Song of Heaven

Free Sessions Cleaning Out Negative Energy Held in Cottonwood Heights

2012-01-08T13:13:00.000-08:00

"The light is IN you. Darkness can COVER it, but CANNOT put it out. Not one light in Heaven but goes with you. Not one ray that shines forever in the Mind of God but shines on you. Heaven is JOINED with you in your advance to Heaven. When such great light has joined with you, to give the little spark of your desire the power of God Himself, can YOU remain in darkness?" -- From Jesus Christ's modern day revelation, A Course in Miracles

Remove blocks to experiencing the joy and peace of God:
Sundays 4:30 - 6:00PM
Wednesdays 7:00 - 8:30PM
(Arrive any time during sessions)
2174 Villaire Ave. (7420 So.) Cottonwood Heights, UT
Beau at 801 365-2422 or 801 947-1871

Each month our Holy Spirit gives a message of prophetic revelation which helps individuals open spiritually and understand Jesus' teaching. To read the latest message click on:
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Come Join our Spiritual Light Sessions

2011-10-29T10:43:00.000-07:00

Lesson 296
“The Holy Spirit speaks through me today.”

"The Holy Spirit needs my voice today, that all the world may listen to Your Voice, and hear Your Word through me. I am resolved to let You speak through me, for I would use no words but Yours, and have no thoughts which are apart from Yours, for only Yours are true."

Remove blocks to hearing the Voice for God:
Sundays 4:30 - 6:00PM
Wednesdays 7:00 - 8:30PM
(Arrive any time during sessions)
2174 Villaire Ave. (7420 So.) Cottonwood Heights, UT
Beau at 801 365-2422 or 801 947-1871

Each month our Holy Spirit gives a message of prophetic revelation which helps individuals open spiritually and understand Jesus' teaching. To read the latest message click on:
Monthly message

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Learn to Choose Joy Instead of Pain

2011-09-25T10:59:00.000-07:00

Lesson 190
“I choose the joy of God instead of pain.”

"It is your thoughts alone that cause you pain. Nothing external to your mind can hurt or injure you in any way. There is no cause beyond yourself that can reach down and bring oppression. No-one but yourself affects you. There is nothing in the world which has the power to make you ill or sad, or weak or frail. But it is you who have the power to dominate all things you see by merely recognizing what you are.

"This is the day when it is given you to realize the lesson which contains all of salvation’s power. It is this: Pain is illusion; joy reality. Pain is but sleep; joy is awakening. Pain is deception; joy alone is truth. And so again we make the only choice that ever can be made; we choose between illusions and the truth, or pain and joy, or hell and Heaven."

Experience out-of-this-world joy and love:
Sundays 4:30 - 6:00PM
Wednesdays 7:00 - 8:30PM
(Arrive any time during sessions)
2174 Villaire Ave. (7420 So.) Cottonwood Heights, UT
Beau at 801 365-2422 or 801 947-1871

Each month our Holy Spirit gives a message of prophetic revelation which helps individuals open spiritually and understand Jesus' teaching. To read the latest message click on:
Monthly message

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Find Healing and Unbelievable Happiness. Join with Beau and Bethie!

2011-08-25T16:55:00.000-07:00

"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."- Jesus Christ in A Course in Miracles

Experience out-of-this-world joy and love:
Sundays 4:30 - 6:00PM
Wednesdays 7:00 - 8:30PM
(Arrive any time during sessions)
2174 Villaire Ave. (7420 So.) Cottonwood Heights, UT
Beau at 801 365-2422 or 801 947-1871

Each month our Holy Spirit gives a message of prophetic revelation which helps individuals open spiritually and understand Jesus' teaching. To read the latest message click on:
Monthly message

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Invitation to Attend Light Sessions with Brian (Beau) and Bethie

2011-07-17T13:39:00.001-07:00

To give without limit is God's Will for you, because only this can bring you the joy which is His, and which He wills to share with YOU. Your love is as boundless as His because it IS His. Could any part of Him be WITHOUT His Love, and could any part of His Love be contained? God is your heritage, because His one gift is Himself. How can you give except LIKE Him, if you would know His gift to YOU? Give, then, without limit and without end, to learn how much HE has given YOU. Your ability to ACCEPT Him depends on your willingness to give as He gives.
- Jesus Christ in A Course in Miracles

Experience out-of-this-world joy and love:
Sundays 4:30 - 6:00PM
Wednesdays 7:00 - 8:30PM
(Arrive any time during sessions)
2174 Villaire Ave. (7420 So.) Cottonwood Heights, UT
Beau at 801 365-2422 or 801 947-1871

Each month our Holy Spirit gives a message of prophetic revelation which helps individuals open spiritually and understand Jesus' teaching. To read the latest message click on:
Monthly message

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Greatest Spiritual Opening In Utah

2010-02-24T13:49:00.000-08:00

You are a stranger here. But you belong to Him Who loves you as He loves Himself. Ask but my help to roll the stone away, and it is done according to His Will. We have begun the journey. Long ago the end was written in the stars and set into the Heavens with a shining Ray that held it safe within eternity and through all time as well. And holds it still; unchanged, unchanging and unchangeable.

Be not afraid. We only start again an ancient journey long ago begun that but seems new. We have begun again upon a road we travelled on before and lost our way a little while. And now we try again. Our new beginning has the certainty the journey lacked till now. Look up and see His Word among the stars, where He has set your Name along with His. Look up and find your certain destiny the world would hide but God would have you see.
- A Course in Miracles

Experience out-of-this-world joy and love:
Sundays 4:30 - 6:00PM -also- Wednesdays 7:00 - 8:30PM
(Arrive any time during sessions)
2174 Villaire Ave. (7420 So.) Cottonwood Heights, UT Beau at 801 365-2422 or 801 947-1871

Each month our Holy Spirit gives a message of prophetic revelation which helps individuals open spiritually and understand Jesus' teaching. To read the latest message click on:
Monthly message

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Holy Winter!

2009-12-27T17:45:00.000-08:00

The holiest of all the spots on earth is where an ancient hatred has become a present love. What hatred has released to love becomes the brightest light in Heaven's radiance. And all the lights in Heaven brighter grow in gratitude for what has been restored. Around you angels hover lovingly, to keep away all darkened thoughts of sin, and KEEP the light where it has entered in. Your footprints lighten up the world, for where you walk forgiveness goes with you. No one on earth but offers thanks to one who has restored his home, and sheltered him from bitter winter and the freezing cold. - A Course in Miracles

Open up and feel the great joy and love in our sessions:
Sundays 4:30 - 6:00PM also Wednesdays 7:00 - 8:30PM
(Arrive any time during sessions)
2174 Villaire Ave. (7420 So.) Cottonwood Heights, UT

Summer of Forgiveness

2009-06-26T16:16:00.000-07:00

Is it too much to ask a little trust for him who carries Christ to you, that you may be forgiven all your sins, and left without a single one you cherish still. Forget not that a shadow held between your brother and yourself obscures the Face of Christ and memory of God. And would you trade Them for an ancient hate? The ground whereon you stand is holy ground because of Them Who, standing there with you, have blessed it with their innocence and peace. The blood of hatred fades, to let the grass grow green again, and let the flowers be all white and sparkling in the summer sun. What was a place of death has now become a living temple in a world of light. - A Course in Miracles

Offering joyous and loving group meditations convenient to:
Cottonwood Heights, UT - Holladay, UT - Murray, UT - Midvale, UT - Sandy,UT

Each month our Holy Spirit gives a message of prophetic revelation which helps individuals open spiritually and understand Jesus' teaching. To read the latest message click on:

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The Coming of Summer ... Spiritually!

2009-05-24T10:27:00.001-07:00

The ground whereon you stand is holy ground BECAUSE of Them Who, standing there with you, have blessed it with THEIR innocence and peace. The blood of hatred fades, to let the grass grow green again, and let the flowers be all white and sparkling in the summer sun. What was a place of death has now become a living temple in a world of light.

