Realizing God's Will Is Oneness

God Gives Truly

Lesson 42 P. 4:5-6 “Vision must be possible.  God gives truly.”

I have in my mind’s eye a vision of God.  It comes from God Himself.  It is always with me because it is a part of me.  Because God gave it to me when I was created, I will always have it.  God does give truly and completely so it is possible to reclaim what is mine.

There is no need to struggle for this vision, no need for formulas to follow.  In fact, there is letting go of struggle, letting go of ego formulas, and coming to the Silence where the Voice for God can be heard.  The Holy Spirit shows us how to reclaim our vision of God.  In each moment, Holy Spirit points the way.  All we need to do is follow.  There is no other way to the vision of God.

Today, I come in Silence to listen to The Teacher.  I allow ego concerns to rest awhile as unimportant and unnecessary.  I step back from them and listen.  I listen to the calming voice of Holy Spirit telling me that I am of God.  I feel peaceful in listening to His comforting reassurances that I could never be anything other than this.  It fills me with peace.  I feel confident that vision must be possible because it is mine.

As I listen more and more, I open my mind to seeing more and seeing more clearly.  This vision is not of body forms or even physical forms of any type.  I see a promise fulfilled - the promise of Love.  I see it fulfilled in me.  It is not a seeing with body eyes any images that symbolize this promise.  It is a seeing of something grander than a symbol.  It is a seeing of the Truth that God promises Love for He is Love.  God always keeps His promise for how could He do anything else.  God gives Love truly.  And with it, the ability to see it truly.

Only Holy Spirit can help us to see God’s promise of Love truly.  Only He can bring us to the vision of being a Son of God and able to see the Creator.  We cannot find the way to do this ourselves.  There is no thought or action we can conceive of on our own to make the way to the vision of Love.  Holy Spirit promises to help us and He does in every instant.  All we must do is listen to and accept the help.  We give our ego concerns to Holy Spirit and He gives us the way to true vision.  As we give over, we receive the promise fulfilled.  How simple!  How grand!

Today I spend time listening to Holy Spirit for I trust the promise that God gives truly.  I trust the promise of seeing with the eyes of Love, that it is possible because it is mine already.  And if it is mine, then it is yours also.  Listen with confidence today that Holy Spirit makes good His promise of helping us see Love.  For Love is all there is to really see.

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We Are One In The Thought of Love

There is really only One Thought, and that is God.  This One Thought extends Itself endlessly.  It is the Thought that says, “I AM” forever and ever.

There is nothing other than this.  There is only God proclaiming Himself, extending Himself.  There is only Love proclaiming Itself, extending Itself.  Love says, “I AM.”  There is nothing else.  It is inconceivable to Love that anything else could be.

We are part of this extending Love.  It is really all we need to know.  If we merely sit with this idea - rest in this idea - all else will be made known to us.  It sounds so simple and it really is.

When I sit and get in touch with the Thought of Love, feel my connection to It, and just rest in It, I feel certain of existence.  I feel certain that I am.  Is there anything else I need to know in any given moment?  If so, I know it will be made known for I am what there is to know.

This sense of certainty rises up in me, filling me.  It feels complete.  There is only Love and thats all I need to know.  Everything extends from that, I am certain.

I don’t know exactly how Love works.  I don’t quite grasp that.  But, it is not a concern for Love minds Itself.  The Thought of Love minds all there is.  All I need do is be aware that I am connected to It, that I can’t be anything else but connected to It.  This is all.  I can do this for I can be my Self.  I can be the Thought of Love extending Itself everywhere through my Self.

How simple an idea, yet how far reaching, nowhere and everywhere at once.  For there is nowhere Love is not.  And Love is everywhere.  Love encompasses me and sets my boundary of eternity, the placeless place where I can only be.

Today, I am Love.  And today, I recognize that there is only Love.  Everyone and everything that seems to be other than Love cannot be.  For there is only Love and I am surrounded by It.  There is no other way than to fulfill Love’s presence.  Let us together be Love’s presence today, for you are only Love as well as me.  And in our joining in the Thought of Love are we made One with It.

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No Meaning, No Judgment

No meaning, no judgment.  I see a meaningless world.  I see myself sitting on my futon meditating in my study, surrounded by my life like so many little symbols.  What does it mean?  I have no answer.  One of the ACIM lessons says this engenders fear for me because I think I am in competition with God.  I see clearly in this moment that I have given everything the meaning it has for me so that I may judge it good or bad.  Without any meaning, I cannot judge it.

