Creation is all I ever wanted.
Creation is the goal of all my searching and seeking. My whole life I’ve been “building” things, turning nothing into something, and transforming ugliness into beauty. It’s what makes me happy. I love walking into an empty space and creating something beautiful there … just for my own satisfaction.
I have spent the vast majority of my life alone, by my own preference. I am an artist in the sense that I enjoy the landscape of my mind. I like an empty canvas. I like quiet. I like open spaces. I love the act of creation. It is the sum of all God’s Thoughts, in number infinite, and everywhere without limit.
“Only love creates, and only like itself.”
That’s interesting. Only love creates, and only like itself. Which means that anything that is NOT love doesn’t do anything. Only love creates, and only like itself.
Wow. Do you hear what that says? A Course in Miracles could be summed up in that one sentence: Only love creates, and only like itself.
That is revolutionary. All other emotions and thoughts do nothing. Confusion, sadness, doubt, and anger do nothing. Only love creates, and only like itself. That makes life easier. That just simplified everything.
Might as well just stay in love. Might as well be happy because only love creates, and only like itself.
A good friend wrote to me asking how she can manifest a house and money to pay rent comfortably.
I wrote back: “My suggestion is to take your focus off the house and off of money and to put your full attention … your heart, mind and soul … into doing God’s Will.”
That’s the best advice I can give. Forget about this world. Forget about manifesting. Focus your full attention on letting God’s Will be done. That’s creation. Forget about stuff here in the world. It’s all temporary and fleeting anyways. It fades away, crumbles or breaks at some point. It will disappoint you eventually, so don’t waste your time chasing after something that will only fail you in the end.
Focus only on the eternal. Focus only on God. This will bring you immense happiness … and it is given to you today. This is creation.
Creation is remembering that you are as God created you. You are unchanged by time, mistakes, delays or illusions. You are a child of God, His most holy Son.
This is creation.
You are creation.
God calls to you. Hear His Voice.
“God’s memory is in our holy minds, which know their oneness and their unity with their Creator. Let our function be only to let this memory return, only to let God’s Will be done on earth, only to be restored to sanity, and to be as God created us.”
Let our function be only to:
1. let this memory of God and oneness return
2. only to let God’s Will be done on earth
3. only to be returned to sanity
4. and to be as God created us
Amen.
How could you be depressed, sad or angry with a lesson like this?
All power has been given to you. You are free to change your mind, free to create.
You are a miracle worker.
All power has been given to you in Heaven and on earth.
There is no need (or time!) for sadness or fear. It’s a tremendous waste of energy. Literally! It wastes your energy. It sucks you dry and then you wonder why you feel miserable.
It’s easy to patch up energy leaks and to consciously extend your energy and light. That’s really the difference:
-you are wasting your energy when it UNCONSCIOUSLY leaves you (self-importance, anger, defense, judgment)
-you are increasing your energy when you CONSCIOUSLY extend yourself.
You will feel the difference. When you start consciously thinking of yourself as light and energy and consciously make a decision to extend it, you will feel the power in it.
But if you start wallowing in your own guilt and sadness, I assure you:
a. it is unconscious
b. you’ll feel like shit
c. you’ll have no energy
So, given these choices … to be awake or to be asleep … what do you do?
Obviously, to be awake simply means that you are conscious and aware. That’s all! It’s not complicated. You became aware of your thoughts and actions. How simple.
To be asleep means to be unconscious, to be UNAWARE of what you are doing, to think you are a victim of events and people outside of you.
Once you are conscious that you have all power to change your mind, and that you know that God is with you, your life will change drastically.
A change of mind IS a miracle.
All power is given to you. There are no limits on your strength, your peace, your joy, nor any of the attributes God gave you in your creation.
Father, Your Will can do all things in me, and then extend to all the world as well through me.
I came from the salvation of the world.
I am on the wrong lesson again today! Ooops. Sorry. Let’s try this again:
I came for the salvation of the world.
