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Fear Is Not Where You Belong

Greetings all Light’s of God,

These are the thoughts I have received recently from Spirit—— Blessings to All.

Do you think you understand? What do you understand?

In your world, there is nothing to understand—for what part of make believe is there to know?
You can allow truth to return when you accept what you are— and forgive the dream you have made. Do not take your play seriously —for by that you make it real, but only to you. Do you judge a child that plays in an imaginary country with imagined allies or enemies? You recognize that his ‘play’ is just an exercise in ideas, in exploring other view points, other thoughts. You do not mistake his ‘play’ as real.

Yet you continue your exercise, your excursion into meaningless thoughts and mistake it for the real world. For all your pain, misery and guilt, would you not choose to admit that you could be wrong? That you could be wrong in choosing to keep habits that you thought would make you safe. One such habit but affirms your guilt and makes you feel more unworthy and anxious. It does not protect you.

When you succumb to the fears of ego mind, then you experience anxiety and any other number of forms of fear, which is lack of love. What you are really calling for is love—which the egoic mind is very defensive against. It does not want you to recognize or accept Love. Where does this leave you? The results are surely evident.  Do not confuse pain with freedom or guilt with love. If you no longer want confusion and denial, then give them (confusion and denial) to Holy Spirit. In His vision they do not exist; what is without Love has no meaning so it is not real. To move past illusions you must recognize they are useful only to an insane thought system. To move out of illusions you need only give your thoughts to the One whose purpose is to interpret for you. Give the sick thoughts and false purpose to Him; give your mind into His care and truth will be free to spread it’s wings and hold all the world.

Welcome truth exactly as it is. No adjustments, no alterations are needed for truth. When you give up the blocks to Love, you then are free and open to Truth. As fear is removed from your thoughts, you “see” that illusions are meaningless and there is no loss. As you learn to accept Holy Spirit’s
judgment, the false ideas are gently brushed aside and Truth gives you everything in all ways.

Love leads the way. Love leads us all to Home. Love is all there is.

Fear is not where you belong. You belong in Love.

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Hiding the Love of God or Not?

Hello Every Light of Love,
This day I began with reading in The Course. (Last numbers indicate paragraph.)

T. 17, §1:3 “When you maintain that there must be an order of difficulty in miracles, all you mean is that there are some things [thoughts] you would withhold from truth. You believe truth cannot deal with them only because you would keep them from truth.”
5: “When you try to bring truth to illusions, you are trying to make illusions real, and keep them by justifying your belief in them,  but give illusions to truth is to enable truth to teach you that illusions are unreal, and thus enable you to escape from them.
6: “Be willing then to give all you have held outside the truth to Him Who knows truth, and in Whom all is brought to truth. ……..Forget not this: when you become disturbed and lose your peace of mind because another is attempting to solve his problems through fantasy [illusion], you are refusing to forgive yourself for just this same attempt. 
And you are holding both of you away from truth and from salvation.” 
“As you forgive him, you restore to truth what was denied by both of you.”

3:20 p.m. (me): I set aside the willful voice of pain and accept the Love of God in me. I feel the Love of God within me now (perfect happiness].  5:05: “Constant suffering is a sure sign that you are fighting with your own [true] will. Give your daily activities over for God’s doing.”

Spirit:
Sara, you asked earlier to see what grievance you were holding, that you could not rest peacefully. A grievance is an attack on God’s plan for saving His Son, it is another attack on forgiveness. This grievance is the anger that part of mind feels towards the part that chose to accept this currant dream role. This is the insanity of egoic system, that it attacks itself, believing that it can attack you or your True Self. It believes that it can attack and has attacked. It believes there is no release, no forgiveness for its attack on Love, on Heaven, on Creation.

Since you have come to recognize there are 2 different belief systems in the mind, you also discern the split between the two. This is the explanation that you can presently understand. You will move into the understanding, that in truth, there is no split.
You wanted your mind to be healed, for false beliefs to be undone. This experience of the mind attacking the body, will reveal to you many of the meaningless beliefs you are ready to let go of. This is the “purpose” of, if you will, this experience.
You do not have to “plan” or prepare for release of any of the sick, unhappy thoughts. You are willing and ready to let them go. This is your only part: it is not your job to attempt what H.S. will do for you.
Be you glad, you have come far along your path and now are wiling to walk with Spirit on a joyous path. 

