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Study of Text, Chapter 12: !. The Way to Remember God, P 4. 1-11-16

II. The Way to Remember God, P 4
4 Remember what was said about the frightening perceptions of little children, which terrify them because they do not understand them. If they ask for enlightenment and accept it, their fears vanish. But if they hide their nightmares they will keep them. It is easy to help an uncertain child, for he recognizes that he does not understand what his perceptions mean. Yet you believe that you do understand yours. Little child, you are hiding your head under the cover of the heavy blankets you have laid upon yourself. You are hiding your nightmares in the darkness of your own false certainty, and refusing to open your eyes and look at them.

Journal
Yesterday I had a guilty thought that led to frightening thought that led to a general sense of unease. By the end of the day I was feeling tired and listless. I was that child who was hiding under the covers of my certainty that guilt and fear are real and threatening. But not quite the same child who used to have the covers pulled up over her head and lay there shivering and terrorized by her own beliefs.

The difference was that even though I was attracted to the guilt and fear, I was also aware that there is a way out. I had the covers pulled up, but beneath the covers I was talking to Holy Spirit. I was saying, “Here I am, under the cover of these false beliefs. Please correct my thinking.” Then I would let my mind go hazy again and distract myself with something so that I would not hear the answer. Oh man, sometimes I am so silly.

This morning’s lesson reminds us that our thoughts are meaningless. It says that we can counteract our ego thoughts by remembering that they don’t mean anything. When I had this guilty thought I might have said to myself, “This thought doesn’t mean anything.” Instead, I said to myself that this thought means I am unworthy and condemned.

Today I am sane again and I am laughing at the nonsense of yesterday. I am also feeling grateful for the simple lessons and the many tools we have to bring us to our sanity. I am going to use today’s lesson often. I feel excited to think about doing this lesson, and I see how I can use it to fully awaken if every time I have an ego thought that encourages the illusion, I simply remember that this thought does not mean anything.

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Study of Text, Chapter 11, VII.The Way to Remember God, P 3. 1-8-16

II. The Way to Remember God, P3

3 Perceive in sickness but another call for love, and offer your brother what he believes he cannot offer himself. Whatever the sickness, there is but one remedy. You will be made whole as you make whole, for to perceive in sickness the appeal for health is to recognize in hatred the call for love. And to give a brother what he really wants is to offer it unto yourself, for your Father wills you to know your brother as yourself. Answer his call for love, and yours is answered. Healing is the Love of Christ for His Father and for Himself.

Journal
Clearly, sickness of any kind is not God’s Will. It is not love, but a call for love. Wherever I see sickness I am to see wholeness, and this is the love that heals. I can think of it as forgiveness. Where I see sickness, I forgive what is believed to be true. I could also say that I accept the Atonement for this situation, and that would the same thing.

I do this because as my brother is healed, so am I. We are all part of a single whole and if any part of this whole is sick, the whole is sick. But what if I see some form of sickness and I believe in it? What if I see sickness and that is all I can see? What if I can’t see the truth behind the façade? Then I ask that my mind be healed.

I don’t have any particular fear of sickness of the body, nothing that scares me into dread. I don’t want any sickness at all, but nothing stands out as particularly upsetting. I notice that when someone I care about has a sick body, I can more easily see through that. I see them in their classroom, learning the lessons they came to learn, but completely unaffected by that lesson. I also see them as capable of learning that lesson. Sometimes I have trouble holding onto the idea of them as sick at all because I see only the potential healed self. That is me giving them the love they are unable to give themselves at this time, and it is healing.

On the other hand when I see someone in great pain, I tend to have a more visceral reaction, because I hate pain. I’ve worked on the idea of pain as illusion and have accepted some healing in this area, so sometimes I do better with this. When my son was in extreme pain, I was lost in his illusion and so was not able to answer his call for love. I was paralyzed in fear for him. I did remember to ask for healing of my mind, so that was good. Because of my own fears I was unable to see that one illusion is the same as another. Illusions can’t really be more or bigger or worse. It is only my beliefs that make it seem so.

