 to practice the workbook lessons of A Course in Miracles. We're following Jesus' mind-training workbook to learn how to judge not. We are learning to forgive, which means to release. We are learning to accept atonement, or that means the correction in our mind for the belief in the ego, the belief in the devil. The belief in Satan, that's the problem. You can't serve God and be one with God and believe in something that God didn't create. So it's quite strong for us. We're here to accept the atonement, accept the correction, and Jesus is quite clear in his text that what God creates is real, what God creates is spirit. The Christ idea is spirit, God is the cause, and Christ is the effect. There is nothing else anywhere or ever. There are perfect creations that even Christ has an eternity, so creation is a continual line of extension of spirit. Spirit creates spirit, creates spirit. You might think of it. As opposed to what we read about procreation and bodies, the different lineage that's talked about in the Old Testament, all the begats. This is letting go and releasing the begats, the belief in begatting, the belief in projection, the belief in linear extension because all extension is of God and all extension is of spirit. So I've been just rejoicing in that today. God is the cause, I am an effect of that cause. Ascension is my natural inheritance. I and the Father are one means that we are one in spirit and God creates in spirit. And so because God creates in spirit, that's what is reality. There is no mind creating in the body or in form and there is no form that creates in the mind. It's all divinity that is reality. So this world is nothing more than letting go of the make-believe, letting go of the fiction, letting go of the invention and letting go of the temporal and opening up to eternal creation, eternal love, eternal life, oneness, spirit, you know, this is the great joy. This is where you can dance in the grace of God is in the remembrance of this. So my mind has been very, very focused in my prayers today on this. And it's so beautiful. I was thinking of some of my early days and travel back around, it was 1992. I was traveling around with a beautiful singer, Donna Marie Carey, and she would record all kinds of songs, workbook lesson songs and amazing album she has called Real Love. But I woke up this morning and I was thinking of a workbook lesson song that she sent me. I think she just got her guitar out and recorded it on a little recorder and then sent it to me. And so I hit that in my mind this morning. And the song goes something like, Love created me like itself. I cannot be anything else. I am as God created me. So love is all that I can be. Love, love, love created me. I am one. Love, love, love created me. I am love. And it just goes on, but it was just a beautiful melody in my mind this morning when I woke up. So I thought, oh, I'm excited. And then my friend Metta Owen messaged me as well on what's up sing. She had a song, a workbook lesson song for the first of the review lessons today, which I'll go over all five here in lesson 60. We have review of 46 through 50 today. And then I was just, yeah, getting all these beautiful warm fond memories of all the miracle working and extending of love that had the thundermere carried back in 1992 out on the road in the United States doing course of miracles gatherings and shining God's love, sharing God's light. And so I think also I will dip into my library here and see if I can pull out one of the songs that she sang many times when we traveled. She has actually so many songs that are so beautiful and as well as Metta, Slava, Eric, and Ricky. And oh my gosh, there's so many great songs that are inspired by God's love. Helen Unison had just albums full of channeled songs and all this love and light pouring through. And so we'll get a little taste at the end when we had a little meditation at the end of the review lesson. So let's go to lesson 60. These ideas are for today's review. God is the love in which I forgive. God does not forgive because he has never condemned. The blameless cannot blame and those who have accepted their innocence see nothing to forgive. Yet forgiveness is the means by which I will recognize my innocence. It is the reflection of God's love on earth. It will bring me near enough to heaven that the love of God can reach down to me and raise me up to him. God is the strength in which I trust. It is not my own strength through which I forgive. It is through the strength of God in me which I am remembering as I forgive. As I begin to see, I recognize his reflection on earth. I forgive all things because I feel the stirring of his strength in me. And I begin to remember the love I chose to forget but which has not forgotten me. There is nothing to fear. How safe the world will look to me when I can see it. It will not look anything like what I imagine I see now. Everyone and everything I see will lean toward me to bless me. I will recognize in everyone my dearest friend, what could there be to fear in a world that I have forgiven and that has forgiven me. God's