February 25, 2014

God knows all of us, God’s creations, as perfectly whole.  This is irrefutable.  This is a certainty.  No amount of forgetting or misperception can change this immutable fact.  No matter how broken we may feel, no matter how far we may think we have strayed, no matter how alone and separated we may think ourselves, God always knows us perfectly whole.  This is a certainty we can bank on.  We can forget we are whole, and remove the awareness of our wholeness from our minds, but we can never change the reality of our wholeness.

Healing is the reawakening in our mind to the certainty that we are whole.  It is a remembering of the laws of God and a forgetting of the laws of the ego, separation.  Healing is a way of undoing our belief in differences.  Our belief in differences is the mistaken belief that we are separate from God and each other.  In this world of form we all appear to be unique.  We all appear to have differing abilities and differing identities.  But these apparent differences are all translatable to one common thought; that we are perfectly whole.  Spirit works within our minds to use all our differing abilities to transform our awareness and remember who we really are.  Healing is replacing the laws of the ego in our minds with the laws of God.  Forgetting in this application is simply remembering better.  As we allow Spirit to guide our minds in healing, we are replacing our misperception with a perception that is better.  Thus we move toward remembering the laws of God and the truth about who we really are.  We are perfectly whole.

The laws of God are within us.  They are truth and they are a part of who we really are in our perfect wholeness.  They are the laws placed in us in our creation.  The Course tells us to seek first the Realm of Heaven within us.  This is our home.  This is the state of mind and being we have forgotten by believing we are something other than that which we really are.  Peace, Love, and Joy are abundant here.  We are the Divine Presence of God in this world.  Allowing ourselves to wake from the dream of separation and see the reality of our perfect wholeness is the Light of the Divine within us and the Light of the Divine within each other.  This Truth about our wholeness is not new.  When we choose to allow ourselves to see it we will recognize ourselves in an instant and know it is the Truth about who we really are.  Be willing to change your mind and recognize the Truth about who you really are.

February 18, 2014

To be in the Realm of God is to simply focus your full attention on the Realm of God.  This is not a physical place.  This is not a destination.  This is simply the process of paying attention to our thoughts, to where our mind is at.  This is the process of keeping vigilant for the Thought of God, the Mind of God, the Divine state of who we really are.  When we are in touch with this higher state of mind and being, we are in reality.  This reality has no form, but it does have the experience of peace and joy.  The reality of the Realm of God is pure unconditional Love.  And this is who we really are, no matter who we think we are at any given moment.

What we believe about who we are determines our state of mind.  Though our life and our world may seem out of our control, it is our belief about who we are that sets the tone for our experience of life.  If we believe we are separate from each other or unequal in our creation, we set up a belief in limitation and inequality.  A belief in inequality and limitation blocks our awareness of who we really are and thus the awareness of our limitlessness and creative power.  To see ourselves separate from our reality, we must perceive ourselves as unreal.  Therefore the world we perceive from this separated state of mind is also unreal, for it is seen and perceived through a distorted lens rather than the Divine Mind.  As long as we believe we can see what is not real, we choose conflict as our choice.  The result of choosing to believe we are other than who we really are creates conflict in our mind and thus is the root of our unhappiness and dissatisfaction.

This choice seems to be a choice, but choosing to believe in a state of mind that isn’t real is not really a choice at all.  The Realm is not concerned with “seeming” choices for reality is ours because we are reality.  Once we realize and believe that we are the Realm and therefore reality, having and being are reconciled and there is no longer any conflict in our mind.  God lit our mind and keeps our mind lit with God’s light, because God’s light is what we all are.  We all are Divine.  We all are Holy.  We all are Love.  We all are joy and peace.  This is who we really are.  To believe anything less than that is to allow our mind to be in conflict.  So when we question who we are, Spirit is there to undo the questioning.  Spirit is here to guide us to undo our choice to believe in anything other than reality.  Resting in this guidance brings us the serenity of knowing who we really are and what we share; the awareness and the reality of the Realm.  Let it be so.

