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Dying to Be Free

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The only way out of the human condition is to die before we die…

There is a recorded video of a man talking to Mooji who said, “Mooji I want you to kill me.”
What in the world was he talking about? Mooji would never take another man’s life. What did he mean?

“KILL ME MOOJI. I WANT YOU TO KILL ME MOOJI.”

Mooji: “You want me to kill what you are Not… Satsang is cyanide for ego…”

The only way out of the human condition is to die before we die…

Your exit strategy requires that you allow the false self “I” to die by giving it No attention, No power and letting it dissolve into the nothingness that it is.

How do we do this?

Click on the video below to hear more about…

The recipe for Freedom!

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We raise every question, all personal self-thoughts, feelings, emotions, beliefs, opinions, points of view, preferences, body identity, gender identity, past, future or ideas about the present or good or bad to be raised into quiet Awareness. And only to be seen. Herein lies Pure Presence, the Peace of God.

This is the SELF as God created you.

Whenever your peace is disturbed in any way you can know you are person identified and you must have forgotten what You are.

Quietly notice without words or thoughts and you will be lifted to safety and peace above the battle ground into the arms of Creator and LOVE… Be the SELF.

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If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.

Do you know the fast track out of sickness and suffering?

Stop thinking about your problems. Stop talking about your difficulties and remember the Love that you are.

Remember your holiness. Remember your innocence. Remember that you are not alone. You have an Inner Guide that is with you always.

This might seem impossible to you because from where you stand your problems seem very real to you.

Your pain seems real.

I know because I had pain for years.

I had problems, debt, no money, suffering, depression and now these things are gone, and there is only joy and the Love of God.

How did this shift occur?

I made a decision to stop giving my so-called problems the car keys and letting them drive the car! I acknowledged that I was not powerless.

I stopped digging the hole that I thought I was in. I stood still.

It was really THAT simple.

Remember that miracles are natural and easy, and there is no order of difficulty. One problem or sickness is not harder or more difficult than another to heal because they are all the same – a belief in separation.

This is the fast track out of suffering.

There is nothing holding you to the thoughts that seem to often occupy your mind and occupy your time, except that you keep holding on to them, telling stories about them, thinking about them.

You might think this is impossible to stop telling stories because your problems seem quite real to you, but that’s only because you keep thinking about them and talking about them and that keeps them right in place!

If you would be free from sickness and suffering, it’s important that you see this and that you see it clearly.

“Deep within you is everything that is perfect, ready to radiate through you and out into the world. It will cure all sorrow and pain and fear and loss because it will heal the mind that thought these things were real, and suffered out of its allegiance to them.You can never be deprived of your perfect holiness because its Source goes with you wherever you go. You can never suffer because the Source of all joy goes with you wherever you go. You can never be alone because the Source of all life goes with you wherever you go. Nothing can destroy your peace of mind because God goes with you wherever you go” -A Course in Miracles, Workbook Lesson 41

You might think: “But I can’t help having these thoughts!” (about your problems and difficulties) but if you are honest and if you pay attention closely you will absolutely see and know that YOU CAN HELP IT.

You are not powerless.

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If someone was to give you a million dollars to stop thinking a thought and to stop telling a story about it, then could you do it? Could you focus on the Light and Love that you are instead?

You might think: yes, IF someone was to give me a million dollars then yes, I could stop thinking a thought but no one is offering me a million dollars so I’m just going to continue to think of all the bad things happening to me.

So, ah-ha!

You COULD do it! If you wanted to.

You are not powerless.
You are not weak, but strong.

If you say you cannot do it, then you have not tried because you are powerful.

Anyone and everyone can stop thinking a thought and think about God instead. Everyone.

In the same space that you are thinking about your problems, you can just as easily be re-directing your thoughts to the Truth of your holiness, which is What You Are.

A Course in Miracles is a systematic way to train your mind to a different perception of everyone and everything. You see what is truly here: Oneness with God, Oneness with each other, holiness, innocence, joy and peace.

The new 40-Day Program (offered 3 times a year January 1st, May 1st and September 1st) has you “watch yourself like a hawk” for the entire 40 days just like Jesus did in the desert 2000 years ago as he willingly went, led by Spirit, to be tempted by the devil (ego thoughts) so that you can see that you absolutely CAN banish doubt and fear from your mind. They’re just thoughts! And you’re not powerless.

That’s an amazing idea to me! To willingly ask to be tempted by whatever is buried in my mind (doubt worry, attack, blame, sickness) just like Jesus did.

Remembering that God is with me, no matter what comes upon me I see and know that it has no control and power over me.

Instead of being gripped by fear, I quietly and calmly observe it and let it go.

Most people have no idea how easy it is to let fear go, because they allow fear to grab them and run the show.

All problems are a belief in separation, and there is no such thing as separation – all is One – therefore you have no problems. All your problems have been solved.

If you think you have problems, it is because you handed them the car keys and are allowing your problems to drive the car (by the thoughts you continually think and the stories you continually tell) and you’re in the passenger seat as a hostage.

But the prison door is open!

You can tell your problems to stop the car and give the car keys back to you. They do not have power to run your life. They do not have the power to hold you hostage.

I opened A Course in Miracles up to Workbook Lesson 57 this morning, which is a review, and a great fantastic reminder to use whenever you think you have a problem.

Workbook Lesson 57

(31) I am not the victim of the world I see.

How can I be the victim of a world that can be completely undone if I so choose? My chains are loosened. I can drop them off merely by desiring to do so. The prison door is open. I can leave simply by walking out. Nothing holds me in this world. Only my wish to stay keeps me a prisoner. I would give up my insane wishes and walk into the sunlight at last.

(32) I have invented the world I see.

I made up the prison in which I see myself. All I need do is recognize this and I am free. I have deluded myself into believing it is possible to imprison the Son of God. I was bitterly mistaken in this belief, which I no longer want. The Son of God must be forever free. He is as God created him, and not what I would make of him. He is where God would have him be, and not where I thought to hold him prisoner.

(33) There is another way of looking at the world.

