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Study of the Text, Chapter 8: VI. The Treasure of God, Paragraph 1. 9-15-14

VI. The Treasure of God
1 We are the joint will of the Sonship, whose Wholeness is for all. We begin the journey back by setting out together, and gather in our brothers as we continue together. Every gain in our strength is offered for all, so they too can lay aside their weakness and add their strength to us. God’s welcome waits for us all, and He will welcome us as I am welcoming you. Forget not the Kingdom of God for anything the world has to offer.

We are in this together. We are joining with Jesus and we are waking up. As we go along, we gather more and more of us. We do this through our words, our writing, and our actions. It happens even without the words and actions; it happens as we heal our mind. My mind is healed and so the mind is healed and every part of the mind experiences the healing in some way.

We cannot always see this in the world, but it is happening. I touch people I have never even met and probably never will. I affect the lives of people I see every day. It might seem like a small thing to me, a smile or kind word, but someone is changed because of it. Then there are the ones who are touching greater numbers of people, the celebrities like Oprah and Jim Carey who influence thousands of people. Social media has become an important platform for this gathering, spreading the word faster and farther than ever could have happened before.

Every contribution, small and large adds strength to all of us. We are truly in this together in every sense of the word. We are waking up and in the process we are helping others to wake up until finally we are awakened as one. This is no small thing. In fact, it is the only thing that matters.

I look like I am going to work, selling chemicals, visiting friends, helping people, writing, trying to lose weight, shopping. I have a story about all of this, but all the while I use these things, these activities, as a way to wake us all up. Even when I get so involved in them that I start to think they are goals within themselves, I pull my mind back to what matters.

I start to think my job is the way I provide for myself and that I have to defend it against others who would take it from me. Then I laugh because I remember that my job is just a back-drop for my real goal. I ask the Holy Spirit to help me remember the truth, to remember my true purpose.

I try to lose weight and I notice how others are doing it and think about trying this pill or that eating plan. Then I come back to my senses. The body and its size and shape are the effect not the cause. The cause is a belief in my mind that is being projected as a body. I ask the Holy Spirit for help in seeing this situation as it truly exists. I ask Him what He wants me to learn from this situation.

I think I want to do something and then I remember that I don’t want to make any decisions on my own. I ask for guidance and the mind is healed of an old belief. All those who are ready to accept that healing are healed with me. It is in little ways like this the mind is healed. It is like a tiny earthquake in the mind, a little tremor that passes through and everyone feels it and is affected by it in some way. Did I ever think there was me and then there was you? Did I see someone else and really believe they were someone else?

The world seems to be filled with interesting and sometimes fun distractions. It sometimes seems the world is a very serious place that needs my constant attention. But the world is nothing. I won’t get confused about that again. Nothing about the world is important other than how I can use it to show me what yet needs to be healed in the mind so that I can choose the healing.

I will continue to do the things that I must do. I will go to work, but I will use work to help us wake up. I will take care of the body, but I will use the body to help us wake up. Jesus has welcomed us to this journey and God welcomes us home. I will not tarry for anything in the world.

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Study of the Text, Chapter 8: V.The Undivided Will of the Sonship, Paragraph 6. 9-12-14

V. The Undivided Will of the Sonship P 6
6 The ego’s way is not mine, but it is also not yours. The Holy Spirit has one direction for all minds, and the one He taught me is yours. Let us not lose sight of His direction through illusions, for only illusions of another direction can obscure the one for which God’s Voice speaks in all of us. Never accord the ego the power to interfere with the journey. It has none, because the journey is the way to what is true. Leave all illusions behind, and reach beyond all attempts of the ego to hold you back. I go before you because I am beyond the ego. Reach, therefore, for my hand because you want to transcend the ego. My strength will never be wanting, and if you choose to share it you will do so. I give it willingly and gladly, because I need you as much as you need me.

Jesus is so certain of me that when I think of it I cry. I feel certain of me, too, because I am willing to share his certainty. Jesus knows because he has transcended the ego and so has Knowledge now. I trust him and he trusts me so I trust me as well. I trust myself even when I am confused. I trust me even when I slip back into ego thinking. I trust me even when I feel helpless and hopeless. Because I trust myself, I always rise from the ego pit into the light and I do so quickly.

I do reach for your hand, Jesus, and I do this as often as I need to. You are my elder brother and my partner, and my aide as I do this. I look to you as the model I would follow, your teachings as the standard I would achieve in my life. I will transcend the ego because you did. I will transcend it because that is my purpose as it was yours and is everyone’s. I dedicate this day toward that goal.

Thank you for showing me the way, and for being my ever present helper, and for lending me your strength. I cannot express my gratitude because I just don’t have the words.

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Study of the Text, Chapter 8: V.The Undivided Will of the Sonship, Paragraph 5. 9-11-14

V. The Undivided Will of the Sonship P 5
5 Would you know the Will of God for you? Ask it of me who knows it for you and you will find it. I will deny you nothing, as God denies me nothing. Ours is simply the journey back to God Who is our home. Whenever fear intrudes anywhere along the road to peace, it is because the ego has attempted to join the journey with us and cannot do so. Sensing defeat and angered by it, the ego regards itself as rejected and becomes retaliative. You are invulnerable to its retaliation because I am with you. On this journey you have chosen me as your companion instead of the ego. Do not attempt to hold on to both, or you will try to go in different directions, and will lose the way.