Another form of sickness is lack. Sometimes I slip into that belief. For instance, with my upcoming retirement looming nearer, I notice I fall into fear about lack. It is not total by any means, but I will see these little thoughts that I won’t be able to buy this, or go here, or do that, when I retire and I feel a sense of loss. So this shows me there is still a belief in lack in my mind. As a result, when I see someone with less than me, especially an older person, I project my fear onto them and feel sympathy. This is not answering a call for love with love. It helps no one.

As I have been turning this belief over to Holy Spirit and asking Him to show me a different way to see it, I have noticed a shift. I still notice the thoughts but there is little emotion attached to them. I don’t get upset about it as I did just a couple of months ago. I love when that happens; it is a miracle, that change of mind. It is a miracle because the ego mind didn’t do it. I wanted healing more than I wanted to hold onto the fearful thoughts and so it occurred.

Now, I can see those with less and not be completely useless. I can mostly see through the form of their story to the reality of their being. I am answering their call for love more often than not. This answer to their call is also the answer to my call. When we share a belief in the illusion, we uphold and strengthen that belief. When at least one of us allows that belief to be loosened in our mind, we both experience a healing.

Sometimes I envision it like this. When we thought about the idea of separation our mind projected a picture of the Sonship being shattered into billions of pieces and scattering across the landscape of our vast and holy mind. Now that we have decided to awaken from that strange and impossible dream, when we see the many forms those pieces of ourselves took, we are beginning to recognize them for what they really are. In the recognition of our self in them, we are gathering them back into the wholeness that we really are. We do this as we see that each one of the pieces represents a lack of love, and as we supply that love, our scattered piece flows naturally back into the Oneness of the Father and His Son.

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Study of Text, Chapter 12, II.The Way to Remember, P 2. 1-7-16

II. The Way to Remember God, P 2

2 The light in them shines as brightly regardless of the density of the fog that obscures it. If you give no power to the fog to obscure the light, it has none. For it has power only if the Son of God gives power to it. He must himself withdraw that power, remembering that all power is of God. You can remember this for all the Sonship. Do not allow your brother not to remember, for his forgetfulness is yours. But your remembering is his, for God cannot be remembered alone. This is what you have forgotten. To perceive the healing of your brother as the healing of yourself is thus the way to remember God. For you forgot your brothers with Him, and God’s Answer to your forgetting is but the way to remember.

Journal
We have obscured the light in our mind with our ego beliefs, but we have done nothing to the light itself. It shines as brightly as ever. The fog that covers the light is of our own making and we can dispel it simply by changing our minds. The fog has no power other than the power we give it through our desire for it to be there.

As we are trying to wake up now, it seems strange that we would be deliberately obscuring the light, but this is what is happening. The reason it is happening is that the mind is still split. There is still a part of the mind that wants its own special separate self to continue as if it exists, and it wants its own thoughts and it wants to decide for itself the meaning of existence. This part of the mind stands in opposition to awakening and clouds the truth to maintain the illusion.

But this separate part of the mind is not an opponent, but simply a choice within the one mind. We made a choice to have an experience and that choice plays out over and over in many different ways until we decide to make a different choice. So we are not at war with something outside our mind, nor at war with ourselves. We are simply viewing options and deciding what it is we most deeply desire.

The confusion occurs as we forget who we are. We become identified with the ego mind and think that to cede power to the God Mind is to lose. In truth there is no ego mind. It is an illusion. We are part of the God Mind and to surrender to that choice is to gain everything we gave up to have this crazy little experience.

We gave the fog power to obscure our reality and now we must withdraw that power. We are doing that now, and we continue the process each time we choose to turn from ego thinking to God Knowing. Separation is the theme of the illusion and so as we join we undo the illusion. In other words, we undo separation through joining.