Because of Them. It is Their Presence Which has lifted holiness again to take its ancient place upon an ancient throne. Because of Them have miracles sprung up as grass and flowers on the barren ground which hate had scorched and rendered desolate. What hate has wrought have They undone. And now you stand on ground so holy Heaven leans to join with it, and make it like Itself. The shadow of an ancient hate has gone, and all the blight and withering have passed forever from the land where They have come. - A Course in Miracles

Offering joyous and loving group meditations convenient to:
Cottonwood Heights, UT - Holladay, UT - Murray, UT - Midvale, UT - Sandy,UT

Each month our Holy Spirit gives a message of prophetic revelation which helps individuals open spiritually and understand Jesus' teaching. To read the latest message click on:

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The True Meaning of Easter Resurrection

2009-04-12T07:14:00.000-07:00

Very simply, the resurrection is the overcoming or surmounting of death. It is a reawakening or a rebirth; a change of mind about the meaning of the world. It is the acceptance of the Holy Spirit's interpretation of the world's purpose; the acceptance of the Atonement for oneself. It is the end of dreams of misery, and the glad awareness of the Holy Spirit's final dream.

It is the recognition of the gifts of God. It is the dream in which the body functions perfectly, having no function except communication. It is the lesson in which learning ends, for it is consummated and surpassed with this. It is the relinquishment of all other purposes, all other interests, all other wishes and all other concerns. It is the invitation to God to take His final step. (A Course in Miracles)

Offering joyous and loving group meditations convenient to:
Cottonwood Heights, UT - Holladay, UT - Murray, UT - Midvale, UT - Sandy,UT

Each month our Holy Spirit gives a message of prophetic revelation which helps individuals open spiritually and understand Jesus' teaching. To read the latest message click on:

Monthly message

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A World of Turmoil? Or a World of Peace?

2009-03-29T08:47:00.000-07:00

“I want the peace of God.” To say these words is nothing. But to mean these words is everything. If you could but mean them for just an instant, there would be no further sorrow possible for you in any form; in any place or time. Heaven would be completely given back to full awareness, memory of God entirely restored, the resurrection of all creation fully recognized.

No one can mean these words and not be healed. He cannot play with dreams, nor think he is himself a dream. He cannot make a hell and think it real. He wants the peace of God and it is given him. For that is all he wants, and that is all he will receive. Many have said these words. But few indeed have meant them. You have but to look upon the world you see around you to be sure how very few they are. (A Course in Miracles)

Offering joyous and loving group meditations convenient to:
Cottonwood Heights, UT - Holladay, UT - Murray, UT - Midvale, UT - Sandy,UT

Each month our Holy Spirit gives a message of prophetic revelation which helps individuals open spiritually and understand Jesus' teaching. To read the latest message click on:

Monthly message

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The Life You Really, Really Want!

2009-02-22T08:37:00.001-08:00

There is a way of living in the world that is not here, although it seems to be. You do not change appearance, though you smile more frequently. Your forehead is serene; your eyes are quiet. And the ones who walk the world as you do recognize their own. Yet those who have not yet perceived the way will recognize you also, and believe that you are like them as you were before.

If truth demanded they give up the world, it would appear to them as if it asked the sacrifice of something that is real. Many have chosen to renounce the world while still believing its reality, and they have suffered from a sense of loss and have not been released accordingly. Others have chosen nothing but the world, and they have suffered from a sense of loss still deeper, which they did not understand.

Between these paths there is another road that leads away from loss of every kind, for sacrifice and deprivation both are quickly left behind. This is the way appointed for you now. You walk this path as others walk, nor do you seem to be distinct from them although you are indeed. Thus can you serve them while you serve yourself, and set their footsteps on the way which God has opened up to you, and them through you.

Offering joyous and loving group meditations convenient to:
Cottonwood Heights, UT - Holladay, UT - Murray, UT - Midvale, UT - Sandy,UT

Each month our Holy Spirit gives a message of prophetic revelation which helps individuals open spiritually and understand Jesus' teaching. To read the latest message click on:

Monthly message

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2008: What to Leave Behind, What to Carry Forward

2008-12-26T07:31:00.000-08:00

To forgive is merely to remember ONLY the LOVING thoughts you gave in the past, and those that were given you. ALL the rest, must be forgotten.

The Holy Spirit wills only to make HIS resolutions complete and perfect. And so He seeks and FINDS the source of problems WHERE IT IS, and there UNDOES it. And, with each step in HIS undoing, is the SEPARATION more and more undone.

Let Him uncover the hidden spark of beauty in your relationships, and SHOW it to you. Its loveliness will so attract you, that you will be unwilling ever to lose the sight of it again. And you will learn to seek for, and ESTABLISH, conditions in which this beauty CAN be seen. All this, you will do gladly, if you but let Him hold the spark before you, to light your way, and make it CLEAR to you.

Offering joyous and loving group meditations convenient to:
Cottonwood Heights, UT - Holladay, UT - Murray, UT - Midvale, UT - Sandy,UT

Each month our Holy Spirit gives a message of prophetic revelation which helps individuals open spiritually and understand Jesus' teaching. To read the latest message click on:

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The Sign of Christmas

2008-12-23T08:54:00.001-08:00

The sign of Christmas is a star, a light in darkness. See it not OUTSIDE of yourself, but shining in the Heaven within, and accept it as the sign the time of Christ has come.

He comes demanding NOTHING. No sacrifice of ANY kind, of ANYONE, is asked by Him. In His Presence, THE WHOLE IDEA of sacrifice loses ALL meaning. For He is Host to God. And you need but invite Him in Who is there ALREADY.

This Christmas, give the Holy Spirit EVERYTHING that would hurt you. LET yourself be healed completely, that you may JOIN with Him in healing. And let us celebrate our release together, by releasing everyone WITH us. WITHOUT pain, there can BE no sacrifice. And WITHOUT SACRIFICE, there love MUST be.

Offering joyous and loving group meditations convenient to:
Cottonwood Heights, UT - Holladay, UT - Murray, UT - Midvale, UT - Sandy,UT

Each month our Holy Spirit gives a message of prophetic revelation which helps individuals open spiritually and understand Jesus' teaching. To read the latest message click on:

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Your New Year's Resolution & Blessing to the World!

2007-01-02T10:19:00.000-08:00

“The peace of God is shining in me now and throughout 2007!.”

Words of Jesus from A Course in Miracles: Dear ones, the peace of God is shining in you now, and from your heart extends around the world. It pauses to caress each living thing, and leave a blessing with it which remains forever and forever. What it gives must be eternal. It removes all thoughts of the ephemeral and valueless. It brings renewal to all tired hearts, and lights all vision as it passes by. All of its gifts are given everyone, and everyone unites in giving thanks to you who give and you who have received.

The shining in your mind reminds the world of what it has forgotten, and the world restores the memory to you as well. From you salvation radiates with gifts beyond all measure, given and returned. To you, the giver of the gift, does God Himself give thanks. And in His blessing does the light in you shine brighter, adding to the gifts you have to offer to the world.

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Thank you, Jesus Christ, for giving our world the gift of A Course in Miracles!

The Greatest Christmas Gift Anyone Could Give!

2006-12-23T11:00:00.000-08:00

“The peace of God is shining in me now.”

Words of Jesus from A Course in Miracles: Dear ones, the peace of God is shining in you now, and from your heart extends around the world. It pauses to caress each living thing, and leave a blessing with it which remains forever and forever. What it gives must be eternal. It removes all thoughts of the ephemeral and valueless. It brings renewal to all tired hearts, and lights all vision as it passes by. All of its gifts are given everyone, and everyone unites in giving thanks to you who give and you who have received.

