From AwakeningInChrist Yahoo Group at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AwakeningInChrist . . . God Bless You Holy One!AwakeningInChrist Main Page
Dear everyone,
This mornings "date with the Holy Spirit" involved being in full study mode, reading and taking notes from the text.
The following points are from the Undoing of Fear section.
The dreamer of the dream does not know he sleeps… The separation started when… The mind made sickness… The miracle is the first step in giving the function of causation back to cause and not to effect… Healing only the body is half the lesson... The mind is sick that thought the body could be sick…
Questioner: So the dream reflects the separation of myself and God.
I believe I turned on God and in doing so what I have created seems to have turned on me. Because I fear God the figures in the dream seem fearful… What can you tell me about this?
Answer: Know that you are the dreamer. You actively dream the dream. The world reflects the thoughts / beliefs within your mind. Remember me always. When I am the guiding light within your mind in every moment you are remembering God because I hold the memory of God always. You are asleep in the sense that you have turned away from God in fear. When all fear of God has left your mind you will awaken.
Question: I don't really think I fear God, I didn't even know
God in this lifetime until 2 years ago…why do I fear God?
What does it look like in this world? (At this moment I experienced feelings of nervousness and fear welling up)
Answer: This world, the dream that you are dreaming, plays out your fear in form. As you believe/dream that you deprive your Father of his Son you dream of deprivation and separation.
This world plays out the fear – You believe you are the cause of your existence, that you can create your own life and that you have experiences within this world - some of which you choose, some that happen to you.
This is a backwards and utterly untrue perception. Question: It seems like a struggle this morning. I've written and crossed out several sentences.
Why is this?
Answer: Resistance is high.
When you really understand the concept of cause and effect, of true Cause and Effect v's false cause and effect, you will see this world for what it is.
Right now you are having glimpses.
Confusion produced this dream and when you have cleared your mind of all confusion you will be free of the dream.
Question: What would be helpful to keep in mind right now as I continue to learn and apply this? Answer: God Loves You.
Answer: :-) I shared with Regina that it felt like a struggle rather than a freeflow this morning and lo and behold she was having the same experience. We immediately felt joined and so grateful to be sharing this experience right now.
Thank you Holy Spirit, I am eternally grateful for your gentle, loving guidance.
With much love,
Kirsten
from Brian of Church of the Holy InstantMy Groups Holy_Instant Main Page
The Tablecloth The brand new pastor and his wife, newly assigned to their first ministry, to reopen a church in Brooklyn, arrived in early October excited about their opportunities. When they saw their church, it was very run down and needed much work. They set a goal to have everything done in time to have their first service on Christmas eve. They worked hard, repairing pews, plastering walls, painting, etc.,and on December 18 were ahead of schedule and just about finished. On December 19 a terrible tempest - a driving rainstorm hit the area and lasted for two days. On the 21st, the pastor went over to the church. His heart sank when he saw that the roof had leaked, causing a large area of plaster about 20 feet by 8 feet to fall off the front wall of the sanctuary just behind the pulpit, beginning about head high. The pastor cleaned up the mess on the floor, and not knowing what else to do but postpone the Christmas Eve service, headed home. On the way he noticed that a local business was having a flea market type sale for charity so he stopped in. One of the items was a beautiful handmade ivory colored crocheted tablecloth with exquisite work, fine colors and a cross embroidered right in the center. It was just the right size to cover up the hole in the front wall. He bought it and headed back to the church. By this time it had started to snow. An older woman running from the opposite direction was trying to catch the bus. She missed it. The pastor invited her to wait in the warm church for the next bus 45 minutes later. She sat in a pew and paid no attention to the pastor while he got a ladder, hangers, etc., to put up the tablecloth as a wall tapestry. The pastor could hardly believe how beautiful it looked and it covered up the entire problem area. Then he noticed the woman walking down the center aisle. Her face was like a sheet. She asked the pastor, "where did you get that tablecloth?" The pastor explained. The woman asked him to check the lower right corner to see if the initials "EBG" were crocheted into it there. They were. These were the initials of the woman, and she had made this tablecloth 35 years before, in Austria. The woman could hardly believe it as the pastor told how he had just gotten the Tablecloth. The woman explained that before the war she and her husband were well-to-do people in Austria. When the Nazis came, she was forced to leave. Her husband was going to follow her the next week. He was captured and sent to prison, and she never saw her husband or her home again. The pastor wanted to give her the tablecloth; but she made the pastor keep it for the church. The pastor insisted on driving her home as that was the least he could do. She lived on the far side of Staten Island and was only in Brooklyn for the day for a housecleaning job. What a wonderful service they had on Christmas Eve. The church was almost full. The music and the spirit were great. At the end of the service, the pastor and his wife greeted everyone at the door and many said that they would return. One older man who the pastor recognized from the neighborhood continued to sit in one of the pews and stare, and the pastor wondered why he wasn't leaving. The man asked him where he got the tablecloth on the front wall because it was identical to one that his wife had made years ago when they lived in Austria before the war. How could there be two tablecloths so much alike? He told the pastor how the Nazis came, how he insisted his wife flee for her safety, how he was supposed to follow her but was arrested and put in a prison, and how he never saw his wife or his home again in all the 35 years between. The pastor asked him if he would allow him to take him for a little ride. They drove to Staten Island and to the same house where the pastor had taken the woman a few days earlier. He helped the man climb the three flights of stairs to the woman's apartment, knocked on the door and observed the greatest Christmas reunion he could ever imagine.
Here are the original Guidelines Given By Jesus to Helen Schucman and
Bill Thetford for the overall use of A Course In Miracles in the
world. These Guidelines are still very helpful and practical today.
1. A Course In Miracles was copyrighted when it was first published
in the 1970s in order to keep its thought-system intact during the
first 3 decades of its birth and distribution to the world.
2. A Course In Miracles was intended to be a self-study course. Only
Jesus & the Holy Spirit can reveal the meaning of the Course to the
student's mind. Only God knows the readiness of the student to
receive this revelation.
3. A Course In Miracles was only to be published by those who devoted
their lives to its guardianship.
4. A Course In Miracles was not to be commercially advertised. It
has and will make its own way around the world. Freely you have
received, now freely give.
5. Free copies of A Course In Miracles were to be provided to those
people who could not afford the cost of the Course. This function
was originally the responsibility of the publisher, and now is up to
everyone who hears and Answers the Call. A Course In Miracles is now
offered freely on the Internet for those who wish to read and/or
print a copy of the book for their study and use.
6. No one was to make any money from A Course In Miracles. Revenues
and donations are always to be used for sharing and extending the
Course with the world and experiencing the Inner Peace of the Kingdom
of Heaven within.
Thanks to Trisha Aude for sharing these Guidelines through the years.
Love & Blessings,
David
http://awakening-mind.org
