 We're live from Casa de Milagros. Welcome everyone, joining us today on the app or however you're seeing us do this beautiful streaming and we're here to beautiful day. It's just the birds are chirping, it's bright and sunny, the flowers are out. It's just gorgeous. And today I woke up as usual, completely clueless of anything, but I was quickly informed that it was Francis's birthday, that on this day, one year ago, my mother passed away. And of course, that's right, it's December, David, and this is the month when Jesus was born. So that's why we celebrate Christmas. There's, of course, the original book says it was in August and I think the job witnesses say it was in October, but we celebrate on the 25th. Because it's a ritual now, it's just a ritual. But behind that is the joy of the birth of innocence into a dark world of time and space where before that birth of innocence and that light, there was no contrast. Everyone just thought it's bad in time and space and then they pondered that it could get worse. That's where they came up with concepts like eternal hell. It wasn't frightening enough invent concepts like hell, going to hell or hell and damnation, but we're here to share the good news that the dream of separation was over long ago and it's been done, it's been corrected. So you really need to dance and celebrate every day the correction to bring that correction into your mind, into awareness. So we're here and I think our topic today too is going to be letting go of the past through guidance. And sometimes people say, yeah, I hear that, letting go of the past. I even saw something posted today, it was like a line where someone was saying the past is never gone. It only comes to haunt you in the present. And that's basically what the ego is saying. The past is never gone and it will haunt you and it will continue to haunt you the rest of your days. And even when you die, it will be there to haunt you when you're dead. So you can see it's a very different view that the past is over and gone. But how do you know that the past is gone except through an experience? Because it's not like somebody can just wave the words the past is over like a magic wand and then you don't have any more heartbreak or grievance or fear or guilt or shame. But it's more like through the Holy Spirit's use of the past, the Holy Spirit uses time to teach you that there is no time. Though the Holy Spirit uses the past and symbols of the past like words right now or anything in form, that's all the past but the Holy Spirit uses it to inspire and to bless and to give you the experience that you're free. So if you keep following the Holy Spirit, you must inevitably come to an experience that I am free. Or as Martin Luther King said, free at last, free at last. Thank God almighty, I'm free at last, you know. And he was aware that he was having a dream too. I have a dream, you know. So what Jesus is doing is he's taking all that and he's saying the ego invented words but the Holy Spirit can use words to bring you to greater clarity and discernment. And that's the only use of words is to come to clarity and discernment in your mind where you can finally come to the shortest teaching from the sermon on the Mount, which is judge not. So the end of judgment is letting the Holy Spirit giving the judgment in your mind over to the Holy Spirit and saying, you use it. You know what's in my mind, you use it to bring me out of time and space. And you know that the world's over and gone but in the Gospel of Thomas, Jesus said, be passers by. He just said, pass this world by. He also talks about that in lesson 128. The only purpose that this world has for you is that you pass it by and don't look back. So how do you reach a state of mind where you feel for sure that it's over, that there's nothing left to haunt you, that there's nothing from the past that can bring doubt to your mind anymore. It's through guidance. So we were just having so much fun. We were laughing at the kitchen table this morning, laughing all the way across over as our drive here and then we were laughing, even coming in, getting slammed, the door slammed in your face. You know, it all starts to be funny when you get so into the spirit that you are not concerned with the outcomes of the world. You can just laugh at things that the ego would say as a hardship. It starts to be funny when it's retranslated by the Holy Spirit. So what could be one of your darkest hours or darkest memories that once you let everything be reinterpreted, then you can even recall that memory with a little gentle laughter in your mind, like, wow, it looks so different now in this higher interpretation. Wow, God, you were with me all the time. You were with me closer than the air that I was breathing. You were there in every circumstance in every seeming situation, just beckoning me. Come up here with me and view it with me. Come see my perspective on the world. Come see the gentleness and the laughter and the joy. Join me in the laughter is what he's saying. So yeah, we started out today just rolling with that. And this means like it's not always like what the world calls major things. It's just like it's every day. We end up having a pretty good chuckle because things happen to us that we are quite clueless about. We don't anticipate them. We are not prepared for them in a worldly way. We're prepared for them in a state of mind way because we're not going to take anything serious. But wow, these years that we've lived these miracles together, you couldn't even put it into like a mini series because it would be too expansive to fit into mini series. There's so many parables of just learning to laugh in the situation when the situation gets to the point where it's like supposed to be extremely difficult. When you're not supposed to laugh and you laugh, then you know it's the spirit. I'm thinking of one trip we took when we were going down to Arizona and I called Lisa. I said, hey, I wanna go to Arizona. You wanna go with me? I'll fly, I'll meet you in the Baltimore airport. And she said, great. So she had to come down to the Baltimore airport. I had to go there. We met and I said, maybe we'll have enough time to have a dinner before we catch our flight to Arizona. And then the Holy Spirit and Jesus just played with us for the next several days. Just it was just a nonstop comedy show. Cause when we got to the Baltimore airport, we went to the counter. We said, we're ready to check in for our flight. We still hadn't eaten. I thought, oh, we didn't get our dinner in there. But we went to the counter and then when we went to the counter, they said, we're very sorry but the flight has been canceled. We said, canceled. Not delayed. No, the flight has been canceled. So we've come from Pennsylvania and I was coming from Cincinnati, come all the way to Baltimore and the flight has canceled. And so we just looked at each other. We were like, huh. And then the comedy started. They said, what would you like to do? Don't forget this part because they said the flight is canceled because the crew didn't show up. We're like, the crew didn't show up. Yeah, the crew didn't show up. And we were just like, first it's canceled. We're like, really canceled? And then why the crew didn't show up? So we all just stand there looking at each other. We're like, and so then they're looking at us and they're like, so what do you want to do? I said, we want to fly to Arizona. And they were like, oh, well, the flight's canceled. And so we talked with them for a while and they said, well, can we help you out? Here's vouchers for free meal. I was just like, here we go. Jesus heard me say, it'd be nice to have a meal before we left. So we get vouchers for full meals at the airport for free. And we sat there and talked with them. I said, are there any other flights? No, no, we don't have any other flights. And I said, how are we gonna get to Arizona then? And she basically said, well, we can take you down to another airlines with a credit card and we'll buy you the flight on the other airline. And I think it was two cities. I think it was Phoenix and then there was Tucson, yeah. I think we were heading for, was it Phoenix first? And we went down to this other airline. They said, well, we have no flights to Phoenix but we do have a flight coming up pretty soon to Tucson. And I said, it's Arizona. Okay, so we have our meal. We get this new flight. We go to the gate. We're going, we're sitting there at the gate and then we're waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting. And then on the loudspeaker comes, ladies and gentlemen, we are very sorry. But the flight to Tucson has been delayed because the plane is broke. And we looked, again, we looked at each other. The plane is broke. They've announced the plane is broke. So they said, we will escort you to another plane. So all of us, a whole bunch that we're gonna be on the plane to Tucson, which is people we've just meeting because we were not intending to go to Tucson. There, we're all laughing. People are getting on their cell phones, honey. They said the plane is broke. We are all were laughing because we thought that's, I've never heard that in the airport where they come on and they say the plane is broke. That's just, we had never heard that. But this is how the Holy Spirit humor. So we walked down to the next gate and they say, yeah, the plane, there was something with the windshield wipers or whatever they put us on another plane. They fly us to Tucson. We go to the, we've had a car rental, but we had a car rental in Phoenix. So we go to the same, it was maybe budget or Hertz, it was one of those. I think it's the one budget or whatever we try harder. Oh, really easy. Yeah, we try harder. So you wanna pick it up from, can you remember? This was many years ago. I do remember. We go to the thing we said we had a different car rental. Yeah, so we go up to the car rental guy and he's there and almost like we walked into some kind of comedy show, but he was like totally distressed in all these papers everywhere. And we said, it was Avis. And he said, so we said we have this car rental and then I don't know, we had like a budget. We had a budget thing. And he started just saying, I hate my job. Do you know how much I hate my job? He just starts saying, I hate this job. This is the worst job in the whole wide world. He goes, you know that slogan, we do better. We try harder. We try harder. I am harder. I am harder. I'm working here. And we're like watching him, he's like throwing all these papers. He was angry. And we're just watching this guy. And then we had this like economic. Economic rental. And a small economic rental. And he goes, and you know what I'm gonna do is, you know, I hate this job so much. I'm gonna upgrade you. I'm gonna upgrade you. I'm gonna give you. He kept upgrading us. Forget it. I'm just gonna give you. Higher and higher. So we, that we can, he just kept going up and up and up. To get back at the company that he hated. So if he put us in a Lincoln town car, we started off. No, remember, then he took us to the car. He said, I'm gonna go take you to your upgraded rental or whatever. And we get to the parking space and it's empty. We're the car that he wanted. We're just laughing because this is like all in one night. And we go, it's an empty space. And then he said, that's it. I'm giving you the ultimate rental. And seriously, he takes us to this like Lincoln con. It looked like a limousine. It was a limo. We were in a limo. Actually, we're like, we're driving in a limo. Yeah. I'm driving and I'm like, and I'm like, he was so upset that he put us in a limo and he gave us a voucher for a stay at a hotel. I mean, he was hopping mad at this company. And we're just like, we just see Jesus is just like, okay, just shower us. Oh, you know, we got there. And then I'm driving and it's like, it's got back then back in the day, you know, it had like serious satellite radio was just brand new. And I'm like, I'm just pushing the button there. I didn't even know how, there's so many buttons in this car. And Lisa's like, ah, it's been a long night. Let's just get to the place. So, so I said, you guide me and then you guided me. And we go and we go in. Here's this hotel. It's like the most magnificent hotel you've ever seen in your life. Brilliant lights flashing. Like it was like we were in Vegas or something out in the middle of nowhere. And then we go in there and we go to get our room and the guy goes, oh, we're booked. We're completely booked. The whole place is, you know, completely packed. We said, we have a voucher. He said, no, we're booked. He said, no, no. We're completely booked. And we're like, well, what are we going to do? He goes, yeah, well, we do have one room, the honeymoon suite. On top, on top of the hotel. I'm like, what? Yeah. And he said, it was like one, one something in the morning. He's like, I'm giving you the honeymoon suite. And we went, oh man, we got to tell you how our day's been. So we told him of all the day and the miracles of Baltimore and the guy at the car rental and everything. And he's like, I want, let's leave right now. There's a casino open. I want to go put some bets with you guys because maybe we can make a lot of money, you know? This was like one, one something in