Journal for Day 63
Lesson 59
1 (41) God goes with me wherever I go.
God doesn’t go beside me or before or behind me. He goes with me because we are inseparable. I am in God and God is in me. He is God the Father and I am God the Son, and though He came first and birthed me, I am what He is. I have to remind myself of this often because this illusion of a frail and vulnerable body and this illusion of a mad world are so pervasive and so realistic that the truth seems like a myth rather than a fact.
But that it is true means that I have all that God is at all times, so absolute peace and love and joy are always at hand. To experience the truth the only thing I need to do is to be willing to acknowledge that the world I made is not real and that I no longer want it. It seems like it would be easy and yet we all find it very difficult. We are like children so easily distracted by the next shiny thing to come our way. And like children, the shadows become monsters and frighten us into hiding. But God remains God and so do we, so we will finally choose salvation.
2 (42) God is my strength. Vision is His gift.
We will awaken because we are not depending on our own (ego) strength but on the strength of God. We will succeed because we are not fighting anything real. It is just a matter of vision. We look with the body’s eyes and see an illusion and believe the illusion is real. It’s funny because I was just talking to my son and he was telling about his persistent problem with insomnia.
He goes so long without sleeping that he hallucinates. It can be very frightening when this happens. He doesn’t realize that he is always hallucinating and the sleep deprivation induced hallucinations are just a variation on the norm. It’s frightening only because it is not a shared hallucination and it is different than he has come to expect. What he sees when hallucinating looks as real as what he sees normally, just different.
As we begin to accept that the body’s eyes don’t really see, that they actually make images of our thoughts, we have taken the first step to seeing what is actually there. The mind is now open to another possibility. Until that happened, we were stuck with the world as we have come to believe in it. We can open up to true Vision as given by God and we will understand eternity. We don’t have to figure out how to do this; we only need to become willing to accept His gift.
3 (43) God is my Source. I cannot see apart from Him.
It is time to admit that I don’t see anything real, that I only see my thoughts projected as images. As long as I continue to think with the ego mind, I will see images of these thoughts. I don’t have to do this. I can and have been learning to use my holy mind instead. This is where the thoughts of God reside. These thoughts will show me what God wants me to see. It is the only way to actually see.
4 (44) God is the light in which I see.
I was thinking about how I dream at night. It is dark in my room with my eyes closed, and yet images flicker across my “vision.” I see in darkness because it is only my mind that makes these images and light is not needed. So when I am awake there seems to be light and I seem to see things. Yet, it is still dark and the light and the things I see are not there. Again, it is just my thoughts being projected as if they are real things.
To truly see, I must do so through God. He is the light in which I see. I must think with God and then I will see with God. It is the only way to actually see. My very poor replacement for seeing is not making me happy and I am ready to be happy. With God I will see a happy world.
5 (45) God is the Mind with which I think.
“I have no thoughts I do not share with God. I have no thoughts apart from Him, because I have no mind apart from His. As part of His Mind, my thoughts are His and His Thoughts are mine.”
What else can I say? These are not hopes and wishes; they are facts. Everything else I experience is an illusion. As Jesus has said, the thoughts I think I think… I think I am thinking but I am not. The truth is I can only think with God because I am part of His Mind and we share our Thoughts. I am certain that the thoughts I think I think are not thoughts God thinks so they cannot be real.
Having been married to a schizophrenic at one time, I am fully aware of how the brain can misfire and convince someone that his/her paranoid thoughts are based on reality. I no longer have a lot of faith in our thinking. I know that we are all insane and that we are all just a thought or two away from even more frightening insanity. So if God is the Mind with which we think, what we have been doing cannot be called thinking. Perhaps it can more accurately be called an illusion of thinking.
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