 I'm excited to go live again today, it's for the second time. Had the morning lesson was lesson number five from the workbook, but yeah, what was coming to me today was to talk to you about our online monthly retreat that starts tomorrow. There'll be a couple sessions tomorrow and then there'll be the movie and the Q&A coming on Saturday, which I'm feeling in line with our theme, the light has come to show the movie Powder from 1995. So that's very exciting. There's a lot of parallels with what we're teaching this weekend and what Jesus is teaching and demonstrating in us and through us. So then Sunday, Francis and I will come back and do a Q&A session, open it up for everyone. So wow, lights are popping here and it's exciting. Very exciting to have a theme that is titled, the light has come. I think you know that when you're on the spiritual journey, this is a journey of faith. It's a journey of trust. It's a journey of living and being the present moment, the I am presence that Jesus demonstrated to us and calls us into to be the demonstration of the light. So I was thinking of that theme, the light has come and that is actually the workbook lesson 75. It's the exact title, the light has come. So I thought I would just share that beautiful teaching. It comes with joy. It comes with happiness. It comes with certainty. And when you live your life in the light, then you are the living light and you share it and shine it. And everything you think and say and do. So here's what Jesus had to say in workbook lesson number 75, the light has come. The light has come. You are healed and you can heal. The light has come. You are saved and you can save. You are at peace and you bring peace with you wherever you go. Darkness and turmoil and death have disappeared. The light has come. Today we celebrate the happy ending to your long dream of disaster. There are no dark dreams now. The light has come. Today the time of light begins for you and everyone. It is a new era in which a new world is born. The old one has left no trace upon its passing. Today we see a different world because the light has come. Our exercises for today will be happy ones in which we offer thanks for the passing of the old and the beginning of the new. No shadows from the past remain to darken our sight and hide the world forgiveness offers us. Today we will accept the new world as what we want to see. We will be given what we desire. We will to see the light. The light has come. So wow, there it is. What a title for an online retreat. We don't do many of these online retreats. We just do them the first full weekend of each month. And we can really embrace this theme because for those of you who have done the workbook of A Course in Miracles, you know that this lesson precedes lesson number 76 which is quite famous. I am under no laws but God's. That's why we as children of God are under no laws but God's. And that's why you really have to live the experience of Christ. You have to teach it always and in all ways. You have to be it. You have to know it in your heart. And that's why a lot of times I talk about all the miracles I've experienced over these last three and a half decades because it was very much an involuntary experience of things just showing up. And things that I believed I still needed, they just showed up and they showed up and they showed up. And off I went traveling around shining the light all over the world in 44 countries but the story is not so much what the David characters seem to do or say but it was the how behind it. It was the miracles just lifting and shining and sharing through me. So I was just praying to be used and to be spoken through and to be happy and to be a demonstration of God's love. So it's beautiful when we come together for these online retreats. We have 30, maybe 50, maybe more people that join us from all over the world along with our center in Mexico centers and houses and also in Utah, rural Utah here at Living Miracles Monastery. And they all come together to be in the presence of God's love. It's an opportunity to ask questions. It's an opportunity to meet other mighty companions that are also on this deep inward journey. It's an opportunity to talk about your issues and ask for help and talk with others that are going through or have gone through the same kind of experiences. And I think of this movie that I was guided by Jesus to show on Saturday, which is the middle of the retreat, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, powder. I remember when I first saw powder, particularly the closing scene, it just brought up such a swell of love and emotion to the surface. And that closing scene is etched in my mind is a perfect reflection of the light has come and surrendering into that light. It seems like in this world, when you follow Christ, it seems at times you can feel a bit like the odd one out. You can feel like you don't fit in to this world. And Jesus is cheering us on, saying, yeah, our kingdom is not of this world. I'm calling you out of the world. And those are beautiful ideas and it's a beautiful calling, but it helps to be able to walk side by side with those who are also answering that call to be called out of the world. So, wow, what a weekend we have coming up. The lights are flickering here. It's quite interesting. When we really open up, we start to realize that we're on a journey of intuition and listening to the guidance within and as we go deeper and deeper and deeper into that experience of the present moment, then everything seems to be taken care of. I know for me, it really seemed quite like a fairy tale. Like this is something I used to read about in the fairy tales where the main characters in the fairy tale just would kind of move from one scene to the next to the next. And things worked out always. There wasn't a lot of focus on logistics, but I find that with following the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit doesn't miss a thing. Everything that would be helpful is included in the guidance and there's nothing extraneous in the guidance. It's very practical, very, very helpful, very straightforward. So, as we move forward, I'm just looking forward to being there with all of you online and Francis and our whole community. And we actually, as a community, have been watching the very popular series, The Chosen. And it's season three right now. So that's another thing that we'll be doing in addition to our online retreat. We'll kind of go online together and be watching The Chosen. And I think we're up to episode five, which is called Clean Part Two. Previously, we saw Jesus had sent the apostles out two by two and to go out and heal the sick and proclaim the good news. And basically, they were a bit shocked that Jesus would just send them out so quickly after the sermon on the mount. They felt like they were just at the beginning of their training, but it really conveyed that the presence of love and the presence of healing, the presence of the Christ is something that you have to just have faith in. And Jesus was saying that this is what you need to do. You need to go forth in faith. And this is beautiful. It also highlighted two in that Chosen episode recently that there was doubt among some of the apostles and that understanding in an intellectual way is not really necessary for you to be used by Jesus and by the Holy Spirit. So that's what the faith and trust of the light has come. It comes in you as an experience of Jesus and the Holy Spirit and it comes through you and it just radiates. All you have to do is be willing to have the faith to let it come through. And for many that is no small thing because