Lesson 335

I choose to see my brother’s sinlessness.

Forgiveness is a choice. I never see my brother as he is, for that is far beyond perception.

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What my brother IS is far beyond perception. So what my body’s eyes show me is NOT what my brother is.

“What I see in him is merely what I wish to see, because it stands for what I want to be the truth. It is to this alone that I respond, however much I seem to be impelled by outside happenings.”

I got a phone call this morning that disrupted all my plans for the day. Now I am practicing the lesson to see what comes next. It is never about trying to change external factors, but rather to take a quiet moment, relax, to realize “there are no accidents. Something is being offered to me” and then to allow the new plan to be revealed.

I’m not going to push my own agenda in this situation. I am simply going to remember the truth. I am going to remember my brother’s sinlessness. I am going to remember my own sinlessness. I am remembering THIS MOMENT is the only moment there is. There is nothing else. There are no plans. There is no today. There is no this week. There is no this year and there is no next year. There is only the memory of God, given back to me when I choose to remember it.

I am the light of the world.

From A Course in Miracles, Chapter 8, Section 5:

I am come as a light into the world which does deny itself everything. It does this simply by dissociating itself from everything. It is therefore an illusion of isolation, MAINTAINED by fear of the same loneliness which is its illusion. I have told you that I am with you always even to the end of the world. That is why I am the light of the world. If I am with you in the loneliness of the world, the loneliness is gone. You cannot maintain the illusion of loneliness if you are not alone.

My purpose, then, is to overcome the world. I do not attack it, but my light must dispel it because of WHAT IT IS. Light does not ATTACK darkness, but it does shine it away. If my light goes with you everywhere, you shine it away with ME. The light becomes ours, and you CANNOT abide in darkness, any more than darkness can abide anywhere you go. The remembrance of me is the remembrance of yourself and of Him Who sent me to you.

What tremendous freedom to not respond to events that my body’s eyes show me! What joy! A huge weight is lifted off you when you allow things to be EXACTLY as they are, without trying to change it.

What I see is merely what I wish to see, because it stands for what I want to be the truth. It is to this alone that I respond however much I seem to be impelled by outside happenings.

I choose to see what I would look upon, and this I see, and only this. My brother’s sinlessness shows me that I would look upon my own. And I will see it, having chosen to behold my brother in its holy light.

Memory of God is restored to me as I see my brother’s sinlessness. His holiness reminds me that he was created one with me, and like myself. In him I find my Self, and in Your Son I find the memory of You as well.

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Lesson 334

Today I claim the gifts forgiveness gives.

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There is nothing here in this world that will satisfy you completely, thus the endless searching and seeking. Do you notice every time you get what you think you want, you are right back to wanting something else???

Nothing in this world will bring you lasting joy and peace. Nothing. Once you have accepted this, you might be a little disoriented at first because you are so used to wanting things in the world. One’s whole entire life is about wishing, hoping, and asking for things. Birthdays. Letters to Santa. Dreams about your future, and how you will get the things you want – money, relationships, great job, new adventures, a beautiful place to live – and then you will be happy.

But you already know that the acquisition of things and people doesn’t work. How many times have you gotten more money, a new relationship, a new house, a new car – only to be right back in your usual mode of wishing things were different?

You will save yourself a lot of time if you give up the idea that anything in form will make you happy. Everything in form disappointments at some point, as long as you are holding onto the idea that form has any value.

Lesson #1: Nothing I see means anything.

Today is the day to find the treasures your Father offers you!! Today is the day!

Illusions are all vain, and dreams are gone even while they are woven out of thoughts that rest on false perceptions. LET ME NOT ACCEPT SUCH MEAGER GIFTS AGAIN TODAY.

**God’s Voice is offering the peace of God to all who hear and choose to follow Him.

THIS IS MY CHOICE.

Hallelujah! This is my choice. People constantly ask me: how it is you are always happy? and my answer is simple:

This is my choice.

I have accepted the treasure that my Father has given to me.

I seek but the eternal. I focus all my attention on that which is invisible which is the same thing as saying “Seek ye first the Kingdom of Heaven” and all else will be added unto you.

