I will step back and let Him lead the way.

Lesson 155

I will step back and let Him lead the way.

There is a way of living in the world that is not here, although it seems to be. You do not change appearance, though you smile more frequently. Your forehead is serene; your eyes are quiet. And the ones who walk the world as you do recognize their own. Yet those who have not yet perceived the way will recognize you also, and believe that you are like them, as you were before.

The world is an illusion. Those who choose to come to it are seeking for a place where they can be illusions, and avoid their own reality. Yet when they find their own reality is even here, then they step back and let it lead the way. What other choice is really theirs to make? To let illusions walk ahead of truth is madness. But to let illusion sink behind the truth and let the truth stand forth as what it is, is merely sanity.

This is the simple choice we make today. The mad illusion will remain awhile in evidence, for those to look upon who chose to come, and have not yet rejoiced to find they were mistaken in their choice. They cannot learn directly from the truth, because they have denied that it is so. And so they need a Teacher Who perceives their madness, but Who still can look beyond illusion to the simple truth in them.

If truth demanded they give up the world, it would appear to them as if it asked the sacrifice of something that is real. Many have chosen to renounce the world while still believing its reality. And they have suffered from a sense of loss, and have not been released accordingly. Others have chosen nothing but the world, and they have suffered from a sense of loss still deeper, which they did not understand.

Between these paths there is another road that leads away from loss of every kind, for sacrifice and deprivation both are quickly left behind. This is the way appointed for you now. You walk this path as others walk, nor do you seem to be distinct from them, although you are indeed. Thus can you serve them while you serve yourself, and set their footsteps on the way that God has opened up to you, and them through you.

Illusion still appears to cling to you, that you may reach them. Yet it has stepped back. And it is not illusion that they hear you speak of, nor illusion that you bring their eyes to look on and their minds to grasp. Nor can the truth, which walks ahead of you, speak to them through illusions, for the road leads past illusion now, while on the way you call to them, that they may follow you.

All roads will lead to this one in the end. For sacrifice and deprivation are paths that lead nowhere, choices for defeat, and aims that will remain impossible. All this steps back as truth comes forth in you, to lead your brothers from the ways of death, and set them on the way to happiness. Their suffering is but illusion. Yet they need a guide to lead them out of it, for they mistake illusion for the truth.

Such is salvation's call, and nothing more. It asks that you accept the truth, and let it go before you, lighting up the path of ransom from illusion. It is not a ransom with a price. There is no cost, but only gain. Illusion can but seem to hold in chains the holy Son of God. It is but from illusions he is saved. As they step back, he finds himself again.

Walk safely now, yet carefully, because this path is new to you. And you may find that you are tempted still to walk ahead of truth, and let illusions be your guide. Your holy brothers have been given you, to follow in your footsteps as you walk with certainty of purpose to the truth. It goes before you now, that they may see something with which they can identify; something they understand to lead the way.

Yet at the journey's ending there will be no gap, no distance between truth and you. And all illusions walking in the way you travelled will be gone from you as well, with nothing left to keep the truth apart from God's completion, holy as Himself. Step back in faith and let truth lead the way. You know not where you go. But One Who knows goes with you. Let Him lead you with the rest.

When dreams are over, time has closed the door on all the things that pass and miracles are purposeless, the holy Son of God will make no journeys. There will be no wish to be illusion rather than the truth. And we step forth toward this, as we progress along the way that truth points out to us. This is our final journey, which we make for everyone. We must not lose our way. For as truth goes before us, so it goes before our brothers who will follow us.

We walk to God. Pause and reflect on this. Could any way be holier, or more deserving of your effort, of your love and of your full intent? What way could give you more than everything, or offer less and still content the holy Son of God? We walk to God. The truth that walks before us now is one with Him, and leads us to where He has always been. What way but this could be a path that you would choose instead?

Your feet are safely set upon the road that leads the world to God. Look not to ways that seem to lead you elsewhere. Dreams are not a worthy guide for you who are God's Son. Forget not He has placed His Hand in yours, and given you your brothers in His Trust that you are worthy of His Trust in you. He cannot be deceived. His Trust has made your pathway certain and your goal secure. You will not fail your brothers nor your Self.

And now He asks but that you think of Him a while each day, that He may speak to you and tell you of His Love, reminding you how great His Trust; how limitless His Love. In your name and His Own, which are the same, we practice gladly with this thought today:

I will step back and let Him lead the way,
For I would walk along the road to Him.

Lesson 152: The Power of Decision is my own

No one can suffer loss unless it be his own decision. No one suffers pain except his choice elects this state for him. No one can grieve nor fear nor think him sick unless these are the outcomes that he wants. And no one dies without his own consent. Nothing occurs but represents your wish, and nothing is omitted that you choose. Here is your world, complete in all details. Here is its whole reality for you. And it is only here salvation is.