voice speaks to me all through the day. There is not a moment in which God's voice ceases to call on my forgiveness to save me. There is not a moment in which his voice fails to direct my thoughts, guide my actions and lead my feet. I am walking steadily on toward truth. There is nowhere else I can go because God's voice is the only voice and the only guide that has been given to his son. I am sustained by the love of God. As I listen to God's voice, I am sustained by his love. As I open my eyes, his love lights up the world for me to see. As I forgive, his love reminds me that his son is sinless. And as I look upon the world with the vision he has given me, I remember that I am his son. God is the love in which I forgive. God is the strength in which I trust. There is nothing to fear. God's voice speaks to me all through the day. I am sustained by the love of God. Today, I thought for support for our day of practice, I would go to the text and do a search. So I searched Atonement and thought I would read to you some of the sweet ideas that came from Jesus around Atonement. Atonement means correction. Atonement works all the time and in all dimensions of time. Atoning means undoing, ha-ha, undoing. The undoing of fear is an essential part of the atonement value of miracles. They thus atone for your errors by freeing you from your nightmares. By atoning for lack, they establish perfect protection. This places you under the atonement principle where perception is healed. They thus correct or atone for the faulty perception of lack. The miracle is an expression of an inner awareness of Christ and the acceptance of his atonement. Jesus tells us, I am in charge of the process of atonement which I undertook to begin. The reason you come before me is that I do not need miracles for my own atonement, but I stand at the end in case you fail temporarily. My part of the atonement is the canceling out of all errors that you could not otherwise correct. When you have been restored to the recognition of your original state, you naturally become part of the atonement yourself. The ability is the potential, the achievement is its expression and the atonement which is the natural profession of the children of God is the purpose. The forgiven are the means of the atonement. Those who are released must join in releasing their brothers for this is the plan of the atonement. I am the only one who can perform miracles indiscriminately because I am the atonement. Thank you, Jesus. You have a role in the atonement which I will dictate to you. Atonement undoes all errors in disrespect and thus uproots the source of fear. The impersonal nature of miracles is because of the atonement itself is one uniting all creations with the creator. The miracle joins in the atonement by placing the mind in the service of the Holy Spirit. The atonement restores spirit to its proper place. The purpose of the atonement is to restore everything to you or rather to restore it to your awareness. When the atonement has been completed, all talents will be shared by all the sons of God. So we can also move on to a beautiful section and of course a lot of these lines come in here and these are kind of, I'd say section three of chapter one, Atonement and Miracles is really a summary of the beautiful ideas I was just sharing. Atonement and Miracles, Jesus is speaking here just directly to us. I am in charge of the process of the atonement which I undertook to begin. When you offer a miracle to any of my brothers, you do it to yourself and me. The reason you come before me is that I do not need miracles for my own atonement but I stand at the end in case you fail temporarily. My part in the atonement is the canceling out of all errors that you could not otherwise correct. When you have been restored to the recognition of your original state, you naturally become part of the atonement itself. As you share my unwillingness to accept error in yourself and others, you must join the great crusade to correct it. Listen to my voice, learn to undo error and act to correct it. The power to work miracles belongs to you. I will provide the opportunities to do them but you must be ready and willing. Doing them will bring conviction in the ability because conviction comes through accomplishment. The ability is the potential, the achievement is this expression and the atonement which is the natural profession of the children of God is the purpose. Heaven and earth shall pass away means that they will not continue to exist as separate states. My word which is the resurrection and the life shall not pass away because life is eternal. You are the work of God and his work is wholly lovable and wholly loving. This is how a man must think of himself in his heart because this is what he is. The forgiven are the means of the atonement. Being filled with spirit, they forgive in return. Those who are released must join in releasing their brothers for this is the plan of the atonement. Miracles are the way in which minds that serve the Holy Spirit unite with me for the salvation or release of all of God's creations. I am the