The shining in your mind reminds the world of what it has forgotten, and the world restores the memory to you as well. From you salvation radiates with gifts beyond all measure, given and returned. To you, the giver of the gift, does God Himself give thanks. And in His blessing does the light in you shine brighter, adding to the gifts you have to offer to the world.

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Thank you, Jesus Christ, for giving to our world the gift of A Course in Miracles!

Is There a Healing Remedy Which Works equally for Liberals, Conservatives, Entertainment Egos, and Sex Offenders?

2006-06-27T08:32:00.000-07:00

Jesus Speaks: Dear ones, there can be no order of difficulty in healing merely because all sickness is illusion. Is it harder to dispel the belief of the insane in a larger hallucination as opposed to a smaller one? Will he agree more quickly to the unreality of a louder voice he hears than to that of a softer one? Will he dismiss more easily a whispered demand to kill than a shout? And do the number of pitchforks the devils he sees carrying affect their credibility in his perception? His mind has categorized them all as real, and so they are all real to him. When he realizes they are all illusions they will disappear. And so it is with healing. The properties of illusions which seem to make them different are really irrelevant, for their properties are as illusory as they are.

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Thank you, Jesus Christ, for giving to our world A Course in Miracles!

What Would Jesus Teach Major News Media Outlets Like AP or the New York Times?

2006-06-25T09:23:00.000-07:00

Jesus Speaks: Dear ones, it is in the sorting out and categorizing activities of the mind that errors in perception enter. And it is here correction must be made. The mind classifies what the body's eyes bring to it according to its preconceived values, judging where each sense datum fits best. What basis could be faultier than this? Unrecognized by itself, it has itself asked to be given what will fit into these categories. And having done so, it concludes that the categories must be true. On this the judgment of all differences rests, because it is on this that judgments of the world depend. Can this confused and senseless "reasoning" be depended on for anything?

Are Christian, Muslim, Jew, Buddhist and Hindu Really Different?

2006-06-23T15:25:00.000-07:00

Jesus Speaks: Dear ones, illusions are always illusions of differences. How could it be otherwise? By definition, an illusion is an attempt to make something real that is regarded as of major importance, but is recognized as being untrue. The mind therefore seeks to make it true out of its intensity of desire to have it for itself. Illusions are travesties of creation; attempts to bring truth to lies. Finding truth unacceptable, the mind revolts against truth and gives itself an illusion of victory. And in these dreams the mind is separate, different from other minds, with different interests of its own, and able to gratify its needs at the expense of others.

Is Creating World Peace and the End of Poverty Really That Difficult?

2006-06-21T07:55:00.000-07:00

Jesus Speaks: Dear ones, the belief in order of difficulties is the basis for the world's perception. It rests on differences; on uneven background and shifting foreground, on unequal heights and diverse sizes, on varying degrees of darkness and light, and thousands of contrasts in which each thing seen competes with every other in order to be recognized. A larger object overshadows a smaller one. A brighter thing draws the attention from another with less intensity of appeal. And a more threatening idea, or one conceived of as more desirable by the world's standards, completely upsets the mental balance. What the body's eyes behold is only conflict. Look not to them for peace and understanding.

Spiritual Healing's Most Common Mistake!

2006-06-19T07:32:00.000-07:00

Jesus Speaks: Dear ones, the real basis for doubt about the outcome of any problem that has been given to God's Teacher for resolution is always self-doubt. And that necessarily implies that trust has been placed in an illusory self, for only such a self can be doubted.
This illusion can take many forms. Perhaps there is a fear of weakness and vulnerability. Perhaps there is a fear of failure and shame associated with a sense of inadequacy. Perhaps there is a guilty embarrassment stemming from false humility. The form of the mistake is not important. What is important is only the recognition of a mistake as a mistake.

Spiritual Healing Without Doubt

2006-06-17T07:59:00.000-07:00

Jesus Speaks: Dear ones, one of the most difficult temptations to recognize is that to doubt a healing because of the appearance of continuing symptoms is a mistake in the form of lack of trust. As such it is an attack. Usually it seems to be just the opposite. It does appear unreasonable at first to be told that continued concern is attack. It has all the appearances of love. Yet love without trust is impossible, and doubt and trust cannot coexist. And hate must be the opposite of love, regardless of the form it takes. Doubt not the gift and it is impossible to doubt its result. This is the certainty that gives God's teachers the power to be miracle workers, for they have put their trust in Him.

Are You a Healer?Does Your Love Help Others Heal?

2006-06-13T08:03:00.000-07:00

Jesus Speaks: Dear ones, whenever a teacher of God has tried to be a channel for healing he has succeeded. Should he be tempted to doubt this, he should not repeat his previous effort. That was already maximal, because the Holy Spirit so accepted it and so used it. Now the teacher of God has only one course to follow. He must use his reason to tell himself that he has given the problem to One Who cannot fail, and must recognize that his own uncertainty is not love but fear, and therefore hate. His position has thus become untenable, for he is offering hate to one to whom he offered love. This is impossible. Having offered love, only love can be received.

How Many Times to Ask for Healing?

2006-06-11T07:55:00.000-07:00

Jesus Speaks: Dear ones, do not attempt to repeat healing. If the patient is healed, what remains to heal him from? And if the healing is certain, as we have already said it is, what is there to repeat? For a teacher of God to remain concerned about the result of healing is to limit the healing. It is now the teacher of God himself whose mind needs to be healed. And it is this he must facilitate. He is now the patient, and he must so regard himself. He has made a mistake, and must be willing to change his mind about it. He lacked the trust that makes for giving truly, and so he has not received the benefit of his gift.

What if I Allow My Spirit of Joy to Bless Everyone?

2006-06-09T09:11:00.000-07:00

Jesus Speaks: Dear ones, it is the relinquishing of all concern about the gift that makes it truly given. And it is trust that makes true giving possible. Healing is the change of mind that the Holy Spirit in the patient's mind is seeking for him. And it is the Holy Spirit in the mind of the giver Who gives the gift to him. How can it be lost? How can it be ineffectual? How can it be wasted? God's treasure house can never be empty. And if one gift is missing, it would not be full. Yet is its fullness guaranteed by God. What concern, then, can a teacher of God have about what becomes of his gifts? Given by God to God, who in this holy exchange can receive less than everything.

If I Give Without Expecting Anything ....

2006-06-07T21:00:00.000-07:00

Jesus Speaks: Dear ones, it is not the function of God's teachers to evaluate the outcome of their gifts. It is merely their function to give them. Once they have done that they have also given the outcome, for that is part of the gift. No one can give if he is concerned with the result of giving. That is a limitation on the giving itself, and neither the giver nor the receiver would have the gift. Trust is an essential part of giving; in fact, it is the part that makes sharing possible, the part that guarantees the giver will not lose, but only gain. Who gives a gift and then remains with it, to be sure it is used as the giver deems appropriate? Such is not giving but imprisoning.

Health and Medical Professionals Receive Special Benefits.Patients Healed When Ready.

2006-06-05T08:49:00.000-07:00

Jesus Speaks: Dear ones, healing will always stand aside when it would be seen as threat. The instant it is welcome it is there. Where healing has been given it will be received. And what is time before the gifts of God? We have referred many times in the text to the storehouse of treasures laid up equally for the giver and the receiver of God's gifts. Not one is lost, for they can but increase. No teacher of God should feel disappointed if he has offered healing and it does not appear to have been received. It is not up to him to judge when his gift should be accepted. Let him be certain it has been received, and trust that it will be accepted when it is recognized as a blessing and not a curse.

Is There An Alternative To The Socialist Belief in Pain, Sickness, and Death?

2006-05-29T09:25:00.000-07:00

Jesus Speaks: Dear ones, the simple presence of a teacher of God is a reminder. His thoughts ask for the right to question what the patient has accepted as true. As God's messengers, His teachers are the symbols of salvation. They ask the patient for forgiveness for God's Son in his own Name. They stand for the Alternative. With God's Word in their minds they come in benediction, not to heal the sick but to remind them of the remedy God has already given them. It is not their hands that heal. It is not their voice that speaks the Word of God. They merely give what has been given them. Very gently they call to their brothers to turn away from death: "Behold, you Son of God, what Life can offer you. Would you choose sickness in place of this?"

