Commentary on ACIM Lesson 359

© 2010 Rev. David Seacord

Tonight, at the Christmas Eve Candlelight Service at the Yuma new thought church I usually go to, the minister lady was brief but eloquent. And what stuck with me was her comment: "Jesus did not come to be the exception. Jesus came to be the example...."

I appreciated the clarity, and how she continued speaking on the 'greater things than these shall you do' theme. Because that is what calls me and those others that I feel 'bonded-in-soulness-to' standing beside me on this journey. I mean, the word 'christian' means literally 'little christ', which is what we are being.... christs-in- training. Which of course means we error at times.

The teaching of ACIM regarding error is: mistakes only call for correction. Nothing else. Especially not a bunch of judgements. In other words, mistakes are not an I'm right -- you're wrong issue. Mistakes are just untrue negative thought patterns--- things that we believe to be true, but which the truth of the universe knows to be false. And the problem is that since we believe things to be true that aren't, we get into trouble--- because we normally act on what we believe. But when we believe falsities, acting on them produces bite-you-back-ouchies/ouwee's. That's why being a teacher of God is a humbling path.... because you are there to be a living example of correcting your own mistakes. That is absolutely what Jesus did... he cleaned up all the karma by being without judgement about those around him, yet at the same time he was so straight that he never hesitated to call a spade a spade. People got then (and they still do now) a lot of value out of that. So it is an example for us too.

The time for each of us is coming, will come soon, for the stand-tall mission we each have been assigned to and which we have accepted. And I know you have accepted because you are here.... so your job is just like my job (because there really is only one 'job description' on God's payroll--- we get to say it straight, and then not take what happens personally. That's the high road. If we slip up and we do take it personally, it's just another lesson is learning how to be impeccable about cleaning stuff up.

As anything that is between two brothers is in the way of knowing our own wholeness, and will stay in the way until cleaned up, there is no better time than now to step up to humbleness, and forgive it all. And in the long run (which IS the view God has) NOTHING ever turns out to be a mistake. That is why todays lesson clearly says: Sin is impossible.

Namaste,

David

PS... Merry Christmas everyone!

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Lesson 359

God's answer is some form of peace. All pain
Is healed; all misery replaced with joy.
All prison doors are opened. And all sin
Is understood as merely a mistake.

Father, today we will forgive Your world, and let creation be Your Own. We have misunderstood all things. But we have not made sinners of the holy Sons of God. What You created sinless so abides forever and forever. Such are we. And we rejoice to learn that we have made mistakes which have no real effects on us. Sin is impossible, and on this fact forgiveness rests upon a certain base more solid than the shadow world we see. Help us forgive, for we would be redeemed. Help us forgive, for we would be at peace.

Commentary on ACIM Lesson 358

© 2010 Rev. David Seacord

"Let me not forget myself is nothing, but my Self is all."

It does take intelligent persistence to gain a sense of mastery around the contextual distinctions that the Course uses, but it comes with time.... This line lifted from the lesson speaks to me of the breadth of awareness we are being trained to encompass.... like being able to instantly recognize by the subtlest clues where the truest thoughts and actions are arising, and as a brother, also offering correction where correction is needed. It is the humble work of being a minister of God to take on this work of being guide to other awakening Selfs-in-Godness. The qualification is being willing to have been corrected ourselves. But when we really want to hear only the Voice of God's guidance, none of this is an egoic problem. For all egoic problems source in a reality separated from the Godheart. Giving up that reality and receiving the implantation of a Godheart within our own being is what this Course has been about. If you go to the closest Godmirror (yourself as another), you will see it glowing brightly.

It IS totally appropriate to the season.

Namaste,

David

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Lesson 358

No call to God can be unheard nor left
Unanswered. And of this I can be sure;
His answer is the one I really want.

You Who remember what I really am alone remember what I really want. You speak for God, and so You speak for me. And what You give me comes from God Himself. Your Voice, my Father, then is mine as well, and all I want is what You offer me, in just the form You choose that it be mine. Let me remember all I do not know, and let my voice be still, remembering. But let me not forget Your Love and care, keeping Your promise to Your Son in my awareness always. Let me not forget myself is nothing, but my Self is all.