February 11, 2014

“What you project or extend is real for you.  This is an immutable law of the mind in this world as well as in the realm of God.  However, the content is different in this world, because the thoughts it governs are very different from the Thoughts in the Realm of God.” (T-7.II.2.4-6)  We are responsible for our thoughts and so our thoughts determine the world we see and experience.  Whether we have chosen to align with a thought system based on separation or based on Oneness and the Thoughts of God, this law applies to us and we see the results of our thinking.  There is nothing inherently good or bad in this, it just is.  The Course tells us again and again that we are responsible for the world we see, and we are.  But there is no lasting harm in our perceiving.  The Course is teaching us to heal our perception and thus our way of thinking.  And God has given us Spirit to guide our way in learning to change our thinking and perceiving.

Healing thoughts are the only kind of thinking in this world that resemble the Thought of God, and easily translate to it.  When one perceives themselves as sick or separate, they are really seeing themselves as not whole, or in need.  If we also see that one the same way, we are seeing that one absent and separated from the Realm of God, thus making the Realm obscure to both of us.  Sickness and separation are not of the Realm, but wholeness and Oneness are.  We each live in this world with our own set of circumstances, experiences, and perceptions, thus our own thoughts.  And because of the law of the mind we either experience separation or wholeness based on how we think.  This law is adapted to whatever situation we are in at the moment and the health of our perception determines our experience.  If we are perceiving in a healthy manner, we will experience infinite peace and joy.  If we are perceiving in an unhealthy manner, we will experience something less.

One immutable thing we must remember; we are Whole and One with our Source, each other, and all of Creation.  This has always been, is now, and always will be.  Only our awareness of this fact can be obscured by our own mistaken thought system.  When our thinking is outside the Mind of God, the law of mind adapts to “What we project, we believe.”  And so every thought we think outside the Realm teaches us separation.  But, as we allow healing to come to our mind and our thoughts as guided by Spirit, we relearn correct or healed thinking.  Our healed thoughts will take on many different forms all perfectly adapted to our unique situations to provide the ideal lessons for us to learn.  The lessons are all the same at their core, for there is only one problem; that we are thinking and perceiving outside the Mind of God.  The one solution is to return our thinking to the Mind of God.  There will still appear to be many forms as we continue to live in this world, but we will see and experience this world differently and will be filled with the abundant peace and joy of the Realm.  Choose to let Spirit guide your thinking and return to the awareness of who you really are.

February 4 2014

Creation extends outward from its Source.  To create is to love.  God’s love flows outward to us, God’s creations, and love flows outward from us to our creations.  The Source of love is limitless, therefore the Source of creation is limitless.  In this thought system is creation and love ever increasing.  This is the eternal limitless abundance of creation.  Our mind extends from the Mind of God and so our mind extends to the mind of our creations.  To create is to love, so creation is thought.  Our only real creations are our wholly true thoughts.  All else are reflections of our thoughts.  If our thoughts or creations flow from the Mind of God through us they are real.  If our thoughts or creations flow from our lower or separate mind, they are not real and merely mistaken thoughts.

We have used our creative power in our separate mind to make thoughts that are mis-thoughts and misperceptions.  And so we have made a world for ourselves based on these thoughts projecting form our separate mind rather than the Mind of God.  Since these thoughts originate in our separate or egoic mind, they do not extend from our Source, the Mind of God.  Therefore they are not real, they are mistaken.  As we allow Spirit to guide us in our thoughts, our creations, we are guided to think with the Mind of God, our true mind.  Nothing breaks our communication with the Mind of God, for it is impossible to break, but we do turn away from the awareness of our true mind when we think with the lower egoic mind.  Miscreation is the thought we make with our lower mind.  These thoughts do no harm, but they do keep us distracted form the awareness of who we really are.

The Course has told us that God takes the last step to full awareness of who we really are.  This appears so from the perspective of separation, but it is really our reawakening to the realization that we have always been and always will be who we really are; One with God and creation.  Because we have believed we were separate, we were blind to the truth about who we really are.  We have taken the steps given us by Spirit to guide us in shifting our belief and thought system to a higher level, making it possible to see again who we really are.  As we awaken to our true function as co-creators with God, we create by extending Love and thereby increase Joy.  Only joy increases forever, for joy and eternity are inseparable.  Let the Love and Joy that extends from our Source extend through us to our true creations.  Peace, Love, and Joy naturally radiate from our Source and in turn from us.  Be the abundance of our limitless creation.  Be who you really are.