Commentary on ACIM Lesson 238

©2010 Rev. David Seacord

On my decision all salvation rests.

Spiritual sadhana includes everything, and excludes nothing, so of course it includes 'death of the body'. That is how it disappears as a practice, and simply becomes the state of being we exist within, the IS of who we are.... beyond name, beyond form, beyond any identity or attachment.

The Tibetan Buddhists mantra 'Gaté, Gaté, Paragaté, Parasumgaté, Bodhiswaha...' means, loosely translated, 'Gone, Gone, Gone Beyond, Gone Beyond Beyond, Hail the Goer'.....

As I sat today being with my fathers body, sometimes tricks of light seemed to happen.... once, as Mom and I stood looking at his face, the one eye resting half open seemed to have a flicker inside it. Ah, the veils between the worlds.... sometimes so thin. It was hard to really believe he is dead, despite the bodies evidence. As I shaved him the last time and combed his hair, it seemed like it would be so easy to wake him up, as if from a dream, and have him 'alive' again. For what is the difference between the truth of him as an eternal being and the perception of him as a dead body but the place I am seeing from...

That, it seems to me, is the whole point of this life.... to see everything truly, as it is. Inside of that understanding, everything becomes the curriculum for developing whole seeing. And what keeps us from such seeing? Naturally, only ourselves being 'personal vantage points', believing we have found 'the truth'. Such beliefs separate us, and blind our hearts to our Oneness.

We can't squeeze Godness into an ego, no matter how hard we try. But love does always invite the ego into God..... that IS available....like water flowing downhill.

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Thank you for surrounding me with Godness today.... as I release my father to return to his true home, I am sure he takes a part of the eternal me with him, and that he is leaving a trail of blessings (and blessed examples) for me to follow through this life.

Namaste,

David

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Lesson 238

On my decision all salvation rests.

Father, Your trust in me has been so great, I must be worthy. You created me, and know me as I am. And yet You placed Your Son's salvation in my hands, and let it rest on my decision. I must be beloved of You indeed. And I must be steadfast in holiness as well, that You would give Your Son to me in certainty that he is safe Who still is part of You, and yet is mine, because He is my Self.

And so, again today, we pause to think how much our Father loves us. And how dear His Son, created by His Love, remains to Him Whose Love is made complete in him.

Dear Friends,

My father died peacefully this morning, a day after his last conscious words, which were 'I love you very much'. His passing was celebrated by nature by a full moon night of wind, thunder, and lightning, and early this morning, a rare and wonderful desert rainbow. I felt his spirit with me very strongly throughout the night, dancing in the Heavens and reveling in the celebration. I visited early in the morning and was surprised that the cord to his body and breath were then still connected, but Mom called a couple of hours later to tell me that he 'was gone'.

I have sat with his body now for a few hours, and have felt many tears, and my heart remembering the goodness of his being, and the life of mutual love I shared with him. In a few hours his body will be taken to a crematory, and after waiting a few days that he may become used to his non-physical existence, I will witness his body's cremation.

There are plans for a memorial service in the late fall, awaiting the seasonal return of his community of snowbird friends.

I thank all of you for your many prayers and support during this transition. I bow at your feet as a brother on our walk to God, and look forward to the journey of our lives ahead.

Namaste,

David

Commentary on ACIM Lesson 237

© 2010 Rev. David Seacord

Now I would be as God created me.

Burnt into the synapses of my/your mind, the lesson statement kicks butt as a mantra worth repeating hundreds of times daily. 'On the breath', with the downbeat on 'NOW' to keep us in 'present time'..... and with an added silent 'again' understood to be contextual. (I.E., NOW, I would be [again] as God created me!) Add the exclamation and it becomes a declarative.... a causative self-initiatory trigger.

Sufis are known for turning statements like this musical, then developing chants, rounds, counterpoints... It is all about 'training the mind' in the infinite pathways of remembrance. Why? That our life may be blessed by the awareness of our wholeness, and that our leave-taking may be fully conscious. As we each, day by day, step ever closer to the embrace of the infinite Love that created us, let us always keep near the knowledge of who we truly are.... spiritual beings having a physical experience. Like the Tibetan Buddhist monks who meditate upon the transient nature of the flesh by doing practice among the corpses of their fellow monks as vultures scavenge the dead bodies.... like that.... our opportunity is to stay awake to knowing each other, not as limited bodies, but as eternal sons and daughters of the Joy of God's Heart.

