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The journey is accomplished of being with the teachers of A Course in Miracles in South Africa a most wonderful and enlightening momentum in a space that seems in such a diversity of languages and tribes.
With a past history thatr seems about blood and war
With all its seeming controversies Africa is moving to a new birth, there is a freshness in the air that speaks of hope, caring and freedom.
It was and is a privilige and joy to be among those in that part of the dream and dream together a new frame of awareness
Like a roller coaster ride the scenery of this amazing country is so fast and furious, it is breathtaking.Thank You South Africa
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.
What is the single requisite for this shift in perception? It is simply this; the recognition that sickness is of the mind, and has nothing to do with the body.
What does this recognition "cost"? It costs the whole world you see, for the world will never again appear to rule the mind.
For with this recognition is responsibility placed where it belongs; not with the world, but on him who looks on the world and sees it as it is not. He looks on what he chooses to see.
No more and no less. The world does nothing to him. He only thought it did. Nor does he do anything to the world, because he was mistaken about what it is. Herein is the release from guilt and sickness both, for they are one.
Yet to accept this release, the insignificance of the body must be an acceptable idea.
I just spend 4 days with teachers of A Course in Miracles in Johannesburg. In a beautifull space on the crocodile river, in a magnificent abundance of wildlife.
A joy to be in such a place of beauty and to remember God with like minds coming together to accept the joyful tidings that disaster is not real and that reality is not disaster. Reality is safe and sure, and wholly kind to everyone and everything.
The Holy Spirit is your strength because He knows nothing but the spirit as you. He is perfectly aware that you do not know yourself, and perfectly aware of how to teach you to remember what you are.
Because He loves you, He will gladly teach you what He loves, for He wills to share it. Remembering you always, He cannot let you forget your worth.
For the Father never ceases to remind Him of His Son, and He never ceases to remind His Son of the Father. God is in your memory because of Him. You chose to forget your Father but you do not really want to do so, and therefore you can decide otherwise. As it was my decision, so is it yours.
I heard one Voice because I understood that I could not atone for myself alone. Listening to one Voice implies the decision to share It in order to hear It yourself.
The Mind that was in me is still irresistibly drawn to every mind created by God, because God's Wholeness is the wholeness of His Son.
You cannot be hurt, and do not want to show your brother anything except your wholeness. Show him that he cannot hurt you and hold nothing against him, or you hold it against yourself. This is the meaning of "turning the other cheek."
Teaching is done in many ways, above all by example. Teaching should be healing, because it is the sharing of ideas and the recognition that to share ideas is to strengthen them.
I cannot forget my need to teach what I have learned, which arose in me because I learned it. I call upon you to teach what you have learned, because by so doing you can depend on it.
Make it dependable in my name because my name is the Name of God's Son. What I learned I give you freely, and the Mind that was in me rejoices as you choose to hear it.
God is the first and last movement, creation, action in only extension as Love. No beginning nor end, ever present, ever available in all the forms of space and time.
An understanding and practice of the the workbook lessons is one way of rising into the true atmosphere of prayer and God-consciousness.
Application means consciously knowing the truth and applying the principles of truth through the instrument of the mind, and the first step is to establish yourself in your true identity as I, that I which has dominion over mind and body. Until you do that, you cannot give or receive a correct treatment.
You were given both a mind and a body. The mind is not you, nor is the body: I am you, the I which is your true identity.
Your mind and your body are something that you possess. The mind is the instrument, which you use for thinking or reasoning purposes or for any purpose of awareness, and it is through your mind that you are able to judge and make decisions.
The body is also an instrument, a physical instrument, which takes it orders from you through the mind. You say to your hand, “Up,” and the mind communicates that to the hand; the hand obeys the mind, which in its turn obeys you, indicating that you must have control over both mind and body. (J Goldsmith)
More and more I see the the power of applying the ideas of the workbook lessons ...like an ever renewing awareness the lessons are so darn practical that I look for an instant back why it was not there ...it was but now I see clearly.
There is no other manner to be in this dream then be in the power of decission to see the Light that is all around.
The simplicity of the ideas are so alive that they spring to mind like joyfull puppy dogs on their first outing on the beach....ha ha ha
If you are shaken, think of it again. These practice periods are planned to help you form the habit of applying what you learn each day to everything you do.
Do not repeat the thought and lay it down. Its usefulness is limitless to you. And it is meant to serve you in all ways, all times and places, and whenever you need help of any kind.
Try, then, to take it with you in the business of the day and make it holy, worthy of God's Son, acceptable to God and to your Self.
Each day's review assignments will conclude with a restatement of the thought to use each hour, and the one to be applied on each half hour as well. Forget them not.
This second chance with each of these ideas will bring such large advances that we come from these reviews with learning gains so great we will continue on more solid ground, with firmer footsteps and with stronger faith.
Do not forget how little you have learned.
Do not forget how much you can learn now.
Do not forget your Father's need of you,
As you review these thoughts He gave to you.
Completion lies in every second waiting for me to remember. Its action of seeing beyond the form is a blessing I give and receive to myself and all those that are me as well.
The role of a Teacher of God, and I Am happy to declare myself a learner and teacher with the message of A Course in Miracles, as in that idea lies a constant remembering.
I can no longer judge the forgetting as the opposite of that idea lies in the forgetting.
When I remember I forget, and when I forget I remember. Time is not involved being completly illusionary.
Heaven waits silently, and your creations are holding out their hands to help you cross and welcome them.
For it is they you seek. You seek but for your own completion, and it is they who render you complete. The special love relationship is but a shabby substitute for what makes you whole in truth, not in illusion.
Your relationship with them is without guilt, and this enables you to look on all your brothers with gratitude, because your creations were created in union with them.
Acceptance of your creations is the acceptance of the oneness of creation, without which you could never be complete. No specialness can offer you what God has given, and what you are joined with Him in giving.
Today's idea is therefore all you need to let complete correction heal your mind, and give you perfect vision that will heal all the mistakes that any mind has made at any time or place.
It is enough to heal the past and make the future free. It is enough to let the present be accepted as it is. It is enough to let time be the means for all the world to learn escape from time, and every change that time appears to bring in passing by.
