Thoughts From Friends
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Sat Oct 11, 2008
Sonja on the Elections
In a message dated 10/9/2008 7:41:34 A.M. Central Daylight Time, revmyron@hotmail.com writes:
The answer to those questions
will tell me how much value I still place in my own self will, and
how unwilling I am to give it up. I am not going to try to cover my
unwillingness with lovely words and pretty thoughts. Instead I am
going to look unafraid into the ego thought of separation and allow
my mind to be healed.
Myron,
How useful this lesson is to me.
Last night I had the occasion to have a nonACIM sister ask who I had decided to support for President.
I answered truthfully that I take no sides in that contest. I simply pray, ask for Guidance, and let Spirit speak through me at the voting booth.
This was obviously NOT what my sista was looking for. "Not leaning at all one way or another?" Nope, not my decision, I said.
My son, however, had an opinion. It did not agree with my sister's and she launched into an attack on the candidate.
I turned to my son, and simply said, "When people are scared of something, when they are in fear, they will attack."
As you can imagine, a form storm errupted, ending with my sista storming out the door:) Ryan and I then visited about the two very genuine and capable men who are running for a job they both dearly want. Their desire, their commitment, is to serve our Nation.
I am grateful to them both. And to the sista who brought this teaching opportunity forward. I'm not smarter than her, more enlightened than her, farther on the path than her, in fact, I created that opportunity by concensus with her.
I know that Holy Spirit will deliver to her mind that message. But I know she ain't going to want to hear it from my mouth, so I won't attempt it:) That would, of course, be an attempt to be RIGHT.
In love
Sonja
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Fri Jun 27, 2008
Float Like A Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee
This is from my friend, Alan.
Some of you may be too young to remember Cassias Clay, later called
Mohammed Ali. He is still around, aging and ailing, but in his prime
he was the best heavy weight boxer ever. He had a saying about his
boxing style. He said, "I float like a butterfly and sting like a
bee!" This guy had hands and feet so fast it was hard to see him
move. He'd hit his opponent and return to a defensive posture before
the human eye could catch his movement. He was handsome, light-
skinned good looking, and a smart ass with the ability to back up his
braggadocio with fire. I always liked him. I don't know why. I just
liked him. I didn't make anything of it when he changed his name to
Ali. Back in those days becoming a Muslim wasn't all that bad I
guess. Or I was naive. Maybe I just didn't care.
Ali has become a gentle man in his later years. Disease and time have
taken their toll on him, but he still has an aura of regal-ness about
him. His daughter, now an adult and a boxer herself, is no one to
mess with either. Just like her father she is a superb athlete and
she is intimidatingly beautiful.
But, I digress. What I started out to write about was Ali's
saying, "Floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee." I was thinking
of the saying as it relates to the behavior of my ego directing the
free floating anxiety I have inside.
Butterflies are on my mind anyway, and bees, being plentiful in the
woods. The Rhododendron are blooming, white ball shaped clusters of
sticky flowers, and the bees and butterflies flock to them. There are
places where the buzz of insects is louder than the trickle of the
summer time creek. Buzzing like elevator music. It's there, but
rarely really listened to. I spent some time listening to it this
morning.
But there I go, off on a tangent. Back to the free floating anxiety.
It is an anxiety without a source, without a logical reason to exist.
Okay, I have had my ass handed to me by health issues over the last
several months, but today, in this day, there is no reason for this
anxiety to exist. Still, it is there. And it behaves just like Ali
said of his boxing ability. It floats like a butterfly, flitting from
one issue to another. Then, when it lights, it stings like a bee,
leaving my belly in knots. There is no rhyme or reason to what the
ego directs this anxiety to do. It is almost totally unpredictable.