(me): Thank you very much for this explanation. I can accept peace again and know that I am perfectly happy. TYVM
I am at peace with myself, the world and everyone in it. I am safe forever.  All is well. TYG, I love You, God.

I had doubt and fears come to my mind about how this inner healing would be accepted by any other person.
This brought to my mind “The Mentor Within;” telling Mary Gerard: “You have nothing to prove to anyone; what is the worst that can happen? Look how healed you are when you let your Self be seen. All that happens is love.…”
If I still have pockets, corners where the fear of Love hides, they will will not last long. They will be taken to the truth and the H.S. will lovingly transform the fear to light.
If I have thoughts that I have to “prove” anything to my partner, that I have to convince him that the healing I feel within, is fact—- then I’m falling into a trap cunningly constructed by egoic system.               
I project my fear that this Inner Healing is rift with dangers, that the perfect happiness will alienate his affection for me.
Or that he will succumb to feeling more unworthy than he may now.

That last idea stems from my false thought that I would not be worthy of receiving the inner Guidance that I “saw” so many others had. That I would not ever be worthy to be a channel for perfect Love, and true happiness. I need <u>not</u> this idea!! It has been undone. I accept the truth of what I really am.  (And let my mind be wholly healed today). 
TYG, I Love You, God!

Please note; the italisized sentences in this entry are from Mary Gerard’s book, “The Mentor Within.”

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Happy Sunday Part II

Greetings to the One Light that is You,
This is the 2nd page of that happy Sunday of listening and remembering.

1:30 p.m.: Spirit:  It is impossible that God could/would change. What is eternal has no
Change—It merely IS.
God cannot be changed. You cannot change your Source—you have not changed God. God created you like Himself—so you cannot change your true Self. You remain as God created you, changeless as Himself.

The world, being a projection of fearful egoic thoughts, changes constantly. There is no certainty of outcome, no defined purpose of curriculum (unless it is to be insane) no light that does not blink and wither and disappear the instant that fear appears. The ever changing world represents the ambiguity of egoic plans.

6:30 p.m.; [I had been watching a repeat of “60 Minutes” where they were discussing the pharmaceutical policies in the U.S.]
Me: “I am never upset for the reason I think.” 
I am upset because I think I have attacked G.
When I attack anything “outside” such as the pharmaceutical companies, I am blaming God for the folly of competition and greed. (The belief is that I am competitive and greedy).  In fact, I am only attacking myself. The pharmaceutical companies are part of me, they are only in the sick mind. Egoic system tries to project the guilt onto those companies. Which thought of guilt do I hide by projecting it out? H.S. I am willing to see and give this erroneous thought You. TYVM.
7:30 p.m.: I can generalize this projection even more—- What is the guilt thought I’ve hurled onto the profit seeking corporate America; mega manufacturers and industries?
What do I believe about my competitiveness? What do I believe about being greedy?

Spirit: In the egoic system, being greedy is the same (or reverse side) as being needy. The egoic logic is that you need something that would fill the lack. The belief that you are needy blocks the awareness of truth—that you have been given everything. It blocks the awareness that you are whole, complete, in total Union with Creator and creation. It blocks awareness that you are Spirit, the Loving Thought in the Mind of Creator. If you remain as Love created you, it is impossible that you are either needy or greedy.

The egoic thought has brought up many images that would change the forms in your dream to make living “easier, convenient, productive,” but you need do nothing to make change occur for your good. Give all such thoughts to H.S.  and return your mind to peace. In your “doing” you but forget the truth and it seems to make the neediness real to you.

On the back side of this coin, if you are greedy, this attempts to make you guilty of selfishness. In the human condition, the mind always looks to protect itself first—it thinks it is a body. If a person erroneously thinks that he is being altruistic or helpful or generous or kind, he is fooling himself. The motivation behind such actions is that he does not want to feel guilt—that would come up if he were to be selfish.  When he is able to see that his hidden motivation is to protect himself from guilt and pain and death, he comes nearer to letting go of the false need, false belief. He can still act generous, giving, helpful or kind, but he will have taken a step back from the insane belief that he can be selfish or guilty of anything. He will not equate his action with being worthy or unworthy. He will eventually come to see the person he helps is neither worthy or unworthy of help.

