This website is 365 blog entries for all 365 workbook lessons of A Course in Miracles

I have blogged about A Course in Miracles workbook lessons every year since January 2005.

I think I’m done now. :-)

(she says with a huge smile!!!)

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That’s 5 years. I think I can safely say I’ve completed the workbook lessons. :-)

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Lesson 365

This holy instant would I give to You.
Be You in charge. For I would follow You,
Certain that Your direction gives me peace.

Here we are. The last lesson. Lesson 365. This concludes one year.

We did it!!!!!!!

Congratulations!

It is accomplished. The human idea of time and space is to continue to sequence: to start fresh in the new year 2010, to make changes, to make resolutions, to try to get it right this time, to do things better, to make improvements.

But it’s accomplished! You did it. We did it. Jesus did it for us.

It’s finished. There are no more need for lessons now.

This world was over a long time ago.

Gurdjieff says an interesting thing (in the 1920s). Someone was questioning him why some people seem to have no problem manifesting and with abundance while others continue to struggle. Sounds like the question people raise with “The Secret.” How come some people have miracles happening all the time while others can’t seem to make it anything at all happen.

For very simple reasons:

a. they don’t really want it
b. if they don’t use the power that it is given to them, then it is wasted and those that do want that power can now take it for themselves since it is not being used.

It’s like if you walk into a room and you see everyone slouched in a chair, confused, tired, bored, lonely … there is a lot of wasted energy in that room!! You can take it for yourself. When you do this you will become instantly vibrant and energized. I am sure you have been in situations like this where there are 1-2 individuals in a room that are filled with light and joy and happiness, overflowing with enthusiasm and energy while everyone else seems depressed. That’s because they know the secret! They are using all that wasted energy.

What energy you don’t use, others who want it are free to take it and use it for themselves. This is the reason there seems like there is only a handful of elite individuals who seem tapped into “The Secret”.

Being able to awaken and work consciously on oneself requires energy.

The best “resolution” is God Dependency – to become consciously happy, to become aware from now on that every single moment you have the power to choose the way you feel. It’s no secret.

A lot of people are “waiting” for something to happen, waiting for new energy to energize them, waiting for new things to occur, waiting to be happy, waiting for a miracle …. which is hilarious when know the truth because that love & energy is available for you to use right in this very second. You can just grab it and use it.

When you start bringing in new energies it disrupts old habits and this can be very fearful. Most people have a tendency to contract when this begins to occur and this will result in you feeling tired, angry, or frustrated. It’s energies being mixed up.

The awakened state stimulates energy, and starts shaking out old energy. This typically causes anxiety and discomfort and the tendency is always to try to restore balance by going back to the old habits, and familiar comfort zone.

But this is just delay. The energy then settles back down – like dust that settles when you stop kicking it around – and you will find yourself even more uncomfortable than before the whole process started.

But that’s old boring business – I cannot imagine delay interests anyone anymore. We know that cycle. It’s old and worn and boring and leads no where. There is work to do and we have been long delayed. This year shall begin in freedom and joy. :-)

Here’s Jesus of Nazareth talking to you:
“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.”

I love you.

Lesson 364

This holy instant would I give to You.
Be You in charge. For I would follow You,
Certain that Your direction gives me peace.

I read something from Deepak Chopra’s book “The Third Jesus” that I would like to share with you:

“It’s impossible to quantify if you are on the spiritual path or how far along it you may be. But progress is always marked by transformation. The path isn’t about feeling better. It’s not about knowing who you are, or ending your suffering, or finding peace, or healing your deepest wounds. It’s about a transformation so profound that illusion is traded for reality. Jesus survives to this day as a force in the world because he embodied that truth completely. As we are headed for God-consciousness, our own transformation cannot stop halfway; we can’t settle for a better life or even the best life, for a glimpse of God, or even for God as a daily companion. The state of God-consciousness represents a leap in human development that you and I must be prepared to make personally. The middle of the path brings us to the leaping-off point. The end of the journey will look nothing like the world we took the leap from.”

“What will it feel like to finally arrive in God-consciousness? Anyone traveling the spiritual path will naturally ask this question. The middle of the journey isn’t the same as the destination.”

I repeat:

“The middle of the journey isn’t the same as the destination.”