The only weakness I can see in this anxiety is that it has no present
moment. This anxiety is always flitting off into the past or the
future to find something to light on. It goes back to some terrible
memory and lands on it, bringing the memory and the fearful or sad
feelings associated with it into focus in my mind. Or, it dashes
ahead of the moment, making up some fantasy about something that is
going to be awful when I get to it. It holds up the potential for me
to feel guilty for one reason or another when it gets me clearly
paying attention to it in my mind. Then, as I said, my belly knots.
This morning, though, something different happened. Oh, the ego was
directing the anxiety as usual. It flit around from the past to the
future searching for some thought to throw at me and create further
feelings in me that I am separate from the Divine and ultimately
responsible for my own survival and/or misery. But this time the
image of butterflies stayed in my head. I'm not at all afraid of
butterflies. I rather like them, their colors, their flight patterns,
their wispy wings and airborne acrobatics. I even pretend they are
moving along with me if one, two or three of them happen to be flying
in the same direction that I am walking. I talk to them sometimes,
saying hello and telling them they are pretty. I have no fear of
butterflies. So I began to think of this anxiety, this free-floating
anxiety, as a butterfly. What this did was make a space for the
anxiety to exist until I could say with conviction I was not afraid
of the fear. I hope that makes sense. Rather than fighting with the
feeling I held an attitude of warmth toward it and let it be. I even
began to feel a sense of sympathy toward it, straining as it does to
find something not present to scare me with. The more I held the
warmth, the less I felt fear of the fear. The more I focused in on
the sensations in my feet, the sounds in my immediate environment,
the less I felt fear about the fear.
I've continued with this today, holding warmth and sympathy toward
the free-floating anxiety, and this has been the most comfortable
I've been with it in a long while. I forget the basics sometimes, the
simple things I've been taught. For example, in Right Use Of Will I
was encouraged to make love bigger, big enough to embrace all my
feelings, even the ones I normally hate. Well, the tactic worked!! By
taking on a warmer attitude toward the anxiety and kind of making
love big enough to embrace it I have lessened its impact and allowed
it to move around without being greatly disturbed by it.
Funny, I'm always finding something I know I knew and seeing it as if
it's a brand new idea. Well, hell, I may not be the sharpest tool in
the shed, but I am progressing a little bit at a time.
Go ahead, ego, direct the anxiety to float like a butterfly and sting
like a bee. I've got room in my heart today to allow you to be. I am
sorry, please forgive me, I love you, and thank you, you fearful
thing, you.
Alan
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Sun Oct 28, 2007
From Michael on Healing
HEALING
I open darkened closets.
Throwing out heavy wares,
New garments gently spread
Made of lighter tread.
Old pinching shoes
are tossed aside
for new that never lose
soothing comfort and strength.
I take stored memories
out their boxes
and throw them in the trash.
Dusting off pictures of ancients,
I paint color on their cheeks.
My very chromosomes
and DNA are altering.
My cells singing.
Antibodies dancing for lack of work.
A quickening has occurred.
The Love of God is free to roam
with energy of light
and joy of wonderment.
Healing is complete!
Michael
http://miraclescenter.us/carluccio.htm
www.thejasminelette rs.blogspot. com
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Sun Apr 08, 2007
Easter Greeting from Terri
Hey Everyone, all you special souls out there ! (only one of us
really)
Guess what?
J is back !
We thought he died, and we were full of anger and hate towards those
who killed him.
We were also full of guilt for not being able to stop it all from
happening.
And we were in shock because he left us and what in the world were we
supposed to do now?
The fear, the guilt, the emptiness, the loss, the grief and the shock.
J's back.
He says not to worry, he'll be by in a little while to eat dinner and
sit around and talk, to explain things to us, and tell us how to live
our lives.
Heck, he never really left us at all. We just didn't understand what
he meant by all the things he was telling us, about illusions and
such.
He says to be happy.
He says he loves us and there is nothing to forgive.
He says we are ALL SPECIAL and no one is excluded.
He says we are innocent, pure and holy.
He says we are guiltless and sinless, perfect, whole and complete.
He says nothing can destroy truth, and that's why he could prove it.