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Forget about form. Just forget about it entirely. Seek ye first the Kingdom of Heaven. Think about God.

You are Spirit. You are the Mind of God. You are Light. All power has been given to you to manifest God. Through your holiness the power of God is made available.

Think on this instead of what you want/need in the world.

I assure you, you will begin to get happy.

Seek but the eternal and all your troubles will melt away. Seek and you shall find.

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Lesson 333

Forgiveness ends the dream of conflict here.

Conflict must be resolved.

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A simple practical lesson that does not need any commentary, since it gives exact about instruction about what to do:

Forgiveness ends the dream of conflict here. 

Conflict must be resolved.

It cannot be evaded, set aside, denied, disguised, seen somewhere else, called by another name, or hidden by deceit of any kind, if it would be escaped.

It must be seen exactly as it is, where it is thought to be, in the reality which has been given it, and with the purpose of the mind accorded it. For only then are defenses lifted, and the truth can shine upon it as it disappears.

Father, forgiveness is the light You chose to shine away all conflict and all doubt, and light the way for our return to You. No light but this can end our evil dream. No light but this can save the world. For this alone will never fail in anything, being Your gift to Your beloved Son.

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Lesson 332

Fear binds the world. Forgiveness sets it free.

I did a great radio interview last night with Joany Cravener. We were talking about A Course in Miracles and I was telling her how I get quite a lot of emails from people who sincerely follow and practice the lessons of A Course in Miracles but who write me and say: Why do I keep forgetting all this??

And she said … “fear.”

“The reason people “forget” the simple instructions to love and forgive is because of fear. Fear of God. Fear of the light. Fear of the loss of their own self-identity.”

ha! Amazing, right? Great interview and great answer. Thank you Joany!

Fear binds the world. Forgiveness sets it free.

Truth shines away all illusions. Truth never makes attack. It merely is. And by its presence is the mind recalled from fantasies, awaking to the real. Forgiveness bids this presence enter in, and take its rightful place within the mind. Without forgiveness is the mind in chains, believing in its own futility. Yet with forgiveness does the light shine through the dream of darkness, offering it hope, and giving it the means to realize the freedom that is its inheritance.

Fear binds the world. It binds you to the world, because it is a world of your own making. It is not real and it does not exist. You are free to leave it behind any time you choose. What you “see” are images that started in your mind with your own idea of what you wanted … and if you don’t like what you see, you are free to change your mind.

A lot of people are terrified of the light. They don’t know what will happen if they let go of their plans for security and safety. They think they will lose all that they have, or that they will die or their relationships will crumble. So they hold onto the little they have, trying to protect it, meanwhile wondering why their life isn’t working.

It’s very much like stepping off the cliff. If you want to take flight, you have to eventually leave the solid ground.

You will eventually make a decision that you will be 100% constant and consistent about these instructions in A Course in Miracles.

Remember …

This is a required course. Only the time you take it is voluntary. Free will does not mean that you can establish the curriculum. It means only that you can elect what you want to take at a given time.

Either you are doing the little that is asked of you … or you are not. And you will be able to tell which path you are following by the way you feel. If you are joyful, then you are standing with God. If you are confused, doubtful and angry, then you are binding the world with fear.

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It’s Thanksgiving today. It’s Thanksgiving every day. Your holiness blesses the world. You are a light that Heaven gratefully acknowledges as its own.

Through your holiness the power of God is made manifest.
Through your holiness the power of God is made available.

Here is true “manifestation.” You stop trying to manifest things to you as if you are a magnet … and instead you allow God to be made manifest through you. !!!!

Through your holiness the power of God is made available.

That is so amazing to me. What a privilege. God is made manifest through me. I let that love flow through me so everyone can see it. What a gift. I’m laughing again.

Lesson 37 and Lesson 38 will simply blow your mind. These lessons are about you.

Your holiness blesses the world. There is nothing your holiness cannot do.

If you want to give yourself a good gift today, go read those 2 lessons.