I am very aware of ego retaliation. I used to think that when I would slip back into ego it meant that I was weak and vulnerable and that my best efforts came to naught. I believed this because that’s what the thoughts in my mind were saying to me. When that happened I felt like a failure and that I couldn’t do this. That left me in an impossible place since I couldn’t go back to complete ignorance and yet couldn’t go forward. It was hard because I had not yet detached from my ego identity enough to realize that I am not that defeatist voice I was listening to.

It’s different now even though I still notice the ego thoughts in my mind and sometimes get hooked by them. When I experience a significant shift in my thinking, I especially get bombarded by ego thoughts. This is the ego part of the mind trying to pull me back into the story. It tries anything and everything to get me interested. It says others are guilty, I’m guilty, I’m never going to succeed, I’m a failure, I’m overworked and put upon.

I still hear all that nonsense and sometimes listen and believe for a little while, but I never fall for it like I did before. Yesterday the ego tried again and I felt bad about myself for a few minutes, then turned away from it. I cannot yet avoid the ego voice completely, but I can choose the voice I would believe. I made a deliberate choice to remember the truth. I gave the ego thoughts to Holy Spirit and asked that they be removed from my mind. Each time I do this, I become more certain of my true identity and the ego hold on the mind loosens some more.

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Study of the Text, Chapter 8, V. The Undivided Will of the Sonship, P 4. 9-10-14

V. The Undivided Will of the Sonship P
4 When you unite with me you are uniting without the ego, because I have renounced the ego in myself and therefore cannot unite with yours. Our union is therefore the way to renounce the ego in you. The truth in both of us is beyond the ego. Our success in transcending the ego is guaranteed by God, and I share this confidence for both of us and all of us. I bring God’s peace back to all His children because I received it of Him for us all. Nothing can prevail against our united wills because nothing can prevail against God’s.

In this section, Jesus is really making it clear that together we will transcend the ego. It is very simple, really. Jesus transcended the ego and now helps us to do what he has already done. He has total confidence in us because he knows we will succeed as he did. I used to doubt myself, but Jesus held steadfast in his certainty and so he knew for me what I doubted. Now I have no doubt whatsoever that I will return my mind to God because I have joined my will with his and nothing can prevail against us because nothing can prevail against God.

While I still become distracted and still get hooked by ego sometimes, I never lose sight of the goal. I might become angry with someone, but I never want to stay angry. I never argue for my anger. I might make the other one guilty in my mind, but I change my mind. Even while I am temporarily angry, I am asking that the belief my brother is guilty be removed from my mind. This is how it is for me now. I look forward to the day the desire to blame cannot even find a foothold in my mind, no matter how tenuous.

I don’t doubt that day will come because I don’t doubt God. I don’t doubt the Holy Spirit. And I don’t doubt Jesus’ plan of Atonement. I don’t even doubt myself anymore. Jesus transcended the ego and through joining my will with his, he will transcend it again through me. And in perfect timing he will do so through each of us until, as one, we will return to our Father.

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Study of the Text, Chapter 8: V.The Undivided Will of the Sonship, Paragraph 3. 9-9-14

V. The Undivided Will of the Sonship P 3
3 God’s Oneness and ours are not separate, because His Oneness encompasses ours. To join with me is to restore His power to you because we are sharing it. I offer you only the recognition of His power in you, but in that lies all truth. As we unite, we unite with Him. Glory be to the union of God and His holy Sons! All glory lies in Them because They are united. The miracles we do bear witness to the Will of the Father for His Son, and to our joy in uniting with His Will for us.

A whimsical story of awakening.

I smiled as I read this. I had a vision of a toy I had as a child. It was a colorfully painted egg nested in another egg, which was nested in a third egg. This is how I envision us right now. We are in the third egg. We imagine we are all alone in the egg and alone within the egg. We think that all that exists is in this egg.

There is a Voice, though, that whispers to us of something greater, something glorious. This Voice is waking us up to a different reality, one in which we are not separate. As we start to wake up, the shell of the egg becomes thinner to us and we understand there is something outside the egg and want to join with that. We are calling the second egg, Jesus.

Like newborn chicks everywhere, we are pecking away at the shell that seems to keep us separate from Jesus. We do this as we question the belief that we are separate. We do it every time we doubt the ego beliefs in our mind and every time we use the stories of our lives to cast doubt on our separateness.

As we start to feel that we are joined with all the others within this egg, the shell begins to crack and more light pours in and more of us are now pecking away at the shell. Soon we begin to realize that we are one with Jesus as well and the shell of our separate existence from each other and from Jesus falls away.

