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Who I Think I Am

I often begin my day with a five minute exercise of existing as if I were Christ having a human experience. This begins with bringing my attention to the present moment and becoming completely aware of that moment; what it feels like to sit in this chair, to feel the air on my face and temperature fluctuations as the air conditioner clicks on and off. I notice my body and how it feels. I notice all the little sounds I ordinarily miss; the bird outside the window, the nearly, but not quite, silent sounds of a house before anyone begins to move around.

I allow myself to be newly amazed each morning that I, as Christ, have made this extraordinary illusion, and I feel deep gratitude for God that He created me to be so perfectly free that I can, without guilt, make this extraordinary illusion. I can play at being separate from God and He loves me all the way through this impossibility.

I end the practice remembering that I and my Father are one and that no amount of imaginative play can change this. This morning I extended the practice by remaining in the present moment as much as I could. I became fully aware of only what was happening in each moment. This was unexpectedly difficult to maintain. I would start off fine, but quickly notice that I was thinking about something in the future or the past. I would then bring my attention back to the present moment, only to notice, rather soon, that my mind had wandered again.

I think that when I am completely focused on this moment, to the exclusion of all other moments, past or present, that I do exist as Christ having a human experience. And that when this happens the ego does not, for those moments, exist. This is why I keep allowing my mind to wander. I am keeping my self in existence. Of course, this self exists to the exclusion of my Self. I don’t seem to be able to be aware of both at the same time. I can know, intellectually, that they both are in my mind, but I cannot experience them both at the same time. I wonder if this realization is the result of Regina’s Single Quiet Thought from the Holy Spirit:

Who you think you are
separates you from
who you think you are not.

Who you think you are
provides you with
the opportunity to judge.

Who you think you are
is more than an experience.
It is a tool.

It is a tool that allows you
to continue to play
the game of separation.

Are you willing
to let go of
who you think you are?

~From our Holy Spirit
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I am grateful for the awareness I gained today and I am going to spend the rest of this day practicing being Christ having an experience of a body rather than the body trying to be separate from God, something it can never achieve. Perhaps it will get easier as I go along.

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Reflections on the Journey of the Soul

Usually around 10-12 we have the first stirrings of the desire to
know who we really are, but there is much to do within the world,
much to learn and so we set it aside. The same questions emerge
around mid-twenties, but again we are busy establishing ourselves in
the world, and it is often in the mid thirties or forties that the
questions begin to press upon us. We now have more time, less urgent
business within the world.

I followed this pattern myself. I was involved in religion before
that but it was a very fear based exercise. In my thirties I became
interested in God and in who I was and why I was here. By the time I
was 33 I found A Course in Miracles. However, I moved slowly through
it and used life to distract me frequently. I began reawakening to my
purpose when I approached 50. It was as if a switch had been thrown.

At 50 there was an internal prompting, as if something said, “OK, now
it is time.” This is when I found Pathways of Light and began my
ministerial studies. From that point on I felt like something within
me knew something I did not know. I would think that becoming a
minister was crazy, but then I would feel this knowing that I was
doing what I needed to do. I would doubt everything I was remembering
about the truth, and become very afraid, but then I would just know
it was alright.

I can see that there is the ego thought system of separation within
the mind which drives us for a long time as we establish our lives,
but the Memory of God, the Holy Spirit, is there as well gently
reminding us of something else. When the time is right, the reminders
are more interesting to us and we listen more closely, according to
our readiness.

At first I looked back on my life and thought about all the time I
had wasted and wished I had done better. But I understand now that I
was doing my work even while nearly completely unconscious. All of
those times when I chose to listen to ego, I was giving myself the
experiences I needed to decide what I really desired. Did I like the
way my life had gone? Did it feel good when I lost my temper, or
treated someone like they didn’t matter? Were my special
relationships fulfilling and did they bring me happiness? Now that I
had this wealth of experience, I could continue as I was, or decide
that this was not working and that I wanted to listen to the other
Teacher.

When I saw how all things really do work for good, I stopped fighting
the ego and thinking of it as enemy. It is simply the way I keep the
illusion of being separate from God going. I am not at war with it
and it stands no chance of taking me somewhere I don’t already want
to go. The only thing left to do is to back out of that thought
system by noticing where I use it in my life and deciding
differently. This is a really radically different way for me to look
at it, but it feels right to me. And it seems to work better and make
for a happier life without all the tension of being forever at war
with a part of myself

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Ego Reaction

Slowly, a little at a time I am opening my mind to Holy Spirit and
receiving some thoughts. What I noticed this morning is that the ego
part of my mind is very uncomfortable with this process. It wants to
understand using its usual methods. For instance, how does this fit
in with the understandings that ego has developed through logic and
past experience.

