November 15, 2011

We lack nothing. There is no lack in us. God asks nothing of us and we have no need to ask anything of God. The promise of God’s creation of us is that we (God and us) are One. We always have been, we are now, and we always will be. This is the Will of God. This is the reality of who we really are. Even when we see ourselves as separate and mistakenly think that we can act apart from the One, we are One with each other. The mistaken thought only makes it seem that we are apart. The mistaken thought only makes it seem that we are lonely, attacked, sinful, or have anything to fear. Yet, even though we seem to be in danger, we are safe, cradled in the arms of Oneness.

The relationships we share with each other are truly holy, for we are a part of each other and part of God. We are One and therefore holy. Any idea that denies the truth of our wholeness and our health, our Source of help, and our Call to healing and the Call to heal must certainly be a sick idea. As we deny our true identity, our savior waits, as does the world, for our healing of that one sick thought. And we are not apart from the waiting savior and world, for we are One, but do not see our Oneness. And so we see ourselves as either One or separate, for we cannot see or believe both at once.

Under the mistaken idea that we are not One, we see the world upside down, from a perspective it cannot possibly be rationally understood. So we grasp at any little explanation we can think up. Our world seems to spin out of our control so we make up any explanation that seems to give us a place to get a footing. We then identify our body as our identity. We give it meaning and power it does not have. And so we identify ourselves as separate; our body seems to be our home. We use the body to witness to the dream of separation.

But, the body can be seen differently. We can see the body as our aid to reawaken to the awareness of our true home, the holy home of Oneness we never left. Our true home is built on the awareness of our holy relationships with each other. As we begin to shift our trust and belief to the Source of our being, we find safety in the promise we made with God in creation. The world can rail around us and we rest in the ark of safety in which that promise shelters us. And so the body, our idea we once identified as “me”, becomes a means to liberate us from the mistaken ideas and thoughts we had once thought were true. It then adopts the purpose, just for a little while, of salvation and the return to the awareness of who we really are where we realize we lack nothing.

November 8, 2011

Our bodies do not make us appear separate. Our bodies have no power and no meaning of themselves. Our bodies are just there and do nothing on their own. They are learning tools. And can be used for any purpose we decide to use them for. They carry out the desires and directions of our mind. They do the bidding of our thoughts and beliefs. But they are incapable of doing anything solely on their own. We make the mistake of projecting the responsibility of our thoughts onto the body and thus make it something separate and self determining in our minds.

This mistaken idea is a secret agreement we have made with each other. In fact, it is so secret we have made it secret from our consciousness. Thus we think our bodies, or the world, are totally out of our control and we are its victims, subject to the pain and suffering, the limitations of the body. How else could we forget our divinity, our unity, our limitlessness, except through this mistaken idea we believe is true? We have taken secret vows of separation! In our divine creation we have looked away and secretly vowed to see each other as unconnected, as separate, as completely independent of each other. In this way we shirk responsibility for our thoughts without ever acknowledging they were our thoughts in the first place.

The joy of this agreement is that once one decides not to agree any more, there is no longer an agreement. Once one of us refuses to abide by our mistaken thoughts and ideas we agreed to share, there is no support for the other’s agreed upon or shared thoughts and ideas. There is power in sharing. There is power in agreement. If we agree or share separation, or unreality, we give it the power to appear real in our mind. But when we take that power away by ceasing to agree the mistaken idea, we immediately make that mistaken idea powerless.

Shifting our thoughts and ideas to those aligned with Spirit, with divinity, we have made a new agreement for ourselves and each other. The power of our shared thoughts is shifted to Truth. It is shifted to the awareness of who we really are, the awareness of our unity, our divinity, our limitlessness. We realize the Oneness of our Creation, that which can never be compromised except in our thoughts and the little gap in our mind we have made seem real for ourselves. Let go of those secret vows. Realize that, in the first place, we made them with each other. And relax into the awareness of who we really are. It is our choice to let go of those secret agreements, no one else’s. The real world follows in the wake of our awakening.

