 Hi everyone, happy to be with you again here on the holy week. We're right in the middle of holy week on Wednesday and it just came to me very strong today to do another live course in miracles workbook lesson. And we've just come through some reviews sections and now we're heading into some very deep terrain. To send down in our mind toward the light, and we ascend to God through our happiness and joy, and living these beautiful teachings from Jesus. So today, we will be going through workbook lesson 95. I am one self united with my creator. Today's idea accurately describes you as God created you. You are one within yourself and one with him. Yours is the unity of all creation. Your perfect unity makes change in you impossible. You accept this, and you fail to realize it must be so. Only because you believe that you have changed yourself already, meaning from spirit to flesh. Remember the Bible thought us, you know that which is flesh is flesh that which is spirit is spirit. And I now I'm born again. You see yourself as a ridiculous parody on God's creation, weak, vicious, ugly and sinful, miserable, be set with pain. This is your version of yourself divided self or self divided into many warring parts separate from God, and tenuously held together by its erratic and capricious maker to which you pray. It does not hear your prayers, or it is death. It does not see the oneness in you, or it is blind. It does not understand you are the Son of God, or it is senseless and understands nothing. So this, these many warring parts held together by its erratic and capricious maker, that's the ego. And he says, you, you pray, you pray to it, you pray to the ego, you, you, that means you desire the ego. And it doesn't hear your prayers. It just projects the prayers to be a world that seems to be outside. So, so when we say, what does it mean to, he's saying I pray to the ego, this capricious maker to which you pray is basically saying you use the power of your mind and the power of your desire to desire. The belief in separation, something other than God. That's what it means to pray to this capricious maker. And basically it's the power of our mind. Jesus tells us, you made the ego by believing in it, and you can dispel it by withdrawing your belief from it. So it's not like we can pray and stop praying because prayer is the power of our mind and prayer is the power of our desire. So it's like, you know, be careful what you pray for. This is more the instruction here, going to be reminder from Jesus to pray to remember our oneness, our connection with God with our creator. We will attempt today to be aware only of what can hear and see. That makes perfect sense. We will again direct our exercises towards reaching your one self, which is united which with his creator in patients, and in hope. We try again today. The use of the first five minutes of every waking hour for practicing the idea for the day as special advantages at the stage of learning in which you are at present. It is difficult at this point, not to allow your mind to wonder if it undertakes extended practice. I have surely realized this by now. You have seen the extent of your lack of mental discipline and of your need for mind training. It is necessary that you be aware of this, for it is indeed a hindrance to your advance. So in paragraph four, it's so beautiful Jesus is just saying really the first five minutes of the day. The first five minutes when you open your eyes from your sleep at night. That first five minutes is actually very important in mind training. And then he's giving us the context for the mind training saying, even though you are oneself united with your creator, you must give your mind over to mind training in order to remember this. And he's going to introduce it right there in paragraph four and now he's going to give us a very, very good context. This is almost like a primer for mind training. We're here just on lesson 95 out of 365 lessons and and this is a lesson giving us a whole context on the need for mind training, the need for attention. The need for focus. The need for remembering. And the need for really he's teaching us to make a habit of miracles. He's not saying, you know, it's okay might have a rare miracle here there every few years or a couple few times in your lifetime. He's not saying that I want you to be habitually mind training. I want you to feel that the miracle is is a habit. And it's a habit that you refer to in any need that you have, and then even go beyond needs, just to just enjoy being a miracle worker and extending miracles all throughout the day. So, he comes along with the number five paragraph five frequent but shorter practice periods have other advantages for you at this time. In addition to recognizing your difficulties with sustained attention, you must also have noticed that unless you are reminded of your purpose frequently, you tend to forget about it for long periods of time. You often fail to remember the short applications of the idea for the day. And you have not yet formed the habit of using the idea as an automatic response to temptation structure then is necessary for you at this time, planned to include frequent reminders of your goal and regular attempts to reach it. Regularity in terms of time is not the ideal requirement for the most beneficial form of practice in salvation. It is advantageous however for those whose motivation is inconsistent and who remain heavily defended against learning. We will therefore keep to the five minutes an hour practice periods for a while and urge you to admit as few as possible. Using the first five minutes of the hour will be particularly helpful since it imposes firmer structure. Not however use your lapses from this schedule as an excuse not to return to it again as soon as