From this more enlightened place, we realize there was not actually anything keeping us apart and keeping the light out except for our desire to be separate. It was all in our mind and with the help of our brother, Jesus (who already knew this) we open our hearts to the truth without fear and with total acceptance. As the final shell dissolves, we see that we are united, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

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Study of the Text, Chapter 8: V.The Undivided Will of the Sonship, Paragraph 2. 9-8-14

V. The Undivided Will of the Sonship P 2
2 The undivided will of the Sonship is the perfect creator, being wholly in the likeness of God, Whose Will it is. You cannot be exempt from it if you are to understand what it is and what you are. By the belief that your will is separate from mine, you are exempting yourself from the Will of God which is yourself. Yet to heal is still to make whole. Therefore, to heal is to unite with those who are like you, because perceiving this likeness is to recognize the Father. If your perfection is in Him and only in Him, how can you know it without recognizing Him? The recognition of God is the recognition of yourself. There is no separation of God and His creation. You will realize this when you understand that there is no separation between your will and mine. Let the Love of God shine upon you by your acceptance of me. My reality is yours and His. By joining your mind with mine you are signifying your awareness that the Will of God is One.

Jesus is asking me to understand how important it is that I recognize that there is no separation between his will and mine. I think his wording here is very important. He did not ask me to accept his will or to change my will. He simply pointed out that our will is the same and that it is necessary that I accept this.

The reason I must accept something that is already fact is that I have made up a will to take the place of my true will. This is my ego will, my separate will. It is not truly my will, but it is the will I am pretending is true. To have an experience of separation I had to will it and this is the will I am using now as if it were the truth.

Jesus is actually reminding me that I have a true will and that I want this will, and he is encouraging me to accept it now. He explains that I need to accept my true will because it is only through doing so that I can return to creation and remember God. Here is how my mind interprets this paragraph.

Jesus: Honey, you are dreaming of being separate and being a body that is not joined with anything. You are dreaming of having emotions and of being guilty and afraid and in danger. You have enjoyed your dream and sometimes scared yourself with your dream, but Life is waiting for you. There is so much more to experience, so much more to be. Wake up now and join with me. This is what you yearn for now. You are tired of your stories and you are tired of pretending to be separate. But more than anything you want to recognize God as you have before, to be one in Him again.

Me: I don’t know how to know God and I can’t imagine how to be one in Him. I know you have said that I already am and always have been but I can’t remember that, and I don’t know how you think I can go from this experience to God.

Jesus: You feel very far from God right now. I understand that. You cannot bring yourself to access the memory of your oneness with Him. The idea of joining your will with God’s Will vacillates between disbelief and fear. But that’s ok. You know me now and you know my love for you and you feel safe with me, and so you can accept that our will is joined. In fact, you really want to do that and have been opening yourself to that for awhile now. It is through this step, this acceptance of our joint will, that you will be able to take the next step.

Me: Ok, so you are saying that I am not really living a life right now, but am dreaming of something different in which I am alone and not connected to everything. And you say that this dream isn’t anything like my real life, and that I can have my real life back just by wanting it. You already did it and you know the way Home so all I have to do to return Home is to accept that you and I share the will to return to God. I just have to accept that your will and my will are the same. This is a step I can take and want to take.

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Study of the Text, Chapter 8: V.The Undivided Will of the Sonship, Paragraph 1. 9-5-14

V. The Undivided Will of the Sonship
1 Can you be separated from your identification and be at peace? Dissociation is not a solution; it is a delusion. The delusional believe that truth will assail them, and they do not recognize it because they prefer the delusion. Judging truth as something they do not want, they perceive their illusions which block knowledge. Help them by offering them your unified mind on their behalf, as I am offering you mine on behalf of yours. Alone we can do nothing, but together our minds fuse into something whose power is far beyond the power of its separate parts. By not being separate, the Mind of God is established in ours and as ours. This Mind is invincible because it is undivided.

We are one whole and part of God, but we will not know this or experience it if we prefer separation. Where is your mind right now? Is it focused on the truth of your being, or is it focused on defending your small self? Earlier today I was occupied with separation thoughts. I was worried about work and time and getting things done. All of these things are part of the separation idea. I do my work. I get my things done. Time doesn’t exist except where I believe I need it.

There are things I must do in the illusion, but I can do them with grace or I can worry and fret over them. I have done it both ways and I know the difference. Several times this week I have become concerned that I will forget something or not find time to do it, then realizing what I was doing I stopped. I reminded myself that Spirit will bring it to mind if it needs my attention. Spirit will guide the project and keep it simple and joyful if I allow this.

When I make the second choice, when I lay aside my desire to do this on my own, make my own decisions and plans as a separated self, there is no anxiety. In turning to Spirit I am laying aside the idea that a little me has goals that are mine alone and that the little me must accomplish them on my own. In choosing Spirit as my guide, I am choosing wholeness. I am being one with All That Is. And there is no fear in God.

I watch my mind and my words for the tell-tell signs that I am falling into the old habits of seeing separation everywhere. I watch for those beliefs that someone is guilty or that I am afraid. I ask for the Atonement. I ask that these thoughts be removed from my mind. I am learning not to insist on a separated self. I am learning that I prefer to join my mind with Spirit. Alone I can do nothing but weave stories, but in God we are powerful beyond anything we can imagine. In God we are vast and unlimited.

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