Welcome
to the Miracles Discussion Board. The purpose of this board is
to serve as a forum for discussion of the course and other teachings of love
in a respectful and accepting way.
Let this be noted:
We are entitled to miracles because
We are God's Children
In whom He is Super well pleased!
We will receive our miracles because of what God is.
We will offer miracles because we are one with God.
We will celebrate our True Identity today!
Our claim to miracles does not lie in our illusions,
Nor, depending on any magical power we took on our own,
Nor, any rituals or loyalties we learned.
They, miracles, we are ensured in our creation,
In our inherent Truth as God's Children,
And are guaranteed by the laws of God.
Put your arms up around you neck.
Close your eyes.
Take in deep slow breathes and say:
"I am entitled to miracles.
They are rightfully mine.
They are equally for each of us.
I do not need to sacrifice anything to get them.
I can not get more or less than someone else.
Miracles follow from the laws of God."
When you have successfully breathed in the fact that you
Are entitled to miracles...That you are asking for your rights,
Feeling no guilt now...lol...then breathe in that you/me,
Little ole rellalou, are/am upholding the rights of everyone!
This is the laws of God!
We have to back out of any laws that we think we've made.
When we finally take all of this in
And we can rest assured that indeed,
We are entitled to these miracles...
Then knowing this request is granted...
Know...we have also asked for the salvation
Of the world and for our own.
In this request we have asked merely
That the Will of God be done.
As you are breathing in Holy Spirit's assurances...See it done!
There is no room for doubt...
Lay all doubts aside.
Vow not to pick them back up.
Keep breathing this in...
That this will come to pass...
Breathe it in once more.
Slowly begin to open your eyes...
Continue to repeat, as you smile,
That we are under no laws but God's.
The assurance comes from knowing it is not us, nor another...
But God, who has established miracles as our own rights.
We are entitled to miracles...
***...rell
Posted on Mar 21, 2006, 3:14 PM from IP address 24.217.186.143
In these daily lessons we are steadily becoming
Very much aware that we are under no laws but God's.
We have been bound by the ego's senseless strange,
Twisted laws and rules, that have been set up to save us.
And we've bought into it BIG TIME!
Maintained through guilt,
Loyalty and manipulation of every devious sort
To shift our love from God to ego.
In many ways this feat is a fairly uniform "catalog" of insane rituals.
Name it.
It is there.
In the last few years any category can be found on the www.sites...
Not laws of God who needs no laws--but madness...we think brings us joy!
The body is only endangered by the mind that hurts itself.
The body suffers just in order that
The mind will fail to see it is the victim of itself.
The body's suffering is a mask
The egomind holds up to hide what really suffers.
The body would not understand it is its own enemy;
That it, the body, attacks itself and wants to die.
It is from this: our "laws" would save the body.
It is from this: we think we are a body.
There are no laws but God's.
This does need repeating over, and over, and over, and over, and over...
Until I "Real eyes" it applies to everything that I have made
In opposition to God's Will.
Our present magic really has...no meaning.
What it is meant to save does...not exist.
Only what it is meant to hide...will it save us.
The laws of God can never be replaced!
Our sort of magic imprisons, the laws of God sets us free!
The Light has come because there are no laws but His...
When the mind is ready to take in God's laws BIG TIME!...
Loyalty and guilt are what have been egodesigned as a flow of interference
To abort this beautiful and wise reception of God's laws...
By putting a sickness on the body.
If only I had a strong enough desire--to remember?
('Dea' is Latin for God...'sire' is to father a wish.)
A strong enough "desire" to abort the ego's foothold...
Sickness on our body would not be possible.
This is why and how anything is possible with God.
A miracle is a change in our perception.
The HigherSelf mind has the power to "vision" differently.
Because: "We are under no laws but God's"...
*** love...rell
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Posted on Mar 16, 2006, 11:37 PM from IP address 200.118.2.218
The purpose of this lesson
Is to teach the Light of the “Realworld.”