November 1, 2011

Sickness, in Course terms, is the separating off of the self from good and keeping what is not good, or fear, in. The sense of sickness is a sense of limitation, a splitting off and a separating from. Sickness is the thought of limitation, splitting off, and separating from. These thoughts are the dreams of fear, the dreams we have mistaken for reality. We have used these dreams we made up and believed them. Then we have reinforced the mistaken dreams with more dreams based on our belief in the first dreams we made up. Thus have we made up this little gap, this idea that we are not connected to one another, that we are separate. And this has developed into the idea that we are independent, and control our individual destiny.

But, God is the alternative to this mindset. God’s Creation is One and inseparable, indivisible. So the healing of the sickness of the mistaken thought is the return to the idea that we are One, united, and joined in Spirit, our true Self. So how do we move from dreams of separation to the awareness of Oneness and who we really are?

The key is in what we believe and what we share. We know that we give power to whatever we believe, for if we believe something, some thought, it seems real and true to us. Our belief that it is real and true makes it so for us because we cannot believe two opposing thoughts at the same time. We cannot believe we are separate while believing we are One with all Creation. Once we begin to right our belief and our thoughts, there is another undoing to do. What do we share? Do we share one another’s dreams and thus support them in their dream? Sharing their dream makes their dream our dream. We reinforce their dreams of fear and limitation. Thus we have again moved ourselves to belief in separation and limitation. It is impossible to see and experience wholeness when we are supporting un-wholeness.

There is a simple solution. There is a saving grace. Spirit asks us to simply withdraw from the support of another’s dream. No dramatics, no confrontation, no convincing, just withdraw from another’s dreams of separation and limitation. We simply refrain from sharing each other’s dreams. The real world is not made up of a little piece from you, and a little piece from me, and a little piece from another. The real world is all of us sharing what we already know, the undisputable truth of our wholeness, love, and holiness that takes us from the illusion of separation to the awareness of who we really are. Turn from the dreams of fear and begin the alternative, the dream of God. Before you know it the dream morphs into the awareness of reality.

October 25, 2011

The Truth about us is that we are all One. We are as God created us. There is no separation. We are whole, innocent, limitless, and free, and cannot be otherwise; just as God created us. Yet we insist on seeing ourselves as separate. We identify as the bodies we made and built a life around and reinforce that idea over and over again until we just can’t see any other way to identify ourselves. We also reinforce each other’s mistaken idea that they are separate. We repeatedly reinforce each other’s dream of separation with each passing thought in our minds.

But we need not perpetuate the dream. It is in our power to make the choice to change our mind and change our belief that we are at the mercy of the dream of separation we dream. Once we accept the idea that we have chosen what we believe, we know that the dream can be changed. It can be changed because the dream is nothing more than our thoughts and judgments about the events and experiences in our lives. Spirit is poised in our minds, ready with a new gentler and happier dream to replace the dreams we have believed real, but now realize are merely thought. Step by step Spirit places the miracle of healing in our mind through a new dream, bringing our thoughts and dreams closer and closer to spiritual awakening.

The gift we give each other is our own awakening, for when we let go of our own dreams, we release another from the bonds and mistaken ideas of our own dreams. We set them free. In doing so, we no longer support their dreams and mistaken ideas of separation they have believed in so strongly. They can’t help but move into healing for there is nothing else to move in to. The gap that seems to appear between our bodies is now vacant. We have stopped filling the gap wit all our mistaken ideas about ourselves and each other. Spirit steps in to bridge that apparent gap, bringing the experience of our Oneness to us, bringing to our minds the awareness of who we really are.

The healing of our minds is the transformation of our awareness. This awareness transcends the appearance of separation in the bodies we have identified as. And we continue in this world and in this life we have made, experiencing the peace, love, and joy of the Oneness of our minds while extending that peace, love, and joy to each other in this world. Ad we extend the experience of awareness to each other in our daily lives, we bring the miracle of healing, the call to awaken, to each and every One we encounter. It is simple. Just Be who you really are.