If you believe that you are selfish, that belief can manifest in neediness or greediness. Turn the belief of selfishness over to H.S. You thought you could be selfish in attacking and deserting God. You can look at all the images the sick mind made about selfishness, in your currant dream, but this is not necessary. You will recognize any other form of temptation that would judge you as “selfish.” Simply turn the idea of selfishness over to your Holy Self and it is undone.

(Me) When I want to listen (to Spirit) sometimes sleep takes my mind. What is this about?
Spirit: I said once that you would not be hurled into Heaven—such an idea caused fear in the little mind. Now, in your acceptance of forgiveness, the egoic system attempts another strategy to keep you from remembering truth and happiness. (in the form of sleepiness)
It fears truth, it fears perfect happiness, it fears what it does not know and cannot control in the dream. You now are not judging these little attempts to hide the truth. By not judging them, you do not make them “real.”

(Me) I am so grateful for the healing shift I received this morning. I want always to remember that I am perfectly happy.

Spirit: As Phil said, “There is no reason not to be happy.” There is no “cause” for unhappiness. The only Cause is God and only effects of Love can be experienced.
When you attempt to find a passage in a book, you are forgetting Who you are. You are tempted to make something look “right” in your estimation. This is not helpful. Step back, fall into trust and then open to the symbol that is waiting for you. Do not try to establish the means, simply use them.   
Remember that All is in perfect order. You need not worry or have control over anything. You are with me, and All is Well.

Do you remember, while in S.D., I told you that I would never leave you or have you suffer needlessly?
(me): I remember laying on the table, waiting for the ultra sound on my leg artery; I remember J. talking to me. I remember the fear surrounding finances for paying the bill.

Spirit: I said I would never leave you and you accepted this. When that new experience came to you, you were able to trust in what you did not see with body eyes. Now you are recognizing that there is no fear or loss in laying down the ego defenses. There is no loss or death in laying aside the egoic thought system. This is relinquishing a belief system that no longer serves you. You will be relinquishing daily, the worldly, society, family, expectations you put on from the egoic mind.

What you have loved without fear attached, remains as it always was. Your Holy Self holds all memory of loving thoughts.
What you seemed to love but had fear instead, came from nothing and so is undone.
What never was or happened can have no effects.                               
Follow the way of Love and there is no fear, no planning, no efforting.
All falls into place because there is only One Will—there is no opposition anywhere.

Friends may have resistance to your change of mind, but do not be concerned. Remember that the sick mind is healed already. What appears as separate and unhealed is another projection of ego thought/fear. While you remember to see only their sinlessness, only their Light, only the truth of them, so will they accept remembrance of their holy Selves. Allow them to walk the path that returns them Home. When you are healed, you extend healing through Holy Spirit.
Rest now with me. You are free.

 

 

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A Happy Sunday

Hello Joy of God,
The following was given me after my first night at U.W. Hospital.

(Me):  I cannot know the path until I take it.
4 am; Spirit:  The “power” of the ego thought is only sustained by your belief or faith in it. Your belief in it, has made it “real.” Since your mind made the ego system by belief, so does your mind remove the belief in a false system. You are in the “process” of learning that what is false is false, and that you do not want what is false.

It is your belief in time and space that prevents spontaneous healing. Also your belief in punishment. The ego system thinks it must “pay” before healing can occur. You are also remembering the power of your choice. In your choice lies heaven or hell, forgiveness or grudges, freedom or guilt.  Your choice for either illusions or Love, directs the witnesses of that which you wished to find. Your choice is powerful indeed!! Your choice brings release to all the world, or condemnation from unreal sin. Why choose pain instead of happiness?  (WB lesson 190) “I choose the joy of God instead of pain.”

(me): How holy I am—how blessed. I have the Voice of Truth (Love, God) within my mind. It’s home is in my holy mind and only that is real. “I” abide in perfect wholeness, perfect happiness. As I give   perfect happiness away, I remember that it is mine to give. It is mine because I share it with all that appears as my out side world. When I share God’s Will for perfect happiness, it never matters what “form” the happiness takes.

Spirit: Sara, you are going back to “work” in a wholly new sense. Your sharing the gifts of Love is your “work”—your sharing the Truth is your only function. You thereby lay forgiveness on every thing you “see.” This is perfect happiness, this is being in the world and not of it. Perfect happiness is always yours—merely your choice to give, to share, releases all the world from the illusory prison of guilt.