Father, Your Will is total.
Yes.
The main thing lately for me is constancy and consistency. That my will be total because God’s Will is total. That my actions be total. That my giving be total. That my light be total. That my love be total. That I allow everything to be 100% and not linger in a middle place.
I came for the salvation of the world.
“Here is a thought from which all arrogance has been removed, and only truth remains. When there is no arrogance, the truth will come immediately, and fill up the space the ego left unoccupied by lies.”
How beautiful!
ONLY TRUTH REMAINS.
Here there is only love.
All images = love.
All expression = love.
Here is humility, grace, peace, joy and everlasting love forever.
It is the Will of God that I learn that what one gains is given unto all.
Father, Your Will is total. And the goal which stems from it shares totality. What aim but the salvation of the world could You have given me? And what but this could be the Will my Self has shared with you?
My Father gives all power unto me.
“The Son of God is limitless. There are no limits on his strength, his peace, his joy, nor any attributes his Father gave in his creation. What he wills with his Creator and Redeemer must be done.”
I love it.
There are no limits on my strength, joy, peace, and grace.
I don’t see a difference anymore between “the world” and “Heaven.” It’s all the same thing to me. There are no distinctions. There is no difference anymore to me between “physical” and “spiritual.”
It’s all one thing. I’ve been restored to my whole mind. A complete merging of Heaven and earth into an experience of God. I look at the illusion and I see God. Total transfer.
I read what you write and it reminds me of God.
I look at your face and I see Christ.
I think of you and I am happy.
Jesus has changed me, moved me, and restored me.
Thank the Lord.
I am he in whom the power of my Father’s Will abides.
God’s Will can do all things in me, and then extend to the world through me.
Max did a great radio interview with me this past Monday and he said that at a certain point he realized his mind was sufficiently changed and that he thought differently. That’s exactly how I feel. I know I’m different, yet I’m exactly the same.
I am myself.
My personality is the same as it has always been but I don’t organize my thoughts in the same way that I used to. I don’t hold onto grievances. Nothing bothers me. And if something does bother me, it lasts for 5 seconds and then I know how to change my mind and be happy again. This is the goal I was always seeking for – to arrive at a place finally where peace has been restored and there is only joy.
Where I abide in Jesus and rest in God, day and night.
I read a great quote by Anne Lamott last night from her book “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”:
“My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads, round and green, these places summoned and then held me while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land, and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear.” – Anne Lamott
All gifts I give my brothers are my own.
I was on the totally wrong lesson! Thank you Tom for pointing this out to me! I posted a blog this morning about Lesson 316 from my cellphone because I still don’t have consistent internet but it did not post.
But I read the lesson, wrote about it (with two thumbs on my cellphone), and it was the perfect way to start the day.
All gifts I give my brothers are my own.
I wrote something alone the lines of: “I could be totally wrong here, but it is my experience that this lesson – All gifts I give my brothers are my own – is the “key” to seeing miracles.”
What I have realized is that it’s impossible to find God alone. You absolutely need your brothers to give the gifts that are buried in your heart and mind. As you begin to unleash your light, give away your love, extend your joy … gifts are returned to you 1000 times 1000 times 1000.
It is through action, giving, and extending that the sea parts and mountains are removed, and that you can walk on water.
Again, I could be totally wrong here and maybe you can find joy, peace and happiness sitting alone in your room never interacting with anyone.
Personally, I have had zero success with that. Joy comes to me as I begin to move my energy and share my light and give it to others.
And then, the light comes back to me a million times more than I gave it … and then … then I can be by myself in peace, joy, happiness and love. The light that I gave my brothers fills me and sustains me.
But first I must give. It’s like charging a battery. If you start to feel low, then recharge yourself by giving.
I would accept God’s gifts today. I behold them as I give them.
“As every gift my brothers give is mine, so every gift I give belongs to me. Each one allows a past mistake to go, and leave no shadow on the holy mind my Father loves.”
