November 9, 2010

Our biggest confusion is between what is changeable and what is changeless.  Our habitual way of thinking believes that what is of this world of form, what is based in the belief in separation, is changeless.  The belief in the temporary, the illusion, pulls our awareness away from the awareness of who we really are.  It pulls a veil over the awareness of our Divinity and Divine nature.  We have believed in our “sinfulness” and have thus taught ourselves that is unchangeable.  In this misperception we have made our idea of ourselves as strong as God’s Will.

Yet how could anything be as strong as God’s Will and not be a part of it?  God’s Will is changeless.  Everything not of God’s Will is changeable.  There is the ability to find the Divine purpose in all we see.  Yes we believe in separation and give it power to hide the Truth from us.  But the Holy Spirit’s gift is the transformation of that mistaken perception into True perception of reality that heals our minds.

The Spirit can take anything we have brought into our life and mind and use it to heal.  We need not make the effort to change our thoughts, and search out a new thought for our mind.  We need only to be willing to let Spirit show us the new perception.  We must set aside our beliefs we have become so attached to.  Spirit will bring us the new perception.  We must let our mind be correctly changed for us.

Are we willing to place our trust in God? Our sanity is found in what we allow Spirit to show us.  What was formerly unchangeable is now changeable and we see that what we thought was changeable is really changeless.  The Will of God is a constant that never waivers.  It is the rock of salvation we place our trust in and see the world transformed before our very eyes.  No matter what situation we find ourselves in, there is a great blessing waiting to come of it.  We take the first step by being willing and Spirit takes the next, showing us the truth of who we really are.  Place your faith and belief in the unchangeable, the rock of Truth, the salvation of our insanely mistaken mind into the changeless Mind of God.

November 2, 2010

We often feel badly about what we have done or how we have handled things in our lives.  Maybe we feel guilty.  Maybe we feel we have “sinned.”  Whatever it is we think we have done, we may feel badly about it.  No matter what it is, there is a different way to look at it.  There is always a different way of looking at and perceiving it.  Evan relationships we have made “special” cam be seen in a different light.

We are never stuck in this perception that causes us to feel badly.  We always have a choice to see and perceive differently.  It is simply a choice to be willing to let the Holy Spirit show us a different perception.  The Holy Spirit has always been with us.  It knows all we have done and also has a different purpose for all we have done.  The vehicle Spirit uses to show us the way is every experience we have ever had in a new perception.

The Holy Spirit gives every little thing we have done a special function in this world.  All is transformed into a special function that heals, that offers forgiveness, and frees us from our imprisonment.  We must be willing to see that our willingness to see and perceive differently gives Spirit the opportunity to show us a more correct perception.  This willingness allows a new vision, a new interpretation to come to us.  Each new interpretation that we welcome is a healing of whatever idea or thought we had that has blocked our awareness of Oneness and Love.

This is how we fulfill the part assigned to each of us, making each complete within a world where incompleteness reigns.  As our mind is transformed by our willingness to be at One with the Mind of Spirit, we are healed.  We make this one perfect choice, an act of faithfulness in one we perceive as “other” than ourselves, and thus learn the gift we give is given to ourselves, showing us we must be One.  Our forgiveness is the means Spirit uses in this world to bring us into the real world, the awareness of who we really are.

October 26, 2010

The Grace of God rests on forgiving eyes.  For those eyes bring salvation to the world we live in.  We have gone through life making mistakes, involved in special relationships, and living the effects of our misperceptions as our experiences.  This is what we call life.  As a result we feel the experiences of hurt, pain, guilt, attack, and blame.  Oh what a world we have made.

But the Holy Spirit has a plan for all this, a special function for all we made.  Everything we have dome, experienced, and made to this moment has a special function as reinterpreted by the Holy Spirit.  As we release each other from the bonds and limitations we placed on each other, we are forgiving each other.  We grant each other the gift of freedom to be who we really are.  And as we forgive and free each other, we in turn forgive and release ourselves from the bonds we have kept ourselves imprisoned in.