you can. There may well be temptation to regard the day is lost because you have already failed to do what is required. This should however merely be recognized as what it is a refusal to let your mistake be corrected and unwillingness to try again. So Jesus is basically saying let's let's be direct with each other. Let's not hide anything from each other. And if you forget the lesson, if you forget to practice, then that's just a mistake. And as soon as you notice mistake. The goal is really to let it go. The goal is always letting go of mistakes. The goal is never to accumulate mistakes. The goal is never to to count your mistakes. The goal is never to perpetuate mistakes but it's always once you notice a mistake. It's it's your oops moment. Oops, I made a mistake. Oops, I forgot. Then come back. Because if you don't come back to to center if you don't come back to the to the purpose if you don't come back to the idea of the day, then you're just going on with with a desire to make more mistakes. That's not that's not our direction in remembering God. We're, we're not here to to multiply mistakes. We're here to release mistakes, the instantly noticed them. The Holy Spirit is not delayed in his teaching by your mistakes. You're called back only by your unwillingness to let them go. Let us therefore be determined, particularly for the next week or so to be willing to forgive ourselves for our lapses in diligence and our failures to follow the instructions for practicing the day's idea. Tolerance for weakness will enable us to overlook it, rather than give it power to delay our learning. If we give it power to do this, we are regarding it as strength and our confusing strength with weakness. So isn't that beautiful. The tolerance for weakness will enable us to overlook it. That's a beautiful idea the tolerance for weakness will enable us to overlook weakness. The patients that we have with ourselves will enable us to overlook the ego. We need patients to let go of the belief in linear time. We need patients to be gentle with our mind and gentle with ourselves. Let us therefore be determined, particularly for the next week or so. We're right in the middle of Holy Week. This is Easter week. And Jesus is telling us be gentle with yourself and be willing to forgive yourself your lapses. Not just for the day, not just for yesterday, not just for the week, but for the past. If we practice forgiving the past, if we practice letting go of the past. This is our way to move into the Holy Instant and to the resurrection. So, so that is the one thing that's the most important with practicing Jesus's teachings practicing is letting go of the past. We don't want to use Easter week and we don't want to use this precious moment to try to regurgitate and rehash the past. A lot of us have done that with Holy Week. It reminds us of the promise of hope, of resurrection. It reminds us that we have an eternal Creator that is so loving and it loves us and it reminds us that it's our destiny to be one with God. But we don't want to look at the events of Holy Week and just repeat them like a repetition holding on to any darkness of the past because the resurrection has been accomplished. Our acceptance of the resurrection is extremely important. If Jesus accomplished the resurrection and he said, believe in me, have faith in me. And if you believe in the Son, you will know eternal life. That's really what this lesson is about. I myself is one with my Creator. I'm united with my Creator and this Holy Self and this Holy Christ Self. When you fail to comply with the requirements of this course, you have merely made a mistake. This calls for correction and for nothing else. But all a mistake to continue is to make additional mistakes based on the first and reinforcing it. It is this process that must be laid aside, or it is but another way in which you would defend illusions against the truth. Let all these errors go by recognizing them for what they are. These are attempts to keep you unaware you are one self united with your Creator. At one with every aspect of creation and limitless in power and in peace. This is the truth and nothing else is true. And we will affirm this truth again and try to reach the place in you in which there is no doubt that only this is true. Begin the practice periods today with this assurance offered to your mind with all the certainty that you can give. I am one self united with my Creator at one with every aspect of creation and limitless in power and in peace. Then close your eyes and tell yourself again, slowly and thoughtfully, attempting to allow the meaning of the words to sink into your mind, replacing false ideas. I am one self. Repeat this several times and then attempt to feel the meaning that the words convey. So let's just take a moment to repeat this several times, very deeply, like just letting it wash over us. Like that dove that landed on Jesus in the river Jordan. And Jesus said he received God saying this is my beloved son whom I'm all please now we practice it for ourselves. I am one self. I am one self. I am one self. I am one self. Feel it. Let it sink into your heart. You are one self united and secure in light and joy and peace. You are God's son. You are one self with one creator and one goal to bring awareness of this oneness to all minds that true creation may extend the allness and the unity of God. You are one self complete and healed and whole with power to lift the veil of darkness from the world and let the light in you come through to teach the world the truth about yourself. You are one self in perfect harmony with all there is. And all that there will be. You are one self, the Holy Son of God. United with your brothers in that self, united with your father in his will. Feel this one self in you. Sign away all