 Hi everyone. Welcome again to A Course in Miracles Workbook Lessons Live. And today we are doing workbook lesson number 104. I seek but what belongs to me in truth. Today's idea continues with the thought that joy and peace are not but idle dreams. They are your right because of what you are. They come to you from God who cannot fail to give you what he wills. He must therefore, he must there be a place made ready to receive his gifts. They are not welcomed gladly by a mind that has instead received the gifts it made where his belong as substitutes for them. Today we would remove all meaningless and self-made gifts which we have placed upon the holy altar where God's gifts belong. His are the gifts that are our own in truth. His are the gifts that we inherited before time was and that will still be ours when time has passed into eternity. His are the gifts that are within us now where they are timeless and we need not wait to have them. They belong to us today. Therefore we choose to have them now and know in choosing them in place of what we made we but unite our will with what God wills and recognize the same as being one. Our longer practice periods today, the hourly five minutes given truth for your salvation should begin with this. I seek what but what belongs to me in truth and joy and peace are my inheritance. Then lay aside the conflicts of the world that offer other gifts and other goals made of illusions witnessed to buy them and sought for only in a world of dreams. All this we lay aside and seek instead that which is truly ours as we ask to recognize what God has given us. We clear a holy place within our minds before his altar where his gifts of peace and joy are welcome and to which we come to find what has been given us by him. We come in confidence today aware that what belongs to us in truth is what he gives and we would wish for nothing else belongs to us in truth. So do we clear the way for him today by simply recognizing that his will is done already and that joy and peace belong to us as his eternal gifts. We will not let ourselves lose sight of them between the times we come to seek for them where he has laid them. This reminder will we bring to mind as often as we can. I seek but what belongs to me in truth? God's gifts of joy and peace are all I want. So this beautiful lesson 104 is just asking us to just be willing to be very, very present this morning and receive the gifts that God has given and to lay aside all thoughts of past and future that a world that was made to block the light seeing that the past really offered us no gifts at all and the future really offers us no gifts at all. What God gives us was given for all eternity and is of course available to us right now. We need not deny the gifts of God any longer. I seek but what belongs to me in truth? And speaking of truth, I have been guided to read the better part of six paragraphs from chapter 14 and it's section 11. It's called the test of truth. So our workbook lesson for the day is I seek what belongs to me in truth right now. And this is Jesus speaking to us, the test of truth. Because oftentimes when we think of truth, we think of something in form, like tell me the truth in words or I want to know the truth of what happened. And Jesus is trying to loosen our mind from believing that we could ever know what happened because time and space are a projection of the belief that separation happened and Jesus is teaching us that God is real, truth is real, love is real and separation could not happen because God did not create the separation. So here's our test of truth from Jesus. Always a very dear section for us all. Yet the essential thing is learning that you do not know. And Jesus actually has italicized those words. You do not know. Imagine that you know nothing of this world that you cannot make any sense of it. You cannot understand the images. You are going to be willing today to approach the truth by being clueless about the world. Absolutely clueless. As some of our heroes, Mr. Magoo, Chauncey Gardner, some of our movie heroes have showed the way, my cat. Yet the essential thing is learning that you do not know. Knowledge is power and all power is of God. You who have tried to keep power for yourself have lost it. You still have the power, but you have interposed so much between it and your awareness of it that you cannot use it. Everything you have taught yourself has made your power more and more obscure to you. You do not know what it is nor where. You have made a semblance of power and a show of strength so pitiful that it must fail you. For power is not a seeming strength and truth is beyond semblance of any kind. Yet all that stands between you and the power of God in you is but your learning of the false and of your attempts to undo the true. Be willing then for all of it to be undone and be glad that you are not bound to it forever. For you have taught yourself how to imprison the Son of God, a lesson so unthinkable that only the insane and deepest sleep could even dream of it. Can God learn how not to be God? And can his Son, given all power by him, learn to be powerless? What have you taught yourself that you can possibly prefer to keep in place of what you have and what you are? Atonement teaches you how to escape forever from everything you have taught yourself in the past by showing you only what you are now. Learning has been accomplished before its effects are manifest. Learning is therefore in the past but its influence determines the present by giving it whatever meaning it holds for you. Your learning gives the present no meaning at all. Nothing you have ever learned can help you understand the present or teach you how to undo the past. Your past is what you have taught yourself. Let it all go in italics. I'll read that one again. Let it all go. Do not attempt to understand any event or anything or anyone in its light. For darkness, the darkness in which you try to see can only obscure. Put no confidence at all in darkness to illuminate your understanding. For if you do, you contradict the light and thereby think you see in darkness. Yet darkness cannot be seen for it is nothing more than a condition in which seeing becomes impossible. So just with these first three paragraphs, it's like I do not know what I'm perceiving. I will never understand what I'm perceiving. Everything I'm perceiving is the past. The past will only block me from the present, from the holy instant. And I cannot see in darkness and remind ourselves with Jesus' help and the Holy Spirit's help that these eyes have never seen anything image making, idol making is not seeing, is not seeing