knowing that each and everyone there will have the opportunity to be where we are now, can give some comfort.
It is time to get ready with our store-fronts. These arenas of our service to others who are still on the other side will serve to sustain us while we are transitioning into a reality where money no longer exists. In hard times, there is always money available. This is an undeniable plan we created at soul levels, and thus, it will work. In this way, we will all be fine. And when we are not involved on that dimensional border with our store-fronts, we will be interacting in unity with our brothers and sisters on the other side, having fun, enjoying ourselves, and having all our needs met in an effortless way as we each contribute to our very new whole.
Do we need to live in remote areas to stay safe and secure during these times? No. In 2007, the San Diego area of southern California experienced some intense fires. There was so much community support there, so many services were offered, and so many came together, that there was actually an overabundance of help! A love and respect for one’s community is all that is required, no matter where we reside.
There will be more natural disasters, most certainly. The eastern US will experience some untimely and intense hurricanes. While I was there most recently, I continually picked up this vision of what is to come. But here is another certainty as well. One year, I saw that the US would experience nine hurricanes that year. The very next day, CNN reported that they we predicting nine hurricanes that year as well. As it turned out, we did not have even one. With so much unpredictability now, and with the ability to make change and choose differently, as we are the ultimate creators, most any scenario is possible.
We will all be right where we need to be. There can be no mistake. We were not meant to go down with the old. It is not part of the plan.
As we begin to connect very rapidly now to our new and very needed roles, the roads before us will open very clearly, and we will be united with our very new projects, very new people, and some very new ways. These are very exciting times indeed…and if we are willing to let go, the river will take us to a very new shore.
Wishing you heaven in your heart, starlight in your soul, and miracles in your life in these miraculous times…
Until next time,
Karen 
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What limits can I lay upon God’s Son?
NONE.
“Whom God created limitless is free. I can invent imprisonment for him, but only in illusions, no in truth.”
I have a great quote framed in my kitchen:
“Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon, or not at all.”
- Harriet Van Horne (Vogue, 1956)
It’s so true. Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon, or not at all. Go recklessly into love. Dare to try new things.
You should see me when I cook … I trash the kitchen. It doesn’t matter if it is your kitchen or my kitchen: I will trash it. I use every pot. I open up every cupboard door and I unload all contents from the fridge.
There is joy, magic and wonder in everything you do when you stop being cautious and methodical. Enter into life with abandon, or not at all.
What’s my secret ingredient??
LOVE.
I use it in everything. I add it to every dish and I add it to every encounter. I sprinkle it everywhere I go. I enter into cooking the way I enter into love: with reckless abandon.
A good friend of mine once said to me “You can’t just go barreling through life the way you do.”
Huh??? Why not??
I looked at him like he had three heads. I couldn’t understand a word he was saying. How else would I go through life? By proceeding with caution?
I don’t understand a word you’re saying.
And this is today’s lesson: Lay no limits on yourself. Lay no limits on anyone else. Open up all the kitchen cupboards. Open your heart. Be willing to try something new. Be willing to experiment. Be willing to make a mess. Be willing to look like a fool.
The beautiful part about a trashed kitchen is that it’s easily cleaned within an hour. No biggie. I trash it. I clean it. It’s part of the fun.
And so it is with love. Don’t worry if it starts to get messy. Just go for it. You can always clean it up later. Be like a 5-year old who is in the middle of a magnificent creation.
The same thing goes for writing with me – I let it get messy. I write because I love the act of creation. I DO IT FOR MYSELF.
Whatever you do: Do it for yourself.
Be an artist, and don’t worry if your creation won’t last forever.
Great meals that take hours to prepare get eaten in 10 minutes, and often times with no recognition to the work that went into it. Don’t worry about that. Cook for the joy of it. Write for the fun of it. Build sandcastles for the simplicity of feeling the sun against your face.
A lot of people I know are very tightly wound. They don’t dare put the first paint stroke on the page for fear of screwing up white paper. They don’t dare to put the first word on the page.
Like with cooking – you have to get messy in order to create something delicious. THERE IS NO OTHER WAY. In the beginning everything is neat & tidy: flour, sugar, eggs. But at some point – you’ve got to start breaking into stuff, mixing it together.
Get your hands in it.
When it comes to love, don’t be shy.
What limits can I lay upon God’s Son?
“Today let me give honor to Your Son, for thus alone I find the way to You. Father, I lay no limits on the Son You love and You created limitless. The honor that I give to him is Yours, and what is Yours belongs to me as well.”
