A New Way to See

Choosing to See Differently

Hi, Friends in Light.
the following are some thoughts that came to me after reading the daily lesson.
It was “I am determined to see differently.”

Dear Jesus,
help me through this day. Help me to see differently. Help me to forgive the images that I have put in my dream. Help me to forgive my foolish wishing. Help me to feel your presence in every step I take. This would I give to my brother, for as he is freed, then so am I.

It is not by my power alone that will save me. It is by my joining with Love, that I can save and be saved. By Joining with Love, I give up the silly dream images that I thought would make me happy or safe. I give up the idea that I can do anything on my own. I allow new thoughts to take the place of ingrained beliefs of how things are and how people are. It is by my choice to join with Love, that I am given all that I need. I am given a vision of truth, because I am willing to let go of the images I have put in my dream. I seem to see those images as outside of me, but they are only in my mind; “thoughts leave not their source.” Those images are in my mind and have not left, not until I am willing to lay them down. If I value them, then I have trouble laying them aside. If I start to question the value I think is in them, that opens a crack to Holy Spirit. I start having different thoughts about some thing in my world. I begin to consider that what I thought had worth, was not worthy after all. It was not the treasure that I once made it. When I have let this recognition into my mind, then I have peace, because I am willing to let go of the value I put on some image or idea.

Sometimes I am amazed at the idea, that everything that I “see” in my world, is only here for my forgiveness. But [the Course teaches me] that is all that it is for. It is neither good nor bad, it is not real, so it is here for me to let go of.
I had mistakenly thought that I was to be indifferent to the world I saw. But this does not help me to let it go. I have found that I need to experience the feelings that I had stuffed. To realize that those feelings are there, and to look at the thoughts/beliefs that lay behind the feelings. Taking those thoughts to Holy Spirit is my job while I am in this dream. My job is important! My part in the job, is important so that I may eventually return Home and help those brothers to go Home as well.

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