only one who can perform miracles indiscriminately because I am the atonement. You have a role in the atonement which I will dictate to you. Ask me which miracles you should perform. This spares you needless effort because you will be acting under direct communication. The impersonal nature of the miracle is an essential ingredient because it enables me to direct its application. And under my guidance, miracles lead to the highly personal experience of revelation. A guide does not control what he does direct leaving it up to you to follow. Lead us not into temptation means recognize your errors and choose to abandon them by following my guidance. Error cannot really threaten truths which can always withstand it. Only the error is actually vulnerable. You are free to establish your kingdom where you see fit but the right choice is inevitable if you remember this. Spirit is in a state of grace forever. Your reality is only spirit. Therefore you are in a state of grace forever. Atonement undoes all errors in disrespect and thus uproots the source of fear. Whenever you experience God's reassurances as threat it is always because you are defending misplace or misdirected loyalty. When you project this to others you imprison them but only to the extent to which you reinforce errors they have already made. This makes them vulnerable to the distortions of others since their own perception of themselves is distorted. The miracle worker can only bless them and this undoes their distortions and frees them from prison. You respond to what you perceive and as you perceive so shall you behave. The golden rule asks you to do unto others as you would have them do unto you. This means that the perception of both must be accurate. The golden rule is the rule for appropriate behavior. You cannot behave appropriately unless you perceive correctly. Since you and your neighbor are equal members in one family as you perceive both so will you do to both. You should look out from the perception of your own holiness to the holiness of others. Miracles arise from a mind that is ready for them. By being united this mind goes out to everyone even without the awareness of the miracle worker himself. The impersonal nature of miracles is because the atonement itself is one uniting all creations with their creator. As an expression of what you truly are the miracle places the mind in a state of grace. The mind then naturally welcomes the host within and the stranger without. When you bring in the stranger he becomes your brother. That the miracle may have effects on your brothers that you may not recognize, it's not your concern. The miracle will always bless you. Miracles you are not asked to perform have not lost their value. They are still expressions of your own state of grace but the action aspect of the miracle should be controlled by me because of my complete awareness of the whole plan. The impersonal nature of miracle mind in us ensures your grace but only I am in a position to know where they can be bestowed. Miracles are selective only in the sense that they are directed towards those who can use them for themselves. Since this makes it inevitable that they will extend them to others the strong chain of atonement is welded. However, this selectivity takes no account of the magnitude of the miracle itself because the concept of size exists on a plane that is itself unreal. Since the miracle aims at restoring awareness of reality it would not be useful if it were bound by laws that govern the error it aims to correct. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. Okay, now for a little music meditation. First, we're going to listen to Nedda Bowen's rendition of the first review lesson that we went over. God is the love in which I forgive. And then I will play a song for you from my dear friend, Donna Marie Carey. When we were on the road this song was one that she sang of the many songs that she received from Jesus. And yeah, that's, it's called only in the name of love. So first let's start with God is the love in which I forgive by Nedda Bowen. If this is the great need of this world it is a world of fear, condense, and love for peace. It unknowns what fear is for all of us. Return in the minds of God. Wow, let's go to Donna Marie Carey, only in the name of love. 32 years ago, Donna Marie Carey and I were traveling around. The body of David is 66 now, but wow, we traveled around and yeah, she received from Jesus a beautiful songs and hit her guitar while we were out on the road and she was taking them down. Then after quite a bit of time on the road, weeks on the road, she went back to Owensboro, Kentucky to record the album. And the album is real love, so beautiful. So beautiful. Yeah, maybe we'll just treat ourselves to, these songs are just in my heart forever and ever and ever. Let's go to the next one on the album. If you only knew, my earth parents named me after David in the Bible, King David at the Old Testament and some of you know he wrote the songs. David was into songs, poetry and songs. It's so funny when I picked up the course in 1986 and had this