So I am only affected by my own thoughts. That is my experience. It’s good to become aware of it. Then you can stand in the Uncertainty Principle and receive the miracle of who you are.

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“I am affected only by my thoughts.”composite triple beat

It needs but this to let salvation come to all the world. For in this single thought is everyone released at last from fear. Now he has learned that no-one frightens him, and nothing can endanger him. He has no enemies, and he is safe from all external things. His thoughts can frighten him, but since these thoughts belong to him alone, he has the power to change them, and exchange each fear thought for a happy thought of love. He crucified himself. Yet God has planned that His beloved Son will be redeemed.

“Your plan is sure, my Father, - only Yours. All other plans will fail. And I will have thoughts that will frighten me until I learn that You have given me the only Thought Which leads me to salvation. Mine alone will fail and lead me nowhere. But the Thought You gave me promises to lead me home, because it holds Your promise to Your Son.”

Check this out: A Course in Miracles Quickies - Cameron

“Those who would let the captivity of loneliness in fear and death be lifted from their minds will feel the joy of their escape out into the universe. We will carry our message of hope, freedom and release from suffering to everyone that we meet.”

This is a quote from Master Teacher of A Course in Miracles that is also on the flyer announcing the 5 day advent at the Miracles Healing Center starting at the 4th of July. And I like it a lot. It is actually what I experienced the last days. On Sunday I finally decided to practice the “The Rules For Decision” again, after proofreading my article that I had been asked to write for the 12 Step Miracle Newsletter. And from then on I experienced the grace of God again. The days before Sunday I had been on the floor and didn’t find the willingness in me to stand up again, so I stayed there until I was ready.

Here I am!!! Yupieie!!!

I love you! Susanne

Last night I opened A Course in Miracles randomly to “The Justice of Heaven” at the end of Chapter 25. Reading that opened my eyes and it helped me to find a deep peace within me.

Below are some of the paragraphs that really talked to me.
I am just aware right now that I don’t know anything. I had all these ideas about my future and didn’t even realize that, until a miracle happened in my mind. So now I am aware of how I had clogged my mind with this whole script and it felt so heavy on me. Now that my mind was flushed clean of all that, I feel dislodged. Because that action of “planing” my future was a way of feeling in control and safe. Obviously it was not real safety and in no way did it make it possible for me to be in control of anything, but it was part of my denial of and protection from God. Well, as Jesus says in A Course in Miracles: You walk toward love still hating it. But not because of what it is, but because of what you made of it…

“What can it be but arrogance to think your little errors CANNOT be undone by Heaven’s justice? And what COULD this mean, except that they are sins, and NOT mistakes, forever uncorrectable, and to be met with vengeance, NOT with justice? ARE you willing to be released from ALL effects of sin? You CANNOT answer this until you see all that the answer MUST entail. For if you answer “yes,” this means you will forego ALL values of this world, in favor of the peace of Heaven. Not one sin would you retain. AND NOT ONE DOUBT THAT THIS IS POSSIBLE will you hold dear, that sin be kept in place. You mean that truth has greater value now than ALL illusions. And you recognize that truth must be REVEALED to you, because YOU know not what it IS. God’s justice warrants gratitude, NOT fear.

Be certain any answer to a problem the Holy Spirit solves will ALWAYS be one in which NO-ONE loses. And this MUST be true BECAUSE He asks no sacrifice of anyone. An answer which demands the slightest loss to ANYONE has not RESOLVED the problem, but has added TO it, and made it greater, HARDER to resolve, AND MORE UNFAIR. It is impossible the Holy Spirit could SEE unfairness as a resolution. To Him, what is unfair must be corrected BECAUSE it is unfair. And EVERY error is a perception in which one, at least, is seen unfairly. Thus is justice NOT accorded to the Son of God. When ANYONE is seen as losing, HE HAS BEEN CONDEMNED. And punishment becomes his due, INSTEAD of justice.

The sight of innocence makes punishment impossible, and justice sure. The Holy Spirit’s perception leaves no GROUNDS for an attack. Only a LOSS could justify attack, and loss of ANY kind He cannot see. The world solves problems in another way. IT sees a resolution as a state in which it is DECIDED who shall win and who shall lose; HOW MUCH the one shall take, and HOW MUCH can the loser still defend. Yet does the problem still remain unsolved, for ONLY justice can set up a state in which there IS no loser; no-one left unfairly treated and deprived, and thus with grounds for vengeance. Problem SOLVING can NOT be vengeance, which at best can bring another problem ADDED to the first, in which the murder is not obvious.

