October-December, 2007
What is a pirate? One who robs ships at sea. We have a pirate in our thoughts. This pirate is called the ego thought system that edges God out.
This is not an entity. This is not a real thing outside of you. This is a thought. This pirate is vicious and out to destroy our True Identity, if we let the thoughts control us. This is our little self that thinks it is God. It robs us of our treasures.
We are the treasures of God. We are created in the image (reflection in a mirror) and likeness (exact copy) of God, and we have all the attributes (distinguishing characteristics) of God. These attributes are Love, Peace, Joy and Happiness. Your ship is your vehicle to bring you back to God. “Your ship has come in.”
These pirate thoughts try to make you think you are something less than what you are.
“Yo, Ho, Ho, and a bottle of rum.” Too, much rum makes you drunk and does not make you think clearly. These pirate thoughts will bring you all kinds of addictions instead of the peace of God that passes all understanding. Only God can fill the hole or void in your life. Our soul yearns and longs for us to be back in the arms of God forever in our thinking.
A person that is a robber is one that thinks he is deprived of something that you have. What does it mean to rob? Taking property unlawfully by force.
This is what the ego thought system does. It is like the drop of water that wants to be the ocean instead of all the drops together making up the ocean. Your little self or ego self can never be God. All of us together make up God. Without one piece (You) God is not complete like the picture is not complete with one piece of the puzzle missing. Every piece is very valuable.
Pirates are after treasure. The ego thoughts want your treasure. You are the treasure of God in an earthen vessel that is more precious than all the gold in the world.
God needs you to speak to all the world of His Love and Forgiveness. All of us are precious stones or gems with many facets (cuts or parts) of the whole jewel. You are like a diamond in the rough. Diamonds have much pressure and polish before they shine to have a great brilliance. You are like the pearl whose sand paper is needed from other people in order to make you a smooth round stone or pearl.
The way to get rid of the pirate (thoughts in our lives) is not to give these thoughts power. The ego thought system is afraid of you learning your True Identity. When you learn your True Identity, the pirate thoughts no longer exist. This pirate cannot deceive, rob, or kill you without the power you give it.
So now, we know our True Identity — that we are created in the image of God, and we are already Perfect Spirit Beings. No thoughts can rule our lives in a lower realm (poor thoughts) of human thinking that is the pirate thoughts.
Aren’t you glad the pirate thoughts have no effect on you at all? We can change our thoughts. Don’t you want to change your thoughts to the Thoughts of God? You can if you choose. You are a child of the King.
Linda Cosentino is a student and teacher of ACIM who lives in Hammond, Louisiana. She and Richie conduct classes in their home.
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