I am a person who has always been obsessed with meaning and purpose.  It drives me.  And, of course, the purpose must be “meaningful,” of some importance, making a difference, “good.”  All as my ego would define it.  If something has no meaning and purpose, then why bother with it was my attitude.  Its not worth my time and effort.  This has led me on endless journeys of seeking more and better.  When I don’t immediately or easily find it, there is great anxiety.  I feel as if I am wasting my time, and worse yet, God’s time.

If I see the world as meaningless, there is fear, but there is also relief.  Relief that I don’t have the responsibility for finding and doing the “best.”  I am relieved of trying to understand the way the world works.  If it is truly meaningless, what’s to understand?

But, it is not truly meaningless is it, asks the ego.  Surely this can’t be right.  What am I doing here then?  Surely my life is important.  Surely it makes a difference.  Surely I must be me!  How can I survive and continue on without any meaning?

That is the point entirely.  The ego cannot continue without meaning; it cannot survive.  And so it imposes meaning on everything.  If I step back from ego and see the snapshot of myself sitting in the midst of my life and seeing the arbitrary meaning that ego imposes as all meaningless, I feel free.  I feel loosened from ego judgments and expectations.  I feel release of pressure to be and do in certain ways at certain times.  I feel freer of the need for approval.  I feel freer of good and bad, right and wrong designations for these terms have no real meaning.

For this moment I am free and enjoy my freedom.  And yet, this too is a judgment, isn’t it?  But, there is still a moment of fredom from ego concerns, recognizing they are merely made up from imposing meaning on the world I see.  I made it all up from ego.  I gave the meaningless meaning - I made the meaningless important and real for me.  I can choose differently.  I can let go of imposing meaning in every instant.  I can lay down ego for a moment and just let everything be as it is, without importance, without meaning, without reality.  It makes no difference because it is not real.  Unreality can have no meaning.

My ego has no meaning.  There is no way to judge it for we cannot judge the meaningless.  What standdards would we use?  There are none.  Wandering through life without standards of judgments would seem like a nightmare to the ego and so, of course, it imposes some.  But if we wandered more without imposing meaning and standards, what would we see?

If we saw with the eyes of True Self, we would see only freedom, joy, peace and wonder.  We would see with the eyes of unconditional love.  We would see with the eyes of tolerance and acceptance.  We would be in the constant state of asking Holy Spirit to interpret for us what we are seeing and hearing.  We would be asking for the healing, higher perspective to be given to us in each moment.  We would no longer trust our ego eyes and ears as showing us reality.  We would be constantly open to the Voice for God to lead our way.

And, we would walk in trust and gratitude for the joy we experience as we walk in the world of meaninglessness.  We would walk with Jesus at our side, brother and brother walking together, sharing our asking to see with the eyes of God a meaningless world.  We would see each other only as light beings walking in a world of meaningless symbols we made to confuse ourselves, but that we gave it up to be in love.  We gave up fear together to share the reality of Love.

I can walk with my brother this way.  I can see that in reality my brother walks this way as well, but sometimes his ego seems to block his way.  For this I have no meaning and so cannot judge it and I let it go.  I focus on reality, not the meaningless.  Yes, the meaningless engenders fear, but I can lay down the fear as meaningless.  I can walk in the joy of freedom.  It is my right and I claim it in gratitude that the way can be shown.  The Holy Spirit shines away all other paths than this one.  One path with my brother to Oneness with Holy Spirit.

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Looking Through the Ego Webs for Answers

I ask for Peace, Joy, Understanding.  I ask for union with God - joint Will with Him.  I ask for knowledge of what I am and the means to obtain that knowledge.  I just ask to be what I am, my core identity, my authentic Self.  I don’t know how to make this happen.  I sit in willingness to know, to understand, to accept.  I also sit in trust that joining my will with Holy Spirit and Jesus unites my mind.  I feel Them on either side of me, supporting me, lifting me up.  I feel confidence in Their Will, Their union with God, and that if I unite with Them that God cannot fail to answer my call.

I ask to recognize the answer.  I so want the answer but I don’t want ego expectations to get in the way of seeing and hearing it.  My ego loves drama.  The answer may be very simple.  My ego is afraid.  The answer may be big.  I want a Teacher to show me the way.  I may be the Teacher.  I ask to see with Christ vision what I am and what way I am to follow.

I ask for a mind healing partner.  This may only be Holy Spirit in spiritual form, or it may be Holy Spirit speaking to me in physical form.  Perhaps it is just the concept of union that I long for and it is only the ego that desires confirmation and approval, a sense of “doing it right.”  Can there be a wrong way to unite with God?  Frustration and impatience can only be of ego in an attempt to measure time and accomplishment.  In God’s eyes I am only healed because I was never un-healed.  My desire is to look on my Self with this same vision, to see myself only healed because I was never anything but this, not really.