This lessons tells me, rell,
That my will is God’s Will
Even if I am unawares of it.
…This is as cool as a lacy petticoat.
What gets in my way of God’s Will
Is what I took in as real
But it is merely ego acquisition.
…This is as ruff as wide wale corduroy.
This means for my will and God’s Will
To get on with my Salvation
I will be re-awakening to Real “Realness.”
…This is as delicate as georgette.
When I am ego tempted to hold grievances
I need say: “Holy Spirit, I’m deciding wrongly again…
And I will there we light instead of darkness here…
…This will be as sheer as a silk organza gown.
This lesson is about this Will I share with God.
ACIM says my will is identical as God’s.
I want the same for me as God does
As I was created to extend His Will.
Today, I am trying once more to reach
The “Realworld” that is in accord with my will.
This “Realworld” that reflects my true will.
Like my mind yearns to reflect God.
Forgiveness lifts this darkness,
Lets me look upon a world of light
And lets go of grievances
Like I’d do a strip tease act for the ego.
Forgiveness allows me to strip clean
Of any debris that darkens
My HigherSelf that God and I can truly see.
Through drawing the gossamer veils.
Suffering is not happiness.
Some seem to prefer pain
Over risking something new
And oh! How good we all learned to suffer.
Some seem scared we won’t know
How to endure or engage in happiness
But we really do not want to suffer.
Somewhere within we know
We need not suffer pain, loneliness, nor sickness.
My will represents my HigherSelf as God created me.
If I think that my will seems to come
From a different source…it does.
It is a wish of my ego thoughts.
Jesus says:
“It amazes me sometimes how powerful a message this can be.”
And I say to Jesus:
“Most of the time it seems as if I have a split mind;
Part of me wants to be happy;
Part of me wants to sabotage my every effort.”
“Above all else,
I want the freedom to remember
Who I really am.
Today, the ego stands powerless before my will.
My will is free,
And nothing can prevail against it!”
*** love…rell
Posted on Mar 14, 2006, 8:00 PM from IP address 24.217.186.143
Let me not wander into temptation.!
What a line...I used to beg for temptation...
I utilized the purpose of this egoworld to obscure
My function and forgiveness...Big Time!
This provided me a justification for abandoning God.
It was tempting to abandon God by taking on
This physical appearance. WOW!
I thought that I'd abandoned God for most of my life.
A line in Melody Beattie's first book brought me to attention!
"We abandoned God...but God does not abandon us." WOW!
This lesson started turning my awareness of God's Love for me around.
I've since learned why my spiritual path could be as simple as it has been;
How easy for me to now to accept these writings of Jesus;
Why ego and I seldom argued; Holy Spirit and I just knew!
In reviewing our last lessons:
1. I accept, rell, is to be/am a Light of this RealWorld.
2. It is egoarrogance to deny this...to take on egounworthiness.
3. To ignore my function of forgiving myself.
4. To ignore the path to escape from ego illusions.
Now, back where we started on this lesson...
"Let me not wander into temptation!"
*** rell
Posted on Mar 12, 2006, 9:46 AM from IP address 24.217.186.143
ACIM Lesson 63..."The light of the world brings peace to every mind through my forgiveness."
I tend to take in so much without questions, these days.
Early ACIM found me "real eyezing"
That to question Jesus was of the absurd ego.
The Light of this RealWorld brings
Peace to every mind: How?
Through my forgiveness.
"How can this be I'd wonder to me...back then?"
Then I'd read this again...
"How holy am I who has this Power to bring
Peace to every mind!"
I began to learn that no part of
My early ego training was a part of this fact.
It would be only the part of my mind
That is connected to God's.
This HigherSelf part.
How Blessed we are who are willing to continue
To learn to recognize (to see again) the means for
Letting this be done through us.
Some of these steps were gifted to me through Meditation.
{{{This step was...do any of you remember the "trading stamps?"
