Commentary on ACIM Lesson 284

© 2010 Rev. David Seacord

I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

This, I am getting, can be our/my truth. I admit I had forgotten Prasad's teaching that to be free is like being in a cage with a tiger about to pounce. That it takes a fully committed mindfulness, a willingness to not have anything be more important than staying awake. Pir Vilayat, my Sufi initiator and 'Rev' ordainer, spoke often about the 'gravity pull of the world'... not in the since I have often made it up---as 'wrong'--- but in the simple sense, like in the Course, of being 'false', and NOT REAL. I am seeing that is where the freedom lies. For the only way that any of my personal triggers can grab me is if I allow them to be 'real'. Minus that, they are empty of power over me.

There is a tie-in to the body that we need to stay aware of though. If the body is threatened, beat upon, etc, it is admittedly difficult to keep a perspective that this is not 'real'. Because within the illusion, it is. That is the fundamental essence of this false reality....remember... that we are a 'body'. As yet, I have no magic answer for that dilemma, save to say that it has been clearly modeled that it is possible, even under cruxifixction, to remember we are spirit, not body.

I have heard that in these times, such trials are no longer our karma. I think that is inaccurate. It is just subtler. It is more an inner thing than an outer thing. But because there are no steps of the curriculum deleted, we still must learn our lessons somehow, somewhere. The great thing the Course is revealing is that the power of working miracles is fundamentally a collapse of time. If it was normal to learn something in a hundred lifetimes, the miracle can deliver the same learning in a few moments. That is amazing grace.

And that grace is received because of our sincerity. Remember the Course saying many times in the early lessons when there was much repetition instructed: Even to repeat the idea only ONE TIME with Complete Sincerity would be enough to instantly know our oneness with God. That is the tiger pouncing awakefullness.

Namaste,

David

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Lesson 284

I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

Loss is not loss when properly perceived. Pain is impossible. There is no grief with any cause at all. And suffering of any kind is nothing but a dream. This is the truth, at first to be but said and then repeated many times; and next to be accepted as but partly true, with many reservations. Then to be considered seriously more and more, and finally accepted as the truth. I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt. And I would go beyond these words today, and past all reservations, and arrive at full acceptance of the truth in them.

Father, what You have given cannot hurt, so grief and pain must be impossible. Let me not fail to trust in You today, accepting but the joyous as Your gifts; accepting but the joyous as the truth.

Commentary on ACIM Lesson 283

© 2010 Rev. David Seacord

My true Identity lies in You.

I could use your prayers. I woke up this morning realizing I must fast (water only), and so I began. The issue is pain and lack of free movement in my right elbow and shoulder (normally called a 'bursitis'). I've been working with it for a while, since I met David Berger, the master bodyworker a few weeks ago at a rawfood potluck in Phoenix. At times I seemed to have made progress. But it hasn't healed and my arm is critical to everything I do, and so I realized I must fast, to give it the fullest healing opportunity possible.

You and I know things like this have emotional ties too. In particular, forgiveness issues. I understand that, and I am working hard to do that, and there is (it appears) some distance to go. I pop back and forth between elevated perceptions --- abstracted, intelligent, detached, where it is obvious that compassion is the only appropriate response --- and then I let myself entertain some thought of anger, or maybe be 'just a little irritated' about 'the world' (authority in particular) and I am quickly drowning in that poison soup, and so, I get on my knees (mostly 'figuratively'), working to bless and forgive those brothers what I have experienced as 'trespassing upon me', and whom so far I have not been able to see 'newly' (i.e., 'forgive').

I pray I will see light at the end of the tunnel soon. I'm sure your prayers of encouragement and physical healing will be felt. I would appreciate them very much.