My treasure house is full.
Angels watch its open doors that not one gift is lost, and more are added.
In me salvation’s means and end are one.
Everything that is happening happens only in my mind. Means and end are one in me.
“In me, God’s holy Son, are reconciled all parts of Heaven’s plan to save the world.”
Heaven’s plan to save the world!
How is this accomplished? Acceptance of the Atonement. You bring all the separated, disconnected parts back to you and they are all healed in one bright flash of recognition as you realize it’s all happening only in your mind.
There is no world. There are no people. What you see is nothing more than ideas in your mind. You are looking out at figures in a dream, or events that seem to be happening, and things that appear to be occurring … but nothing at all is happening.
You remain as God created you. There are no problems, sickness does not exist, and where is fear when the light has come?
You were created to create the good, the beautiful and the holy.
What could conflict when you recognize there is nothing outside of you? You would have peace of mind forever. You would be in a state of joy forever. In this state you look at everything with a sense of curiosity, gratitude and wonder.
Here is the end of seeking and searching. Here you have found what you were looking for. Now it belongs to you.
I am the means by which God’s Son is saved, because salvation’s purpose is to find the sinlessness that God has placed in me. I was created as the thing I seek.
I was created as the thing I seek.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was created as the thing I seek.
Oh my God. That’s amazing.
I was created as the thing I seek.
I am the goal the world is searching for. I am God’s Son, His one eternal Love. I am salvation’s means and end as well.
I am over here grinning like crazy, and laughing out loud.
“Let me today, my Father, take the role You offer me in Your request that I accept Atonement for myself. For thus does what is thereby reconciled in me become as surely reconciled to You.”
If anyone needs help, please email me. You’re not alone. If you need a friend, I am here for you. There is no need to suffer. There is no need for conflict. There is no need for problems. Everything you want and need is given to you today because it is your inheritance that God has already given you everything.
All you need to do is look upon the gifts that have been given to you.
Your natural state is one of pure joy. If you are not supremely happy, something has gone wrong. If you are sad, depressed, angry, upset or fearful, you are only one tiny little thought away from Heaven.
One little switch in your mind and you’ll see everything differently.
If you are currently in the OFF position, then turn yourself ON.
One little flick is all it takes and you’ll go from darkness to light.
I follow in the way appointed me.
“I have a special place to fill; a role for me alone.”
Ha!
Rock and roll, baby.
“Salvation waits until I take this part at what I choose to do. Until I make this choice, I am the slave of time and human destiny. But when I willingly and gladly go the way my Father’s plan appointed me to go, then will I recognize salvation is already here, already given all my brothers and already mine as well.”
What a terrific idea. How practical! How simple! How personal! How marvelous!
I follow in the way appointed me.
I can choose to follow God’s plan and allow everyone else to be exactly the way they are as they follow the way appointed to them. My role is to accept and follow the path appointed to me.
I don’t have to be concerned about anyone else.
Accept and follow.
Accept and follow.
Accept and follow.
A heavy weight of baggage came off my shoulders the day I made a decision to stop trying to fix/improve/correct others. I thought “From now on, I’m just gonna focus on myself. Whatever anyone else is doing is perfection.”
Everyone is fulfilling their role perfectly. Everyone is being themselves. It’s not my job to judge or change others. They are no others. There is only God. My part is simply to follow in the way appointed me. What a relief.
I can relax and take my focus off other people and put 100% focus and attention on listening to the Voice for God, and following the way appointed me.
“I have a special place to fill; a role for me alone.”
I am in the new place now. It’s wild. I haven’t slept in 2 days. I get tired at bedtime but then I am wide awake all night. Everything happened so quickly – pure movement – that there was really no time to ponder or think about the magnitude of what has occurred, except I feel like my body is feeling the effects of such a dramatic shift. One moment I was in a particular location, doing whatever I do, and the very next day someone was handing me the keys to a big gorgeous house, and now I am here.