“The mixture of old and new self must eventually resolve into a completely new self. Sin will no longer exist. God’s grace will be abundant, and his presence will guide our every action.”

That’s Deepak Chopra. Amazing, right?

So, if you feel that you are in the middle of the journey, still not quite there yet, all I can say is: Increase your efforts. Give more of yourself. Keep Going. Don’t give up. The middle of the journey is NOT the same as the destination. In one stroke of brilliant light, you will be changed in the twinkling of an eye. You will not get a continuation of small miracles and minor transformation (which is what the middle of the journey offers), but in one sudden motion, you will be entirely brand new. That’s the destination.

I love this little exchange with Don Juan & Carlos Castaneda:

“You have never taken responsibility for being in this unfathomable world,” Don Juan said in an indicting tone. “Therefore, you were never an artist, and perhaps you’ll never be a hunter,” he said.
“This is my best, don Juan.”
“No. You don’t know what your best is.”
“I’m doing all I can.”
“You’re wrong again. You can do better. There is one simple thing wrong with you – you think you have plenty of time.”
He paused and looked at me as if he was waiting for my reaction.
“You think you have plenty of time,” he repeated.
“Plenty of time for what, don Juan?”
“You think your life is going to last forever.”
“No, I don’t”

“Then, if you don’t think your life is going to last forever, what are you waiting for? Why the hesitation to change?” Don Juan asked.

Lesson 363

This holy instant would I give to You.
Be You in charge. For I would follow You,
Certain that Your direction gives me peace.

It is no accident that I am supposed to practice this lesson for 5 straight days in a row. It was designed this way – not because of laziness in the final stretch – but rather because this lesson needs to be reinforced so I learn it. Amazing.

Total God Dependency from this moment on.

THY WILL BE DONE.

I forget all my little plans for safety, and now I follow His Plan for all the rest of the days of my life, forever and forever. Certain this His direction gives me peace.

I belong to God. I have no life but His.

BE YOU IN CHARGE. FOR I WOULD FOLLOW YOU.
CERTAIN THAT YOUR DIRECTION GIVES ME PEACE.

yes, yes, yes!

These are the final lessons. We are in our final days.

“Our final lessons will be left as free of words as possible. We use them but at the beginning of our practicing, and only to remind us that we seek to go beyond them. Let us turn to Him Who leads the way, and makes our footsteps sure.”

I love this:

“For we would not return again to the belief in sin that made the world seem ugly and unsafe, attacking and destroying, dangerous in all ways, and treacherous beyond the hope of trust and the escape from pain.”

I love it.

Lesson 362

This holy instant would I give to You.
Be You in charge.
For I would follow You,
Certain that Your direction gives me peace.

Yes.

Following God’s Plan is the ONLY THING that will give you consistent peace. It is the ONLY THING. Nothing else will give you peace. Nothing. You can try as many things as you like – new relationship, new job, more money, moving to a new location, changing your body, losing weight, changing your hair color, redecorating your house, taking a vacation – do as many things as you like. I’m telling you. Following Jesus will make you CONSISTENTLY happy.

It’s quite amazing.

If you are not consistently happy, then you must be following your own will.

Because when you follow God’s Will, you will be happy all the time.

Guaranteed.

No exceptions.

Don’t believe me?????? Try it. See for yourself.

I love you, my friend.

God’s Will for you is perfect happiness.

Lesson 361

Our final lessons!

Oh my God. We did it. There’s the finish line. One whole year. Ha!

This holy instant would I give to You.
Be You in charge. For I would follow You,
Certain that Your direction gives me peace.

There is nothing left to do but share in the celebration.

From A Course in Miracles:

We are forgiven now. We are restored to sanity, in which we understand that anger is insane, attack is madness, and vengeance merely foolish fantasy.

His is the only way to find the peace that God has given us. It is His way that everyone must travel in the end, because it is this ending God Himself appointed. In the dream of time it seems to be a far off. And yet, in truth, it is already here; already serving us as gracious guidance in the way to go.

Let us together follow in the way that truth points out to us.

And let us be the leaders of our many brothers who are seeking the way, but find it not.

And to this purpose we dedicate our minds, directing all our thoughts to serve the function of salvation. Unto us the aim is given to forgive the world. It is the goal God has given us.