October 18, 2011

We have been talking about the concept that our so called life as we understand it is like a dream which occurs while we are spiritually asleep. It is a dream, because it is not real. It consists only of our ideas and thoughts and judgments about everything we have ever experienced in this world. It is founded in the idea that we are each separate, and each acting independently and autonomously, and not in control of what happens to us. Our goal is to spiritually waken from the dream, to understand that all our ideas founded in the idea we are each separate are mistaken because we are not understanding who we really are. The awakening begins when we accept the idea that we are in a dream, and there is a better way to think.

Once we begin to accept the idea that we are not what we think we see in our dreams, that we are whole and as God created us, we cannot give support to another’s dream of separation. This means we do not share another’s wish to separate nor turn their illusions on themselves or us. And so we are free of another’s illusion because we let them be, knowing they are not the dream they are caught up in. We always have the choice whether or not to become involved in another’s dream of separation. If we join them in their dream, we are adding our own dream of separation to theirs, and sinking into our own dream.

We are given a way to find certainty in a world seemingly filled with dreams. Spirit has provided us this gift, this way of being in the world we live in right now. We simply refuse to be a part of any fearful dream another dreams. Take a step apart from the dream while remaining with the one who is dreaming. In taking this step, we separate the dreamer from the dream; joining with the mind of the one and letting go of the dream. In doing this we join with another’s true self and let go of all the illusions they have dreamt and are dreaming. In this way we share their holy mind which is one with our holy mind and realize our Oneness. This is possible and certain even when another remains in their dreams of separation and refuses to awaken. The dreaming is no more than illusion and so cannot be real, and is easily overlooked. And let go by one who seeks the truth of who we really are.

The greater joining of the minds who thought they were separate is a miracle that possible from each of us, no matter what the thoughts of anyone else. No one else must think differently for each of us to change our mind, our way of thinking. Once we accept that we think with the Mind of God, we need no change in the world, no change in any other one’s way of thinking to be in the joining of minds. We can now think of another as a mind in which illusions still persist, yet who is already joined with ours. The little gap that seems to be there to another has already vanished in the minds that have joined together. Be certain that if we each do our part the other will join us there where we stand joined. Remain standing in the joining, for we cannot do another’s part, but we can be a passive figure in another’s dream as they begin to awaken.

October 11, 2011

We are spiritually asleep, and we are dreaming our human life. Our dream is in our minds, for it is comprised of all our thoughts and ideas about our experiences in this existence we call “life.” In this life we appear to be separate because we have agreed to see ourselves as separate. If you and I are really One, we cannot appear separate unless we agree that we are separate. If one of us does not see the other as separate, and we really are One, we cannot be separate even if one of us still believes we are separate. When we both believe we are separate, we support each other’s dream and we thus appear separate.

Our concern right now is not the end of the dream, for that is beyond our mind’s comprehension at this moment. Our concern is merely with this moment, with the acceptance of the miracle, with the acceptance of the idea we dreamed our dream of separation and we can allow another dream to take its place. Or concern is to accept the new dream Spirit gives us as we open ourselves to Spirit’s guidance. Our concern is to support this new dream, to support this change; refraining from adding our own dreams of fear to the new one Spirit has given us. Our support of this miracle, the new dream is what will strengthen it and us.

In Reality, in Truth, we are One, we are whole, we are innocent, and we are as God created us, unchangeable and inseparable. But we have mistakenly perceived ourselves differently. We have descended the ladder the idea of separation led us down. Now Spirit gives us new dreams of ascending that ladder again. Each step reawakens us a bit more. The gap between you and I is no gap at all, but is an idea we agreed to in our dreams of separation. We believed those dreams and so the gap appears real and sometimes very wide and bottomless. It is our wish to keep apart that makes this gap appear real, that makes it appear so wide.

A wish to join is a shift in thought that reverses our direction, that corrects our mistake. It is an idea that accepts the miracle of healing and the new dream Spirit offers us. It is the opening, the little willingness that allows Spirit’s dream to fill our mind, healing it from the sickness of the idea of separation. Love swiftly flows in, filling the void left by our mistaken ideas we have let go of. And each time we let go of some mistaken idea and Spirit replace it, love flows in again to fill the void. And the old dream is nothing more than a ship passing in the night, leaving no trace of the illusion of separation behind. Let Spirit gently guide the ascent to the reawakening of our true mind, the Mind of God. This is Heaven, our home where we belong.