Since the purpose of the world is not the one I ascribed to it, there must be another way of looking at it. I see everything upside down, and my thoughts are the opposite of truth. I see the world as a prison for God’s Son. It must be, then, that the world is really a place where he can be set free. I would look upon the world as it is, and see it as a place where the Son of God finds his freedom.

(34) I could see peace instead of this.

When I see the world as a place of freedom, I realize that it reflects the laws of God instead of the rules I made up for it to obey. I will understand that peace, not war, abides in it. And I will perceive that peace also abides in the hearts of all who share this place with me.

(35) My mind is part of God’s. I am very holy.

As I share the peace of the world with my brothers, I begin to understand that this peace comes from deep within myself. The world I look upon has taken on the light of my forgiveness, and shines forgiveness back at me. In this light I begin to see what my illusions about myself kept hidden. I begin to understand the holiness of all living things, including myself, and their oneness with me.

 

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You are the light of the world.

Love,

Lisa

Remember that Living in Purpose begins on March 1, 2016. Tons and tons of awesome amazing beautiful testimonials from people currently enrolled. Click here for more information: https://www.teachersofgod.org/living-in-purpose-program

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What Does "Sin" Mean?

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You are totally going to LOVE this message!

I want to explain to you what Jesus says about the True meaning of “sin”. He tells us that this word has been very misused. His definition makes much more sense than the old one. You know how it feels when you hear something and you just know, without a shadow of a doubt, that it’s the Truth? Well, this hit me like a truth train.

We’ve been taught to believe that “sin” is breaking the laws of God which results in punishment by God. The old definition says that when our behavior is less than perfect, it’s a rebellion against God and now we’re shamefully estranged from our Creator. The words sin, guilt and punishment are almost interchangeable! Some of us were even told that we are born in sin and that we are all sinners (guilt, guilt and more guilt). To top it all off, we were told that God sacrificed His son who bled on the cross to make amends for our sins.

Who could ever measure up to this? Think about it, what kind of God would require this of us?

Jesus clears up all of the confusion in A Course In Miracles and I’m going to share it with you. (I’ve included “What is Sin” from ACIM at the bottom of this message – scroll all the way down to view.)
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Correct Definition

Sin means, “lack of love” and is simply a mistaken idea to be corrected.

The word Sin translates from the Greek word “hamartia”; an archery term for “missing the mark. (As in, you missed the target, take another shot. Choose again…and this time…choose from a place of Love because that’s all there is my precious Child.)

You have just forgotten who you are.

So, to sin is simply to forget. We forget who we are. We forget that Love is who we are and that Love is what created us. We are wholly and unconditionally Loved, protected and innocent.

And here’s the clincher: It feels like hell and punishment when we forget who we are. When ego tells us we must strive to be worthy and earn love based on the world’s rules. When we feel separate from God, we operate from fear and guilt. We are making our own hell. We are forgetting the Truth. We are off the mark. God isn’t punishing anyone!! EVER.

There is nothing you could do or think that would change your Father’s Love.

All we can do is fall asleep to it. Yet even while we sleep, we sleep in His Arms. Our “sins” have no real effect on our relationship with God, and so they do not exist.

The concept of punishment only comes from our ego’s perception and never, ever from God. It’s like some imaginary disease.

We can believe in the lack of Love and punishment
but we can never make it the Truth.

I’m going to share a visual tool with you that Lisa Natoli taught me about “missing the mark”. I love it because it’s so simple and real and I use it every day.

How do you know when you’re off center? What is the indicator?

You’ll know by the way you feel. Period. If you don’t feel good, you know you missed the mark. There’s your sign. You fell asleep again. No punishment and no further pain required. Simply step back in. Wake yourself up. Choose again. Shift into Love. Welcome to Heaven.

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Jesus tells us in A Course In Miracles that the body is the instrument the mind made in its efforts to deceive itself. Its purpose is to strive. We are out looking for ways to get attention because we don’t know (forgot) we are already enough simply by being a child of God. We deceive ourselves thinking we are a body and then we run around, using the body’s senses, for validation.

Woah!!! Have we missed the mark or what?

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This is what you came here to learn. You came here to remember. You’re a student in Planet Earth school. Every spot of fear and guilt is here for your learning. That’s why they call it an “awakening”.

You’re not a bad. Not even a little speck bad.

Listen to this! Jesus says we need only to remember the Truth and then all needs are satisfied, all cravings end, all hopes are finally fulfilled and fear and separation are gone. (Lesson 251) Does that sound like a mean and punishing God to you?? NO WAY!

Jesus wants us to realize that our experience of fear, guilt and lack stems from the BELIEF that we separated from Love, our Source. He helps us see that the world we are experiencing through our body’s senses is just the effect of our BELIEF in separation from Love. We are seeing illusions where Truth should be. We have distorted the world by our twisted defenses, and are now seeing what’s not there. We could never separate from Love and therefore we could never sin. The ‘life’ we think we are living is just a myth. It never happened in Truth, since nothing but our oneness in Love could ever be real. The Course does not deny that we make mistakes. It simply denies that our mistakes have any real effect.

In Lesson 101 of ACIM, Jesus also says, God’s Will for you is perfect happiness because there is no sin, and suffering is causeless. Joy is just, and pain is but the sign you have misunderstood yourself. Fear not the Will of God. But turn to it in confidence that it will set you free from all the consequences sin has wrought in feverish imagination.

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Do you feel as liberated as I do?

There is no sin. It’s all made up. What has no effect does not exist” (T-9.IV.5:5)

Creation is unchanged.

Heaven is right here for you.

What are you waiting for? How long do you want to live apart from God? How long are you going to keep yourself locked in a dark room? Come out!

Take this in: God is never going to give you more than you have right now because God has already given you everything. You don’t have to “behave” in order to get to Heaven. Heaven is right here and right now. You can rest.

Here’s more great news. You can now choose to replace these deceptive thoughts. Make a different choice and change the purpose as to what you’re going to use this body for.

