 I would pop in and do another spontaneous live today. This morning I did the Course in Miracles lesson 106. Let me be still and listen to the truth. And then after I did that, I did a little bit of reading and commentary from the first six chapters of chapter 16. And we were exposing the belief in specialness. Because really the stillness and the peace of God is our natural inheritance. It's just something that's just what is. God created us in stillness and in innocence and love and perfection. So I was talking a bit today that if there is a belief in specialness that it's been kept hidden and kept out of awareness but yet believed in, then that that will bring a seeming disruption, a blocking of that stillness and peace and love and joy. So if we honestly want to be accessible to the Christ when we have to actually be willing to look at and release any thoughts of specialness. And for those of you who've been Course in Miracles students for some years, you know that Jesus takes chapters 15 to 24 to really expose the ego's belief. Some call it judgment. You know in the Bible Jesus said, judge not. Judgment is specialness. We could say all pain, difficulty, all challenge, all conflict is just specialness. And specialness is very limited. It's like you might say an attempt to limit love and to objectify love in terms of certain persons and places and things. So yeah, we want to see that that's not our inheritance, that's not our joy, that's not our happiness. We want, we pray for an all-inclusive love, an agape love, a universal love that loves everything and everyone without exception. We want a love that is Christ love, like that Christ love I shared in the movie, yes, we're movie workshop yesterday, Jesus Revolution. I hope you could join in and see that one and watch that with us. We had a blast. So today what I thought I would do, since I mentioned specialness and special relationship being the block to stillness today, I thought I would go a little more into the specialness so we can just expose it for once and for all and have it released. So I'm going to go through a section, the first section actually in chapter 24 of A Course in Miracles, you know, and the title of the chapter is the goal of specialness and the first section here is called specialness as a substitute for love. So you can tell from the title, specialness is a substitute for love, that if you don't feel connected, if you don't feel joyful, if you don't feel happy, if you don't feel free, free flowing, then the only thing that's running an interference pattern is specialness. So it's the desire for specialness as a substitute for divine love, as a substitute for God's love, that is the the block. That's the obstacle to the awareness of love's presence. So I will start off here reading this section so we can just go through and again just say thank you Jesus for exposing this so we can be in love with everything and everyone. He says love is extension to withhold the smallest gift is not to know love's purpose. Love offers everything forever. Hold back but one belief, one offering and love is gone because you asked a substitute to take its place and now must war the substitute for peace come with the one alternative that you can choose for love. Your choosing it has given it all the reality it seems to have. So divine love is what's truly real but when we choose specialness, when we choose to believe in specialness, to believe in the ego, that seems to give a reality to the ego in its projected world. It seems to be a reality when you believe in it. Beliefs will never openly attack each other because conflicting outcomes are impossible but an unrecognized belief is a decision to war in secret where the results of conflict are kept unknown and never brought to reason to be considered sensible or not and many senseless outcomes have been reached and meaningless decisions have been made and kept hidden to become beliefs now given power to direct all subsequent decisions mistake you not the power of these hidden warriors to disrupt your peace for it is at their mercy while you decide to leave it there the secret enemies of peace your least decision to choose attack instead of love unrecognized and swift to challenge you to combat and to violence far more inclusive than you think are there by your election are there by decision so the belief to be special is a is a choice and it's it's pushed out of awareness and it dictates a bunch of other seeming decisions in the world of form but the wish to be separate from god and the wish to be special are the same do not deny their presence nor their terrible results all it can be not denied is their reality but not their outcome so the Christ is the reality but if you believe in the ego then you believe in the world and projected and you believe in its terrible results or outcomes all that is ever cherished as a hidden belief to be defended though unrecognized is faith in specialness this takes many forms but always clashes with the reality of god's creation and with the grandeur that he gave his son what else could justify attack for who could hate someone whose christ self is his and whom he knows if you're the christ you don't hate the christ is just pure love only the special could have enemies for they are different and not the same and difference of any kind imposes order of reality orders of reality and a need to judge that cannot be escaped what god created cannot be attacked for there is nothing in the universe unlike itself but what is different calls for judgment and this must come from someone quote better someone incapable of being like what he condemns above it and is