The Eagle stamps were a biggie in my day.}}}
The Children of God look to the willing learners for "redemption."
{{{Was your money or merchandise waiting for you even
If you never went down town to redeem it?
Did you look forward to going downtown to get/redeem your stamps?}}}
So is your/our HigherSelves...looking for its re-emergence!
Our HigherSelf that we were born with is still with us.
And will always be with us...it can never leave us.
Currently we use only the part of it we dare to use...
Or we feel is safe to use. I know that I do...
But I also know that my HigherSelf is within me/my mind...
And the part of my mind that is part of God's is very Holy.
When our choice and willingness finally feels
Safe enough to reach this curious stage
We are "Gifted with the solution to be father/mothered
Into the Resolutions of our active HigherSelf.
Our redeemed HigherSelf is the Light of the RealWorld!
We love richard: he shares soo much with all of us!
Kaleb picked up my reason for generosity...
And gave it back to me, for one, so he could keep this Gift!
He also vowed to give it to each he met.
I get that Power of the gift everytime he gives it...
And everytime I give it. And so does he.
Is this simple enough to see how it works?
That when we give it away--we get to keep it?
*(The Law of Abundance built in!)
I will not question what I would do
As the Light of this world...
I know that I will be given this task in the increments
That only I will easily understand.
Don't you know God wants but success?
"The Light of this World brings
Peace to every mind through my forgiveness."
"I/we ? am/are the means God has appointed
For the salvation of this World."
***love...rell
Posted on Mar 11, 2006, 8:46 AM from IP address 24.217.186.143
Hi Ann, Rell...isn't it remarkable how Jesus keeps allowing our thoughts to build and build? Ha! Most of the actual grievances I have are "perfectly natural" and from this world's perspective, VERY neccessary! Shirley and I were talking this morning about how neither of us "liked" a certain item in our lives that had been changed by a person in "higher authority!" Then both of us realized the little trick of the ego...asked Holy Spirit for Its thoughts...MY what a difference...God's good, sure do thank You for being here, Love Patrick S
Posted on Mar 9, 2006, 7:04 AM from IP address 207.200.116.139
Lesson #69??My grievances hide the light of the world in me.?
The dark cloud of grievances...
clean out time for rell!
Dear Holy Spirit:
The reverence with which I undertake these lessons
Comes upon me without asking, because my many grievances
Are hiding the Light of this World for everyone.
There is no reason for me to guilt me, as well I could, and do,
The resolutions will come from my actions...
Showing up in them big time!
Each time these exercises are presented to me
Is another time to go for that many layers of junque?
I often wonder which millennium will be the time
That this glorious wonder occurs?
Where will I be in my willing progress?
Which stepping stone am I dragging my feet on?
What is my payoff for stalling??
Besides thinking I need be loyal to my idols?
Like going back past the great black cloud's accumulation
Of all the idols I know and that I no longer need?
They are staring and swirling at me right here in my eyes...
And, me, desirous of releasing them one by one to Holy Spirit
Because I had/have decided wrongly...and can decide again...
Because I want to bring my willing part into attaining this peace.
And now back to watching the churning blacknesses disappear
As the brilliant cloisonné' outlines and shrinks
This luminous black clouds of illusions
As gloriously as Holy Spirit is given free reign
Over the guilts as they blast forth at me
As if I am watching the beginning of an OMNIMAX...
And grinning back at Holy Spirit, saying:
"You sure do good work...can you pick me up?
I have no bones in these knees"...amen
*** love...rell
Posted on Mar 9, 2006, 7:30 AM from IP address 24.217.186.143
therefore, I just want to acknowledge it...Bless you Annie.
I do not know where you are in the awareness of this course, I know that you are definitely not new, but the cooooooolest day for me was these particular group of lessons on forgiveness when they came around the second or third time, and I Real-eyezed that 'twas only I that I could forgive, yeah, only me. What peace came over me that day!