Commentary on ACIM Lesson 357

© 2010 Rev. David Seacord

"And give as I receive....". Oh, am I nailed on that one. I don't even need to bother to try to calculate.... I know I have been receiving a lot from God.... now let me look for the stack of good karma's I've been accruing from Giving back to my brother.... now, now.... hold on there a minute God, I know I can find it somewhere...!!

Ever feel like that? It's a kind of naked feeling.... like, the jig is up and there's nowhere to hide. You know what I mean? If you do, then you are one of the lucky ones whose conscience is still willing to be honest. Many of us have defense systems multiple levels thick to keep us very well insulated from even the hint that we might be out of integrity, let alone Integrity. But, life moves on moving us in it's perfect pace and plan whether or not we fight it or accept it. And eventually, we get happy to be busted, cause we've gotten that we're getting free too.

To be free of our self's self-interest is the only true freedom. Conversely, the self (the egoic self) is nothing but self-interest. So to be free is to be self-less. Pretty simple, isn't it...

And old friend of mine in the singer-songwriter biz has a song called "Nothing Less Than Everything" (by Steven Walters). It's all about what we are talking about.... that (Thank God) there is no end to the unraveling of personal illusions until there is nothing left of the personal to unravel. And when that has come to be, the flip-side of it is that there is nothing we then cannot have, do, or be. The reason that is is that we are then, and only then, fully trustable. Trustable the way that God trusts Himself. Exactly that way, because we then know Him/Her/It as Ourself. What else is possible? There is really only God. Even the ego is only imagined. If it is no longer being imagined, what else is there left to be but what there is left. And what's left? Only God.

I think we might as well get happy with that. Or perhaps better yet,give happy with that.

Namaste,

David

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Lesson 357

Truth answers every call we make to God,
Responding first with miracles, and then
Returning unto us to be itself.

Forgiveness, truth's reflection, tells me how to offer miracles, and thus escape the prison house in which I think I live. Your holy Son is pointed out to me, first in my brother; then in me. Your Voice instructs me patiently to hear Your Word, and give as I receive. And as I look upon Your Son today, I hear Your Voice instructing me to find the way to You, as You appointed that the way shall be:

"Behold his sinlessness, and be you healed."

Commentary on ACIM Lesson 356

© 2010 Rev. David Seacord

Isn't the 'Christmas Spirit' a sweet presence? Just knowing Christmas is around the corner lightens everything. And this is exactly what it is supposed to do....

I went into town on errands and unexpectedly ran into some delightful children I know from church. We have a great fun time playing foolishly for a few minutes.... There is a crafters/farmers market happening on the closed street in front of the Art Center, and so I finally had the opportunity to show a vendor friend who was there my art in person.... I stopped by my mom's MD office with a question about her meds, and I am given a free months supply, with warm smiles from his staff... I stop by the local fast food vegan restaurant, following up on my offer to relieve them of their organic compostable vegetable pulp (from: their juice making-- to: my compost pile) and we solidify the way it will work smoothly....and the owner is soooo happy to not have to throw it all into the dumpster. I feel an impulse to share a 'Merry Christmas' greeting with a local healer as I am driving by her office. She's there and so is another ACIM friend, so it's a '2-for'..... I see a seasonal produce stand (The Lemon Tree) has opened (for the winter--- that's the growing season in Yuma) and they have 'just picked' homegrown produce. How great! I see a sign saying "Oranges, 30 for $1, you pick" and turn the corner while trying to memorize the address. I get lost a bit but suddenly I see the farmhouse I am in front of has a loaded pomegranate tree. I stop, knock on the door and the man & woman give me permission to take whatever I'd like. Then she also tells me she has an organic garden out back and that they will have way more then they will be able to possibly use in a few weeks! We exchange phone numbers. Oh, and I forgot to mention the city parking lot orange tree that I picked a bag from earlier that were just delicious.

By the time I returned home, I am full of warm fuzz, and happy clams. Mom is on the phone with Sister D.... I ask a turn and share/embellish with Sis my adventures step by step as she oohs/ aahs/ appreciates in the special way only she 'gets me'. As I turn the phone back over to Mom I notice that she is kinda bouncing in her chair. She is chuckling/smiling/laughing from overhearing my adventures.

Something in me wakes up as I see this....to the gift it was for Mom to hear me sharing with my sister.... watching her children love each other. I saw once again that how we know each other is not through some assessment/judgement process... no, no, no.... knowing each other is purely a function of sharing/communicating/communing our real life with each other.