the morning. And I said, then we get, he gave us skis to go up to the honeymoon suite on the top of the thing. And we're just shaking our head. And I thought, do I have any whims? I looked out, there was a pool outside, right outside the hotel on a kind of a warm Arizona night. And I said, I do have a little whim. I think I'd like to go up and check into the honeymoon suite and maybe come down 1.30 in the morning and take a swim. The pool's lighted and it's been a long, so I looked at the guy and he goes, well, the pool's closed, but for you guys, I'll open it. So we were like, so that scenario is just kind of indicative of if you're to shine the light for God and if you're going to work for God, for the Holy Spirit, then so many blessings come your way, but not in a conscious way, it's more like you're clueless for God. We were, I really didn't have any, if they just said, we have no flights, we would have just had a nice meal, free meal and go, well, that was fun. That was an interesting adventure. Never that never happened before, but actually it just kept unfolding and unfolding and folding. And that's what we were talking about this morning at the table, the breakfast table, how when you give yourself over to God completely, then it's like the Bible says, take no thought for what you should wear or eat. Seek first the kingdom of heaven and all else should be added. That sounds sentimentally kind of nice for most people, but when you actually dive into it, you actually realize it's actually there, that your life can turn more into like a fairy tale. I mean, a happy fairy tale where things happen and you don't seem to be in any kind of control of it, but there's like the miracle is Jesus is what he calls arranging time and space. If you'll do miracles for me, I will arrange time and space for you. And that, I think most people have had some extraordinary experiences that they would call miracles, but Jesus is saying miracles are natural when they do not occur, something has gone wrong. Actually every day is to be devoted to miracles. Miracles are also not under conscious control. So you just have to be in that devotion of like, okay, Lord, here I am for you. I have no clue what's coming. I have no clue what's happening. I'm not gonna try to control the script, but I'm gonna have some fun with you for joy so I can have the experience that time is over and you see how deep you have to go to have that experience that time is already gone. You're watching simply reviewing mentally what has already gone by is what Jesus says in lesson 158, the workbook. So we were just marveling today that that's our lives now. It's actually been our lives for a lot of years. Properties show up and drop into our lap and it turns into huge miracle stories. It's the same with vehicles. It's the same with people who come into our lives. Coming when we came to Mexico, we were just graced with all these angels, all these holy encounters and we were just here for a short time. We were like, wow, I love Mexico. This is spectacular because again, the miracles were being orchestrated for us and everything was like melting like butter. Just like melting butter, not a struggle, not a care, not a concern. Like you've been lifted up on some kind of a ride on the cloud and at first you're like how am I standing on a cloud? But actually after a while you don't even ask that question. You just start to say, this is the way the days are supposed to go. We're supposed to be lit up. And it goes like that. There's so many. We were just laughing at some of them. And really on that trip, it was beautiful because we really didn't have a goal. Our goal was joy. Like we just thought, let's just go to Arizona in this joy. And I remember what we did. We went to a realtor and we got a bunch of retreats. They only had Google Maps at the time. One was on Good Morning America. Yeah. Very famous. And so we just kind of went on this mystical kind of scene where the spirit was gonna take us. So we had like 10 different retreat centers that we were looking at. And just kind of like, let's just see what happens. And we would just go and have all these holy encounters. And then like then this one place that was on Good Morning America, it was some bizarre retreat center. They weren't there. We called and they said, oh, we'll give you the keys. You can stay there for a couple of nights. And we were- We had never met them. We didn't even know them. We didn't even know these people. And then we get there and it's out in this most beautiful, yeah, it makes me emotional because it was just so mystical and it was so quiet. Wild horses. Yeah. And then all the summer sitting on the back porch and we're out in the middle of nowhere and the sun is shining. All of a sudden this herd of wild horses just runs by. It's like, what is going on? We're in a Pocahontas movie or something like, after all that. And it just went on and on. People offer their house for a couple of days. It's a real fancy Go Green house. It was an eco house that was featured on Good Morning America. And then we went, what was it? Snow Hill or what was that? Snowflake. Snowflake. We ended up in this town called Snowflake. And so we thought we'd go have dinner. And so we just go walking in cluelessly into this place. And as soon as we walk into this restaurant, the board there, it's all Jesus. Welcome. Everything was Jesus. Every menu item was about Jesus. It's like, go to the kingdom. Welcome. And we're like, what is going on? And then the waitress comes up just and she's like, we love Jesus. But we were like, this is surreal. I mean, everything, the menu, it was like, they were walking around. And they're all real happy. It's like a scripture in the menu. Yeah, we're just like, and it's Snowflake. We just went to that town because we liked the name. We said, this is a cute name, Snowflake. So we're there. We order Jesus's item, another Jesus's item, Holy Spirit. We're like, this is our dream. This is really a dream. I've never seen this before. And then she comes in and Lisa's like, so what's the deal with the name of this town? Snowflake. Where did you get Snowflake? And they said, well, the lady said, that's got a story, a very Christian story. There were two Mormon families that left Utah and moved down there. Was it Arizona, New Mexico, one of those. And basically the names of the two families were the Snows and the Flakes. And the Snows and Flakes got together and made a restaurant for Jesus. And I mean, in Argentina, they had an amusement park, entirely Jesus amusement park. So I'm like, it happens. I was in Sweden one time and Helena Hoonissen was, Ian was saying, well, David, you're in Sweden now. And they're not head over heels for Sweden here. We're in Stockholm. And she's like telling me, you're not, this is not like Jesus's capital of the world. And I looked and there was a Jesus parade right after she spoke coming down the street. She was, they were dressed up like Jesus, marching. So we had a party in the little Winton Place area too, where one time Kathy and I, they started putting posters up in this little community where I'm a peace house. They said, we're having a birthday party for Jesus in the summer. Maybe they've studied the rancher book or something. I don't know. But we went with our lawn chairs and they had parades and they had theater and everything, a birthday party. They shut down, it was like six or seven churches decided to throw a birthday party for Jesus in the middle of the summer in Cincinnati, Ohio. And we went and watched it all, thinking, this has got to be our mind. Like, this has got to be our mind. It has to be our mind. So finally, to wrap up the parable of everything, we did decide we had to fly out of another airport. I think it was Albuquerque. So we had driven across and we were gonna stay with these people but we had to drive all the way from their house up to the Albuquerque airport. So we had to get up like at three o'clock in the morning and we had this, we still had our big Lincoln town car and we went in there and we were just like so early and we got our stuff and we got our luggage and we put the luggage in the car and the trunk was all electronic. It was like really a fancy car. And then we get in the car, it's really cold. It's a cold morning and we get there and then after the car was running everything but the doors were all closed. We had to put the suitcases in the trunk or something so we both get out and we close our doors and all of a sudden we close the doors and we hear click, all the doors locked and the car was running. The car's running. And it's three o'clock in the morning. It's three o'clock in the morning and... We couldn't stop laughing. We just burst out laughing. We laughed for five minutes when the car doors are locked. We laughed five minutes until you finally said, what are we gonna do? That's the first words that came out of your mouth. After like five minutes of laughter, like what are we gonna do? I don't know, you found a fork or something. Yeah, there was something to get into this high-tech car. That was like Jesus having some left. But the thing about it is what we're emphasizing is that's how you let go of the past. It's through the guidance. It's through the miracles. It's through following the Holy Spirit because the mind that believes in time is so convinced that time is real. It's so convinced that problems are real. It's so convinced the body is real that you won't be able to see it as a fairy tale first and then see it as unreal until you go into your devotion and service to God. And when you do, it's hilarious. It absolutely is hilarious because it's been... We've had things about with that time, we were gonna just go to Hawaii and we saw we were in the monastery. And yeah, you remember that one? How's the Hawaii? We used to have a center on the big island where the volcano is erupting now. But when we had, we were told basically in the middle of a retreat in Utah that a retreatant told us that we saw Hawaii. A woman came in from a counseling call. Yeah, she said something like... And she said Hawaii is the answer. Hawaii is the answer. Hawaii is the answer, really. And then we left the retreat from the monastery and then we were driving on the highway. In the middle of nowhere, there's a car pulled in front of us with a Hawaii number plate, which is really rare in the desert. We're all Utah, Hawaii license plate. And then I think that night we were flying to Hawaii for a week-long retreat. To Vegas. First we went to stop over and then when we stopped over, a friend of yours wrote to you to say that she had a dream that we had a center in Hawaii. So that was like three things in a row. We were saying, wow, we're going to Hawaii, I guess. We see what happens. We were just going to do a retreat there wasn't it for like a- We were going to a retreat center and then we were hosted in that retreat center for a week to do a full seven day retreat. And then when we arrived, in that retreat center sent us a house link saying you guys should check this house out. On the ocean. On the ocean. And the road that you go to it was, Francis said, let me Google and see Google Maps to see how long. We had one afternoon free and then we said, let's just call Realtor. So we called Realtor all the way over to the center and said, can you take us to visit that house? Realtor said, no problem. So we said, we got on the car, we put the address in my Google map and I said, let's see how long this is going to take. 49 seconds. That's what Google said, 49 seconds. I said, how is that 49 seconds? Because it's right next door. Yeah. And the road is called the road, the red road, which the locals called the road to enlightenment. So now we've had symbols of the woman telling us Hawaii is the answer. We saw the Hawaii license plate when we pulled up on the road right by the monastery, way out in rural. And then we got that call, oh, you must see this place. I really feel you should have a center there. Then 49 seconds on the road to enlightenment, the red road, and then we get there, we walk in, you felt it immediately, you walk through the doors, you were just like. This is it. I said, this is our home. And then I see a coursebook sitting on the coffee table as we're walking. And then we basically signed the contract a few days later. Yeah, a few days later. On the way to the airport. Because we didn't have a donation that came in that was the exact amount of the asking price. So when Jesus says in the Course, the Holy Spirit, He will go before you making straight your path and leaving in your way no stones to trip on and no obstacles to bar your way. Nothing you need will be denied you. Not one seeming difficulty will melt away before you reach it. You need to take thought for nothing except the only purpose you would fulfill. Staying in your purpose in the present moment. And then everything in time and space rolls up into your awareness as if it's actually happening, but it's actually just a witness to your mind. Because the world is not outside the mind. The world is still inside the mind. The projection seems like it has left the mind and it's a solid, concrete thing that's out there, but the world is just your mind. That's why the workbook lessons are designed to teach you that your