Just as you have sent your senses out to reinforce a lie about who you think you are, now you can redirect those senses to report back to you and be witnesses for what is True. It’s time to keep the focus 100% on the Light that you are. And you have a guide to help you. As we learn to recognize our perceptual errors, we learn to forgive them. At the same time we are forgiving ourselves, looking past old distorted self-concepts to the Self that God created in us and as us.

As excited as I was when I learned this Truth, I still kept forgetting. I still experienced guilt and fear when I didn’t behave “perfectly” or sometimes it just felt like it was pumping through my veins for no good reason. I wanted to forgive everything and live only Love. To wake up for good. I posted sticky notes, wore a reminder bracelet, set my cell phone alarm, wrote about it in my journal, read everything I could get my mitts on, joined a study group, meditated on it and even burned my fear and guilt at a fire ceremony. LOL-Poof!

That was all helpful (and I still do most of them) but I still felt like crap and often found myself caught up in old “auto-pilot” fear thinking.

It wasn’t until I joined the Living In Purpose 6-Month Mastery Program for Miracle-Minded Thinking that I totally committed. Every single part of my life transformed. Today, I live in joy. If fear or guilt somehow sneak in, I don’t stay in it any more. I have everything. Nothing shakes me anymore. I never worry. I have no problems.

I’m 100% certain that Living In Purpose saved me thousands of years of suffering. For me, it was a real life, practical application program where I LIVED the principals every day consistently with tons of support and all the encouragement I needed. It transformed my life. This is why I work for the Teachers of God Foundation. I started as a volunteer, doing anything and everything I could, because I wanted this freedom for everyone. It has become my life’s purpose. I’m telling everybody. It’s THAT good.

It’s like the difference between hiring an expert personal trainer who walks beside you, motivates, elevates and encourages you for 6 months vs doing it alone. You don’t get lazy and slip back into old patterns. There’s also a group of people, just like you, practicing these principals right along side you and cheering you on. It’s so helpful and you make life-long friends. You get everything you need at every turn.

Before you know it, you’re activating other people around you just because you feel so good.

Here’s the link if you’d like to learn more or to register:
https://www.teachersofgod.org/living-in-purpose-program/

Also, please feel free to contact me if you have any questions about the program or this article about “the True meaning of sin”.

With so much Love and sincerity,

Linda Leland,
Teachers of God Foundation Team Member

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Section 4. What is Sin?

Sin is insanity. It is the means by which the mind is driven mad, and seeks to let illusions take the place of truth. And being mad, it sees illusions where the truth should be, and where it really is. Sin gave the body eyes, for what is there the sinless would behold? What need have they of sights or sounds or touch? What would they hear or reach to grasp? What would they sense at all? To sense is not to know. And truth can be but filled with knowledge, and with nothing else.

The body is the instrument the mind made in its efforts to deceive itself. Its purpose is to strive. Yet can the goal of striving change. And now the body serves a different aim for striving. What it seeks for now is chosen by the aim the mind has taken as replacement for the goal of self-deception. Truth can be its aim as well as lies. The senses then will seek instead for witnesses to what is true.

Sin is the home of all illusions, which but stand for things imagined, issuing from thoughts that are untrue. They are the “proof” that what has no reality is real. Sin “proves” God’s Son is evil; timelessness must have an end; eternal life must die. And God Himself has lost the Son He loves, with but corruption to complete Himself, His Will forever overcome by death, love slain by hate, and peace to be no more.

A madman’s dreams are frightening, and sin appears indeed to terrify. And yet what sin perceives is but a childish game. The Son of God may play he has become a body, prey to evil and to guilt, with but a little life that ends in death. But all the while his Father shines on him, and loves him with an everlasting Love which his pretenses cannot change at all.

How long, O Son of God, will you maintain the game of sin? Shall we not put away these sharp-edged children’s toys? How soon will you be ready to come home? Perhaps today? There is no sin. Creation is unchanged. Would you still hold return to Heaven back? How long, O holy Son of God, how long?

Father, my thanks to You for what I am; for keeping my Identity untouched and sinless, in the midst of all the thoughts of sin my foolish mind made up. And thanks to You for saving me from them. Amen.

– Lesson 251

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Hearing God’s Voice by Bill Free

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Awareness Is Hearing God’s Voice

I love this topic and ACIM workbook lesson 49: “God’s Voice speaks to me all through the day.”

I was talking to Lisa today and we were discussing this workbook lesson and a situation that seemed like I had invited conflict to rise up and be in my experience for a few days that was quickly becoming unpleasant for me and disturbing my peace.

As I was describing the situation to Lisa I was becoming very aware of the drama surrounding it that I hadn’t noticed before. In that moment I realized I did not want the conflict, I only wanted peace and that is exactly what occurred. Denial and affirmation. The part of the mind that was silently in the background looked on the situation and said NO, then I (the person) chose Peace.

It is my experience that Bill the person did not make the decision or choose differently but instead the option of conflict and differences was seen from that place of Pure Awareness and the choice for separation and differences dissolved on the spot.  From there, the choice was made to say, “no more”…

I feel the person (Bill) did not make this choice for Peace but that Peace was a result of a decision made in the mind which was carried out by the person. Does this make sense?

This is the power of being the observer and it happens so fast we think it is the person who decides…
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To listen to God’s Voice only do this:

Get quiet, Still the mind and Rest in the background of Awareness where God is…

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“I am this that sees and there is nothing to report.”

Bill Free

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What are you plans for tomorrow?

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Want to know the absolute deadliest thought to the ego?

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A healed mind does not plan.

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This can be so easily misunderstood so I want to chew on it for a few minutes with you.

So, when your mind is functioning correctly, it does not plan.

A fearless, defenseless, faith-filled, God centered mind does not make plans.

Before you can accept this, you first have to admit that there’s a whole lot going on here that you and I couldn’t possibly understand. Actually, our trying to understand just gets in the way. We only see part of what’s going on in the world. Knowing this, what business do we have to plan anything?
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We don’t even know what’s actually going on!

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Hahahaaa! That cat is us!