Healing Without Health Insurance and Medical Facilities?A Reason To Rejoice?

2006-05-27T18:55:00.000-07:00

Jesus Speaks: Dear ones, if the patient must change his mind in order to be healed, what does the teacher of God do? Can he change the patient's mind for him? Certainly not. For those already willing to change their minds he has no function except to rejoice with them, for they have become teachers of God with him. He has, however, a more specific function for those who do not understand what healing is. These patients do not realize they have chosen sickness. On the contrary, they believe that sickness has chosen them. Nor are they open-minded on this point. The body tells them what to do and they obey. They have no idea how insane this concept is. If they even suspected it, they would be healed. Yet they suspect nothing.

One Healing Solution to All Medical Symptoms?Who Is the Real Physician?

2006-05-25T18:11:00.000-07:00

Jesus Speaks: Dear ones, the acceptance of sickness as a decision of the mind, for a purpose for which it would use the body, is the basis of healing. And this is so for healing in all forms. A patient decides that this is so, and he recovers. If he decides against recovery, he will not be healed. Who is the physician? Only the mind of the patient himself. The outcome is what he decides that it is. Special agents seem to be ministering to him, yet they but give form to his own choice. He chooses them in order to bring tangible form to his desires. And it is this they do, and nothing else. They are not actually needed at all. The patient could merely rise up without their aid and say, "I have no use for this." There is no form of sickness that would not be cured at once.

2006-05-21T17:57:00.000-07:00

Jesus Speaks: Dear ones, healing must occur in exact proportion to which the valuelessness of sickness is recognized. One need but say, "There is no gain at all to me in this" and he is healed. But to say this, one first must recognize certain facts. First, it is obvious that decisions are of the mind, not of the body. If sickness is but a faulty problem-solving approach, it is a decision. And if it is a decision, it is the mind and not the body that makes it. The resistance to recognizing this is enormous, because the existence of the world as you perceive it depends on the body being the decision maker.

Is Healing Easier Than We Think?

2006-05-19T19:03:00.000-07:00

Jesus Speaks: Dear ones, healing is accomplished the instant the sufferer no longer sees any value in pain. Who would choose suffering unless he thought it brought him something, and something of value to him? He must think it is a small price to pay for something of greater worth. For sickness is an election; a decision. It is the choice of weakness, in the mistaken conviction that it is strength. When this occurs, real strength is seen as threat and health as danger.

How Would True Learning Feel Different Than Intellectual Learning?

2006-05-17T18:44:00.000-07:00

Jesus Speaks: Dear ones, you may have noticed that the list of attributes of God's teachers does not include things that are the Son of God's inheritance. Terms like love, sinlessness, perfection, knowledge and eternal truth do not appear in this context. They would be most inappropriate here. What God has given is so far beyond our curriculum that learning but disappears in its presence. Yet while its presence is obscured, the focus properly belongs on the curriculum. It is the function of God's teachers to bring true learning to the world. Properly speaking it is unlearning that they bring, for that is "true learning" in the world. It is given to the teachers of God to bring the glad tidings of complete forgiveness to the world. Blessed indeed are they, for they are the bringers of salvation.

2006-05-15T06:46:00.000-07:00

Dear ones, how do the open-minded forgive? They have let go all things that would prevent forgiveness. They have in truth abandoned the world, and let it be restored to them in newness and in joy so glorious they could never have conceived of such a change. Nothing is now as it was formerly. Nothing but sparkles now which seemed so dull and lifeless before. And above all are all things welcoming, for threat is gone. No clouds remain to hide the face of Christ. Now is the goal achieved. Forgiveness is the final goal of the curriculum. It paves the way for what goes far beyond all learning. The curriculum makes no effort to exceed its legitimate goal. Forgiveness is its single aim, at which all learning ultimately converges. It is indeed enough.

2006-05-13T08:37:00.000-07:00

Dear ones, the centrality of open-mindedness, perhaps the last of the attributes the teacher of God acquires, is easily understood when its relation to forgiveness is recognized. Open-mindedness comes with lack of judgment. As judgment shuts the mind against God's Teacher, so open-mindedness invites Him to come in. As condemnation judges the Son of God as evil, so open-mindedness permits him to be judged by the Voice for God on His behalf. As the projection of guilt upon him would send him to hell, so open-mindedness lets Christ's image be extended to him. Only the open-minded can be at peace, for they alone see reason for it.

2006-05-11T07:45:00.000-07:00

Dear ones, miracles are in accord with the Will of God, whose will you do not know because you are confused about what you will. This means that you are confused about what you are. If you are God's will and do not accept His will, you can only be not accepting what you are. But if your joy IS what you are, you ARE denying joy. The miracle therefore is a lesson in what joy is. Being a lesson in sharing, it is a lesson in love, which is joy. Every miracle is thus a lesson in Truth, and by OFFERING truth YOU are learning the difference between pain and joy.

2006-05-09T17:50:00.000-07:00

Dear ones, true faithfulness does not deviate. Being consistent, it is wholly honest. Being unswerving, it is full of trust. Being based on fearlessness, it is gentle. Being certain, it is joyous. And being confident, it is tolerant. Faithfulness, then, combines in itself the other attributes of God's teachers. It implies acceptance of the Word of God and His definition of His Son. It is to Them that faithfulness in the true sense is always directed. Toward Them it looks, seeking until it finds. Defenselessness attends it naturally, and joy is its condition. And having found, it rests in quiet certainty on That alone to Which all faithfulness is due.

2006-05-07T20:29:00.000-07:00

Dear ones, the extent of the teacher of God's faithfulness is the measure of his advancement in the curriculum. Does he still select some aspects of his life to bring to his learning, while keeping others apart? If so, his advancement is limited, and his trust not yet firmly established. Faithfulness is the teacher of God's trust in the Word of God to set all things right; not some, but all. Generally, his faithfulness begins by resting on just some problems, remaining carefully limited for a time. To give up all problems to one Answer is to reverse the thinking of the world entirely. And that alone is faithfulness. Nothing but that really deserves the name. Yet each degree, however small, is worth achieving. Readiness is not mastery, but is a necessary start.

2006-05-05T09:00:00.000-07:00

Dear ones, those who are certain of the outcome can afford to wait, and wait without anxiety. Patience is natural to the teacher of God. All he sees is certain outcome, at a time perhaps unknown to him as yet, but not in doubt. The time will be as right as is the answer. And this is true for everything that happens now or in the future. The past as well held no mistakes; nothing that did not serve to benefit the world, as well as him to whom it seemed to happen. Perhaps it was not understood at the time. Even so, the teacher of God is willing to reconsider all his past decisions, if they are causing pain to anyone. Patience is natural to those who trust. Sure of the ultimate interpretation of all things in time, no outcome already seen or yet to come can cause them fear.

2006-05-03T06:44:00.000-07:00

Dear ones, the term generosity has special meaning to the teacher of God. It is not the usual meaning of the word; in fact, it is a meaning that must be learned and learned very carefully. Like all the other attributes of God's teachers this one rests ultimately on trust, for without trust no one can be generous in the true sense. To the world, generosity means "giving away" in the sense of "giving up." To the teachers of God, it means giving away in order to keep.
The teacher of God is generous out of Self interest. This does not refer, however, to the self of which the world speaks. The teacher of God does not want anything he cannot give away, because he realizes it would be valueless to him by definition. What would he want it for? He could only lose because of it. He could not gain. Therefore he does not seek what only he could keep, because that is a guarantee of loss. He does not want to suffer. Why should he ensure himself pain? But he does want to keep for himself all things that are of God, and therefore for His Son. These are the things that belong to him. These he can give away in true generosity, protecting them forever for himself.

