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Where Is My Faith?

Hello Lights!  Things have been rather different for me, from the last time I posted on my journal. It has been this way in my dream, for time spent on learning new computer software. I find that most things are where they were on the previous software, but of course some things have been “updated.”  I really appreciate having a full size keyboard, and a big screen.

What has Spirit told me lately? This was brought to my attention recently:

“This world is not real—-it is a projection of guilt by a mind made sick from the belief it could and did separate itself from God.
It is your faith in what you seem to see that makes the world seem solid. Your faith placed in what you choose to be valuable, make the images around you seem solid, immovable, and real. You can ask your Self of every image you ‘see,’ “What is this for?” Then be willing to hear; if you want healing, you need only release the idols you have chosen in place of truth.

“Dear Child, you cannot make of yourself what Love created not. The dream of separation and death is not what you want. You have grown accustomed to illusions. Being accustomed to something does not make it real, it simply shows where your attention is focused. The Truth and the Mind that created you has not been changed, not even once, by the mistaken belief in illusions. Illusions are a cloud, held against the truth—-but this is a useless attempt to make truth as you would have it be. This foolish thought begets pain, and nothing else. You believe in Love or you choose illusions as your home. Choose not illusions, you cannot make them into truth.
Simply choose truth. Let the false go. Illusions do not protect you or sustain you. It is not sacrifice to let go of pain!
Choose not to die, you holy Son of God!

“Accept only that you are love and only Love created you. Fear of God and fear of healing are the same thing. A mind insane with guilt can only know fear—-but such a mind is not real. There is no mind outside of Love and what Love created not does not exist. You are still part of Love—-and never has this changed. You are the Thought of Love, in the Love that creates only love.
You can only be as Love created you—-You are as Love created you!”

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Loving Reminders

I recently received loving thoughts from Spirit; the first came on Jan. 31, the astericks mark the thoughts of today. Thanks for reading.

Love is all around.
Love is the without limit being infinite.
Love is the only Cause—-anything that is not like Love, does not exist.
Love protects and sustains you. The Love that would protect is simply Holy
Spirit, Whose purpose is to remove every thought and form you made to hurt yourself. The Love that sustains you, simply has given all to you—It continues to give all to all.

Love is what you Are. Be not afraid of Love. When you feel fearful it is because you heard a voice that is not real and have seen images that are false. You have made yourself fearful by a thought you empowered. Yet this thought has no true strength, it is totally nothing. It never “was” and so it is not now.

Love created not fear—-so it does not exist. It is your choice that replays over and over an insane instant. Why would you choose to keep a meaningless thought? Forgive your self for ever thinking that it was truth at all. Forgive the dream state, and look at your brother with vision. When you forgive, the truth returns to your awareness. It simply waits on welcome.
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There is no love but God’s.
There is no will but God’s.

I have invented the world I see. It is in my mind and not outside.
I try to push the thought of guilt out of my mind, and this becomes the world I see. Yet guilt has not left my mind (thoughts leave not their source). What I “see” in the world only reflects the insane beliefs in my mind. This world has not dreamed me—I am doing this, I have invented the world. What I fear will come from God/Love, only comes from my mind. I fear to look within believing that the truth of my guilt is there and will be there forever.

“My” guilt is there as long as I think that separation is real. Love would never abandon nor condemn me.
Truth does not change. What was true at the “beginning” is true now. There is no end to truth.  An impossible dream does not change Love. An impossible dream is meaningless, it has no effect.

The dream of separation seems to fill my mind and keeps me preoccupied with false thoughts. To escape the dream of guilt, I need but “see” with different eyes—
I need only lay forgiveness on everything I see.
By forgiving the images I have made, I know that I have love to give. By forgiving I remember that Love is not fear, that joy is not pain, dreams are not reality.
By forgiving I remember only Love is real, Love is everywhere, I have not left my Source, the dream is gone.