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A Course in Miracles says:

A healed mind does not plan. A healed mind carries out the plans that it receives through listening to wisdom that is not its own. A healed mind waits until it has been taught what should be done, and then proceeds to do it. A healed mind is secure in certainty that obstacles can not impede its progress to accomplishment of any goal that serves the greater plan established for the good of everyone.

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Now, just for fun, let’s reverse that paragraph:

“An unhealed mind does plan. An unhealed mind does not carry out the plans it receives through listening to wisdom that is not its own. An unhealed mind doesn’t wait until it has been taught what should be done.”

That sinks in a little deeper, doesn’t it?

Left to our own devices, we often make decisions out of fear, guilt, lack, anger, depression and separation. It NEVER goes well. Those are clear signs of an unhealed mind.

A Course in Miracles clearly says that “all attack is self attack”… We are constantly attacking ourselves but we never see it that way. We think the attack is coming from someone else but it’s really coming from our own thoughts of fear and guilt. In Lesson 135 the Course implies that PLANNING is a form of self attack. It points out that “all defenses are a form of self attack because they make the illusion of threat real and then attempt to handle them as if they were real.” It simply asks us to look closely at what we think we’re defending, how we defend it and against what.

Planning the future is a form of defense. It foresees some threat and then tries to produce a defense against it.

“Defenses are the plans you undertake to make against the Truth.” The Truth is that we are totally safe, eternal, innocent and beloved children of an All Knowing God. The Course also says that “In our defenselessness our safety lies.” Pretty clear isn’t it?

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Think about it. Is there fear or guilt lurking below your planning? Is there a threat underneath the plans that you are not aware of and a thought that you should do something about it?

It’s not about what you do but what you are THINKING while you do it.

Operating from a healed mind isn’t difficult to do. Please don’t tell yourself that this shift will be hard. It actually flows easily and brings such a sense of relief. Depending on yourself for nothing is quite lovely!! It’s the epitome of “no pressure”!

Remembering to pause and ask.

THAT is where we need practice.

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That’s why we study. We are retraining ourselves away from knee-jerk, autopilot, fear-based doing and planning. That’s why I have sticky notes all around my house (like the one at the top of this blog post)! Truth.

We won’t really believe this until we experience it. We won’t experience it unless we try it, experiment with it and practice getting out of the way. (Insert miracles here.)

I used to be a “serial planner”. I remember when I was in labor with my daughter Victoria; I literally grabbed my mother by the shirt and said, “WE NEED A PLAN! GO FIND THE DOCTOR AND GET ME A PLAN!” Yea, there’s a soul birthing itself, through me, into time and space and I wanted details so I could be fully prepared and in charge. Good one Linda.

When I was first married to my husband John, I’d ask him on a Monday how we should best plan for the week ahead. He’d say, “Babe! Can we just play it by ear?” My response was, “Who does that? “That’s so dumb and irresponsible.”

Oh the irony.

Now, I don’t plan. I love knowing God is running my life. There is never anything to worry about. Everything always turns out perfectly. Every time.

Now, when a self planning thought creeps in from fear, I simply respond:

“I am on to you! Sorry… you don’t run this show anymore, my God Self does.”

Here is what A Course in Miracles says about how planning affects the body:

“Enslavement of the body to the plans the unhealed mind sets up to save itself must make the body sick. It is not free to be the means of helping in a plan which far exceeds its own protection and which needs its service for a little while. In this capacity is health assured. For everything the mind employs for this will function flawlessly, and with the strength that has been given it and cannot fail.”

Translation:

When I’m sick, in pain or in conflict, it’s because I’m using the body for my own plan which fearfully involves my own interests. I’m feeling lousy because I am not using my instrument for Truth. I’m not serving my purpose here which is for the good of every brother. A healed mind knows it’s only here to carry out God’s plan which involves joy and peace for everyone.

When I’m listening to the Holy Spirit and carrying out His plan, all obstacles are removed from my path. I am in a constant state of joy and peace and my body is healthy. I function “flawlessly” and can not fail. I CAN NOT FAIL!
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My plan: I feel anxious and unsatisfied.

God’s plan: I feel like I’m on fire for life. I have energy. I feel healthy, awake and joyful.

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Can you see how uncompromising this is?

So, when I’m doing all the planning, I must not believe that I will be provided for.

I’m planning based on my past and my fears and not allowing for God to come in.

I’m choosing against the Truth because I’m frightened.

It’s an old and worn out habit that I now see never worked.

Instead, you know that you don’t have to depend on yourself for anything except the adequacy to carry out the plan you are given, if only you’ll zip it and listen. Set your crazy schemes aside and listen. God is always, always, always speaking to you.

Drop the “me plan”, join with God and let His Love in with total confidence.

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Jesus says we never make a plan alone. We only choose “with what you make them” meaning which friend do you plan with? Ego or the Holy Spirit? You decide. Idols or God?

Which one will you join with? (It’s one or the other and can never be both.)

Do you want your life in the hands of an insane ego or with God?

That is why we get up every morning and say:

“I will make no decisions by myself.”

And now, each moment of your life can become a meaningful encounter with the Truth.

This is the only purpose of this world.

This is the only “plan” that matters.

xoxoxo

I give thanks for you and I love you.

 

Linda Leland

Teachers of God Foundation

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Everything Is Possible by Judy Morton

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The future is so bright that I better wear shades!

This is my first blog article working for the Teachers of God Foundation and I’m so excited. I have shared my story a few times via our website and on a recent radio interview with Lisa, but I can’t wait to share more details about how the teachings of A Course in Miracles have changed the whole way I think.

I started to make the title of this article “Anything Is Possible” and I was talking on the phone with my friend Calico and she said forget “Anything Is Possible” – how about “Everything Is Possible” – and that just felt perfect! Thanks Calico!

I don’t want to go back too much into “My Story” because I don’t want to put too much energy towards it, but I feel it is helpful to give a quick overview so that you can see where I have been.