So todays lesson is right on point for me. It is totally about forgiveness. About recognizing my true identity as a Son of the Godness, and being now at One with all that IS. I wouldn't be surprised if you are sharing my experience--- that the longer I keep doing the Course, the more the Course is giving me exactly what I need to meet what is coming up (or at least reveal it). It is all about our/my purification. It would be nice if it were about looking good, or just being enlightened. Perhaps someday it will be. I do know beings like that. They serve a models for the possibility. But when purification is experienced as a fire, there is a heat in the process.

At times like these, I am glad to remember the Buddhist teaching about 'suffering that is not suffering'. It is, as I wrote just yesterday, simply being willing to experience exactly what I am experiencing.

Namaste,

David

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Lesson 283

My true Identity abides in You.

Father, I made an image of myself, and it is this I call the Son of God. Yet is creation as it always was, for Your creation is unchangeable. Let me not worship idols. I am he my Father loves. My holiness remains the light of Heaven and the Love of God. Is not what is beloved of You secure? Is not the light of Heaven infinite? Is not Your Son my true Identity, when You created everything that is?

Now are we One in shared Identity, with God our Father as our only Source, and everything created part of us. And so we offer blessing to all things, uniting lovingly with all the world, which our forgiveness has made one with us.

Commentary on ACIM Lesson 282

© 2010 Rev. David Seacord

Let me not be afraid of truth today.....

That pretty much does lay it on the line, doesn't it? I mean, what else could it be that we are actually afraid of? Marianne Williamson's writing that it is our brilliance that we fear rings so very true right now. If we were not afraid of truth, why would we hide from it? Each of us does at least a bit still, probably because we're not wishing to 'lose' our 'identity' (code for 'our individuality', 'our specialness', 'our separateness').

We actually think that we would be lost in a sea of chaos if we gave that up, let it go, released it. We still think we wouldn't know who we were.

You know what I am going to say. Yep. It is these very thoughts and beliefs that keep us from knowing who we are. Remember heysuss? (Jesus?) "No man can serve two masters?" and all that? And didn't even Bob Dylan (during his 'born again' period in the 70's) write a song about 'you're gonna have to serve somebody'....?

These messages keep dropping in on mankind periodically, and everybody not made of cement gets it, and then most promptly ignore it... 'for now', we think. We go into the old 'someday story', then we'll get to that.... after.... whatever it is that is more important than being happy and at peace now now now now now.

You have of course been noticing I keep saying 'we', because it is also what I see I am doing too. At least enough to still 'have a separate identity'. And an ego drive. But as I live past the markerpoints of youth, and default into greater degrees of maturity, I notice I am 'more willing' to entertain embracing Reality, simply because it is more and more obvious that Reality is embracing me.

So, for all of us, I'll say it once again.... Let me not be afraid of the truth today. Hooray for us, and the simple willingness to be happy with the exact conditions we exist within right now.

For the only real way to 'change our lives' is to grow into being our true being. And not resisting our current conditions is the first authentic, powerful step in that growth.

Namaste,

David

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Lesson 282

I will not be afraid of love today.

If I could realize but this today, salvation would be reached for all the world. This the decision not to be insane, and to accept myself as God Himself, my Father and my Source, created me. This the determination not to be asleep in dreams of death, while truth remains forever living in the joy of love. And this the choice to recognize the Self Whom God created as the Son He loves, and Who remains my one Identity.

Father, Your Name is Love and so is mine. Such is the truth. And can the truth be changed by merely giving it another name? The name of fear is simply a mistake. Let me not be afraid of truth today.

Commentary on ACIM Lesson 281

© 2010 Rev. David Seacord

I can be hurt by nothing but my thoughts.

I am quiet as I contemplate todays lesson, after an active day of sharing. Several phrases within it call to me...."Without forgiveness will your dreams remain to terrify you....", "the quietness of heaven...", "The thoughts I think with you can only bless...".

