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A Dream of Dying?

Dear Everyone,
I share a sleeping dream I recently experienced. I loved the lesson that I received at the conclusion.
(Names have been changed to keep the innocent, innocent!) 
   
At the beginning of this, I was returning a check that mom had written, and I had noticed something “wrong” with it; some how it had been tampered with, so that it would not have payed the bill that it was intended for. I explained to her, that she needed to be more attentive when she wrote out her checks.
I then intended to get ready and go to work (a large magazine printing company). The dream then slipped between two scenarios; one in which I was the wife, calling the work place that my husband was late for, and that due to his absence, the “job” had gone to someone else. The other was that I was the husband.

My (the form of Mary) not being at the work place, and subsequent “demotion” led me to think that I no longer was employed by the company.
I left, feeling that I was free to follow another path.
I ran into Junie, and she suggested that I go with her on a trip she had planned. I agreed. We then went to see Sally and Bill, as Sally had spent time in Thailand and knew the customs and other details that would be helpful. Then it seemed that she would join our expedition. Junie then said she would meet us in Hawaii (in-route).

I shortly discovered that my ‘ex’ husband (Sam) was looking for me…. I had been a philandering wife, and now he chose to take revenge for my infidelity. Bill and Sally were with me, as I went through clothes to pack. (Bill was mostly sitting back, watching us). I noticed a movement outside, and realized that Sam was there. I told Bill and Sally to leave the apt. and heard Bill say: “easy there, easy Sam,” as he went up the stairs.  (This place had two floors, with bed rooms on the lower level.)
I placed my back against the wall near the entrance, feeling fears. I slid to a sitting position on the wall to wait. Sam would not instantly see me when he entered, letting his eyes get adjusted to the light. I knew that he had flipped out—insane—and I had no inclination to try to talk with him, to have him change his mind.  I just assumed that this was my end.
I wanted to “go to” God.
I began silently repeating: “let me remember You.” When he turned and saw me, he vented his anger and justifications for his grievances. He pointed the gun to my head and said, “die, bitch.”

I had shut my eyes to stay focused on my “mantra.”  Part of my mind (ego?) wanted to wake from the dream, the other part wanted to know the “end.”  (end of dreaming)
So I waited, heard the word “bang” in my mind. Nothing else seemed to change or come to awareness.

I then asked what was I to learn in this lesson?  Spirit: See the innocence in everything.
See the innocence in everything and you will see innocence in your self.  Then: <u>God’s Son is guiltless.</u>
I repeated “God’s Son is guiltless over and over” (or heard it over and over).

Whether I play the antagonist or the victim, God’s Son is guiltless. It does not matter what role I play out—
I am guiltless, my brother is guiltless. God’s Son is guiltless.
There is no reason, no cause for guilt. God’s Son has never left his Father.
God’s Son abides in perfect peace knowing Who he is and where he is. There is no fear in him.
He knows His Father and no other thought, idea, or image has replaced the Son’s knowing of All That Is.

How healed I would be if I would integrate completely, the “lesson,” God’s Son is guiltless, that Spirit gave me.
It has given me a profound sense of peace, well-being, and gratitude. Now, to assimilate that idea is my one goal.

© 2008, Pathways of Light. https://www.pathwaysoflight.org
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Would You Exchange Fear for Truth?

Dear Everyone,

Recently I was guided to read, ACIM, T. 11. VIII. ¶ 15:
” Would you not exchange your fears for truth, if the exchange is yours for the asking?
When you are afraid it is because you perceive something that is not there.
I bid you to look within and see the light that is there. The light is real, the image you made is not.
If you look with H.S. you will be less and less afraid to see the truth and less afraid to give up the false.
You still think that Truth or Love demands sacrifice. You will learn that only the false god asks for
sacrifice and a misguided thought is easily corrected without pain or loss.”
The following thoughts came to me from Holy Spirit.

You are where God would have you be. You are in Heaven, you are in His Mind, you are as He created you. And this has never changed.
You are where God would have you be. His Will is for you and is your will.
While you dream that you are apart from your Source, you experience dream feelings of loss and being incomplete. It seems very real to you, for you do not recognize that you are the dreamer. The Holy Spirit was given you and abides with you to show you that dreams can change. He will take your dreams of fear and exchange them for happy dreams of union, completion, peace and joy. He will make a dream of truth for you—and waking will no longer be feared. The happy dream will replace all false ideas and meaningless thoughts. His gentle, sure correction will lift you to see beyond clouds of guilt and shame, pain and blame.