"Today I will accept the truth about myself. I will arise in glory, and allow the light in me to shine upon this world this day."

Namaste,

David

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Lesson 237

Now would I be as God created me.

Today I will accept the truth about myself. I will arise in glory, and allow the light in me to shine upon the world throughout the day. I bring the world the tidings of salvation which I hear as God my Father speaks to me. And I behold the world that Christ would have me see, aware it ends the bitter dream of death; aware it is my Father's Call to me.

Christ is my eyes today, and He the ears that listen to the Voice for God today. Father, I come to You through Him Who is Your Son, and my true Self as well. Amen.

Commentary on ACIM Lesson 236

© 2010 Rev. David Seacord

I rule my mind, which I alone must rule.

As I entered the bedroom this morning where my father lays with eyes mostly closed these days, Mom was speaking to him quietly. "Now, here is someone who is really here... do you know who it is?" My father slowly opens his eyes, tries to focus on me, and then says to Mom... "Yes, this is my son David". He smiles like a contented child, seeing that I am there.

"How are you, Dad?" I ask him. He doesn't answer for a moment. Then he says.... "It's wonderful." He continues softly..."it's wonderful, wonderful, it's wonderful...".

He is, I realize, not speaking about anything I can see. But where he is, and what he is seeing is now becoming very real.....

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As they approach their 65th wedding anniversary a few days hence (Aug. 31) , Mom has set up an alter of sorts on the table outside the apartment door to share with the assisted living community. It has the story of their life upon it.... wedding photo, picture albums, a scrapbook about the different churches Dad was pastor at.... Mom's demeanor, in the past often upset 'because he won't eat enough to keep himself alive' has become much gentler, as she nurses him by placing a wet sponge into his mouth to give him moisture because swallowing has become difficult.

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The stages of this transition passage often change suddenly, sometimes seemingly reversing back and forth in the course of a few hours. During my visit this evening I was surprised to be able to feed him a little, and shave him, as he sat in his wheelchair. He struggles to be able to form clearly spoken words these days, but his eyes tell me he's still at home. Tonight, as Mom was outside walking their beloved companion dog, Dad slowly, word by word, gasps out between labored breaths "Son, I don't know if I can keep it going much longer....". I know he can't say this to Mom. She still resists his departure.... I touch him gently on his arm... "Yes, I'm seeing that too Dad. It's getting close, but when is all in God's hands. You know this world will keep on going....you don't need to worry about us Dad, we'll all be OK. And Dad, you know there is nothing to be afraid of...." Dad's look tells me as much as the gentle squeeze he gives my hand in his....

I thank you all for your thoughts and prayers. Love knows what it is doing.....

Namaste,

David

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Lesson 236

I rule my mind, which I alone must rule.

I have a kingdom I must rule. At times, it does not seem I am its king at all. It seems to triumph over me, and tell me what to think, and what to do and feel. And yet it has been given me to serve whatever purpose I perceive in it. My mind can only serve. Today I give its service to the Holy Spirit to employ as He sees fit. I thus direct my mind, which I alone can rule. And thus I set it free to do the Will of God.

Father, my mind is open to Your Thoughts, and closed today to every thought but Yours. I rule my mind, and offer it to You. Accept my gift, for it is Yours to me.

Commentary on ACIM Lesson 235

© 2010 Rev. David Seacord

God in His mercy wills that I be saved.

Blessing your 'enemies' is the true work of a teacher of God.... and the reason has nothing to do with 'the enemy', and everything to do with you...

To say all that more accurately, blessing others has to do with recognizing that there are no enemies 'out there', just as there are no enemies 'in here' either. For the truth is that the belief in 'opposites' is a teaching of the world that creates more delusion. The truth is that everything is inseparably you. Anything that 'is not recognized as you' is a delusion, a far-fetched made-up concoction of our imagined 'self', the 'I am' that we are not, here in the Course referred to as 'the ego'. Fortunately, the ego 'isn't' (really), and God 'is' (really).

Of course, this cannot be believed. It must be your own direct experience for you to know it. Hence, the practice of blessing your enemies ultimately leads to seeing you are blessing yourself only, as there is only you. I think usually the path to grounding this realization comes through the opening of the heart, and the outpouring of held in emotions, then the telling of the truth, then the experience of forgiveness.