To be terrified is to be driven to insanity by fear. All power of clarity is lost, and there is no ability to distinguish between true and false. Into this chaos the amazing grace of the Good sends the wholeness of spirit to bind itself to our souls and become the compass that guides us out of our insanity. It does this by activating our heart to recognize there is no other, ever, except in a dream fraught with nightmares that are not real. It does this by becoming our ever-quieting breath, until not even our heartbeat disturbs our peace. It does this by silencing our rushing mentality, until it is like a perfect unblemished vast stillness that reflects with impeccable accuracy the brilliance of the original Love of that Which Forever IS.

That Love is forever you and I also. It is impossible it not be, for Love created both us, and all others also. The mystery of this Love is that it cannot be escaped. It is within us and outside us, all pervading, infinitely aware, endlessly intelligent, eternally compassionate, and willing to endure millenniums of our denials, certain that we will once again awaken and remember that it is our only Home.

And we soon shall. In this circle there are none who are not near to this remembrance, and none that do not feel the quickening presence of Holiness whenever the mind rests and returns to quietness. Whatever remains of this journey is as a bearer of blessings.

Such is the dharma, such is the gift of forgiveness.

Namaste,

David

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Lesson 281

Section 7. What is the Holy Spirit?

The Holy Spirit mediates between illusions and the truth. Since He must bridge the gap between reality and dreams, perception leads to knowledge through the grace that God has given Him, to be His gift to everyone who turns to Him for truth. Across the bridge that He provides are dreams all carried to the truth, to be dispelled before the light of knowledge. There are sights and sounds forever laid aside. And where they were perceived before, forgiveness has made possible perception's tranquil end.

The goal the Holy Spirit's teaching sets is just this end of dreams. For sights and sounds must be translated from the witnesses of fear to those of love. And when this is entirely accomplished, learning has achieved the only goal it has in truth. For learning, as the Holy Spirit guides it to the outcome He perceives for it, becomes the means to go beyond itself, to be replaced by the eternal truth.

If you but knew how much your Father yearns to have you recognize your sinlessness, you would not let His Voice appeal in vain, nor turn away from His replacement for the fearful images and dreams you made. The Holy Spirit understands the means you made, by which you would attain what is forever unattainable. And if you offer them to Him, He will employ the means you made for exile to restore your mind to where it truly is at home.

From knowledge, where He has been placed by God, the Holy Spirit calls to you, to let forgiveness rest upon your dreams, and be restored to sanity and peace of mind. Without forgiveness will your dreams remain to terrify you. And the memory of all your Father's Love will not return to signify the end of dreams has come.

Accept your Father's gift. It is a Call from Love to Love, that It be but Itself. The Holy Spirit is His gift, by which the quietness of Heaven is restored to God's beloved Son. Would you refuse to take the function of completing God, when all He wills is that you be complete?

Lesson 281

I can be hurt by nothing but my thoughts.

Father, Your Son is perfect. When I think that I am hurt in any way, it is because I have forgotten who I am, and that I am as You created me. Your Thoughts can only bring me happiness. If ever I am sad or hurt or ill, I have forgotten what You think, and put my little meaningless ideas in place of where Your Thoughts belong, and where they are. I can be hurt by nothing but my thoughts. The Thoughts I think with You can only bless. The Thoughts I think with You alone are true.

I will not hurt myself today. For I am far beyond all pain. My Father placed me safe in Heaven, watching over me. And I would not attack the Son He loves, for what He loves is also mine to love.

Commentary on ACIM Lesson 280

© 2010 Rev. David Seacord

What limit's can I lay upon God's Son?

I find myself praying today to be able to see all 'others' as Sons of God. It is clear intellectually that this is true (when I am listening to my heart) yet still alive within me much too often, much too easily triggered, is the habitual return to the separation version, where it is 'me' or 'us' against 'them', the unsafe world, and where the poisons of anger and the pains of not being seen demand I close my heart 'to survive'.

