Have but one purpose; to be given Christ to use to bless the world with miracles…
What a relief it is to not have to think about what to do, or where to go, what to say and to whom. All I need concern myself with is the setting of the Goal of truth and align in purpose with Christ. Once this dedication to purpose placed in faith, on the alter of my mind/heart as I wake, I can trust unequivocally, that all things will be brought in to perfect alignment for the best possible result for the good of all.
If, rather than dream up a day from the ‘great to-do-list’ of this world, I suspend that craving, just long enough to give over my life to Christ, all seeming problems are brought to the answer within; mind~ Here the Holy Spirit answers them all by reinterpreting and showing the unified purpose.
Setting the goal of truth; in other words, giving myself to Christ, clears my sight to see forgiveness’s blessing in all circumstances and experience love instead of fear.
Though, being Christ is what we are naturally, a life in Christ is a wholehearted decision. The decision I gratefully make as I rise, to then materialize a world and brothers to join with in a shared purpose… I joyously say Yes! to God’s plan, again and again, as long as time remains in mind… And only Christ defines Self…
“My oneness with the Christ establishes me as Your Son, beyond the reach of time, and wholly free of every law but Yours. I have no self except the Christ in me. I have no purpose but His own. And He is like His Father. Thus must I be one with You as well as Him. For who is Christ except Your Son as You created Him? And what am I except the Christ in me?”
My eyes, my tongue, my hands, my feet today
Have but one purpose; to be given Christ to use to bless the world with miracles…
Today the peace of God envelops me, and I forget all things except His Love…
Let’s begin with today’s prayer… It is just the sort of prayer that sets the goal of truth where it belongs… NOW:
“Father, we wake today with miracles correcting our perception of all things. And so begins the day we share with You as we will share eternity, for time has stepped aside today. We do not seek the things of time, and so we will not look upon them. What we seek today transcends all laws of time and things perceived in time. We would forget all things except Your Love. We would abide in You, and know no laws except Your law of love. And we would find the peace which You created for Your Son, forgetting all the foolish toys we made as we behold Your glory and our own.” Ah, eternal PEACE! Couldn’t you just sit in the feeling this lesson brings, forever? Oh yeah! ... We are.... Now is forever!
It is the nature of the peace of God to envelop all…. So, you see, even when we identify with the ‘me’ within the dream where there are subjects and objects, God’s Love extends to blanket us in peace. This is the truth actually~ always.
Just stop in your tracks at any present moment of time, turn around on yourself, and be present~ This instant; right here, right now…. aahhh… you can’t miss it~ the peace of God has you surrounded, yes! Real-izing this fact, is simply a decision as the dreamer for peace now; for the truth and nothing but the truth!… so help you God… It is always within reach; closer than your heartbeat… In fact, it is already present. One need but decide…
Today, we decide for the truth; we accept Love as the only real experience, and the only one we want…. Here alone, can peace be known and brought forward in the dream. Who cares about the details of the dream? Never can we organize them to bring peace.
When I finally realized that ‘not-caring’ was really a very high thought; that the outcome was a sure as Love, I freed myself to be present. And in the present moment, I found my presence is what gave it life…
The funny thing about that, is that without the burden of caring, I love deeply, play and laugh, interact, enjoy, get angry and forgive with ease. Because I can be with what is, instead of dancing to the dirge of death.
Ummm… life’s yummy~ Being in Love with now! Within Now is the forgetting all things except God’s Love… enveloped in the peace of God…
I offer only miracles today, for I would have them be returned to me….
For years I took the miracle on faith, choosing out of hopelessness and into hope. And gradually, miracles have altered my whole life; my total way of thinking, and therefore how I see the world… And now, miracle-mindedness has become a habit you might say. I am ever awe-struck by how the Holy Spirit uses all the ego’s little tactics. Take for instance, the addictive mechanism; that obsessive single-minded focus on something to escape from ourselves, the Holy Spirit uses that dynamic for exactly the opposite purpose than the one made by us, gently guiding us to a single minded focus inward to ‘know thy-Self’ through forgiving every barrier to awareness of love’s constant presence by accepting total responsibility. This allows the mind to be healed and restored to wholeness through complete surrender to what is... Or take denial; what we once used to deny the truth about who we are as love, we learn to use that very same mechanism to deny the denial of truth, reuniting us with loves presence now. We, as the characters in the dream, are already networked with the mechanisms once used for defense, and find another purpose; one of unity rather than separation, peace rather than competition, sameness rather than specialness ~Until at last, this is all we want~…. We offer miracles to have them returned to us.
I want only the healed perspective. I want only to see unity where division once seemed so real.
Because of the single goal of truth, set forth by my accepting Atonement for myself, I accept it for you, for we are one.
The methodology I have at my disposal is the Miracle~ the correction of the error of seeing any interests apart from my own. ~I want only to see the false for what it is, deny its power, and re-membering only the Christ we are as one. In this one desire rests the miracle, which is now visited upon us both in grace, and with it deep abiding peace.
How joyous is the timeless gift of unending Love we experience by merely choosing to offer only miracles today.
Even on the level of this world, just slowing down our compulsive, competitive, thought system and therefore actions, and thinking of the ‘other’ choice; miracle-mindedness ~ the possibility of looking with only loving eyes/perception, already feels better. Geez, just softening our eyes and considering it, starts warming the heart, ~yes?….