First I was there. Now I am here. And in another moment, something else will happen and I’ll be somewhere else … except for one glorious thing … I’m always the same! I’m always where I am! I am always right here! This is the adventure. This is the journey. It has no distance. It has no space.
I am in my new house now.
I’d love to start doing workshops soon. I have 4 guest bedrooms.
I don’t have internet service yet (hopefully by today) but it’s all good. The house is big and beautiful and really quiet, and I am amazed.
All gifts my brothers give belong to me.
Every day a thousand treasures come my way with every passing moment.
!!!!! Yes, indeed !!!!!
I am blessed with gits throughout the day, in value far beyond all things of which I can conceive.
I thank God for al that is given to me. These gifts are given to me that I will share them and extend them. These gifts are not for me alone. They are for all.
I thank You, Father, for the many gifts that come to me today and every day from every Son of God.
My brothers are unlimited in all their gifts to me.
Now may I offer them my thankfulness, that gratitude to them may lead me on to my Creator and His memory.
Thank you each and every one.
I seek a future different from the past.
“From new perception of the world there comes a future very different from the past.”
All I’ve ever wanted to do is make people happy, and now it has come true.
I get to do what I was born to do: to extend light, love and joy to everyone I see!
What a gift.
“The future is now recognized as but an extension of the present. Past mistakes can cast no shadows on it, so that fear has lost its idols and and its images, and being formless, it has no effects.”
Who can grieve or suffer when the present has been freed, extending its security and peace into a quiet future filled with joy.
“I seek a future different from the past.”
It’s so good. The past is over. It can touch me not. I was mistaken in the past, and choose to use the present to be free. Now do I leave the future in God’s Hands, leaving behind my past mistakes, sure that He will keep His present promises, and guide the future in its holy light.
“Things move so fast these days, sometimes it’s easy to forget to look back.”
Thanks Al. I realize the quote didn’t come from you, but I’m glad you posted it, wherever it came from. It’s great.
Now let a new perception come to me.
Everything is dramatically changing in my life.
All because I made a decision to let a new perception come to me. I made a commitment to see things differently.
Back in September, I read Gay Hendricks book 5 Wishes which says if you were on your deathbed, dying, in your last few moments on earth, and someone was to ask you “Was your life a complete success?” … How would you answer?
Was your life a complete success?
To read the entire excerpt, click here:
Five Wishes and the One Question That Will Change Your Life
I read 5 Wishes and was moved and inspired by it. I felt my life was not a success. I wrote down 5 Wishes and put them in a box. At the time, my life was unraveling. Nothing seemed to be working. My basic mode was survival trying to scrape by to put gas in the car. My marriage was falling apart. My cat was dying. And most of my belongings were in the back seat/trunk of my car while I tried to find a permanent place to live.
So my mind wasn’t exactly in 5 Wishes mode. I didn’t feel I had the luxury of playing make-pretend. You don’t really wonder if your life is a success when you are crawling around in the mud. But I wrote down my 5 Wishes anyways, put them in a box, and then promptly forget about them.
Then I moved and the box got shuffled around. When I unpacked in my new place, I put it in the back of a drawer, like someone puts a box in the attic.
And then I made a new commitment to stay focused on extension, creation and giving. At a certain point you realize: What have I got to lose?
For me, it was a realization: okay, whatever I’m doing, it’s not working. I’m doing something wrong.
“If miracles are not occurring, something has gone wrong.”
So I switched my mode of thinking and made a new commitment to be as God created me: pure light, pure extension, pure joy, pure happiness, pure love.
Why not?
What have I got to lose?
The other way definitely wasn’t working.
And then I got a message from a reader that said I should stop writing so much about the details of my personal life, and focus more on keeping the message pure. This is brilliant advice both for my blog and the way I think and move.