Thanks be to you, in bringing Truth to the sleeping minds. Thanks be to you who know your Self and denies It not.  (me: Thank you very much. I love you Father, and I love Your Son.)

The healed mind (happy mind) does not plan. Planning is a defense against the truth.
The truth is I am Love and only Love is real. Perfect happiness is my will and my reality. I am as God created me. I am not a body. I am free.
I am perfectly happy.  I AM perfectly happy!

5:30 am; Me: As I sit in bed (at UW Madison Hospital) enjoying the peace and happiness that enfolds me, I notice the words/sentences that cross my mind.
I observe the senseless words, the sentences make no sense what so ever. To me, this reveals the meaninglessness of egoic thoughts. It is like I have a roulette wheel of words and the words are randomly slung together. There is no meaning there, no truth. Only foolish symbols, foolish images attempting to change reality. I laugh with H.S. as the mind is washed clean of empty, purposeless symbols of an insane thought.
(these little verses came to mind: Oh, I wouldn’t know what to say—With this thought I am called away—[ Melody])

I am not a body. I am free. I am perfectly happy!
I have no complaints what so ever.

 

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Looking at Anger Part II

Hello holy Lights,

The following continues from the previous page of this journal. The beginning part are paragraphs from WB Lesson 136.

“There is no miracle you can have unless you want it.”
“All healing is release from the past.”

“To forgive is to heal. All physical forms of sickness, sickness, even unto death, are expressions of of the fear of awakening. Sickness is a defense against the truth. Sickness is not an accident ...... it is an insane device for self deception. And like all the rest its purpose is to hide reality, attack it, change it render it inept, distort it twist it, or reduce to to a little pile of unassembled parts. The aim of all defenses is to keep the truth from being whole.

“God knows not of your plans to change His Will. You can but choose to think you do this, or suffer sickness or distort the truth in any way. What is created [God’s Will] is apart from all of this. Defenses are plans to defeat what cannot be attacked. What is unalterable cannot change. And what is wholly sinless cannot sin.
How can you think that sickness can shield you from the truth? Because it “proves” the body is not separate from you, and so you must be separate from the Truth. You suffer pain because the body does and in this pain are you made one with it [body].

“Truth has a power far beyond defense, for no illusions can remain where truth has been allowed to enter. And it comes to any mind that would lay down its arms, and cease to play with folly.  (Truth) is found at anytime; today if you will choose to practice giving welcome to the truth. Truth merely wants to give you happiness, for such it’s purpose is. With perfect certainty, truth knows that what God wills for you must be received.

“A healing prayer to help us rise above defensiveness and let truth be as it has always been: 
Sickness is a defense against the truth. I will accept the truth of what I am, and let my mind be wholly healed today.

“If you let your mind harbor [entertain] attack thoughts, yield to judgment or make plans against uncertainties to come, you have again misplaced your self, and made a bodily identity which will attack the body, for the mind is sick. Do not allow your defensiveness to hurt you longer. Do not be confused about what must be healed, Tell your self: I have forgotten what I really am, for I mistook the body for myself. Sickness is a defense against the truth. But I am not a body. And my mind cannot attack. So I can not be sick.”

- Spirit:
The Course defined ego is a thought in the mind that believes that is is separate from the Whole Mind of God. This belief runs its entire existence.  This belief is the only error that needs correction. This error in thought is corrected by the H.S. Who abides in the (right mind) within our mind. This is His only function. We need to be willing to let the error go, instead of holding onto it, like a willful child that wants its blanket or special toy. A willful child does not listen, “it wants it thus.” It thinks that it is right and knows what is good and bad for it. This also describes the ego thought that runs your world.

The ego thought has no balance. It uses conflicting messages, making the mind a confusion of thoughts balanced on a feather. One moment it will direct you to do some action and the next it directs you to stop. Contradicting thoughts are its domain and competition becomes the safe guard.  “Always look out for # one; anyone will take advantage of you, so trust no one. The corporate world is bad; the government is run by big business; the environment is dying.” With ego in charge the list goes on and on. On daily basis it directs what has value, what has importance, and what to feel threatened by. None of what it directs is true. A mistaken thought can only produce more mistakes.