with the vision of Christ. So the eyes have not seen anything. The ears have not heard anything real. The mouth has not spoken anything real. The hands have not felt anything real and the nose has not smelled anything real. The five senses have not shown me reality. They have just shown me a substitution of reality or substitution. It was made to take the place of eternal life. So this is a time of, as a workbook was saying, of clearing the mind, of letting go, of allowing the imaginary world to be undone. And that means allowing our mind to be taken up by the Holy Spirit and Jesus to the light. You who have not yet brought all of the darkness you have taught yourself into the light in you can hardly judge the truth and value of this course. Yet God did not abandon you. Thank you, God. Yet God did not abandon you. And so you have another lesson sent from him already learned for every child of light by him to whom God gave it. That's the Holy Spirit. This lesson shines with God's glory or in it lies his power, which he shares so gladly with his son. Learn of his happiness, which is yours. But to accomplish this, all your dark lessons must be brought willingly to truth and joyously laid down by hands open to receive not closed to take. Every dark lesson that you bring to him who teaches light he will accept from you because you do not want it. Every dark lesson is say, I don't want it. I don't want the dark lessons. I want to learn your lesson of love. Through forgiveness, through letting go of what was made by the ego. I would not harbor the ego today. I will not harbor attack thoughts or grievances. And he will gladly exchange each one for the bright lesson he has learned for you. Never believe that any lesson you have learned apart from him means anything. And here we go, the test of truth. You have one test as sure as God by which to recognize if what you learned is true. If you are wholly free of fear of any kind and if all those who meet or even think of you share in your perfect peace, then you can be sure that you have learned God's lesson and not your own. Unless all this is true, there are dark lessons in your mind that hurt and hinder you and everyone around you. The absence of perfect peace means but one thing. You think you do not will for God's son what his father wills for him. Every dark lesson teaches this in one form or another. And each bright lesson with which the Holy Spirit will replace the dark ones you do not accept teaches you that you will with the father and his son. That's a beautiful reminder to take all the way into your heart, into the most innermost chamber of your heart. I will with the father and with the son. My will is with the father and with the son. I do not have a will apart from the father and the son. My will is for perfect happiness and so is the father's son will. The father's will and the son's will is for perfect happiness. God's the creator and the Christ is the creation and the will is for perfect happiness then I will as the father wills, I will as the son's will. And if this is too complicated just say I will be happy. I will be joyous. I will be peaceful firmly with all the power and the might of your mind in the glory of God. And finally the paragraph six which I will conclude with here do not be concerned about how you can learn a lesson so completely different from everything that you have taught yourself. How would you know? Your part is very simple. You need only recognize that everything you learned you do not want. Okay, we'll say that again. Your part is very simple. You need only recognize that everything you learned you do not want. Everything you learned of the past you do not want. There is nothing from the past that you want. I seek but present experience. I seek but belongs to me in truth. I seek only what belongs to me in truth. I would not have any interference of past learning, past images. Talk about being clueless. Jesus is just saying be clueless for me today and let me show you the love I have for you and all the gifts I have in this moment but be completely clueless. If somebody asks you something and you really don't want to try to explain something based on past learning you can say the three words that I find are the most light and happy words that relate to this world. I don't know. I love that. It took me a while before I could get happy saying, I don't know. I don't know. They ask me questions. I don't know. Ask to be taught and do not use your experiences to confirm what you have learned. Isn't that beautiful? Do not use your experiences to confirm what you have learned. Do not use past experiences today. Wow, clueless. When your peace is threatened or disturbed in any way say to yourself, I do not know what anything including this means and so I do not know how to respond to it. And I will not use my own past learning as the light to guide me now. I don't know. The Holy Spirit knows. The Holy Spirit's guiding me. I'm trusting the Holy Spirit's guidance today all through the day. I'm trusting the Holy Spirit's guidance in this moment. And as for the rest, as for the past, I don't know. I don't know how humble I don't know is. It makes way for revelation. It makes way for the truth. So those are our ideas for the day. The workbook lesson 104, I seek what belongs to me in truth. And the test of truth is, I don't know about the past. How do I feel? Well, that is a good indicator of following the Holy Spirit. If you feel joy, if you feel peace, if you feel happiness, if you feel lighthearted, if you feel playful, funny, humorous, good, good, good, good, good, good, good. That's the way to be clueless about the world. And let's just call it happy for no earthly reason. That's what we're opening to today. That's no small thing to be happy for no earthly reason. I don't have to look for the world to justify my happiness. I'm going to receive it from God. I'm going to receive it from within. I'm gonna let it bubble up and bubble through me and bubble all day is what I'm allowing. I'm allowing that. I give myself permission to allow myself to feel happy for no earthly reason. So thank you. I'm so grateful that we walked together on this path. Let us be happy today. Let us be like the birds chirping and singing. The birds chirp and sing. Where I am, there's a lot of birds and there's a lot of birds chirping and singing. Looks like I have it over here. It looks like a little birdie statue even when I look at my screen. Oh, goodness, the birds are everywhere. So thank you. God bless you. May God's peace and happiness and joy abide in your heart and may it flow in you and through you all through the day. Amen.