October 4, 2011

If we can accept that we are the dreamer of the life we think we see as our life, we can perceive at least this: that we have caused this dream and can accept another dream just as well in its place. This is the place where change can occur. This is the willingness that gives Spirit the opportunity to show us something different, something new, something better, something that changes the way we look at and perceive our lives. No matter what the content of our dream, it must be realized that it is each of us that dreams the dreaming we don’t like. It is our perception, what we think of all our experiences that comprises our dream that we mistake for our lives.

What we think about our lives is, for each of us, the effect that we have caused by our mistaken idea that we are not dreaming and the dream is real. This turns the world on its head, and upside down world. We move along in our dream state, not realizing that we are spiritually asleep and thus believing the dream we dreamed. We easily understand that when we dream while physically asleep, the dream is not real. But we have hidden from our awareness that the waking life we are living is a dream we are having while spiritually asleep. Just like the sleeping dreams we have, this waking dream seems so very vivid and real. So while spiritually asleep we think it is real!

We often feel ourselves the victim of our dreams. This is the effect that cannot be, for the idea of victim is born of dreaming. An effect (dream) cannot cause an effect Victim). And, a dream cannot cause anyone to be a victim or anything else real. Realizing that we are the dreamer and the dream can be changed is the shift in thought, the change of mind that is the miracle. This miracle opens the door to a different interpretation of the world we see. It opens the door to a new perception. It opens the door to Spirit to show us a new way of perceiving and interpreting our experiences. It frees us from the bonds of our rigid ideas and thinking. It is our salvation.

Allow the miracle of the knowing we are the dreamer and the dream can be changed enter your mind. Spirit is there waiting to awaken us just the perfect way for each of us. The new dream well then lead us to another dream and another, each with a heightened sense of awakening and the awareness of who we really are. Let the miracle in and let your mind be changed. And know the truth about who you really are, One with God and all creation.

September 27, 2011

Be quiet for just a moment. Be still for just a moment. In that moment all that is past or future falls away and we are in the present moment, the now. Spirit has been vigilant in watching and waiting for this moment. This is the moment when what is real and true surfaces. In this moment the miracle comes, for our minds open to the remembrance of the Divine within, to God. In this moment do we experience the Ahhh, the knowing we are home once again. It brings peace to our soul and our mind. It reminds us that we are now and have always been One with God. And as we relax into this stillness, our miracle is extended to all. In that instant our miracle, our healing, becomes everyone’s healing, everyone’s miracle.

All is truly sacred in this instant. It is the holy instant. Our thinking un-tilts, it rights itself without our having to do anything but be still. What a gift this is. What a blessing this is. Enjoy this fully. Drink it in and let it permeate your whole being. Feel it in your bones. This is who we really are, always have been, and always will be. Ion this moment we have glimpsed the correction of our perceiving. We have seen the face of Christ shining from everyone we see. The innocence and beauty of the real world eclipses all we thought we had ever seen, but perceived incorrectly.

Here is our present memory. Here is the memory of God, the Divine Self we are. Our memories of the past hold nothing in the presence of the memory of the Divine. All fear is gone. All thoughts of separateness are gone. Fear’s purpose was to distract us from the remembrance of God, but in this quiet moment we see there was nothing to fear, ever. The illusion of fear, the illusion of separation is gone in the stillness of the present moment. The stillness itself speaks so confidently, so boldly that no fear remains to distract us from what we have remembered. Relax into the stillness and let it wash over you. It is nothing but the extension of God, sacred and innocent. It is Heaven.

Have no fear. God never leaves us stranded; glimpsing a reality we cannot get to. All we fear is false, for we are nothing less than an extension of God, inseparable from God, and One with God for eternity. Simply glimpse eternity and we are there. The awareness of who we really are returns to our mind and thus extends to the mind of all creation. Be still, just for a moment and listen. It will not fail you, Stillness speaks. And it speaks of Divine love and peace. Be still for just a moment and know we are God.