We begin to see the special function Spirit places in all we have ever made, transforming all into the means to forgive and free all of us.  The connection of unconditional love wells up within all of us, joining us as the One Child of God we really are.  We begin to remember what has always been, hovering just above our unconsciousness; there, but not seen or experienced.  But when we let Spirit show us the special function of our world, we begin to see that our true being has never left us.  And we begin to remember who we really are.

So love follows forgiveness.  It floods into our awareness and extends to all we know, extending and connecting all that is One, showing us it has never been otherwise.  Are we not ready to look gently on each other with eyes of forgiveness?  The Grace of God is in those eyes and sees truly the perfection of all of God’s Children in unity.  Let us gently rest the Grace of God on all the world by seeing with forgiving eyes.  As we look deep into those eyes we see the limitless unconditional love of God as it extends to and unites all of creation into the Divine Oneness we truly are.

October 12, 2010

What is our aim?  And what means do we choose to reach our aim?  What do we truly believe that we must do to reach our aim?  We all want happiness, peace, love, joy, safety, and freedom.  In reality, we have all we want, but just don’t realize it.  We have chosen not to see and experience what we want because we have chosen to believe something else.  We have chosen to believe that we must attain these things, and so must do some thing or some things to experience them.

We all are pursuing the same aim, so what are our means for attaining those aims?  For how we choose to achieve those aims is the key to actually experiencing them.  The means must be consistent with the aim.  It’s so simple, but we tend to miss it.  If we use unpeaceful, unloving, unjoyful, threatening, and limiting means to achieve love, peace, joy, safety, and freedom, we can’t possibly experience them while we are believing in and experiencing means to the contrary of the aim.  Can we just stop a moment and observe what we are doing?

The Course says that giving and receiving are the same.  Would it not make sense to believe that giving peace and using peaceful means would achieve the aim of peace?  It is the same with happiness, love, joy, safety, and freedom.  As we align the means we use with our aim, we allow that which we really want to become manifest in our life.  Soon we are experiencing the very things we desire as we use them as a means to achieve our desire.  It comes from within us; from within all of us.  It is the totality of Heaven within us.  All of creation reflects it back to us, allowing us to see it for ourselves.

The light we bring from within us transforms our brother and sister and, in turn, transforms us.  It shines brightly and the darkness retreats into nothingness at its light.  No more need we be fearful or limited.  Our willingness to bring the light of Heaven with us brings the light of truth to our mistakes as we walk beyond the world of darkness into light.  And thus all of our mistakes are brought to the light of truth and fade into nothingness.  Be love and achieve love.  Be peace and achieve peace.  Be joy and experience joy.  Be safety and freedom and experience safety and freedom.  Be who you want to be; the real One you are, always have been and always will be.

October 5, 2010

Do we choose to see each others’ errors or mistakes?  Or do we allow our Helper to show us the real One before us?  When we realize that the questions “What is justified?” and “What do we want?” are the same question, we will see the choice is made.  In that realization is the release from the idea that there are two ways to see.  This one way to see offers us peace at any moment in all opportunities.  In that peace our forgiveness extends to all we encounter bringing peace to all and bringing light to the seeming darkness.

We rejoice at what we see, for it brings us joy, true lasting joy.  This fulfills the law of perception, the law that what we believe is what we will see and experience.  We all want joy.  It is only our means for reaching joy that we choose.  Once we release ourselves from our choice of suffering and guilt to obtain joy will we realize that joy is already within us.  We see it in each other, recognize it, and let it bloom within us, each other and all of creation.

The peace of God is within each of us.  It has always been there and always will be.  As we allow this world of peace to rise within us, it will grant each one we encounter rest.  From us will a world rise which any can rejoice in.  Our vision will extend to all and bring them gentleness and light.  This widening world of light will push back the darkness they think they see until it fades into nothing.  The light of Oneness will permeate every corner of each one, showing the, the peace and joy that is already there within and shared by all.

This light and peace of Heaven is within each and every one of us.  Every bit of creation is given life in us and this awareness.  Not one thing in this world we see is not given life in us.  The peace, love, and joy of God is evident in all the world through us.  Pull the veil from your eyes.  Let Spirit see through you to show the grandeur of creation to all.  Salvation and freedom are inevitable for all as we allow the light we are to rise in us and show all of creation the light they are.  We truly bring light to all the world.  We are the light of the world.