Just a short time ago, my life felt in a shambles. I did not think that everything was possible. I actually thought that life was so hard, that there really was not much point of going on. I know that sounds really heavy, but I seriously was contemplating ending my life. Divorce, lost my house, single mother, three kids and two of them have special needs and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah! That sums it up all right!

But now I feel that the future is so bright that I better wear shades!

The most important thing I did was to change my mind, ABOUT EVERYTHING, and the first step in doing that is making a decision. Once that decision is made, the whole universe conspires to make it happen.

People talk so much about putting your faith in God, trusting and that is so true. But what also needs to happen is for us to walk into that faith, to take the action steps as if the healing has already happened, the healing of our mind.

The most powerful tool that I have learned from the course and other amazing teachings is to step into the truth, to actually get into the feeling that whatever it is has already happened.

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THE VIBRATORY POWER OF WORDS!

Boy has that statement been running through my veins. A short time ago I was told that the chances of my older son functioning in the “real world” were very slim, that he would most likely never graduate from high school because of his anxiety and OCD, and that maybe we should put him in some kind of an institution for awhile, and for God’s sake, he can never drive a car.

everything is possible-pic1_jm_1.13.16Not True, Not True, Not True! I made a decision, I made up my mind that he is going to graduate from high school, and one day, right at dusk, I trekked all the way out to the football field at his high school and I walked to the top of the bleachers and I sat there, and envisioned my son out on that field where they hold the graduation ceremony, I pictured him with his friends, laughing, throwing his cap up in the air. It didn’t matter that he didn’t have even one friend at the time, because I knew that if I treat this boy like he is the perfect, healed, whole, loving child of God that he is, that the truth would show up and it did!

He is a senior in high school this year, and he sent me a text last week and it said: “Mom, I am going to the winter formal with a group of friends, can you help me buy the ticket and I need something new to wear”. YESSSSSSSSSSSSS! I was totally calm and wrote him back, “OK”, and then I did the freak out happy mama dance.

Then a few days later, he came downstairs and said “Mom, I need to buy my cap and gown for graduation before the deadline”. In that exact moment, my mind jetted back to that night when I climbed the bleachers at his school.

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This practice truly does work, and the golden key is not so much having to get into details of what you want to have happen, but to MAKE A DECISION, and then get into the feeling of what it is like now that it has ALREADY HAPPENED! To think about your state of mind in that moment of realizing your heart’s desire.

I recently made another decision about my son who has Down syndrome. He has needed dental surgery in the past – he could not just go to the dentist for a filling or a cleaning, he had to go in the hospital. I kept putting off making another appointment and the fear was creeping in and right on the way to the dentist, in the car, in the pouring rain last week, I MADE A DECISION!

I said, he is fine, he can go to dentist like anyone else, he can sit in the chair, have an exam, get x-rays, get a filling if needed and have his teeth cleaned and guess what, HE DID. His teeth are absolutely perfect, he let them take x-rays and he has not one cavity. A Crest check-up! YAY!

You see, all it takes is a second to change your mind. You can have so much fun with this. You can bring your friends in on it too. I have some friends that are prayer partners, and I have adopted a practice with them where we write emails to each other or leave voice mails “AS IF” something has already happened. It is so fun and it is so helpful, because you are consciously joining with another person in the truth of who your both are and that really does change the vibration.

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My favorite words now! “You’ve Got This”!!! I say it to everybody now. I recently had a friend call me in absolute terror, saying “they saw something on my test and I’m afraid I might have cancer and they want me back in two weeks for a big test”…  I sat with her on the phone and told her who she really is, the light of the world, I told her not to even mention that word again, don’t think about it, don’t research it, don’t call your friends on the phone and talk about it, act “AS IF” you are completely healthy and fine.

Then I found out her big medical test was on my birthday and I told her, that the only present I want from her is for her to call me on my birthday to confirm that everything is perfectly fine with her. Guess what, I got the birthday present I wanted! She is fine! She said that every time she went into a place of fear and wanted to start doing research about an illness, or treatment or anything like that, she just pictured herself, in the doctors office sending me a text that she is perfectly fine, and that is what she did!

In closing, I want to share one of my favorite lessons from A Course in Miracles :

Lesson 41: “God Goes With Me Wherever I Go.”

Deep within you is everything that is perfect, ready to radiate through you and out into the world. It will cure all sorrow and pain and fear and loss because it will heal the mind that thought these things were real, and suffered out of its allegiance to them.

If you only remember one thing from my blog post, let it be this:

“YOU’VE GOT THIS, AND EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE”

I love you…

Judy
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40 Days and Advaita by Bill Free

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The 40-Day Program and Advaita: What do they have in common?

Enlightenment.

The fast track.

The train leaves today. ☺

Have you ever wondered why it seems like other people out there in India or London encounter miracle situations where people have near-death experiences, visitations by angels or beings from beyond the veil… and have a sudden Awakening… but somehow it’s unattainable for you?

You can stop that idea in its tracks right now. It’s just not true!

You are Awake or you wouldn’t be reading this post. Really!

The 40-Day Program and/or A Course in Miracles  will take you all the way home. You are, and this is just the beginning.

The wave is rising so high around the planet right now that the shift can no longer be contained. You are going to be needed to help others into the Light.

This is the time and we are being prepared. Are you ready? This is the great Awakening!

Bill posts his first video blog and behind-the-scenes look at his own experience with the 40-Day Program and what it’s like for him…

Have a look:

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Only 1 New Year's Resolution Worth Making

I want to talk about “New Year’s Resolutions” with you for a minute.

I’m going to be honest; I’ve been writing this article for days! Writing, rewriting, researching, reading, cutting, pasting, questioning and rearranging.

After time in prayer, I deleted 90% of it.

I removed the heart-opening quotes from A Course in Miracles about starting a new year. I erased paragraphs full of good reasoning, prayer-full pearls of wisdom, my funny little anecdotes, attention-grabbing graphics, and thoughtful explanations. DELETE!

I gathered all the wisdom I collected and broke it down as simply as I could until it was only bare bones.

Here goes!