September 20, 2011

In a separated state of mind we cannot recognize the Truth about ourselves and who we really are. Separation and Oneness are incongruous. The two ideas cannot coexist in the mind. Therefore we are either in a state of separated mind or a state of Oneness mind. It is our choice which state of mind we are in at this or any moment. So at any given moment we choose whether to conceal from ourselves and others the Truth about ourselves, or not. What a mad insane choice this is.

The Truth about us is that we are always One with God and all Creation. That is unchangeable. But we do choose which state of mind we are in at any moment. And we often choose separation. How we think is evidence of what state or mind is in. Do we experience fear, hate, anger, guilt, anxiousness, loneliness, or frustration? These are all experiences of a mind’s state of separation. Yet within us is the capacity to experience peace, love, compassion, and joy.

Within us is the knowledge of who we really are, buried deep behind all the barriers we have placed between our state of mind and the awareness of our true Self. Spirit holds deep within us the awareness of the Truth about ourselves. Yet we are so invested in our concept of our past that we fail to see that Truth shining right before our very eyes. We tend to see our past experiences as the cause of our lives and so find ourselves helpless to do anything about where we are now. But Spirit holds for us the true cause of our state of mind, the thoughts we can change about our past and begin to see that our past is the effect rather than the cause of our state of mind.

Spirit holds for us the ancient memory of a true Cause, and unchangeable Cause deep within our true being and the Mind of God of which we are One. In a moment when we allow ourselves to become still and quiet Spirit rises to our awareness and gives us a new idea, a new thought, that resonates with the Truth in us. We find peace and joy washing through us and the remembering of who we really are. All we have carried with us begins to drop away and new meaning comes to that which we allow Spirit to give us a new meaning. All this is part of Spirit’s leading us into the miracle, the healing, the correction of our perception guided by the Divine within all of us. Be still for a moment. In the stillness allow Spirit to show us a /new perception, a new vision. And let the awareness of who we really are wash over and through you. In this moment Heaven is.

September 13, 2011

At this very moment we have all we need. We have no need to learn, do, or remedy anything. We are complete as a whole creation of God. Nothing can ever change a creation of God, so we remain as God created us. What is needed now is unlearning, undoing, remembering. We have done so much and learned so much that has blocked our minds from the awareness of who we really are, from the awareness that we are a holy creation of God, innocent and unchangeable as our true state of being. We have just focused on a mistaken idea that we could be anything not a part of the Divine.

We have used memory to focus on our ideas about the past. We carry with us in our mind every thought and idea about every experience and feeling we have ever had. We have convinced ourselves that those ideas about our past are true; we actually believe them. All our thoughts and ideas we believe so true are really perceptions. Rather than actual truth, they are merely perceptions; our best attempt to understand our experiences outside the Mind of God where we have convinced ourselves we are. Memory is our perception of our past that we carry with us into the present and believe to be the absolute truth. But what we remember, we need to recognize what it is; merely a perception made up by our minds and believed to be true.

But memory has a higher purpose, as does perception and all else we have made up. Spirit has been given to us to help us see differently, to see more clearly, to perceive more correctly. As we let Spirit guide our mind we find Sprit giving us new ideas and thoughts about our memories. They become learning tools used by Spirit to unlearn what we have learned that is untrue. We can allow Spirit to show us what is real and true ad what is an illusion or a mistaken thought separated form God and our own Divine state of being. The miracle we experience is the healing of our thoughts and ideas, the recognition of what is true and real and the willingness to let go of thoughts that are not real. We already have all knowledge there is for we are One with God. Our mistake is the belief in the thought that we are not One with God.

Our mistaken thoughts and ideas take many forms. Yet, the one fix, the one correction the Holy Spirit holds ready for us to accept is applicable to every form if incorrect thought or perception we may hold. We may need to let Spirit apply this lesson in many circumstances until we finally realize that there is only one error in our thinking. Spirit is patient with us and continues to apply the correction to each error until we begin to understand that is there is only one mistake. So we unlearn ad unlearn and unlearn until we finally realize what we must unlearn and accept that healing and miracle in its entirety. Because we are attached to our memory of the past, we have the opportunity now to remember now, to remember the present, for the present is where have always been, but for a while did not realize it or recognize it. There is no time like now to remember the now. Let it be so.