September 28, 2010

We are responsible for the world we see.  This may seem preposterous, but is inherently true.  The fundamental law of perception is that we see what we believe is there, and we be believe it is there because we want it to be there.  The world is formed by all of our perceptions of our experiences and interactions.  It is comprised of the collection of thoughts, conclusions, and judgments we have made about everything, everyone, and every experience we have had in our life.  Is it any wonder no two of us see the same world?

We choose to perceive something a certain way because we have made choices about what we believe to be true.  We may have arrived at this conclusion in what seems to be a very rational way.  But it is often only rational to us and those close to us who have agreed on certain perceptions.  We often look at a situation and see it from our habitual way of thinking about life and so miss the larger picture.  We perceive only from a narrow perspective, often ignoring the eyes of Spirit we carry within our own being.  We are perceiving from a perspective of separateness, choosing to ignore the presence of Spirit within us.

Every thought, every perception is a choice.  We choose either to perceive through the narrow, veiled sight of separation, or the vast resource of Spirit’s vision.  God has given us the vision of Spirit s\o secure that it can never be lost, but we must choose to use that gift rather than our limited separated perception.  In this world, both are perception, but the perception guided by the Holy Spirit perceives with the limitless resources and knowledge of God.  We are an extension of God, inseparable from God, and so always have the resources of Spirit available to us if we will just use them.

The misperceptions we have made are nothing in God’s eyes.  The path to correcting our perception begins in a willingness to let go of our perceptions and beliefs we have made up over time.  God created us in Love, creating like God’s Self.  Our true essence is God, is Love, and Love can create nothing except itself.  If what we have made is not Love, it is therefore not real.  Letting go of misperceptions and misbeliefs allows Spirit to show us Truth, to shift our perception to the clarity of God’s Love and power.  We are freed from the prison of our misthoughts and find the glory of a world fills with inner peace and love.  Make the choice today.

September 21, 2010

Recognize God’s masterpiece.  See it in all its true grandeur.  Look within to see it in each other and ourselves.  We are so used to looking at the outside, the form that we have given as we look with the body’s eyes.  And so we miss the truth of all we look at, seeing only an image we have made of our attempts to understand on our own.  The image we have made is so much less than reality and is propped up only by the frame we have made from our attempts to understand our perception based in separation.

Look beyond the appearance we think we see.  All of God’s holiness is right in front of us.  All of God’s blessing is right there with it.  The creation of God is waiting for us to recognize it for who and what it really is.  Let the Holy Spirit guide our sight.  It will show us the eyes of Vision we are blessed with from our own creation.  When we allow Spirit to open our Spirit eyes we begin to see what God has made and see the light and love and peace that shine with such an intensity we are mystified how we ever could not have seen it.

As we accept the Divinity of each experience and relationship we encounter we are shown reality.  Each of us is God’s masterpiece.  We are the essence and the reflection of God’s grandeur.  What a blessing to finally recognize our true essence in the reflection we see in each other.  Let the light of God shine not only within ourselves, but from within each other.  We are this light, full of peace and love that radiate wherever we allow it to radiate.  This is our home.  Heaven is our home because we have joined with the Mind of God in Oneness.  We have recognized our One Self there in the masterpiece of God we have allowed ourselves to see.  Be that masterpiece.

September 14, 2010

So consistently do we place our hope and faith in that which has always failed us.  Yet we keep trying the same thing again and again, hoping that this time it will somehow be different.  The world we are accustomed to living in is a world built on fear and lack, not love and abundance.  We perceive what we encounter as we choose to see It., through the eyes of fear and separateness or the eyes of Vision and faith.  It is a faith in what we know to be true, yet are still afraid to trust.

How often do we do the same thing over and over, hoping that this time the outcome will be different?  We aren’t even willing to change one little thing about the way we do it, and then are disappointed that the outcome doesn’t change.  Perhaps we might be willing to just look at it differently, change something about the way we do it, or change our fixed idea of what the outcome should look like.  Life has so much to offer us, but we are so busy with one little aspect of it that we miss so much that is whizzing by us.