He says we are just like him, only we don't really know it yet, to
keep practicing....training your mind.
I really like that guy.
Yes, I really, honestly love that man.
He truly is powerful, honest and truthful.
I think I trust him a lot.
HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE.....!!!!!!
GOD LOVES YOU TRULY !!!!!!!
Terri
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Mon Mar 26, 2007
On Private Thoughts-Brian Logsdon
“Private Thoughts” is definitely an idea that, although not true, keeps me holding my salvation at arm’s length! It is not an easy task to “let go” of the idea of individuality, but until I accept my Brother as myself and I in my Brothers, I cannot accept the Atonement! I know this on an intellectual level, and I sometimes remember it when I seem to be talking with someone “else.” Some 25 years ago, I listened repeatedly to some “self improvement” tapes by Brian Tracy. One of the exercises was to say frequently, “I like myself.” Although I can safely say that I have (almost) eliminated the counter idea, “I hate myself” (which, although a more “private thought” is equally exclusive,) I continue to “Like my self!” I like who I think I am – this “Brian” person – “Brianhood,” I call it – a personality that I have taken a long, long time defining and defending! “God is no Respecter of persons.” God “sees” only Oneness. My eyes continue to report differences! I define these reports as what I am “different than/from” and thus defend my small self, attempting to make it “real.” How can this “Brian” character have no private thoughts? He seems to hold conversations in which he is telling something to someone who doesn’t seem to have known what it is that he is telling them! How can “Brian” have no effect in the world? Impossible! “I” have been “smarter than” and “taller than” and “different from” my entire perceptual life! I can say that there is only One Mind, and intellectualize it, but can I live that way? Hell, no! And that is where I keep my self – in a hell of its own making. So slowly, using guidance offered freely from the Course, and from the Voice of Spirit as the body of Jeffrey, I begin to “open up.” I start to reveal what it is that I am thinking even when it risks ridicule. (And, at first I experience some of that – which “I” manifested that, I wonder?) Then, more and more, conversations turn to Holy Encounters, as I focus increasingly on the Truth. I begin to speak Truth as I understand it, at Toastmasters, and at home, and at work (eventually.) I know that I cannot stand on two foundations, so I am slowly dragging one foot away from the illusion of separation in my “Brianhood” personality. “Brian” laughs more at his own thoughts, now, and shares the thoughts (and the laughter) with whoever is “in the room.” What before might have had “dire consequences” now has none. My “new belief system” (Belief System” equals B.S.) allows that Spirit will undue the consequences of my “wrong thinking” if I allow Him. I allow by staying present, and not dragging the past along for the ride. I have a new saying to “chant” to my self, “I am Love.” “I know” on some “level” that I am Love extending Itself. I offer to my Brother that He is Love extending. I “see” Him smiling with the idea and accepting it – I am saved! Now, I can be this, too!
But how can I sit in a room with three other Course students and spend my time revealing my innermost thoughts? Doesn’t the very idea of “others in the room” make this a futile effort? Hardly, when so much of my mind still believes in separation. This is a way, a path, to replacing “old beliefs” and “old practices” with “new” ones. It is a way of emptying the Mind of guilt by emptying the stories of guilt and fear that have been so prevalent there. It is a practice – a developing of a “habitual behavior” – that begins to unlock my ideas of “private thoughts” – I see that the “others” hold the same thoughts in similar stories! I see them releasing their fears by looking at them! I experience joy at the mutual release of the private “walls” of thought that seemed to hold “us” apart! We end in laughter, again and again, and walk out the door with freedom in our hearts. The ego begins its insidious ploys as soon as we “enter” into the world, again. Is this group of four “separate” from those “out there?” Do we now share “separate thoughts” that “others” did not experience? Must I then act differently with these “others” in the world? NO! A Thousand times NO! (Sometimes I have to get a little “tough” with “fog monster.”) I will to continue to practice no private thoughts. The Peace of God is my one goal. But what of that special relationship that you are holding in place with your wife and son? You know that this is different, don’t you? “Ye..sss…NO!” I will see only Love, teach only Love, so that I can be only love. “Experience” keeps showing something different. Sometimes I want to give up and chuck the whole thing and go back to sleep. But I can’t seem to sleep the way I used to….
