“How do the open-minded forgive?
They have let go of all things that would prevent forgiveness.”
—ACIM, M.4.X.2.1-2
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This morning I woke from a dream that I was out in a busy place, and in the confusion of buying something and carrying things, I left my handbag somewhere. When I realized it was missing I went to look for it and found it. It looked cast aside by a bush and I was sure it would be empty. But it wasn’t. Everything was still there. All my money. Everything.
A bit later, as I sat in my morning meditation, I had the clarity that this was a reminder, an illustration, that God’s gifts can never be taken from us or lost. They will always be there, even if we forget them or walk away. We are children of God. He has bestowed His gifts on us. There are no exceptions. We only have to see and accept them, whenever we are ready. A Course in Miracles says no decision is made alone. We either decide with God or with idols. Idols are the illusions of the world. God is all that is Real and True. We always seek advice. Am I siding with the world of illusion or with Truth, Reality and God? Do I choose what supports the illusion or what opens Truth, or stands me in Truth and Reality?
I make no decisions alone. My life depends on nothing. It’s guaranteed. I am Life. There is nothing to earn, nothing to gain. I have it all, now. I always have. That’s eternal. Forever. All-ways.
I am enough. I am good enough. “I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God made me.” (ACIM) We all get there in the end. But there is not end. I rest in God. I see God in everyone and everything. I started this as an advert and endorsement for Lisa Natoli’s 40-day Transformation Program, and don’t worry, it still will be, but in an effort to share what her program has meant to me, this had to turn into a year in review.
The light in me acknowledges, sees and knows the light in you. We are all eternal. We are here expressing in physical form, and then we leave this physical form behind. What is not seen or is not the same as before, is no less. And without the boundaries of a physical body, our Souls expand and are everywhere. Anywhere. Any time. All time. Without the boundaries we experience here of time and space, we experience true freedom and once again return to the full embrace of the Divine that we always are.
My heart understands more than my mind can express. My Soul knows. I can stop looking, longing, demanding, forcing, pushing and arguing. I’m ready to stop. It’s time to remember, allow, accept and receive.
I have felt like it should be easiest to love the ones close to us, and yet I see time and again how we (me and those around me) don’t treat the ones closest to us the best!
Ask and the answers are given. Truly. I experience this frequently now. I ask, and in some way, through someone or something, answers are given. In the last weeks and months I have been asking, how do I pray? What do I pray? And then I listen and wait with expectation of clarity. I have had answers about prayer, and yet I have still been asking, and yesterday, in different moments of reading and devotion, these beautiful answers came to me.
A Course in Miracles talks about attack thoughts, and I thought I really understood that and have made an honest effort to stop all attack thoughts, stop thinking mean things, or unkind things, and to stop judging and criticising. But after asking questions about the meaning and truth of the real-life experience of hearing “you should, fill-in-the-blank” from others, especially those I care about and value, I got
some real answers about how deep attack thoughts run. The light bulb came on when I heard ACIM Teacher of God, Lisa Natoli quote her friend Vickie, who said, |