2006-05-01T06:47:00.000-07:00

Dear ones, God's teachers have learned how to be simple. They have no dreams that need defense against the truth. They do not try to make themselves. Their joy comes from their understanding Who created them. And does what God created need defense? No one can become an advanced teacher of God until he fully understands that defenses are but foolish guardians of mad illusions. The more grotesque the dream, the fiercer and more powerful its defenses seem to be. Yet when the teacher of God finally agrees to look past them, he finds that nothing was there. Slowly at first he lets himself be undeceived. But he learns faster as his trust increases. It is not danger that comes when defenses are laid down. It is safety. It is peace. It is joy. And it is God.

2006-04-29T08:35:00.000-07:00

Dear ones, joy is the inevitable result of gentleness. Gentleness means that fear is now impossible, and what could come to interfere with joy? The open hands of gentleness are always filled. The gentle have no pain. They cannot suffer. Why would they not be joyous? They are sure they are beloved and must be safe. Joy goes with gentleness as surely as grief attends attack. God's teachers trust in Him. And they are sure His Teacher goes before them, making sure no harm can come to them. They hold His gifts and follow in His way, because God's Voice directs them in all things. Joy is their song of thanks. And Christ looks down on them in thanks as well. His need of them is just as great as theirs of Him. How joyous it is to share the purpose of salvation!

2006-04-27T06:35:00.000-07:00

Dear ones, God's teachers are wholly gentle. They need the strength of gentleness, for it is in this that the function of salvation becomes easy. To those who would do harm, it is impossible. To those to whom harm has no meaning, it is merely natural. What choice but this has meaning to the sane? Who chooses hell when he perceives a way to Heaven? And who would choose the weakness that must come from harm in place of the unfailing, all-encompassing and limitless strength of gentleness? The might of God's teachers lies in their gentleness, for they have understood their evil thoughts came neither from God's Son nor his Creator. Thus did they join their thoughts with Him Who is their Source. And so their will, which always was His Own, is free to be itself.

2006-04-25T07:56:00.000-07:00

Dear ones, harm is impossible for God's teachers. They can neither harm nor be harmed. Harm is the outcome of judgment. It is the dishonest act that follows a dishonest thought. It is a verdict of guilt upon a brother, and therefore on oneself. It is the end of peace and the denial of learning. It demonstrates the absence of God's curriculum, and its replacement by insanity. No teacher of God but must learn, - and fairly early in his training, - that harmfulness completely obliterates his function from his awareness. It will make him confused, fearful, angry and suspicious. It will make the Holy Spirit's lessons impossible to learn. Nor can God's Teacher be heard at all, except by those who realize that harm can actually achieve nothing. No gain can come of it.

2006-04-23T12:18:00.000-07:00

Dear ones, God's teachers do not judge. To judge is to be dishonest, for to judge is to assume a position you do not have. Judgment without self-deception is impossible. Judgment implies that you have been deceived in your brothers. How, then, could you not have been deceived in yourself? Judgment implies a lack of trust, and trust remains the bedrock of the teacher of God's whole thought system. Let this be lost, and all his learning goes. Without judgment are all things equally acceptable, for who could judge otherwise? Without judgment are all men brothers, for who is there who stands apart? Judgment destroys honesty and shatters trust. No teacher of God can judge and hope to learn..

2006-04-21T06:47:00.000-07:00

2006-04-19T08:13:00.000-07:00

Dear ones, the peace of mind which the advanced teachers of God experience is largely due to their perfect honesty. It is only the wish to deceive that makes for war. No one at one with himself can even conceive of conflict. Conflict is the inevitable result of self-deception, and self-deception is dishonesty. There is no challenge to a teacher of God. Challenge implies doubt, and the trust on which God's teachers rest secure makes doubt impossible. Therefore they can only succeed. In this, as in all things, they are honest. They can only succeed, because they never do their will alone. They choose for all mankind; for all the world and all things in it; for the unchanging and unchangeable beyond appearances; and for the Son of God and his Creator. How could they not succeed? They choose in perfect honesty, sure of their choice as of themselves.

2006-04-17T07:59:00.000-07:00

Dear ones, all other traits of God's teachers rest on trust. Once trust has been achieved, the others cannot fail to follow. Only the trusting can afford honesty, for only they can see its value. Honesty does not apply only to what you say. The term actually means consistency. There is nothing you say that contradicts what you think or do; no thought opposes any other thought; no act belies your word; and no word lacks agreement with another. Such are the truly honest. At no level are they in conflict with themselves. Therefore it is impossible for them to be in conflict with anyone or anything.

2006-04-15T07:11:00.000-07:00

Dear ones, each teaching-learning situation is maximal in the sense that each person involved will learn the most that he can from the other person at that time. In this sense, and in this sense only, we can speak of levels of teaching. Using the term in this way, the second level of teaching is a more sustained relationship, in which, for a time, two people enter into a fairly intense teaching-learning situation and then appear to separate. As with the first level, these meetings are not accidental, nor is what appears to be the end of the relationship a real end. Again, each has learned the most he can at the time. Yet all who meet will someday meet again, for it is the destiny of all relationships to become holy. God is not mistaken in His Son.

2006-04-13T06:54:00.000-07:00

Dear ones, it is difficult to understand that levels of teaching the universal course is a concept as meaningless in reality as is time. The illusion of one permits the illusion of the other. In time, the teacher of God seems to begin to change his mind about the world with a single decision, and then learns more and more about the new direction as he teaches it. We have covered the illusion of time already, but the illusion of levels of teaching seems to be something different. Perhaps the best way to demonstrate that these levels cannot exist is simply to say that any level of the teaching-learning situation is part of God's plan for Atonement, and His plan can have no levels, being a reflection of His Will. Salvation is always ready and always there. God's teachers work at different levels, but the result is always the same.

2006-04-11T08:07:00.000-07:00

Dear ones, teachers of God have no set teaching level. Each teaching-learning situation involves a different relationship at the beginning, although the ultimate goal is always the same; to make of the relationship a holy relationship, in which both can look upon the Son of God as sinless. There is no one from whom a teacher of God cannot learn, so there is no one whom he cannot teach. However, from a practical point of view he cannot meet everyone, nor can everyone find him. Therefore, the plan includes very specific contacts to be made for each teacher of God. There are no accidents in salvation. Those who are to meet will meet, because together they have the potential for a holy relationship. They are ready for each other.

2006-04-09T08:16:00.000-07:00

Dear ones, when pupil and teacher come together, a teaching-learning situation begins. For the teacher is not really the one who does the teaching. God's Teacher speaks to any two who join together for learning purposes. The relationship is holy because of that purpose, and God has promised to send His Spirit into any holy relationship. In the teaching-learning situation, each one learns that giving and receiving are the same. The demarcations they have drawn between their roles, their minds, their bodies, their needs, their interests, and all the differences they thought separated them from one another, fade and grow dim and disappear. Those who would learn the same course share one interest and one goal. And thus he who was the learner becomes a teacher of God himself, for he has made the one decision that gave his teacher to him. He has seen in another person the same interests as his own.

2006-04-07T06:57:00.000-07:00

Dear ones, the world of time is the world of illusion. What happened long ago seems to be happening now. Choices made long since appear to be open; yet to be made. What has been learned and understood and long ago passed by is looked upon as a new thought, a fresh idea, a different approach. Because your will is free you can accept what has already happened at any time you choose, and only then will you realize that it was always there. As the course emphasizes, you are not free to choose the curriculum, or even the form in which you will learn it. You are free, however, to decide when you want to learn it. And as you accept it, it is already learned.