I begin to notice the Universe mimicking my thoughts more and more rapidly. I have an idea of “Specialness,” and someone immediately shows up for me to “test my theory,” to make a new choice, to choose for Love. “Love” is being redefined. It has less and less to do with bodies. OMG, this beautiful young woman wants me? “God, I am content to be wherever you wish (especially if it looks like this!) I ask You, now, where is salvation? What would You have me do, here?”
“My Son, Be Who You Are – Be Love. Love this woman as I have loved you, in the best possible way. Hold no private thoughts about her, be open with her, be truthful. Love withholds nothing.”
Wow! I resist the impulse to run from this “challenge.” I say, instead, “You look marvelous for someone with no body!”
“What do you mean by that?” She looks at me quizzically.
“Well, you know, the Course says that all of this perceptual world is an illusion, but, I (notice the “I”) must say, if I’m dreaming then this is a really good dream!” (Almost had it there, but “fell” back into the dream of differences, didn’t you? No salvation for you, you know!)
“I asked God what He would have me “do” in this relationship. Do you want to know what He said?”
“Yes,” she replies, anxious to know what….He said….I say….I am thinking….who She is….(is this in my ‘private mind?)…who I am….what we are going to “do” next…(yep, I’m in “my mind,” all right)….
“Well…you really want to know?” (You’re chicken, aren’t you? You think that there is a consequence if you tell the truth, and you know there is a consequence if you tell a lie. I told you you’re going to hell….)
“Yes!”
“Well, the answer to my question was this: ‘Love her the best way that you know how.’” Wow, I said it! More words tumble out. “This means that I do nothing to hurt you, or “use” you in any manner unlike Love. I want you to Love your family, and your friends, and even the checker at Wal-Mart. (I am already realizing once again that I am talking to myself, here. The ego had me believing that there was a beautiful woman in the room, there for a minute.) You are the Love of God expressing, I am the Love of God expressing, extending. We are not giving anything to each other – we are extending Who We Really Are – the Love of God.”
In the silence that follows, I notice that I am looking at my hands, wondering what to do with them. I reach over and pull her close in an embrace. “There seems to be two separate bodies here, hugging, but we are One. There is always only One.”
Namaste,
Brian
blogsdon@sletteninc.com
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The Snow White Story of Grievances
This came from Richie & Linda Cosentino who have been studying the Course for 20 years. This couple teach the Course in Hammond and Baton Rouge, Louisiana. If you would be interested in attending one of their groups, let me know and I will put you in contact with them.
"LOVE HOLD NO GRIEVANCES . (complaint or a basis for it) You who were created by Love like Itself can hold no grievances and know your (real Self? To hold a grievance is to forget who you are. To hold a grievance is to see yourself as a body. (instead of a Spirit Being). To hold a grievance is to let the ego (thought that is instead of God and edges God out) rule your mind and to condemn (declare guilty; doom; declare unfit) the body to death. Perhaps you do not yet fully realize just what holding grievances does to your mind. It seems to split you off from your Source (God) and make you unlike Him. (this is impossible, we are the exact image of God) It makes you believe that He is like what you think you have become, (putting God with human attributes) for no one can conceive (begin to think of in your mind) of his Creator (God who created you ) as unlike himself. Shut off from your Self, Which remains aware of Its likeness to Its Creator, your Self seems to sleep, while the part of your mind that weaves illusions in its sleep appears to be awake. Can all this arise from holding grievances? Oh yes! For he who holds grievances denies he was created by Love, and His Creator has become fearful (afraid of a God that punishes) to him in his dream of hate. (not opposite of Love , but instead of) Who can dream of hatred and not fear (false evidence appearing real) God? It is sure that those who hold grievances will redefine God in their own image, as it is certain that God created them like Himself, and defined them as part of Him. It is as sure that those who hold grievances will suffer guilt , (when we have guilt , we punish the body because we are not at peace) as it is certain those who forgive will find peace. It is as sure that those who hold grievances will forget who they are, as it is certain that those who forgive will remember. Would you not be willing to relinquish your grievances if you believed all this were not so? Perhaps you do not think you can let your grievances go. I WOULD SEE YOU -------AS MY FRIEND, THAT I MAY REMEMBER YOU ----------ARE PART OF ME AND COME TO KNOW MYSELF. LOVE HOLDS NO GRIEVANCES. WHEN I LET ALL MY GRIEVANCES GO , I WILL KNOW I AM PERFECTLY SAFE. LOVE HOLD NO GRIEVANCES. LET ME NOT BETRAY (deceive;disloyal) MY SELF. LOVE HOLDS NO GRIEVANCES. I WOULD WAKE TO MY SELF BY LAYING ALL MY GRIEVANCES ASIDE AND WAKENING IN HIM."