I needed to stop focusing on what I want, what I need, what I wish for, what I hope for, and simply focus on keeping Jesus’ message pure as I flow through the day.
GREAT ADVICE!!!!
So I’ve been doing that, and my life has been exploding lately like colorful fireworks.
A new perception has come to me.
“Love will come wherever it is asked.”
So I was going through my drawers yesterday, unpacking things and organizing them, and there was the 5 Wishes box. I opened it up, and realized, to my absolute amazement: All my wishes have come true!
LOL.
And these were big gigantic wishes!
They all came true without me focusing on them at all. I actually forget that I was asking for anything and it came to me anyways.
All I desire is to do the Will of the Father.
All I want to do is make you happy!
Seek ye first the Kingdom of Heaven, and all else will be added unto you.
Is my life a success?
yes, absolutely.
How did that occur?
By not being attached to it in any way.
Let go and Let God.
God Dependency.
Seek ye first the Kingdom of Heaven.
Shine bright.
You are the light of the world.
Non-attachment is “The Secret”
Light doesn’t attach itself to anything. It simply shines … and it shines forever.
Be in God and all you need to fulfill a function will be given to you.
“Let us today behold each other and the sight of Christ. How beautiful we are! How holy and how loving! Brother, come and join with me today. We save the world when we have joined. For in our vision it becomes as holy as the light in us.”
I see all things as I would have them be.
“Perception follows judgment.”
If you judge, you will perceive.
Period.
If you see something you don’t like, that’s a judgment.
If you see something you do like, that’s a judgment.
And perception follows judgment.
Which means that’s it’s practically IMPOSSIBLE to be without judgment because your mind is constantly categorizing what you see. Either you like it or you don’t like it, and from there the minds starts making up all sorts of stories.
The mind has thoughts about the state of your condition, the conduct of society, the weather, or whatever. It’s impossible to be neutral.
So … this lesson is a good one because it’s not telling you not to think. It’s not telling you not to see. It’s simply saying “I see all things as I would have them be.”
It’s possible to be in continual observation of the way your mind works.
It’s possible to flow like a river and not obstruct the natural movement, but to simply flow with life where it is taking you.
The real world opens up before your eyes in all its splendor and magnitude.
I have been having some really miraculous encounters this past week. I’ve made a decision to stay in a space of EXTENSION and CREATION and I’m having fun with it.
Creation is fun.
Judgment is no fun.
“For sight can merely serve to offer us what we would have.”
So in every situation THERE IS A SOLUTION and in every situation there is ANOTHER WAY OF LOOKING.
“I have no purpose for today except to look upon a liberated world, set free from all judgments I have made. Father, this is Your Will for me today, and therefore it must be my goal as well.”
My purpose is to look upon a liberated world, set free from all judgments I have made.
I judge all things as I would have them be.
I love life. I love people. I love the grass and the trees and the wind and the sun … and every new encounter.
There are endless possibilities to be happy.
Every day is a new adventure and I am standing in the wonder of it all. I judge all things the way I wish to be judged. I look at all things the way I wish to be looked at. I give what I want to receive.
Since I want love, joy, peace and happiness, that’s what I give … love, joy, peace and happiness.
Since I want to be judged as innocent, I judge all things as innocent.
It’s a good way to go. There’s no need for blame, guilt or attack.
All my judgments against myself were false. I thought I was limited and weak, but I was wrong wrong wrong.
God’s judgment of me is that I am:
1. forever innocent
2. forever loving
3. forever loved
4. as limitless as my Creator
5. completely changeless
6. forever pure
That sounds good to me. If that’s how God thinks about me, then I might as well think about myself that way. And if that’s how God thinks about my brother, then I might as well think about him that way also.
Father, I let Your Love show me my brother’s reality as You created. Thank you for creating such grandeur and splendor. I can’t barely believe my eyes at what vision shows me.
God loves you.
