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I let forgiveness rest upon all things, For thus forgiveness will be given me

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lesson #342 I let forgiveness rest upon all things,
For thus forgiveness will be given me
God,

I thank You, and thank You, and thank You
For this plan to save me from
The hell that I thought that I had made!
This study book is the means.
This key is in my hands.
I am standing at this door.
I can turn around. (No you can’t.)
I can not weasel out.
The end of this mad dream is behind me
When I walk through this door.

I stand before this gate to Heaven
My knees do not quiver
My shoulders do not siver
I rest assured of Your Truths.

Let me not wait to forgive ALL things.
Let creation be to me
As You would have it be.
I will remember I am Your Son!

As I open this door at last
There are no illusions
In this blazing Light of Truth!
And the memory of You returns to me.


My brothers,
Forgive me now.
You are going home with me.
As we go, the world goes with us,
On our way to God! amen…

…rell


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#340...I Can Be Free From Suffering Today!

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lesson #340 “I Can Be Free From Suffering Today!”

God,
I thank you for this day!
All these lessons that I have studied
Propels me onward toward to know
Your Love for me.

I thank you for the certainty of freedom
Today will bring to me.

The path has been revealed to me
In ever so many ways.

God,
I will hear Your Voice
Directing me to Christ’s
Vision through forgiveness…
And free forever from all pain.

God, Thank You for today!
This is the day
I was born to know
The Joy and Freedom
As I release the egoworld I made.

God,
There is no room
But for Joy and Thanks today!
I am redeemed today!

No one will remain in fear this day
As we are awakened to God HimSelf,
Awake in Heaven
In the Heart of Love. Amen

***…rell

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#339...I Will Receive Whatever I Request.

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lesson #339 “I Will Receive Whatever I Request.”

In those 338 lessons that I have taken in,
I have learned there is so much power in my mind.
So much power to do with
What my mind thinks
Whether I think
I think it or not.
{{Dr. David Hawkins, "Power vs Force"
has reemphasized that
“I am subject only to what I hold in mind…”}}

No one desires pain.
But I ‘can’ think pain could be pleasure.
If I do think this
I am thinking thoughts
That are separate from God’s.

I can even think joy could be painful
I can think joy could be threatening
Or could be dangerous.
I can be confused about what I want.
I can be confused about
The state of mind I may attain.

Let me learn today
To ask for what I truly want.
And only this.
That I may spend
This day in fearlessness,
Ceasing to confuse
Pain with joy
Fear with love.

God,
This is Your day!
A day in which
I do nothing by mySelf.
A day I hear Your Voice
In every thing I do.

I request only
What you offer me.
I accept only Thoughts
You share with me. Amen

*** …rell


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#338...I am affected only by my thoughts

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lesson #338 “I am affected only by my thoughts.”

I have had 337 lessons explaining to me
Nothing can frighten me,
Nothing can endanger me,
I can have no enemies
I am safe from ALL external things.

My thoughts could frighten me
But since they are my thoughts
I am the one with the power to change them.
I am the one who can exchange each
Fear thought for a happy thought of love.
I can be the only one who can crucify me.
I crucify me with my thoughts.

These preceeding 337 lessons are
God’s plan for His beloved Child, rell
To redeem herSelf!

God, I know Your plan is sure.
But only Yours.

I will continue to go past
The thoughts that frighten me
Until I get it, or learn,
That You God,
Have given me the only Thoughts
That lead me to salvation.

My thoughts by myself, or ego thinking,
Will get me nowhere.

But the Thoughts You gave to me
Promises to be my home to You.
Your Thoughts holds Your Promise
To this Son, this rell Child…amen.

*** …rell



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#337...My sinlessness protects me from all harm.

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lesson #337 “My sinlessness protects me from all harm.”

The message in this blue book is
Assuring me of Perfect Peace.
Of eternal safety,
Of everlasting love,
Of freedom forever from scare-city,
And to never to suffer again.

The only state available to me
Will be perpetual happiness.

To know this for me
I merely must accept
Atonement for mySelf.

God has already done it ALL…
God has done it ALL already!

Although, I will need to learn
I must do nothing for mySelf.
I do need to accept my HigherSelf
My sinlessness.

My sinlessness is already mine…
Never been without it,
In my dream I didn’t know how
To feel and to know God’s Love
Protecting me from ALL harm
Nor did I understand my Father
Loves his Son, His Children unconditionally.
Nor did I understand
I am a Child my Father loves.