Linda explains: We are all Snow White that is poisoned by the apple of the ego thoughts (that try to be god) and put in a deep sleep or trance or not conscious of. The Prince comes along and kisses us with the kiss of Unconditional Love and wakes us up. Who is Snow White? Who is the fairest (most beautiful) of them all? Why it is "You " Snow White. We have the seven (number of perfection ) small thoughts of the dwarfs to help us along when we are in the wrong thinking about our selves. The dwarfs or small thoughts of God that reminds us Who We Are, look after us until the Prince comes along with His teachings and reminds us that we are Spirit Beings having human experiences. The wicked (evil instead of Live-upside down perception) witch (ego thoughts that are naughty and are not nice) who is the ego thought system wants to be the fairest of them all and destroy our Identity by negative thoughts of ourselves. The witch is a deceiver; accuser of the brethren; deviator from the Truth of ourselves; one who slanders another for the purpose of injury to our thoughts; thought projected on the outside of us instead of a thought in our own minds that tries to destroy us with its fork tongue. Look in the mirror (perfect reflection of your True Self ) and see your true reality and your True or Real Self. You are the Christ (anointed ones); children; perfect Image or Likeness of the Living God. You are beautiful created in the exact Likeness of God. You are Forgiveness, Salvation, Light of the World, Happiness and most important of all, You ARE LOVE because Love created YOU like Itself. Wake up Snow White, the Prince and the dwarfs are so happy to see you awake. You are the fairest of them all.
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Wed Jan 24, 2007
From Rev Ken G
I was working with a student of the Course who was also a 12 stepper. She was having trouble going to meetings because of what she saw as persistent negativity, and because she was required to say that she is an addict. This felt opposite to what she was learning to the Course. My friend, Ken, has been in the program for many years and is also a minister for God, and so I asked him if he could help us see this differently. This is his reply, and I don’t know about my friend, but it was very helpful for me to read his words.
Dear Myron,
My heart bursts with joy for you and for your daughter. She certainly is under the unction of the Holy Spirit and I would hazard the guess that the apple didn't fall far from the tree either.
"Within sorrow, there is grace when we come close to things that break us down, we touch things that also breaks us open--to uncover our true nature Within the Story, there is the person in the Story."
So any of us that have went through these things (yourself included) we have determined that a gift was given to us, an unmerited gift and bitter one initially but nonetheless a gift. We were cracked open and "suuurrrprise suurrrprise" as Gomer Pyle used to say. We were given the opportunity to have a peek inside the egg at who God had made: Utter perfection, a piece of the divine, a wee being with a core of competency.