It is the goal God has given us.

God has given me a goal. To forgive the world.

It is His ending to the dream we seek, and not our own. For all that we forgive we will not fail to recognize as part of God Himself. And thus His memory is given back, completely and complete.

Lesson 360

Peace be to me, the holy Son of God.
Peace be to my brother, who is one with me.
Let all the world be blessed with your peace through us.

Father, it is Your peace that I would give, receiving it of You. I am Your Son, forever just as You created me, for the Great Rays remain forever still and undisturbed within me.

I read something interesting in Carlos Castaneda’s book “Journey’s to Ixtlan” that I would like to share with you.

Don Juan says that this moment may very well be your last moment. Your death is stalking you. He, your death, is standing behind you on your left side, within arm’s reach and you never know when he is going to tap you on the shoulder and take you. This is not to be feared because in truth there is no death. But here in time & space, no form lasts and death is your wisest companion and you should become best friends with him.

When you know your death is stalking you, then you will change.

Here is an exchange between Carlos Castaneda and Don Juan:

“You have never taken responsibility for being in this unfathomable world,” he said in an indicting tone. “Therefore, you were never an artist, and perhaps you’ll never be a hunter,” said Don Juan.
“This is my best, don Juan.”
“No. You don’t know what your best is.”
“I’m doing all I can.”
“You’re wrong again. You can do better. There is one simple thing wrong with you – you think you have plenty of time.”
He paused and looked at me as if he was waiting for my reaction.
“You think you have plenty of time,” he repeated.
“Plenty of time for what, don Juan?”
“You think your life is going to last forever.”
“No, I don’t”

“Then, if you don’t think your life is going to last forever, what are you waiting for? Why the hesitation to change?” Don Juan asked.
“Has it ever occurred to you, don Juan, that I may not want to change?”
“Yes, it has occurred to me. I did not want to change either, just like you. However, I didn’t like my life; I was tired of it, just like you. Now I don’t have enough of it.”
I vehemently asserted that his insistence about changing my life was frightening and arbitrary. I said that I really agreed with him at a certain level, but the mere fact that he was always the master that called the shots made the situation untenable for me.
“You don’t have time for this display, you fool,” he said in a severe tone. “This, whatever you’re doing now, may be just your last battle on earth. It may very well be your last battle. There is no power which could guarantee that you are going to live one more minute.”
“I know that,” I said with contained anger.
“No. You don’t. If you knew that you would be a hunter.”
I contended that I was aware of my impending death but it was useless to talk or think about it, since I could not do anything to avoid it. Don Juan laughed and said I was like a comedian going mechanically through a routine.
“If this were your last battle on earth, I would say that you are an idiot,” he said calmly. “You are wasting your last act on earth in some stupid mood.”
We were quiet for a moment. My thoughts ran rampant. He was right, of course.
“You have no time, my friend, no time. None of us have time,” he said.
“I agree, don Juan, but -”
“Don’t just agree with me,” he snapped. “You must instead of agreeing so easily, act upon it. Take the challenge. Change.”
“Just like that??”
“That’s right. The change I’m talking about never takes place by degrees: it happens suddenly. And you are not preparing yourself for that sudden act that will bring about a total change.”
I believed he was expressing a contradiction. I explained to him that if I were preparing myself to change I was certainly changing by degrees.”
“You haven’t changed at all,” he said. “That is why you believe you’re changing little by little. Yet, perhaps you will surprise yourself someday by changing suddenly and without a single warning. I know this is so, and thus I don’t lose sight of my interest in convincing you.”

And how is this like A Course in Miracles?

Because you cannot change in degrees to be the holy Son of God. You cannot change little by little. It either happens entirely OR not at all.

It happens suddenly and swiftly and in one moment. Because I know this is true, I don’t lose sight of my interest in convincing you.

I always thought I was changing bit by bit, until one day I changed entirely. BUT I WAS WRONG!! It didn’t happen in degrees. It happened suddenly, in one holy instant when I LET GOD BE GOD and all my old habits fell away and from that single moment on, I thought differently about everyone and everything.

TOTAL TRANSFER.

Brand new. Born again.