I can go so far and God does the rest - the final step.  There is the wanting of it in this instant, to be free of the pain of separation.  One must take comfort in the trust that this happens with certainty at some appointed time when we are ready.  We probably are not in the best position to gauge our readiness, beset as we are with ego concerns.  How can we ever gauge if we are laying ego concerns down as completely as we can?  It is impossible.  All we can do is focus on forgiveness of self for being in the soup.

Today I will focus on forgiving myself for being in the ego web of thought and for spinning a web of concerns around me.  I forgive myself for all ideas of not being good enough or doing good enough to achieve enlightenment or union with God.  I forgive myself for self recrimination, self judgment and guilt.  I forgive myself for blaming myself.  I forgive myself for at times being selfish and unloving, caught in attack and defenses.  This is all ego.  This is not of Self.

Self forgives my little self of little games in the little kingdom, seeing they are small and harmless - foolish but harmless- for they are not real.  They are little dream webs of fear.  Self forgives little self for being afraid.  I forgive myself for being afraid, for thinking I am in prison, for thinking that dream webs bind me in any way.  These webs are as threads of cloudy nothingness, cottony puffs so fine they can be seen through with eyes that can see with the eyes of Christ Self.  Help me today, Holy Spirit, see with the eyes of Love and Peace and Joy.  This is all I ask.  Is this so much to ask?  It can’t be too much to ask for this is my spiritual inheritance, my birth right as a Child of God.

And so today, I trust that answers are mine.  This is the promise given in ACIM and I trust the promise of Jesus that this is so.  I will to join the confidence of Christ that I am One with God for there is nothing apart from Him.  In my joining with the Will of Christ am I saved from my little kingdom of fear and allow the Peace of God to flood my mind.

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Journey to Joy

The following is a message that I received in meditation.

Joy is the journey and the journey is joy.  There is nothing else.  This is what I say to you today.  Heed my words for they are truth to be shared with all minds.

There is nothing but joy for this is all the Father ever wanted to share with His Children.  He wants only joy for them always for He loves them so.  He loves them for what are for they are His Own.

Live in joy.  Joy is found in your connectedness to God, your connectedness to Father, to Christ Son, to Holy Spirit, for this is all there is.  There is nothing more.  When you are connected to the Source, however you wish to call It, your mind is unified.  In union do you find your joy.  Joy is union.  Joy is not solitary.

Have I not said, love God above all and love your neighbor as yourself.  There is no first or last of order to accomplish this.  This love is united.  Love God, love Self, love Children of God - this is all the same.  When you see this as the same Love, your mind is united.

It is the joint will to Love that heals.  Ask Me to unite with you.  Ask Holy Spirit to unite with you.  Ask your neighbor to unite with you.  In this joint will to Love, there is the united mind, there is the healing.  There is the Joy that surpasses all joy and happiness.  There is the true Joy of Oneness.

This is who and what you are.  If there is any confusion or doubt, simply unite your will with Mine for I will be your strength.  I will dispel any weakness.  I will show you the way.  I am always ready to unite with you for we are undivided.  This choice is yours to accept this or not.  Acceptance leads to Joy.  Would you not always choose Joy?

Sometimes there is wonder at a seeming choice of loving self or loving neighbor first, that a choice must be made because there are competing interests.  There are no competing interests.  Love cannot be recognized or realized when this choice seems real for this is a choice of separation. Our mind is not united.

We must join to be healed.  This is why I am always joined with you.  There is no healing without union.  Join with Me and unite your mind with Mine.  Through our joint decision to Love are all things made possible and your healing made real to you.  Join with Holy Spirit in your willingness to experience Truth and Truth will be shown to you.  Union unites your mind.  You cannot unite alone.

There is no solitary oneness found in the shadows of your own little mind, your own little kingdom.  Leave your little kingdom of self with its boundaries erected for safety.  There is no safety there, only aloneness and fear.  Open the gate of willingness to see beyond the self made fence.  Ask Holy Spirit for help.  Uniting with Him will be the first step in uniting your mind.  In Holy Spirit you will find the perfect partner for union, for opening your mind to the reality of Joy for He will show you My Face wherever you go in everyone you meet.  Then you will see we are One and we are not separate.  Then you will see that Love does not begin with one self and end with another or begin with another and end with self.  There is no beginning and ending to Love.  It is unified.  It simply is.  When you see this there will be only Joy on your journey for Joy is all there is and the journey is only to Joy.

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