It’s not unusual for a person to find it difficult to admit to being an
addict whether it be to heroin or alcohol or to any activity that we use to stop from going insane. If I recall correctly the only requirement for membership Is SIMPLY A SINCERE DESIRE TO STOP DOING WHATEVER WE ARE DOING TO LOSE OURSELVES whether it be drinking, drugging, sexing , working, ad infinitum. We don't have to admit to anything. The Steps are only suggested, they were not brought down from Mount Sinai by Charlton Heston.
Now when I first admitted to my addiction no one would accept it. So in true alcoholic fashion I set out to convince them of the error of their ways. I was very successful by the way. Took me 4 years into my marriage but Maureen [my wife] finally came around. At the end of my drinking career she was more than willing to admit that I was a drunk LOL. When we admit to it then all we are doing is indicating that we are aware of our lives being somewhat unmanageable-- and awareness and acceptance are locked-stepped with which we can then hop, skip, and jump right into a clean and sober life. Its kind of an inverted image of 'damned if you do, damned if you don't' which then would read like so: Blessed if you do and Blessed if you don't. Or Right or Wrong you're right. Right where God wants you!
All you gotta do is show up: nothing more. God will take care of the rest. Tell her to quit trying so hard. Hell we already went that route and nearly drank ourselves to death or drugged whichever or both. I have found it helpful to inform "greenies" newcomers that substance
addicts, are not weak-kneed impotent wimps but that we are very powerful and spiritually advanced beings. I'm going to assume you have given me the same response that my sponsee's do: "are you nuts?" My usual response is a loving but resounding, "YES! What’s your point?”
I then ask them to really think about what is going on with the addict here, she/he [to be politically correct] by having them conjure up an image of a wino or whatever lying on the river bank sucking on a cheap vintage, scabs covering his body, lice infested clothing , with socks that are embedded into the flesh of his feet, to remove them you would have to shave both his socks as well as his underwear off, toe nails curled around so as to be cutting into the pads of his toes. "Just lovely, just lovely, tell your mother!"
That my friend is not weak response to life, it is a powerful one, a NEGATIVE ONE mind you, but still a very very powerful one. Its not so much a response as it is a reaction to life. The ultimate negation you might say. And the more you push the more it will push back that’s the law of the land, so to speak. The more you resist the more it persists and the more you insist that it not persist the more it will resist. Hmmmm? So just as the Course teaches, the negative as well as the positive are just opposites of the same coin. -- to paraphrase it a bit. Tell her to look at this whole thing with soft eyes, in other words quit looking at the trees and see the forest, look for the patterns and just accept it and lo and behold awareness will be there.
"Because acceptance is the answer to all our problems today. When I am
disturbed it is because I find some person, place or thing or situation---some fact of my life unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment. Nothing absolutely nothing happens in God's world by mistake. Until I could accept my alcoholism, I could not stay sober; unless I accept life completely on life's terms, I cannot be happy. I need to concentrate not so much on what needs to be changed in the world as on what needs to be changed in me and my attitudes." the big book AA
When she is good and ready is when she will decide to standup and make that statement about this business of being an addict and maybe she won't. Emphasize the idea that the first step as is the other 11 are only suggested steps. Although some members are all too willing to exercise a character defect that all of addicts have, CONTROL, applied by laying down the law, maybe they're jealous of Charlton Heston or of God and want the JOB. Tell her just keep attending not everyday but as often as she is comfortable with and with her added insight from the Course she might just save somebody's life as a by-product of attending. God has a job for her and like any job she should show up and punch-in. Divine Spirit will provide the Lunch or the Launch. lol sorry I need to attend rehab for that character flaw. lol
"Emotions, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it."
Spinoza
Lots of love my dear sister over and down there. lol
Ken G from the great white north
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Sun Jan 07, 2007
Smoothing the Edges from Sonja
One thing I am noticing which I am so grateful for is the inner change going on. I, in the past, had an illusion of being a warrior. My family, my relatives, are warriors. We act that way and that is all there is to it.
I remember being aware many years ago of being like a river rock with all these jagged edges on it. The edges made me who I was, gave me my special characteristics, defined who I was.