9:30 p.m. (Me): I am blessed as a Son of God. and my brothers bless me. I thank my Father for His gifts to me.

10:10 p.m.: Spirit: Sara, you have come to this point to accept the mind healing that you asked for. And so it is. You are willing to let go of the thoughts that hurt, thoughts that bind the illusion to your mind. You have decided not to tolerate the unhappiness. Unhappiness is a sick belief, that hides the Will you share with and God and with Love.
As you welcome truth (happiness) so your mind is healed. As you live in joy, there is awareness of the perfection of Eternal plan, that was completed an instant ago. Living in joy brings healing to every mind.

The ego thought (sick mind) wanted to “stop,” it wanted to give up the battle it thought was real. It tried to prevent you from turning to truth, but it has failed.
You are spirit and truth prevails in all ways—- beyond all dreams.
(me: TYVM)

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Looking at Anger

Once again, this computer seemed to be silenced, due to a malfunctioning DSL modem. Everything is in perfect order—- even when I do not know what that order is!

Hello dear Lights,

As I continued to follow Spirit in my stay at the U.W. Hospital, I would read The Course. My thoughts this day began with looking up the possible “metaphysical” cause of lupus…. the word anger stood out to me at that moment.

L. L. Hays—“A giving up. Better to die then stand up for oneself. Anger and punishment.”  (for Lupus)
If I am angry at the world for it’s injustices to me, then I will perceive the witnesses to the insane ego system. I will perceive a world of hatred, malice and death. A world without grace, mercy or love. A world blind to the “needs” of the innocent who appear to live there.

As my anger is projected, then I believe that punishment will be returned to me. By making attack possible—- it must follow that I will be attacked.

Spirit: This is the insane thought of ego system. You do not want guilt yet the ego system is maintained only by guilt. This system will not give up guilt. It thrives and depends on guilt. This system of thought will never allow you to “see”  (perceive) the true glory that is you, your Self.               
You choose to deceive your self, to choose illusions over truth. Your power of choice will free you.  The power of your choice will lift you out of illusion.                                                   
You can receive the help from H.S. or Christ mind by simply choosing innocence.
Deceive yourself no more with images of anger and despair. Of a world condemning you in every step. You cannot attack the truth.                                                                     
There is no reason for attack.                                                                         
You can release your anger at God and the world.                                                   
This you do by no longer valuing anger and attack.
(me) Thank U God, I love U God!        H.S., help me see only innocence.  TYVM

7 am: (Me) When I give up my purpose for the world, and let H.S. show me the purpose, I free myself and my brothers from illusions. The healing of mind is the only purpose this world has. Being able to look past the forms and images, to recognize the Christ and Light within is the greatest gift I can give. By looking for innocence in everything I save the world and myself. I free my brothers from their images and my own.
In recognizing innocence (sinlessness) in all, I find my Self. I allow God’s plan to work and His Word to heal. By using His plan I am released and all the world with me.

My teacher is clear in this plan, and He knows it cannot fail. His function is done. There is no other plan that will heal all minds, banishing all thoughts of sin, separation, or guilt.
——I will follow Him, certain that His direction gives me peace.  Amen.

8:45 am; What God Values—I cannot make valueless. I cannot make my self valueless.
Spirit: You will see innocence when you want to give only peace to your brother; when you want to have your brother be happy. Only by seeing his innocence is he saved from a meaningless dream, with your self as well. Desire only his peace of mind, want his happiness and it will be yours.

Attack is not real. there is no attack in God, so there is none in you. Within its enclosed belief system, ego thought thinks it is right. It thinks attack is possible and that you can attack and have attacked. Because you can attack, it then dictates that you can be attacked from outside. It upholds it’s system with fear and guilt. It would have you attack in defense of its world. It deems that attack is justified—- whatever form it may take.
The ego believes it is right because it thinks it knows what is good or bad for you. Remember always that the ego does not know, nor will it ever know anything. When you experience the feeling of “being right” then it is certain the ego is driving your bus. It engenders the feeling that you “know” but this is not true. True knowing abides in peace and joy. When you have true knowing, you experience peace, a great relief and feeling of freedom. There is no pressure feeling, no tenseness, no judgment, no fear of being wrong.

ACIM quotes: “There is no miracle you can have unless you want it. & All healing is release from the past.”

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