You may believe that this position is extreme, and too inclusive to be true. Yet can truth have exceptions? If you have the gift of everything, can loss be real? Can pain be part of peace, or grief of joy? Can fear and sickness enter in a mind where love and perfect holiness abide? Truth must be all-inclusive, if it be the truth at all. Accept no opposites and no exceptions, for to do so is to contradict the truth entirely.

Salvation is the recognition that the truth is true, and nothing else is true. This you have heard before, but may not yet accept both parts of it. Without the first, the second has no meaning. But without the second, is the first no longer true. Truth cannot have an opposite. This can not be too often said and thought about. For if what is not true is true as well as what is true, then part of truth is false. And truth has lost its meaning. Nothing but the truth is true, and what is false is false.

This is the simplest of distinctions, yet the most obscure. But not because it is a difficult distinction to perceive. It is concealed behind a vast array of choices that do not appear to be entirely your own. And thus the truth appears to have some aspects that belie consistency, but do not seem to be but contradictions introduced by you.

As God created you, you must remain unchangeable, with transitory states by definition false. And that includes all shifts in feeling, alterations in conditions of the body and the mind; in all awareness and in all response. This is the all-inclusiveness which sets the truth apart from falsehood, and the false kept separate from the truth, as what it is.

Is it not strange that you believe to think you made the world you see is arrogance? God made it not. Of this you can be sure. What can He know of the ephemeral, the sinful and the guilty, the afraid, the suffering and lonely, and the mind that lives within a body that must die? You but accuse Him of insanity, to think He made a world where such things seem to have reality. He is not mad. Yet only madness makes a world like this.

To think that God made chaos, contradicts His Will, invented opposites to truth, and suffers death to triumph over life; all this is arrogance. Humility would see at once these things are not of Him. And can you see what God created not? To think you can is merely to believe you can perceive what God willed not to be. And what could be more arrogant than this?

Let us today be truly humble, and accept what we have made as what it is. The power of decision is our own. Decide but to accept your rightful place as co-creator of the universe, and all you think you made will disappear. What rises to awareness then will be all that there ever was, eternally as it is now. And it will take the place of self-deceptions made but to usurp the altar to the Father and the Son.

Today we practice true humility, abandoning the false pretense by which the ego seeks to prove it arrogant. Only the ego can be arrogant. But truth is humble in acknowledging its mightiness, its changelessness and its eternal wholeness, all-encompassing, God's perfect gift to His beloved Son. We lay aside the arrogance which says that we are sinners, guilty and afraid, ashamed of what we are; and lift our hearts in true humility instead to Him Who has created us immaculate, like to Himself in power and in love.

The power of decision is our own. And we accept of Him that which we are, and humbly recognize the Son of God. To recognize God's Son implies as well that all self-concepts have been laid aside, and recognized as false. Their arrogance has been perceived. And in humility the radiance of God's Son, his gentleness, his perfect sinlessness, his Father's Love, his right to Heaven and release from hell, are joyously accepted as our own.

Now do we join in glad acknowledgment that lies are false, and only truth is true. We think of truth alone as we arise, and spend five minutes practicing its ways, encouraging our frightened minds with this:

The power of decision is my own. This day I will accept myself as what my Father's Will created me to be.


Then will we wait in silence, giving up all self-deceptions, as we humbly ask our Self that He reveal Himself to us. And He Who never left will come again to our awareness, grateful to restore His home to God, as it was meant to be.

In patience wait for Him throughout the day, and hourly invite Him with the words with which the day began, concluding it with this same invitation to your Self. God's Voice will answer, for He speaks for you and for your Father. He will substitute the peace of God for all your frantic thoughts, the truth of God for self-deceptions, and God's Son for your illusions of yourself.

**The sentences in bold are for my emphasis only. I needed this today.**

Prayer of Expansion

CHRIST EXPANSION STARTING WITHIN YOU

Beloved at the center of my mind and heart – deepest memory of
Of My True Self…

I Pray:

That everyone I see, pass by, interact with or Think of,
That you come forth in them, that they may be blessed…

And everyone they see, pass by, interact with or Think of,
That You Shine forth in their lives, that they may know You…

And everyone that they see, pass by, interact with or Think of,
That you Blaze Forth in their lives, that we may see You in
Each Other…

And so on…and so on…and so on…

So that there may be Forgiveness and Peace on Earth…
Freedom from Racial and Religious intolerance,
And deliverance from ego and injustice.

Thank you Beloved, for having already answered this
Spoken Prayer of my mind and the
Unspoken Prayer of our Collective Heart.

This that I have prayed in the Name and through the Power
Of the Living Christ Presence in all that is…

Amen.

Buddhism and Relationships

Thanks to David for sending a link to this article along to the group. The following article covers how Buddhism can help to heal a broken heart.