To enter only you you do not have to go anywhere or do anything or be anybody.... the access to entering only you is simply perfect stillness. Blessing 'others' gives each of us this gift.... it brings peace to the mind, that its delusions disappear, leaving behind stillness in its stead.

Namaste,

David

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Lesson 235

God in His mercy wills that I be saved.

I need but look upon all things that seem to hurt me, and with perfect certainty assure myself, "God wills that I be saved from this," and merely watch them disappear. I need but keep in mind my Father's Will for me is only happiness, to find that only happiness has come to me. And I need but remember that God's Love surrounds His Son and keeps his sinlessness forever perfect, to be sure that I am saved and safe forever in His Arms. I am the Son He loves. And I am saved because God in His mercy wills it so.

Father, Your Holiness is mine. Your Love created me, and made my sinlessness forever part of You. I have no guilt nor sin in me, for there is none in You.

Commentary on ACIM Lesson 234

© 2010 Rev. David Seacord

Father, today I am Your Son again.

Phenomena.... "having the appearance of reality, but failing to be actually real". Clearly understanding this is a very big key to peace of mind while walking in this world. If we were 100% of the time in communion with Reality, we would suffer not. To the ego in the world, this clearly looks 'crazy'. But that is the nature of truth--- that it turns the teachings of the world on it's head.

Sometimes in the past I have been allowed to be a hermit of sorts and escape the world for periods of time by living in nature away from the grid and other people. There was much I was able to learn by so doing. And, as now is not such a time, there is much to be learned (I even would like to say, 'mastered') by being both in the middle of the world, and in the middle of 'phenomena'.

For both are made of the same stuff: the illusions of duality. The Course repeats often that all thoughts are creative, and that we are responsible for our thinking. Mantra is a very useful way to practice being responsible for this. It sets up a constant thought pattern that keeps at least a piece of our attention on something else besides the constantly changing 'movie' of the world through our awareness. This can work to keep the door to a higher wisdom more open, so that in times of stress, help is available.

The Course offers many mantras.... practically any thought that you experience as jumping off the page at you is usable, but I recommend the shorter ones, like 'I am as God created me'. Or, for example, using todays thought... my mantra version of it might be: Today, Love, I am yours. Use what ever you like...Repeating a mantra a thousand times during one day is like bathing in a breath of Heaven.

Namaste,

David

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Lesson 234

Father, today I am Your Son again.

Today we will anticipate the time when dreams of sin and guilt are gone, and we have reached the holy peace we never left. Merely a tiny instant has elapsed between eternity and timelessness. So brief the interval there was no lapse in continuity, nor break in thoughts which are forever unified as one. Nothing has ever happened to disturb the peace of God the Father and the Son. This we accept as wholly true today.

We thank You, Father, that we cannot lose the memory of You and of Your Love. We recognize our safety, and give thanks for all the gifts You have bestowed on us, for all the loving help we have received, for Your eternal patience, and the Word which You have given us that we are saved.

Commentary on ACIM Lesson 234

© 2010 Rev. David Seacord

Father, today I am Your Son again.

Phenomena.... "having the appearance of reality, but failing to be actually real". Clearly understanding this is a very big key to peace of mind while walking in this world. If we were 100% of the time in communion with Reality, we would suffer not. To the ego in the world, this clearly looks 'crazy'. But that is the nature of truth--- that it turns the teachings of the world on it's head.

Sometimes in the past I have been allowed to be a hermit of sorts and escape the world for periods of time by living in nature away from the grid and other people. There was much I was able to learn by so doing. And, as now is not such a time, there is much to be learned (I even would like to say, 'mastered') by being both in the middle of the world, and in the middle of 'phenomena'.

For both are made of the same stuff: the illusions of duality. The Course repeats often that all thoughts are creative, and that we are responsible for our thinking. Mantra is a very useful way to practice being responsible for this. It sets up a constant thought pattern that keeps at least a piece of our attention on something else besides the constantly changing 'movie' of the world through our awareness. This can work to keep the door to a higher wisdom more open, so that in times of stress, help is available.

