 Hi, everyone. Welcome. We're here for another Course in Miracles live workbook lesson. And today we're going to go through workbook lesson 67. Love created me like itself. Today's idea is a complete and accurate statement of what you are. This is why you are the light of the world. This is why God appointed you as the world savior. This is why the Son of God looks to you for his salvation. He is saved by what you are. We will make every effort today to reach this truth about you and to realize fully if only for a moment that it is the truth. In a longer practice period, we will think about your reality and it's wholly unchanged and unchangeable nature. We will begin by repeating this truth about you and then spend a few minutes adding some relevant thoughts such as, holiness created me holy. Kindness created me kind. Helpfulness created me helpful. Perfection created me perfect. Any attribute which is in accord with God as he defines himself is appropriate for use. We are trying today to undo your definition of God and replace it with his own. We are also trying to emphasize that you are part of his definition of himself. After you have gone over several such related thoughts, try to let all thoughts drop away for a brief preparatory interval, and then try to reach past all your images and preconceptions about yourself to the truth in you. If love created you like itself, this self must be in you. In somewhere in your mind, it is there for you to find. You may find it necessary to repeat the idea for today from time to time to replace distracting thoughts. You may also find that this is not sufficient, and that you need to continue adding other thoughts related to the truth about yourself. Yet perhaps you will succeed in going past that and through the interval of thoughtlessness to the awareness of a blazing light in which you recognize yourself as love created you. Be confident that you will do much today to bring that awareness nearer, whether you feel you have succeeded or not. It will be particularly helpful today to practice the idea for today as often as you can. You need to hear the truth about yourself as frequently as possible, because your mind is so preoccupied with false self images. For five times an hour, and perhaps even more, it would be most beneficial to remind yourself that love created you like itself. Hear the truth about yourself in this. Try to realize in the shorter practice periods that this is not your tiny solitary voice that tells you this. This is the voice for God reminding you of your father and yourself, your capital self, your Christ self. This is the voice of truth replacing everything that the ego tells you about yourself with a simple truth about the Son of God. Love was created by love, like itself. How beautiful. What a beautiful, beautiful way to roll into the day. I remember back in, well, I think it was the early 1990s. Especially in 1992 with a friend of mine, Donna Marie Kerry, and she would take these workbook lessons and she would put them together as jingles. And then she sent me a cassette tape. That's back what we listened to in the day in 1992, a cassette tape of some of these jingles. And I remember her Kentucky accent, but this is the. This is one of her songs. Yeah. Love created me like itself. I cannot be anything else. So this is the kind of stuff we used to listen to as we would drive around the southeastern part of the United States playing cassette tapes in the car and singing along and that can be helpful to sing your workbook lessons so it's very profound. It's very profound. It's a beautiful idea to hold in your mind, truly, truly. I thought today to kind of bring it home to I would just go to the text of a course in miracles, and read maybe just several paragraphs from chapter 20. It's section five is called heralds of eternity, because the workbook lesson of today is just calling us to reach to the light to reach a state of mind that we remember ourselves. And as you know when you practice the course of miracles there's a lot of steps along the way that are helpful signs and symbols and, and even with these steps along the way. We start to see that that they are very helpful, and that one step leads to the next to the next to the next but it always pointing to remembering our Christ nature and remembering God. The Christ was created by God and when we remember our true self as God created us then we remember God, and that's the whole purpose of everything is to wake up and remember our true self. So, one of those ideas and stepping stones along the way very very helpful that is talked about in the text of a course of miracles is holy relationship. And a lot of times people do still when they have that term relationship come up in mind they think of bodies. And, and Jesus tells us in the course, you know, where your mind is asleep and dreaming you can't help but even think of God as a body. And of course we all know the Sistine Chapel and the famous painting on the Sistine Chapel, where the fingers are touching, you know, seemingly God has a body male body and touching a finger. And what the course of miracles is helping us do is start to get so into our purpose of forgiveness. So into seeing the false is false but getting lit up by our God given purpose, the Holy Spirit's purpose for us, the purpose that Jesus is leading us in every moment of every day. And holy relationship is kind of a term is a symbol for a mind that wants to give and wants to only give, because special relationship is about getting and simply holy relationship is about giving. And you want to reach a state where you purely get. And as you go towards that pure giving, you know, the body will change in your interpretation, mainly because you start to realize that it offers you nothing. You start to go into holy relationship and the closer you get to purifying that purpose of the Holy Spirit. And nothingness of the body becomes apparent. And that's what I like about this section I'm going to read for you I'll just maybe read five paragraphs but you'll get a feel from what I'm talking about. Because we could say that the ego made the world, it made the cosmos, it made time and space and it made the body. It made all the bodies it made the tree bodies, it made the animal bodies it made the celestial bodies of stars and planets and solar systems and galaxies and so forth. And anything that the ego made is made as a veil to hide the Christ self from recognition. So this, I'm going to read today the heralds of eternity. When