And I was to forgive me for being duped into thinking all this other stuff that took my Peace was Real. I do not know if I am saying this approiately or not?
I had to forgive myself for thinking that I was separated from God.
I had to forgive me for thinking that I had to do X amount of good in this world, (which meant that I'd never know the right amount or get close if I could even consider that God loved me, not ever thinking: "Loving me unconditionally?) I forgave for thinking that I could sacrifice...when this became clear...just even more Peace.
I had to forgive me for thinking we could possibly be separated from one another?
I know that I am stating these forgivenesses with "I Had To:" but what a pleasure it was to perservere to what ever point that I am as of today! There never had been an "I Had To:" It was always "Merely my little bit of Willingness."
rell on to continuing her celestial education...the list goes on.
Posted on Mar 7, 2006, 9:03 AM from IP address 24.217.186.143
Re: Forgiveness is my function as a "Light of the World".
by Patrick S
Hi Anne so good to see a post here...Yes, "Forgiveness is my function as Light of the World" has also been a very powerful thought for me, also helps give me a much different concept of the possibility of me being A Light of this world! Peace and Love, Patrick S
Posted on Mar 3, 2006, 12:23 PM from IP address 152.163.100.204
Forgiveness is my function as a "Light of the World".
by Annie
Hi Patrick!
This has helped me so much today as well as the previous lesson. "I am the light of the world."
We are packing to move and I have been coming across pictures of an individual that (in my ego mind) was very evil and hurt a lot of people. These pictures have gone directly into the garbage. It always amazes me that just stopping for one moment, and practicing the lesson, how it can change everything and instantly bring peace. But, as I pack away and keep coming across these reminders of this individual (who is no longer even walking this earth) I realize how much farther I have to go to complete forgiveness. It must be what Jesus meant about keeping constant vigilance.
What makes me laugh as I watch the action of the ego thinking, is when I find myself getting upset at the reminders. My ego thinking wants me to feel ashamed because I am not acting as a "light of the world". And again, just stopping to repeat the lesson, shuts that ole ego right up and I step into the present again.....if only for a moment.
Posted on Mar 3, 2006, 8:46 PM from IP address 71.80.221.233
Love can walk no road except the way of GRATITUDE.
by
From workbook lesson 195…Holy Spirit is tugging me by my hand (my Mind) to walk the road via the way of GRATITUDE. For GRATITUDE is the way I will go while I am on this spiritual path to God. God gives thanks to me, His Son rell, for being what I am. (OBTW, there is no gender in spirit.)
My concern for GRATITUDE and how it affects my overall demeanor will shorten my Interstate path to God; deepen my inner state awareness of His Love for each of us; and synchronize my Love for Him.
I have loved this call to deepen my awareness of GRATITUDE. I think it, I feel it, and act it at every golden opportunity. When I miss one, and I do, I splice right back on this Interstate and act again on changing my perception…sometimes it seems every thought is a miracle opportunity… the thinker rell
Posted on Dec 26, 2005, 6:41 PM from IP address 71.14.86.77
Isn’t it amazing how I cannot hate anything as I walk or stumble along in GRATITUDE?
Isn’t it amazing that fear is no longer a given when comparisons nearly no longer exist?
Isn’t it amazing that when one facet of fear is relinquished that many other fears disappear, too?
Isn’t it amazing how forgiveness oooozzzes right into
GRATITUDE as I began to know every one and everything is worthy of love? Even me? Even you?
Isn’t it amazing that I’ve learned so much about GRATITUDE from each of you on this website? I am most GRATEFUL to our patty who’s post are packed with essays on how her Clients and their families teach her so much…dear One, did you know how this was so meaningful to me? And yes, others here too, continue to teach me…
Stumbling rell who is always getting back up…
Posted on Dec 22, 2005, 12:33 PM from IP address 71.14.86.77
Are the Yellow Finches grateful that I bought their kind of birdseed?
And are they also grateful that the Green Ash tree is nearly Yellow?
