Commentary on ACIM Lesson 226

©2010 Rev. David Seacord

My home awaits me. I will hasten there.

Vain desires.... now what would any of us know about that? Or, what do we know of shattered dreams, either? Of course you think I am joking... and I am, but not really....

Because a true dream cannot be shattered, and a true desire can never be in vain. This is because ALL thoughts are creative, and all produce form (so I am learning, often the hard way...). So while it may look like we can desire in vain, we cannot. What we can do is not recognize that our thoughts are producing exactly what we have 'ordered the universe' to produce for us....

This life is really all about being completely responsible for EVERYTHING in our life. I mean, like really, if it's in our life, it CANNOT OCCUR without our 'Yes' at the soul level (which, obviously, if that is SO, means, we are basically blind to our own true being...). I am sure getting, at least, that I have been.

And it has never not been this way.... at every point in my life I have been traversing through this cycle.... first stepping out and taking ground as an ego (becoming accomplished at something etc) and then overstepping the ground I've been on and falling into the next curriculum predicament. In other words, no matter what height I have gained, there is always the next humbling.

But the true dream, the true desire, the one that comes from my soul core, it still calls. And I still hear. Thank God, because that is where I find hope in life these days... To feel my chest get warm and my throat lump up from simple love and appreciation of the gifts of God that arrive at my life's doorstep on a daily or as needed basis.... coming through my brothers to me, and through me to my brothers.... this is communion of spirit, and it is Holy.

Thus, here, without desiring anything, Heaven is mine/ours if I/we will simply see it.

Namaste,

David

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Lesson 226

My home awaits me. I will hasten there.

If I so choose, I can depart this world entirely. It is not death which makes this possible, but it is change of mind about the purpose of the world. If I believe it has a value as I see it now, so will it still remain for me. But if I see no value in the world as I behold it, nothing that I want to keep as mine or search for as a goal, it will depart from me. For I have not sought for illusions to replace the truth.

Father, my home awaits my glad return. Your Arms are open and I hear Your Voice. What need have I to linger in a place of vain desires and of shattered dreams, when Heaven can so easily be mine?