thoughts, the thoughts you think you think and the images you think you see are all the same. And they're all just thought forms that your mind is watching. But until you give yourself over to Jesus in such a full way, then it seems like that Beatles, that Paul McCartney song, it's just another day. That it's just another day. It's kind of a sad song from the Beatles, but it's all about living a day, one day after the next, brushing your hair, brushing your teeth, getting dressed. It's the repetition of time that when you identify with the body and the person, it seems just like it becomes something real. And it's not until you just say, I give it all over to you, Jesus, Holy Spirit, you lead the way that you start to have, it's just gone on for years. This is, that Hawaii story was just a tiny snippet that's happened over and over for us. Yeah, and the guidance comes in to lead the way. It's so clueless, we're so clueless, because then we left Hawaii after a number of years of this deep healing work and the whole community moved there and then moved back to Utah. And after we left, the volcano erupted. So it wiped half of the town and then, but we still had a house there. So we were, the road was blocked because of the volcano. And we were, we put the house on the market and we were like, oh, this is like, there's nobody gonna buy the house now because, so then just, we're just waiting and not really actively doing anything. Then one day this guy showed up and called Michael and David just felt him immediately. I just remember hearing David say, I really feel it. This is the guy who is gonna take this house. I really feel it. And I thought, well, I don't know, we'll see because it doesn't feel very likely. Not like a lot of road access. No, but he did in the end. And he was in touch with you still over the years. He kept writing to me and saying, oh, my wife and kids, we love this house. And we're finally the last message I got from him is we've decided to go on a real adventure and move the whole family to Thailand. So he must have heard my parables. He wasn't stopping there, they went on. But it happened, it's actually happened over and over. It happened with this house. It happened with this house we had in Mallorca. Yeah, it happened with Camus. It happened with the monastery. And even this place we rented in Canada for a couple years, that kind of dropped into our lap. We did this program too. Some of you know about Speery. I had been doing a kind of a retreat and Course in Miracles gatherings in Monterey, Mexico. And then we stayed at this house where Jesus put on a retreat for me to do in Monterey. And then Jesus Jr, his son, showered me around everywhere I needed to go up in Monterey. I stayed at this beautiful country house. And then after a while, the owner of the country house, she started saying, hey, if you want to rent my house. And that's when the inspiration came in to do this Speery, take our instrument for peace and turn it into an interactive app kind of thing. And but to build, I think it was to build Speery. I said, I just invited Susanna. And I think Jeffrey came there and they later got married. And then Pete was there and Emily, Jason were there. And this was the house where it got built. But everything, it's like the houses, the cars, the places, the people, it's just part of a prearranged plan that Jesus is just orchestrating. And it's all part of a script that's already happened. And the human being thinks that they have private, well, private mind, private thought. They think the human being will think they're important and be concerned about the script, what happened in the past and what's gonna happen in the future. But it's all just part of a swirl of images that are being used to bring the mind back, back, back, farther back so that you can just see the dream as a dream. Even the Wizard of Oz, it's kind of got a dream like quality with Dorothy. There's no place like home. There's no place like home. She goes through a whole experience, but then it seems like it's all just been a dream. And she says to all of her Aunt M, you were there. And Billy, you were there and you were there. All these characters that we call are just coming from our mind to help us reach a point where we start to see that we made it all up. And how you get there is the question, how do you let go of the past? But I would say the simple answer is through guidance. You might even share a bit how, I mean, the center in Mallorca was kind of the same way because Lisa and I had been over there. Lisa and I, Svava and Frank, we were looking around first in Portugal and Algarve and the southern part. And then we all were sitting on a park bench one day and we went, no, it's not here in Portugal. It's in Mallorca. So we got up, we flew over there and then there was all these encounters meeting people again. There was even one called a beautiful world, I think was the Spanish name. But nothing clicked, nothing came through. We were very patient. And I flew back to, was it Mexico? And then you were over there with Frank and then you maybe tell the story because they're just going around checking out these houses over there. And then they go to this house where the realtor said the owner's sick, but I can still see if we can get you in. No, well, we saw this house in this flyer and then we called the realtor and they said, oh, that's not on the market anymore. And then they said, me and Frank decided we loved the idea of just taking a drive throughout Mallorca and looking. Well, let's just take a drive and see what's happening. And then the realtor, I forget about the sick part, but anyhow, we ended up taking this drive there and they said they had another showing or something, but we could go there, the house wasn't for sale anymore. So we thought, let's just go check it out. So we just drove across and all of a sudden we come and here we've been searching and searching. And here this was the most perfect place. We pull up the driveway, it's this long, beautiful drive, we're like, oh my Lord, this is exactly what we've been looking for. And we pull up and here this lady that her mother, I guess, owned the house and she comes out and she's all enjoying, she goes, oh, the house is already sold. We were like, oh my God, we love this house. We just saw this house, what's going on? And she's like, listen, I can take you around and show it to you. And I'm just jumping around and Frank's like, oh my God, this is perfect. You called me. And I call you, I'm like, oh my God, this house is so perfect. It's so wonderful. It's so happy the house is already sold but we're having a great time. Here's Tina. And then we were just running around looking at the pool and I'm like, oh my God, this is like the perfect place. I'm like watching on there, waving and everything. And then she says, I want to sell it to you. She goes, this is the energy that we want in this house. We want to sell it to you. I don't know what we're going to do, but it's these German people and I don't like them. And they're just terrible. We don't like these German people. And you're the energy, we want this energy. She goes, I got to call my mama. I got to call my mama. And so she... It's this big Spanish family and mama is like the matriarch. She's like mama, she's like the godmother, everything she says goes, it's law. So they go for a lunch at mama's. And she said, you've got to meet my mama. You got to come and meet my mama. And so she's like, we're right down the road. Oh my word, I love your energy. But we've never met. I never met her in my life. And I just felt like she was like my sister or something. We were like hugging, we're like, oh my word. And so we go and she's like runs in and gets her mama. And she comes out and we're jumping. And she's like, mama, I want to sell it to her. And she was like, oh, I don't know what we're going to do. We got to have the Germans. And then Frank just starts sharing, you know, about... He went up to a room, he told me with mama. Yeah, he went with mama. He spoke Spanish. He's from Switzerland, but he speaks Spanish and French and all these languages. So he goes off and he can speak Spanish. So he told me, I'm on. I went off into another room and we're having a talk in Spanish. And she's like, what are you? What are you? Are you kind of involved in spirituality? What's your spiritual path? And Frank said, well, you know, I've been 12 steps and did a few other things and this and this. And he didn't say anything about the course of miracles, but it was all in Spanish. And mama said, oh, your energy reminds me of a man who came here years ago. I think it was like 10 years ago, eight or 10 years ago. And he came and we rented villas to him and all these happy people came from around the world. And your energy just feels so much like his. And Frank said, really? And she says, yeah, it was David Huffmeister. And he's like, you're kidding me. Kidding. You are kidding me. And well, I'm like, you are kidding. Oh my God. And then even then, well, what was their name? I forget what her daughter name was. Keena. Keena. And she was like, mama! And so we were all like, celebrate. She's like, that has cooked you a meal. They're having dinner at the family house, which is just walking distance across from the actual villa that they had rented to me with the swimming pool. Like, I don't know, eight or 10 years ago. And then mama said, I want to sell this house to David Huffmeister. Yeah, she was like, we're calling the realtor. I mean, it was amazing. And we did went through this whole thing, just this massive, they had to pull out. And yeah, it was the most beautiful experience. And so they were like celebrating when we pull up and just made everything so perfect for us. They even, they invited me to come over because Keena was having some fear come up. So I flew over. Then I was around Christmas time. Flew over for Christmas. About this time I flew over there. But once you start to step back, you know, it is like just a series of fairy tales where the whole point of your joining together with everyone that you meet is just for joy. That's the only purpose. There really is no, the rest of it's like a theater. It's like props. It's like backdrop. And these kinds of synchronicities, we've just had them happen over and over and over. Everywhere we've gone, we, there was a, our friend Sue, she basically turned over her use of her father's ranch back then and we had a center there. Pete and Colin were there. We've had, you had one in Spain down, was it in their Malaga, a Lozena? We actually had a family in Spain that were, it was a chicken factory. They raised and killed chickens in a factory and they rented us a house, a pretty, pretty large house. But you have, you still go through the things where you still seem to be moving through time and space. But when it happens over and over, you really feel like it's, like my life is not my own. Like, wow, if I'm willing to be used, I'll just get swept up in the joy of the miracle and the joy of this experience. And you can see how different that is from thinking, how am I personally gonna wake up? You know, you may have your schedule so many hours of meditation a day or yoga or I'll read the course or I'll do this amount of hours of service or so on and so forth. The problem is, is people don't wake up. You don't ever wake up as a person. You have to get totally surrendered over to this big giant swirl of energy where you realize that you never did anything wrong or right but you never were who you thought you were. You were never the person you thought you were. And you can't even arrange your own life. Like, last year, you're saying that today is the one year anniversary of your mother passing away and a year ago where David, like months before December, I think David felt a prompt to buy a flight to Cincinnati from Mexico, I think. And for no reason, just a prompt, just following the prompt. And then you were in the airport in the lounge because you were upgraded to first class and then they escort you to, why don't you use the lounge and have a good rest and you're in the lounge and waiting to board. And you walk out to board the plane where David got a message from his sister saying, can you come to Cincinnati as soon as possible? Because your mother had a heart attack that very time. And David said, yes. And I'm already in the airport in the lounge with a ticket to Cincinnati. Which is bizarre. Because he's never headed to Cincinnati. You hadn't been to Cincinnati forever. No, I just got a prompt to buy the ticket. And then the very, right before I was leaving the airport, that's what she had had a heart attack and had been taken to the hospital. And I didn't even have my phone, the ringer on. I just happened to have it in my hand and I looked down and I saw my sister's name. And I went, oh, that's why I answered it. Could you come immediately to Cincinnati? And I said, yes, I'll be there. And then I hopped on the plane and flew to Cincinnati. You're going to be faster than that. That's the spirit's work. I'm on my way. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, even time is very funny too because they've done studies even with people with brain injuries or things where they seem to have reactions in the body. And it seems like the feeling that they have in their limbs is somehow projected backwards. And for doctors and nurses, this is like wild. When projected backward in time, you start to realize that all the beliefs of time are illusory too. And we think that time moves from past to present to future. But Jesus says in the Course, time actually goes backwards to an ancient instant that's impossible to remember. He's talking about the Big Bang, the unholy instant. But he does. I think Greg was reading about that in the workbook lesson recently about you seem to believe that you could go back to your child at home. But he basically says, that childhood home and the memories of the childhood home are just distorted memories from a distant past. He's really trying to teach us, I want you to live from the present moment on. I want you to light up in this moment and live your life just moment by moment under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. And that's what we did. We jumped into that way of living instead of analyzing the past or planning the future, which is common on planet Earth, analyze the past, plan the future. We just jumped in to follow the Holy Spirit. And then everything will show up. Everything will be taken care of. And so even this, I think I've already told that parable many times of this property coming in, it wasn't something that looked like it would be easy because we barely had enough money to buy it. And not furnish it, but then we just trust it. We would just be shown and everything unfolded. So you can see that it's more how willing am I just to be clueless about my life and trusting in the Holy Spirit to just take me and use me however long there seems to be a me. Use me, Holy Spirit. Use me, use me. And then as you have all these miracles that happen, and then they happen daily, and then they happen daily, and it comes into daily miracles, then you start to feel loosened from the world in a genuine way, in an experiential way, not in a way of trying to piece it together intellectually. I think during this first generation, even working with the Course, Jesus was telling Kirsten that the first generation of Course students would mostly be intellectual teachers and teaching the concepts of the Course because it's a big book, 31 chapters, 365 lessons, a manual for teachers, clarification of terms. But the whole point is to dive in so deeply that you start to feel like you have no control over the world and you like it. You know? What's that, a pointer sister song? I'm so excited and I just can't hide it. I'm about to lose control and I think I like it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. This is where the joy comes in. This is where you shift into joy mode. You shift gears into the joy because you become confident in the Spirit. You know the Spirit goes before you. You know there's nothing by accident. You know, even your seeming trials and tribulations are just misperceptions ready to go poof in the light. Just poof, like a little pop. If you are willing to just follow the guidance and if you are resistant to following the guidance, then it seems to play out like it does in time or you have problems to deal with every day. And then the next day you get another set of problems. And then the next day it's another set of problems. And you can see why people get depressed. You see why people seem to become anxious. You see why people even sometimes get suicidal because they feel how heavy the ego is. They have identified with the death wish and then they feel the darkness and the heaviness of the death wish. Meanwhile, lesson 48, there is nothing to fear. Jesus is saying, well, stay with me and you'll actually see that there's actually nothing to fear. You don't have to fear what will happen in the script because what you are concerned about happening in the future is already happened. And you just haven't allowed yourself to accept, to see that it's over. That was a Bosgag songs. Why can't you just get it through your head? It's over, it's over now. Yes, you heard me clearly now. I said, it's over, it's over now. These are the pop songs I grew up with, you know, people. Sam's, Bos who? He wasn't British, but he, yeah. But that's the lyrics in the song actually, you know? And then Jesus is singing these songs in my mind that I grew up with. He's just like serenading me, reminding me, reminding me over and over again. Just relax, relax, I got it here. So that's what we wanted to share today, really. We want to share the joy. Right, because even just when you talk about all these things, because it seems like so long, but like, you know, that's why the mind training is so important, you know, to, you know, when Jesus talks about how decide upon the day that you want to have, and that if you make no decisions with by yourself, that this is the day that will be given to you, like the mind training of continually handing it over to the Holy Spirit, asking for guidance, you know, in that relationship with the Holy Spirit, and that joy, that we can live a life of joy and laughter is not just some, you know, it sounds like some fantasy. Like, you know, I feel like I went down every road, the world offered me for finding some satisfaction. I can't find no satisfaction. There is no satisfaction in the world, but this joy that is natural, like just from trusting the Holy Spirit and then really just letting go of the outcome, you know, you don't have a goal, like I'm not trying to get something, I'm not trying to accomplish something. My goal is actually joy. I wouldn't have a day of joy. And when I found out that the Holy Spirit was joy, you know, that if I'm listening to the Holy Spirit, that means I'm listening to joy and the laughter, like that's what I want. You know, I remember reading the course, that's what really got me when he said, could you imagine, you know, like waking up is waking up to laughter. And I thought that's my goal, that's what I want for my life and I don't know how I'm gonna do that. So for myself, I guess, you know, the beginning steps is just like, again and again, over and over, handing it over to the Holy Spirit, that that's my desire, I wanna be happy. I, you know, without, like nothing in this world is gonna bring me happiness, but that connection with God. And that's just what I've found out, is just like, put the kingdom of heaven first and all things will be added onto the, is not some fantasy. I've been thinking because I've been reading the Bible so much in how these are living words that we think it was just something for Jesus that, you know, and the disciples, but these were living words that he was speaking that are for us now, that, you know, for us to actually put all of it in for God, put God, that like, that's what's gonna satisfy us, knowing that we're connected to our Father and that we can actually, through that, through living this and practicing it, that we can actually let go of the world, like it's training our mind that we can actually abide in this state of mind that's real, that it's not natural to feel fear and doubt and unworthiness and arrange things and try to control things, it's the most unnatural experience. So this natural state of really being carried, that God loves us so much, he wants to carry us and he has this glorious plan that is so perfect that you could have never figured it out, but it's our willingness to take the walk, you know, to start walking and knowing that Jesus is walking with us, beside us, and that, you know, if that's my goal, really, you know, it's not some, you know, egoic goal, you know, to get more money or get more relationships, get more and more and more, it's like this lack, it's this belief that I'm lacking something and being willing to say, you know what, maybe I'm denying that I already have this, that I already am this, what if that's possible, you know? And I guess for me, just even listening, I was talking today and, you know, I'm so humbling actually, because we can't even imagine any of this, you know, like I could never imagine it, but it's not about the form, it's not anything to do about the, these are just such beautiful parables to point to, that we actually can live in this state, in this holy instant to actually, everything is pushing us back into this presence, to get so still and so present that you just are walking truly that the red carpet is being laid out before you, that you need not take thought for tomorrow, like to really let go and trust, and yeah, the fear and the doubt and all that's gonna come up, but just so that it can be forgiven, that's the only purpose, so that you can question it, maybe I could be wrong about this, and you are, that's the miracle, it's like I'm gonna keep going, I'm gonna trust with all my heart, you know, trusting God and trusting joy is much better than trusting fear, I thought, you know, when I read the course for the first time, he said, it's not that you don't have faith, it's what you're putting your faith in, you know, that this faith, it's like taking this vigilance that we've been giving to the world, you know, this drive and this strive for these worldly things, like to take all that vigilance that we have in our heart and put it all towards God and that he's worthy of our vigilance, you know, I mean, I feel just so humble and so grateful that I trusted God, that I can't even believe my life, and it's not about anything of this world, it's about this contentment and rest that, you know, Jesus talks about, you know, this rest of mind, this peace of mind that is just so beautiful, it's just so resting and yesterday I was so beautiful in the morning, I woke up and I was listening to these, this piano music and these birds tweeting and I thought, oh my goodness, and I thought, oh, I know what it experience, it is to mean like, I am myself, I thought, I am just myself, you know, the Christ is just who we are, I don't have to play a part anymore, I don't have to pretend anymore, I don't have to do anything anymore, but just be my real self and that's who we all are, we just wanna be ourselves, you know, which is that childlike state that we don't have to think like that anymore and we'd have to play games, we just wanna be cared for and that, you know, like it's so simple actually and it's our inheritance to just be able to rest in this present moment and authentically be able to listen to the birds, you know, and really enjoy the song and really authentically look at the flowers and just authentically just be without having anything else to think about, you know, I'm not cared about the body, not cared like everything will be given to me. I mean, just so simple, you know, just so simple, everything becomes and even if there's a problem, this is what I see, it's a miracle, you know, if there's something that needs to be looked after like this week, I smell poop in my bedroom. Really, I start smelling some poop in my bedroom. In case everybody thinks it's too flowery, let's give some parables now of how the Holy Spirit gets our attention, yeah. She comes up to you, I smell something. I go, I smell poop, what is this? Cause you know, I'm like blissed out and I'm like, all of some smells. Well, you might as well roll it back five years because five years ago, we were just out looking at the yard, looking at the lake and everything. When we first got to property. Yeah, we looked and we said, there's toilet paper on the grass down there. And we're just, but this is how the Holy Spirit, we're going along clueless, clueless, just looking at the lake and the sky and the clouds. And then I'm like, do you see that? Maybe we should get down there. It looks like toilet paper. It looks like there's something on, but this was on the grass and so we went down and we said, yeah, sure enough, there's toilet paper on our grass. Did you put it there? No, did you? No, so it turned, poop everywhere. No, and then we're wondering, and then it turns out that our septic was leaking. And that's where the toilet paper came from. But we're clueless, you know, we bought this house and we didn't, it was all these selling points. It's this, it's this, Lucia's been there. She knows, they didn't say, here's your septic. So, you know, we didn't even talk about the septic system. We were all having miracles and Suave had a revelatory experience. And, but we weren't thinking septic at that time. But then it gets our attention. And then our friend Jose that five years ago was you got Jose and they were like digging to try to find where it was. They kept digging and digging. I just watched from the balcony. I'm like, it looked like there were six guys digging a grave. They were like six feet down there. I could barely see their heads. They were, and we were like, wow, this is a big project. But yeah, eventually that got fixed. And then here, now we fast forward to five years later where at least it smells. Toop. But these are like the prompts from the Holy Spirit. I mean, it's really, I feel like, oh, what's that smell? And then I said to you guys, I don't know what that smell is. Smelling something. Then it's like, oh, maybe we ought to empty the septic tank. Do we even have a septic tank? We were like, oh, maybe there's something going on. And then here was a miracle because I don't know who I called. I think Soren, Soren