Commentary on ACIM Lesson 271

© 2010 Rev. David Seacord

Christ's is the vision I will use today.

Creation and creator unified! That was my heart-thriller sentence as I read today's lesson. Of course, it is the climax sentence of a beautifully written lesson, and that it thrilled my being also says 'the warm-up getting there was good too', so please take the journey. :-)

I asked you all for prayers, and I did the same at the new thought church I went to Sunday. It is 'working'. At this moment, I am calm. And good things have been happening. My tooth tenderness is receding. And after three hours of neck craning, light blinding work, we three--- me, my gallery director, and the city employee atop the 25 foot high sissors lift--- we have the main gallery lights aimed as well as is humanly possible. Carolyn says 'the best ever', but what they both deserve praise for is their calm handling of me, the prima dona artist struggling to have his treasures lit as perfectly as possible. Anyway, it's done. I am soooo grateful.

The Mailchimp shutdown was a big mess to deal with today too, and a miracle happened. Everything with Mailchimp is done by email. They don't provide phone support. And at first it looked like it might take a couple weeks to jump through all the hoops they were demanding I do to prove I wasn't spamming. I responded passionately at such unfairness, pointing out that this ACIM list was unblemished and that they should not be penalizing it due to the actions of recipients of a different list. Then I got inspired, and created a group email to all 11 of the abuse complaint sources.... since they all did sign up and originally request my emails, they were all in my records, I even had pictures of seven of them smiling at me... so I told them all when we had met, stuff they had told me about themselves from my notes of meeting them, proved I had their addresses etc, and included their pictures too. I explained the situation, and begged them to send me back an email that I could use to prove to Mailchimp that they had originally requested my information, and that the abuse complaint was a mistake. On an impulse, I cc'd it to the compliance dept at Mailchimp too...

That was the miracle... it blew them (at Mailchimp) away that I could provide such documentation of when and where each one had signed up... They reinstated me on the spot and so we are 'back to normal'. It was amazing to feel the relief flood into my body. Like I had saved my baby (the Commentaries). I shook for a while, then did some hard physical labor to ground myself. The funny thing is.... I had expected to get responses from all eleven people that had complained. So far, zero. That is so surprising to me.

Also today had been 'trial preparation day', but with a clean, non-bitter heart. I have been writing out my speeches, my cross examination questions, my multiple motions for dismissal due to this or that reason, and I feel like I know my heart and will trust it to guide me as needed. I'll be ok whatever happens, as long as I stay true to my Self. In other words, as long as I don't deny all beings (including beings called Judges and Police Officers) are my brothers, and even more, are myself.

But don't stop praying for me, ok? I am moving in a good direction. Let's keep going, and have me become a true savior. :-)

Namaste,

David

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Lesson 271

Section 6. What is the Christ?

Christ is God's Son as He created Him. He is the Self we share, uniting us with one another, and with God as well. He is the Thought which still abides within the Mind that is His Source. He has not left His holy home, nor lost the innocence in which He was created. He abides unchanged forever in the Mind of God.

Christ is the link that keeps you one with God, and guarantees that separation is no more than an illusion of despair, for hope forever will abide in Him. Your mind is part of His, and His of yours. He is the part in which God's Answer lies; where all decisions are already made, and dreams are over. He remains untouched by anything the body's eyes perceive. For though in Him His Father placed the means for your salvation, yet does He remain the Self Who, like His Father, knows no sin.

Home of the Holy Spirit, and at home in God alone, does Christ remain at peace within the Heaven of your holy mind. This is the only part of you that has reality in truth. The rest is dreams. Yet will these dreams be given unto Christ, to fade before His glory and reveal your holy Self, the Christ, to you at last.

The Holy Spirit reaches from the Christ in you to all your dreams, and bids them come to Him, to be translated into truth. He will exchange them for the final dream which God appointed as the end of dreams. For when forgiveness rests upon the world and peace has come to every Son of God, what could there be to keep things separate, for what remains to see except Christ's face?

And how long will this holy face be seen, when it is but the symbol that the time for learning now is over, and the goal of the Atonement has been reached at last? So therefore let us seek to find Christ's face and look on nothing else. As we behold His glory, will we know we have no need of learning or perception or of time, or anything except the holy Self, the Christ Whom God created as His Son.

Lesson 271

Christ's is the vision I will use today.

Each day, each hour, every instant, I am choosing what I want to look upon, the sounds I want to hear, the witnesses to what I want to be the truth for me. Today I choose to look upon what Christ would have me see, to listen to God's Voice, and seek the witnesses to what is true in God's creation. In Christ's sight, the world and God's creation meet, and as they come together all perception disappears. His kindly sight redeems the world from death, for nothing that He looks on but must live, remembering the Father and the Son; Creator and creation unified.

Father, Christ's vision is the way to You. What He beholds invites Your memory to be restored to me. And this I choose, to be what I would look upon today.