sinless by comparison with it and thus the specialness become a means and an end at once for specialist not only sets apart but it serves as grounds from which attack on those who seem beneath the special one is natural and just the special ones feel weak and frail because of differences for what would make them special is their enemy yet they protect its enmity and call it friend on its behalf they fight against the universe for nothing in the world they value more so he continues specialness is the great dictator of the wrong decisions here is the grand illusion of what you are and what your brother is and here is what must make the body dear and worth preserving specialness must be defended illusions can attack it and they do for what your brother must become to keep your specialness is an illusion he who is worse in quotes than you must be attacked so that your specialist can live on his defeat for specialness is triumph and its victory is his defeat and shame how can he live with all your sins upon him and who must be his conqueror but you so jesus is little tongue-in-cheek here basically saying once you step down the twisted road the twisted staircase of judgments opinions doubt thoughts suspicions once you go into the dark territories of the mind which is just false belief then attack and defense comes in then inferior and superior come in then there's suddenly differences are emphasized there's the we and the them or the we and the they and and then there's the me and the you you know it turns into a dualistic world and in this dualistic world it's always a question for the ego who is ahead who is behind who is above who is below who is superior who is inferior it's just a game of attack and defense of seeming victims and victimizers but that's all a projection of specialness because the ego is specialness and that's why even though most of us did not grow up with the term specialness some of us were in the christian church it was called the devil and in psychological terms it was called the ego but specialness seems to in this world be a positive term you know when somebody says you're special you're special then that seems to be a positive term you see how sneaky and ingenious the ego is because it uses specialness to cover over divine love to block us from knowing our true self and knowing God so paragraph six starts with would it be possible for you to hate your brother if you were like him if you were like him if you were spirit and your brother your sister were actually spirit and you weren't bodies at all maybe that was just part of the trick the deception the fiction the fantasy what if you your spirit and you and your brother are identical his spirit would it be possible for you to hate your brother if you were like him could you attack him if you realized you journey with him to a goal that is the same would you not help him reach it in every way you could if his attainment of it were perceived as yours you are his enemy in specialness his friend in shared purpose specialness can never share for it depends on goals that you alone can reach and he must never reach them or your goal is jeopardized can love have meaning where the goal is triumph and what decision can be made for this that will not hurt you so if you go into the the joy of purpose the joy of forgiveness you you will just feel gratitude you just feel gratitude for everything and everyone you feel like it's all been being used by the Holy Spirit working to free your mind from specialness and false ideas false beliefs he goes on in paragraph seven to say your brother is your friend because his father created him like you there is no difference god is spirit god creates his beloved his beloved creation is spirit and and there is no difference in spirit spirit is one the world is a projection of differences in separation so we see duality and multiplicity but that's not the truth you have been given to your brother that love might be extended not cut off from him what you keep is lost to you god gave you and your brother himself and to remember this is now the only purpose that you share to remember god isn't that sweet and so it is the only one you have could you attack your brother if you chose to see no specialness of any kind between you and him look fairly at whatever makes you give your brother only partial welcome or would let you think that you are better off a part it is not always your belief is it not always your belief your specialness is limited by your relationship and is not this the quote enemy that makes you and your brother illusions to each other so if you have a conflict with somebody it's just specialness it's just a belief that specialness has limited the relationship the belief in bodies the belief in separate minds the belief in private thoughts the belief that each one goes his way alone that's a that's a lonely dismal world that the ego projected and the best thing you can do is is just remind yourself and be reminded by Jesus and the Holy Spirit that it's not true none of it is true the fear of god and of your brother comes from each unrecognized belief in specialness for you demand your brother bow to it against his will and god himself must honor it or suffer vengeance every twinge of malice or stab of hate or wish to separate arises here for here the purpose that you and your brother share becomes obscured from both of you you would oppose this course because it teaches you you and your brother are alike how would that sense again you would oppose this course because it teaches you you and your brother are alike we are the same not separate we are the same not separate sameness is real differences