Here is God’s Final Last Judgment on you:
“You are still my holy Son, forever innocent, forever loving and forever loved, as limitless as your Creator, and completely changeless and forever pure. Therefore awaken and return to Me. I am your Father you are My Son.”
In fearlessness and love I spend today.
Another great practical lesson!
In fearlessness and love I spend today.
“This day, my Father, would I spend with You, as You have chosen all my days should be. And what I will experience is not of time at all. The joy that comes to me is not of days nor hours, for it comes from Heaven to Your Son.”
Beautiful. A great reminder that I am never alone. There is nothing to fear.
Also, it’s another kick in the pants to move into the action of fearlessness and love. To stop waiting, wondering, wishing, hoping, dreaming … and start living.
Here is the adventure! Every moment is all there is! This day is all there is!
This is your life.
Are you waiting for something?
Are you hoping for something?
Are you wishing for something?
What for????
This is your life. Be careful it doesn’t pass you by while you are waiting for it to start.
This is your life.
What do you want?
There’s nothing stopping you from living your life.
Yes, you have to be a little courageous and fearless. But what have you got to lose?
If you are bored, lonely, sad or miserable already, then you have nothing to lose. Go for it. Who cares if people laugh? Who cares if someone thinks you are a fool? Who cares if you fail?
In the action of fearlessness and love, you will experience God.
We spend this day together, you and I. And all the world joins with us in our song of THANKFULNESS and JOY to Him who gave salvation to us, and Who set us free.
How about that? You are free to love, free to begin, free to live.
You are free to be yourself.
We are restored to peace and holiness. There is no room in us for fear today, for we have welcomed love into our hearts.
I will not fear to look within today.
Within me is eternal innocence, because it is God’s Will that it be there forever and forever.
We have a mission here: to remember our innocence and the innocence of all living things.
This is the Brotherhood of Man.
Click to listen on youtube:
THE INNOCENCE MISSION: Brotherhood of Man
Lyrics to Brotherhood Of Man :
All day, since your haircut in the morning,
you have looked like a painting, even more than usual.
We are in the wind, planting the maples.
We meet an older man who seems to know
I miss my dad.
And he smiles through the limbs.
We talk easily with him
until the rain begins.
This is the brotherhood of man.
This is the brotherhood of man.
This is the brotherhood of man.
Waiting at the airport on my suitcase,
a girl traveling from Spain became my sudden friend,
though I did not learn her name.
And when the subway dimmed
a stranger lit my way.
This is the brotherhood of man.
This is the brotherhood of man.
This is the brotherhood of man.
I never can say what I mean
but you will understand,
coming through clouds on the way.
This is the brotherhood of man.
The step I take today, my Father, is my sure release from idle dreams of sin. Your altar stands serene and undefiled. It is the holy altar to my Self, and there I find my true Identity.
And one more:
The Innocence Mission: Follow Me
This instant is the only time there is.
Would you have any problems if this instant is the only time there is?
The only way you can possibly have any problems is if you have organized a past and a future. Even if you think you are sick in this instant, it’s only because you have organized a past with a body identity. It’s impossible to be sick when you are in the present. It’s impossible to be in pain in this moment. If you feel pain, then you are feeling a memory of pain.
Pain is impossible.
Limitation is impossible.
Sickness is impossible.
You could do anything you wanted, starting today, if you recognized this instant is the only time there is.
There is nothing stopping you.
Whatever addictions you have are based purely on memory and identity. They have nothing – zero – to do with the way you are in this instant. You are whole and perfect as God created you. You can call addiction a disease and say you have no power over it – but that argument won’t work with me – a recovered alcoholic with over 7 years sobriety.
The term “recovered alcoholic” is not even appropriate because there was no recovery process. The desire to drink was simply lifted from me one day. I had tried to quit drinking hundreds of times before and failed. I wasn’t just a social drinker, I was an alcoholic – somebody whose life was unmanageable because of alcohol. I was someone who couldn’t quit no matter how much I tried.