I especially like this paragraph:

Love can never be made safe. It is the opposite of safe. The moment you try to make it safe, it ceases to be love. I realize this is a bummer, but think about it. Love is predicated on receptivity, on opening up again and again and again to your beloved, each time afresh. To do this, you have to let go of insisting that he or she conform to your standards for what a lover should look like, do, be, or say, and instead allow him or her to simply be him or herself. Then you take it from there. To do otherwise, to continually choose who you wish this person was over who he or she actually is, is, well, it's not love. I don't know what it is. (Of course none of this stands to reason should any form of emotional or physical abuse be present. At this point you can forget everything I just said and protect yourself.)

And this quote by American Buddhist nun, Pema Chodron, is priceless:

"Feel the feelings. Drop the story."

How to do this? The article has a few suggestions:

1. Develop a non-judgmental relationship with your mind.

2. Stabilize your heart in the open state.

3. View your whole life as path.



Beautiful. Thank you for sharing this, David.

Prayer of Oneness

Beloved at the center of my mind and heart – deepest memory of
Of My True Self…Kindler of Life and Love…

To you I speak directly:

I am of you…as such, you are in me and I in you....

I pray that our Hearts touch...and blend as one...

And from this Reality, I Experience and Stay in Your Peace...Your Tranquility...Serenity... Compassion....Detachment...Joy…Love....Our Love Endures Forever…

I Pray that our Minds touch and meld as one...your thoughts to my thoughts, my thoughts to your thoughts…Your Thoughts are my thoughts….my thoughts are Your Thoughts…

In this Truth and from this Perspective, I remain and perceive deeply and clearly into All you bring my way...and I behold your Spirit upon the Land of our Collective Hearts!

And a Third Union…Our Mind and Heart are now One…From this Garden, born are manifold fruits…Wisdom…Wholeness and Balance…Patience and Tolerance…Humility and Courage…Forgiveness and Freedom...!

As Such....Enlightenment, Motivation, Inspiration, Creativity, and Strength are upon me!
I am Spiritual And Immune...
I Stay Ego Free...Thus you are Freed in me…and I am Freed in You...

Stay In God…

In Our Co-creation of my perception, there can then be no Lack nor Want, for You Awaken me…
In Holy Family’s Embrace already I am…

Your Will be done in me, for that is my Will...I Am Light...Light of your Light, may I reflect you as in an unclouded mirror…Shine forth…within and beyond my sight…as ripples on a still lake, Our Light sparks more Love…as an expounding Wave Front of Light, it breaches the shores of shade
And shadows do then but fade.

Thank you Beloved for having already answered this spoken Prayer of my mind...and the Unspoken Prayer of our Collective Hearts…Amen…

Breakthrough

Our Breakthrough is nobler than our flowing out.
For when I flowed out from God and all creatures
shouted, "God!"
they were saying that I was a creature.
And this cannot make me happy.
In my Breakthrough, on the other hand,
I am neither God
nor creature.
Rather,
I am what I was
and what I shall remain now and forever.

In my flowing-out I entered creation
In my Breakthrough I re-enter God.

Only those who have dared to let go
can dare to re-enter.

In this Breakthrough
I discover
that God and I
are one.

There,
I am what I was,
I grow neither smaller nor bigger,
and I am an immovable cause
that in turn moves all things.

Just as God breaks through me,
so do I break through God in return.

And,
When God draws the soul to him/herself
then the soul becomes divine
but God does not become the soul.

In Blue Fire

In blue hues of fire does my heart shed its ego cloak...beyond the land of desolation and ruin, beyond the storm does the promise land lay…in wait...in ever potential, exponential in its true nature, Love to be that was before...in pureness never ends...just sleeps in evolution of heart and soul....deep roots are not touched by the frost though all else is torched in fire and ice...and all that remains, is the true self, the Gold that does not glitter, but testifies from whence it came, from Love to Love, God in self expression, in us. Then does laughter, light and sweet...from hurt to joyous mirth, sets the land to life, the promised land…It will be healed, my Land, My heart...in the Fire I do Stand and grin...In Joy I know…now we are free in Light, no ego’s blight...beyond time’s embrace.

Answer

I've always loved this song. And as I hear it again tonight, it sounds like a beautiful conversation between God and his son.

Enjoy.



Answer
by Sarah McLachlan

I will be the answer
At the end of the line
I will be there for you
While you take the time
In the burning of uncertainty
I will be your solid ground
I will hold the balance
If you can't look down

If it takes my whole life
I won't break, I won't bend
It will all be worth it
Worth it in the end
Cause I can only tell you what I know
That I need you in my life
When the stars have all gone out
You'll still be burning so bright

Cast me gently
Into morning
For the night has been unkind
Take me to a
Place so holy
That I can wash this from my mind
The memory of choosing not to fight

If it takes my whole life
I won't break, I won't bend
It will all be worth it
Worth it in the end
'Cause I can only tell you what I know
That I need you in my life
When the stars have all burned out
You'll still be burning so bright

Cast me gently
Into morning
For the night has been unkind

Prayer of Declaration

A Preface:

Its application and realizing what to do with opportunities provided in the dream to change our view/minds, of how we look at things and respond to them that is key.