God,
You who created me in sinlessness
You are in no way in error about me.

I have been wrong
About a lot of things, myself.
I have gone to Holy Spirit with every thing
That the lilies shone so brightly on…
Whereby I could and would
Accept Atonement for my Self.

God,
This dream of mine is ending...amen.

*** …rell



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#336...Forgiveness lets me know that minds are joined.

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lesson #336 “Forgiveness lets me know that minds are joined.”

A miracle is merely a change in my perception.
My perceptions do need changing.
My perceptions need an end.

Forgiveness is the means
Whereby I can end these perceptions…

Forgiveness is the miracle
That restores my mind to God’s.

Sights and sounds serve me well
To recall these memories that
Lie beyond all my perceptions…
Forgiveness blasts away my mind’s distortions.

Forgiveness opens my hidden altars to truth.
While its lilies shine deep into my mind
Safely triggering its return to loves Presence.
Safely keeps searching within my closets
Finding all the tools I learned to use
Trying to “ease God out.” eGo?

Here in this mind at Peace
Dwells God HimSelf!

God,
Forgiveness wipes away those thoughts of loneliness,
Of separation, and errors of my wrong decisions.
Those lilies are shining on where Your Promise
Of my sinlessness is kept.

God,
Your Word never changed within my mind.
And
Your Love is still lingering adoringly in my heart.
I am home with You…
And know I’ve never left.
This is peace where my mind is joined with Yours. Amen.

*** …rell



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#335...I choose to see my brother's sinlessness.

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lesson #335 “I choose to see my brother's sinlessness.”

Jesus is trying to tell me once again:
Forgiveness is a choice.
I never see my brother as he is,
For that is far beyond my egoish perception.
What I see in him is merely what I wish to see,
Because it stands for what I want to be the truth.

{{{rell: and it really really does.
Just stand for what I want to be the truth.
Because: I do not wish to see in me what is in me.
I do want to not see it the love in me that God sees
…WHY?

I could see this in others if I could see this in me.
WHY won’t I?
WHAT keeps me from it?
Is it fear? Fear for me to love me?}}}

It is to this alone that I respond,
However much I seem to be impelled by outside happenings.
I choose to see what I would look upon,
And this I see, and only this.
My brother's sinlessness shows me that I would look upon my own.
And I will see it, having chosen to behold my brother in its holy light.

{{{If indeed, I, rell, will begin see my brother in his holy light.
But, I keep not doing this at all or sometimes…
Seems like I can alibi and justify my little ‘OLE heart out.
What does it get me?
More loneliness, more fear of being loveable?

I keep not seeing my brother in holy light…
I stay in delay…
It used to be just a sib sister,
Now a sib brother is included in this delay…
Do I just say, “Knock it off rell…get on with it?”
Or basically keep denying it…such as
Ego maintains for me:
Seek and do not find?}}}

OBTW, I have given up expecting them to change.
And have got on with it…
It can be done!

And Jesus asks in prayer:

“What could restore Your memory to me, except to see my brother's sinlessness? His holiness reminds me that he was created one with me, and like myself. In him I find my Self, and in Your Son I find the memory of You as well…amen”

*** …rell


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#334...Today I claim the gifts forgiveness gives.

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lesson #334 “Today I claim the gifts forgiveness gives.”

I want it all!
I don’t wanna wait!
Like my 2 year old me-ness,
“I want what I want
When I want it!”
Stamping my sincerest feet!

God,
I will not settle for less
Than the best from You!
I know there is abundance
In your storehouse of treasures.
I see no illusions there
I do not dream false perceptions there
I cannot be vain there
I am awake there!

God,
Your gift of Your Voice
Known to me as the “Holy Spirit”
Is offering me Peace.
Offering to all the Peace of God.
To all who hear
And choose to follow Him.

The treasure I received from You
Of the golden coil connecting
My vibrations to Holy Spirit’s…
With which I choose to use to hear today
To let the Me that You know…
Emerge!
Rise to unknown heights!

Dear God,
In your offering of Solace
To this bewildered mind
And frightened heart
This gift is mine I know.

Dear God,
I seek only the eternal.
I will be content
With nothing less.

One catch…

Your Will for me:

“To see my brothers sinless
For so when I finally do…
I behold my own sinlessness!
That is: my Me-ness…amen”

*** …rell


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#333...Forgiveness Ends The Dream of Conflict Here.