Part of my spiritual training includes having spent intimate time with a spiritual community that 'held all things in common' (joint property ownership). I never fully joined up because I just couldn't 'do that'.... BUT, I was loved, welcomed, and accepted as I was anyway. And what I witnessed each morning of my occasional visits was the communities 'coming together time' before and around the shared breakfast table. And during the course of that, all kinds of communications were shared. It was like there was no 'private' thinking.... to keep the community in the same mind space (their version of ''God's Mind/Space") there were no secrets, and the idea was that it was right that everybody have 'the update' on everything that was going on.... how the work was going on this or that building or work project, what was up with a certain pregnancy, where things were in the money making business that supported the community, even what was not working for any of the couples....

The groups leader was a wise and God-loving man, and he taught me in many ways many of the teaching I now share with you.... especially he taught me that 'It's ALL covered." But the ultimate thing I learned there is simply that, no matter by what name, all spirituality is about is true communion. The kind of communion that naturally embraces any other living being as another itself. That is the spirit of Christmas that I wish to bless you with, that I may receive the same. There is only one of us here. And how I loved seeing my mother "chuckle-bounce". :-)

Namaste,

David

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Lesson 356

Sickness is but another name for sin.
Healing is but another name for God.
The miracle is thus a call to Him.

Father, You promised You would never fail to answer any call Your Son might make to You. It does not matter where he is, what seems to be his problem, nor what he believes he has become. He is Your Son, and You will answer him. The miracle reflects Your Love, and thus it answers him. Your Name replaces every thought of sin, and who is sinless cannot suffer pain. Your Name gives answer to Your Son, because to call Your Name is but to call his own.

Commentary on ACIM Lesson 355

© 2010 Rev. David Seacord

For some reason that I don't remember I found myself thinking today about the Biblical King David (who authored much of the Book of Psalms.... like Psalms 23, 'The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want', etc). The flash that came to me was: "Hmmm, David wrote that 'song' (which later became a 'holy scripture') when he was a young inspired man. Then later in his life, he did a bunch of nasty things, like intentionally set it up for one of his military officers to get killed in battle so that he, then lusty King David, could marry and bed that dead officers very hot and beautiful widow.... Hmmm, isn't it interesting that even though he did a bunch of uncool stuff later, the good stuff that he did earlier still gets included in The Bible..... Probably because he also 'came clean' later..... ".

But, all that aside, the core context of my musing was about the variable nature of my/our human consciousness.... that even the clearest people have days where the clarity can't be found... In this life we all have up times, and then we all have down times, difficult times.... at least it seems so to me. And I think this is what the Course is referring to when it says: "An untrained mind can accomplish nothing." Because without 'training' there is no habituated reality reference. No handhold to grip, so to speak.

I am naturally intelligent, habitually gravitate towards 'the eccentric', and letting myself be 'trained' has never been one of my strong points. That, of course, is my ego talking. For the truth is that I am very grateful for all the certainty that spiritual training offers, especially as the speed of the world intensifies.... at the very least when under duress, I do eventually remember enough of myself to start following my breath, even when very reactivated. And, if I go to the breath sooner, it's way more better & less reactivation... :-)

Anyway, we all know where some of our deepest core reactivation areas lie..... let me guess...family of origin?.... you'd be so Right. Jeezzzz.... what a mess of triggers (read bed of red-hot coals) to find a path through! I guess I had it easy, getting kinda 'makeshift comfortable' here at my parents place while they were in assisted living.... but now 'Momma's come home' and 'a few' different points of view have emerged to get worked out :-). Anyway, the way forward is generally forward and so there have been a few conversations going on between her and I that I am glad have been private... as I discover that I can morph from mature adult to prepubescent in nanoseconds (depending on the trigger) and that it is my spiritual training that makes the reverse journey out of the pit possible.

There is a teaching that I remember from my Body Electronics studies.... "It is the responsibility of the most conscious to re-establish harmory". Egoically, I don't like that teaching, but spiritually, it just works. Of course, not with an attitude of superiority however.... that will certainly backfire. But just to get that the real growth in circumstances that test us is always a function of being willing to see and accept another exactly as they are, and then to honestly communicate. Miracles are certainly guaranteed to be given us each time we do.

Namaste,

David

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Lesson 355

There is no end to all the peace and joy,
And all the miracles that I will give,
When I accept God's Word. Why not today?