The Holy Spirit’s problem solving is the way in which the problem ENDS. It has been solved BECAUSE it has been met with justice. And UNTIL it has, it will recur because it has NOT yet been solved. The principle that justice MEANS no-one can lose is crucial to this course.

A miracle IS justice. It is NOT a special gift to some, to be WITHHELD from others as LESS worthy, MORE condemned, and thus APART from healing.

To give a problem to the Holy Spirit to solve FOR you means that you WANT it solved.

A miracle can NEVER be received because another could receive it NOT. Only forgiveness OFFERS miracles. And pardon MUST be just to everyone. The little problems that you keep and hide become your secret sins BECAUSE you did not choose to let them be removed FOR you. And so they gather dust and grow, until they cover EVERYTHING that you perceive, and leave you fair to no-one. Not ONE right do YOU believe you have. And bitterness, with vengeance justified and mercy lost, condemns you as UNWORTHY of forgiveness. The unforgiven HAVE no mercy to bestow upon another. That is why your sole responsibility MUST be to take forgiveness for yourself.”

These passages come from “The Justice of Heaven” from Chapter 25 of A Course in Miracles - read the whole passage here

I am having the most incredibly freeing and mind-blowing experience with today’s lesson. It shows me a totally new action in my mind. I want to invite you to read it and then sit down a moment in quiet and do what it says: Let go all things you think you want and leave a clean and open space in your mind where Christ can come and offer you what you really want. It’s freedom! I tell you! So here it is:

…Open the curtain in your practicing by merely letting go all things you think you want. Your trifling treasures put away, and leave a clean and open space within your mind where Christ can come, and offer you the treasure of salvation. He has need of your most holy mind to save the world….

“What time but now can truth be recognized? The present is the only time there is. And so today, this instant, now, we come to look upon what is forever there; not in our sight, but in the eyes of Christ. He looks past time and sees eternity as represented there. He hears the sound the senseless busy world engenders, yet He hears them faintly, for beyond them all He hears the song of Heaven and the Voice of God more clear, more meaningful, more near.

The world fades easily away before His sight. Its sounds grow dim. A melody from far beyond the world increasingly is more and more distinct; an ancient Call to Which He gives an ancient answer. You will recognize them both. For they are but your answer to your Father’s Call to you. Christ answers for you, echoing your Self, using your voice to give His glad consent; accepting your deliverance for you.

How holy is your practicing today, as He gives you His sight and hears for you, and answers in your name the Call He hears. How quiet is the time you give to spend with Him beyond the world. How easily are all your seeming sins forgot and all your sorrows unremembered. On this day is grief laid by, for sights and sounds which come from nearer than the world made clear to you who will today accept the gifts He gives.

There is a silence into which the world can not intrude. There is an ancient peace you carry in your heart and have not lost. There is a sense of holiness in you the thought of sin has never touched. All this today you will remember. Faithfulness in practicing today will bring rewards so great and so completely different from all things you sought before, that you will know that here your treasure is, and here your rest.

This is the day when vain imaginings part like a curtain, to reveal what lies beyond them. Here is what is really here made visible, while all the shadows which appeared to hide it sink to obscurity. Now is the balance righted, and the scales of judgement left to Him Who judges true. And in His judgement will a world unfold in perfect innocence before your eyes. Now will you see it with the eyes of Christ. Now is its transformation clear to you.

Brothers, this day is sacred to the world. Your vision, given you from far beyond all things within the world looks back on them in a new light. And what you see becomes the healing and salvation of the world. The valuable and valueless are both perceived and recognized for what they are. And what is worthy of your love receives your love, while nothing to be feared remains.

We will not judge today. We will receive but what is given us from Judgement made beyond the world. Our practicing today becomes our gifts of thankfulness for our release from blindness and from misery. All that we see will but increase our joy, because its holiness reflects our own. We stand forgiven in the sight of Christ, with all the world forgiven in our own.

We bless the world as we behold it in the light in which our Savior looks on us, and offer it the freedom given us through His forgiving vision, not our own. Open the curtain in your practicing by merely letting go all things you think you want. Your trifling treasures put away, and leave a clean and open space within your mind where Christ can come, and offer you the treasure of salvation. He has need of your most holy mind to save the world.