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lesson #333 “Forgiveness Ends The Dream of Conflict Here.”
Just who says:
Conflict must be resolved?
Conflict cannot be evaded?
Conflict cannot be set aside?
Denied?
Disguised?
Seen somewhere else?
Called by another name?
Hidden by deceit of any kind?
If it is to be escaped?

Do you mean I must see conflict as it is?
What about us “people pleasers?”
What about us “don’t rock the boaters?”

Conflict must be seen as it is?
What about all of my abilities to 2nd guess?
And to deny?
What if I do not want to see anything exactly as it is?
What if I do not want to accord it with the purpose
My mind knows it is supposed to?
What if I do not want the defenses lifted?
What if I do not want the Truth to shine upon it?

Holy Spirit, are you saying conflict would disappear?
If I would really do all above via forgiveness?

Oh dear heavenly Father,
If I did all the above,
I could only think of you,
And you alone…
And nothing else could enter this mind of mine...
If and when forgiveness ends my dreams of conflict?

God,
Forgiveness it the light You chose
To shine away all conflict and doubt…
Lighting the way for my return to You.

God,
Are you saying that I would return to you?

God,
No light but Yours
Can end these egoish dreams?
No light but Yours
Can save the egoish world?

Father…
You’ve never failed in any thing.
And this “Forgiveness” is Your Gift to
Your Beloved Sons…

amen.*** …rell


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#332 ...Fear binds the egoworld. Forgiveness sets it free.

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lesson #332 “Fear binds the egoworld.
Forgiveness sets it free”

God`s Truth never attacks...it is.
The ego makes, or is illusions,
Which are undone by God’s Truths.
By Truths presence, my mind
Is being recalled from its fantasies.
My realness begins to awaken.

My willingness to forgive
Bids Truths presence to enter in
And replace this Belief System*,
Which merely hold my experiences,
My BS* is not God`s truths,
This BS* is in my mind.

Without my willingness to forgive,
My mind remains in chains.
And I will continue to operate within
My present ongoing BS*.

And as I commence to forgive,
The light does shine
Through the darkness of the dream,
Offering my mind hope...
The means of being restored to the freedom
That had never been lost.
Offering my mind the freedom
Of its awaiting inheritances.
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I pray that I will not bind the egoworld again.
I pray freedom from fear of ego influences.
I pray I can know God`s Unconditional Love
Giving me the means to set my mind free.

Oh dear heavenly Father,
I pray my mind be released,
Restoring its freedom,
As You hold it out to me,
Known merely as “Unconditional Love.”

***...amen...rell

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#331...There Is No Conflict, For My Will Is Yours.

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lesson #331 “There Is No Conflict, For My Will Is Yours.”

Oh God,
How foolish am I to believe I thought I could suffer...
How foolish I could plan my damnation...
How foolish I was convinced I had no way out.

Oh, my God...

And You love me?
Come again?
You love me...me...little rell.

And You would never leave me desolate...?
To die within a world of pain and cruelty?
How could I ever believe or even think this?

There is no will except the Will of Love?
Fear is the dream?
Fear has no will that conflicts with Yours?
For conflict is but to sleep...
Peace is awakening...
Death is illusory...
Life is eternal Truth.
Nothing opposes Your Will, God.
There can be no conflict.
For my will is Yours.
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Forgiveness shows that God’s Will is one.
Forgiveness shows we share it.

I want to look upon the
Holy sight forgiveness shows today.
I want to find the peace of God.

***...rell


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Wow-

I am sitting in the enjoyment that truly- I share the same with with everyone and everything- and that this Will is God's and hence- it is inevitable that it will prevail.

xo,

Seth

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thank you by seth

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thank you too, seth

Wow-

Set around with us
share many days of enjoyment with us... for that is what we are. rell



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What is the ego?

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What Is the ego? Theme for lessons #331 - 340

The ego is idolatry;
The sign of limited and separated self, born in a body,
Doomed to suffer and to end its life in death.
It is the "will" that sees the Will of God as enemy,
And takes a form in which it is denied.
The ego is the "proof" that strength is weak
And love is fearful; life is really death,
And what opposes God alone is true.