Today's lesson speaks to me that to honor myself as God's Son I must also honor all my brothers as the same. I remember Werner telling us this same thing, in a slightly different way: He said "Until you can respect another exactly as they are, you are stuck with them. I know it's tough. Sometimes it takes all the strength I have to get up, to respect some people, but I know if I don't, I am stuck with them." I take that being 'stuck' with someone is like they are glued to the inside of you, eating away at you, using up your life. I think that is what the saying that "Resentment is taking poison and hoping the other person dies" is about. I can tell you that I have recognized that to let that happen is insanity. And I can tell you that I have plenty of experience being insane as a result of this simple forgetting of reality. So do not follow me there. It only leads to more sorrow.

From the looks of this world, I am not the only one who has made that journey and who works daily to make the return to love. Yet flipped, what the lesson is saying is that I AM the Only One, if and when I really know who I am. The Course continues to be reliable in its one direction, never wavering in the message it delivers.... Only grant reality to the True Reality, and nothing can ever disturb your peace. For there is no Reality save the Universal Godness, from whom we are inseparable, and in whom we move and have our being.

Namaste,

David

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Lesson 280

What limits can I lay upon God's Son?

Whom God created limitless is free. I can invent imprisonment for him, but only in illusions, not in truth. No Thought of God has left its Father's Mind. No Thought of God is limited at all. No Thought of God but is forever pure. Can I lay limits on the Son of God, whose Father willed that he be limitless, and like Himself in freedom and in love?

Today let me give honor to Your Son, for thus alone I find the way to You. Father, I lay no limits on the Son You love and You created limitless. The honor that I give to him is Yours, and what is Yours belongs to me as well.

Commentary on ACIM Lesson 279

© 2010 Rev. David Seacord

Creation's freedom promises my own.

Today I lived another day of perfection, only this day I did not deny it. It is so easy to see in hindsight that you and I are always guided, and never abandoned. Often after a tizzy of doubt, I will wonder why I ever did. But when I am willing to tell the truth to myself, I know I am always provided for. I am given all that I need.

This morning I received a beautiful email from Guy Finley, entitled 'Stop Feeding the 'Wolves' Within that Want It All'. It was about being driven by compulsivity. Obviously compulsivity is a lack of trust and faith, and a forcing of the river of life toward a predetermined goal. I' ve been blind that I've been doing that. Guy's email gave me a viewpoint from which to see myself, to catch myself in that tail chasing. I felt freed as I set down that energy pattern, and returned to 'Now is perfect just as it is. Nothing needs to be added.'

In the space of no manipulating, I had a wonderful and peaceful day, active but not busy, and full of surprises.

One of those was meeting 76 year old Gene and his mules, camped for the night down the road from the library, and 'on his way to the Atlantic'. I'm attracted to guys like him, and have many times wondered if I might someday do my own version. So I put on the brakes and sat with him a spell. When I found out he didn't know any way east but the steep freeway pass over the mountains (which both he and I knew was going to be a tough pull for the mules, let alone being dangerous, I gave him directions to a longer route that went around the mountains through farmland. Don't know if he'll change his plans, as independent old sourdough's can be cantankerous, but I hope he will.

As little adventures like that can be a sly way that God gives us a gift, I wasn't surprised when, in peeking in his Conestoga, that I didn't see it as my future. Gemini risings like me might fantasize being just about anything, but what'd you know... I think I've already chosen to be an artist (as my version of me.... :-)

Namaste,

David

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Lesson 279

Creation's freedom promises my own.

The end of dreams is promised me, because God's Son is not abandoned by His Love. Only in dreams is there a time when he appears to be in prison, and awaits a future freedom, if it be at all. Yet in reality his dreams are gone, with truth established in their place. And now is freedom his already. Should I wait in chains which have been severed for release, when God is offering me freedom now?

I will accept Your promises today, and give my faith to them. My Father loves the Son Whom He created as His Own. Would You withhold the gifts You gave to me?

Commentary on ACIM Lesson 278

© 2010 Rev. David Seacord

If I am bound, my Father is not free.

