God is my Source. I cannot see apart from Him.
“Perception is not an attribute of God.”
God does not say mean things about his brother. He does not say negative things about Himself. He doesn’t hold grievances and then sit around telling people about them. He doesn’t gossip.
YOUR MIND IS PART OF GOD’S MIND. YOU ARE VERY HOLY.
If you really want to see what your thoughts are (to see if they are aligned with the Thoughts of God): I suggest you start writing, keep a journal, start a blog. Writing is a good tool for transformation which shows you what you are thinking. It’s right there on paper. You can SEE it – your thoughts on paper.
I’ve been blogging since November 2004.
Before that I kept journals.
I’ve been writing since I was old enough to hold a pencil.
Most of my writing throughout my life was wishes, wants, hopes, desires, telling stories from the past, complaints and grievances. My writing reflected my thinking during those stages in my life: me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me …. ME!
And then one fine day, I realized that I could change my thinking … and lo and behold … my writing changed.
On that fine day, I destroyed 15 years of leather journals, spanning back from when I was 21. My dad nearly had a heart attack when he heard the news! I laughed like crazy. I was glad to get rid of the evidence of a girl that was no longer me.
I didn’t need to hold on to the past.
And right then and there: Gorgeous for God was born. That was November 2004.
Now all I want is to be in a state of grace, love, joy, helpfulness, and extension of light.
So writing is a great tool because it will show you IN BLACK AND WHITE what thoughts you hold in your mind. You were thinking the thoughts anyways, but when you put them down on paper, or in an email, or on facebook, you can actually see your thoughts and the way you think.
So it’s good practice to begin to ask yourself a few simple questions BEFORE you hit the Publish Button or the Send Button: Is this truth? Is this coming from a place of wholeness? Is it about gratitude? Or is what I’ve just written (which reflects my thinking) coming from the small limited self that is small, angry and fearful?
I cannot tell you how many times I’ve written something down, gone back to re-read it with these questions in mind, and been shocked by the crap contained in my mind. Pure utter nonsense, a whole lot of nothing.
Another good question to ask is: WHAT IS IT FOR?
I write to get clear, to see where I am in my own mind, and hopefully to be helpful to my brother.
Today’s lesson is a great reminder of this truth – God does not perceive. Perception has no function in God, and does not exist. Perception has no meaning. Yet does the Holy Spirit give it meaning very close to God’s. Healed perception becomes the means by which the Son of God forgives his brother, and thus forgives himself.
So all my writing and all my words and everything that comes out of my mouth when I speak reflects my thinking. No exceptions. What am I saying?? What am I writing??
Start catching yourself. I’ve said before it is good advice to pause before you speak.
A Course in Miracles says it in this way: “to step back and let Him lead the way.”
Writing is also a pause, a stepping back. Everything sentence is a decision. Every sentence and word reflects your thinking. Is it reflecting truth or falsity? Start becoming aware before you speak, look at what you are writing before you hit the Send Button, before you hit the Publish Button … and decide if this is something you want to send out into the world.
What you send out – through writing, thought and sound – is a vibration, and it bounces back to you so you might want to be more conscious of what you are sending out BEFORE you send it.
The Delete Button is a marvelous tool!!
This is the change of mind that is needed. This is systematically training your mind to think differently, to see things differently.
God is my Source. Does my thinking reflect that? Are my words (written and spoken) reflecting the Word of God?
God is my Source. I cannot see apart from Him.
I see through the eyes of forgiveness.
I see the world as blessed.
The world can show me myself.
I see my own thoughts, which are like God’s.
Facebook comments:
Lisa,
I think I told you once that I wrote a book about my life (500 pages). When I look at it now it’s amazing. I spew out negativity and then write something funny so people will laugh “with” me or “at” me! Interesting, I am trying to rewrite it from my new perspective of choosing God’s Love first. “Will ye first the Kingdom of Heaven!”… as it says in ACIM. Writing is a fabulous tool, I agree. I started a blog but have no idea how to use it, or for that matter, how to get people to read it????? Oh, well, no worries here. HS will show me what to do, where to go and what to say and to whom!
Love,
Carol