Journal for Day 43
LESSON 43
God is my Source. I cannot see apart from Him.
“3 You cannot see apart from God because you cannot be apart from God. Whatever you do you do in Him, because whatever you think, you think with His Mind. If vision is real, and it is real to the extent to which it shares the Holy Spirit’s purpose, then you cannot see apart from God.”
I don’t actually see anything; I perceive, and there is not perception in God so there is not seeing in God. Reality is such a mystery. It is so very different than what we experience in the world that it is impossible to imagine what it must be like and just as hard to understand. We made the world to be different than reality, and oh boy, did we ever succeed!
The world is not meant to be eternal and so perception is not meant to be eternal. Perception is not knowledge and can never be knowledge and as God’s Son, we are meant for knowledge. It’s ok, though, because we have the Holy Spirit in our mind and that is our link with God. The Holy Spirit’s function is to purify our perception and to bring it as close to truth as we can experience while human.
God is a mystery to us. We are even a mystery to ourselves. How is it that in God we cannot see and yet, we cannot see apart from Him? The Holy Spirit is the answer to that question. As I look about me and as I remember situations and people I have thoughts about it all. These thoughts are my perceptions of them, perceptions from the ego mind.
When I remember that God is my Source and that I am in God and nowhere else regardless of these images I have made from my thoughts, I can remember also that I cannot see apart from God. I can then open my mind to the Holy Spirit’s interpretation of what I see and He will bring it more into alignment with truth. This occurs only because I am in God and therefore I think with His Mind.
I was at the mall the other day and saw that they had something new. It was a gaming area that uses virtual glasses to play the games. I watched the kids for a few minutes as they moved their bodies in a way that made sense only to them because they saw what no one else saw. They saw what was not real. What if they played the games so long that they forgot that what they were viewing wasn’t real? What if they thought the world of their game was reality.
The fact is that the rest of the world was not seeing what they were seeing and would not do so because we were not wearing their glasses. So the world does not see as they see and yet, they remain in the world and can think only with the same mind that the rest of us think with. This is what I imagine it is like for us.
We are using our eyes to see this virtual world and have gotten lost in the stories it shows us. But we haven’t gone anyplace and our Source, our Home, remains untouched by our play. Just as I cannot share in what the kids are seeing, God does not see in the way we see. And yet He did not leave us any more than we left Him.
Just as I could help talk the playing children back to reality so that they would be willing to remove their glasses and rejoin us, God placed in our minds a Guide who can do this for us. So when I say that God is my Source. I cannot see this desk apart from Him, I am acknowledging that my eyes are not showing me what is actually there.
Just as those kids were fighting opponents that only they could see, I am, through these virtual eyes of mine, sitting at a desk that only exists in my imagination. There was nothing before the kid’s eyes, and there is nothing before mine. At least, there is nothing that is as I see it. The Holy Spirit cannot make my world real, but He can reinterpret it for me so that I can get closer to reality, close enough that I can remember who I am.
After Reading Regina’s Tips
Regina says, “It is possible that your ego will tell you that you are only making up the related thoughts that come to you as you practice the workbook lessons, but if you remember that you don’t make up thoughts, YOU RECEIVE THEM, then you will know the thought about making up related thoughts is just a lower vibration thought trying to pull you back into the lower vibration thought stream again. Stay high.”
Reading this reminded me of when I first began doing the lessons. I had exactly that thought, that I was just making these thoughts up. I learned to accept that these thoughts were given to me by something outside my ego mind, and later still that I learned that all thoughts just show up rather than being made up by me. That was a very important lesson. I am not my thoughts and knowing that is what helped me shift out of guilt and into something more helpful.
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