Why should I wait, my Father, for the joy You promised me? For You will keep Your Word You gave Your Son in exile. I am sure my treasure waits for me, and I need but reach out my hand to find it. Even now my fingers touch it. It is very close. I need not wait an instant more to be at peace forever. It is You I choose, and my Identity along with You. Your Son would be Himself, and know You as his Father and Creator, and his Love.

Commentary on ACIM Lesson 354

© 2010 Rev. David Seacord

To the question "And what am I except the Christ in me?" the world mockingly, jestingly answers "Probably everything but....ha, ha....". The world would have me totally forget every thought I have come to accept about my wholeness/holiness, and instead, become lost in its multifaceted labyrinths of self-deluding confusion. All in the name of glorifying 'a self' that only exists in my own egoic imagination.... a self that is as unreal asTruth is Real.

At times it seem my only protection from this fate is The Love. Because The Love is 'of God', I continue to find it is the only guidance which can be fully trusted in this world. It has a Voice with a direct line to my heart-center, a Voice that has the ability to mitigate my ticker-tape rapid-running seduction-susceptible mind with an equanimity that allows miracles to arise instead of suicidal reactivity. Even when I am on the floor being crushed by the universe as grain is ground up by the millstone, I can still hear this Voice.... the Voice of The Love.

It always says something like: "Surrender to Me. Let my Loving break your heart wide open. Let me expose a brand new form of you to the currents of Life. Oh, please, My Son, cling not to these limited ideas of being a separated one. Let me lift you on etherial wings into the realm of Unity. All that is necessary to re-find the path is to quiet the mind."

Ah.... yes.... to quiet the mind. That is the key to sanity no matter the circumstances. For the quieter the mind the more it Remembers. It does this without effort, for what the truly quiet mind IS is the Memories.... of our Divine History. And while the history of the world is 'the history of our (egoic) mind', our Divine History has been made perfect by the Holy Silence of our Heart.

Namaste,

David

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Lesson 354

We stand together, Christ and I, in peace
And certainty of purpose. And in Him
Is His Creator, as He is in me.

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?

Commentary on ACIM Lession 353

© 2010 Rev. David Seacord

My assignment last night was to be blessed musically by another lightworker group (called 'Larisa Stow/Shakti Tribe'). Alerted by a friends email that the LA-based Spirit-band was going to be performing in Yuma, I checked out the link provided and based on what I heard quickly surrendered to the knowing I was being called, assigned, sent....

Just as hunger can be the best spice for any food, living out beyond the mainstream centers of light does make me more appreciative of the pearls and diamonds among us, especially when their light shared with nothing held back. And to see that willingness to be vulnerably authentic in a way that makes clear and demonstrable what living without fear is like.... that is a compellingly and inspiring stage presence gift. I.e., the music was uplifting and deeply nurturing.

Then, as I learned this tribe of six creates about 100 concerts a year, often in prisons, half-way houses and other similar places, it was clear that the purity of their purpose was selflessness guided. It is the great desire of all of us, I think, to simply be next to people like this.... whose passion for service, truth, Love, God inspire us..... someone who can see us both as we see ourselves now, and also see with Vision ....calling us to see ourselves as we do not.... yet.

That capacity arises from wisdom born of recognizing what true equality is. It is when no body, no mind, chooses to be outside The Love. When we are all choosing to be inside The Love, that is when The Love is fully, completely alive inside us. That is why we share The Love. It simply makes each of us more of each other, more full.

"Love Love Love Love----- til there is no enemy.... " (lyrics for Shakti Tribe/from the 'Christian Peace Prayer'/ adapted from JC's Sermon on the Mount...)

As Shakti Tribe shared and as I/we received, the world of God's Creation became for me an even deeper certainty. If you check them out, I hope you get that too. (www.shaktitribe.com)

Namaste,

David

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Lesson 353

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.

Father, I give all that is mine today to Christ, to use in any way that best will serve the purpose that I share with Him. Nothing is mine alone, for He and I have joined in purpose. Thus has learning come almost to its appointed end. A while I work with Him to serve His purpose. Then I lose myself in my Identity, and recognize that Christ is but my Self.

