Let’s make this year different in making it all the same through forgiveness and live as if Jesus didn’t die but lives within us😘🥰🌈🌅🌸.

I shared on here on November 28th how my 91 year old dad was rushed to the emergency room after being found collapsed on his floor. He has remained in the hospital since, experiencing what the doctors think is late onset epilepsy of his frontal lobe. He has significantly declined over these couple of weeks from how he was living independently to now barely engaging in conversations, staring forward, answering only yes or no questions and needing prompting for everything. The plan is when he is discharged he will move to my home, and then depending on his level of care, he will move to a residential community. I share this story because each of us go through stuff. That's the story of living in this world. If its not one story of temporal existence where lack, loss and limitation rule - its a story of blame, shame and guilt. Throw in some conditional joy occasionally and you have a recipe begging for forgiveness. The Course tells us these experiences are our imaginings. Projected outward from a mind mistaken about its own Reality. The body-time-self is not our Truth and the adventures we have with it are only meant to be forgiven. Of course, I care about my dad and feel disheartened when seeing him this way. The memories I have of him being capable, funny and hardworking visit my thinking mind as if to say "Here I am." In practicing the Course, we are asked to bring everything forward to Holy Spirit for greater Awareness. I've been seeking to do this in this situation, watching as my heart aches or as a desire to be sad runs through me like a cold spear. However, we are promised again and again through the Course that there Is a better Way and Trust beyond appearances only leads to Peace - even when it is beyond our understanding. When the body-time-self world seems to be smacking us in the face, this is when the Trust we are told to choose instead is most welcoming to a thinking mind that can benefit from solace. One way I do this is by noticing the feeling that is coming up and simply taking a deep breath. This helps recenter me. I also look upon the feeling that is being experienced and allow for myself, not in denial of the feeling, but in awareness, to say quietly within: "Peace now is possible."

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Not on Facebook so often anymore, but when I opened the app just now, this was the first thing I saw. Eckhart Tolle is not ACIM teacher of course, but he sometimes refers to it. Such timely reminder and another confirmation of lesson 338, so felt like sharing.

1 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. 2 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. -------------- To acknowledge that you are only affected by thoughts is a gift of freedom. Here, Peace has literally come to mind. When the thinking mind and your thoughts are seen for what they are – mistakenly made ruler of perception—then this power can be reclaimed for your greater Awareness. Take a moment to look clearly upon the world of the mind’s imaginings and see where all ideas of fear are projected ideas of what could or may occur, leading only to your potential possible demise or endangerment. Nothing has actually occurred and of those events that could occur, the judgment of perceived guilt, shame, blame has already been denounced. It is only through the lens of lack, loss and limitation that fear occurs. Strength, Trust and Love cannot be fearful. Therefore, utilize forgiveness to claim back the power to know Your Source. Trust in Love and be Free. Fear will fade when it’s recognized as a mere shadow of Ultimate Reality – a shadow that cannot come to anything but pass when the Light of the Son persists. To say your body self makes your thoughts is not accurate. Thoughts are not solely electrical stimulus from a brain. The brain is a tool, as are the thoughts, each stemming like puppets from the simple mistaken idea that you are not Your Source. It was through this misperception that figuratively all hell broke loose.