Mon grats...Meaning and Reason, WB #44...God is the Mind in which I think...
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I am grateful this morning for an undisturbed full night’s sleep.
I am grateful for a whole day of Freedom.
I am grateful for being touched by so many beautiful truthful souls...patty's posts, and Jennifer posting Freeman’s poem, “I am there,” so touching. The first time I read that sonnet I went boneless. I do hope that some one recorded your father’s performance. I’m not too sure I had any understanding of God back then, but I truly understood what Freeman wrote. I still don’t always know about “Truths” in my life…but I know that I am open.
Dr, David Hawkins maintains only the integrous have access to the Truth. I often wonder why I don’t know Truths are Truths” I feel truth...but seems I don’t know it, or, then, do I?
I opened ACIM to lesson #45: “God is the Mind with which I think.” (I study in first person)
Today's idea holds the key to what my real thoughts are. They are nothing that I think I think, just as nothing that I think I see is related to vision in any way. There is no relationship between what is real and what I think is real. Nothing that I think is my real thoughts resembles my real thoughts in any respect. Nothing that I think I see bears any resemblance to what vision will show me.
Jesus is trying his best to convince me that:
I think with the Mind of God. Therefore I share my (real) thoughts with Him, as He shares His with me. They are the same (real) thoughts, because they are thought by the same Mind. To share is to make alike, or to make one. Nor do the (real) thoughts I think with the Mind of God leave my mind, because (real) thoughts do not leave their source. Therefore, my (real) thoughts are in the Mind of God, as I am. They are in my mind as well, where He is. As I am part of His Mind, so is my (real) thoughts part of His Mind.
Where, then, are my real thoughts?
Jesus says we will attempt to reach them. We will have to look for them in my mind, because that is where they are. They must still be there, because they cannot have left their source. What is thought by the Mind of God is eternal, being part of creation.
Me? Can any of you possibly imagine what went on in my mind when I read this the first time…and I didn’t even know Jesus was part of this material? I just thought who ever wrote this sure knew something that I’d never heard of before…but remember, I maintain that I am open?
I really centered with this line: “Ideas never leave their source!” This was the most comforting line I’d ever read. I had not been in a 12-Step Program very long, and had just learned there was a Power Greater than I…and gratefully had come to terms with that.
Now I’m learning “ideas never leave their source?” I think that this is when I first decided that perhaps I could have been an Idea of God’s that I had never left It's Source. It sure made a lot more sense than being an idea of Guy and Flossie’s…they were good enough at parenting, but not in planning. I had become the 5th of 8, in 1927 at the height of the Great Depression?
Victor Frankl in “Man’s Search for Meaning” helped me acquire Meaning for my life, now ACIM comes along and gives me Reason. I thought, nothing can stop me now, but me…and I felt like I was a roll…Then I learned about Higher Consciousness …definitely not from my friends, but from books.
I loved the message in “Jonathan Livingston Seagull.” Both Bach and Frankl were before course.
I’m rambling…I’m grateful…what more can I say?…rell
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