The Course offers many mantras.... practically any thought that you experience as jumping off the page at you is usable, but I recommend the shorter ones, like 'I am as God created me'. Or, for example, using todays thought... my mantra version of it might be: Today, Love, I am yours. Use what ever you like...Repeating a mantra a thousand times during one day is like bathing in a breath of Heaven.

Namaste,

David

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Lesson 234

Father, today I am Your Son again.

Today we will anticipate the time when dreams of sin and guilt are gone, and we have reached the holy peace we never left. Merely a tiny instant has elapsed between eternity and timelessness. So brief the interval there was no lapse in continuity, nor break in thoughts which are forever unified as one. Nothing has ever happened to disturb the peace of God the Father and the Son. This we accept as wholly true today.

We thank You, Father, that we cannot lose the memory of You and of Your Love. We recognize our safety, and give thanks for all the gifts You have bestowed on us, for all the loving help we have received, for Your eternal patience, and the Word which You have given us that we are saved.

Commentary on ACIM Lesson 233
© 2010 Rev. David Seacord

I give my life to God to guide today.


"No reserve at all...." . That is the message of God's incomprehensible Love. It's the same as 'total trust'. Of course, if we are 'of split mind', it will only be a fairy tale. But, using time for the purpose it was made (which is to allow us to learn by our experiences) we will discover one day that we are ready....and it is our day to embrace our life with this incomprehensible total trust. And on that day, our mind will be one, and totally silent.

Namaste,

David
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Lesson 233

I give my life to God to guide today.

Father, I give You all my thoughts today. I would have none of mine. In place of them, give me Your Own. I give You all my acts as well, that I may do Your Will instead of seeking goals which cannot be obtained, and wasting time in vain imaginings. Today I come to You. I will step back and merely follow You. Be You the Guide, and I the follower who questions not the wisdom of the Infinite, nor Love whose tenderness I cannot comprehend, but which is yet Your perfect gift to me.

Today we have one Guide to lead us on. And as we walk together, we will give this day to Him with no reserve at all. This is His day. And so it is a day of countless gifts and mercies unto us.

Commentary on ACIM Lesson 232

© 2010 Rev. David Seacord

Be in my mind, my Father, through the day.

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When the world determines who I think I am, I lose God. For God is the Truth of me, and without knowing God, I cannot know myself.

When I do something that 'I am ashamed of', that shame is there because I believed the teachings of this world.... yet God sees no shame when He looks upon me, and continues to know I am still His Perfect Sun.

When I am angry at the world for it's 'abuses of the Laws of Love', and then I judge myself for feeling that anger, I have twice damned myself, first with anger, second with self-judgement. Yet God continues to see me as His Perfect Sun.

God knows my holiness, and all I need to do is accept that I am who He shows me I am to Him. All I need to do to do that is let go of ALL the messages of the world 'AS THE TRUTH'. This is true understanding: NOTHING the world teaches is 'the truth'.

The Truth cannot enter this world except as a living soul, because the Truth is Life Eternal. We are created and we arrive here, sent by our Father/Mother... all of us, with the exact same mission: to deny the world any power not of God over us.... to live in this world with God as THE Power in our lives, that the world may become as Heaven, where truth and true love rule. (This, by the way, does not set aside "resist not evil", I have realized 'recently').

When I have the courage to accept the vision of me that God sees, it transforms my mind about myself because Holiness enters my mind. Like a hurricane sweeping through me, I am cleansed of the poisons of my own self-condemnations. And, at the same time, I am healed of all fear of freedom, life, loss, scarcity, sadness, or the 'dangerousness of the world'.

The knowing that God gives me is that it is possible that the world per se have no power over me or my Joy or Happiness. None. When I know God, I can be at peace regardless of circumstance. Therefore, here is the way to see if I have given the world power and/or conversely denied God. If I am unhappy, afraid, depressed, obsessed, addicted, anxious, nervous, etc.... God's protection has not left me, but I have left God to take a journey in the world without Him in my mind.

How to never be without Him in my mind? Install Him in my heart completely, for the heart is the true ruler of the mind. This is called, very simply, the path of Devotion.

Namaste,

David

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Lesson 232

Be in my mind, my Father, through the day.

Be in my mind, my Father, when I wake, and shine on me throughout the day today. Let every minute be a time in which I dwell with You. And let me not forget my hourly thanksgiving that You have remained with me, and always will be there to hear my call to You and answer me. As evening comes, let all my thoughts be still of You and of Your Love. And let me sleep sure of my safety, certain of Your care, and happily aware I am Your Son.