Does this make clear sense to you? Has it come into focus yet? That there is no reality but God is not a dream, or a fantasy. It is what is real. It is the dreams of separation we have of this world that are not real. All we are learning by doing (echo: learning by doing, learning by doing....) is to tell the difference between which is which, with a powerful degree of mastery (eventually). It does not matter how long this journey to that mastery takes, it only matters that we continue, and the end result is guaranteed. That is the entire reason why I am writing these Commentaries... for no matter how far I may drift off course on occasion, I am still continuing the journey as authentically as I am able at that moment, and calling you to continue also.

This circle is thus made holy by our unity of intention. And all within it will one day fulfill their holy destiny, in God's timing. Actually, even today we are each fulfilling that destiny each moment we reawaken and for a few moments, fully remember. How do we 'reawaken'. We simply release the dream each time we step into Love.

Namaste,

David

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Lesson 278

If I am bound, my Father is not free.

If I accept that I am prisoner within a body, in a world in which all things that seem to live appear to die, then is my Father prisoner with me. And this do I believe, when I maintain the laws the world obeys must I obey; the frailties and the sins which I perceive are real, and cannot be escaped. If I am bound in any way, I do not know my Father nor my Self. And I am lost to all reality. For truth is free, and what is bound is not a part of truth.

Father, I ask for nothing but the truth. I have had many foolish thoughts about myself and my creation, and have brought a dream of fear into my mind. Today, I would not dream. I choose the way to You instead of madness and instead of fear. For truth is safe, and only love is sure.

Commentary on ACIM Lesson 277

© 2010 Rev. David Seacord

Let me not bind Your Son with laws I made.

The way the universe works is always perfect, regardless of what our personal point of view may be. This is so at all times, under all conditions, and is a law of God that is unchangeable. We only experience what we create, nothing else. And we create it exactly the way we experience it because we need the gift of that experience.

In this process, there is an incubation of growing awareness. What did not make sense begins to be understandable, then obviously true. For this there is no price but the acceptance of the truth that we have seen, and from then on, the practicing of being true to it. Thus do we 'change' to become who we have always been, thus is reality discovered to also include everything that is real.

Tonight, by grace of God, was no different than any other moment, only, by the power of group, it was experienced more clearly. I have a lot to be grateful for in the person of our leader Karol, who shines more brightly each week as she follows her guidance in selecting errorlessly the exact lesson material for us to contemplate. Tonight she led us to text page 448, the entire section 2 and 3, which are full of profound gems clearly appropriate for many of us which meet in the safety of God's Holiness. I cannot but recommend to you that it be reviewed often.

What I am seeing is how clearly any gift of willingness given to God will produce a major benefit in our lives. How clearly we are Loved Absolutely by Who we Are, regardless of our forgetfulness.

Namaste,

David

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Lesson 277

Let me not bind Your Son with laws I made.

Your Son is free, my Father. Let me not imagine I have bound him with the laws I made to rule the body. He is not subject to any laws I made by which I try to make the body more secure. He is not changed by what is changeable. He is not slave to any laws of time. He is as You created him, because he knows no law except the law of love.

Let us not worship idols, nor believe in any law idolatry would make to hide the freedom of the Son of God. He is not bound except by his beliefs. Yet what he is, is far beyond his faith in slavery or freedom. He is free because he is his Father's Son. And he cannot be bound unless God's truth can lie, and God can will that He deceive Himself.

Commentary on ACIM Lesson 276

© 2010 Rev. David Seacord

The Word of God is given for me to speak.

It's halftime during the Oregon-Stanford game, which I just happened onto when I had an unusual impulse to turn on the TV, and which I stayed with because I went to college at the University of Oregon (in the days when we never had a good football team).

