This holy instant would I give to You.
Be You in charge. For I would follow You,
Certain that Your direction gives me peace.
It must be no accident that I am supposed to practice this lesson for 5 straight days in a row. It must have been designed this way – not because of laziness in the final stretch – but rather because this lesson needs to be reinforced so I learn it. Amazing.
These are the final lessons. We are in our final days. It says “Our final lessons will be left as free of words as possible. We use them but at the beginning of our practicing, and only to remind us that we seek to go beyond them. Let us turn to Him Who leads the way, and makes our footsteps sure.”
I love this: “For we would not return again to the belief in sin that made the world seem ugly and unsafe, attacking and destroying, dangerous in all ways, and treacherous beyond the hope of trust and the escape from pain.”
I love it.
I am not going to blog about the lessons in 2009 because I did that in 2008 and I don’t need to repeat what I have already accomplished. All the lessons are archived and they are there for you if you make a decision to complete the workbook in 2009.
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Lisa, I have loved this blog about the lessons.
I found it — and you — in the middle of your journey (I think lesson 229) and it touched me deeply.
While I can not say that I have experienced the “instant” of shifting forever into a new and solid place, as I have not been consistent in doing the lessons each and every day — I can say that I regularly do things I was not able to do before a friend told me about Gorgeous for God. Things like:
* Tell people “I love you”– and to mean it with all my heart .
* Ask people if there is anything I can do to help — and then listen and follow directions.
* Feel love from what I once thought were total strangers.
* Ask Jesus for help — and then listen and follow directions.
I started the lessons yesterday again from the beginning. I am on lesson 2. This time I will finish. 2009 is my year.
Thank you
Lori
Thank you, God Bless you and Happy New Year Lisa!!
Lori
Hi you sweet thang! My gorgeous for god girl. Here is time …knocking at what appears to be the end of something. I only see beginning. I have started to watch my collection of The Master Teacher videos that are available online from Endeavor Academy, reading the Urtext of ACIM, reading Gorgeous for God in our study group, doing the lessons daily, and reading your blog. A whole new vista has opened up for me and none of this would be possible if it wasn’t for you, my love. Gorgeous for God has opened me up to receive and it is only now that I am able to do things that I was never able to do before.
When God showed me where you were sometime in the middle of the year… I wasn’t even doing the lessons and had not for years. But I had come to my end… literally. This abyss that was swallowing me up, in AA is called a ‘bottom’ and I had been in them before but not like this was. I know the characteristics of a spiritual bottom… and then I found you. You have saved my life. You have helped me more than anyone on earth.
I have started to do what you talk about… reading aloud. And when I can remember to do it it changes everything. I cannot have a whole dialogue going on in the background of my no – mind and read aloud too. It is amazing.
I have also started to feel a love for the course like I never ever dreamed possible. The Urtext of ACIM is simply glorious. The text when I read it with you in the classes is out of this world beautiful. I hear The Master Teacher and when He gives His bible class I weep with the love and innocence He has returned to my mind. I am whole and perfect as God created me … and now I know so is everyone else.
To have the past erased, never mind wiped clean it is just gone and was never there and the future is not even a thought … it is in this present glorious moment that God is here with me and that I know I am His Son, complete and healed and whole, shining in the reflection of His Love.
There was nothing to forgive or be forgiven for, it was just a dream… and I am soaking in the air of LOVE. Heaven is without contradiction. Here and Now.
I love you, Lisa. You are a bringer of life…what a Teacher of God.
thank you
gem
AMEN!