All river rocks, it would seem, get smoothed over time. The force of the water current moving over the surface smooths the rocks. I kind of longed to be a smooth rock, but would ask myself what would happen if my edges disappeared? Well, I would disappear, it seemed obvious.
Then came the Course and I found I couldn't get rid of the jagged edges. They were a part of who I am and not up for judgement pro or con, just who I am.
Yet lately, just a bit, when I am irritated or answer an email, a person, or a phone call, my first instinct is usually to be irritated or attack. Instead, I feel love. I don't always act differently as it isn't anything I am "willing" to happen. It is just a deep and profound feeling of love rather than irritation.
As though an inner shift has occurred. It is very cool, I get a kind of insight on why you answer they way you do so many times, it is just "out of love" and the thought of irritation doesn't really occur.
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Thu Dec 21, 2006
From Alisha: Withdrawing Projections
Alisha is the facilitator of an ACIM discussion group in Alexandria, LA. This was in reply to a discussion string going on between members of her group and mine.
Yes, withdrawing the projection is a really big deal for me also Myron. I have to stop and listen anytime someone appears to be guilty in my world. It meant that I had to put my intent out there and actually apply what the course was reminding me of. The application of the course in my every day life, just like the application of the 12 steps prior to the course, has given me the peace that passes understanding.
Today I went to church. I attend the same church I was brought up in as from childhood. It’s a Baptist Church. I love the people there. They are all family to me. The pastor is fairly new and very energetic plus he likes to make the crowd laugh while talking about everyone’s guilt. He’s also a college professor. Today he talked about all of us being the creation of God and NOT the children of God. I kept thinking what is the point here? It appeared that he was making us different from Jesus as he was the ONLY child of God and we were God’s creations…it seemed so foreign to me to hear that even in a Baptist church. I was certainly making a case against him and then I suddenly woke up…if he’s guilty so am I…if he’s guilty, I’m making the same case he’s making. WOW, what a revelation. I made the whole thing up. I’m truly thankful to have heard Holy Spirit’s prompting right in the midst of it and NOT been caught up in that illusion. But that appears to be how it goes. We project…see guilt…and the loop is endless UNTIL we choose with Holy Spirit. I truly hadn’t thought about what happened during church today until I thought I wanted to share a real event in my life with you and that’s the best part. I’ve had peace all day. And I can thank the pastor today for being my savior and helping me let go of another ego thought.
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From David Hoffmeister
This is an excerpt from David Hoffmeister. If it speaks to you, you can find more at www.awakening-mind.org/
Let's keep everything very, very simple. You seem to be dreaming a
dream that involves duality and multiplicity, and your questions
assume that this duality and multiplicity are real. You assume that
the "i" that is asking the questions is real. I have told you that
illusions are one, not many. There is only one mind (una sola mente
in Spanish) and there is only one dreamer of the dream. Once this
is realized the dream is a happy, unified dream of non-judgment or
forgiveness. This unified dream might be called healed perception
or the real world, for it is a reflection or symbol and is the
closest perceptual experience to Heaven, Which simply Is and does
not involve perception at all.
The miracle simply sees the false as false. The miracle is the
Perspective of the Holy Spirit Which is aware that time was (or
seemed to be) simultaneous and is over (and never was). The ego
offers the distorted perspective that time is linear and is still
happening. The choice of purpose is the seeming choice between the
Holy Spirit's Perspective and the ego's perspective. One choice
brings peace, love, freedom, joy, & happiness and the other choice
brings pain, guilt, fear, anger, & depression. You can tell which
choice you have made by how you feel.
You could say that the thoughts of linear time (past and future) are
scripted because the thoughts you think you think and the world you
think you see are the same. The Atonement, however, is an
acceptance of the Correction to all mistaken thoughts and
misperceptions and is independent of time - being for healing the
belief in linear time. Now is the only time Atonement can be
accepted. The Holy Spirit's Purpose is the only meaningful Choice.
Forever In Love,
David
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