This is the ego’s function as it sees it is to collect information,
organize it and use it to protect the body-mind. Like seeing that
stepping into the street without looking both ways could result in
the death of the body and so ego considers this valuable info and
files it in the brain for use when needed. This is the kind of
information the ego understands and feels comfortable with.

What the Holy Spirit gives me cannot be used in this way. This
morning as I was sitting as Christ for my five minutes of practice I
suddenly realized what a powerful mind it takes to uphold this
illusion. Those are the words I can think of but the actual
experience was far more than I can articulate. Suddenly I felt like
crying. I felt very fearful and that was when I realized that ego was
threatened by what it cannot understand. Thank you, Holy Spirit, for
helping me to understand where this fear came from, and thank you for
the immediate correction of this thought.

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Give me your blessing.

When I first started doing the lessons some of them were so beautiful and so comforting, some went right over my head, and some I was obviously afraid of. Then I reached a point where I knew that I didn’t really understand any of them and I was afraid of all of them. Now I seem to be more accepting and less fearful. Speaking each one feels like a sacred moment, and each word is filled with meaning. These lessons feel like old friends returning with new gifts as I am more and more open to accepting them. I am learning not to struggle, and that I don’t need to wrestle the gift from the lesson; quiet, honest acceptance elicits meaning, and what I am not ready for will be disclosed later when I am less afraid.

What is interesting to me is that the longer I study and practice the simpler it all becomes. “God is but Love, and therefore so am I.” God is Love and nothing else. I am created like God and so I am only love. Nothing else is true. “I am as God created me.”  Every bit of evidence to the contrary is false because only this is true. All my fears and doubts are just the effect of imaginative child’s play and change nothing. I am still as God created me.

“Give me your blessing holy Son of God” is the request I make of each brother and what he gives me is truly a blessing. If it seems like an attack it is because I have mistaken who he is and so have forgotten who I am. I ask for his gift and do not judge it on appearances. I cannot judge on my own because the ego has taught me insane lessons of lack, fear and uncertainty. My vision is no longer clear and so I go to my Helper and ask clarity. I know there is only blessing from my dear brother and I am ready to see it as such.

I am so filled with gratitude this morning, and I ask that Holy Spirit come forward in my mind and accompany me as I enter the more active classrooms of this school. I have visited them with the ego and have not found it helpful.

Holy Spirit: Precious child, I have always been with you and will never leave you. I am part of you and it is My function to guide you. We are filled with love and gratitude for the vigilance you have shown as you practice the Course. We rejoice as we watch you slowly open your eyes and learn to see truly. For a while longer you will be tempted by the ego, and will be drawn back into the dream, but, as I have said before, never again will you be completely lost in it.

Myron, do not allow yourself to think of the ego as a powerful adversary. The Son of God has no adversary. The ego is just a thought. It is the thought that there is something other than God. In dreams it seems to have caused untold pain and fear. It is the thought of murder and guilt, but in the end it is only a thought.

How often have you thought one thing and then changed your mind? Because you have held this thought for so long and because you have defended it with layers of concealment you have made it seem something more than just a thought, but I assure you that is all it is. When you are ready you will simply stop thinking it, and all that will be left in your mind is the love of God.

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Holy Spirit, Be With Me Today

Holy Spirit, I ask that you be with me all day today, helping me to keep my focus on what is true. When I allow my mind to wander into illusions of what might have been, or what I fear is to come, please remind me of the moment I am in now and that this is the only moment there is. It is in only this moment that I can choose again.

As I go through my day acting and reacting, please help me to bring my attention to my lesson understanding that the body and the world are just the classroom for the lesson. I often forget that this is true and begin to act as if the purpose of life is to change the classroom. Help me to keep the purpose of life clearly in the forefront of my mind.

When I stand before my brother I often see the body and its actions and errors. Please help me to see the light that stands behind this dark vision so that I may learn to see the light within myself. I will be mindful of the judgments I make of my brother’s behaviors and I ask that you correct my thinking so that I don’t foolishly believe my brother is his behavior any more than he is his body.

Holy Spirit, it is so easy for me to forget that the body and personality associated with Myron is just a story of separation, and that I can watch this story to help me remember the truth about who I am. Please help me to remember to step back from this dream figure and notice what she does and says rather than thinking I need to control what she does and says. I am tired of trying to fix the dream, and long to awaken from it, but at the same time, it calls to me and tempts me to once again enter it fully. I cannot do that because I no longer fully believe in the illusion, and yet cannot fully release it. Please help me as I learn to detach from the dream.

This morning it is quiet and easy to feel Your ever present help. I can rest in You, and feel deep gratitude for that rest. As others join me in today’s story I become distracted and feel like I have lost my contact with You. Please help me to see that this is not possible. Help me learn to rise above the battleground and to be aware of You within me all during the day no matter who joins me or what dramas distract me. Help me to see the dramas as lessons rather than distractions.

Amen.

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