It takes practice, patience and faith.

Also realizing that we have an advisor to share things with before making judgments, decisions and/or temptations to fall back to the ego's way of things.

In the prayer below, the more it becomes a part of me, the more it seems to take attributes of
A journey.

Prayer is like an Oasis along the path of life, as we traverse the desert and desolation of the ego, on the way back home to the promised land – our home.

There are different types of oasis that I go to such as the oasis of Forgiveness, Faith, understanding, patience, joy, peace, etc. Those came to me from the prayer I was fed, the declaration / affirmation one written below.

For example, sometimes I'll say I am in the Oasis of Faith....then I state - I am the Oasis of Faith - I feel a surge of something when I say that - like if many are arriving into my Oasis for a sharing of oneness and strength in this place. Then I state, without a shadow of a doubt, that I Am Faith...and I linger there for a bit. Its quite the union with HS, JC & Pa and the sundered pieces of myself.


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My Beloved, as your child I declare and affirm:

I am...Light...

I am...Love...

I am Forgiveness...

I am...Guiltless....

I am...Peace...

I am...Fearless...

I am...Free

I am...Joy...

I ...am...Beauty...

I...am...Poetry...

I am...Music...

I am Faith…

I am...Knowledge...

I am Understanding…

I am...Wisdom...

I am...Patience...

I am...Whole...

We...Are...One...Eternal...In an ever Expanding, Timeless Singularity...

I...Have...Awoken...

I am Home...

I...am...Grateful...

I Thank you...

Its Cool....

Amen.

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My Gift to you Holy Spirit and My Father and Source... Thank you JC...

Dear Subconscious Mind of Mine...can you dig it...so Let It Be Said....So Let It Be Done...Make It So...Engage.

Love holds no grievances

The lesson for today is one of my favorites.

Love holds no grievances.

You who were created by Love like Itself can hold no grievances and know your Self.

To hold a grievance is to forget who you are. To hold a grievance is to see yourself as a body. To hold a grievance is to let the ego rule your mind and to condemn the body to death. Perhaps you do not yet fully realize just what holding grievances does to your mind. It seems to split you off from your Source and make you unlike Him. It makes you believe that He is like what you think you have become, for no one can conceive of his Creator as unlike himself.

Shut off from your Self, Which remains aware of Its likeness to Its Creator, your Self seems to sleep, while the part of your mind that weaves illusions in its sleep appears to be awake. Can all this arise from holding grievances? Oh, yes! For he who holds grievances denies he was created by Love, and his Creator has become fearful to him in his dream of hate. Who can dream of hatred and not fear God?

It is as sure that those who hold grievances will redefine God in their own image, as it is certain that God created them like Himself, and defined them as part of Him. It is as sure that those who hold grievances will suffer guilt, as it is certain that those who forgive will find peace. It is as sure that those who hold grievances will forget who they are, as it is certain that those who forgive will remember.

Would you not be willing to relinquish your grievances if you believed all this were so? Perhaps you do not think you can let your grievances go. That, however, is simply a matter of motivation. Today we will try to find out how you would feel without them. If you succeed even by ever so little, there will never be a problem in motivation ever again.

Begin today's extended practice period by searching your mind for those against whom you hold what you regard as major grievances. Some of these will be quite easy to find. Then think of the seemingly minor grievances you hold against those you like and even think you love. It will quickly become apparent that there is no one against whom you do not cherish grievances of some sort. This has left you alone in all the universe in your perception of yourself.

Determine now to see all these people as friends. Say to them all, thinking of each one in turn as you do so:

I would see you as my friend, that I may remember you are part of me and come to know myself.

Spend the remainder of the practice period trying to think of yourself as completely at peace with everyone and everything, safe in a world that protects you and loves you, and that you love in return. Try to feel safety surrounding you, hovering over you and holding you up. Try to believe, however briefly, that nothing can harm you in any way. At the end of the practice period tell yourself:

Love holds no grievances. When I let all my
grievances go I will know I am perfectly safe.

The short practice periods should include a quick application of today's idea in this form, whenever any thought of grievance arises against anyone, physically present or not:

Love holds no grievances. Let me not betray my Self.

In addition, repeat the idea several times an hour in this form:

Love holds no grievances. I would wake to my Self by laying all my grievances aside and wakening in Him.