And do they feel the security of Protection and Abundance?
Are the Redbirds grateful to have the Yellow Finches for tree guests
And get to share their food?
And dine so elegantly?
Do the chirrups and songs sung all day long
Indicate their gratitude as they entertain me?
Is the Green Ash tree grateful to be the home of my friends?
Are the Gray Squirrels happy when the birds drop them seeds?
Are the Brown Groundhogs grateful to have so much interest in their life?
And are the White Tailed Bunnies grateful to be hopping about in happiness?
The Pink Fox...is it grateful to be my wood’s guest?
As it sashshays across the Sacred Circle?
And all the while the Black Crows soar like wimpy little “Eagles”...
And the cute little tiny Toads are everywhere under feet...
What are they grateful for?
That no one has kissed them yet? or...
Taken them out of Toaddom yet
And made them into the handsome Princes?
I bet?
And the Crickets and the Flowers
Are they grateful just to be?
Isn’t it amazing how I cannot hate anything as I walk or stumble along in GRATITUDE?
Isn’t it amazing that fear is no longer a given when comparisons nearly no longer exist?
Isn’t it amazing that when one facet of fear is relinquished that many other fears disappear, too?
Isn’t it amazing how forgiveness oooozzzes right into
GRATITUDE as I began to know every one and everything is worthy of love? Even me? Even you?
Isn’t it amazing that I’ve learned so much about GRATITUDE from each of you on this website? I am most GRATEFUL to our patty who’s post are packed with essays on how her Clients and their families teach her so much…dear One, did you know how this was so meaningful to me? And yes, others here too, continue to teach me.
stumbling rell, but I get back up!
Posted on Dec 20, 2005, 6:17 PM from IP address 199.217.206.126
It was 61 years ago when Bill and Bob opened their doors whereby our brothers could lean their tired heads against their shoulder to rest a while. The entire 12-Step communities offer thanks to them.
Bill Wilson drank four beers on the subway before entering Towns Hospital on Tuesday, December 11th, 1934. These were has last alcoholic drinks. A few days later he experienced a vital spiritual transformation by following the “neat little formula” offered by his one time drinking buddy.
We’ve learned that we must share the peace that we have found, (with our actions)…whereby, the way is opening at last to us. Thanks to Bill and Bob, an ancient door is swinging free again; a long forgotten Word re-echoes in our memory, and gathers clarity as we are willing once again to hear.
Dr. David Hawkins comments that “It is a common observation that so long as the recovering person in a 12-Step program remains within the influence of that powerful energy field, they remain sober…”
What is more forgiving than a 12-Step meeting table allowing the tired and weary struggling addicted One a place to heal, to rest, and to recover? Thanks is offered to each One…as I, too, am directed to the Peace that we all struggle to find…this is Peaceful rell
Posted on Dec 19, 2005, 5:56 PM from IP address 71.14.86.77
W-195.5. Therefore give thanks, but in sincerity. And let your gratitude make room for all who will escape with you; the sick, the weak, the needy and afraid, and those who mourn a seeming loss or feel apparent pain, who suffer cold or hunger, or who walk the way of hatred and the path of death. All these go with you. Let us not compare ourselves with them, for thus we split them off from our awareness of the unity we share with them, as they must share with us.
Love makes no comparisons.
{{{I, rell, had found through out this life of mine that in order to feel good about me was to put someone else down. Naw, I am not the only one who had done that, but this is about how this child of God being able to hear the cries for Compassion, instead of a continuant path of looking down in pity. When I got around those tables, pity just wasn’t going to cut it for any of us any more…There had to be a better way. Our elder brother, Jesus, was a fine example for me to follow. His heart seemed so big, never needing to feel better. He just was.