Don’t base your New Year’s resolution on changing anything of the body or fixing any factor outside of you such as your looks, social life, workplace, finances, relationships, habits or personality traits.

It doesn’t work. It’s never worked. It’s not going to work this year. It just won’t work.

Lurking beneath those resolutions, what you really want is to feel more love, more abundant, healthy and safe. You are merely trading one illusion for another… over and over and over again.

You ARE pure Love, you have everything and you are eternally safe with God.

The ONLY resolution worth making is to remove the blocks to this Truth; to God.

However, and listen carefully: None of this is going to happen unless you choose it for yourself.

Stop looking for Love in all the wrong places!

Jesus didn’t go into the desert for 40 days to lose weight or to become a better healer so he’d earn more golden coins! His ONLY resolve was to Know God. To Know Himself.

He knew he had to shift out of his normal patterns. He chose to attune Himself to new frequencies that are always there but drowned out when we’re sleep walking through life. He created a space for more Light to come in.

Now that’s a resolution!

After 40 days, He left the desert enlightened. Jesus no longer identified himself as the son of Joseph but as the Son of God. He knew He was never alone. He felt the totality of the great Love of God in a way that He’d never felt before. He knew He was in the Presence of an infinite, eternal substance, richly endowed with the fullness of All-Good. Now, He was aligned with an unshakable, invulnerable Love, security and abundance.

I want THAT for 2016. Will you join me?

The FREE 40-Day Transformation Program starts January 1st. It’s the best way I know of to interrupt old habitual patterns and let the Light in. It’s your turn. THIS is a consciousness shifter. When you fast from negative old thinking patterns, you become aware of things you didn’t even know were going on! You receive signals you’ve never received before. It’s the same amount of time Moses, Buddha and Jesus took for a full transformation and its here for you, right now, in your own home. You don’t need to go sit on a mountain top or under a tree!

I’m certain that the changes that came for Moses, Buddha and Jesus came from their decision to a new way of being. They were determined to look away from their old life and sit quietly until they knew the Truth. You’ll be amazed at how your problems, pain and sickness disappear when you realize how directly your thoughts and your physical experiences are connected and when you choose to make room for God’s Love.

Saying “Yes” is the single most important New Year’s Resolution you could ever make. In Truth, it’s the only one worth making.

So, set aside the diets and the guilty promises to be “better” in 2016 and join me for a time of discovery and awareness. For 40 days, you will acknowledge that there is a Presence & Power with you, as you. This Presence is your Inner Teacher and your Guide. This is how joyful, Loving, brilliant and lasting transformation happens.

I AM ALL IN… Are you?

I can’t wait to meet you! Click the button below to register…

You may have already signed up for the 40-Day Program, and if that’s the case, you are all set to begin! If you registered for any previous 40-Day Program, like the one that started on August 1st, you are *not* automatically registered for this upcoming one so you’ll have to sign up again to receive the messages that start on January 1st. Please note: Once the program begins, the “gates” will close, so register now while you can! 

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With so much Love and excitement for our unfolding,

Linda Leland
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The New 40-Day Program – What It Is – and New Bonus Feature: Ending Addiction Once And For All.

I love the idea of new year, a new beginning and a clean slate.

You might already know this – I am doing a new 40-Day Program with new videos, new messages and new content starting on January 1, 2016 – which is this coming Friday.

If you are interested in doing it, you need to sign up for it.

Click here: https://www.teachersofgod.org/40day

Some of the daily messages will stay the same because we have received such incredible reports of healing and transformation that I want to keep The Best of The Best of The Best Practices in there – but I decided to flip the 40-Day Program upside down and start with the end at the beginning.

The videos are completely brand new.

This email message will explain the changes and how it’s different.

It begins January 1st and like always, it’s free!!

Before I describe the new changes, I want to tell you about a new feature I’m adding this time around, which is totally optional and not necessary.

NEW BONUS FEATURE: ENDING AN ADDICTION (OR SEVERAL OF THEM)

If you want to end an addiction and use this 40-Day period as the time to do it, you can sign an agreement that you will not engage in the behavior you are ready to let go of. This part of the 40-Day Program is TOTALLY OPTIONAL and NOT necessary for program.

YES, I WANT TO END ADDICTION AND “BE” THE CHANGE I WANT TO BE! I AM READY FOR A NEW LIFE & NEW EXPERIENCES!

Starting on January 1, 2016: https://www.teachersofgod.org/40day

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HOW I ENDED ALCOHOLISM ON THE SPOT:

I’m adding the new optional feature/agreement because its how I ended 5 years of struggling with alcoholism and cigarette smoking. I went on a 30-Day Retreat in March 2001 where I was required TO SIGN AN AGREEMENT saying that for 30-Days I would not smoke, drink, do drugs or eat meat while I was there. These were the conditions to attend the retreat and I had to sign an agreement … and I was happy and excited to do it!!

I thought: YES, OF COURSE! 30-DAYS! NO PROBLEM! I CAN DO THAT. EASILY.

I was excited by the idea. It wasn’t a struggle at all. I wanted to give 100% and I knew that my life was about to change dramatically.

So I signed the agreement KNOWING – it was an absolute Knowing – that I could easily go 30-days without engaging in my usual self-sabotaging behavior.

I knew I could 30-Days without a drink or a cigarette.

And that was the key.

I KNEW I would not “pick up” again for 30 days. I knew it was going to be easy. I knew I would not drink, smoke, do drugs or eat meat because I really wanted a new experience and I trusted that these people knew what they were doing. I was excited even. It felt good. It felt great.

And alcoholism and my desire to smoke left me. I never picked up again. That was almost 15 years ago in March 2001. I have never had a single craving since. The addiction literally left me.

This is the kind of healing described in A Course in Miracles – where there is no “process. You make an Inner Shift in your mind and everything changes.

So, I’m adding this NEW FEATURE to the 40-Day Program to anyone who is interested in stopping a way of being that is not serving you.

