 And we're here following Jesus. The year is 2024 and we're just fresh into it. We're on day three today. And I thought I would just tap into our beautiful workbook lesson from Jesus today. He's beginning the clearing of our mind. 2000 years ago Jesus said, judge not. And now he's giving us the tools to actually practice non-judgment, to actually train our minds to listen to the Holy Spirit, to follow Jesus' instructions daily, to live, let's say, from the inside out, from our hearts, from the inside, from the core of our being, from our divinity. That's how we're to live an inspired life. Some of us were raised with the teaching, be in the world but not of it. And most people I know, I like it, it sounds good, but how do you live in the world but not of it? Well, here we go. Jesus is saying, yeah, I told you that and now I'm going to show you how. And the Holy Spirit is the how and our mind training exercises or really our opportunities to live from the inside out, to live from your heart, to live from the inner guidance of the Holy Spirit and Jesus. So we'll start off today with lesson number three from A Course in Miracles. I do not understand anything I see in this room, on this street, from this window, in this place. Apply this idea in the same way as the previous ones without making distinctions of any kind. Whatever you see becomes a proper subject for applying the idea. Be sure that you do not question the suitability of anything for application of the idea. These are not exercises in judgment. Anything is suitable if you see it. Some of the things you see may have emotionally charged meaning for you. Try to lay such feelings aside and merely use these exactly as you would anything else. The point of the exercises is to help you clear your mind of all past associations, to see things exactly as they appear to you now and to realize how little you really understand about them. It is therefore essential that you keep a perfectly open line unhampered by judgment in selecting the things to which the idea for the day is to be applied. For this purpose, one thing is like another, equally suitable and therefore equally useful. I do not understand anything I see. So that's beautiful. And I think I decided to pop into the text for some of the texts that is supporting us today on this idea of I do not understand anything I see. And I'm gonna read from chapter 31, The Final Vision, section two, Walking with the Christ. We skip down that section to the italicized senses. There's a couple of senses that are italicized. The answer that I give my brother is what I am asking for and what I learn of him is what I learn about myself. Then let us wait an instant and be still for getting everything we thought we heard, remembering how much we do not know. This brother neither leads nor follows us, but walks beside us on the self same road. He is like us, is near or far away from what we want as we will let him be. We make no gains he does not make with us and we fall back if he does not advance. Take not his hand in anger but in love for in his progress do you count your own and we go separately along the way unless you keep him safely by your side. Because he is your equal in God's love, you will be saved from all appearances in answer to the Christ who calls to you. Be still and listen, think not ancient thoughts. Forget the dismal lessons that you learned about the Son of God who calls to you. Christ calls to all with equal tenderness seeing no leaders and no followers and hearing but one answer to them all. Because he hears one voice, he cannot hear a different answer from the one he gave when God appointed him his only son. Be very still and instant. Come without all thought of what you ever learned before and put aside all images you made. The old will fall away before the new without your opposition or intent. There will be no attack upon the things you thought were precious and in need of care. There will be no assault upon your wish to hear a call that has been made, never has been made. Nothing will hurt you in this holy place to which you come to listen silently and learn the truth of what you really want. No more than this will you be asked to learn. But as you hear it, you will understand you need but come away without the thoughts you did not want and that were never true. Forgive your brother all appearances that are but ancient lessons you have taught yourself about the sinfulness in you. Hear about his call for mercy and release from all the fearful images he holds of what he is and of what you must be. He is afraid to walk with you and thinks perhaps a bit behind, a bit ahead would be a safer place for him to be. Can you make progress if you think the same, advancing only when he would step back and falling back when he would go ahead? For so do you forget the journey's goal which is but to decide to walk with him so neither leads nor follows. Thus it is a way you go together, not alone. And in this choice is learning's outcome changed for Christ has been reborn to both of you. An ancient is instant. It's an instant spent without your old ideas of who your great companion is and what he should be asking for will be enough to let this happen. And you will perceive his purpose is the same as yours. He asked for what you want and needs the same as you. It takes perhaps a different form in him but it is not the form you answer to. He asked and you receive for you have come with but one purpose that you learn you love your brother with a brother's love. And as a brother must his father be the same as yours. It's as he is like yourself in truth. Oh my. Together is your joint inheritance remembered and accepted by both of you. Alone it is denied to both of you. Is it not clear that while you still insist on leading or on following you think you walk alone with no one by your side. This is the road to nowhere for the light cannot be given while you walk alone and so you cannot see which way you go. Thus there is confusion in the sense of endless doubting as you stagger back and forth into darkness and alone. If these are but appearances of what the journey is and how it must be made for next to you is one who holds the light before you so that every step is made in certainty and sureness of the road. A blindfold can indeed obscure your sight but cannot make the way itself grow dark and he who travels with you has the light. So how beautiful we live and move in God. We follow the inner voice of the Holy Spirit. We follow those prompts and nudges and instructions from Jesus. And here we are just on day three of the year long mind training to forgive, to really learn what it means to forgive. Not just to say the words I forgive you but actually to forgive, to release all grievances from the mind, to have a pure of heart, to be a pure of heart and see God. As the Bible says, blessed are the pure of heart for they shall see God. This is our year of absolute purification and this is the year where we are still an instant and lay aside all thoughts of what we are, of what God is, all concepts we have learned, every single scrap, every single concept of the belief in past and future of linear time, we release that we may come into the Holy instant of God's presence and feel the presence of love right now. That's the joy of what this is about. Our rewards are in the present moment. We will not seek for future rewards. We will not be ambitious for future accumulations or achievements or accomplishments. We will humbly lay aside all the idols today and come back into the presence of the Lord thy God. In God's presence we are healed. In God's presence we are whole. We are complete. In God's presence we are one with God and we know God's will. So thank you for walking this journey. Thank you for following along. Some of you are using the app and we talked about that a couple of days ago but sure enough, there's our little ACI Now app and it just looks like this and then it opens up and there you go. You go workbook lesson number three. The daily lesson is right there. And you can push the gold bar here as the oracle. You can continue reading more from the course. Principle of miracles here. You can make your own highlights. You can save your own highlights for things that really jump out at you that you want to remember. And yeah, it just has the oracle if you want some more information. Right on your app. It's available there. It's free. Enjoy. So thank you. Thank you all. Let's practice the lesson today. I do not understand anything I see in this room on the street from this window in this place. Amen.