I know the truth for my brother and this teaches me the truth about myself. See how perfect the plan is for our return to God? We chose the idea of separation as our illusion, now we choose the idea of unity to return to reality. My brother thinks he is sick, and I shine the light of truth into his mind to heal him.

The very idea of this awakens the memory of unity in my mind. As Jesus says: “for his forgetfulness is yours. But your remembering is his, for God cannot be remembered alone. This is what you have forgotten.” And remembering I am healed with my brother and he is healed with me is the way to remember God. Did I ever think that my brother’s awakening had nothing to do with me?

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Study of Text, Chapter 12: !. The Way to Remember God, P 1. 1-6-16

II. The Way to Remember God, P 1
1 Miracles are merely the translation of denial into truth. If to love oneself is to heal oneself, those who are sick do not love themselves. Therefore, they are asking for the love that would heal them, but which they are denying to themselves. If they knew the truth about themselves they could not be sick. The task of the miracle worker thus becomes to deny the denial of truth. The sick must heal themselves, for the truth is in them. Yet having obscured it, the light in another mind must shine into theirs because that light is theirs.

Journal
“Miracles are merely the translation of denial into truth.” I think the reason they seem so extraordinary at times is that we are so confused about what is the truth and what is an illusion. So if someone has cancer and seems to be near death and then they are healed and completely recover, this seems like something so miraculous we can hardly believe it. In fact, the ego mind will start by being astounded, but then often tries to find explanations that make more sense to it.

But here is what really happens. The mind is so confused it thinks that we are something that can be sick and die. And further, that it takes a miracle of science to change that, and often there is no miracle yet discovered by man and so sickness leads to death. This mind is in denial of the truth.

It denies that we are the Son of God, that we are invulnerable, that we are spirit not body. It denies that the mind is the maker of all things experienced in form, and therefore the maker of the appearance of sickness and death, and so can undo that choice. It now becomes the function of the mind to deny the denial of truth and that appears as a miracle to the confused mind, but it is merely the return to reality.

Why would the mind choose pain and suffering and even death? It is because, in its confused state, it does not love itself. So sickness of any kind, of the body, of relationships, of any form within the world that does not reflect perfection, is a call for the love that would heal them. If I am afraid that I will not have enough money when I retire, that is a call for the love that would heal my belief in lack.

If I have a grievance against someone, that is a call for love that would heal my mind of the belief that I am a victim to that person. If I hurt my body in an accident, that is a call for love that would heal my belief that I am guilty and deserving of pain. In each case I have denied the truth about myself, and I need a miracle that will deny the denial of truth. I need to heal myself, and I can heal myself because the truth is in me.

But what if the truth is obscured by my confusion? What if I cannot see the light in my mind? Then you can heal me by shining the light of truth into my mind and clearing the darkness so that I will again be aware of the truth. If sickness is just the denial of truth, then healing is simple and easily accomplished. The degree of or type of sickness is irrelevant. It is a denial of truth regardless of the form it takes. All that needs to be done is to deny the denial of truth.

This is the way we pray for each other. We look at the form the denial of truth has taken and know that it is meaningless. We know that the poverty, the broken relationship, the cancer, each of these is just a reflection of a mistake in thought and none of them is true. When I think I am sick, please do this for me. Shine the light of truth from your mind into mine.

Do not feel sorry for me. Do not recommend an alternative healing. Do not fear for me. Just know that I have denied the truth of my being and am now confused to the point of sickness. Know that I have the Solution, the Answer to my problem, and it is in my mind. This is the way I would hope someone would pray for me and this is the way I pray for anyone who needs my prayer.

I see the appearance of a confused thought and I know that while this is their experience, it isn’t truth. I see the reality of their identity as the Son of God and know that this is the only thing that is true. This is the light of truth coming from my mind and shining away the darkness that has temporarily obscured the light in theirs.