Again, it’s totally optional. I don’t care if you drink or smoke or do drugs or eat meat. I have no judgment whatsoever. There’s no right or wrong. You’re totally free to do what you want and nothing can change your reality in truth – YOU ARE SPIRIT, WHOLE AND PERFECT.

If you love drinking and smoking, go right ahead and enjoy!

However, if you want to quit something, I support you in letting it go. I encourage you to use these 40-days as a new life for yourself.

Only you know if there’s something in your life that’s a distraction and that’s numbing you. Only you know if you’re ready to let it go. It can be sugar, shopping, tv, alcohol, drugs, Facebook, etc.

And then you’ll sign an agreement to yourself and we’ll do it together for 40-days – a new way of living.

THE NEW 40-DAY PROGRAM – WHAT IT IS:

It’s a 40-day Trip where you get to know your Self – your True Self.

The 40-Day Program begins on January 1, 2016 – which is this coming Friday.

https://www.teachersofgod.org/40day

It’s different that the last one.

I’m doing new videos and new messages.

You will be clearing things out BEFORE we begin (clearing your physical space AND your mental space – getting rid of things that no longer serve you – complaining, grievances, judgments).

You’ll be making a commitment to stand still and allow everything to be EXACTLY as it is without fixing it so that whatever is buried in you has a chance to come to the surface so it can be released.

AND finally, you will be writing YOUR TRUE WAY OF BEING – how you are in truth, how God created you. You’ll be using ideas from the workbook lessons of A Course in Miracles to write this NEW WAY OF BEING.

For example: I AM SPIRIT. God is my Source. I am not alone. I have a Guide. He leads. I follow. I’m whole, complete, healed and perfect. The peace of God is shining in me now. God is Love and so am I. I choose the joy of God over pain. I’m strong, powerful, certain and unlimited. Light and peace and joy abide in me. Etc.

You’ll be asking in quiet for your own vision, remembering WHAT YOU ARE IN TRUTH, then add in specific details about what your day looks like. What your life looks like, now that all your problems have been solved, now that the problem of separation has been solved.

You’ll be making The Inner Shift from fear to love before we even begin Day 1.

Then making a commitment TO LIVE and BE your True Way of Being for the entire 40-days.

It will be 40-days of WATCHING YOURSELF LIKE A HAWK.

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You will be Watching and Noticing and Paying Attention to your thoughts, feelings, emotions, responses, reactions. Paying attention to the words that come out of your mouth, and the thoughts you think – realizing there are no idle thoughts.

All thoughts have power, so you’ll be paying attention during this time to what you are thinking and saying and feeling.

And 40-Days of acknowledging that you have a Guide, an Inner Teacher.

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It’s 40-days of knowing you are not alone. 40-Days of Quieting your mind, Listening to guidance, receiving instructions and following them, LEARNING TO TRUST. A retreat from the world, a retreat from all your stories.

There will be 3 days of Getting Ready (starting on January 1st) before we actually enter into the 40-days with “Day 1” on January 4th.

But the messages and videos begin on January 1 because the 3-day Preparation is super important. It’s free – sign up here: https://www.teachersofgod.org/40day

HAPPINESS IS A DECISION YOU MUST MAKE.

Another important element in this 40-days is that IT’S FOR YOU.

When Jesus was in his 40-days, he was alone. He didn’t try to help anyone.

He did not to be nice or kind or good. He didn’t even try to be helpful.

This was a time for his undoing, for purification, for communion with God, and for confronting his fears, looking directly at them and not running away. When the 40-days was over, and HE KNEW WHO HE WAS AND WHO GOD IS, then his public ministry began.

THEN – when his 40-Days ended – he was very active with people – but not a minute before.

There are no recorded miracles BEFORE Jesus entered into the wilderness.

The miracles all came after he left the desert, when HE KNEW it was God who was doing everything.

“Miracles occur naturally as an expression of love.” -A Course in Miracles

The 40-days is a time of being tempted by the devil (the ego – your own fear-based thoughts, which are unreal) .

This 40-days is for you, for your undoing, for your release, for your connection with God. And NOT a time to help others. It’s not a time to be a “nice” person to others. It’s not a time to teach to others in the hopes “they get it.”

For 40-days Jesus was alone with himself with his thoughts.

And so it is with you – this is your time. It’s for you.

40-Days is a gift you give to yourself.

If this sounds like something you want to do, click here and sign up: https://www.teachersofgod.org/40day

Love,

Lisa
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A Christmas gift for you! You can open it now!

Merry Christmas to you from me and our entire team at the Teachers of God Foundation.

You are a gift to the world and to us.

We love you. 

It’s me, Lisa Natoli.

It’s two days before Christmas and the peace of God is shining in you now.

Christmas is meant to be a time of celebration, peace and joy but often it’s a time when people feel overwhelmed, depressed, filled with guilt about not being able to get it all done. It often brings up a lot of old family issues. Plus it’s dark and cold.

I wanted to give you a gift that can change your whole mood this holiday season and for the rest of your life.

I hope you like it!

It’s morning and I’m still in bed (“the children were nestled, all snug in their bed”) and I just had coffee with Jesus – my daily morning routine – and I was sitting here thinking: “I want to give all my friends the best gift ever.”

I wanted it to be a REAL gift, not just nice sounding words. I wanted it to be something you could use, something of value, something that would bring you joy.

And I reached over for A Course in Miracles, opened it up and it landed on Workbook Lesson 188: The peace of God is shining in me now.

And instantly, I knew: THIS IS IT!!!

This is the gift I want to give you this Christmas.

The gift of Christ vision, where you see only love. The gift of healing, where you know how to use the Power and Light of God that has been given to you to heal all things.

MERRY CHRISTMAS.

The peace of God is a gift you already have – given to you by God.

MY GIFT to you is to bring it back into your awareness so you can start using it.

I love you.

Most people have no idea that there is a light in them which can literally heal anything. This light removes all fear, darkness, addiction, sorrow, sickness and pain. FOR REAL.

But like any gift, you have to use it. You have to know about it. You have to plug it in, play with it, test it out.