And thus comes in the term disease. Big bad monster. As if something grips you and holds you and won’t let you go.
But it was still just a memory in me that I was dragging along like heavy luggage. I must have liked being unmanageable and powerless. It sure didn’t seem like it in the moment of praying to God and howling like the wind in fits of tears and dumping vodka down the toilet in disgust, but it must have been true that I liked being an addict, otherwise I would have given up the story and the addiction would have automatically disappeared.
And finally, it happened just like that.
Finally, I had enough of my story. I had enough of my tears. I had enough of waking up hung-over. I had enough of unanswered prayers. I finally just said: Okay, that’s enough. I’m done with this segment of my life.
And then next day I woke up in my bed, and I proceeded with my day from morning to night. It was like any other day, with one huge difference: I didn’t think about drinking. I didn’t even think about not thinking about not drinking. It simply wasn’t there. I ate breakfast, lunch and dinner, probably hung out with friends, read a book, drove in my car, sat outside in the sun, took a bath, read some more, went to bed. It was a typical ordinary day. The sky did not part. Trumpets were not blown. Angels did not appear. Voices did not speak to me. There were no balloons or flowers.
And the next day, it was the same thing: no desire to drink. A typical ordinary day: the same in every way but different in every way. There was no longer a struggle. I wasn’t fighting against myself because there was nothing to fight against. I was quite literally … a new person … but exactly the same!
How to explain it!
You could say it was a miracle, but back then it didn’t even feel like a miracle. It didn’t feel like anything. It wasn’t spectacular or magnificent. I simply was now a person who did not drink. The story had been erased.
I was not a person who counted the days of my sobriety because I didn’t even notice that I didn’t drink anymore till about a month after the fact.
I know everyone says it’s a disease – as if it’s something out of your control – and I’m not buying it, because I’m living proof that you have all power over your mind.
So today’s lesson is: THIS INSTANT IS THE ONLY TIME THERE IS.
Where are you without your story?
Where are you without your memories?
What would life be like for you if you could not remember ideas of failed relationships, money problems, defeat, and disappointment?
What if you couldn’t remember the way you do things? What if you developed amnesia and today was the first day in the new world?
It would be a whole new adventure. Life would begin this moment! You would be shown what to do.
“I have conceived of time in such a way that I defeat my aim.”
So, what is your aim?
My aim is to remember that I am the light of the world, that I am the Love of God, that my brother is the Love of God along with me, and that we are One joined in purpose, and that I love him in all circumstances. My aim is to remember my perfection.
Can I remember my aim if I am carrying judgments and grievances?
Can I remember my aim if I am worrying about the future?
WHAT IS TIME FOR?
Time is to help me remember my aim: I am God’s Son, complete and healed and whole, shining in the reflection of His Love.
“Time’s purpose cannot be to keep the past and future one. The only interval I can be saved from time is now.”
For in this instant has forgiveness come to set me free. The birth of Christ is now, without a past or future.
How can you be an alcoholic or an addict if all your mistakes are forgiven and you are reborn as the Christ, with no past or future?
Think about it logically.
It’s impossible.
The only way you can continue as limited or sick or weak is if you decide you want to drag your sad past story into the present. But WHY in God’s Name would you do that??
There is no need to sequence time.
You can rise from the ashes today, and walk away from the devastation that you made.
If the house is falling down, why not walk away from it?
If your life is in pieces, why not just walk away. You can’t be put back together again by picking up the shattered pieces.
Christ can make you whole.
How is this accomplished?
Forget everything you have learned before this moment. Forget anything you learned from me. Forget every single thing A Course in Miracles has taught you, and simply come into the present moment which is now.
How simple!
“Christ has come to give His present blessing to the world, restoring it to timelessness and love. And love is ever-present, here and now.
“Thanks for this instant, Father. it is now I am redeemed. This instant is the time You have appointed for Your Son’s release, and for the salvation of the world in him.