It was I, rell, who needed to let GRATITUDE make room for all who would escape with me in their's and God’s time frame; all the sick, the weak, the needy and afraid, and those who mourn a seeming loss or feel apparent pain, who suffer cold or hunger, or who walk the way of hatred and the path of death. All these go with me as the GRATITUDE encompassed me until Compassion was there to make us all free. Free as each could become as we struggled to know God’s Unconditional Love for each of us. And we offer our thanks to God our Father that in us all things will find their freedom as our absorption of God’s Love finds It’s way into our hearts and into our minds.
We are thanking our Father for one thing alone; that we are separate from no living thing, and therefore one with Him.}}}rell, running down…
Posted on Dec 18, 2005, 5:21 PM from IP address 71.14.86.77
Workbook lesson 195 ...You do not offer God your gratitude because your brother is more slave than you, nor could you sanely be enraged if he seems freer. Love makes no comparisons. And gratitude can only be sincere if it be joined to love. We offer thanks to God our Father that in us all things will find their freedom. It will never be that some are loosed while others still are bound. For who can bargain in the name of love?
Love makes no comparisons.
{{{ rell: I think that I got it…It seems I cant say to God, “God I sure am grateful that I think that I have more than those other guys.” And I cant say, “God, I sure am grateful that I have some one to feel sorry for.”
I can offer my awareness to God that in each of us all things will find their Freedom…what more can I be GRATEFUL for than this?…just as each of us finds our Freedoms whether it be around 12-Step tables, A Course In Miracles study group, or long ago when we were babies at their knees on our knees as we crawled our way to this Freedom…what could possibly be more GRATIFYING?
What a shift it must have taken in my perception to recognize all my judgment calls that it took to make those comparisons. Me? all the while grasping at every straw in the stack in order to feel this GRATITUDE and to know God’s Love for us each unconditionally.
Bottom line…Love makes no comparisons…nor does God… rell }}}
Posted on Dec 16, 2005, 9:56 AM from IP address 71.14.86.77
W-195.2. It is insane to offer thanks because of suffering. But it is equally insane to fail in gratitude to One Who offers you the certain means whereby all pain is healed, and suffering replaced with laughter and with happiness. Nor could the even partly sane refuse to take the steps which He directs, and follow in the way He sets before them, to escape a prison that they thought contained no door to the deliverance they now perceive.
{{{ rell: Seems our sanity is restored in 24 hour increments as we listen to the healers of 12-Step meetings. Those teachers set before me the steps they took up to that particular time...for them I am GRATEFUL.
Seems Holy Spirit saw to it as I slid my body up close enough to hear...not to miss a word
Seems Holy Spirit set before me the choice of a doorless prison or Freedom.
Seems at some point I was gifted with the Course In Miracles, that told me and showed me, all that the Power Greater than me could be entirely possible as I surrendered all beliefs that took my Peace... As I studied those 365 lessons of the workbook, combined with visibly viewing various healings there in the 12-Steps...My! oh my! How GRATEFUL can one girl get?
I started understanding what may have been happening to me when someone handed me a book, "Power vs Force," by Dr. David Hawkins...He had been writing about the "Levels of Consciousness" as calibrated by kinesiology. The kinesilogic response (muscle testing) is a simple "yes" or "not yes" (no) response to a specific stimuli.}}}
[[[[[On page 315 of “The Eye of The ‘I'" the second book of a trilogy by David Hawkins, MD...where he is telling about a group of people who came at one time to the clinic to learn about kinesiology and, surprisingly, none of the reliable negative stimuli had any affect on them and they tested out to be immune to external negativity. Upon questioning, it was revealed that they were all spiritual aspirants and students who, in this particular case, had studied a spiritual course of instruction called A Course in Miracles.
This discovery was important and led to a further investigation in which students who intended to do the one-year A Course in Miracles workbook were tested before starting the course and serially thereafter. By the time the students were up to about Lesson 75) they had lost their vulnerability to negative stimuli. (A Course in Miracles is based on the power of forgiveness.) This enables the replacement of the ego's perception and its dualistic positionality with truth which replaces falsehood.