huge tsunami of love pour over me. Yeah, it wasn't long, about five years later, I was on the road and traveling and sharing and then around 1992, Donna Marie Carey and I were traveling and she was singing these amazing songs. She brought her guitar along composing, really just receiving songs from Jesus as we went along the road and recording this album. There's been so many singers, songwriters sprinkled over the parable of David. I can't think of a happier way than to travel the world and go to a first around the United States, Canada, then Argentina and then around the world, total of 44 countries. But there's been so many, many, many singers and songwriters even now with our community. We have the Rise Band that's gonna be going up to the Strawberry Fields Music and Enlightenment Festival movies too, coming up in July, 12th, 13th, 14th. We're gonna have a lot of music there to celebrate and worship God and to feel the love of God pour through us. And as I look back over the years, yeah, with Donna Marie Carey, we just traveled and traveled around to the South, Eastern United States, all the way down to Florida, starting off from her hometown in Owensboro, Kentucky and going all the way down there and then trips further up to the West and yeah. Over the years, so many gatherings in homes and backyards and basements and barbecues, churches, synagogues, ashrams, oh my gosh, all over, so many. Just recently I was graced with Alex Sarah who was touring all around through Mexico and came and he told me he was listening to my, my audios and watching my videos for 10 years. And wow, his music, we all whole community just rejoiced with Alex Sarah's music but there's just so many. I think with Donna Marie, we also, there was so many songs. This one was kind of an anthem. We pretty much would see that the people wanted to hear this wherever we went and this was why she titled her album, Real Love, but this is the song, this is kind of the anthem. Let's listen to Real Love. You can see why Jesus turned that into an anthem in a whole album. Real Love, that's what it's all about. The love of God, Real Love. Oh my gosh, let's continue. Another one, we're still back in the 1990s here but let's try again another love song for God forever in love. It's like a love song marathon. See, a decade later in the 2000s. I have my dear friend Helen Ahunison put out first of many spectacular albums of devotional love songs to God. So, oh my gosh, there's just so many songs here. Let's try one from the 2000s now. This is Helen Ahunison sharing the joy. Shining the truth, say. Then let's go a decade, over a decade from that, we're zooming through the whole decades. My gosh, let's pick one up here. Here's one from Sava called Coming Home. I'm thinking back to Oman and Shanti. They were, yeah, many, many, this back going back to the 80s. I have to go to my artist and oh my gosh. There's a song called The Promise. This goes back to the early, early days, the Barbara and Robert Barley days, Oman and Shanti. Oman, Ken, and Shanti. I went up to Mercer Island and Shanti gave me just an individual concert. But the last of our review lessons today is I am sustained by the love of God. And in this world of seeming scarcity and lack and survival, we need a reminder that I am sustained by the love of God. That's number 50. That was our last of our review lessons today. So I'm going to play to you a song that Oman and Shanti played. You're going to hear Shanti's extraterrestrial, otherworldly voice. And this is a passage from A Course in Miracles. And some of you remember from the Bible, those beautiful sections, have looked at the lilies of the field. They neither spin nor toil. And this is a song for us in modern times. This came out probably in the early 1980s, way back a decade before the Donna Marie Kerry album I Played for You. So let's listen to Shanti. We'll close with this today. This is from the Course. Okay. Well, that's a good way to remember lesson 50. So remember, these are our lessons today. This is the first review section, part one. And we've just gone through the first 50 lessons of A Course in Miracles workbook. We've reviewed them. And we're on the last five of the 50. God is the love in which I forgive. Thank you, Neda, for helping us with that one. God is the strength in which I trust. There is nothing to fear. God's voice speaks to me all through the day. And I am sustained by the love of God. Just remember that beautiful Oman and Shanti song, nothing you need will be denied to you, not one seeming difficulty, but will melt away before you reach it. That's being sustained by the love of God. Before you reach it, before you reach the difficulty of the challenge, it's already handled in the miracle. That's why it's a Course in Miracles from Jesus. It's because we are miracle workers and we remember God first by letting Jesus perform miracles through us and then going inside to the revelatory love and light of God. Thank you, God. Thank you for everything. God bless you. Have a beautiful day. I hope the music meditations were lifting your heart up like they were mine.