If you forget, what’s the best way to remember? Keep your aim in mind. Make it your god. Keep remembering your aim throughout the day.
My aim is Gorgeous for God in all my doings, in all my thoughts, and in all my actions. To remember the Light and Love that I am, and to extend it.
A reminder that I am on Paltalk today at 2pm EST
The room is ACIM Gather
If you have a Mac or if you don’t feel like downloading the program, you can listen in here:
Today I’ll be talking about joy, which is your natural condition. If you are not entirely joyous, something has gone wrong. All efforts should be towards correcting your thinking so that you are wholly joyous.
Chapter 8, Section IV
If God’s Will for you is complete peace and joy, unless you experience only
this you must be refusing to acknowledge His Will. His Will does not
vacillate, being changeless forever. When you are not at peace it can only
be because you do not believe you are in Him. Yet He is All in all. His
peace is complete, and you must be included in it. His laws govern you
because they govern everything. You cannot exempt yourself from His laws,
although you can disobey them. Yet if you do, and only if you do, you will
feel lonely and helpless, because you are denying yourself everything.
Chapter 5, Section I:
Those who attempt to heal without being wholly joyous themselves call forth different kinds of responses at the same time, and thus deprive others of the joy of responding wholeheartedly. To be wholehearted, you MUST be happy. If fear and love cannot coexist, and if it is impossible to be wholly fearful and remain alive, then the only possible whole state IS that of love. There is no difference between love and joy. Therefore, the only possible whole state IS the wholly joyous.
THE INNER PICTURE
(April 16, 1967)
Projection makes perception; the world you see is what you GAVE it, nothing more than that. But, though it is no more than that, it is not less. Therefore, to you, it is important. It is the witness to your state of mind, the outside picture of an inward condition. As a man thinketh, so does he perceive. Therefore, seek not to change the world, but will to change your mind ABOUT the world. Perception is a RESULT, and not a cause. And that is why order of miracles is meaningless. Everything looked upon with vision is healed and holy. Nothing perceived without it means anything. And where there is no meaning, there is chaos.
The world you see but shows you how much joy YOU have allowed yourself to see in you, and to accept as YOURS. And, if this IS its meaning, then the power to GIVE it joy MUST lie WITHIN you.
Conflicting wishes cannot be my will.
A Course in Miracles is so amazing to me. It’s absolutely changes everything!! It doesn’t just change your life a little … it changes it completely. It doesn’t tweak a few of your personality traits nor make minor adjustments. It transforms your life so completely that not one thing remains the same.
Either I am in a place of total joy experiencing the Will of my Father
or
I’m in hell, trying to figure out what to do next.
These are the choices. In every minutes I have the power to change my mind. There is always another way of thinking. Another way of seeing. As long as I stay in a space where I am recognizing that I seek only the Father, then I am happy. Joyously happy. Crazy happy.
And when I am not happy that is a flashing red warning signal that I am following another will.
How simple!
My Father’s Will for me is happiness!
There are endless possibilities in every situation!
Conflicting wishes cannot be my will. My Father’s Will is mine, and only that. There is no other will for me to have.
“Let me not try to make another will, for it is senseless and will me pain.”
Duh. Well that’s simple! Another will will cause me pain. If I am in pain, then I am not following my Father’s Will. This doesn’t get any easier. A child can understand this.
If I am not happy, then something has gone wrong.
“If miracles are not occurring, something has gone wrong.”
My natural state is one of pure joy and it is this I choose to follow today.
“I must accept Your Will for me, and enter into peace where conflict is impossible.”
Conflict is impossible!
I am over here laughing. This is great. Conflict is impossible. Joy is my inheritance. Other wills are senseless and will cause me pain.
These are the basics. Here is the simplicity of God’s Word. Nothing contradicts the truth. I remain perfect as God created me.
“And with this prayer we enter silently into a state where conflict cannot come, because we join our holy will with God’s, in recognition that they are the same.”