The critical lesson in A Course in Miracles where the student showed this shift is ‘I am only subject to what I hold in mind'. However, for this lesson to become absorbed, the preceding seventy-four lessons had to be taken daily and sequentially as prescribed. (A Course in Miracles calibrates at 600.) Another interesting observation of spiritual power is accorded by a study of the spiritual organization of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), which has an overall organizational energy field of 540 (Unconditional Love).
It is a common observation that so long as the recovering person remains within the influence of that powerful energy field, they remain sober, and when they decide they are going to 'go it on their own' and leave AA, they relapse. Thus, unless a participant's personal level of consciousness rises to 540 or above, their recovery depends on the spiritual power of the group itself. It is comparable to iron filings being held within a powerful electromagnetic field.]]]]]]
Seems GRATITUDE has no starting place nor a place to stop…for which I can be ever so GRATEFUL. rell
Posted on Dec 14, 2005, 8:19 PM from IP address 71.14.86.77
W-195.1. Gratitude is a lesson hard to learn for those who look upon the world amiss. The most that they can do is see themselves as better off than others. And they try to be content because another seems to suffer more than they. How pitiful and deprecating are such thoughts! For who has cause for thanks while others have less cause? And who could suffer less because he sees another suffer more? Your gratitude is due to Him alone Who made all cause of sorrow disappear throughout the world.
{{{ rell: Holy Spirit was so gracious in allowing me to learn that I can be no better off than others. Or that another is suffering more than I am…Now if I can get by with thinking this then I can be grateful that I am so much better off than they…Or that they can suffer more than I can. It is very hard to learn that these are merely judgment calls that I decided to make to make me feel better…(when my self-esteem was so low.) Oh, how little I must think of myself to want to feel better because I am not suffering as much as I’ve decided that they are. Or, what is there in my 2nd guessing judgmental abilities to actually know how much or how little another has, and just what am I referring to, money, clothes, cars, or, property? Or am I judging their emotional or spiritual levels of consciousness? And how do I know that? What if I left out some very important factor in all this equation?
Yes, I am most GRATEFUL to Holy Spirit for encouraging me to understand this dynamic...to the level that I do...as of today.
Yes...Gratitude is a lesson hard to learn, unless one is privileged to set amongst those teachers at the 12-Step tables...}}}
and I have...rell
Posted on Dec 13, 2005, 2:06 PM from IP address 71.14.86.77
You said: "Yes...Gratitude is a lesson hard to learn, unless one is privileged to set amongst those teachers at the 12-Step tables...}}}
and I have...rell"
I heard around those 12 step tables that its impossible to be grateful and hateful at the same time...Holy Spirit sure talks to us through those steps...Gratitude is also an action word...means if I am grateful I must share it in order to keep it...sounds a lot like ACIM to me! Peace, Love and Joy to you, I Love you, Patrick S
Posted on Dec 14, 2005, 9:00 AM from IP address 207.200.116.200
Jump start to understand God’s Love for me...and everyone
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W-123.8. Receive His thanks, and you will understand how lovingly He holds you in His Mind, how deep and limitless His care for you, how perfect is His gratitude to you. Remember hourly to think of Him, and give Him thanks for everything He gave His Son, that he might rise above the world, remembering his Father and his Self.
rell{{{ Holy Spirit is trying to convince me, rell, that as I touch/feel any smidgen amount of GRATITUDE as I go along each day, get in the habit of acknowledging it, that somehow I will begin to understand God’s Love for me, yeah, me, little ole rellalou. Then, I will begin to know and feel how God holds me in His Mind, how deep and limitless is His care for me, and how perfect is His GRATITUDE for me. Holy Spirit is doing It’s best to show me that this is the way I can leave the worldly crap of hate, judgment, and fear behind…once and for ever. Ya know what? I’m going for it every chance put in my awareness… and I am GRATEFUL for any one who is there to offer to me this opportunity…yeah, lil ole GRATEFUL rell.