2006-04-05T07:05:00.000-07:00

Dear ones, certain pupils have been assigned to each of God's teachers, and they will begin to look for him as soon as he has answered the Call. They were chosen for him because the form of the universal curriculum that he will teach is best for them in view of their level of understanding. His pupils have been waiting for him, for his coming is certain. Again, it is only a matter of time. Once he has chosen to fulfill his role, they are ready to fulfill theirs. Time waits on his choice, but not on whom he will serve. When he is ready to learn, the opportunities to teach will be provided for him.

2006-04-03T17:36:00.000-07:00

Dear ones, there is a course for every teacher of God. The form of the course varies greatly. So do the particular teaching aids involved. But the content of the course never changes. Its central theme is always, "God's Son is guiltless, and in his innocence is his salvation." It can be taught by actions or thoughts; in words or soundlessly; in any language or in no language; in any place or time or manner. It does not matter who the teacher was before he heard the Call. He has become a savior by his answering. He has seen someone else as himself. He has therefore found his own salvation and the salvation of the world. In his rebirth is the world reborn.

2006-04-02T08:43:00.000-07:00

Dear ones, the role of teaching and learning is actually reversed in the thinking of the world. The reversal is characteristic. It seems as if the teacher and the learner are separated, the teacher giving something to the learner rather than to himself. Further, the act of teaching is regarded as a special activity, in which one engages only a relatively small proportion of one's time. The course, on the other hand, emphasizes that to teach is to learn, so that teacher and learner are the same. It also emphasizes that teaching is a constant process; it goes on every moment of the day, and continues into sleeping thoughts as well.

2006-04-01T07:14:00.000-08:00

Dear ones, the surface traits of God's teachers are not at all alike. They do not look alike to the body's eyes, they come from vastly different backgrounds, their experiences of the world vary greatly, and their superficial "personalities" are quite distinct. Nor, at the beginning stages of their functioning as teachers of God, have they as yet acquired the deeper characteristics that will establish them as what they are. God gives special gifts to His teachers, because they have a special role in His plan for Atonement. Their specialness is, of course, only temporary; set in time as a means of leading out of time. These special gifts, born in the holy relationship toward which the teaching-learning situation is geared, become characteristic of all teachers of God who have advanced in their own learning. In this respect they are all alike.

2006-03-30T07:59:00.000-08:00

Dear ones, as the teacher of God advances in his training, he learns one lesson with increasing thoroughness. He does not make his own decisions; he asks his Teacher for His answer, and it is this he follows as his guide for action. This becomes easier and easier, as the teacher of God learns to give up his own judgment. The giving up of judgment, the obvious prerequisite for hearing God's Voice, is usually a fairly slow process, not because it is difficult, but because it is apt to be perceived as personally insulting. The world's training is directed toward achieving a goal in direct opposition to that of our curriculum. The world trains for reliance on one's judgment as the criterion for maturity and strength. Our curriculum trains for the relinquishment of judgment as the necessary condition of salvation.

2006-03-29T08:21:00.000-08:00

Dear ones, a teacher of God is anyone who chooses to be one. His qualifications consist solely in this; somehow, somewhere he has made a deliberate choice in which he did not see his interests as apart from someone else's. Once he has done that, his road is established and his direction is sure. A light has entered the darkness. It may be a single light, but that is enough. He has entered an agreement with God even if he does not yet believe in Him. He has become a bringer of salvation. He has become a teacher of God.

They come from all over the world. They come from all religions and from no religion. They are the ones who have answered. The Call is universal. It goes on all the time everywhere. It calls for teachers to speak for It and redeem the world. Many hear It, but few will answer. Yet it is all a matter of time. Everyone will answer in the end, but the end can be a long, long way off.

2006-03-28T07:01:00.000-08:00

Dear ones, this is not a course in philosophical speculation, nor is it concerned with precise terminology. It is concerned only with Atonement or the correction of perception. The means of the Atonement is forgiveness. The structure of "individual consciousness" is essentially irrelevant because it is a concept representing the "original error" or the "original sin." To study the error itself does not lead to correction if you are indeed to succeed in overlooking the error. And it is just this process of overlooking at which the course aims.

2006-03-26T07:01:00.000-08:00

Dear ones, all terms are potentially controversial, and those who seek controversy will find it. Yet those who seek clarification will find it as well. They must, however, be willing to overlook controversy, recognizing that it is a defense against truth in the form of a delaying maneuver. Theological considerations as such are necessarily controversial, since they depend on belief and can therefore be accepted or rejected. A universal theology is impossible, but a universal experience is not only possible but necessary. It is this experience toward which the course is directed. Here alone consistency becomes possible because here alone uncertainty ends.

2006-03-24T07:23:00.000-08:00

Dear ones, You have surely noticed an emphasis throughout our recent lessons on the connection between fulfilling your function and achieving happiness. This is because you do not really see the connection. Yet there is more than just a connection between them; they are the same. Their forms are different, but their content is completely one.

The ego does constant battle with the Holy Spirit on the fundamental question of what your function is. So does it do constant battle with the Holy Spirit about what your happiness is. It is not a two-way battle. The ego attacks and the Holy Spirit does not respond. He knows what your function is. He knows that it is your happiness.

2006-03-22T08:18:00.000-08:00

Dear ones, we have frequently noted that the miracle is a device for shortening but not abolishing time. If a sufficient number of people become truly miracle-minded quickly, the shortening process can be almost immeasurable. But it is essential that these individuals free themselves from fear sooner than would ordinarily be the case, because they must emerge from basic conflict if they are to bring peace to the minds of others.

2006-03-21T07:33:00.000-08:00

Dear ones, this is the invitation to the Holy Spirit. I told you that I could reach up and bring the Holy Spirit down to you. But I can bring Him to you only at your own invitation. The Holy Spirit is nothing more than your own right mind. He was also mine. The Bible says, "May the mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus," and uses this as a blessing. It is the blessing of miracle-mindedness. It asks that you may think as I thought, joining with me in Christ-thinking.

2006-03-20T09:28:00.000-08:00

Dear ones, the Holy Spirit needs a happy learner in whom His mission can be happily accomplished. You who are steadfastly devoted to misery must first recognize that you are miserable and not happy. The Holy Spirit cannot teach without this contrast for you believe that misery is happiness. This has so confused you that you have undertaken to learn to do what you can never do, believing that unless you learn it you will not be happy. You do not realize that the foundation on which this most peculiar learning goal depends means absolutely nothing.

2006-03-18T18:13:00.000-08:00

Dear ones, how willing are you to forgive your brother? How much do you desire peace, instead of endless strife and misery and pain? These questions are the same, in different form. Forgiveness is your peace, for herein lies the end of separation, and the dream of danger and destruction, sin and death; of madness and of murder, grief and loss. This is the "sacrifice" salvation asks, and gladly offers peace instead of this. Swear not to die! You make a bargain that you cannot keep. For you are the child of life, and cannot be killed. You are immortal as your father in heaven.

2006-03-17T07:01:00.000-08:00

Dear ones, I once asked if you were willing to sell all you have, give to the poor, and follow me. This is what I meant: If you had no investment in anything in this world, you could teach the poor where their treasure is. Whenever you become angry with a brother, for whatever reason, you are believing that the ego is to be saved, and to be saved by attack. If he attacks, you are agreeing with this belief, and if you attack, you are reinforcing it. Remember, those who attack are poor.

2006-03-15T07:01:00.000-08:00

Dear ones, this is a course in miracles. It is a required course. Only the time you take it is voluntary. Free will does not mean that you can establish the curriculum. It means only that you can elect what you want to take at a given time. The course does not aim at teaching the meaning of love, for that is beyond what can be taught. It does aim, however, at removing the blocks to the awareness of love's presence, which is your natural inheritance.

2006-03-10T07:01:00.000-08:00

Dear ones, the miracle is means to demonstrate that all appearances can change because they are appearances, and cannot have the changelessness reality entails. The miracle attests salvation from appearances by showing they can change. Your brother has a changelessness in him beyond appearance and deception both. It is obscured by changing views of him which you perceive as his reality. The happy dream about him takes the form of the appearance of his perfect health; his perfect freedom from all forms of lack; and safety from disaster of all kinds. The miracle is proof he is not bound by loss or suffering in any form, because it can so easily be changed.