your illusions and all your doubts. This is yourself, the Son of God himself, sinless as its creator, and with his strength within you and his love forever yours. You are one self, and it is giving you to feel this self within you and to cast all your illusions out of the one mind that is this self, the Holy Truth in you. Do not forget today. We need your help. Be a part in bringing happiness to all the world. And heaven looks to you in confidence that you will try today. Share then it's surety, for it is yours. Be vigilant. Do not forget today. Throughout the day, do not forget your goal. Today's idea as frequently as possible, and understand each time you do so, someone hears the voice of hope. The stirring of the truth within his mind. The gentle rustling of the wings of peace. Your own acknowledgement. You are one self, united with your father is a call to all the world to be at one with you to everyone you meet today. Be sure to give the promise of today's idea and tell him this. You are one self with me, united with our creator in this self. I honor you because of what I am. And what he is who loves us both as one. Oh my. Oh my is that warm, warm, warm love in the heart warm energy of claiming identity. Not getting caught up in all the images of the world today, not getting caught up into your to do list, not getting caught up into the shoulds and ought to not getting caught up into must do this must do that. The day is a day of remembering. I am one self, united with my creator. That is a declaration of freedom. That is a declaration that that I am not a hostage to the past. I am a host to God's love in this present moment. And I enjoy being a host to God. That's what you're saying. When you say I am one self united with my creator. And since Easter is upon us, here we are in Holy Week on Wednesday. You know Wednesday is right between the middle there between Palm Sunday and and Easter so we are right smack them in the middle of the Holy Week. I thought also to give a little extra booster for this beautiful lesson today. I would go to chapter 20 and and just read just a little bit from East from from Jesus about what we want to keep our minds focused on because when we're talking about mind training that just means where is your attention is your attention in the present is your intention to to follow Jesus is your attention on the guidance of the Holy Spirit in this moment is your attention on this moment entirely that you may be an extension of love and light. This is what Jesus has to say in. It's actually in chapter 20 and in the gift of lilies section we're going to start off with paragraphs six here and I'll read several paragraphs. This is our booster rocket today. If, if you forget just remember this booster rocket from Jesus. Easter. Look with different eyes upon your brother. You have forgiven me. And yet I cannot use the gift of your lilies gift of lilies while you see them not. Nor can you use what I have given unless you share it. Here's vision is no idol gift. No play thing to be tossed about a while and laid aside. Listen and hear this carefully, nor think it but a dream, a careless thought to play with, or a toy, you would pick up from time to time and then put by. Or if you do, so will it be to you. We're just being reminded by Jesus that the Holy Spirit's vision is no idol gift. This vision of Christ is our gift. This is what we're to offer for Easter. This is what we're to offer every day. This is what we're offering right now in this moment is we're offering a vision, a way of truly looking and seeing with spirit. We're not with the body's eyes. We're not listening with the body's ears. We're just going to a feeling a direct connection that is within us. And that direct connection is a gift. We're just here to give the gift of vision that we have no other purpose. We're just here to give the gift of vision. The vision now to look past all illusions. It has been given you to see no thorns, no strangers, and no obstacles to peace. The fear of God is nothing to you now. Who is afraid to look upon illusions knowing his savior stands beside him. The vision has become the greatest power for undoing the illusion that God himself could give. For what God gave the Holy Spirit you have received. Isn't that beautiful you have received the son of God looks unto you for his release. We have asked for and have been given the strength to look upon this final obstacle, and see no thorns nor nails to crucify the son of God, and crown him king of death. So what we're seeing is, we have the gift of vision now, we have it to give it to extend it that's our purpose is to extend this vision of innocence. And with everyone that you meet or think of you, you have an attending thoughts, you are innocent. You are still as God created you. That will bring a smile to your face and a smile to your heart. And also he's teaching us that basically the only thing we have to release is this obstacle of crucifixion. Here we are in Holy Week and, you know, Jesus is saying, bring it back to the mind, because everything is mine. And if you pull crucifixion off of the cross, and you pull it off of Good Friday, and you pull it off of the body of Jesus if you pull crucifixion off of the Romans and the Jews who screamed to crucify him, if you pull crucifixion off of the earth, and back into the mind, you'll just see it's an ego belief. That's what crucifixion is, is the belief in the ego, because the ego is the belief in separation from God. So, this week, we're going to go past the final obstacle, we're going to not see crucifixion in the world. We're not going to see it in history. We're not going to see it in the body or the body of Jesus being crucified. We're going to pull it back and say, oh my gosh, crucifixion is a belief that I can be separate from