I offer you only miracles for I would have them for myself~ otherwise I am blind…. Truth be known, I have no other goal to choose any more. No-thing else satisfies or raises the slightest interest for me…
Thank you for the miracles you have given and received…. Not one has been lost on me (or anyone in truth). I might have been (and still can be) a resistive study at times, but I have found that every loving thought merely awaits reception. Period. Like the ever-favorite quote from the Course says: “LOVE WAITS ON WELCOME NOTON TIME”.
Today I learn the law of love; that what I give my brother is my gift to me….
Isn’t this the constant, facing-up in life? We can’t get away from what we believe we are. We simply project it on to everyone and everything. Through devotion to truth as the one and only goal, one begins the gradual dis-identification and detachment from the self-concept and its outer world of projected beliefs. We begin watching its train of events, without attachment or aversion… We recognize the false for what it is~ a transitory state of memory culminating in the Atonement.
Simultaneously, we realize the Self as the changeless, eternal witness…Miracle mindedness reinterprets the succession of circumstances through the eyes of love…
The stable fact seen again and again is that Love is relentless.It will find its way to heal every relationship of any kind!~ regardless of what might seeeem to be happening… With a little willingness and still patience, love always shows that my brother is myself…
With even the slightest willingness to be shown, love sweeps in and reveals the yummy, peaceful perspective of oneness, where no one can lose. Loss is without meaning in our oneness.
Progressively, awareness of Self has become my home… And beneath the surface of daily life, I notice I am filled with the awesome, presence of Christ light and a feeling of imperturbable joy. The surface forgiveness lessons that look like ‘you’ and ‘me’ and ‘situations of possible scarcity or difference; the antics of specialness and fear, unfold as false~ revealing mere beliefs uncovered, exposed to the light for healing oneness through forgiveness.
The groovy part is that I can no longer really be duped by the antics of the ego dream. I am the dreamer, after all… and somehow, I am always aware of this now… The light of truth has been turned on, for I have answered to the call of love to complete itself… I deny the denial of truth and I can no longer deny Christ love as One Light allowing for reflection of belief to be seen.
Love is the constant awareness in Mind and makes the task of forgiveness joyous and abundantly alive. We are the Gift of Love to each other… Giving and receiving each other as one is how we re-member our true identity in God… There is nothing I would rather be a part of… There is nothing else to be a part of or from… Thank you Father, and thank you my brothers, for your never-ending gifts of love and forgiveness and grace…
It is the Law of LOVE:what I give my brother is my gift to me….
I am mot asked to make a sacrifice to find the mercy and the peace of God….
The mercy and the peace of God are already within. They are within the essence of Grace from which we, as Spirit, choose to form experiences, which we then label this or that… Without judgment, what we experience as grace is but our identity as the Son of God…
What comes to my mind in practicing today’s lesson is that empty space within experiences which we then give meaning; that field of possibility which unites them all as one. And without which, no experience is possible…
We, God’s Son, are love’s life breath…We are, God’s complete God. We have our being in creation extending and graciously completing itself. Ultimately, there can be no question as to creations nature. It is. And creates as it is....
All our fantasies of the world real-ize the imagined life of a guilty Son, separated from Origin but fathered by belief in self-source; alone and antithesis to truth. All power of creation has never left us. It’s just that in the dream of separation, our desire for the false to reign (rein), limits as a compulsory component to disguise the Son of God from himself…
The Course says that the lessons to be learned are only two, each having its outcome in a different world, and each following with certainty from its source. The first?
1.God’s Son is guilty. Bingo! This world of scarcity, struggle and sacrifice and happiness, the never-ending carrot dangles by its rules, value judgments and orders of reality. Here every seeming reprieve from struggle is paid for at the price of freedom….Here everything is temporary and ends in death and each one must stay on guard using worry and guilt to ‘stay ahead of the game. … I know, yeah, yeah, yeah, we’ve heard it all before~ the constant dirge of death that soundtracks this world.
Why am I going on about the world of guilt’s reign? We all know it all too well; we have learned it at the expense of remembering we are everything, so the ego identity holds it very dear. But, we are not that.
Ah, but the second lesson… The Course tells us that this so-called journey is simultaneously and in actuality a remembering of all that we denied.
2. It is a denial of the denial of truth. And its message is based in truth: God’s Son is guiltless. The outcome starts with joy and unity since it is the natural ’being’ given freedom to extend…
I love what it says in the last chapter of the text…
“There is no living thing that does not share the universal Will that it be whole, and that you do not leave its call unheard. Without your answer is it left to die, as it is saved from death when you have heard its calling as the ancient call to life, and understood that it is but your own. The Christ in you remembers God with all the certainty with which He knows His Love. But only if His Son is innocent can He be Love. For God were fear indeed if he whom He created innocent could be a slave to guilt. God’s perfect Son remembers his creation. But in guilt he has forgotten what he really is.” (T-31.I.9) Love’s never-ending presence sponsors all relationships, circumstance and situation: all ways, always, for the good of all ~This is what we learn to trust through practicing forgiveness… No sacrifice is possible in truth and the mercy and the peace of God are inherent in what we are. This learning experience of the guiltlessness of God's Son is not only inevitable, but welcome… We but choose the Atonement; giving and receiving mutually, salvation and ‘gift of everything’…
Please join me for a moment right now, and let your mind slip back into the empty space just behind, before and beyond the words you’re reading and feel the alive nothingness that forms the hub we experience as ‘I am’… Now slip into the gap between and ‘I’ and ‘am’… Feel that instant of perfect rest: the mercy and the peace of God…