The ego is insane.
In fear it stands beyond the Everywhere,
Apart from All, in separation from the Infinite.
In its insanity it thinks it has become
A victor over God Himself.
And in its terrible autonomy it "sees"
The Will of God has been destroyed.
It dreams of punishment,
And trembles at the figures in its dreams;
Its enemies, who seek to murder it
Before it can ensure its safety by attacking them.

The Son of God is egoless.
What can he know of madness and the death of God,
When he abides in Him?
What can he know of sorrow and of suffering,
When he lives in eternal joy?
What can he know of fear and punishment,
Of sin and guilt,
Of hatred and attack,
When all there is surrounding him is everlasting peace,
Forever conflict-free and undisturbed,
In deepest silence and tranquility?

To know reality is not to see the ego and its thoughts,
Its works, its acts, its laws and its beliefs,
Its dreams, its hopes, its plans for its salvation,
And the cost belief in it entails.
In suffering, the price for faith in it is so immense
That crucifixion of the Son of God
Is offered daily at its darkened shrine,
And blood must flow before the altar
Where it’s sickly followers prepare to die.

Yet will one lily of forgiveness change the darkness into light;
The altar to illusions to the shrine of Life Itself.
And peace will be restored forever
To the holy minds which God created as His Son,
His dwelling place, His joy, His love,
Completely His, completely one with Him.

***Just like the book Thank you Helen and Bill… and Jesus. rell


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Re: What is the ego?

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With a message such as this, how can we NOT discover the miracle of forgiveness? Probably help if I really thought there was nothing to forgive! Sometimes it really does appear to be a hard, cruel world. Peace, Patrick

"Yet will one lily of forgiveness change the darkness into light;
The altar to illusions to the shrine of Life Itself.
And peace will be restored forever
To the holy minds which God created as His Son,
His dwelling place, His joy, His love,
Completely His, completely one with Him."


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#330...I will not hurt myself again today.

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lesson #330 “I will not hurt myself again today.”

Let it be known,
That on this day
I want to accept forgiveness
As my only function.

Why should I continue to attack my own mind?
Why should I continue to teach my mind it is powerless?
God is holding out His power and His Love to me
Bidding me take back what is already mine.

If I could only get this mind to be willing
To accept these gifts of God’s...
It’d be restored to Spirit...
Extending its Freedom and Spirit and Joy.

In these 330 days, and God does not keep count,
I could have learned
This HigherSelf which God created
Can not sin,
And therefore, can not suffer.


Today, I want to choose again
That God is my Identity
Thus, escaping all these dreams of fear
That I had learned so well.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
God, this Child, rell, of Yours cant be hurt.
In fact, in any moment I think I suffer,
I cease to remember my Identity with You.
I want to return to my Identity today.
To be set free from ALL mistakes
And learn again that I never was
Anything but
Your Truly Loved Child.

***...rell


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#329...I have already chosen what You will.

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lesson #329 “I have already chosen what You will.”

God,
I can think I’ve wandered from Your Will
I can think that I’ve defied it,
I can think that I’ve broken its laws
And interposed my will above Yours...
But it couldn’t be done.
Could it?

What I am in Your Truth...
Is but Your Will,
Extending and extending.
This is what I am
This will never change.
As You are One
So I am one with You.
This choice
Was made by all eternity.
This choice
Can not change.

