January 22, 2013
One of the biggest mistakes we make is underestimating the power of our minds and the power of our thoughts. There is no greater power than the power of our thoughts. The thoughts we think and believe can and do significantly create the world we see. The world we see is determined by how we perceive everything we see and experience. And our perceptions are colored by what we think and believe about every thought about every experience we have ever had. It’s no wonder that each one sees a different world even though we are all looking at, living in, and experiencing the same world! This causes great confusion as we make our journey through life.
This confusion, this multitude of different worlds we seem to see, is caused by a fundamental confusion between cause and effect. We have turned cause and effect on its ear in our attempt to understand what we think, and consequently dig ourselves deeper into confusion. The Course tells us that God is Cause and we, the “Sonship”, are Effect. We are the Thought of God, created in the Mind of God and are like God because we are One with God. This is the perfect order that is Love. But we have misperceived who we are and thought ourselves separate from God, thus miscreating with thoughts that come from the split mind, a state of mind separate from God. We have miscreated or misperceived from a state of separation from God rather than Oneness with God. Thus we have perceived that the cause of our separation is our experiences in this world rather than our beliefs about who we are. This huge confusion of who we are and what the world is are a result of our basic confusion between cause and effect.
Cause and effect are demonstrated in how we perceive the world by whether we experience love or fear. If we perceive from a state of Oneness with God, we will experience Love since that is God’s intention. God created a world of Love, and Love only. If we experience anything other than love, such as fear, we are perceiving from a state of separation from God.
The gift the Course gives us is a path to return our thinking to its natural state, the Mind of God. It is a structured process of learning how our mind works, learning the mistakes we have made in our thought process, and teaching us to rely on the guidance of Spirit to correct our perception step by step as we return to the awareness of who we really are. Miracles are the changes in our thinking that correct our thinking. The world we see and experience has been given to us to learn to change our perception. We’re never on our own in this journey, for Spirit walks with us to guide us if we will allow Spirit’s guidance and be willing to follow that guidance.
We have within us all we need to accomplish this journey. Being willing to listen to and follow Spirit’s guidance will bring about the miracles we seek and share to return all of us to the awareness of the Divine Self we really are. Take the first step even if that’s the only one you can see right now. Spirit will show the next step when you need it.
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