The change that is being offered by Jesus is not self-help. It is not gradual. You will be changed in the twinkling of an eye, absolutely, and forever. You will not be changed a little. You will be changed entirely or not at all.

This is the real Christmas gift given to you by God Himself.

If this complete reversal has not yet occurred for you, I ask you to please stop trying to change yourself a little, and “prepare yourself for the sudden act that will bring a total change.”

We’re coming up on New Years where everyone makes resolutions to change – which are, of course, band-aid solutions. They have never worked before. Why would they work this year? You can’t change a little, and you cannot change one aspect of your life.

Either you will be changed entirely or you are not changing at all.

How do you allow this change to occur? Let this be your very last moment. Know that your death is stalking you. This moment, this one right now, may very well be your last act on earth.

“There is no guarantee that you are going to live one more minute.”

I don’t know about you, but this makes me very happy. It makes me alive. With my death standing behind me at all times, I don’t waste my life in stupid emotions.

My impending death has brought me to life!

Lesson 359

God’s answer is some form of peace.
All pain is healed; all misery replaced with joy.
All prison doors are opened. And all sin
Is understood as merely a mistake.

This says it all. God’s answer is some form of peace.

Now we can begin to see why “miracles” don’t take any time at all. Now you can begin to understand the simplicity and immediacy. Peace is immediate if you allow yourself to let down your defenses and to let down your idea of what the form of the miracle is supposed to look like.

If you can let go of your resistance, you will see that whatever you want has already been given to you, and miracle of all miracles: has always been with you.

God’s answer is some form of peace.

All pain is healed.
All misery replaced with joy.
All prison doors are opened.
And all sin is understood as merely a mistake.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Joy and Freedom are Jesus’ gifts to you this Christmas season.

I love you.

Lesson 358

No call to God can be unheard nor left unanswered.
And of this I can be sure;
His answer is the one I really want.

There is a saying that says God answers all prayers:

Sometimes He says Yes!
Sometimes He says No!
And sometimes He says YOU’VE GOT TO BE KIDDING!

And that’s today’s lesson: HIS ANSWER is the one I really want.

I’m not interested anymore in praying to live a more comfortable life on earth

His answer is the one I really want.

He knows what is needed for the whole plan of salvation. He knows the whole Plan and He knows my part in it.  So it makes sense if I let go of my agenda and let Him lead, and I follow.

I will not stall and delay His Plan with my meaningless requests for a nicer time in a dream.
God knows what is needed. He knows the whole plan! And I trust Him.

I trust God. His answer is the one I really want.

“My Father, all I want is what You offer me, in just the form You choose that it be mine. Let me remember all that I do not know, and let my voice be still, remembering.”

Ha!

Let me remember all that I do not know, and let my voice be still, remembering.

In other words, let me not continue to pray/beg/plead in different words so I can get my way.

Let me surrender entirely to God’s Plan. His way is spectacular, magnificent and results in joy and freedom.

The choice is between MY WAY vs. GOD’S WAY.

I choose God’s Way.

One prayer is sufficient. He answered it already.

God answers all prayers.

“Father, let me not forget Your Love and care, keeping Your promise to Your Son in my awareness always. Let me not forget myself is nothing, but my Self is all.”

Lesson 357

Truth answers every call we make to God,
Responding first with miracles, and then
Returning unto us to be itself

Good Morning!! I am writing from my dad’s house in New Hampshire. It’s Christmas time. A special newsy blog this morning since I totally forgot my usual routine is to write a daily blog. LOL. I traveled all day yesterday and it was one miracle after another (despite sitting on a runway in Wisconsin for two hours, missing my flight in Chicago, and then a 3-hour delay while not knowing if I’d get on a plane at all), but every single minute was pure grace.

I didn’t sleep at all last night or the night before because of an overload of energy. It’s awesome. It’s like being on high voltages of happiness and electricity.

I finally must have fallen asleep around 4am and when I woke up this morning I had no link of memory to the past. It’s one thing to read this as a sentence in A Course in Miracles … it’s a whole other show to actually have it happen. HAHA. I love it. I completely forgot my usual routine.