I've been decompressing all day, resting as much as possible 'to re-energize'. But I did 'have to' go back to the Art Center and give the scheduled 11 am 'Art Talk' that I had agreed to do. And the brand new close out on sale camcorder I just bought yesterday got it's first use in the hands of Carolyn, the gallery director, recording my comments until the batteries died. So I've had a look at what 'others' see of this thing called 'me', instead of the usual view. I'm not sure the trademark reversed-bill cap has a guaranteed future, and I probably could use some personal presentation coaching to prepare me for knocking on the doors of the big-time art-world, which is my intention to do in the near future. But, all in all, I liked the 'me' I saw.... for sure, a bit quirky, but clearly an intelligent and heartful slender gentleman with a different take on life.

It's important to be able to see ourselves without being excessively self-critical, which is only another trick our egos use to attempt to get us to believe the unreal is real. The Sufi's say God loves it when a strong ego surrenders.... because strong egos working for God know how to get things done.

One thing did happen that had me feel some sadness.... I sense that I failed to answer a question about my spirituality 'correctly', and without explanation a couple who had been very interested in my work simply turned and walked away. I know there are many versions of 'spiritual truth' available in this world... still, I feel sad when differences like that get their vote about my art canceled. But it has happened before, and this IS the world, so my 'practice' is to accept it.

I've tuned out the game, which is about over now, as Oregon, once a 21-3 underdog in this game, is now over twenty points ahead, like 52 to 31. I don't have the thirst for blood of a fanatical fan, and lose interest when the victor is clear but the game goes on...

Fanaticism, in any realm of life, seems to be the ultimate state of the blind ego. What keeps us/me from going there is the heart-knowing that there is only one of us, really. Out of this 'little experience' in the land of law, another thing I have seen about myself is that I, as an ego am not different from anyone else also an ego... I wish to be right. But in the debris of that fiasco, I have been looking at many things I 'may have been wrong about', about the way the world 'is'. I'm actually more peaceful with those thoughts, more willing to 'follow'. Maybe, I've thought, God gave me this experience so I could see that....

BTW, I'd like to say that the lesson is, for me today, especially clear. I hope it is for you too. Peace.

& Namaste,

David

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Lesson 276

The Word of God is given me to speak.

What is the Word of God? "My Son is pure and holy as Myself." And thus did God become the Father of the Son He loves, for thus was he created. This the Word His Son did not create with Him, because in this His Son was born. Let us accept His Fatherhood, and all is given us. Deny we were created in His Love and we deny our Self, to be unsure of Who we are, of Who our Father is, and for what purpose we have come. And yet, we need but to acknowledge Him Who gave His Word to us in our creation, to remember Him and so recall our Self.

Father, Your Word is mine. And it is this that I would speak to all my brothers, who are given me to cherish as my own, as I am loved and blessed and saved by You.

Commentary on ACIM Lesson 275

© 2010 Rev. David Seacord

God's healing Voice protects all things today.

I just deleted a few sentences of good sounding mentality because I realized I am too spent (this is late, and after the opening is over and I've gone home) to try to fly too high tonight. And I was at a dead end too, anyway. So I am opting to go simple. Somehow it will all be about God, right?

So how'd the opening go? Everybody is saying I should be pleased. And it was a good turnout, by Yuma standards. But what I am most pleased about it that we (the team of me and Art Center staff) just kept adding in as much perfection as possible (despite breakdown after breakdown) all throughout the day, as the countdown shortened, and everything we did made a big difference. And even so, it was nip and tuck timing.... I changed into dress clothes 15 minutes before our event began, without having had

a chance to prepare my vegetable sushi rolls, so..... I ended up doing a raw food sushi demo at the serving table, which was great fun.

Being a hermit much of my life has (perhaps) slowed down the development of 'smoozzing' skills, but I don't mind. There was plenty of authentic appreciation and conversation--- and some converts were made (being people whose initial impression was flat to negative, but who discovered over the evening that there was a message in my art for them too).