“Your holiness blesses the world. This idea contains the first glimmerings of your true function in the world, or why you are here. Your purpose is to see the world through your own holiness. Thus are you and the world blessed together.”

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I love it!

This idea contains your first glimmering!

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My function is to see the world through my own holiness. How could I possibly have a problem? Problems and darkness disappear when I acknowledge my own holiness, and accept my Identity in God. I am the light of the world.

Where are problems now?

“Your holiness is the salvation of the world. It lets you teach the world that it is one with you, not by preaching to it, not by telling it anything, but merely by your quiet recognition that in your holiness are all things blessed along with you.”

I love you so much. Thank you for being here for me and taking this journey with me. It means more to me than you will ever know. I am blessed along with you.

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What a tremendous gift that we have been given: a way out of hell. I love Jesus. I love God. I love you. I am blown away that I have an instruction manual that tells me exactly what to do and what not to do. I love its simplicity.

Abhraham-Hicks Quote

“You want to be more Inner Being like, you just have to worry a whole lot less and laugh a whole lot more, and criticize never and praise always. And when you develop those patterns, you will be in the flow with your Inner Being where you will be intuitive, you will be dancing the dance with others that are like you and you will be just like these birds that are flocking together in pure harmony, always moving in the perfect motion and having a joyous time in the process of it.” – Esther Hicks

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Lesson 331

There is no conflict, for my will is Yours.

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There is no will except the Will of Love.

Conflict is sleep, and peace awakening. Death is illusion; life, eternal truth.

There is no opposition to God’s Will.

Father, there is no conflict, for my will is Yours.

Forgiveness shows us that God’s Will is One, and that we share it. Let us look upon the holy sights forgiveness shows today, that we may find the peace of God.

Amen.

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Lesson 330

I will not hurt myself again today.

In church this past Sunday, the morning after I heard that I can bring my cat Enzo to the Inn with me, Glad was reading from the bible in John 10 about The Good Shepherd.

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I was really quite amazed. Because in the recognition that everything is an illusion, YOUR CARE INCREASES. You might think you would become indifferent, unemotional and unsympathetic when you realize that the world isn’t real, saying about everything “It’s only an illusion! It’s only an illusion! I can stay home and do nothing! It’s an illusion!” but in the acceptance of the Atonement it’s not that way at all! You become more active than ever, as you realize your deep responsibility for everything you see. Harm becomes impossible. Protection becomes your motivating guiding force in life. Your heart opens up, and an overwhelming love encompasses you. You fall madly in love with all your brothers, all the animals, all the children, and for every living thing … and you want to help them.

You become The Good Shepherd.

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All your brothers are your sheep and they are in your care. If they are lost, you help bring them back.

You wouldn’t want harm to come to any one of them, and you, as the shepherd, certainly would not want to inflict pain upon them … your own sheep! You would love them, care for them, and protect them. You would lay down your life for them.

This is the role of the savior: to help your brothers find their way back to God.

There is something spectacular in the Urtext, the original ACIM manuscript, which surprisingly did not make it into the final published version, but look at this, Chapter 4, Section 9, Jesus to Helen Schucman about Bill Thetford:

The reason why Bill needs this experience is because he needs rehabilitating himself. How often have I answered “help him” when you asked me to help you? He, too, has asked for help, and he has been helped whenever he was truly helpful to you. He has also gained to whatever extent he could give. He will help YOU more truly by going, if he can remember all the time he is there that his ONLY reason for being there is to REPRESENT ME.

HA! If you are asking/praying for help from Jesus, then go be truly helpful to someone else. How simple! I am laughing out loud. If I am in a black cloud, with problems galore, then my solution is to go help my brother. Here is the entire solution and the whole way out of limitation and depression. Start extending your love. Your function is to represent Jesus on earth, through the body, representing the totality of the Love of God, right here. Heaven on earth.

Harm becomes impossible now.

John 10

1Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.

2But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

3To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out.

4And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.

5And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.

6This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them.

7Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.

8All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.

9I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.

10The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

11I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.

12But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.

13The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.

14I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.

15As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.

16And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.

17Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.

18No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.

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Lesson 329

I have already chosen what You Will.