Father, my will is Yours.
I am safe,
No troubles,
Calm
My joy is endless.
Because:
It is your Will that this be true.
~~~~~~~~~~
Today, I accept my oneness
With each of us
And my Source.
Through Your Will
I recognize we are one.
Through Your Will
I find my way to You, God.

***...rell


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#328...I choose the second place to gain the first.

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lesson #328 “I choose the second place to gain the first.”
(Taken from my achieves.)

It is really hard for me to understand
That I’ve lived my life upside down.
But I know that I have.
Clumsy, egoish, judgmentalish, grandiose.
Not knowing that I‘d never not been separated from God...
Now that it definitely upside down.
I love knowing that I’ve never been separated
From my dear heavenly Father.

Learning to hear the “Voice For God”
Was my biggest lifetime feat.
My “Only Ida” is:
“If only Ida started sooner.”
But whether I did or didn’t start sooner or did start later...
I got here and God did not click a stop watch on me...
It seems like Holy Spirt has had second place,
My goal is to take the second place
And give HolySpirit the first place in my life.

Gaining access to my mind that is part of God’s
Was quite a struggle.
Many’s the day I’d set there,
Pencil in hand
Paper laying there,
Eyes closed,

Centering with my calm,
And in ego would dart,
“You got eggs?”

Me: “OK, ego, I’ll write that down and deal with that later.”
Then back to taking another deep breath, holding it,
Blowing it out slowly, centering again with my calm,
And this time, interrupted with,
“Did you put toilet tissue on the holder?”

Me: “I’ll write that down and deal with that later, ego.”
(Of course I can not deal with the illusory ego.)

My first ventures with gaining ground
With hearing the Voice for God
Went much like that repetitiously for days,
Maybe weeks who kept count?
Not me.
Perseverance I know...
But it paid off with great rewards.

My still ongoing goal is
To release my desire for autonomy
My striving to remain separate
To cease seeing us with ego eyes.
To ‘visual eyes’ every one I meet.
I haven’t done this yet.
But this is the way in which
My salvation is obtained.

The course says:
“Yet all we find is sickness, suffering and loss and death.”
This is not what our Father wills for us,
Nor is there any second to His Will.

I still must join with God’s will to find my own
And when I get there
I will recognize it is Our will.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Jesus says: “There is no will but Yours.”
And yes, there are still abiding contradictions
In this mind of rell’s.
And I do know that it is God’s Will
That I be wholly safe, eternally at peace.
And when I am in this eternal peace
I will share that Will with You.

***...rell


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#327...I need but call and You will answer me.

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lesson #327 “I need but call and You will answer me.”

Somehow Jesus just keeps right on reassuring me as he says:

I am not asked to take salvation on the basis of an unsupported faith. For God has promised He will hear my call, and answer me Himself. Let me but learn from my experience that this is true, and faith in Him must surely come to me. This is the faith that will endure, and take me farther and still farther on the road that leads to Him. For thus I will be sure that He has not abandoned me and loves me still, awaiting but my call to give me all the help I need to come to Him.

And as I, rell, am so very grateful
That I have slowed down enough to listen…
How slow? Very slow.
It took a while to change my “thinking”
From negative to a positive approach.
It even took being willing to think “faith”
To think that a big change would really happen!
But it did! And has continued to happen!

I had many teachers, including:
Loring Swaim, M. D. “Arthritis, Medicine and the Spiritual Laws”
(Arthritis eluded me 3 different times…via Swaim.)
Jack Holland, Unity Speaker, healed of Liver Cancer…
…using Emmet Fox’s “Mental Equivalent”
(Jack Holland had the most looked at X-ray plates in Stanford U. Hospital.)
A little tiny book, “As A Man Thinketh” by James Allen.
Richard Bach, “Jonathan Livingston Seagull” & “Illusions”
And Victor Frankl’s “Man’s Search for Meaning”
Thanks, guys! Thanks a lot…
Thanks Helen and Bill.
Each of you added to the changes in my mind.
Each took me farther and farther still and still going.
This is Thanksgiving Day, and I am so very grateful!

Jesus prays:
“Father, I thank You that Your promises will never fail in my experience, if I but test them out. Let me attempt therefore to try them, and to judge them not. Your Word is one with You. You give the means whereby conviction comes, and surety of Your abiding Love is gained at last…amen”

And convictions have come to me, *** …rell



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#326...I am forever an Effect of God.

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lesson #326 “I am forever an Effect of God.”

Jesus prays:
“Father, I was created in Your Mind, a holy Thought that never left its home. I am forever Your Effect, and You forever and forever are my Cause. As You created me I have remained. Where You established me I still abide. And all Your attributes abide in me, because it is Your Will to have a Son so like his Cause that Cause and Its Effect are indistinguishable. Let me know that I am an Effect of God, and so I have the power to create like You. And as it is in Heaven, so on earth. Your plan I follow here, and at the end I know that You will gather Your effects into the tranquil Heaven of Your Love, where earth will vanish, and all separate thoughts unite in glory as the Son of God…amen”