came to my rescue or it's like, maybe we have a septic tank that needs to be empty. We didn't even know. And then Jose said, yes, do you have a septic tank? We couldn't even find it. We called someone and we couldn't even find it. And then Jose, who was there five years ago, ran over. He was like, so happy. Lisa, oh, you look really young. And he's like, I'll work for you anytime. But he was like pointing to where we needed to look at. And I don't know. And then it was funny because then we were on it. It was like this prompt to contact these different people. But then the poop smell went away, but we didn't even do anything. I said it was pretty bizarre. It's all just, it kind of just the Holy Spirit will get your attention when, but it's just leading you to the next scene, to the next Holy Encounter. We think we're actually doing things that are gonna produce something in the future, but it's just the spirit is just having us go from one Holy Encounter to the next to the next. And it's, we had a joyful encounter with the guy that was there and Soren was there. It doesn't matter whether it's glitzy and you're flying around the world and you're doing gatherings and sessions and satsongs or you're speaking to a conference of 500 people, or you've got the poop doctor over there. And you're dealing with that because it's all the same. It's all the same purpose to stay in the present moment and shine the light of Christ and share your joy. And then if there's words to be spoken, you let the Holy Spirit speak the words through you. If there's prompts to be handled or something to do, you just take it as it comes. But like for example, with this property, we had a big tree that came down, actually hit this building. That happened once at the peace house too. A big tree came and push onto the side of the house in the gutter. We had over at Quantico, big tree come down. When we were in Hawaii, we were living at the edge. We were on the ocean at the edge of a rainforest. So we heard crack, boom, in the middle of the night, trees coming down because the fruits were so big and it was a rainforest and we were sitting there sleeping, boom, what was that? That's in our backyard. That's the rainforest back there. Yeah, we really didn't go in the backyard. We didn't know what we would find back there, but we did have some friends who like J.P. walks all the way back through there for the internet, just to do it for Jesus and for the internet, for the internet connection, he walks through the rainforest. But these kinds of things happen. We've had roofing leaks here. Oh, what do we got today? We got a leak. We've got a leak. We had a time where we were like, seemed like our whole community was leaking. We got a leak here. We got a leak over there. We got a leak up there. We are leaking. What does that mean? We're always like, what are you trying to show us? Leaks, what is leaking here? Yeah, attentiveness to your mind. But it really is, what for me, I just love the holy encounters too. Who am I gonna meet? You call people up even yesterday. It was so beautiful because this guy had a chisel with this big chisel and chisel a hole to find our septic tank. And so I thought, wow, and he was out in the hot sun. And so I said to him, wow, I said, that's a really big job that you have to do. He goes, I love it. I love solving problems. I'm gonna fix it. He was like, I'm like, that's wonderful. And he goes, yeah. He goes, don't you worry about anything. He goes, I'm gonna fix it and I'm gonna make it happen. So we didn't even know that we had a septic tank. We didn't. And then it just shows up that he's working on it. But it just shows how far we are removed because you're down there enjoying the holy encounter. Like what a sweet guy this guy is. But wouldn't it be great if you just saw your life as a series of holy encounters where you couldn't wait for the next one to show up? Ooh, what's the next one gonna look like? What's the next one gonna look like? And then that's what I've liked about all of the travels we've done. We were all three on a trip to China together. Lisa in China, that was like, that was even better than Lisa's first trip to Canada. Because when Lisa first went to Canada, she drove across the border, you know, and she got there- It was my first time out of the country. Her first time out of the country and she's over there and she goes strapping along. She says, weird, what's wrong with this phenomenon? With kilometers. She had never encountered kilometers in her whole life only miles. And she's like, what's this, the whole distance. It's like Alice in Wonderland. She's gone down there- Like the money was like monopoly money? The money was different. She's like, what kind of money is this? And then she goes to buy a gas and she takes out a bill and gives a Canadian bill and they give her coins back. Loonies and Toonies, which are like a dollar, but she's only thinking of coins as pennies and nickels as nothing. She's like, they give her the change and she goes, come on, keep it coming. You just, I gave you a bill and you just gave me some change back. And so it was a whole cultural, the Holy Spirit had so much fun using the cultural differences because this was your first time there. Wow, when we went to China, you went berserk. She was like, it was like we landed on a different planet or maybe a different solar system. Lisa goes to Venus was kind of, we thought we were having fun, but she was like going around and just interacting with people on the streets and people were like- They treated us like we were royalty. We got there, there was like an entourage. David was like this, we were the Beatles. David was going there. He was like George Harrison showing up. They had flowers at the airports for me when I was coming. We showed up at the airport and there was like 50 people with flowers and it's like, what are we walking into? It's just this mystical- They took a picture of me and they blew it up. Yeah, they're huge. It was like 15, 20 feet high. And there was like 200, 300 people coming to these gatherings and they were just like, David, David. I was like, what is going on over here in China? That's right. We've all had our Muji moments already. You guys think we've been through it all. But then it was fun letting you go out on the streets because you would just go out onto the streets and encounters and bus rides and walks or they would take us to restaurants. They took us to the Chinese opera. How was that for an experience? The Chinese opera is nothing like any kind of opera. Yeah. It was like, they were all with painted with faces. Ah-ho, yeah. And we were down near the front going, wow. This is like, Jesus, holy Jesus, what's going on here? It was amazing. It was actually something out of, yeah, it was amazing. I couldn't have never imagined anything like it. And every evening we would go like Beijing, Shanghai, Hainan, like all these mystical places just treated like royalty, but we went to this one place one time and they were like really official too. They looked like they were just like these professional, whatever, you know, they dress pretty tight. And then all of a sudden they're sitting there and talking about the gathering that was about to happen. And then they said, well, what we really think is a priority for our next gathering is we want Lisa to do a dance party at our next, at the big session. They said, this is our, we have promised this to our people. And I'm like, what are they talking about? And I'm like, oh my God. I'm over there with her music in China, communist China. And I'm like, what's gonna happen here? But David actually, you told them. We were doing a big session and they were all quiet. You could hear a pin drop with 200 people in the room. But I said, tonight you're gonna have a great experience with Lisa, because I knew I'm gonna go take a siesta. He's going to bed. I said, you're gonna have a great experience with Lisa. Just be present with her, just fully present. And when you meet her, just look directly into Lisa's eyes and you can feel the power of the present moment. You can experience enlightenment. So I said, sketch y'all later, thank you. I sent them all off to a dance party with Lisa. No, these people were running after me. They wanted to look into my eyes. And they were like, I mean, one by, I couldn't get into the bathroom. They were all like in the bathroom. Everywhere I went were these people. And I thought, oh my word. And that night. They were really going for the holy instant. So then that night was supposed to be the dance party. And that's what's so, yeah, just so divine. To live and just not know. Like we don't have, we really never ever plan for anything. I mean, we just kind of step into it and see what the spirit plans. And I had, I didn't rehearse or we don't rehearse or anything. And here I'm like, oh my God, there's going to be 300 people here. I got to get some music together. And we had someone traveling with us with the time. They had this iPod. And I said, okay, you know what? Let's just, and all of a sudden I heard this song from Karen Carpenter that I said, let's just start it off with that and see what happens. And so I entered into this huge arena of people by myself. And then I heard, why do birds suddenly appear? In a circle. In a huge circle. Lisa was basically walking around them standing in front of each one of them. Each one of them. As they're doing. And doing eye gazing with them. It was the most mystical experience for me because I was like, and everyone wanted, so I looked at every single one of their eyes, which was the gift for me too. And then all of a sudden we went around and they were like, oh. And then the person on the music turned it into some good old disco. And then we just this huge celebration happened. And everybody just started dancing and the people that were all formal, the formal people that were all tight and had these things. This guy rips off his shirt. And he's like, we're free. And these people ripping off their clothing. And then all of a sudden they started doing what they were doing to you. Lisa, Lisa. I'm like, no. I'm like, I'm saying, no, this is God. It's all God. Did you have to understand the context too? Like they've gone through years and generations of repression, of censorship, of not being able to do things in public and everything. So they're probably feeling the Holy Spirit swirling in their hearts, maybe for the first time in their lives. And they're feeling alive. That's why the, what's the guy's name that ripped his shirt off? No, it was the other guy. The host in a life, I think it was James. James, it was James, I think, yeah. But they're just like, there's an explosion of energy and that's sometimes what people have with like Kundalini or with ayahuasca experiences where it's like a breaking through of this unconscious fog and getting into this super high energy because it's the energy of freedom. It's the energy of release. And these people had systematically been in that. Actually, there was a time, I think the first time we went there, there was about a hundred people in Beijing. And at some point I was talking and then I decided to break them up into, let's break up into small groups. So we broke into four groups of 25 each. Because we need translator and we don't, I can do a translator. So it's like almost impossible to have facilitators. So we have to do four, that's the most we can do. And 25, the huge circles for one group. You and then Jason got in the middle of one and then translator. And then they all, they got this big, all the chairs around to me. And then they took me by the shoulders and they took two chairs and they put the chairs inside of the 25 group for a one-on-one expression session. They were doing it all themselves through the activation of the Holy Spirit. So they put two chairs down, they took me, they guided me with my shoulders, sat me down and then one by one, they would leap up out of the circle and land in the chair across from me and pour out all the dark emotions, they're hurt, like they had it pent up inside them from years of trying to just keep it together, keep it bottled together and they would pour it out. And then as soon as one would jump up, another one would jump in. And there was like some kind of energy to that because you guys were in other groups and you're like, what the hell is going on over there with David's group? Because it was like a huge opening. And then I think the next day we can't do the expression anymore because there was so many people. So we decided to put a hot seat up on the stage to say that whoever wants to do the one-on-one app on the stage with David in front of everyone can queue up in the break. And then, so when we caught off the session, the whole room queued up, 100 people and we're like, okay, okay, this is not gonna work. So go back to your seats. Everybody go back to your seats. So Jason said, okay, now I know that everyone wants to go up. So I'm just gonna random pick because it seems like it doesn't matter who because everybody has so much. And then when they came up on stage, it was amazing the thing they expressed. It was like that case almost feels like centuries and yarns of things that burdens they want to unload kind of feeling was so epic. Yeah, one