What will it take to get us to make the change that will result in what we really want?  If we let go of just a little of our preconceived ways of thinking, we make room for a little light to shine in and show us something new.  We could let just a little love in to comfort us and relax us.  The strength and power of God and Spirit are there within us waiting for us to give it just a little opening to shine through so we can see it ourselves.  Others can see it, but we so often refuse to even acknowledge its existence.

We are the essence of God.  We are the love of God.  We are the power of God.  There is nothing more we could possibly want or need.  But we often refuse to even look in the direction we might see it because we are so afraid of who we really are and what we might actually be.  And we are still afraid of the image we have made up about ourselves.  All we need do is relax into the arms of Spirit and let God show us the reality of who we really are.  It is so simple, and yet we needlessly make it so difficult.  Take a moment and relax into the loving arms of God and let God show you who you really are.  In that light and love will be all that you were seeking, that seemed so elusive.  Relax and celebrate the truth of who you really are.

September 7, 2010

God is manifest in us.  For we are the Creation of God the Creator.  Every aspect of God, holiness, perfect purity and celestial love is framed in our true being solely for the holy purpose of looking upon itself and seeing what is and always has been.  God’s radiance and light shine through each and every one of us, shining past our perceived separateness to the radiant light that we already are.  In gentleness the veil is lifted by the light and the face of the Christ within shines brightly within us.  It radiates just as brightly through and from us, joining all in its Oneness.

What a beautiful sight this is that waits quietly and calmly for us to allow ourselves to see it.  Heaven is presented to us as separate so we might perceive it, also, in truth.  The Creator and the Christ have never left us, for we cannot be separated from what we really are.  But there is a link to Truth that we can understand that is given us for the tiny part of our mind that thought us separate.  We can understand Heaven and we can understand the Holy Spirit as they bridge our mind from separateness to Oneness.

The Holy Spirit helps us correct the mistaken idea of specialness in our mind, the only place it can truly be corrected.  The correction is possible because it is part of the Will of God.  God Wills that we are One and so the correction is in line with God’s Will and our Will.  The Holy Spirit’s function is to teach us how this oneness is experienced, what we need to do to experience it, and where to go to experience it.

The helper is right there within us, already holding our hand, ready to guide us where we will let it guide us.  Spirit will never guide us astray or away from truth and light.  But, we must be willing to let the Spirit guide us, releasing our attachment to our own habitual thoughts that are not in line with Heaven.  What do we really want?  Do we want to continue down the path of separateness and specialness unaware of the love and light of God within us?  Or are we even just a little willing to take the hand of Spirit and let it show us our true reality?  It’s our choice and no matter where we are in our journey, that choice is always right in front of us when we become willing to see it.  Now is the moment to make your choice to see who we really are.

August 31, 2010

The Justice of God is always about Truth.  It is always about what is right, good, holy, and real.  It is never about wrong.  It is never about wrath, anger, or punishment.  It is, however, about the correction of any incorrect thinking.  It is the gentle reminder of who and what we really are and how to change our way of thinking to see correctly as God sees.

We are of God.  We are all the characteristics of God and therefore cannot be contained within a body.  Our healing is the remembering of who we really are.  It is not the body that needs healing; it is the mind that needs healing.  Our complete identification with the limitations of the body keeps us unaware of our true self.  How could we possibly cram all that God is and that we are into this little bag of flesh and bones?  The reality of who we really are is much bigger that that.

The Christ within us is very resourceful.  It shines our light brightly through our body, letting all that we really are shine through the portal of our body.  It shines to show others, our brothers and sisters, the beauty and joy of who they really are.  It shines the Truth through each and every one of us if we will simply let go of our small thinking and let our minds be healed, opening to the Oneness with the Mind of God that we are all connected with.  This is the Mind of God that is within us.

What a beautiful justice this is.  Knowing that we are within God and that God is within us is a freedom that has no end and no bounds.  There is no judgment, wrath, anger or punishment in this justice.  It is merely the healing of our minds, realizing that our minds are One with each other and God.  Our bodies then have a Divine purpose, to shine the light of Christ in this world for all to see.  In that seeing will each of us know who we really are.  It doesn’t matter what our circumstances are in this world, for every one of them is a portal for the light of the Christ within to shine brightly, bringing freedom to all who will look and see.