I got up, didn’t take a shower, didn’t make coffee, forgot about blogging, didn’t even think about my computer, cellphone, or facebook. THANK YOU JESUS!!!! I came down the stairs, and there is my dad’s dog which is an American dingo. If you don’t know American dingo, they are wild dogs – like pack dogs. We are talking ROCK THE HOUSE. THANK YOU FATHER!!! These dogs are awesome. My dad has one. They are BORN TO BE WILD, BORN TO BE FREE.

I fall madly in love with people and animals who demonstrate freedom. Anything that is too calm or domestic does not interest me at all. HAHA. I like wild. I like unpredictable.

This dog – Sophia – loves me. She loses her mind a little when I’m around. So we went for a long walk out in the deep snow. Talk about a priceless Christmas gift!!

Today’s lesson, if you haven’t noticed already, is a repeat of yesterday’s lesson. The miracle IS the call to God and this is the reason why truth answers EVERY call we make to God with miracles.

Truth answers every call we make to God,
Responding first with miracles, and then
Returning unto us to be itself

The miracle is noticing the total perfection of God in everything. That’s the miracle!!!!!

The miracle is not something that comes to you in the future. The miracle is seeing everything with new eyes, with Christ vision, and seeing the perfection of everyone and everything … just as it is now! That’s the miracle.

The miracle is the turning your attention toward God. It is about being with God, communing with him, being in that space, forgetting about your problems, and seeing the splendor in everything.

This is the true meaning of Christmas!!

The miracle is being present in the now …. with … yes … no link of memory to the past. The miracle is what this moment is. Nothing needs to change.

In God consciousness, miracles happen naturally.

AND THEN … truth returns unto us to be itself.

See that? Part two. You call God up by turning to Him and truth answers every call you make by first responding with miracles (admit it, when you get quiet to talk with God you immediately feel relaxed and better, that’s a miracle) and then truth returns itself into your mind to be itself.

The whole thing is accomplished!

Don’t worry about anything. Be happy.

I love you.

Lesson 356

Sickness is but another name for sin.
Healing is but another name for God.
The miracle is thus a call to Him.

Ha! I burst out laughing when I got to this third line!!! The miracle is thus a call to Him. How about that? The miracle is not something you wait for. The miracle is given immediately when you turn your attention to God. That is the miracle! It is not piles of money appearing in your mailbox and it is not seeing your body transformed.

It is the peace and joy that is given to you in that same second you call to God, as you remember Who you are.

A miracle is a correction, meaning by the time you remember to turn your focus to God, you have already shifted your consciousness. The shift in consciousness IS the miracle.

Turning towards God IS the transformation. You are healed instantly in the same second that you take your focus away from your problems and start thinking about God. That’s the miracle. That’s the shift in consciousness that is required and necessary.

Sickness is but another name for sin. You are sick when you are thinking about your problems.

Sin means OFF THE MARK.

In classical Greek, sin means “to miss the mark” or “to miss the target” which was also used in Old English archery.

In the biblical Hebrew, the generic word for sin is het. It means to error, to miss the mark. It does not mean to do evil.

So if your goal is God, then a perfect bulls-eye would be constant love, joy, peace and happiness. And if you are feeling any emotion other than perfect joy, all it means is that you missed the mark. Your aim was too high or too low, and chances are you were being lazy and sloppy. As with archery, practice makes perfect. Anyone can do it. It’s not like open-heart surgery designed only for the select few. Anyone can take a handful of darts (a handful of real-life problems and situations) and perfect their focus and aim.

You keep practicing and practicing, until finally one day, you hit a bulls-eye every single time. You never miss. In every situation, it’s God, God, God. It’s Love, Love, Love. It’s Give, Give, Give. You remember your wholeness and perfection and Identity in God in every situation. It’s easy to do if you are practicing every day, and putting in the effort. You don’t just hit it once, you hit it EVERY SINGLE TIME.

Father, the miracle reflects Your Love.
Your Name – God – replaces every thought of sin, and who is sinless cannot suffer pain.

The Max & Lisa Christmas Show: Christ is born … in YOU!

Hi there.

Max & I recorded a Christmas Show based Jesus’ beautiful message from A Course in Miracles. Click to listen:

The Max & Lisa Christmas Show: Christ is born … in YOU!

Merry Christmas.

Lesson 355

There is no end to all the peace and joy,
And all the miracles that I will give,
When I accept God’s Word. Why not today?