Christ Expansion Starting Within You

Beloved at the center of my mind and heart – deepest memory of
Of My True Self…

I Pray:

That everyone I see, pass by, interact with or Think of,
That you come forth in them, that they may be blessed…

And everyone they see, pass by, interact with or Think of,
That You Shine forth in their lives, that they may know You…

And everyone that they see, pass by, interact with or Think of,
That you Blaze Forth in their lives, that we may see You in
Each Other…

And so on…and so on…and so on…

So that there may be Forgiveness and Peace on Earth…
Freedom from Racial and Religious intolerance,
And deliverance from ego and illusion.

Thank you Beloved, for having already answered this
Spoken Prayer of my mind and the
Unspoken Prayer of our Collective Heart.

This that I have prayed in the Name and through the Power
Of the Living Christ Presence in all that is…

Amen.

Fun: God's little notes

The Risen Phoenix

Your Kiss upon my Heart…My Ageless Love…Tender Touch…Your Holy Embrace…

Asleep so long I’ve been it seems…In Twilight Dreams…Lost there in.

Shafts of glimmering Light Descend upon my Land, My Heart, my Mind…Do I still Dream?

Silence…

A Shutter of Awakening…Expanding ripples from the barren tree where once in Golden Amber wings, now ashen gray, the Phoenix lies.

A Slight Flutter across its wings…

A Kindling Memory…Resonating Echoes in the Chasms of my Mind…

Begin to Perceive I do…the flow of Air…I breathe it in…so cool…so Crisp…cleansing soul, as from high snow mountain tips, yet un-breathed , it came to me… The Spirit’s Breath in me does stir.

A point of Light begins to shine in the center of my Mind…

As I in awe, yet not in fear, gaze upon an expanding nimbus, it enfolds me…and in Radiant warmth…consumes me…

Such numbing Bliss…Blazing Light hurts not my eyes, for by vision of Heart I now Perceive.

As like a feather I am lifted…Shafts of light upon the barren land…Life again responds to me…The Forsaken Land begins to heal…I am mending...We are one.


From whence does this Piercing Light in Blaze come from?

Unfolding Wings in Gold and Crimson Hues..Raised to that which is within…In thanksgiving I then know… It is I the Light comes from…My beloved, Forsaken me has not…Our Light is One. Timeless Singularity our Love is…Ever it Extends…it holds the Whole within…

I smile upon the Land that breathes me in…no more in sighs of winds in lamentation…

Songs of birds confess in Joy, to the end of slumbering sleep… of nothingness.

From the Abyss to Summits Piercing High, ramparts in the Sky, the Phoenix Soars…The Tree of Life has been restored…His gliding touch upon the winds…a kiss upon the sky…

The Flight Divine to whence I came, before the breach…that Sundered me.

This is part two of a two part series of poems that Sig wrote, 3 years apart from each other. Part one was yesterday.

Phoenix & The Abyss

This is part one of poem that Sig wrote. Part two was written years later and will be published tomorrow. Thank you, Sig, for sharing your beautiful words.

Upon the threshold of this precipice I stand…Into the lightless maw of an abyss I stare…Deep I gaze within, the nothingness that beckons me…And to my surprise, I then know, the abyss, is looking back at me…

What gaping, yawing lust, to drown me in…indeed, it is alive!

Spirit Within does start to shine…my wings unfold in Gold and Crimson Hue…and I stare back, at this belligerent void.

With out Stretched, Spreading Wings, in Fell Defiance, I plunged into the depth of dark…A Stream of Blaze pierced the heart, of the nothingness within, and it stirred...

From Lofty Heights to Deepest Vale, did I breach the darkness to unveil…
In Pale Twilight, not with eyes, did I perceive…desolation and ruin upon this broken, shattered, and forsaken land…

One withered Tree with branches dead, stood yet in the heart of this place, amidst the sighs of wind in lamentation….Only lit by my Spirit’s Heart within…still pale and dim…What is this that hungers for my light? This famished land…it drinks from me…within my mind I hear its sigh…of Malice… it is not...familiar does it seem…its echoes resonate within…something I must do…here within this land of the fallen star.

By this Tree My Aura dims…by its roots I lay me down…and the Frost begins...My wings enfold…numbness grips…Lost I seem In Dreamless, Timeless sleep…Yet deep roots are not touched by the Frost…and in amber smolder, in ashes ruin…the phoenix lies…yet to arise…

Bottled Consciousness

Someone sent me a link to this video. I thought perhaps there would be interest in it:





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A Dream Pie of God's

Heavenletter #3320
Published on: December 27, 2009

God said:

Why would you contradict what I say? Surely you don't think you know more than I do? I tell you that you are My beautiful child, and you say you're not. You may even say you are awful. You may call yourself names.

Beloved, what prompts you to put yourself down? I have just said that you are a child of Mine. You are a divine child of Mine. Why would you say, "No, God, I'm not divine." Why would you insist that you are not divine? Why would you deign to take away the validity of what I say?