2006-03-09T07:01:00.000-08:00

Dear ones, when you speak of healing, the miracle is the means, the atonement the principle, and healing the result. Those who speak of "the miracle of healing" are combining two orders of reality inappropriately. Healing itself is not a miracle. The atonement, or the final miracle, is a remedy. It is purely a means, while any type of healing is a result. We have constantly referred to miracles as the means of correcting level confusion. Illness, which is really "not right mindedness," is the result of level confusion in the sense that it always entails the misbelief that what is amiss in one level can adversely affect another.

2006-03-08T07:09:00.000-08:00

Dear ones, reality is changeless. Miracles but show what you have interposed between reality and your awareness is unreal, and does not interfere at all. The cost of the belief there must be some appearances beyond the hope of change is that the miracle cannot come forth from you consistently. For you have asked it be withheld from power to heal all dreams. There is no miracle you cannot have when you desire healing. But there is no miracle that can be given you unless you want it.

2006-03-07T07:01:00.000-08:00

Dear ones, miracles honor human beings because they are loveable. Miracles dispel illusions about the human state and perceive the light in human beings. They thus atone for human errors by freeing human beings from their own nightmares. Miracles release human beings from a prison in which they have imprisoned themselves. By freeing the human mind from illusions, miracles restore sanity.

The miracle restores the soul to its fullness. By atoning for lack, it establishes perfect protection. The strength of the soul leaves no room for intrusions. The forgiven are filled with the soul, and their soul forgives in return.

2006-03-06T07:05:00.000-08:00

Dear ones, the miracle that you are willing to receive, you give. Each miracle becomes an illustration of the law on which salvation rests; that justice must be done to all if anyone is to be healed. No one can lose and everyone must benefit. Each miracle is an example of what justice can accomplish when it is offered to everyone alike. It is received and given equally. It does not make the same unlike. It sees no differences where none exist. The miracle's offering is universal and it teaches but one message: what is God's belongs to everyone, and is everyone's due.

2006-03-05T07:01:00.000-08:00

Dear ones, the miracle is much like the body in that both are learning aids for facilitating a state of being in which they become unnecessary. When your spiritual state of direct communication is reached, neither the body nor the miracle serves any purpose. While you believe you are in a body, however, you can choose between loveless and miraculous channels of expression. You can wait, delay, paralyze yourself, or reduce your creativity almost to nothing. But you cannot abolish it. You can destroy your medium of communication, but not your potential. You did not create yourself.

2006-03-03T07:01:00.000-08:00

Dear ones, miracles bring all beholders to the gate of heaven. Each miracle reminds you of your Father's love as surely as the rest. Each miracle teaches you that what you feared you love the most. What but a miracle could change your mind so that you understand that love cannot be feared? What other miracle is there but this?

Having accepted miracles, finally no spot of sin holds back the happy opening of heaven's gate. Finally no hinderance withholds the wealth of heaven from you.

2006-03-01T07:01:00.000-08:00

Dear ones, miracles occur not in time, but right now. Thus they release all fear, which is only of the past and future. With the miracle, the present extends forever and is so beautiful and so clean and free of guilt that nothing but happiness is there. No darkness is remembered, and immortality and joy are now.

The miracle teaches a lesson that takes no time. Nothing can reach you here out of the past, and it is here that you are completely absolved, completely free and wholly without condemnation. From the miracle's holy instant, wherein holiness was born again, you will go forth in time without fear.

2006-02-28T07:01:00.000-08:00

Dear ones, miracles minimize the need for time. On earth the recognition of everyone's equality appears to involve almost endless time. However, the miracle entails a sudden shift of perception, which means a shift to an entirely different state of mind. The perceiver of the miracle then emerges farther along in time. The miracle thus has the unique property of abolishing time to the extent that it renders unnecessary the interval of time it spans. There is no relationship between the time a miracle takes and the time it covers. The miracle substitutes for learning that might otherwise have taken many years.

2006-02-24T07:03:00.000-08:00

Dear ones, you can think of a miracle as a correction. It does not create, nor really change at all. It merely looks on devastation and reminds the mind that what it sees is false. It undoes error, but does not attempt to go beyond perception nor extend the function of forgiveness. Thus it stays within time's limits. Yet it paves the way for the return of timelessness and love's awakening, for fear must slip away under the gentle remedy the miracle brings. To deny miracles is to deny the one true healing that is possible to your world.

2006-02-23T07:01:00.000-08:00

Dear ones, miracles are experienced in time, where correction is still necessary; but not in eternity where repair is no longer needed. Yet while you still need healing, miracles are the only witnesses to your true reality that you are able to recognize. You cannot perform a miracle for yourself, because miracles are a way of giving acceptance and receiving it. Miracles therefore, cannot be a special gift to some while withheld from others. Therefore miracles are the only mechanism you have available by which to experience justice. Do not listen to those who tell you that human governments can somehow create social justice. They know not of what they speak. If you want justice, you must be open to miracles.

2006-02-22T07:01:00.000-08:00

Dear ones, your distorted perceptions produce a dense cover over miracle impulses, making it hard for them to reach your own awareness. The confusion of miracle impulses with physical impulses is a major perceptual distortion. Physical impulses are misdirected miracle impulses. All real pleasure comes from doing God's will. This is because not doing God's will is a denial of who you really are. When considering abortion remember this: you were created to create the good, the beautiful, the holy. For a little while God's love must still be expressed through one body to another. You cannot be happy denying your function on earth.

2006-02-21T07:01:00.000-08:00

Dear ones, ultimately everyone must return to miracles. The miracle calls you to return because it blesses and honors you, even though you may be absent in spirit. Miracles are affirmations of who you really are, which is a state of completion and abundance. The miracle is a sign that your mind has chosen to be led by out-of-time influences rather than shallow human perceptions. All shallow roots must be uprooted, because they are not deep enough to sustain you. The illusion that shallow roots can be deepened, and thus be made to hold, is a distortion of reality. Nothing is less stable than an upside-down orientation. Your salvation from a world of pain, sickness, and death depends on your accepting miracles.

2006-02-20T07:01:00.000-08:00

Dear ones, miracles are seen or experienced by those who have laid aside all false gods and called upon others to do likewise. If you bow down before the altar of human science, your downcast eyes cannot behold miracles. If you worship the idol of human government as a means of salvation, you will enslave or be enslaved ... or both. If you sing praises to the human body, you will soon enough moan in pain and lose your voice with the gasp of death. Miracles are experienced when you look beyond all earthly idols to the true source of all life. Miracles are your undeniable proof that you are not a victim of the world you see.

2006-02-19T07:01:00.000-08:00

Dear ones, miracles serve as teaching devices in many ways. They are truly color blind and blind to all perceived differences on earth. Human attempts to help people achieve equality, such as what you call "affirmative action," are in heaven's eyes foolish attempts to deny God and deny miracles. In truth, everyone is already equal and everyone already has unlimited miracles available.

Do not believe that some are limited and cannot experience miracles, for this would be discrimination of the vilest sort. Do not see some as "underprivileged," for God gives all the same unlimited privileges. Do not see some as "held back," for that would be a slap in the face of God who effortlessly opens the way for everyone who asks.

To even surrender to the possibility of miracles is to learn great lessons.

2006-02-18T07:01:00.000-08:00

Dear ones, that a miracle may have effects on your brothers that you may not recognize is not your concern. A miracle will always bless you. Although you may be the one asking for the miracle, it is still an expression of grace and the action aspect of the miracle will be controlled by the holy spirit who has complete awareness of the whole plan. The impersonal nature of miracle-mindedness ensures your grace, but only the holy spirit is in a position to know where miracles can be bestowed.