Is not this purpose worthy to be yours? Is not Christ’s vision to be sought above the world’s unsatisfying goals? Let not today slip by without the gifts it holds for you receiving your consent and your acceptance. We can change the world if you acknowledge them. You may not see the value your acceptance gives the world. But this you surely want; you can exchange all suffering for joy this very day. Practice in earnest and the gift is yours. Would God deceive you? Can His promise fail? Can you withhold so little when His Hand holds out complete salvation to His Son?” (from A Course in Miracles Wkbk Lesson 164 “Now are we One with Him Who is our Source.”)

"When you have learned to accept what you are, you will make no more gifts to offer to yourselves, for you will know you are COMPLETE, in need of nothing, and unable to accept ANYTHING for yourself. But you will gladly give, HAVING received."

I read in Chapter 15 and I have the most incredible experience of it. Suddenly all the words mean something to me. They apply directly to me and where I stand right now. I just sat and read and re-read the lines and I entered into an experience of those words that were so personal to me.

"The holy instant is the Holy Spirit’s most useful learning device for teaching you love’s meaning. For its purpose is to SUSPEND JUDGMENT ENTIRELY. Judgment ALWAYS rests on the past, for PAST experience is the basis on which you judge. Judgment becomes impossible without the past, for WITHOUT it you do NOT understand anything. You would make no ATTEMPT to judge, because it would be quite apparent to you that you do not know WHAT ANYTHING MEANS. You are afraid of this, because you believe that, WITHOUT THE EGO, all would be chaos. Yet I assure you that, without the ego, ALL WOULD BE LOVE."

Oh, I sat down and prayed and asked Jesus to help me be aware of his nearness and presence with me. And my experience now is that he is now here. Thank you!!!!!!

Wow, are you aware of him too?
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So, Jesus, being with us now, tells me that: "You are afraid of this, because you believe that, WITHOUT THE EGO, all would be chaos. Yet I assure you that, without the ego, ALL WOULD BE LOVE." When I read that it made so much sense.

"In time, you have been told to offer miracles as Christ directs, and let the Holy Spirit bring to you those who are seeking you. But in the holy instant, you unite DIRECTLY with God, and ALL your brothers join in Christ.   Those who are joined in Christ are in no way separate. For Christ is the Self the Sonship shares, as God shares His Self with Christ. Think you that you can judge the Self of God? God has created It BEYOND judgment, out of HIS need to extend His love. With Love in you, you HAVE no need EXCEPT TO EXTEND IT. In the holy instant, there is no conflict of needs, for there is ONLY ONE. For the holy instant reaches to eternity, and to the Mind of God. And it is only there that love HAS meaning, and ONLY there CAN it be understood."

One more quote from "Littleness versus Magnitude" and "Holy Instant and Special Relationships" (Chapter 15 of Jesus’ A Course in Miracles):

"My kingdom is not of this world, because it is in you. ….Decide with me, who has decided to abide with you. …When you have learned to accept what you are, you will make no more gifts to offer to yourself, for you will know you are complete, in need of nothing, and unable to accept anything for yourself. ….If you are wholly willing to leave salvation to the plan of God and unwilling to attempt to grasp for peace yourself, salvation will be given you……To believe that special relationships, with special love, can offer you salvation is the belief that separation is salvation. ….Do not, then, be afraid to let go your imagined needs, which would destroy the relationship. Your only need it HIS. ..Yet you had judged against yourself first, or you would never have imagined that you needed your brothers as they were not. Unless you had seen yourself as without love……"

Okay, I could quote here forever; here is the whole Chapter if you want to read it: A Course in Miracles Chapter 15

I love you.
Hey, if you are reading this and you need help in any way, I am here for you!!!!

Susanne

I want to tell you about Easter: Here in Wisconsin is the Miracles Healing Center. There will be a Easter Celebration in the week leading up to Easter Sunday (April 1-8, 2007)
Come and see for yourself!

"Peace abides in every mind that quietly accepts the plan that GOD has set for his Atonement, RELINQUISHING HIS OWN. You know NOT of Salvation, for you do NOT understand it. Make no decisions about what it is, or where it lies, but ask of the Holy Spirit EVERYTHING, and leave ALL decisions to His gentle counsel. The One Who knows the plan of God, which God would have you follow, can teach you what it IS. Only His wisdom is capable of guiding you to follow it. Every decision you undertake alone, but signifies that you would define what Salvation is, and what you would be saved FROM. The Holy Spirit KNOWS that ALL Salvation is escape from guilt. You have no other "enemy," and against this strange distortion of the purity of the Son of God, the Holy Spirit is your ONLY friend.