This is as every day should be. Today, practice the end of fear. Have faith in Him Who is your Father. Trust all things to Him. Let Him reveal all things to you, and be you undismayed because you are His Son.

Commentary on ACIM Lesson 231
©2010 Rev. David Seacord

Father, I will but remember you.


"To remember [you] is Heaven". The original word between the brackets was "Him", but my heart's prayer said it as 'you', as in "God, I love you".

We can all use remembering Heaven as we negotiate this life. Even though sometimes it can seem like a problem. Case in point.... I, nostalgic for Heaven, sometimes struggle with life in this world. Obviously, that means at that moment I am NOT remembering Heaven. Or, I am remembering it unclearly, where it seems like a place to escape to where everything I have not yet mastered about life here will not exist.... will have disappeared.

What is remembering Heaven clearly? It's simply peace. And peace doesn't look like anything, like a picture. Peace is a state of being able to be at peace in an unlimited way. Meaning whenever, however, whatever.

I practiced that today, but my peace muscles were [temporarily] inadequate to the task. I got slam dunked 'under protest' in the halls of justice. You can imagine me sitting on my butt looking at a snorting bull getting ready to charge, wondering if I'm going to square off with it or run. I'm rapidly dropping out of my idealizations and starting to think more practically. Coaching from my sister: "Why pick battles you can't win?" I get that... The brilliant listening of my ex: "I'm so sorry, that has to hurt. It's a lot of money." I felt that trigger my fairy tale idealized emotions to tears, and clear some of the anger that I've been trying to control. That was good....

The thing about the David and Goliath story that's not always present is that David was an EXPERT with a sling--- he'd even taken out lions with it, if my memory of Sunday School comics is accurate. So it only LOOKED like a mismatch. Me vs. the Court? It's a true mismatch. Don Quixote vs. Godzilla..... actually, rather foolish to have even tried.... but then, I didn't know what I do now. :-)

Harzat Inayat Khan is quoted as saying "Shatter your ideals on the rock of truth". My transliteration of that to my life goes "In this world, let my idealism be shattered with what is actually possible." What is possible is to let go, release, and move on. It's been there as a quiet truth all along.... God's whispered promise: I will provide. Tonight, remembering Heaven is remembering that.

Namaste,

David
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Lesson 231

2. What is Salvation?

Salvation is a promise, made by God, that you would find your way to Him at last. It cannot but be kept. It guarantees that time will have an end, and all the thoughts that have been born in time will end as well. God's Word is given every mind which thinks that it has separate thoughts, and will replace these thoughts of conflict with the Thought of peace.

The Thought of peace was given to God's Son the instant that his mind had thought of war. There was no need for such a Thought before, for peace was given without opposite, and merely was. But when the mind is split there is a need of healing. So the Thought that has the power to heal the split became a part of every fragment of the mind that still was one, but failed to recognize its oneness. Now it did not know itself, and thought its own Identity was lost.

Salvation is undoing in the sense that it does nothing, failing to support the world of dreams and malice. Thus it lets illusions go. By not supporting them, it merely lets them quietly go down to dust. And what they hid is now revealed; an altar to the holy Name of God whereon His Word is written, with the gifts of your forgiveness laid before it, and the memory of God not far behind.

Let us come daily to this holy place, and spend a while together. Here we share our final dream. It is a dream in which there is no sorrow, for it holds a hint of all the glory given us by God. The grass is pushing through the soil, the trees are budding now, and birds have come to live within their branches. Earth is being born again in new perspective. Night has gone, and we have come together in the light.

From here we give salvation to the world, for it is here salvation was received. The song of our rejoicing is the call to all the world that freedom is returned, that time is almost over, and God's Son has but an instant more to wait until his Father is remembered, dreams are done, eternity has shined away the world, and only Heaven now exists at all.



Lesson 231

Father, I will but to remember You.

What can I seek for, Father, but Your Love? Perhaps I think I seek for something else; a something I have called by many names. Yet is Your Love the only thing I seek, or ever sought. For there is nothing else that I could ever really want to find. Let me remember You. What else could I desire but the truth about myself?

This is your will, my brother. And you share this will with me, and with the One as well Who is our Father. To remember Him is Heaven. This we seek. And only this is what it will be given us to find.