Commentary on ACIM Lesson 352

© 2010 Rev. David Seacord

Like most self-service fuel pumps these days, drive-up filtered water vending kiosks are normally double-sided, so it's normal to be temporary neighbors with a stranger while getting water. This 'strangerness' is pretty much a function of our wheeled society, which gives each of us much more exposure to the mass of our populous presence than was the case in 'simpler times', and, while it still would be considered a bit rude to ignore a known neighbor whom you ran into at the market, it's the norm these days that 'it's weird' if you do speak to a stranger at a water kiosk.

If you live with any commitment to being self-expressed, I expect you probably have internal unspoken conversations with (or about) the people with whom you share these kind of moments. I do. They are often assessment based, but of course I admit I have no real idea if there is any validity to any of my projections or assumptions, especially if I never speak to them....

Yesterday evening I went to the local water kiosk, where the price for the water is fifty cents for five gallons. I had 24 empty plastic gallon water jugs, and a half empty glass gallon jug which I keep in the Sidekick as a personal drinking supply. This presented a minor conundrum, as (if you do the math) I realized I would be buying 25 gallons but only be able to consume 24 1/2 gallons.

Waste. A half gallon of wasted pure water was the issue. What to do? Squirt it out on the ground? Let it stay in the hose and let the machine figure out somehow that I didn't want it? Try to drink it like from a hose or water fountain? And the best idea: find somebody to give it to.

As the idea occurred, a car drove up to the other side of the kiosk, and a kind of gruff outside/soft inside blue-collar laborer type gentleman emerged. He was partially hidden by the kiosk building... I only saw about half his body, and I couldn't see what he was filling at all.

I just kept filling my own containers, but I also was waiting for a 'non-wierd opportunity' to initiate a conversation. None occurred for several minutes, and finally I was done. And I had a half gallon of water still owed me, AND the pump was operating. Moment of truth--- mind--- put up or shut up.

I called over to the guy, very directly--- "Hey, want another half gallon?", expecting to be declined. But instead, he answered with his body, swinging a 6 gallon water container into view, and taking my hose out of my hand, then draining my remaining half gallon into his jug. "Perfect!" was all he said as he handed it back to me.

I knew exactly how he felt. I had once owned one of those 6 gallon jugs, and it was always 'a pisser' to not be able to fill up that last gallon. So I had offered him exactly what he wanted.... enough to fill up his container to full.

The thing about it is that I almost let the automatically-running mind-program about not speaking to strangers that I was listening to inside my head stop it all from happening. Yet that was just my head. And because I didn't let my head stop it, I got to discover that God/Source/Intelligence etc was in a perfect dance with me... down to sending by a guy who actually wanted my extra half gallon at the exact time I am at the kiosk. I figure that it was a pretty cool demonstration that 'it's all covered' is true down to 'the minutia degrees'..... like maybe nowhere is it not so.... So I thought you might think it cool too.

Namaste,

David

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Lesson 352

Judgment and love are opposites. From one
Come all the sorrows of the world. But from
The other comes the peace of God Himself.

Forgiveness looks on sinlessness alone, and judges not. Through this I come to You. Judgment will bind my eyes and make me blind. Yet love, reflected in forgiveness here, reminds me You have given me a way to find Your peace again. I am redeemed when I elect to follow in this way. You have not left me comfortless. I have within me both the memory of You, and One Who leads me to it. Father, I would hear Your Voice and find Your peace today. For I would love my own Identity, and find in It the memory of You.

Commentary on ACIM Lesson 351

© 2010 Rev. David Seacord

I woke up this morning with a 'where to from here, God?' question in me. A bit later in the shower I received a gift from my father. Just a simple thing. A doo-dad that he had put on a ledge in the never quite finished 'washhouse' (where the guest shower and loo are) caught my eye. It was just what I needed.... a spray nozzle for the end of the hose that I use to water my new very young winter garden with. Dad had always been 'a collector of useful things' from mostly, garage sales...., and of course, once collected, something had to be done with them, so they'd get put somewhere where hopefully they could be remembered and found when 'the time came'.

This is, you know, a great spiritual principle.... that for everything 'a time will come' for it to fulfill the purpose of its existence. My father left this world with many things 'undone'.... yet somehow I am getting a sense that that is all 'lawful'. Just as it is lawful that I, by using the nozzle, am the completion of his intention. We all pass on our hearts to each other in many different ways.

It is like in the Course, where Voice for God/Holy Spirit is assisting us to GET that we ARE the Sons/Suns of 'the Godness'. When I picked up up the nozzle, claiming it for the use I see for it in my life, I innately understood it was 'my right to do so', as I know in my being that 'what was my fathers is, and always was, mine also'. That is the core bonding principle in the mystical reality called 'family'.