woman just came up and she sat down in the chair on me and she just screamed at me. She just screamed and screamed. I forget her name, but it was, she just screamed and screamed and screamed and Jason was like, oh, I had to pick a screamer. You're out of a whole room for it. You, but actually then the same woman invited us to Shanghai after she screamed for five minutes, she said, oh, I've got a big, let's get a big group together. I'm a course organizer. But that was also very spontaneous. We, that's our first trip to China ever. So we planned a five day retreat in Beijing and we're gonna rest for a couple of days and then you're gonna head back to the States. So on that day, the woman said, I have a group and we'll have 200 people come if you can come tomorrow. And we said, welcome tomorrow. That's how the first trip to Shanghai, so spontaneous. Very spontaneous. And this high non too, that's the second trip. That was, they've told us it's like the Hawaii of China. We were like the Hawaii of China, but it was an island, a beautiful island off the coast of China, but it was very, very resorty and ritzy. I remember even us just driving around in the buses and everything and, but it was like very elegant. Like they were rolling out the red carpet. It was off on an island too, which is very beautiful. It was a little bit like our Hawaii experiences, but through it all, you know, through the trips you, my trips to Argentina or being out in the rural areas with a group of mothers coming who could not afford the course book, but they had basically just one page, Xeroxed from A Course in Miracles, and that was, they were all huddled together, all these mothers to pray together and to go and take the words from this one page of the book, you know, to soak it in and try to, and ask questions. And they're not used to having a man come from far away and being with them. So they're a little cautious at first, but then the Holy Spirit comes through after five minutes, they're all relaxing, joking. But there's lots of different places. I mean, obviously, India, you know, a lot of the places you go, it's all about just staying in the present moment and enjoying the holy encounter. Whether it's on your, you're on a plane, a train, a bus, whether you're walking, whether you're staying with a family that says, come and be with us for a few days, you know, a lot of the travels, most for me of the travels over the years have just been being invited into people's homes and really having deep holy encounters with them. And it wasn't until later when we started doing world travels we started having to stay at hotels and, you know, places like that and lots of plane flights. But, you know, it's like it still feels involuntary. It feels like all you are is just in the prayer to be used and be truly helpful. And from that prayer, everything happens. Like everything comes out of just that simple prayer of use me, use me for a higher purpose, use me for the greater good of the whole universe instead of just for personal motives, preferences from the past, use me for the healing light that will release the mind from this world, from the belief in this world. So it's, in one sense it's like ordinary miracles but they feel spectacular and ordinary at the same time. You know, like they're spectacular but they're really natural. Like after a while you start to feel like, oh my gosh, this is my natural calling. So when we come together, even to do a broadcast or to, you know, go to a restaurant today or whatever we're doing, it's really just for the joy of the moment. It's not to get caught up into futurizing, not to get caught up into what will happen when or how will this happen or whatever because really we don't really know. You can't really say anything for sure about the future. It's just a projection anyway. So you can't say anything about it except that what you perceive is a reflection of your mind, of the purpose in your mind. That's all you have to remember. That's the only thing you have to remember is everything I perceive is a reflection of the purpose that I'm holding. And if something seems disagreeable then come back to the purpose, you know, jump back to it, yeah. Well, do we have a microphone here with the blue microphone? And what about our friends that we're streaming to? I see Vicki looking at, if anybody's been hearing our expression of joy and there's any questions coming in from anybody around the world or if anybody wants to ask anything or share anything from in here. Sam has the blue microphone. There he is. Yeah. My question is about the movie that you showed last Saturday about Nectarius, the Greek priest. His life seemed very dark on the, yeah, on the appearance. And, yeah, my question is very similar to what Paulina asked you, but I didn't really grasp your answer and I can't remember it. So is it possible that you talk about it because you say what you perceive reflects the purpose you have in your mind? But Nectarius had a purpose also, I guess, of healing and devotion to God and so on. And still he had those dark perceptions. So, yeah, I would like, if you can speak about that. Yeah, I think I touched on the briefly today where I talked about that when the mind is asleep and dreaming and it's unaware that it's dreaming, the unconscious is basically determining the things that seem to be happening. In other words, the unconscious is the attempt to act out the darkness. And so if you seem to have accusers, like Nectarius had accusers in both Cairo and Egypt, then he went back to Greece, more accusers, and then he goes over to the island, the Gina Island, and then they follow him there. So he seemed to have lots of accusers. But also, you could see, he thoroughly enjoyed working with, he said, I like to be with simple people. He loved his congregation, his parish in Egypt. He loved the ones that he was with, even when they assigned him to that one church and the people where he went, he came out to preach and they were screaming at him, and then leaving the church. And then, of course, the woman, the mother who came and said, you know, I'll see you in hell and seemed to bring a lot of intensity to the quiet little community on the island of a Gina, the convent monastery. But what it is, it's all part of a purification. So what I was sharing with Polina was that, yes, your mind perceives what you believe, and if you stay firm and really strong in forgiveness in the Holy Spirit's purpose, you draw forth all kinds of reflections of that purpose. There's beautiful holy encounters. There's so much joy and laughter. So you might say that what seems to be life on planet Earth is just a call to witnesses to the mind. And then how clear and devoted you are to the Holy Spirit's purpose really generates because the world just symbolizes what's going on in your mind, in your consciousness. So a lot of the parables we've been sharing, even the poop parable fits right in there as well because we're not trying to say, you should go for a certain kind of fantasy in the world or you should go to try to be materially abundant or become a good manifestor or anything. We're not sharing any of that. We're just saying, to the extent that you really, really focus and remember your purpose, that pain and suffering are optional. That's what I was sharing with Polina, that you don't have to have a painful life, a suffering life. It's a choice in the mind. But you have to be so willing to connect with the Holy Spirit and Jesus and just say, please, whatever it takes for my healing, I give myself over to you. I give my mind over to you to purify, purify my mind, purify my thoughts, purify my heart. And that's, Nectarius really symbolized that very prayerful, you know, he kept praying and praying and praying and praying and facing and facing the unconscious mind, which Jesus at one point calls the unwatched mind. And it's also called the, you know, the dream that you dream in secret. It's a secret place that is hidden from the mind, from conscious awareness. But the whole point is to have that context of when something is happening that you judge as challenging or difficult or painful or fearful, then you start to realize, oh, it's my thoughts that I'm holding onto that are interpreting that in this way. Because the more you flow in the miracle, the more you are just kind of like a curious child so that when something's happening, you kind of either have a smile in your mind or maybe even a little smile on your face, like a little child, like what is this? You know, you know that it's for a greater good. You don't, you're not tempted to defend yourself like a curious child. I saw on one of those Twitter or Instagram it was a little scenario of a little puppy dog and a duck, a duckling. And the puppy loved the duck and was cuddling the duck and holding the duck and caressing the duck. And then the duck was walking on the puppy and then it went on and on. I just was like watching this puppy and this little duckling interacting. It was very cute. And then at the end, a big butterfly came and just landed on the puppy's nose and the puppy would just had these puppy eyes, you know, just looking very quietly still as this butterfly is moving its wings on the nose and I thought, wow, that's symbolic. The energy there is very, very symbolic. And that's happened to me at different times. I mean, just recently I was doing, what was that Saturday when the cat iso came to me for like five or 10 minutes. He was all over my sandals, grabbing and licking and poking. Linda tried to scoot around and come and just extract him away and he came back. And then we went out a few days later, and we're at a restaurant and we're having a nice talk. And I'm, you know, there was an albino cat. We had to make room for where you sat and pet that. And then this other cat with like marble colors, tan and brown comes and then goes, does the same thing with my feet for this, for like 10 minutes. And I'm just, I should film this. This is surreal. Yeah, but it's more that energy. It's like your Carpenter song. Why do birds suddenly appear? You know, it's a vibration. And I thought, wow, this is surreal. Now this second cat now just would not, all it is, I looked at the bottom of my sandals, just dust. I'm like, is there a cat in it? But it's a vibrational thing. It's like people want to be in that vibration. Animals want to be in that vibration. I was at a hermitage I had in Kentucky one year. And I was with my friend Dorothy. And we were walking along this gravel road in a sunny day. We're walking along and there's the butterflies come and there's butterflies swirling around both of us. Kind of like we were in an aura of butterflies. And then we can, we walked a little bit further. And then Dorothy just started laughing and laughing and laughing. And I said, what's, what's so funny? And she said, there's a butterfly riding on your butt. And I said, really? She's, he's just been hanging on there for the last five minutes. He's having a good ride on the back of your butt. And I said, okay. So I just stuck my hand out like this. And I put my finger out and I just said, okay, come enjoy the front, you know, like a, like a car that has a hood or just come out here. And Dorothy was laughing, laughing. I said, don't laugh. I'm calling to him to have a better view. And then the butterfly came around and landed right on my finger. And then I walked with the butterfly on my finger. Now this, this is not supernatural. It's been St. Francis had a lot of these kinds of experiences out in nature with butterflies and plants. And he was seeing the energy that like in Lucy, you know, when she sees the energy in the plants, St. Francis could see all the lights and the energy in the plants when he was out in nature. But it was just, he was just so humble. He was just so merged into the presence of Christ. He wasn't into churches and he wasn't into structures and institutions. And until he, until the church soldiers burned down his church. And then he went looking to the Pope to find out what he'd done wrong, but just praying inside. But, but you don't, it doesn't have to be seemingly extremely difficult. It seems like everyone goes through what seems to be difficult times and that's just the unconscious guilt coming up into awareness. And it's getting reflected just so you can see it for what it is and release it. It's actually a blessing. Cause if, if we didn't have some of those reflections, we wouldn't really know it's there. You know, they were telling me on the way over, they said Eckhart Tolle was diagnosed with cancer very recently or something. They've something terminal and he, he was saying, you know, he really, he thought he was already empty, but after the diagnosis, he said, I really got empty because, because that's what things do. You, you know that you want to come back into presence. You want to come back into the feeling, the love and the connection and whatever seems to occur, you don't interpret it as a problem. You just interpret it as an opportunity. And that's, that's what we do in our daily life. We have, we always have lots of opportunities. They just show up a lot. And it's, it's really in the end, you start to realize that, that it's all unnecessary, that pain and suffering are not only optional, but they're