10/17/2020
The direction of my work is becoming more clear to me as time goes on, for which I am very grateful. For a lot of my life I have been looking for a way out of the insanity of this world. Having experienced traumas as a child there was the feeling that I wanted OUT. Yet something inside of me would not allow me to escape.
The daily practice of meditation, which came to me in my late 20's is what calmed me down a lot. As life went on and unpleasant things happened, I was better able to handle them.
In mid-life A Course In Miracles came to my attention through my reading of spiritual books by Dr. Wayne Dyer. My study of the Course changed me outlook even more. Then A Course of Love came to my attention and that has clarified things still more.
But first let me back track a bit to the source of my confusion as a child. It was primarily religious training. It seemed to me at the time that this training should have brought peace to my soul, but instead it brought confusion because the message was incomplete and in some cases inaccurate. Then I thought it must be that I had a problem of understanding the message. What was done at one point, was that the parts of the message that made sense to me were held on to and the parts that didn't make sense were left behind. That is where the Course became of value to me because it offered the whole truth and filled in most of the gaps in my understanding.
A quote from ACIM Lesson 189: (paraphrased) " ... To feel the love of God within us is to see the world anew, shining in innocence, alive with hope, and blessed with perfect charity and love. "
10"Father, we do not know the way to You. But we have called and You will answer us. We will not interfere. Salvation's ways are not our own, for they belong to You, and it is unto You that we look for them. Our hands are open to receive Your gifts. We have no thoughts we think apart from You, and cherish no beliefs of what we are or Who created us. Yours is the way that we would find and follow. And we ask only that Your will, which is our own as well, be done in us and in the world, that it becomes a part of Heaven now. Amen."
Even after many years of study of ACIM there were still some gaps remaining in my understanding. Then A Course of Love came into my hands. The study of this book seems to have completed the picture for me. At this writing there is one paragraph from that book, or more specifically The First Treatise that really stood out to me as the whole Truth in a nutshell.
The First Treaties 8.5 (paraphrased)
As Jesus no longer suffers the separation, we need no longer suffer the separation. Even though the resurrection didn't return life to the form He once occupied, it did return Him to us in the form of the resurrected Christ Who exists in all of us, bringing resurrection to our forms as well. He became the Word incarnate upon His resurrection rather than His birth. ... We took this to mean that flesh took on the definition of the Word or the almighty when He became flesh and bone through birth. But neither His birth nor His death were consequential with the Word as the Word is I Am, the Word is Life Eternal. His resurrection brought about the Word made flesh in each of us. We who have come after Him are not as He was, but as I Am (He). ... We are the resurrected and the life.
As these paragraphs are share with you, the reader, it is my prayer that it will encourage you to read both ACIM and ACOL. ACIM came first, followed some years later by ACOL.
Make no mistake here. It is still not possible for me to walk on water that is not frozen, but life is much brighter than it has ever been, and my heart is more grateful than it has ever been. It is my intention to share what I have learned with all who are inclined to receive the message. It is my joy to do so.
Blessings to all.