Father, I thought I wandered from Your Will, defied it, broke its laws, and interposed a second will more powerful than Yours. Yet what I am in truth is but Your Will, extended and extending.

WHAT I AM IN TRUTH IS BUT YOUR WILL, EXTENDED AND EXTENDING.

Yes!

This am I, and this will never change.

WHAT I AM IN TRUTH IS BUT YOUR WILL, EXTENDED AND EXTENDING.

As You are One, so am I one with You. And this I chose in my creation, where my will became forever one with Yours. That choice was made for all eternity. It cannot change, and be in opposition to itself. Father, my will is Yours. And I am safe, untroubled and serene, in endless joy, because it is Your Will that it be so.

Today we will accept our union with each other and our Source We have no will apart from His, and all of us are one because His Will is shared by all of us. Through it we recognize that we are one. Through it we find our way at last to God.

Today I want to introduce you to my new friend Bianca, the owner of pause coffee wine bar here in Wisconsin. She’s a certified alien:

Seriously. This chick is not from this planet at all! She’s from a galaxy far far away. Being an alien myself, I recognized her immediately as one of my own. LOL.

I love you Bianca!

Last week I watched her bring herself and her mother back to life. No ordinary feat (as her mother killed herself when Bianca was 16, and before that she hadn’t seen her mother since she was 12, and even then it was just a glimpse through a schoolyard) but I watched her bring herself and her mother back to life with grace and ease. She was transported back to 1968. Literally. She took a trip back (not by any decision of her own, by rather, was catapulted back 40 years) and she actually met the characters back there, and physically shook their hands and talked with them. She sat with them and listened to their stories. She got to see first-hand what actually happened back there while her mother was still alive. This is no concept, and no nighttime dream, and no imaginary story I am telling you. This all happened during daylight hours while Bianca’s eyes were wide-open.

All the people who knew her mother began appearing in physical form. And they’ve got amazing stories to tell.

And then there are the letters! Oh, the letters! Amazing love letters! Letters that her mother sent to Bianca and her brother over the years, but which her father destroyed before they got a chance to read them. Her grandmother (her mother’s mother) had made photocopies of all the letters before they were sent, probably realizing they might be destroyed.

“A year of sobriety has passed, and I am finally able to write to my babies. I have never for a moment stopped loving you two. You both are the first thoughts every morning. Your names are on my lips all day long and you are in my prayers at night before I go to sleep. Remember many people love you both. I know this won’t be easy at first – REMEMBER THAT I NEVER STOPPED LOVING YOU. I will never forget my angels, how sick I was from my addiction and how I allowed my addiction to come first. I never meant that to happen. Remember I love you. I’m your mother.”

Handwritten love letters that go on for pages. And journals. And newsletters. And poetry. And lyrics. She also discovered a coffee house called Jawbone (right around the frigging corner from pause! a coffeehouse! of all things!) where her mom spent all her days with people who wanted to change the world, along with an album from musicians from the Jawbone coffeehouse that you can still buy online. We went to the “Jawbone” a few days ago: it’s a cigar shop now, but you can see what it would have been in the 70s. And it all just materialized out of nowhere … because Bianca asked for this to happen.

What Bianca learned is that the story she has been telling herself all these years (that her mother was a drug-addict horrible woman who abandoned her) didn’t happen the way she thought it happened. Her mother was in love with everyone, and quite seriously couldn’t understand the madness and insanity that is this world. Her mother wanted to know “Where is God in all of this?” (during Vietnam)

Bianca got to go back there and see the landscape with her own eyes. She got to meet her mother. What she discovered was that her mother is a extraordinary woman with a heart filled with love … and that she never left her … and that she’s been watching over her all these years and is with her now.