2006-02-17T07:03:00.000-08:00

Dear ones, miracles have no beginning and no ending. Although sometimes seen in the realm of time they are out-of-time extensions and therefore eternal. It is especially important to grasp there is no order of difficulty among miracles, one is not harder or bigger than another. All are equally easy and equally all-powerful. There is no situation in your life that would not benefit by miracles. To search out earthly solutions to your problems is to waste time, for in doing so you make your problems increasingly more real and therefore prolong the true solution which is inevitable but waits upon you. Rather look to miracles and trust in miracles. You will be surprised how easy your life will become.

2006-02-16T07:01:00.000-08:00

Dear ones, miracles reflect the laws of eternity, not of time. Therefore there is nothing in time that can explain them. This does not mean there is not a science of miracles, only that your limited science on earth could never hope to give an account of why or how miracles happen. There is nothing miracles cannot accomplish. That is the first principle you must learn. If you believe that some things are simply impossible or some things are outside the realm of miracles, then those are areas where you will not see miracles. In this sense your mind could be said to be "blocking" miracles, which are not really blocked but simply not seen. Open your mind and miracles will be yours to enjoy.

2006-02-15T07:01:00.000-08:00

Dear ones, miracles are everyone's right, but purification is necessary first. This does not mean bodily purification as occurs in fasting, or the minimal spiritual awakening that takes place in baptism ... although both are beneficial. Miracles require at least a momentary purity of mind; a mind temporarily devoid of preconceived ideas and free from focus on earthly forms and solutions. Such a state of mind can be practiced but is not itself the creator of miracles, which is beyond what can be learned. It is, however, the condition for the invitation to miracles. Pray for a truly open mind and join the fun of miracles.

2006-02-14T07:01:00.000-08:00

Dear ones, the basic decision of the miracle-minded is not to wait on time any longer than is necessary. Time can waste as well as be wasted. The miracle-minded, therefore, are gladly willing to let time be controlled by the miracle. They recognize that every collapse of time brings everyone closer to the ultimate release from time. Equality does not imply equality now. It means none are deprived of miracles so no one need suffer any lack.

2006-02-13T07:01:00.000-08:00

Dear ones, miracles speak not for themselves but for what they represent. Miracles are evidence of a power and intelligence you could not have imagined. Thus in allowing yourself to see miracles, you are opening to a reality far different than the world you think you see. This, in turn, represents a freedom you could not have imagined. Consider for a moment the freedom you would experience if miracles were not only possible but readily available to you in all your circumstances in everyday life. Yet this is exactly the case. You are free. You just have never realized how free you are because you have never given yourself full access to miracles. Now is the time.

2006-02-12T00:01:00.000-08:00

Dear ones, miracles will teach you not to judge. Learning to not judge, you will come to know. The choice to judge rather than know is the cause of loss of peace. Judgment is the process on which perception but not knowledge rests. Judgment always involves rejection. It never emphasizes only the positive aspects of what is judged. You have no idea of the tremendous release and deep peace that comes from meeting yourself and others totally without judgment. Who chooses judgment is chosing war and teaching war to the world. Choose once again. Choose the peace which comes with miracles.

2006-02-11T07:01:00.000-08:00

Dear ones, miracles cannot be allowed in the spirit of doubt or fear. There is no reason to fear because miracles are constantly available for the asking. You need only a little confidence. Miracles are expressions of God's love, and God's love is never ending, never pausing. If you trust in God, you will see miracles all around you all the time. Those who place their trust only in man's science, or only in man's governments, are living in the worst poverty, not allowing the riches of life-giving spirit to provide everything they need. Do not live in such poverty. Trust the miracle and live in glory.

2006-02-10T07:01:00.000-08:00

Dear ones, beneath the surface appearances of your world of pain and conflict is a world so peaceful and certain in its peaceful purpose you may only be able to have an inkling in your imagination. It is a world brought to you not by governments, not by angry protestors, not by manipulative news editors... but by miracles. Your source of all human pain and suffering is the human ego thinking and acting without a guiding spirit which ought to be considered holy. Your source of all peace and happiness is your holy spirit rearranging your world with miracles. Let go of the ego's belief system and find joy in the peace of your spirit.

2006-02-09T07:01:00.000-08:00

Dear ones, miracles are expressions of miracle-mindedness, and miracle-mindedness means right-mindedness. As a correction, the miracle need not await the right-mindedness of the receiver. The person your world might call a wicked sinner can receive a miracle as easily as a saint. In fact, the purpose of the miracle is to restore the receiver to right-mindedness. It is essential, however, that the miracle worker be in right mind, however briefly, in order to reestablish right-mindedness in the miracle receiver. Therefore, the sole responsibility of the miracle worker is to accept the atonement in order to allow the miracle.

2006-02-08T00:01:00.000-08:00

Dear ones, miracles are found everywhere by those who are willing to see with a sight that looks beyond the things of your world. Do you think for a moment the surface appearances of your world are somehow reality? There is a reality you haven't yet been willing to see that is so gloriously beautiful that if you even glimpsed it you would not want to return to your world of pain and sickness and death. There is nothing in your world you would want to hold onto. Yet it may be years before you are willing to open to reality. The miracle is a device for shortening your period of waiting. Pray you experience miracles now. Delay no longer.

2006-02-07T00:01:00.000-08:00

Dear ones, miracles are under no laws but God's laws. Therefore there is no reason to fear that a miracle cannot happen when it is needed. Since the primary purpose of a miracle is to release fear and return the miracle observers to a state of unbridled joy, you may not see the miracle if you are able to make the shift from fear to joy quickly without a dramatic observable spectacle. But you can be sure that whenever fear is released and joy takes its place, a miracle has occurred. Many miracles occur not when you are praying for a miracle, but when you are desiring with all your heart and soul to be free of fear.

2006-02-06T00:01:00.000-08:00

Dear ones, there is nothing you cannot do with miracles. If you want your Super Bowl team to win, they win. If you want a political party to lose, it loses. If you want a relationship, a relationship comes your way. If you want peace and joy and happiness, you are guaranteed peace and joy and happiness. Miracles are not bound by the rules and laws of your world as you think you see it, or as scientists see it. Miracles are formulated outside of time and space... and brought into time and space by the Holy Spirit's great desire to serve everyone's highest good combined with your little willingness. Be willing to accept miracles each and every day... and see what happens.

2006-02-05T00:01:00.000-08:00

Dear ones, miracles may not always have observable effects in your world. But your willingness to accept miracles always honors you because miracles are expressions of love and you are lovable. Miracles dispel illusions about yourself and perceive the light in you. They thus atone for your errors by freeing you from your nightmares. By releasing your mind from the imprisonment of your illusions, they restore your sanity. By liberating you from your belief that the world you see is the only real world, you are returned to ancient memories and shown a reality you had long forgotten.

2006-02-04T00:01:00.000-08:00

Dear ones, there is nothing more sure than you are worthy of much, much more than the world you have made has to offer. If you really, really want it, and you do, there is a world available for the asking which is so bright and beautiful you cannot even imagine it. Come home to the world where you belong, not by means of death, but by means of everlasting and glorious life even on earth. Surely you do not believe death is a necessary mechanism of your salvation. If that were true you would be no better off than the teachers of al-Quida terrorists who worship death. Accept miracles and you will know life everlasting.

2006-02-03T00:01:00.000-08:00

2006-02-02T00:01:00.000-08:00

Dear ones, maybe you've noticed that your political world especially is nothing more than combat. This is what you have made it and this does not have to be. If you want a world of peace, you must teach peace by being peaceful. If you want a world of love, you must teach love by loving even those who temporarily disagree with you, for there is only agreement in the end... although you have not yet lifted your eyes to see the end. Do not hold on to your man-made philosophies, for they are all foolishness and in the end will all be gone. But do cling to the promise of miracles. For miracles are your mechanism of salvation.