He is the strong protector of your innocence, which sets you free. “(A Course In Miracles, Chapter 14, Decision for Sinlessness)

He will never ask what you have done to make you worthy of the gift of God. Ask it not therefore of yourselves. Instead, accept His answer, for He KNOWS you are worthy of everything God wills FOR you."

I am aware of that miracles constantly change my life. What ever happens or whatever I think is going on or  what is possible in a situation - I came to learn that I need to step back, let go and let God and let myself be shown.

One of my favorite quotes about miracles in A Course in Miracles is one of the Miracles Principles from Chapter 1 and it says,"A miracle has thus the unique property of abolishing time by rendering the space of time it occupies unnecessary. There is NO relation between the time a miracle TAKES and the time it COVERS. It substitutes FOR learning that might have taken thousands of years…The validity of the miracle, then, is PREDICTIVE, not logical, within the temporal schema. It establishes an out-of-pattern time interval, which is NOT under the usual laws of time. ..The miracle is the only device which man has at his immediate disposal for controlling time….The miracle dissolves error because the Spiritual eye identifies error as false or unreal. This is the same as saying that by seeing light, darkness automatically disappears."

Well, when I went to look for the quote I meant, I found much more….so there you have it!!!

I experience what it says in these quotes. I pray and ask for God to heal my mind and show me the way and I try to keep my mind open. My goal is clear - to be myself, as God created me. I am aware of, that it is impossible for me to do that on my own. I am in perfect communication with everything and God; that is what I am. It took me a while to get that. My dependence on God cannot be called weakness, because it frees me up to fulfill my function and be myself - which ends up being everyone’s release and healing.

That is my experience.
Whenever I become aware of a miracle I realize again that nothing is what it seems. It keeps on changing. I am not under the laws of this world. I am under God’s laws. So is everyone. Healing and release and communication are totally possible whenever desired.

My experience is that if I sit down with someone and we join in prayer first of all I feel an immediate release and often that takes me right to where I want to be - into the arms of God. But afterwards I also start noticing that my time and space must have been changed - the storyline was changed for me and everyone and everything changed with it.

I also know that it all depends on my mind. When the healing and release or forgiveness happens in me - or sometimes I would describe it as remembering that I can trust God - the whole universe changes. I am the cause. Since I started reading in A Course in Miracles and the practicing the Daily Lessons from A Course in Miracles I found a sense of purpose.

I am aware of that I cannot figure this out myself. Every time a miracle happens I am shown again that I had no idea of the bigger picture. So I cannot be my own guide. And that is why I seek an active contact to God and I ask for help and healing and I experience my awakening.

I am not who I thought I was. Thank God. Nothing is the way I see it - based on my self-image. "Through your desire to see, vision is given you." "No one can fail who seeks to reach the truth."

I am expressing myself also because I find myself, through sharing the grace and the gifts that are given me and that I find in myself through my asking for a true experience.

I am here. I am here for you. I know that you are waking up. Let me know if there is anything I can do for you.

 
Susanne

"Be not content with littleness, but be sure you understand what littleness is, and why you could never BE content with it. Littleness is the offering you gave YOURSELF. You offered this in place of magnitude, AND ACCEPTED IT. Everything in this world is little, because it is a world made out of littleness, in the strange belief that littleness CAN content you. When you strive for anything in the world, WITH THE BELIEF THAT IT WILL BRING YOU PEACE, you are belittling yourself, and blinding yourself to glory. Littleness and glory are the choices open to your striving and your vigilance. You will ALWAYS choose one AT THE EXPENSE of the other.
But what you do not realize, each time you choose, is that your choice is your evaluation OF YOURSELF. Choose littleness, and you will NOT have peace, for you will have judged yourself UNWORTHY of it. And whatever you offer as a substitute, is much too poor a gift to satisfy you. It is essential that you accept the fact, and accept it gladly, that there is NO form of littleness that can EVER content you. You are free to try as many as you wish, but all you will be doing is to delay your home-coming. For you will be content ONLY in magnitude, which IS your home." (A Course in Miracles, Chapter 15, Littleness versus Magnitude)

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