Well, we are 'children of God', i.e., part of the family of God. What blindness have we been living in that would have us not see that what is God's is also likewise ours?

Namaste,

David

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Lesson 351

Section 14. What Am I?

I am God's Son, complete and healed and whole, shining in the reflection of His Love. In me is His creation sanctified and guaranteed eternal life. In me is love perfected, fear impossible, and joy established without opposite. I am the holy home of God Himself. I am the Heaven where His Love resides. I am His holy Sinlessness Itself, for in my purity abides His Own.

Our use for words is almost over now. Yet in the final days of this one year we gave to God together, you and I, we found a single purpose that we shared. And thus you joined with me, so what I am are you as well. The truth of what we are is not for words to speak of nor describe. Yet we can realize our function here, and words can speak of this and teach it, too, if we exemplify the words in us.

We are the bringers of salvation. We accept our part as saviors of the world, which through our joint forgiveness is redeemed. And this, our gift, is therefore given us. We look on everyone as brother, and perceive all things as kindly and as good. We do not seek a function that is past the gate of Heaven. Knowledge will return when we have done our part. We are concerned only with giving welcome to the truth.

Ours are the eyes through which Christ's vision sees a world redeemed from every thought of sin. Ours are the ears that hear the Voice for God proclaim the world as sinless. Ours the minds that join together as we bless the world. And from the oneness that we have attained we call to all our brothers, asking them to share our peace and consummate our joy.

We are the holy messengers of God who speak for Him, and carrying His Word to everyone whom He has sent to us, we learn that it is written on our hearts. And thus our minds are changed about the aim for which we came, and which we seek to serve. We bring glad tidings to the Son of God, who thought he suffered. Now is he redeemed. And as he sees the gate of Heaven stand open before him, he will enter in and disappear into the Heart of God.

Lesson 351

My sinless brother is my guide to peace.
My sinful brother is my guide to pain.
And which I choose to see I will behold.

Who is my brother but Your holy Son? And if I see him sinful I proclaim myself a sinner, not a Son of God; alone and friendless in a fearful world. Yet this perception is a choice I make, and can relinquish. I can also see my brother sinless, as Your holy Son. And with this choice I see my sinlessness, my everlasting Comforter and Friend beside me, and my way secure and clear. Choose, then, for me, my Father, through Your Voice. For He alone gives judgment in Your Name.

Commentary on ACIM Lesson 350

©2010 Rev. David Seacord

What I noticed today is that I am beginning to 're-member' my mother....

Of course, I am not referring to a normal memory, I am referring to recognizing her as an equal human. But, even that doesn't really say it... What I'm referring to is simply 'seeing' her. And not judging (because of course, seeing requires not judging).

It's a good sign, kind of like the first melting snow after a long winter. Accepting my currently given curriculum (of parent-service) was a gradual process for me, as I and my biological family for many years were culturally displaced from each other. And core in that were mother/son issues that perhaps I thought I would never have to deal with, or that I could work out with the women in my life. So I kinda smile at the recognition that I am right now like the briar rabbit tar-baby, and there ain't no way resisting it is gonna unstuck the karma with Momma.

I found myself 'listening her' differently today. It was outside of my normal knowing of who Mom was.... like she was somebody I didn't know.... well, actually, that is the whole thing... that she IS somebody that I don't know (despite that I can usually predict a lot of her attitudes and behavior). But like an experiment in the practice of creating space for something new, I am working on Not Knowing. And that opens up a new listening....

I recognized a subtle shift today.... I felt her realize I was listening. Something real connected. It felt good.

Namaste,

David

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Lesson 350

Miracles mirror God's eternal Love.
To offer them is to remember Him,
And through His memory to save the world.

What we forgive becomes a part of us, as we perceive ourselves. The Son of God incorporates all things within himself as You created him. Your memory depends on his forgiveness. What he is, is unaffected by his thoughts. But what he looks upon is their direct result. Therefore, my Father, I would turn to You. Only Your memory will set me free. And only my forgiveness teaches me to let Your memory return to me, and give it to the world in thankfulness.

And as we gather miracles from Him, we will indeed be grateful. For as we remember Him, His Son will be restored to us in the reality of Love.