And Jesus encourages: Let us today behold earth disappear, at first transformed, and then, forgiven, fade entirely into God's holy Will.


I, rell, am the Effect of Your Cause, dear God…
Just Your Effect.
There is nothing I can or have done to change that.
I am as You created me.
I am the love that I was born to be.
I have the power that you awarded me.
I still am everything that You established in me.
Oh…dear heavenly Father,
I can only do Your Will,
I can only be Your Love…
As I live and breathe and have my being in You,
As I forgive me for every misthought my mind took in
As I surrender my misthoughts to be purified
I become the love that I was born to be…
Only Love.

I wonder how this earth will fade away?
Will it be because I will no longer
Have an investment or an awareness?
Will it be because my transformed thoughts
Will only be with God?
Will I no longer need this earth, this world?
Will I want to return for any reason whatsoever?

I don’t think so…*** …rell



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#324......I merely follow, for I would not lead.

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lesson #324 “I merely follow, for I would not lead.”

As Jesus prays:

“Father, You are the One Who gave the plan for my salvation to me. You have set the way I am to go, the role to take, and every step in my appointed path. I cannot lose the way. I can but choose to wander off a while, and then return. Your loving Voice will always call me back, and guide my feet aright. My brothers all can follow in the way I lead them. Yet I merely follow in the way to You, as You direct me and would have me go….amen”

As Jesus continues:

So let us follow One Who knows the way. We need not tarry, and we cannot stray except an instant from His loving Hand. We walk together, for we follow Him. And it is He Who makes the ending sure, and guarantees a safe returning home.

And Jesus can acquiesce so very efficiently and effectively…
Me, rell, I’m so headstrong…
I’ve led my own way for 77 years now…
And sure I’d like to back off,
Just like I do of a morning when I have my coffee
While still in bed for an hour or so,
But then…when my feet hit the floor and I’m dressed,
Then I’m in charge, and I charge, and I charge…
Many more ways than one.

Oh, dear heavenly Father, I know that I can not get lost
I know that I can meander, that is not my intent…
You do know that I will return…
Just like that hungry lamb, crying baa for it’s Ewe.
I will always walk towards you upright,
It is my appointed path…
Straying is merely a temporary trip.
Jesus can hear your directions.
And I will take his offered hands,
I will follow him to You.*** …rell



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Ideas leave not their Source

by Patrick S


Oh, dear heavenly Father, I know that I can not get lost
I know that I can meander, that is not my intent…
You do know that I will return…
Just like that hungry lamb, crying baa for it’s Ewe.
I will always walk towards you upright,
It is my appointed path…
Straying is merely a temporary trip.
Jesus can hear your directions.
And I will take his offered hands,
I will follow him to You.*** …rell


Thanks Rell...As you indicate in your prayer, We can slow the process down, BUT we sure cannot remove ourselves from God...He is our Source and we are His Idea...Pretty neat to be the idea of a Loving God...No wonder, then that I love you, Pat

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peer approval and peer companionship in cyber space...WOW!!!

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Yes, Pat...
You have no idea how I value your peer approval and your peer companionship along this path...I am so pleased to be on there with you and with patty ching and any one else that we share this path with...rell

Thanks Rell...As you indicate in your prayer, We can slow the process down, BUT we sure cannot remove ourselves from God...He is our Source and we are His Idea...Pretty neat to be the idea of a Loving God...No wonder, then that I love you, Pat

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#325 All things I think I see reflect ideas.

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lesson #325 All things I think I see reflect ideas.

Jesus says:
This is salvation's keynote: What I see reflects a process in my mind, which starts with my idea of what I want. From there, the mind makes up an image of the thing the mind desires, judges valuable, and therefore seeks to find. These images are then projected outward, looked upon, esteemed as real and guarded as one's own. From insane wishes comes an insane world. From judgment comes a world condemned. And from forgiving thoughts a gentle world comes forth, with mercy for the holy Son of God, to offer him a kindly home where he can rest a while before he journeys on, and help his brothers walk ahead with him, and find the way to Heaven and to God.

What I see reflects a process in my mind…
Which starts with my “idea” of what I want.
And what I want will be what I see…
And/or what I see will be what I get.
As a man thinketh…so they sayeth…sayeth rell
If unforgiveness is covering my gentle thoughts,
I will not see gentleness…I will not see mercy.
~~~~~~~~~
With my forgiving thoughts
My world opens to all possibilities of love
And of my now available deeper feelings
I will see a world healed…a mind visioning with God’s.
Yes, dear way shower known as Jesus,
Keep pressuring me to unvail more and more gentleness.
As forgiveness is my goal, my plan, my salvation…
~~~~~~~~~~
As Jesus prays:
“Our Father, Your ideas reflect the truth, and mine apart from Yours but make up dreams. Let me behold what only Yours reflect, for Yours and Yours alone establish truth…amen”

*** …rell



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