I am GRATEFUL for patty, who has brought her GRATITUE proclamations to this site on a daily basis…watching her rise above so many things has been a tremendous education for me.}}} rell
Posted on Dec 10, 2005, 1:47 PM from IP address 71.14.86.77
We do not go alone. And we give thanks that in our solitude a Friend has come to speak the saving Word of God to us. And thanks to you for listening to Him. His Word is soundless if it be not heard. In thanking Him the thanks are yours as well. An unheard message will not save the world, however mighty be the Voice that speaks, however loving may the message be.
{{{We found in the 12-Steps of Recovry...we do not go alone. I am most GRATEFUL for Bill and Bob for setting up their part in our path of recovery.
And we give thanks that in our solitude a Friend has come to speak the saving Word of God, the Power that learned to believed to be Greater than us. And that saving message was often the catalyist that gave us the rest of our Peace for the 24 hours in our day.
And Yes! we sat there and listened to not only Him, but to the Christness in each of us.
{{{OBTW, I learned that Christness is the Word that means our own Goodness.}}}
His Word is soundless if it be not heard...somehow we must have known this, as we continued to meet and share our Goodness, our GRATITUDE, and our hopes. In thanking Him the thanks are all of ours. An unheard message will not save the world, nor would it give us the Peace that began to give us our understanding.}}}
My neighborhood is covered with snow...it is beautifully clean and pure smelling...and most gracious...rell
Posted on Dec 8, 2005, 1:20 PM from IP address 71.14.86.77
Rellalou said: "His Word is soundless if it be not heard...somehow we must have known this, as we continued to meet and share our Goodness, our GRATITUDE, and our hopes. In thanking Him the thanks are all of ours. An unheard message will not save the world, nor would it give us the Peace that began to give us our understanding.}}}"
Another WOW! "An unheard message will not save the world." Gratitude, unexpressed will not be meaningful, even to the grateful...Whatever we share is ours! I am off to share this message, my love for you grows as I share Gratitude, it must be heard...God's GOOD and so are YOU! I Love you, Patrick S
Posted on Dec 11, 2005, 8:22 AM from IP address 207.200.116.200
ACIM Workbook Lesson 123.prg 4. Today in gratitude we lift our hearts above despair, and raise our thankful eyes, no longer looking downward to the dust. We sing the song of thankfulness today, in honor of the Self that God has willed to be our true Identity in Him. Today we smile on everyone we see, and walk with lightened footsteps as we go to do what is appointed us to do.
{{{OBTW, I happened to decide to study ACIM in A First Person Mentality...seemed to me the finger pointed back at me...instead of out there at the gross generalizations ...which were very hard for me to personally get in touch with. }}}
Holy Spirit, in the above segment, is saying, "rell...by getting in touch with the dynamics of GRATITUDE, you can lift your heart above despair, raise your thankful eyes...no longer are you looking downward to the dust."
Holy Spirit is asking me to sing the song of thankfulness today..to honor the HigherSelf God willed to be my true Identity in Him...and to smile on everyone I see, walking with lightened footsteps as I go to do what is appointed us to do.
rell {{{Slowly and surely, Holy Spirit was not going to let me, rell, get off life without knowing what makes "life" tick for me...It was like Holy Spirit gave me a pair of mirrors instead of these eyes. That I was to mirror back other's goodness and if I could see that goodnesss within them, then it was surely mine to behold.
What I thought I saw in others...was to be what I believed about me that was an untruth, was to be GRATEFUL and that it was a belief that I needed to change about myself...thus, a MIRACLE is merely a change in my perception, even of me...
My mirroring eyes took in so much around those 12-Step Tables of Recovery... yeah, the recovery of my HigherSelf! changing my Belief System by becoming disloyal to the negative messages that I'd held so dear. And Honoring up every one who mirrored what I was born to be. Only Love. }}} This is rell
Posted on Dec 7, 2005, 3:18 PM from IP address 71.14.86.77
rell }}}