All dreams, have an end. In the happy dream, you awake to reality of Love. You are a Thought of Love, whole, complete and eternal. You are forever safe, forever loved, forever Home.
What never happened can have no effects. So you will learn that your dream of isolation and terror had no effects. You will wake and remember the truth of What you are.

Put all your faith (belief) in the Love of God in you.
You were created in the image of Love and what God creates is eternal. As the world perceives change, it makes change either loss or gain. But remember this:
what changes is not eternal; it is not real.
Put all your faith in the Love of God within you.
Look at any of your beliefs and be honest with yourself. Is that belief based on Love? There will be no fear in you if you simply accept Love is real.
Is the belief based on the separation idea? Then guilt will bind you, misery will beguile you, and insanity will appear real. With the belief based on Love,
there is gentleness because of certainty that only truth is true; that Love holds all things and no illusion can replace Love.

If this word is real, then must God be insane.
God did not create you and then cast you out into a universe of guilt. The world is only a mad idea, a thought that came from the thought of division. It never happened, it was not done. The thought of pain and guilt was over the instant that it came. You are simply mesmerized by a picture, and will not let the memory go, so sure that if you do, God’s wrath will fall upon you.
God is not insane—and does not condemn His only creation. You are the Son He loves. He created you like Himself—and that is only Love. Love is All There Is, so that only Love is real. All else is illusion—a mad belief that any thing unlike Love could be made or exists now.  Nothing exists that is not like Love.

Only Love exists. Any loving thought you “have” is shared because it is not your thought alone. Being part of Love, God shares His thoughts with you. Your loving thoughts are His Thoughts. Such thoughts are real and will lead you Home. Loving thoughts are true and allow you to open your eyes and wake without fear. Loving thoughts are the only thing you truly desire—and all the you really give.

When the insane mind has you go on a meaningless search, remember that you really want loving thoughts. Ask for help from the One Who walks with you and be reassured.
The thing in form that appears to comfort you, is an idol that deceives you. Choose it not in place of the real gift. H.S. will remove every idol, in every form, that brings false gifts to you.
As you allow, H.S. removes every false thought that made the picture of division. As you allow His help, He wipes your fears away and reminds you of the truth.
Your mind is healed (along with thousands more) when you relinquish the quest for false love. The more you use right denial, the more the veil is lifted to your reality of Love.
When an idol you have made comes to tempt you, ask H.S. to help you see the false and remember it is not this that you want.
Ask that a real (loving) thought replace the idolatry. And give thanks that you are not alone and that all mistakes are easily undone by Him.
You are Love and nothing else. You have only one gift to give to all.

© 2008, Pathways of Light. https://www.pathwaysoflight.org
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Healing and Happiness

Dear Everyone, I was guided to read this section in ACIM. I reread paragraph 2, several times, slowly. (In following quotes, bold is mine; really stood out to me.)

TEACHING FOR TRUTH   Section V. The Circle of Atonement
T-14.V.2. Everyone has a special part to play in the Atonement, but the message given to each one is always
the same; God’s Son is guiltless. 2 Each one teaches the message differently, and learns it differently. 3 Yet until he teaches it and learns it, he will suffer the pain of dim awareness that his true function remains unfulfilled in him. 4 The burden of guilt is heavy, but God would not have you bound by it. 5 His plan for your awaking is as perfect as yours is fallible. 6 You know not what you do, but He Who knows is with you. 7 His gentleness is yours, and all the love you share with God He holds in trust for you. 8 He would teach you nothing except how to be happy.

This reminded me where J. talks about gladdening our selves.
T-4.IV.8. Have you really considered how many opportunities you have had to gladden yourself, and how many of them you have refused? 2 There is no limit to the power of a Son of God, but he can limit the expression of his power as much as he chooses. 3 Your mind and mine can unite in shining your ego away, releasing the strength of God into everything you think and do. 4 Do not settle for anything less than this, and refuse to accept anything but this as your goal. 5 Watch your mind carefully for any beliefs that hinder its
accomplishment, and step away from them.
HEALING AND WHOLENESS
T-5.in.1. To heal is to make happy. 2 I have told you to think how many opportunities you have had to gladden yourself, and how many you have refused. 3 This is the same as telling you that you have refused to heal yourself.

So, when I am not happy, I’m choosing not to be healed, not to be whole. The times I could gladden my self are the times when I look with H.S. and forgive what I “see.” When I see no differences and recognize by brother as he IS (Son of God/guiltless). Those are the moments of happiness. In those moments of Light, I let go of the past. I forget my past, and let go of the future too. I trust in the strength of God. Therefore, I choose to see my brother’s guiltlessness and to teach him that, so I learn it too.