This is from Bianca’s facebook:

…stop.laughing.kiddo! The biggest challenge that I am facing right now is creating the exact.correct words to convey just how hilarious.perfect.monumental.miraculous this entire situation is. Every time I start thinking about how fucking insane it all is, I just start laughing. It was too easy. All those years, all those awfully painful years, just became worth it. All those awfully.painful.years just disappeared with this Jawbone discovery. Isn’t that funny? Well, I’m laughing about it, so it must be funny. But what’s also very funny is that I feel like I always knew that my mother was involved in a WISCONSIN.DELLS.COFFEE.HOUSE.1968. I feel like I always knew it. But I didn’t. But it feels like there was no.time. (there is no time) between not knowing and knowing. I feel like I snipped out all those years. I feel like I have been happy all of my life. I.Already.Knew.That. Hmm. I need to work on this. It still isn’t conveying just how In.cred.ible. T.H.I.S. … I.S. —-


T.H.I.S … I.S. —

“I feel like I have been happy all my life.”

Quite an amazing accomplishment coming from someone who’s been telling me for the past month about her horrible, hated, and awful childhood with her treacherous parents.

Jesus says that time is a tiny trick, a sleight of hand. He says “the miracle minimizes the need for time” and that you can travel back to before an event (in Bianca’s case, 40 years, back to 1968) and alter the sequence and everything that came after. The memories get erased and are replaced with something else. Like deleting information from a computer chip. You hit a button … and whatever was on that chip deletes from the file forever.

You can absolutely travel anywhere into the past or future and alter events. Easily and effortlessly because time is not sequential and does not exist. You are a Mind. You are Spirit. You’re not a body. You can go anywhere you please: past, present, future – to before an event, after an event, you can drop in anywhere – 40 years ago, 40 years from now, 2000 years ago, 2000 years from now … and you’ll be in that space. Literally. Physically.

And when you can do this, you’ll know there is no world.

From Chapter 1, Section 3:

The miracle is a learning device which lessens the need for time. The sudden shifts from horizontal to vertical perception which the miracle entails introduces an interval from which the doer and the receiver both emerge much farther along in time than they would otherwise have been.

A miracle has thus the unique property of abolishing time by rendering the space of time it occupies unnecessary. There is NO relation between the time a miracle TAKES and the time it COVERS. It substitutes FOR learning that might have taken thousands of years. It does this by the underlying recognition of perfect equality and holiness between doer and receiver on which the miracle rests. It is unstable, but perfectly consistent, e., it does not occur predictably across time, and it rarely occurs in comparable forms. But within ITSELF it is perfectly consistent. Since it contains NOTHING BUT an acknowledgment of equality and worth, all parts ARE equal. This establishes the prerequisite for validity.

We said before that the miracle abolishes time. It does this by a process of COLLAPSING it. It thus abolishes certain INTERVALS within it. It does this, however, WITHIN the larger temporal sequence.

The validity of the miracle, then, is PREDICTIVE, not logical, within the temporal schema. It establishes an out-of-pattern time interval, which is NOT under the usual laws of time. Only in this sense is it timeless. By collapsing time, it literally saves time, much the way “daylight saving time” does. It rearranges the distribution of light.

ha!

The miracle is the only device which man has at his immediate disposal for controlling time. Only the Revelation TRANSCENDS it, having nothing to do with time at all. The miracle is much like the body, in that both are learning aids which aim at facilitating a state in which they are unnecessary. When the Soul is finally in the original state of direct communication, neither the body nor the miracle serves any purpose.

While he is IN the body, however, man can choose between loveless and miraculous channels of creativity. He can create an empty shell (see previous reference), but he DOES NOT create nothing at all. He can wait, delay, paralyze himself, reduce his creativity almost to nothing, and even introduce a real developmental arrest or regression. But he CANNOT abolish his creativity. He CAN destroy his medium of communication, but NOT his potential.

The basic decision of the miracle-minded is NOT to wait on time any longer than is necessary. Time can waste, as well as be wasted. The miracle-worker, therefore, accepts the time-control factor of the miracle gladly, because he knows that every collapse of time brings all men closer to the ultimate RELEASE from time, in which the Son and the Father ARE one.

And of course, this IS today’s lesson: I have already chosen what You Will.

Today we will accept our union with each other and our Source We have no will apart from His, and all of us are one because His Will is shared by all of us. Through it we recognize that we are one. Through it we find our way at last to God.