It is not humble to undercut yourself. Be without ego, and you will not feel it is necessary to lower yourself. For Heaven's sakes, you are a child of God! You are My child, and I modeled you after Me. If you cannot accept your Divinity, then at least keep quiet about it. At the very least, you do not have to contradict Me. Of course, it is Truth that you contradict.

Try out the premise that you are indeed a divine child of Mine. Tell Me what it feels like to consider that you are divine. Yes, you are human with all the fallacies that human beings indulge in. So what? You are Divinity at the core, and it is time you took that into consideration. You are love, divine love, walking around in a human body. Erase the body aspect of you for a moment, and what is there but your Divinity, My Divinity, that is?

If you are a piece of pie, We can say that 99% of you is Divinity. That is a close guess. You are a great pie of Divinity with a thin crust. Stop looking at the crust so much. Underlying is the actuality of the pie that you are. I will call you a Dream Pie of Mine. I baked you, and I baked you just right.

Is the tortoise his shell? He carries his shell on his back, yet the shell is just something he carries around with him. The truth of the tortoise is not his shell. A tortoise is much more than his shell, no matter how beautiful or otherwise it may be.

When you wear ragged clothes, you are not the clothes you wear. Nor are you a beautiful ball gown when you wear it.

Now I tell you to feel good in whatever body you wear.

Good morning, beloveds. Your body gets itself out of bed. Although your body was sleeping, you were awake with Me. We partied together. We danced. We sang. We explored the shores of Heaven, and We mined for gold and caught the stars in Our hands. Before the sun rises over the crust of the Earth, you pull the covers up. You yawn and think you spent the whole night in bed.
You are like the twelve dancing princesses who seemingly went to bed, and then got up right away and danced all night with twelve handsome princes. In your case, you dance with Me, and your shoes do not wear out, and you are refreshed. Your body slept while you were drinking in all My love.

You might as well know that you visit with Me often, and I love Our visits, and I love you no matter what pajamas you wear. No matter what you think of yourself, you are the apple of My eye. Do you find fault with My vision? I think it's time you accept what I say at full value. You are Mine. You are the One I love. So be it.

Thank you, Jerry, for sending this. What a great website too!

Flight Divine

Flight Divine:

I am passing, I Perceive, to a new stage of awareness that is…

It seems wonderful to me…no… wonderful it is…

to have even said that word in my mind…surprising…

I am passing beyond what was…I Thank you Ever Divine within…

Your sheen, unsullied, Holistic Lover, through ramparts in the sky...Shimmer in the Golden Haze…I take Flight with thee…

The Light of your eyes …bright as stars by night…Glittering Light that shimmers upon the sea and caresses the sky…

What is this I see…drawn and pulled towards their Horizon…the event Horizon, their singularity…one they have become…the sea and sky…

now beyond and more then both …They Blaze, Light merged in Love, edged in hues of Pink…

A flock of sparrows Flank my Flight…I enter in the mirth afar, where lie there in, the sea and sky before their time began…
And Time and Space yet born to be…I am back home…they hover yet in God’s own Heart, The Land of Love.

All things in becoming...their seeds laid in, blessed be your multi-dimensionality, many The Chambers of God’s Domain…

I Fly within…Fulfillment of our Being…co-creators of realities, I now Dream True…I am awakening unto Thee…

A Prayer to the Beloved

Beloved at the center of my mind and heart – deepest memory of

Of My True Self…

I Pray:

That in our kinship to you, Our Roots be not Touched by the Frost.

That we may see beyond our selves and as such, Be.

That we remember, in times of darkness, how you have made your presence known..

That when shadow obscures light, we remember, it is a small and passing thing, for there is Light and High Beauty forever beyond its reach...The Light of Love, The Light of God...the Love of Hope.

That We Be Conscious of How You Talk to us in so many different ways.

That we may be Strong against the Strength of our Weakness.

That we have the Heart and Courage, to let Ourselves Learn and Let Live.

That we Honor you, by Being Honorable.

That we remain in the Present, Learn from the Past and Worry not for Tomorrow, for it is Anchored in Today.

That our Faith in your Love, be as Jesus shares with us....

That your Spirit of Joy Be not Forgotten.

That There Be Balance and Peace in our Hearts.

That My Love, be Whole, My Beloved from long whence.

Forgive me my Trespasses as I forgive those who Trespass against me, including My Self.

That we Deeply Sleep, in Holy Embrace.

That we Rise in Faith, not in fear.

That your Will be Done, for that is my will; May I Reflect you Well, as in an unclouded mirror.

Thank you Beloved, for having already answered the Spoken Prayer of my mind and the Unspoken Prayer of our Hearts.

Amen.