Why not today?

Why should I wait for the joy God has promised me??

Great question. What am I waiting for? Everything I want is available to me RIGHT IN THIS SECOND!! All I have to do is accept it and receive it, and it is mine.

Years ago I was asked to give everything away in exchange to receive everything. At the time, I thought the person asking me couldn’t be serious. Then I saw that Jesus asked the same thing of his disciples 2000 years ago.

Matthew 19:21:

“Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.”

It was the scariest (and best!!) thing I’ve ever done. It confronted me with all my worst fears and showed me that I did believe in the world (even though I used to go around saying “there is no world!”) and that I thought my safety depended on me providing for my needs. Up until that point I thought “yes, I am doing everything that is asked of me, look at me, I’m giving all to all”

So why were miracles not happening??? Why was I still unhappy??? Why was I still struggling????

Because I wasn’t giving all. I was a total fraud. I was still looking to myself to provide for my perceived needs.

It was a moment of total honesty for me.

Was I really ready to leave the world????

Was God really my ONLY goal??

The reason Jesus asks his disciples to give everything away and follow him (and not turn back to pick up a sweater or kiss their wife – Mark 13:16) is not because he was trying to be mean or trying to take away the little that they had … but rather …. because he was trying to show them the complete unreality of the world.

You cannot serve two masters. You cannot have one foot in the world and one foot in Heaven. it’s impossible. Either you are doing this entirely … or you’re not doing it all. There is no middle ground, no compromise.

You cannot know there is no world until you give all that you have, and then watch it return to you doubled and more, more magnificent and more splendid that anything you have ever seen in your entire life.

OF THIS, I CANNOT SPEAK.

Jesus is challenging you to see that you’re only giving to yourself. CHRISTMAS IS THE END OF SACRIFICE. You cannot know this as a real experience, until you actually step into the practice of it and do it.

Until then, it will just be concepts that have no meaning.

Jesus is not asking you to give all to all because he believes in sacrifice. He’s asking you to give all to all so that you can see where your safety lies, so that you can witness the Laws of God operating in your own life.

TOTAL GOD DEPENDENCY.

This world is not real. You cannot know this until you have given everything away and seen (with your own eyes as a direct experience) that different laws are operating in an invisible realm that have been available to you all this time. But you cannot know about these Laws until you loosen your tight grasp on the world you made.

Yes, it’s terrifying.

But look at this lesson! It’s extraordinary! It’s magnificent! You have a TREASURE that waits for you, and all you need do is but reach out your hand to find it. Even now your fingers touch it! It is very close.

But in order to reach out your hand and touch it, you gotta stop clenching your hand in a fist. You can’t touch something with a hand that is tightly closed. You must loosen it up, stop clinging.

Either you believe what this lesson is promising or you don’t and are still holding back, just a little, waiting for proof.

But the treasure is waiting for you! Right now! This minute! All you have to do is reach out your hand and accept your inheritance.

There is no end to all the peace and joy, and all the miracles that I will give.

What’s the key to this lesson? THAT I GIVE, WHEN I ACCEPT GOD’S WORD.

When I have accepted God’s Word, giving becomes natural and easy because I believe what He is saying to me. And as I give, the miracle occurs.

Most people – and I’m speaking here from my own very personal experience – spend all their time waiting for a miracle to be given to them and then they say will practice giving! But first! They are waiting TO RECEIVE. They are praying, hoping, wishing, and saying they are trying the best they can, and they are waiting for a miracle to improve their life.

People say: ‘I will give when I receive. I will give when I have more. What I have now I need for myself.”

I’m here to tell you … you will be waiting a very very very very very very very very very long time.

You give first, and then you receive. That’s how that works. I’m telling you directly. There should be no ambiguity after reading this lesson about how the miracle works. You give, and then you receive.

The miracles happens instantly and naturally when you give, because the miracle is contained in your giving.

I love it. Lessons like these activate me.
I give all the time because I’m selfish and I want everything!!
The joy that comes from the action of giving is extraordinary! This is the end of waiting! Ha! I’m telling you, you will be laughing your head off.

All those years of waiting for a miracle to occur (what’s in it for me?) and now you see why it wasn’t working. Because you were waiting instead of giving.