impossible. You know, that Jesus says pain is a wrong perception and okay. So my painful experience was a wrong minded perception how is that helpful? Well, if it's a wrong minded perception, I can choose again. I can choose a right minded perception. I can choose a miracle. And you see how then you start to say, oh, that, that I can start to see the blessing in things. I don't have to look for the problems. I can start to say first, what is the opportunity and then second, what is the blessing that is being offered to me? Yeah. Thank you. Oh, okay. Questions from our streaming audience. Yes. We have lots of questions actually, from people watching on YouTube, Facebook and our app. This question is from Jose, who's watching our Living Church Ministries app. He says, hello, I want to ask if I have to look at the miracles outside in form or go deep and see the miracles in my experience? Can I feel them in me very deeply with the Holy Spirit, but they don't manifest so much in the form? Wow. Thank you, Jose. Well, the workbook lessons of A Course in Miracles is really Jesus trying to teach us that in the end, even our distinction between the inner and the outer is an artificial distinction. So we sometimes think about our thoughts and our innermost feelings as something that's very internal, protected. You might even say like private. We believe that we have a private internal world and then there's this vast projected external world of this world, the cosmos, society, cities, neighborhoods, but actually, the workbook is designed by Jesus to teach us that the thoughts that we think we think and the images that we think we see are both the same. They're identical. And so he has early workbook lessons like my thoughts are images I have made. My mind is preoccupied with past thoughts. So, I see nothing as it is now. He's basically teaching us that this world is a perceptual hallucination is generated by ego thoughts. Many of those thoughts are in the unconscious mind, but they come up into awareness. And if you do go inward, which is really what Jesus is saying when he says the kingdom of heaven is within or in the Bible, he says, when you pray, go to your closet and shut the door. I love that saying from the Bible. When you pray, go to your closet and shut the door. Really, what he's saying is give yourself the faith to sink inward in your prayer and meditation and sink beyond the thoughts and sights and sounds and images of this world. And as best you can practice, sink down beneath those. That is what Jesus would say as an example of going inward. But also, when you do that, you come closer to the realization that the kingdom of heaven is you, that who you are, not as a person, but as spirit, the kingdom of heaven is you. So, he says, Jesus says at one point, the word within is actually unnecessary. The kingdom of heaven is you. It's the Christ. It's the light. It's the divine light. So, as you go on, Jose is just starting to be aware that everything that you perceive as the external world and everything that you perceive as your internal world are actually the same. And that's why it doesn't make sense to say, when I go inside and find the truth inside and not be concerned with what's happening in the external world, if it doesn't match my internal experience, because the awakening comes with the realization that there is no inner and outer. Because that's, again, you can see that's more duality. Jesus is not taking this to a place where I'm going to be peaceful if my external world is chaotic. Jesus is saying if you're perceiving your external world as chaotic, then you perceive your internal world as chaotic too, because they're the same. And when you go through the purification process, you just start to relax and feel just connected to everything and everyone. Like Lisa was just saying, you can really look with authenticity at a flower. Flowers have been very important for you and the birds chirping. But it's like a merging. Like you just feel happy. You hear the birds singing and you just merge with that. I hear it right now. So thank you, Jose. So we go forward. You said we had lots. We have a question from a Facebook user, anonymous. How can you not take the world to form serious when the person you love the most dies much too soon? Yes, she was probably just a thought in my mind. Well, I would like to have that thought again. But how grief is a tough teacher. Yeah. Well, when we seem to have the death of a loved one or the loss of a loved one, the feeling is grief and underneath that intense grief is the belief and the ego itself is the belief in loss that takes many forms in the world. The ego itself is the belief in death. So one of the things that helped me because I went through this with the death of my grandfather, then the death of my grandmother, the death of my father, biological father and then exactly one year to this day the death of my mother. But there was no grief. I did not experience grief because you first start to work with Jesus where he's teaching you as you do the course and you go deeply with it that he says death is is an idea. It's a belief in your mind and so it's a retraining as Jesus says all illness is mental illness and that seems to be a big leap but when you get into the workbook you find that those are where those lessons are specifically to be used for what you're going through right now which is the sense of grief. There's a workbook lesson that says there is no death the son of God is free. There's also workbook lessons 163 and 167 where Jesus clearly states that any feeling, any experience that you have that is not supremely happy is death. And he says a little stab of pain a little worldly pleasure and even a little weariness all are death. Whoa new definition for death. Sticking with biological death he's saying it's in your mind the ego belief system which is believing you're something other than spirit is what the death is and then all upset all discomfort a little stab of pain a little worldly pleasure even a little sigh he says a sigh of weariness is death. And if you're going through that definition then we're used to what do we do when we read that in lessons 163 167 we just think well I need to really devote myself to mind training because if I'm going to go by those definitions he's calling me towards enlightenment redemption you have to allow the emotions you have to allow the grief up you have to allow the hurt you have to allow the loss and you have to allow even the thoughts of I wish I could have this person back in my experience probably if you took it inside it's not only the feeling of grief and there's a belief in loss underneath but when I've talked to people about the saddest thing that you've experienced in terms of the death of a loved one they just said I'll never get to talk to this person again I'll never get to see this person again I will never get to communicate the love that I feel in my heart for this person again and I say well they're actually right there with us right now if you want to say something to them you can say it now if you want to express something to them you can express it now death in terms of projecting it on to form is making it seem like there's a loss or an absence that they were here one day and now they're gone but actually no one goes anywhere this is a dream and the mind is just dreaming the dream and it's happened it's actually needing to learn to communicate the love and oftentimes when I've seen people at funerals well have a real heart to heart talk and they'll say I regret I didn't say these things earlier to my loved one but now I can't they're gone or even people that go into comas a lot of times they'll say well I wished I had said what I was going to say and wanted to say in my heart before my mother my father my brother went into the coma but I said well they can still hear you in a coma even a coma with the five senses and the body shuts down is just a reflection of the belief that communication is limited to the body and communication is never limited by the body it's always a function of the mind and when you want to communicate Jesus says that communication will attract you you will be attracted to communication and ultimately to full communication and then ultimately to communion with the father in heaven with communion with God so thank you for sharing that and I just invite you to cry to feel all the feelings to let everything come up to not hold anything back but also with the prayer in your heart just pray to the spirit and say please please help heal my mind please help heal my heart this grief is intense and it's not God's will for me God's will for me is happiness but I need to release what I have what I still am holding onto in my mind in order to experience that happiness so thank you will you have more? yeah is it okay I would like to ask a question I had actually written it down before coming and it turns out you've answered pretty much answered it but I just wanted to go a little further and you've answered it with like diving into the joy and your divine purpose and your love and devotion to God is the answer of getting out of that darkness that's coming up and embracing the joy but I've been finding I've been pretty much like in a loop in a groundhog day type of thing every morning like I'm waking up and it's been the last couple months with like I'll read what I wrote I've been finding it very uncomfortable to live with this feeling of intense fear and at times terror this usually comes up when I just wake up in the mornings and the thought and feeling enters of doing something wrong or of having done something wrong supposedly in form it really feels like I'm living in a loop with it like groundhog day I have allowed myself to feel into it and what is inside it is deep feelings of guilt shame unworthiness fear that I can lose love if I make a mistake you have mentioned to me that the mind can seem to get stuck I really want out of this I can report that this experience has gradually gone from feelings of intense terror to now intense to not as intense now to strong fear in the last couple of months but whether intense or subtle fear it's still fear and it does not feel joyful I want to put this out there and expose this and just be free I want to experience joy again fully in this place with all the love that I am Yeah, thank you Vicki it seems like what you're experiencing for yourself is like a microcosm of the intensity of the human condition because as we've talked about in previous weeks the in the human experience the arrow of time moves in one direction and it moves from past to future and it seems like an unstoppable arrow it seems like that you can't interrupt the arrow it seems like no matter how much you use focus or mantras or any kind of positive thinking or whatever the arrow of time still seems to move on even when people go into a deep meditation they come out of the meditation they're back facing the arrow again past, present, future but actually the way that there's an intercession is the miracle that's why we pray to be used by Jesus for the miracle we pray with the Holy Spirit to use us because that is like an intercession that brings us for a moment just into a very relaxed place where we feel the love coming through us and we feel like we're just watching something that's happening we're not like a participant a character in it it's a very vast experience that Buddhist and Hindus and Christians and all kinds of people mystics go through those experiences and what that does is it's like a glimpse of a peaceful mind it's just a little snapshot or a glimpse of that so what we've been talking about is with the joy is that when you really have to surrender a whole methodology of the error which is the arrow of time and you have to just say I'm going to give myself over that's a deep surrender experience to be led by you to try to live a different way to try to live from present trust instead of the arrow but the arrow is heavily conditioned so it does take lots of prayers to just show me the way show me the way and it takes persistence it takes dedication it takes devotion three of us can sit up here and we share all our parables but in the parables there was a lot of times where it seemed to be nightmares they they do seem to be faded away now you start to forget as you get more in the miracle you start to forget where people will even bring up something and say what miracle in your life can you talk about and it's like you can hardly understand the question your day is devoted to miracles and they're asking can you tell us one specific miracle just a minute here I'll see Jesus because it's a change of mind it's a change of mindset it's a change of everything that seemed to come before before we were working with the arrow and you can see when you wake up and you feel the fear and there's a feeling that you've done something wrong you took a wrong turn you made a mistake that's very common in the human condition where people say I do have these regrets I saw recently Jane Fonda was talking and she was saying her father Henry Fonda who was a very very famous actor as well that he died full of regrets well that's almost par for the course that's what the ego would want you to think you'll get to a point where you'll