Darkness Towards Light

A story of the passage from without to within, these words have been and continue to be... from what seem utter loss to an unforeseen gain of Heart and Light... from pain and woe, in darkness whole, to then immersed in nimbus grey of nothingness, a void complete; by Grace of God and Prayers of Love, I then perceived, edges of enlightenment transcend the threshold of my Mind and Heart... aware I was in shock and yet relief, of God’s salvation and his friendship. I now hold this within my heart, a brighter truth of Love that is and Love I will become...

The Cathar Prophecy of 1244 AD

The last of the Cathars was burnt by the Inquisition of the Roman Catholic Church at Montsegur, Languedoc, France in 1244, but they left this prophecy; that the Church of Love would be proclaimed in 1996.
Click here for a brief and interesting history of the Cathars.

It has no fabric - only understanding.

It has no membership - save those who know they belong.

It has no rivals - because it is non-competitive.

It has no ambition, because it only seeks to serve.

It knows of no boundaries for nationalisms are unloving.

It is not of itself because it seeks to enrich all groups and religions.

It acknowledges all great teachers of all the ages who have shown the truth of Love.


Those who participate, practice the Truth of Love in all their daily being.

There is no walk of life or nationality that is a barrier.


Those who are, know. It seeks not to teach but to be, and by being, enrich.

It recognizes the collectivity of all humanity and that we are all one with the One.

It recognizes that the way we are may be the way of those around us because we are that way.


It recognizes the whole planet as a Being, of which we are a part.

It recognizes that the time has come for the supreme transmutation, the ultimate alchemical act, the conscious change of the ego into a voluntary return to the whole.

It does not proclaim itself with a loud voice but in the subtle realms of loving.

It salutes all those in the past who have blazoned the path but paid the price.

It admits of no hierarchy or structure, for no one is greater than another.

Its members shall know each other by their deeds and being and their eyes and by no other outward sign, save the fraternal embrace.

Each one will dedicate his or her life to the silent loving of their neighbor and environment and the planet, whilst carrying out their daily task, however exalted or humble.

It recognizes the supremacy of the great idea which may only be accomplished if the human race practices the supremacy of Love.

It has no rewards to offer, either here or in the hereafter, save that of the ineffable joy of being and loving.

Its members shall seek only to advance the cause of understanding, within whichever church, group or family they happen to be.

They shall do good by stealth and teach only by example.

They shall heal their neighbor, their community and our Planet.

They shall know no fear, and feel no shame and their witness shall prevail over all odds.


It has no secrets, no arcanum, no initiations save that of the true understanding of the power of love and that, if we want it to be so, the world will change but only if we change ourselves first.

All those who belong, belong; they belong to the Church of Love.


Thank you Jerry for sharing this with us.

Choctaw Legend

Do you know the legend of the Choctaw Indian youth's rite of Passage?

His father takes him into the forest, blindfolds him and leaves him alone. He is required to sit on a stump the whole night and not remove the blindfold until the rays of the morning sun shine through it. He cannot cry out for help to anyone.

Once he survives the night, he is a MAN..

He cannot tell the other boys of this experience, because each lad must come into manhood on his own.

The boy is naturally terrified. He can hear all kinds of noises. Wild beasts must surely be all around him . Maybe even some human might do him harm. The wind blew the grass and earth, and shook his stump, but he sat stoically, never removing the blindfold. It would be the only way he could become a man!

Finally, after a horrific night the sun appeared and he removed his blindfold.

It was then that he discovered his father sitting on the stump next to him.

He had been at watch the entire night, protecting his son from harm.

We, too, are never alone.

Even when we don't know it, the Great Spirit is watching over us, sitting on the stump beside us.

When trouble comes, all we have to do is reach out to Him.

If you liked this story, pass it on.

If not, you took off your blindfold before dawn.

Moral of the story:

Just because you can't see God doesn't mean He is not there.

"For we walk by faith, not by sight."

The Rise from Shadow

Shadow and Enchantment lie upon the land. Sheer precipices... keen and heart piercing, slain by bliss and loss, a Joy so great though brief in time... and now a brooding silence upon my Land does lie... a Fleeting thing that brushed my Heart, yet marked in change forever is... I challenge the Fate that lies before... To Unclouded Heavens my Spirit calls, Radiant and Perilous though it may seem, a White Fire Flares within my Soul, It lights my way and gives me Strength... I suffer its touch... it Hurts me not... Rise I will and soar again above Sea and Sky beyond this world... drawn back to thee whence my love hales... I’ll not forget the songs of lament across star lit mires... Grief and Joy engraved in me and from my eyes, do shine... to better understand and better respect, the unpredictability of this life... Though in it all, Love is, and it does Guide... relentless in its ever touch... to show the skyway path that leads from dark to light... my Spirit, made of Imperishable Love, is free to be, beyond the taint and stings of shadows deep... beyond uncounted tears, rejoice I do... I am set free to heal the land... and the Heart does mend...