I mention that so that this returns to being a spiritual commentary, as that process is universal. The ego will say it is permanent, but it is not. The Course teaches that all it takes is 'a little willingness'. I am learning that includes me too. That is certainly something to be grateful for. It could even be called 'the protection of God', wouldn't you say?

Hope this all makes sense. Very spent. May God protect all beings.....

Namaste,

David

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Lesson 275

God's healing Voice protects all things today.

Let us today attend the Voice for God, which speaks an ancient lesson, no more true today than any other day. Yet has this day been chosen as the time when we will seek an

d hear and learn and understand. Join me in hearing. For the Voice for God tells us of things we cannot understand alone, nor learn apart. It is in this that all things are protected. And in this the healing of the Voice for God is found.

Your healing Voice protects all things today, and so I leave all things to You. I need be anxious over nothing. For Your Voice will tell me what to do and where to go; to whom to speak and what to say to him, what thoughts to think, what words to give the world. The safety that I bring is given me. Father, Your Voice protects all things through me.

Commentary on ACIM Lesson 274

© 2010 Rev. David Seacord

Today belongs to love. Let me not fear.

This will probably be pretty short, as tomorrow at 5 is the opening reception of my Yuma show, and there's still a lot to do.

But also I need to mention a few things before too much time passes or risk forgetting my realizations. So I'll get right to it. 1. Realized the 'Rev.' (in my case) could actually be short for 'reveal thyself'. I mean, like 'tell on yourself'. And then I realized that was what I liked about the 'preachers' I liked the most too... that they were candid about what it was really like to be 'them'. 2. That connection happened after a animated conversation with my long-time insurance agent, who I'd called finally, now that I am a convicted stop-sign runner, to see if that would mean an increase in insurance rates. Well, the man delivered the satsang of integrity to me, up one side and down the other. With love... we've known each other a long time. So I got to look at 'well, why hadn't I called him a lot sooner, when he could have coached me/ helped me?' Why hadn't I gone to the judge with hat in hand and acknowledged that I was guilty of the infractions, that I had been inattentive, and that I was committed to learning a lesson from it, and not repeating them? And I saw the answer was because I thought 'the world was wrong' and 'I was right'. Then I saw that that was all over me, in all kinds of ways. 3. Then I saw that me 'teaching' the Course was really 'me trying to learn a new way by teaching it to others'. Ouch. Not only that, I realized that all my 'tranquil' paintings were NOT 'indicators of a tranquil beingness' as much as they were my medicine.... you know, balancing me out. Hey, I am the guy that found that in the deep woods away from people I could just BE, and I could heal from the abrasions of the world and society. I saw that all my life it has really disturbed me that the world is the way that it is, and that I lived in it like a wild animal trying not to get caught.

But like the story of the sadhu that meditated for years in his cave, and then lost it in the marketplace, well, I lost it over this ticket and the supporting thought energy of all of you, I am sure, was very important assistance in keeping me sane enough to not go stupid crazy.

All this I saw, and I just prayed, Oh God, I so need help with this life. You've given me so many gifts, but I still have such a long way to go to really really be truly free enough to be at peace in this world. I know that is what I am here to learn, but it can seem impossible. Please help me.

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I felt better after getting all that off my chest, and went to town to spend the day finishing the preparations for my shows opening. I was in good shape the whole day, though at it's end, well spent. One moment happened... I needed to created a name for a new major piece already hung... the staff needed to know for the info sheet etc. The name that arose? 'The Perfection of the Imperfections'.

No Accidents, ever.

Namaste,

David

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Lesson 274

Today belongs to love. Let me not fear.

Father, today I would let all things be as You created them, and give Your Son the honor due his sinlessness; the love of brother to his brother and his Friend. Through this I am redeemed. Through this as well the truth will enter where illusions were, light will replace all darkness, and Your Son will know he is as You created him.

A special blessing comes to us today, from Him Who is our Father. Give this day to Him, and there will be no fear today, because the day is given unto love.