my Creator. Crucifixion is just the belief in the ego. And we have to go past this obstacle to recognize the vision of Christ. We cannot hold on to the ego. You can't hold on in Christian terms. You can't hold on to the devil and know Christ. You can't hold on to the devil and know God. You have to accept innocence, not just for yourself, but of course for everyone, because we're all one self united with our Creator. So we have to overlook error. Let's just say crucifixion is an error that the belief in crucifixion, the belief in the ego is just an error. And our only, our one responsibility, our sole responsibility is to accept the correction. We are to embrace the resurrection. We are to embrace that through Christ we have eternal life. As our identity, we have to accept it as our identity. And then we practice letting go of all thoughts that were, that were flesh, that were time creatures that we had a past that we believe we could have a future. We have to right now, say I'm going to release that, that error, I'm going to overlook that error. Once I seem to believe in it, but not anymore. No more, no more, no more, no more believing in the ego. Let's go to paragraph eight, your chosen home is on the other side, beyond the veil. It has been carefully prepared for you and it is ready to receive you now. You will not see it with the body's eyes. Yet, all you need you have. Your home has called to you since time began. Nor have you ever failed entirely to hear. You heard, but knew not how to look nor where. And now you know, in you, the knowledge lies ready to be unveiled and freed from all the terror that kept it hidden. There is no fear in love. The song of Easter is the glad refrain the son of God was never crucified. Let us lift up our eyes together, not in fear, but faith. And there will be no fear in us for in our vision will be no illusions. Let's take a pathway to the open door of heaven. The home we share in quietness and where we live in gentleness and peace as one together. Would you not have your holy brother leave you there. His innocence will light your way, offering you its guiding light and its sure protection. The shining from the holy altar within him where you laid the lilies of forgiveness. Let him be to you, let your holy brother be to you. The savior from illusions and look on him with the new vision that looks upon the lilies and brings you joy. We go beyond the veil of fear, lighting each other's way. The holiness that leads us is within us as is our home. So we will find that we were meant to find by him who leads us. This is the way to heaven and to the peace of Easter, in which we join in glad awareness that the son of God is risen from the past, and has awakened to the present. All is he free, unlimited in his communion with all that is within him. Now are the lilies of his innocence untouched by guilt and perfectly protected from the cold chill of fear and withering blight of sin alike. Your gift, remember, that's that's vision, vision, vision of Christ, vision from the Holy Spirit. Your gift is has saved him from the thorns and nails, and his strong arm is free to guide you safely through them and beyond. Walk with him now rejoicing where the savior from illusions has come to greet you and lead you home with him. It is such a freeing feeling to embrace the idea. I am one self united with my Creator. And if you forget, if you say, oh my gosh, that's such a long sentence, just come back to today. I am one self, which we practice with our eyes closed earlier. I am one self. The beauty of this today I woke up with a message that was sent to me from my friend for Prem. And, and Prem sent me a little note today saying that basically archaeologists uncovered a scroll in 1892. That contains a version of the Lord's Prayer. And this version of the Lord's Prayer was translated directly from the Aramaic to English, not, you know, through the different languages but this is, this is a direct translation of the Lord's prayer from Aramaic from the Aramaic that Jesus spoke it to English, which I'm speaking in today. So, as I send you off today for this beautiful experience of I am one self united with my Creator. I'll just give you this prayer that I received from the, from Jesus, from the Aramaic right to English. Oh, cosmic birther of all radiance and vibration. Soften the ground of our being and carve out a space within us where your presence can abide. Fill us with your creativity so that we may be empowered to bear the fruit of your mission. Let each of our actions bear fruit in accordance with our desire. Allow us with the wisdom to produce and share what each being needs to grow and flourish. Untie the tangled threads of destiny that bind us. So, as we release others from the entanglement of past mistakes, do not let us be seduced by that which would divert us from our true purpose. Let it illuminate the opportunities of the present moment, where you are the ground and the fruitful vision, the birth, our and fulfillment as all is gathered and made whole. Once again. Amen. Thank you, Jesus for showing us the way. Thank you for allowing us to forget the past and all of the past and and come into a state of grace. That I am one self, united with my creator. I rejoice with you in the resurrection. I go forward and glee today with this beautiful gift of vision, and less everyone that you think about, or that you meet during the day on this Wednesday in the middle of holy week with this beautiful reminder, I am one self united with my creator. And you don't have to speak it out loud to everyone you you meet, and you can just think it. Because it's a real thought. It's actually a real thought. So, God bless you. Happy Easter. May you flow in joy and love and happiness and and may it extend forever and ever eternally. Thank you.