Hole vs. Wholeness

I heard this song on the drive to work today. For some reason, the following lyric struck me:

Keeping my eyes open
I cannot afford to sleep
Giving away promises
I know that I can't keep
Nothing fills the blackness
That has seeped into my chest
I need you in my blood
I am forsaking all the rest
Just to reach you

And I know this song. I know it is about the longing for someone you love so deeply that it hurts.

But for some reason, today it occurred to me that the "blackness" that is felt during those lonely times isn't for a fellow human. That hole we feel is what we think we're missing. We think we're missing something... God's love.

We just keep forgetting that its there.

The "hole" we perceive isn't real but our "wholeness" is.

Then on another level, we do need that fellow human to be an conduit of that love.

Hmmm... now I know why every love song sounds like it could be written by God's Son to his Father.

The Dragon

What chambers lie within my Heart yet to be discovered? How do I proceed... take the inner stair... shall not swerve from this trail that leads within... By the light of my Heart, guided I’ll be!

Abandon not this Quest of Light and Love shall ever be!

A Pale Fire... something in symmetry draws nigh...

My God the Dragon lies within in wait...

Strength... Armor thyself In Faith and Truth... Courage... Feed it not by Fear... Hold true to the appointed path, though perilous it be...

The Dragon’s gaze now holds me not, but I must look back unto thee...

Enchantment not can you draw now... untouched I am beyond Your hope... you hold me not in bondage false, held before by my Untrue Belief...

But false I now deem your charms to be... You Hold me not. Bemused I’m not by your nets of illusion and farce that flared to me... your pale fire
Now grows dim…

By Fire and Ice I am more... Forsaken not By God I am... you fade into the void you are... My Ego, Dragon was... By Light of Truth you shutter and Fade!

Yet from thee I gained insight... I thank you too.

Companions

From Dhammapada Sutras:

If you find an intelligent companion, a wise and well-behaved person going the same way as yourself, then go along with him, overcoming all dangers, pleased at heart and mindful.
~ 328

But if you do not find an intelligent companion, a wise and well-behaved person going the same way as yourself, then go on your way alone, like a king abandoning a conquered kingdom, or like a great elephant in the deep forest.
~329

It is better to travel alone. There is no companionship with a fool. Go on your way alone and commit no evil, without cares like a great elephant in the deep forest.
~ 330

Sling-backed red sandals

I lit fragrant cylinders of loss
And ran sorrow until it started to correct itself,
the drain sucked up the excess

I slipped out of my desire
And stared at the truth until I could write my name in it,
there was no permanent scar

I tried out the shame with my big toe
And then soaked in regret until my reasoning was wrinkled up,
even the bubbles were gone

I shaved the doubt from my legs
And rinsed my hope under the faucet until the misgivings ran clear,
the water went cold

I donned my gratitude
And picked the fear from my dress until joy found me there,
in sling-backed red sandals

One of many...

"Your world is pointing toward an insistence on conformity which is causing you enormous grief. It's what's at the heart of all of your religious battles, and religious battles are what are at the heart of all of your battles. In other words, all of your wars and global irritation with one another are over your determination to promote sameness. Your democracy insists that it's the only government that works. And every religion (it's interesting to note) proclaims that it is the only one that works."
~ Abraham-Hicks

I love this quote. This is a perfect example of the reason I chose the name of this blog as "A Path to One". Not "the" path but "a" path.

A Course in Miracles says it is one of many paths. Let us not think ours is the only one.

That would kind of defeat the purpose.

The Grace of a Woman

This was given to me during our A Course in Miracles study group last Sunday. My fellow student said that as she read it, she thought of me. I like it. I can relate to it. I thought I'd share it with you.

(P.S. I have no idea who wrote it.)

Comes the Dawn
After a while you learn the subtle difference
between holding a hand and chaining a soul.

And you learn that love doesn't mean leaning
and company doesn't mean security.
And you begin to learn that kisses aren't contracts
And presents aren't promises,
and you begin to accept your defeats
With your head up and your eyes open.
With the grace of a woman, not the grief of a child,
and learn to built all your roads on today,
because tomorrow's ground is too uncertain for plans,
and futures have a way of falling down in mid-flight.

After a while you learn that even the sunshine
burns if you get too much.

So you plant your own garden and decorate
your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to
bring your flowers.
And you learn that you really can endure...
That you really are strong
and you really do have worth.
And you learn and learn...
With every goodbye, you learn.

Introduction

Hello!

We are a group of A Course in Miracles students who meet every Sunday. I am the facilitator of the group, Tonya.

This blog was inspired out of the wonderful poetry, quotes and everyday inspirations that we share every Sunday in our meetings.

I hope that everyone in the group will contribute and make this a beautiful and inspiring corner of the Internet for all who visit.