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The Ideas of A Course in Miracles are our daily bread. Our communion with the Mind of Christ. We as teachers of God receive a Light that suffices for that day in which a lesson from the workbook appears to be accepted.
Today's lesson 162 " I am as God created me" The ideas need an application in each instant of the fabric of space/time, without application the ideas are merely words.
It is in the application that I am reborn and remember I Am His Son.
Communion, not prayer, is the natural state of those who know. God and His miracle are inseparable. How beautiful indeed are the Thoughts of God who live in His Light!
Your worth is beyond perception because it is beyond doubt. Do not perceive yourself in different lights. Know yourself in the One Light where the miracle that is you is perfectly clear.
In each instant it can be forgotten or rememberd that it is my dream. It is my choice to remember as to forget is to return again and again to the same segment of the dream.
Even the scenery of the dream can take on so many forms that it does take vigilance to come before with the action of mind to accept the atonement for myself, in al aspects, degrees and intervals of this matrix of illusions.
The secret of salvation is but this: That you are doing this unto yourself. No matter what the form of the attack, this still is true.
Whoever takes the role of enemy and of attacker, still is this the truth. Whatever seems to be the cause of any pain and suffering you feel, this is still true.
For you would not react at all to figures in a dream you knew that you were dreaming. Let them be as hateful and as vicious as they may, they could have no effect on you unless you failed to recognize it is your dream.
In all moments of space and time there is a gathering of forms, an opportunity once again to remember that this is a dream.
The Mind in constant communication with its source as its Father, will remember easely and not get caught in the gossip of the space/time sequence.
It does take vigilance to remember purpose and function as a decission that this world is a dream of my own making and does not exists.
It is these shadow figures that would make the ego holy in your sight, and teach you what you do to keep it safe is really love.
The shadow figures always speak for vengeance, and all relationships into which they enter are totally insane. Without exception, these relationships have as their purpose the exclusion of the truth about the other, and of yourself.
This is why you see in both what is not there, and make of both the slaves of vengeance. And why whatever reminds you of your past grievances attracts you, and seems to go by the name of love, no matter how distorted the associations by which you arrive at the connection may be.
And finally, why all such relationships become attempts at union through the body, for only bodies can be seen as means for vengeance. That bodies are central to all unholy relationships is evident.
Your own experience has taught you this. But what you may not realize are all the reasons that go to make the relationship unholy. For unholiness seeks to reinforce itself, as holiness does, by gathering to itself what it perceives as like itself.
To be a messenger of God's love is a full time position. There is no day off as an messenger begin to see more and more that all time is over.
That each day is a rebirth and an awareness that this is the last day I am in this frame of dreaming a dream that I Am no longer.
For peace will send its messengers from you to all the world, and barriers will fall away before their coming as easily as those that you interpose will be surmounted.
To overcome the world is no more difficult than to surmount your little wall. For in the miracle of your holy relationship, without this barrier, is every miracle contained.
There is no order of difficulty in miracles, for they are all the same. Each is a gentle winning over from the appeal of guilt to the appeal of love.
How can this fail to be accomplished, wherever it is undertaken? Guilt can raise no real barriers against it. And all that seems to stand between you and your brother must fall away because of the appeal you answered.
From you who answered, He Who answered you would call. His home is in your holy relationship. Do not attempt to stand between Him and His holy purpose, for it is yours.
But let Him quietly extend the miracle of your relationship to everyone contained in it as it was given.
Agh, the joy of the messages of A Course in Miracles. These ideas that ever renew me, in any given instant I remember, to be present and aware in the fabric of space/time.
A link of love and light.
Of all the messages you have received and failed to understand, this course alone is open to your understanding and can be understood.
This is your language. You do not understand it yet only because your whole communication is like a baby's. The sounds a baby makes and what he hears are highly unreliable, meaning different things to him at different times.
Neither the sounds he hears nor sights he sees are stable yet. But what he hears and does not understand will be his native tongue, through which he will communicate with those around him, and they with him.
And the strange, shifting ones he sees about him will become to him his comforters, and he will recognize his home and see them there with him.
What, then, should happen? When God said, "Let there be light," there was light. Can you find light by analyzing darkness, as the psychotherapist does, or like the theologian, by acknowledging darkness in yourself and looking for a distant light to remove it, while emphasizing the distance?
Healing is not mysterious. Nothing will change unless it is understood, since light is understanding. A "miserable sinner" cannot be healed without magic, nor can an "unimportant mind" esteem itself without magic.
Both forms of the ego's approach, then, must arrive at an impasse; the characteristic "impossible situation" to which the ego always leads.
It may help someone to point out where he is heading, but the point is lost unless he is also helped to change his direction. The unhealed healer cannot do this for him, since he cannot do it for himself.
The only meaningful contribution the healer can make is to present an example of one whose direction has been changed for him, and who no longer believes in nightmares of any kind.
The light in his mind will therefore answer the questioner, who must decide with God that there is light because he sees it. And by his acknowledgment the healer knows it is there.
That is how perception ultimately is translated into knowledge. The miracle worker begins by perceiving light, and translates his perception into sureness by continually extending it and accepting its acknowledgment. Its effects assure him it is there.
A Course in MIracles is for me a story of ever widening self-recognition . No matter the moment the stoy renews in me the joy of an instant of freedom.
The Course Is Life. Its ideas are timeless and personal ever more exposing a new world.
How grateful I Am for its presence telling me the story of a who I am.
We pause but for a moment more, to play our final, happy game upon this earth. And then we go to take our rightful place where truth abides and games are meaningless.
So is the story ended. Let this day bring the last chapter closer to the world, that everyone may learn the tale he reads of terrifying destiny, defeat of all his hopes, his pitiful defense against a vengeance he can not escape, is but his own deluded fantasy.
God's ministers have come to waken him from the dark dreams this story has evoked in his confused, bewildered memory of this distorted tale. God's Son can smile at last, on learning that it is not true.