When you give, the flood doors open.

Lesson 354

L e s s o n 354
“We stand together, Christ and I, in peace
And certainty of purpose. And in Him
Is His Creator, as He is in me.”

“My oneness with the Christ establishes me as Your Son, beyond the reach of time, and wholly free of every law but Yours. I have no self except the Christ in me. I have no purpose but His own. And He is like His Father. Thus must I be one with You as well as Him. For who is Christ except Your Son as You created Him? And what am I except the Christ in me?”

This is the end of questioning and doubt about your Identity. If you are doing these lessons, you should by now realize you are ALL LIGHT. You are the Christ. You are perfect as God created you. There is no darkness. There is nothing to fix. All fear is past and only love is here. You have no problems. You offer only love. You give all to all. In this new space you’re free, happy, and totally available to join with your brother and extend the joy you feel in Christ.

Now …

“We stand together, Christ and I, in peace
And certainty of purpose. And in Him
Is His Creator, as He is in me.”

Lesson 353

My eyes, my tongue, my hands, my feet today have but one purpose today:
to be given Christ to use to bless the world with miracles.

Father, I give all that is mine today to Christ, to use in any way that best will serve the purpose that I share with Him. Nothing is mine alone, for He and I have joined in purpose. Thus has learning come almost to its appointed end.

Thus has learning ALMOST come to its appointed end.

A while I work with Him to serve His purpose. Then I lose myself in my Identity, and recognize that Christ is but my Self.

Beautiful. We’re in the home stretch. Just a little while longer we work with Him to serve His purpose.

It’s like being in a marathon … in the final stretch you catch a second wind, a new energy takes over you and it makes you fly. You pick up speed. You’re suddenly not tired anymore. You have a new vitality and the miles that have gone by are no longer even in your awareness.

It’s a great thing if you can let the end of every day be the finish line. Give today everything knowing that today is all there is. Give everything today – 100% – give your brothers everything … do the best you can, don’t give up, and be done with it.

Now look how simple it becomes to do today’s lesson: To use your whole body – your eyes, your tongue, your hands, your feet. They are given one purpose now: to be given Christ to use to bless the world with miracles.

It’s easy if you only have to do this for one day. Today.

Lesson 352

Judgment and love are opposites.
From one come all sorrows of the world.
But from the other comes the peace of God Himself.

Oh, the joy! Oh, the simplicity! I love these workbook lessons.

Look at how simple this is! Judge and you get sorrow. Love and you get a world where there is only joy.

There is no middle ground. There is no compromise. There is no exception to God’s promises. Either you are in the world trapped in fear & sorrow OR you’re in Heaven feeling the total freedom and happiness that comes with it.

The two worlds don’t meet. There is no overlap of any kind. It’s impossible to see two worlds.

Which world are you living in? Are you in Heaven or hell? Are you living in judgment or love?

We are almost at the end of the year now. We did it!! Congratulations!! Do you remember when we started out in January, making a commitment to one full year to stay together and complete the workbook? Well, we did it! 365 days of togetherness and dedication.

Thank you!!

I would love to hear from you about the changes you have seen in your life. I know when we started, a lot of people wrote to me saying they had never been able to make it through the whole workbook. Usually they quit halfway through. So I would love to hear from you. Please write to me and let me know about your new experience. Have these daily lessons been helpful? Do you still have areas where you struggle? How are you different? What has changed for you?

Lesson 351

These lessons really work. All of time and space gets re-arranged for you as you practice.

My sinless brother is my guide to peace.
My sinful brother is my guide to pain.
And which I choose to see I will behold.

I love this lesson. Somewhere in A Course in Miracles it says something about your brother has a dual function – he is designed both to imprison/trap you to the dream/time & space AND he’s designed to save you from the dream you made. Both functions. He is both your enemy and your savior depending on how you are using him for your own purposes. Are you letting him trap you to illusions with all your demands and questions and excuses OR are you seeing him as the Christ, realizing he is your ticket out of here??

WHO HE IS depends on how you see him.

He is going to be either your enemy in separation OR your savior/your brother in truth.

I typed in the word “brother” in the searchable online Urtext and found these sections. Click to read:

“Brother”

Who is my brother but Your holy Son????? I can see my brother sinless, as God created him.