die with regrets and Jesus is like he's got a line in the course that says swear not to die you holy son of God you make a bargain that you cannot keep whoa that's like from beyond this realm mom and dad never says you're eating your Cheerios swear not to die you holy son of God forget about college forget about family forget about future you are the living Christ and you swear not to die you holy son of God wow we have to make a movie about that mom is that you? dad what's in that cereal hallucinogenic drugs got into that cereal today but that actually happened with my dad sometimes we would be sitting at the end of a table and I was just off on my missions and sharing sharing just having a family dinner and then we're just silverware clinking the soup and the knife cutting clink clink clink and then one time out of nowhere John my father he looks across a table full of people he says where is the mind woo see Jesus will get you when you just have a dinner where is the mind it has no location so you know it's surreal but you know it's all for the awakening you know you can't get back into patterns it breaks the patterns that was a break in the pattern he had never asked where is the mind before but it was fun I was like there's no location and then we went back yeah that's good I'm teaching what I would learn it's not located but we do that you just show up for Jesus show up for Jesus let it come through doesn't matter if it's mom or dad doesn't matter if it's a cat I remember when my sister had her daughter and she was saying oh she's gone in I don't know where she is David she's in the back of the house somewhere and I think she's maybe gone in would you go check maybe she's in the bathroom I don't want her to be unattended so I think I remember going back it was maybe it was my nephew but I came back and this was a child who had not spoken her first words or his first words like mommy or daddy or anything like this and we went in the bathroom and there was this child who's never spoken another word and so I kept saying where is in their name it was Kevin or where is Kevin I said it over and over like seven times and then the little one turned to me and said I'm in the bathroom and I was like a whole sentence so I went in and I talked to my sister I said well your child is speaking now what was the first word it was actually a whole sentence what David but you have these experiences it's just showing you it's all your own mind don't try to figure it out I was like okay thank you that's helpful way to show me just speaking to myself but it's the way that it goes but it takes experiences and it seems to take lots of experiences before you get out of that thinking and you start to become eventually with through the miracles you get more clueless yesterday I think we had a little brief meeting when we came back and we were saying I have no idea what we're going to talk about tomorrow and no topic and then Eric came up with the topic and we kind of tweaked it a little bit but we just were just feeling this swirl of okay what we're going to use in a helpful way but not thinking of the words or thinking of how it will go just being in the joy and that's so precious thank you thank you Vicki does anybody have any questions for Francis at least it's Francis's birthday and I want to tell everyone that we're doing a worship service tonight Francis is Francis tonight at 7pm central time so that's kind of exciting it's synchronic on your birthday you're going to be speaking the spirit wants to celebrate that's a celebration I think a lot of times people think how do you deal with like birthdays or holidays or whatever but it's all just a backdrop for sharing the love and light and joy of your heart all for the same thing it's not trying to make a day special or something special I woke up I didn't even know it was your birthday till I was told and then oh yeah then I'm giving the worship service tonight so if you haven't downloaded that free app you want to watch Francis tonight and hear some beautiful music I'm hearing there's some interesting things happening with the music drums and electric guitars and wow it's exciting I think last night Emily called me yeah Emily called me and she couldn't even contain herself after a rehearsal session yeah you guys better download the app we're ready for the party tonight I'm just saying it's starting now it's starting already your birthday goes on all day yeah I think she used the word fun I don't know how many times in one sentence it was so fun Francis I can't tell you how fun oh my god I have the most fun oh my god that's just the rehearsal so this is tonight that's right it's party time party for Jesus he's like oh yeah the firecrackers are going off here yeah we mentioned celebration boom boom boom well let's see maybe one more question we could we could have that's a confirmation from Jesus one more alrighty this is from Shadi who's watching from the app how do you help others that are stuck struggling with everyday tasks in time what's the best way to introduce the course and to say there's another way yeah thank you Shadi it's actually the more you devote yourself to this calling answer the calling of your heart then your attitude shifts and when your attitude shifts you start to live what Jesus called the be attitudes in the bible in the gospels and that happiness extends and radiates to everything and everyone so that's pretty much how it goes as you're going through the awakening process because you're going to be with people in different situations and when Jesus says tells you you are the light of the world and he goes on to say and you bring the light with you wherever you go so he's using that metaphor of time and space saying while you believe you're a person bring the light with you bring that attitude and this is also what Jesus calls true empathy staying in the truth stay with the truth stay aligned with the spirit stay aligned with Jesus no matter what the situation is and you can see that Jesus had a situation 2000 years ago where they arrested him they had him carry the cross for a while they put him up on the cross with nails in his arms and his legs and he's teaching us through a course in miracles to the world I was torn and beaten and crucified but I did not share that perception wow what a way to end a sentence I was torn beaten, crucified but I did not share that I do not share that perception so he's calling us to be the light of the world and yet in all of our encounters you know that happens for me quite a lot where I get a lot of messages emails phone calls and so on and so forth and then when you travel all of us have done quite a lot of traveling like you would might say extensive traveling if you think rock stars travel a lot you ought to see how much travel it's been over these last decades but you're with people, you're in restaurants you're in people's homes you're in their living rooms they're in their kitchens you're in their churches you're with people on cars and trains and planes and buses and so forth walking you meet people when you're walking and there will be so many opportunities to really be in the flow of the guidance that God is giving you in the moment and not to just click into these past thoughts because when you're meeting people and they seem to be struggling then this is your own lesson for forgiveness this is your own opportunity to free your mind from those thoughts so in the end it's a course in mind training I know that sometimes that's not people say I never heard that what do you mean it says that in the course in mind training? Yes Jesus said that was a big one he's like yes this is a course in mind training this is not a course in the play of ideas this is not a course in just understanding the metaphysics without applying it and living it in your life day by day, moment by moment this is a course that is to be lived he's like yeah oh you're doing it through me and you're firing crackers firecrackers so that's why we say the course is to be lived it's not just something to be taken in people write to me oh yeah I took that course years ago and I'm like oh my god you can't really you really have to be lit up to just use it in past terms sometimes it does feel appropriate but actually for most that are working with it they're just beginning to get into the practical application of it and I think another thing is we're teaching all the time so it's not like you even really have to talk about a course of miracles for me I just said myself and then I go out and people say what are you they'll say what are you studying what do you believe it's like it just happens naturally from you just being yourself out there I'm not trying to fix anyone I don't know why I was thinking about even with Lupita for some reason I was thinking when she was our realtor and she was just loving just being around us and feeling all this energy and wondering what we believed in but one day she was here and she said can I pray with you and she said because she's been trying to have a baby for like 12 years or something like that I don't know why I was thinking and she said can we just pray about that she said let's just join together here in this moment just in the miracle and just kind of went along with that but she's always kind of looking at us like what are they doing now and so exciting well here she contacted us two or three years ago and she said you are not going to believe that I am pregnant she said I cannot believe and she said whether our prayer or not works she said just this hope like we give we just sort of this demonstration of hope and joy and possibility that is the demonstration the way that we live our lives people are just I saw recently it was posted on Facebook about the song of prayer and the point was being made the grand finale we are getting the grand finale the point was being made from the song of prayer don't pray for the specifics pray join with your mind with Jesus join your mind with the Holy Spirit and because the specifics are the effect and your mind and the prayer is you are linking in with the spirit and the strength of mind the cause God is the cause there is nothing but God but when you believe in the effects it just means you believe in the ego and when you pray for specifics you don't really see that you are just declaring that it is like asking a double question or saying something that both asks and answers because the specifics are not the reality but also Jesus says that as you no one can pray for something that is beyond their own level of readiness and basically he is saying that while you believe in the ego you cannot help but pray for specifics because if you believe in specifics then your prayers are always around the specifics Jesus will still answer and if you pray sincerely and genuinely and you really try to tune in with the presence of love and just say I have no question I forgot what to ask and you go back into that love then everything that unfolds is an expression and extension and it is like God the Holy Spirit reaching you through the specifics but it is not really about praying for specifics because when you pray for specifics specifics are always things that you have experienced that happened in the past so when you pray for specifics you are asking something in the past that you believe is valuable which it is not in the future so for example if you pray for more money in your bank account then you just simply have a concept of what money in a bank account means and you may decide that is a good thing although sometimes Lisa has lived a life where she has had lots of money in her bank account little amount zero money in the bank account and in debt she has covered all the bases she has looked at life from both sides now from when and lose and still somehow she can tell you now that the lesson was not in the money in the bank account or the zero in the bank account or the debt that the love of God the joy of God was always there in your heart waiting saying I am here I am here it is not about the specifics even though the world would say in very different situations and it would say it is very important but those are not very important so we pray for joy we pray for the love in our heart we pray to receive what we already have we pray to be aware what we always have had and is always given to us by our creator which is just pure pure love so I think we are about ready to go to lunch go to the mall for lunch so we thank you all for joining us the team is here and all of us are here and they are going to move the camera around to show the team all of us sitting here and tonight this place could be rockin' because there is going to be a worship service at seven o'clock Central and if you download the app you can just enjoy that but I think there could be some electric guitar Eric you got electric guitar in there now and new drums Pete a new drummer we were with him on Thanksgiving we were all doing a jam session hopping and jumping with the rooftops from Jesus Culture Kim Walker and he was getting his practice with his invisible drums in that day but tonight come the drums and the drumsticks so stay tuned so thank you all thank you for tuning in thank you everyone for being here another glorious miracle among many God bless you bye