I can make myself miserable (the martyr) or I can free myself from the chains of guilt. I need not make a self that needs “repentance.” I need only to accept the gift that God has given and only gives forever. I am blessed as His Son. My Father loves me and I love Him. I choose to forgive, again and again. I choose to recognize that in a dream there is no reality. Truth waits in my holy mind and I go there in peace. I forgive and therein is my peace. When I know peace is mine, I can share it ….. giving it away. Which is only giving to the one Self and to my Father.  (All I give is given to my self.)

I forgive my judgments. (Judgments are seen in fear.) I forgive my criticisms, guilt and tears. All come from a mind in fear.
As I forgive I learn there is no fear. I learn only Love is real. I learn Love is all I want. 
Dear H.S., help me strengthen my practicing of forgiveness. Help me in my commitment to release all unloving thoughts. Thank you. amen.

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Listening

Dear Everyone, I share with you an answer from Holy Spirit.

Holy Spirit, I’m willing to listen.
Can you explain to me, my tendency to sleep when I want to listen to You? Is my willingness weak?

Spirit: Stilling the chatter box in the mind is the prerequisite for listening. Stilling the noise is similar, in your experience, to sleep. Stilling the noise, allows focus to be placed in other areas of mind. This need not be difficult, but with egoic resistance, there seems to be loss in focus and listening.

Resistance may be high, but it is not without limit. In other words, resistance can only go so far. With practice you become consistent in receiving—was this not the case while you were in the hospital? With practice, you could hear H.S.’s Voice at any moment. With true desire you heard the Voice for Love. It was also your intent to be receptive to that Voice. Your desire to be open and to “learn” and resolve the lesson strengthened communication. It was the open communication that you truly desired.

While you have fear and doubt, the open communication does not flow. You doubt your goodness (god-ness), you doubt your internal strength, you doubt your wholeness.
Every doubt can be given to Holy Spirit.
Any thought that would diminish your goodness, your wholeness, your union, can be given to H.S. By giving up such thoughts, the truth in you can radiate to all minds. Giving up thoughts of doubt and fear, you remove the blocks to your awareness of Love.

When you seem to stumble and fall, reach out to Holy Spirit. Remember that egoic resistance is not without limit. Resistance is very limited and is only imagined in an insane dream made from guilt. You may dream, but you are never alone. Dreams have not changed reality or What you are.
You are whole, you are safe, you are loved.  You are as God created you—without end.

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Attachment

Dear Everyone, I share some “morning” thoughts with you. I have been reading Rev. Myron’s Daily Lessons (they are posted on her web site).
This is what stood out to me today, from Holy Spirit, Lesson 233:

“Imagine the thoughts moving through your mind and you are just watching them. What a strange parade they make. Playfully wave goodbye to them if you wish.
Just don’t reach out and grab them. This is what you are doing when you feel guilty or when you think they are important.
When this happens you attach to the thought and you believe it is part of who you are. While this is not true, and you have no power
to actually change your holy Self, your belief is very powerful and absolutely effects your experience.
When you feel attached to your thoughts and beliefs you think they are you, and it becomes frightening and painful
to let them go because you think you are losing your very self when you do.”  (italics are mine)

This explanation was so clear to me today! I must have been truly willing to have my error shown to me.
I can see how I got discouraged when I chose not to listen to H.S. It just allowed the egoic mind to retake footing, and make it seem that I had not accomplished any healing at all.  I gave up hope, or belief that I would come to right-minded thinking. If I am not my thoughts, then what am I? I must allow Holy Spirit to tell me, by myself I do not know. I cannot rely on my own thinking or ideas or beliefs to define what I am. I have fooled my self into such a dream/nightmare of separation, that I could not know or distinguish the truth.
So I am attaching to my thoughts when I feel guilt, and I need to remind myself that I am not my thoughts. In this moment, using “I am not my thoughts,” is the same to me as, “I am not a body.”  The thoughts of which I am aware represent the beliefs and wrong-mind that holds them. I can look at those thoughts and not be attached to them.

Now I have the tools (WB Lessons) to un-think the stories that I have made up. I have the ability to use what Jesus has given us/me to let go of the false and accept the true.
When I experience feelings that I do not like, I can remember that I must be believing that some thought is what I am. I am letting an illusion replace the truth in my mind. This is where I ask H.S.’s help to see it differently, and accept His healing answer.

Dear Everyone, I support you, in looking at the thoughts and not becoming attached to them.
The reason they have come up, is to be undone by Love.    Blessings are our healings.

 

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