Father, I thank you for the Love You Are,
I thank you for the Love I Am.
I will be still and listen to the truth.
I accept the truth and let my mind be wholly healed.      Thank you very much.

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Defenses Against Truth

These thoughts came to mind this morning——

Sickness is a defense against the truth. What do I want to be the truth?

If I want individuality—then I do not really want the truth. If I choose again, and want union and Oneness then will I “see” truth beyond the illusions of my dream.

Sickness is a defense against the truth. I cannot be healed while I am afraid of the truth. I do not recognize my wholeness while I hold thoughts of division. What seems fearful to me is really escape from belief in separation. This belief is where the ego idea “lives.” The ego idea wants division, wants duality, wants fear and guilt, so that the belief of separation is maintained. While I listen to the teacher based on fear I will experience insane dreams, nightmares of being alone, attacked, unloved and unsaved. What is based on fear is not real, for it was not created in Love.

Why should I accept the false in place of truth, in place of Love? Why should I sleep in dreams of terror, when I have a Guide Whose way is wholly certain and untainted?  Why not let fear thoughts be undone? While in my dream, I can play god—I can maintain that I MADE myself and pretend there is no loving Father Who has given me everything. Is it really my only desire to remain asleep and ruler in my dream world??
Why not let fear thoughts be undone? Why not accept the gentle truth of what I am, along with every brother? What seems to be fearful and threatening, is what the sick mind perceives. What seems to see and touch and hear with the body is not real. What is real cannot be threatened. What is unreal does not exist. Love cannot be threatened nor destroyed nor altered.

As I continue to take and leave every thought, every whim, every fragment of separate thinking with Holy Spirit, I will be released. My True Self shines bright, waiting in perfect certainty of my “return.” Which, to me, is the clearing of darkness from my mind, the healing of the sick mind. For I remain as Love created me. I am eternal Love and this has never changed.

I was Guided to read ACIM Text. 22. V .
It begins: “How does one overcome illusions?”

Thank You, Holy Spirit!

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Only My Thoughts

These thoughts came to mind this morning.

What can it be that causes me anxiety?
Only my thoughts.
What can it be that causes me fear and guilt?
Only my thoughts.
What can it be that causes the world I seem to see?
Only my thoughts.

My thoughts are powerful, they are either loving or fearful. There is no in-between,
it always one or the other. All the thoughts of which I am aware are fear based thoughts…..How can this be, when I seem to experience “good” events in my life? The ego system is very skilled at manipulating images, so that whatever illusion I’m involved with can appear to be “good” or “happy.”
The Course teaches me there is no hierarchy in illusions.

If I truly want witnesses of Love, I must let Love be in my awareness. I must practice giving my thoughts or mind to Holy Spirit. I am not the “victim” of the ego thought. There are no victims anywhere.

If I continue to “wait” without playing my part, without practicing forgiveness, I won’t waken from my dream. What has been employed before no longer works now. To leave the dream just to move into a different dream, does not awaken the mind. Forgiveness is the one dream that undoes all the rest. Forgiveness let illusions go, in place of cherishing them. With forgiveness I will come to learn that illusions are all the same. Forgiveness removes the blocks in my mind to Loves’s Presence.

Thank you, Holy Spirit!

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Daily Lesson

After today’s lesson, “My meaningless thoughts are showing me a meaningless world,” I received these words:

Q: how can I apply this to my daily life?

A: Without exception I can apply this idea to every thought and every image I make. The thoughts that seem to analyze and compare, to make judgments of right and wrong, are just the type of thoughts that I need reminding that they are meaningless.

Insight from Spirit:
You need nothing in this world—for what can be valued in a dream?
You have need of nothing—truly—because you remain as Creator created you. Thoughts leave not their source—so you have not left your Source, but dream of separation, vengeance and death. Sara, you can lay all this down; you need not carry it with you an instant longer. What you want to be “real”—will you see in your dream. Dreams are undone the instant you no longer value sin—or separation.
What you value you make real to you.

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