Today is pause-giving (Thanksgiving at pause). A time to PAUSE and GIVE THANKS, and eat a Thanksgiving feast.

Isn’t it awesome?

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Lesson 328

I choose the second place to gain the first.

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I am in love with Jesus.

Lately all I’ve been doing is laughing. Yesterday the owners of the Inn said I can bring Enzo with me (Yes!) … however …. he has to be an entirely outside cat. My heart just sunk to the ground. They said I can keep him in the garage.

I started to explain how it would work if he was inside but they had already made their decision. I sat there for a second in sheer disappointment … but then! BUT THEN! It’s so good, I remembered Heaven! This course is genius. I love Jesus so much. I looked across the table and remembered: these are my brothers who I love. They are giving me everything.

I am not here to get my way within a dream. I am here for the salvation of the world. I am here to remember God in everyone and everything, in every event, in every encounter.

I am restored to sanity and joy in the instant I remember “to remember” Heaven.

Jesus was in my head speaking, saying: Don’t defend yourself. Be happy. He gets to live here. The guests will love him. Don’t worry. This is great.

And in that moment, it was great! I felt a feeling of total peace wash over me.

I realized just how much of my life I’ve spent manipulating and controlling to get my way. Explaining. Trying to rearrange so that things works out the way I think they should work out. I kept thinking we could work out a compromise situation that would make everyone happy.

I choose the second place to gain the first.

I choose to step back and let Him lead the way.

I choose Heaven over illusions.

I choose to remember this is a journey, a great adventure of creation.

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Who would choose a sigh and sadness when they can just as easily choose laughter??

Who would stall & linger in depression when they can just as easily choose the peace of God?

Easy questions with easy answers.

And so I was immediately happy and had a day filled with miracles – easy, effortless interactions with everyone … but then later I was back to obsessing about the cat being cold this winter. And there is Jesus again, in my head, saying: DROP IT! FORGET ABOUT THE CAT! Who would choose illusions over the joy of Heaven?

And then I burst out laughing again. I opened up A Course in Miracles, saying, Okay, give me something I need to read and it landed on Chapter 23, Section III: Salvation without Compromise.

What a perfect message!

You will know if you are compromising because you will have lost your peace and joy. You will feel a sudden heaviness on your heart, like you’ve been defeated. And when you are attempting to get your way, it doesn’t feel good, and that is attack. That is compromise.

Salvation is no compromise of any kind. Salvation gives up nothing. It is complete for everyone. Let the idea of compromise but enter, and the awareness of salvation’s purpose is lost because it is not recognized. This course is easy just because it makes no compromise. Yet it seems difficult to those who still believe that compromise is possible.

“Mistake not truce for peace, nor compromise for the escape from conflict.”

That is so awesome. I thought getting my cat inside the house would end the conflict, but that’s a compromise approach. Remembering Heaven is what ends the conflict.

Immediately, instantaneously, and forever.

“To be released from conflict means that it is over. The door is open; you have left the battleground.”

So I was checking out the internet for cat houses and tips for keeping a cat warm in the winter and meanwhile Enzo (who by the way, is 90% outside cat anyways!) is playing with a hair clip of mine, throwing it in the air and catching it, and it landed in my nightstand which usually is filled with books and junk but which now are empty. And they are two sturdy wood boxes stacked on top of each other, and I look over and there is Enzo, lying in one of them … happy as can be! It was so funny. His cat house!

So I put them side by side, and he loves it. I’ll put it in the garage attic with heating pads and heating lights and it will work out great.

I’m done with trying to get my way. I’m done with trying to figure out what my needs are and how I can get them taken care of. I choose the second place to gain the first.

There is only the Will of God. All things we perceive are upside down until we listen to the Voice for God. My Father’s Will for me is perfect happiness.

If I am not perfectly happy, then I must be following a different will because God’s Will for me is perfect happiness.

Father, I am glad that nothing I imagine contradicts what You would have me be. It is Your Will that I be wholly safe, eternally at peace.

!!!!!

I love it. It is God’s Will that I be wholly safe, eternally at peace.

And happily I share that Will which You, my Father, gave as part of me.

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