If you see yourself as beautiful, your brother will look beautiful to you.
If you see yourself as guilty, ugly or limited … you will see your brother as treacherous.

If you think you are a body, you will think your brother is a body too … and it will not occur to you that among us are angels and messengers.

If you think you are human, you’ll think everyone else is human too. And you’ll feel threatened and afraid of everyone and everything.

But when you know there is nothing outside of you, you’ll be happy all day long. You’ll be crazy head-over-heels in love with everyone, and in this kind of bright light … all your problems disappear. Automatically and spontaneously.

As see yourself as a Mind, you will realize everything else is Mind also – alive and creative and magnificent.

As you see yourself as the Christ, you will recognize your brother as the Christ and it would NOT occur to you to condemn him, confound him or question him. You would simply love him. You would give him everything – all your attention, all your love, all your care – in the recognition that he is you.

Without attack there could be no forgiveness.

What you choose to see you will behold.

Lesson 350

Miracles mirror God’s eternal Love.
To offer them is to remember Him,
And through His memory to save the world.

Look around yourself. Have a look. What do you see?

Miracles MIRROR God’s eternal Love.

If you don’t see miracles all around you, 10 times out of 10 it means that you are not offering them.

If you don’t see miracles, it is simply because you are “waiting” and “praying” for something to happen. But you will see miracles the second you begin to offer them.

When you offer miracles, you will see them. That is the nature of the miracle.

WHAT YOU LOOK UPON IS THEIR DIRECT RESULT.

ONLY GOD’S MEMORY WILL SET YOU FREE.

And only your forgiveness teaches you to let God’s memory return to you, and so you can give it to the world in thankfulness.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So psyched.

I am in AWE to have been given A Course in Miracles in my dream. My God. The gratitude!

I see how very changed I am and how blessed I am to have been given a message of truth within a world of contradiction, chaos and confusion.

THANK YOU FATHER!!

It’s accomplished. I have asked if there are problems or if anyone needs help and my email box is silent. This is good news. It worked. The world is silent in the grace He has given.

Thank you. I love you.

Lesson 349

Today I let Christ’s vision look upon all things for me and judge them not, but give each one a miracle a love instead.

Today I let Christ’s vision look upon
All things for me and judge them not, but give
Each one a miracle of love instead.

Nice, huh?

Today I let Christ’s vision look upon all things for me and judge them not, but give each one a miracle of love instead.

That is amazing. To look upon all things and give only love. What a novel idea! Can you imagine this? To look upon all things and not judge them, but give each thing a miracle of love.

Wow. Wow. Wow.

God’s gifts are mine and I give them.

Our Father knows our needs. He gives us grace to meet them all. And so we trust in Him to send us miracles to bless the world, and heal our mind as we return to Him.

From G.I. Gurdjieff:

“As I have said before, man’s chief delusion is his conviction that he can DO. All people think they can do, all people want to do, and the first question all people ask is what are they to do. But actually nobody does anything and nobody can do anything. This is the first thing that must be understood. EVERYTHING HAPPENS. All that befalls a man, all that is done by him, all that comes from him – ALL THIS HAPPENS. And it happens in exactly the same way as rain falls as a result of a change in temperature in the higher regions of the atmosphere or the surrounding clouds, as snow melts under the rays of the sun, as dust rises with the wind.”

“Man is a machine.”

I love that!

“Everything happens exactly the same way as rain falls as a result of a change in temperature … as snow melts under the rays of the sun, as dust rises with the wind.”

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That’s an amazing idea. When you change your own temperature – when you heat yourself up with the Love of God – new things begin to happen.

God does everything. You need do nothing except stay constant in His Love. How much more simple could this get?

From the bible:

John 5:19: The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.

John 5:30: I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.

John 8:28: Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things.

John 15:5: I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

So, in other words: LET GOD TAKE CARE OF EVERYTHING FROM NOW ON. HE KNOWS YOUR NEEDS AND HE WILL MEET EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM.

All you are asked to do is remember the truth of yourself as God created you and to allow Christ to use you for His Purposes, to be willing to let Him shine His Light through you.

Seriously … what could be easier? You’re not actually doing anything, except getting out of the way.