they've so much fear and doubt and pest conditioning that seems to hold them back. So we just enjoy watching these Chosen episodes and also the correlating passages from the gospels. I think this episode five that's coming up this weekend is pretty much based on Matthew eight from the New Testament. And basically Matthew one through seven is basically the Sermon on the Mount which we've already covered in this season three. That's pretty much how things started here in season three and now we're already up to episode five. So yeah, for those of you that would like to tune in this weekend, you can watch it on Facebook or on the Chosen YouTube channel or on the free Chosen app and you can just start to feel the presence of Jesus moving through you as you watch these beautiful episodes and also get to enjoy how the apostles are acting and interacting. The recent episodes that showed Simon and his wife are having some intensities in their household and the house is being used for these meetings with Jesus. So kind of like having a very seemingly private space of a home for a couple, very couple. And then suddenly you've got a lot of apostles and people coming there to meet with Jesus and to be instructed by Jesus and to be sent out to share the gospel and share the message with everyone. So that's really exciting I think. It kind of brings it to life because you can really see in the lives of the apostles and Jesus that when you say yes to God you really have to look for the taking the opportunities for healing and forgiveness because there's so many that seem to arise every day and the world would just call that the challenges and struggles of life on planet Earth but it's not that really at all when you start to realize that everything is part of a prearranged plan designed specifically for the mind to let go and forgive to let go and trust, to let the faith take over the mind and the light of heaven shine and expand in awareness until the darkness is no more. So it's quite a profound journey that we have and to go into the light, a lot of times people will say, well, I don't know about following the spirit, it seems kind of ethereal and abstract and yeah, you could say that for many that's the way it feels. Although when we come into the gospels and you see what Jesus is teaching and of course the miracles, it quickly zooms into the practical. Like here we are, listen, 75, the light has come, you can heal and you are healed and then he jumps into lesson 76, I am under no laws but God's and he starts to get very specific about the beliefs that the sleeping mind believes in and says that when you seek for things in this world that have no meaning you bind yourself to laws that make no sense and you try to seek to prove salvation is where it isn't which is basically seeing that salvation is not in money, it's not in status, it's not in possessions, it's not in things, it's not really even in interpersonal relationships, the Holy Spirit and Jesus use the interpersonal relationships to get in touch with what's going on, the emotions, the judgments, the grievances that are part of the human condition so that you can let them go. But what I always liked about lesson 76 is Jesus telling me, think of the freedom in the recognition that you are not bound by all the strange and twisted laws you have set up to save you. And then he gets specific. Now we're going from the abstract of the light has come into very, very specific. You really think that you would starve unless you have stacks of green paper strips and piles of metal disc. Yeah, he's poking funny money as a goal, as a pursuit, as a means even. You really think a small round pellet or some fluid pushed into your veins through a sharpened needle will ward off disease. Ooh, there it goes. He's going into the medical model and saying, it's just a belief. You really think you are alone unless another body is with you. He's saying, can you realize that companionship and the desire for companionship and partnership is a belief as well. It's just a stream of thoughts that comes into your mind that you actually are following the stream as if stream is real. And he says, you call them laws and put them under different names and a long catalog of rituals that have no use and serve no purpose. You think you must obey the laws of medicine, of economics, of health. Protect the body and you will be saved. These are not laws, but madness. The body is endangered by the mind that hurts itself. The body suffers just in order that the mind will fail to see is the victim of itself. The body suffering is a mask. The mind holds up to what really suffers. So basically what Jesus is saying is, the world's a trick to try to fool you into believing into false causation, false causes in the world, false defects, and then it's a whole system. It seems to be so pervasive throughout the whole planet and the laws of the world and the cosmos that it's not questioned. And I think for myself, I started to, when I was in my late twenties, I started to question everything and started to get a bit of a hint, a bit of a nudge that there's much more than meets the eye, much more than meets the air and the five senses. So I just began praying and studying and listening and following the nudges and the prompts I was getting and that changed everything. Just opened up the whole new way of seeing a whole new world. And I know that's what everybody is really deep down praying for. They want to be happy. They just want to be joyful. They want to feel free. They want to feel lighthearted. They want to laugh and enjoy laughter, enjoy humor, enjoy being friendly, enjoy being kind, enjoy living from the heart and just being in the flow of this glorious life that God has given us in eternity. So the prayer is, let it be reflected here, oh Lord, so that I feel that I'm on the cusp of that eternal life. Let me burst in joy every day. So I'm very grateful. We don't have these online retreats very often, but if you check in this video up in the description, I put the Facebook video link and the YouTube video link and yeah, you could just type it into Google. The light has come, January 6th to 8th retreat. And I think for many people, the first time they come on, they just break the ice and they start talking a bit and then they feel more relaxed and then they start to feel the synergy of everybody in the room being lifted up together. And that's no small thing. If you're going through some challenges or trials, emotionally or what seems even physical trials, then it's good to have mighty companions to share and open up with and start to feel like you're not alone in this and that Christ is with you everywhere you go, whatever you do, you are held and carried by Christ. So thank you for this spontaneous joining today. Again, if you want to sign up, we usually have 30, 40, 50 people and then we have people to join us from our houses and centers in Mexico and here at the monastery in Utah and everybody just feels the great experience together and that's what we love. We love to experience the love of God. We love it just coursing through us and shining and extending. So thank you, thank you for joining in. Hope to see you tomorrow at the online retreat and if you've got questions, please bring them. If you have transfer of training questions like how to apply this to what I'm facing right now in the world, bring them, bring it all and then sit back and enjoy also a beautiful movie with commentary, Powder 1995 on Saturday and then a beautiful closing session with more follow-up questions and answers and live interactions with participants from all over the world. Thank you, nanny blessings.