Commentary on ACIM Lesson 230

© 2010 Rev. David Seacord

Now will I seek and find the peace of God.

Tonight as I was leaving the assisted living facility that my parents live in, there was a community meeting taking place in the dining hall. As I walked by, I realized I was being acknowledged by a majority of those gathered, one way or another. Some looked up and smiled, some nodded, some gave a little wave. An awareness rose in me that these elderly had 'become people' to me over the course of the many months that I have been here supporting my parents. From a diffused blob of ancient bodies have emerged individual, differentiated humans with remnants of personality and life still within them, making the best they are able of life with the faculties that still remained to them, and accepting as graciously as they can the loss of others, as the case may be.

But for me, I saw that my work here as a minister of God has been much broader than just my parents, for there have been many moments within this elder community that I have been giver of love, in many forms, but in particular, music. Anyway, I was blessed to see that I have made a difference to these lives, and what caught me by surprise was to see tonight that they have made a difference in mine too, simply by their receiving me as I am among them.

So.... my horizons expand.... and I am no longer so blind to the beingness of the ancient ones.

Tomorrow, there comes my opportunity to expand even further, as my life takes me into the halls of this nations legal justice system to deal with the costly impact of minor road inattentiveness. There is a different culture of relatedness in those halls, one normally adversarial. My learning opportunity is to carry the spirit of God's peace while speaking my true heart without granting any power to 'fear of legal consequences'. In other words, for me, it is an opportunity for courage, as I confront both my current situation, AND old wounds in my past at the hands of 'the law', as I bring them to the light for God's Love to be healed. Obviously, in the end, all suffering and pain experiences must be forgiven. Each day is that opportunity. Tomorrow is no different.

Any blessing thoughts sent my way in support of my strength of heart, and visualizing an outcome of wholeness tomorrow afternoon will be received with gratitude.

Namaste,

David

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Lesson 230

Now will I seek and find the peace of God.

In peace I was created. And in peace do I remain. It is not given me to change my Self. How merciful is God my Father, that when He created me He gave me peace forever. Now I ask but to be what I am. And can this be denied me, when it is forever true?

Father, I seek the peace You gave as mine in my creation. What was given then must be here now, for my creation was apart from time, and still remains beyond all change. The peace in which Your Son was born into Your Mind is shining there unchanged. I am as You created me. I need but call on You to find the peace You gave. It is Your Will that gave it to Your Son.

Commentary on ACIM Lesson 229

© 2010 Rev. David Seacord

Love, which created me, is what I am.

Or, said another way: "What I am is the Love which created me." How could this not be recognized.... is it not plain to see that if something creates something else, to do that requires the Creator to put the essence of Himself/Herself into 'the created', and that what is really happening then is the re-creation of the Creator, ...as you, as I? If that did not happen, how could 'the creation' even exist? It could not exist, for, to exist, it must exist 'within its Creator'. And, if it exists within its creator, how could it then not know its Creator, and also know that it's Creator knows it? I assert we do know.... just as all 'created ones' know, for we did not create ourselves. And from this simple Knowledge arises all our relatedness to God and to each other. For what is One in the beginning will never not be One.

All this makes clearer the truth that 'ideas leave not their source', and that it is impossible to not be connected/related--- to anyone and everyone.

Therefore, to even be considering another as 'separate' is the same as being insane ourselves. Even in a world where everyone is living in this pretense, this is obvious to anyone willing to look at themselves nakedly.

You and I are this 'anyone looking willingness'. We are here now to look upon ourselves for the benefit of all humanity. We are each among those that comprise the mystical square root of 1% of humanity which tips the momentum of our collective human destiny. The amazingly under-recognized miracle is that we are each here of our own free will. That alone testifies to the true power of Love, and our oneness with it.

Namaste,

David

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Lesson 229

Love, which created me, is what I am.

I seek my own Identity, and find It in these words: "Love, which created me, is what I am." Now need I seek no more. Love has prevailed. So still It waited for my coming home, that I will turn away no longer from the holy face of Christ. And what I look upon attests the truth of the Identity I sought to lose, but which my Father has kept safe for me.

Father, my thanks to You for what I am; for keeping my Identity untouched and sinless, in the midst of all the thoughts of sin my foolish mind made up. And thanks to You for saving me from them. Amen.