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Study of Text, Chapter 12: !. The Judgment of the Holy Spirit, P 10. 1-5-16

I. The Judgment of the Holy Spirit, P 10

10 If you would look upon love, which is the world’s reality, how could you do better than to recognize, in every defense against it, the underlying appeal for it? And how could you better learn of its reality than by answering the appeal for it by giving it? The Holy Spirit’s interpretation of fear does dispel it, for the awareness of truth cannot be denied. Thus does the Holy Spirit replace fear with love and translate error into truth. And thus will you learn of Him how to replace your dream of separation with the fact of unity. For the separation is only the denial of union, and correctly interpreted, attests to your eternal knowledge that union is true.

Journal
Last night I remembered that I was supposed to do something for a customer last week, and had completely forgotten to do so. I felt a surge of panic, and as I thought of it I became more and more anxious. Since I have been studying about fear, I immediately saw that this anxiety is fear and that I can use it to continue this study. So I am looking at it with the Holy Spirit.

I see that I am afraid that I have damaged the trust my customer has for me. I am afraid that this damage could lead to losing the customer. I am afraid that I hurt her feelings. I am afraid because I cannot think of one honest explanation for my forgetfulness that won’t make things worse.

I noticed that I was additionally upset because it was late and I could not do anything about it right now. I felt trapped in my fear with no immediate way out. When I get caught in the fear trap it seems like fear is very real and, while I know to ask for help in seeing it differently, and while I can remember that it is not real, I cannot always easily dispel its hold on me.

I am asking Jesus to help me with this.

Jesus: First, Sister, remember that the problem seems to be a missed appointment and so the fear seems to be about the consequences. This is not so. The idea of fear is in your mind and is being projected outward as circumstances that picture it for you. This is actually helpful since it puts the fear where you can see it and thus be aware of what it is you want healed in your mind.

Sometimes when the panic or the fear gets a sufficient hold on your mind that you have trouble letting it go, you become afraid of the fear itself. This is because you have gotten lost in your story and the mind frantically seeks for a way to make the story less frightening. This is not necessary. Turn from the story to the mind. Go to the source of the problem.

If you remember, last night while your mind was worrying over this problem, you were trying to remember the truth. The thought that helped you was that you have helped people back out of their fear stories and to see that the problem was not in the story but in the mind that believes fear is real. That thought was a relief to you because it reminded you that your mind holds the solution.

I know that this idea we have been looking at is very hard for you to hold onto in the face of fear. This is because you have taught yourself to believe in the fear rather than what the fear is trying to hide. When you help your brothers and sisters see past their fears to the reality of the situation, you do this out of love. Literally. It is the love in your mind being extended to their mind.

Love is the solution, the answer to every seeming problem in the world. The problems are the ego attempt to distract you from the love that you are, and to keep it out of your awareness. As you become reacquainted with your true nature, you will lose all interest in the ego story of separation. The part of your mind that wants that story to continue is using fear to keep you involved in the stories it makes up.

Here is something that will be helpful. When fear arises, think of this as a positive thing, a helpful thing. This fear is an attempt to hide your true nature from yourself, which means you have a true nature. Then think about the many times you have allowed the love you are to relieve fear in another. Let your mind dwell in that love rather than in the fear thoughts the ego throws up as a barrier to love. This will help you regain your center.

Today, you will talk to your customer. The ego mind feels defensive, and wants to defend you. Defense is another device the ego uses to keep separation in place. Do this instead. Allow yourself a moment to dwell in the heart of Love, and then call her. Let love find its way to her heart. Release the story and all possible outcomes from your mind, and simply allow love to work through you.

The ego says you need to fix this story, but that is wrong. Love is your function. Let the story unfold as it will, and place your awareness on the love that you are. This is how you will teach yourself that fear is an illusion and has nothing to do with you. This is how you will become more aware of what fear tries to hide from you.

Me: Thank you, Brother.

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