are insane such is the truth you have no purpose that is not the same and none your father does not share with you or your relationship has been made clean of special goals and would you now defeat the goal of holiness that heaven gave it what perspective can the special have that does not change with every seeming blow each slight or fancy judgment on itself what a twisted web the ego has woven where it's one criticism and judgment piled on to the next to the next every opinion every different point of view every different kind of critical comment every everything that's pointed out to be differences has no reality sameness is real and differences are quite insane we actually we literally in spirit and unified mind we literally are the same one so it makes no sense to try to emphasize differences because there are informed the ego has made a case that there are differences that's the perceptual world but but the healed mind puts all these differences into one category they are unreal paragraph nine those who are special must defend illusions against the truth for what is specialness but an attack upon the will of god you love your brother not while it is this you would defend against him this is what he attacks and you protect here is the ground of battle which you wage against him here he must be your enemy and not your friend never can there be peace among the different he is your friend because you are the same so that's how the paragraph ends and that's how the whole section ends there he is your friend because in italics because you are the same that's a song from the angels we are the same not separate we are the same not separate sameness is real differences are insane no need to make comparisons no need to make comparisons sameness and love sameness and love are real so you know jesus is saying in his course the one distinction you have to make is what is the same and what is different so let's just be clear about what is the same and what is different as you do your mind training the right mind of the holy spirit and the wrong mind of the ego are different and the images are all equally the same that's why the first lesson of a course of miracles is nothing i see means anything and the second lesson of a course of miracles is i have given everything i see all the meaning it has for me the ego assigned separate meanings separate labels separate definitions separate names to everything it's like a a a menagerie it's a it's a labyrinth of projected differences and each one's given a name and then we're supposed to tell how these things interact the nameless things were given names and what got lost in all this was was the name of christ or the name of god my true identity and my true creator so it's all been a big giant cosmic linear cover-up for the joy of oneness that we are actually literally the same one and there are no differences that can come before i see see somebody just showed a comment differences are insane that made me laugh thank you it makes me laugh too i mean as soon as the ego tries to get on a rant about who's different and who's better and who's worse all you can really do is laugh all you can do is laugh you actually i think you can't help but laugh when you see how silly it is so we're here to share the love of god we're here to bless all of our brothers and sisters with the same love that comes from our heart that comes from the heart of the creator that we have one one god one creator that's that created us as spirit and now we're just letting go of all these false beliefs that we've interposed between the truth and our awareness our prayer is help me be aware of the truth of of divine oneness of divine love so happy day everyone it's sunday we're just celebrating and we actually have a worship service coming up in about i think it's about an hour and 45 minutes so if you if you go to google it you can go to lcm app it's a free lcm app it's lcm stands for living church ministries and you can just um you can find living church ministries up in the app store at apple you can download it for android to your smart phone or tablet or anything you want to carry around with you and then when you sign in you can also sign up for note push notifications that means every time the rise band is ready to sing every time lisa fair and frances sue are ready to give their their inspired sermons it will just pop up as a push notification gives you like five minutes warning lcm is going live with the worship service in in five minutes so you can finish doing what you're doing and go how i see deanna denette has just put it up there so there it is available now stay connected and receive notifications so bing bing bing it's up there and uh we're going to have a real rockin service today like we have every sunday and i think you're just gonna love it you know let's let's stay connected let's let's walk on this journey hand in hand and arm in arm let's have you know when you're young you like to skip anyway remember skipping when you're really happy you skip along well imagine skipping along hand in hand arm in arm like your arms go around everybody each other's shoulders and you're doing a little skipping you're skipping back to the length skipping back into the awareness of god's love so thank you so much it's so much fun to pop on live and i just enjoy being here with you and sharing all the love and joy and yeah i'll be there and i hope to see you too in about an hour and 45 minutes for the the living church ministry's sunday worship service which is 4 p.m central standard time and mountain standard time since they're both in alignment right now okay god bless you lots of love