Same with the light that is in you. It’s THERE as a huge beautiful gift for you but if you don’t take it out of the box and use it, it’s useless. It literally does nothing, even though it has the power to heal every aspect of your life.

If you know me as a teacher, you know that my whole approach is: Try it out. Experiment with this idea. Take it for a test-run in your life and then you will see for yourself that it works.

I’m very big on people seeing things for themselves, with their own eyes, as a direct experience.

You’ll know that what I am saying is true when you see all your problems disappear one by one.

You’ll know for yourself that this light really DOES heal all things when you see pain and sickness dissolve from your experience.

You’ll know it when you begin to feel happy.

So today, I give you a gift and I ask you to take it out of the box and use it.

Simply know that the peace of God is shining in you now. It’s there SHINING without you doing anything, but while you were focused on your problems and grievances and fear, you didn’t know it was there.

This light has always been in you – sitting dormant – and today you are going to recognize it and get it flowing.

YOU WILL BE AMAZED BY WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU BECOME AWARE OF THIS LIGHT AND BEGIN TO DELIBERATELY EXTEND IT.

It’s a simple practice.

If you are ready for healing and miracles in your life, please scroll down to the Workbook Lesson – READ IT AND THEN DO WHAT IT SAYS.

Like any gift, there are instructions.

I have posted them below.

Please don’t just read though the lesson. Know that it’s true. Acknowledge the light in you and send it out from your heart around the world.

When it says “close your eyes” please close your eyes. See this light. Connect with it. It’s yours to use and to give, and it will heal you completely.

This light knows what to do. It immediately will begin to remove all fear and doubt from your mind. You will start to feel a happy light-heartedness when you send love and peace to others, from your heart.

Give yourself 30 minutes to an hour today to sit quietly and feel this light, and then extend it from your heart around the world.

This works.

Merry Christmas.

BONUS GIFT THAT GOT FORGOTTEN IN THE CLOSET UNTIL AFTER ALL THE GIFTS ARE UNWRAPPED:
If you want to see your life dramatically transform, imagine what will happen if you were to consistently remember this light on a daily basis and you made a commitment to not waver back into old thought patterns and negativity. IMAGINE THAT. Imagine if you were to make a commitment to live in love for 40 days and allow fear to come up into your awareness so you can release it. If this sounds like something you want to do, make sure to sign up for the 40-Day Program which begins on January 1, 2016. It’s totally free. Click here to sign up: https://www.teachersofgod.org/40day

All new videos and new messages, and I haven’t done them yet so it’s a brand new program which I am super excited about.

Join me in healing.

Love,

Lisa

PS: If you have a friend or family member who is suffering or struggling, please share this message with them. And please let them know about the 40-day Program which begins on January 1st (just a week away) It may be exactly what they need right now.

YOUR GIFT
Follow these instructions and be healed. 

Lesson 188
The peace of God is shining in me now.

Why wait for Heaven? Those who seek the light are merely covering their eyes. The light is in them now. Enlightenment is but a recognition, not a change at all. Light is not of the world, yet you who bear the light in you are alien here as well. The light came with you from your native home, and stayed with you because it is your own. It is the only thing you bring with you from Him Who is your Source. It shines in you because it lights your home, and leads you back to where it came from and you are at home.

This light can not be lost. Why wait to find it in the future, or believe it has been lost already, or was never there? It can so easily be looked upon that arguments which prove it is not there become ridiculous. Who can deny the presence of what he beholds in him? It is not difficult to look within, for there all vision starts. There is no sight, be it of dreams or from a truer Source, that is not but the shadow of the seen through inward vision. There perception starts, and there it ends. It has no source but this.

The peace of God is shining in you now, and from your heart extends around the world. It pauses to caress each living thing, and leaves a blessing with it that remains forever and forever. What it gives must be eternal. It removes all thoughts of the ephemeral and valueless. It brings renewal to all tired hearts, and lights all vision as it passes by. All of its gifts are given everyone, and everyone unites in giving thanks to you who give, and you who have received.

The shining in your mind reminds the world of what it has forgotten, and the world restores the memory to you as well. From you salvation radiates with gifts beyond all measure, given and returned. To you, the giver of the gift, does God Himself give thanks. And in His blessing does the light in you shine brighter, adding to the gifts you have to offer to the world.

The peace of God can never be contained. Who recognizes it within himself must give it. And the means for giving it are in his understanding. He forgives because he recognized the truth in him. The peace of God is shining in you now, and in all living things. In quietness is it acknowledged universally. For what your inward vision looks upon is your perception of the universe.

Sit quietly and close your eyes. The light within you is sufficient. It alone has power to give the gift of sight to you. Exclude the outer world, and let your thoughts fly to the peace within. They know the way. For honest thoughts, untainted by the dream of worldly things outside yourself, become the holy messengers of God Himself.

These thoughts you think with Him. They recognize their home. And they point surely to their Source, Where God the Father and the Son are One. God’s peace is shining on them, but they must remain with you as well, for they were born within your mind, as yours was born in God’s. They lead you back to peace, from where they came but to remind you how you must return.

They heed your Father’s Voice when you refuse to listen. And they urge you gently to accept His Word for what you are, instead of fantasies and shadows. They remind you that you are the co-creator of all things that live. For as the peace of God is shining in you, it must shine on them.

We practice coming nearer to the light in us today. We take our wandering thoughts, and gently bring them back to where they fall in line with all the thoughts we share with God. We will not let them stray. We let the light within our minds direct them to come home. We have betrayed them, ordering that they depart from us. But now we call them back, and wash them clean of strange desires and disordered wishes. We restore to them the holiness of their inheritance.

Thus are our minds restored with them, and we acknowledge that the peace of God still shines in us, and from us to all living things that share our life. We will forgive them all, absolving all the world from what we thought it did to us. For it is we who make the world as we would have it. Now we choose that it be innocent, devoid of sin and open to salvation. And we lay our saving blessing on it, as we say:

The peace of God is shining in me now.
Let all things shine upon me in that peace,
And let me bless them with the light in me.

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