January 21, 2010
"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being."from Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Jung
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Awakening moments
reprinted from ACIM Chat: Ah-Ha #2 - My Lessons Resume
by Brenda Yates
On my way to work Friday morning, I came upon an accident scene involving a pedestrian. It had just happened and no one else was there yet. I pulled to the side of the interstate and ran over to the gentleman. I could find no pulse and no signs of breathing, so I began CPR. Pretty soon I was joined by 2 other women and a physician. The rescue squad had been called, so all we could do was try to keep oxygen flowing until they arrived. As I handed the CPR off to another person, I had an opportunity to begin to digest what I had become a part of.
His name was Greg.
While I had been performing CPR, one of the people involved in the accident was hysterically relating that the man had gotten out of his truck to retrieve his ladder that had fallen off, in morning rush hour traffic. A van had been the first to hit him and as he bounced off the van, he was catapulted into her car. I only half heard her because my focus was on the gentleman beneath my hands.
When EMS arrived and I could step back a bit, I noticed the ladder still laying in the middle of the interstate. Now, I don't know if you have ever had a sense of "knowing" something without fully understanding where it came from, but that is what happened to me.
Looking at that ladder, I understood that the man had not risked his life to save a ladder, but he had risked it to save the unsuspecting people just going about their average daily routines; he risked it to save you and me.
But then, Greg and The Spirit conspired to teach me something. Again, it was a lesson that I previously understood intellectually, but They shot it straight into my soul. As I stood there watching the people go about their busy mornings, slowing to catch a glimpse of the scene, I saw Greg in their faces. When I looked back to Greg, I saw myself and Greg was me. In that instant I truly "knew" that we are all One. I felt it, I understood it, I breathed it.
I left that scene forever changed by the Gift Greg shared with me. But, little did I know, this was a busy man and he wasn't finished with me yet. When I called the hospital to check on his condition, I was told that he did not make it. Sitting in a quiet corner of my house, I began to digest what was happening. I thought I had stopped to help Greg. But, as it turned out I had stopped so Greg could help me. And as this realization blossomed, another "knowing" started to grow. I needed to share this Love with his family. They needed to know that Greg's last act had been to give me a precious gift.
So, on Saturday, with the newspaper article in hand and his hometown as my destination, I got in my car. As I approached the town, I realized that my directions were useless, so I decided to pull into a convenience store to try to get back on course. As The Spirit would have it, I walked right up to a man who knew the family. He told me that the family was not at Greg's address, but at his mother's instead. With a loving southern smile, he offered to show me where it was. Not only did he show me where the house was, but he also took me into the throng of people mourning, and introduced me to Greg's family.
This family was absolutely amazing. I saw no anger and no one was questioning what they considered to be "God's Will." They understood that they were mourning for themselves, but that Greg was in a magnificent place far from pain and sadness and confusion. I told them about Greg's Gift to me but they were not surprised. They said that was the way Greg had lived his life and they were comforted to know that was the way he ended it as well. They accepted me as a part of their family and made me feel warmly embraced. They asked me if I would share my story at Greg's funeral service tomorrow and I agreed. This was an amazing man with an amazing family; I was honored.
But then, on the way home, it occurred to me THAT was Greg's last Gift to me . . . . he brought his loving, spiritual, precious family into my life. Because of Greg's Gifts, my life would be forever changed and enriched in ways I was only beginning to understand.
Thank you Greg. May you soar on the wings of Angels.
In Love and Light.
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Letting go of ACIM
reprinted from ACIM Chat: Letting go of ACIM
by Susie
Dear Family,
I have been noticing that many of you are taking this course too literal and actually depending on it. During some discussions I have had with people I get asked quite often “Where in the course does it say that?” or “How have you found truth if you didn’t study the course?”
If you find that you may be praising the course, STOP. It becomes a following, another form of segregation.
People, the truth is inside of you, you can study all you want but the only way this course or anything/anyone for that matter can help you is if you are open to understanding that you have an Inner Voice that knows all and that you can trust.
The course is there as a tool for you, but eventually you are meant to be able to “live” out your choices without having to assure yourself that of what “the course” says. You will eventually trust in yourself. Therefore letting go of the course.
There is nothing wrong with depending on the course, but you will only be going in circles like a hamster on a wheel and eventually you will get tired again and search in something else, hoping that that next something will do the trick.
If you are searching for truth in “something” like a book, you will never find it, look in yourself. By depending on someone or something you are giving “it” meaning which goes against everything the book/course is teaching.
These are only tools.
You do not need to relate every little experience to “the course”. In fact by doing this you are acknowledging an illusion/experience and replacing it with another illusion by saying “that’s what the course says” rather than “that’s what truth says”. By doing this you are letting go of one thing but hanging on to another.
So letting go of A Course in Miracles is crucial to your awakening, any form of dependence only demonstrates a belief in lack in oneself. There is nothing lacked, you are perfect, just as God/Creator/Love/Energy made you. If the course is teaching you to let go of possessions and that possessions do not define you, than why should a book?
I am not saying that it is of no good use, any will one has to find their true selves IS the good use, the fact that you have chosen to study the course is already a want or desire within you for truth and wanting to remember who you really are.
It is inevitable that we shall all wake.
So I just want to remind you not to forget that you ARE perfect; the course is ONLY a reminder of that.
Peace and Love
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Reading and comprehension errorsReprinted from Miracle Course Journal
by Tom Fox
One bonehead mistake I frequently catch myself making when I read the Course is to assume that the same word has the same meaning in different contexts. I know from long experience that nearly all English words have multiple different, and sometimes inconsistent, meanings. I also know that context is everything.
It is a major source of confusion in my life.
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Tom Fox
Louisville, Kentucky
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