you go towards the light you first moves through the purpose of the Holy Spirit which is forgiveness. And in heaven there is no forgiveness because heaven is perfect oneness and there's nothing to forgive in heaven but as you go from sleep and towards waking dreams, then holy relationship starts to take on a meaning. You start to really feel that you're holy. And, and that's something that the human being has not felt, but the mind can feel its holiness, because it can feel the light, stronger and stronger. In this world, God's son comes closest to himself in a holy relationship. There, he begins to find the certainty his father has in him. And there he finds his function of restoring his father's laws to what was held outside them and finding what was lost. Only in time can anything be lost and never lost forever. So do the parts of God's son gradually join in time. And with each joining is the end of time brought nearer. Isn't that exciting. Each miracle of joining is a mighty herald of eternity. No one who has a single purpose, unified and sure can be afraid. No one who shares his purpose with him cannot be one with him. The key is sharing the purpose. The same purpose. The Holy Spirit has given us the same purpose and when we join in the purpose. We join in the truest way possible we join at the level of mind. Each herald of eternity sings of the end of sin and fear. Each speaks in time of what is far beyond it. Two voices raised together call to the hearts of everyone to let them beat as one. And in that single heartbeat is the unity of love proclaimed and given welcome. Peace to your holy relationship. Each has the power to hold the unity of the Son of God. Together, you give to one another for everyone. And in your gift is everyone made glad. Forget not who has given you the gifts you give. And through your not forgetting this, you will remember who gave the gifts to him to give to you. It is impossible to overestimate your brother's value. Only the ego does this, but all it means is that it wants the other for itself, and therefore values him too little. I'm going to read that again. It is impossible to overestimate your brother's value. Only the ego does. But all it means is that it wants the other for itself and therefore values him too little. Love does not possess. If you want to get a brother, you want to get a sister for some purpose of this world. Give it up. If you want to get something from a brother. If you want to get anything from a brother, a sister. If you want to get something from a brother, a sister that you encounter on this planet, if you want to get something from them. You won't see them as they truly are. I remember years ago, Jesus just kept emphasizing this in my mind. He was just saying over and over. If you want something from a brother, you will see him as a brother no longer. It's no longer a brother. Then, then you don't feel the love and the connection. If you see him as a role, if you see him as an object, if you see him as a person, and you want to get something from that person that role, if you see him as an object you want. If you want to objectify someone, then you're going to miss who they really are. And if you miss who they are, you miss who you are. We are spirit. For years, I remember growing up to that through the eras of feminism and women's just saying, please, don't, don't objectify me. I'm more than a body. That's actually, that's the Holy Spirit speaking. The Spirit is speaking through us saying I'm more than a body. Don't objectify me. Don't think you know who I am in terms of the flesh in the Bible and the Course. We hear that which is born of the flesh is flesh and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. And then we're asked to admit that we are born again in the present moment, born again in spirit, free in spirit. What is inestimable clearly cannot be evaluated. Here our sister is inestimable of value. We have only undervalued our brother and our sister through the ego's definitions. But they are literally the Christ, literally in spirit, it's only the veil of forgetfulness that seems to present an image in the place of the Christ. He's saying, what is an estimable clearly cannot be evaluated. He's saying don't judge. Don't judge them positively. Don't judge them negatively. Don't judge anything about them. You can start by not judging them physically. Don't judge anything about them physically. Don't judge any attributes about them. And don't judge them mentally, because if you think you can just overlook the body and then you still are judging their mind or judging their, their intentions. Jesus says trust not your own good intentions. You can't judge any. It's not that we shouldn't judge our brother and our sister is that we are incapable. We are really incapable about judging anyone, anything, any place, anything at all about this cosmos. Remember the ego made it so why would we think we could judge it and see the light. It would be crazy to think we could get away with judgment when we weren't, we weren't created by God to judge to evaluate. What is inestimable clearly cannot be evaluated. You can't recognize the fear that rises from the meaningless attempt to judge what lies so far beyond your judgment, you can't even see it, cannot even see it. Judge not what is invisible to you, or you will never see it, but wait in patience for it's coming. So when Jesus is saying judge not what is invisible to you. You can't see the spirit in a state of judgment. So don't judge what you can't see. You have to realize that the only way to experience the light is through the cessation of judgment. Because I hear that all the time people are venting on God. Nobody's ever seen God. But, because God is spirit but nobody's seen God but there's all these judgments whether he God exists but he doesn't exist that he is she father mother God what kinds of things. It's just projections. These are projections. Spirit is only experienced in a state of non judgment, you cannot see what is invisible. Judge not what is invisible to you or you will never see it, but wait in patience for it's coming. It will be given you to see your brother's worth, and all you want for him is peace. All you want for him, you will receive. How can you estimate the worth of him who offers peace to you. What would you want except his offering his words has been established by his father, and you will recognize it as you receive his father's gift through him. What is in him will shine so brightly in your grateful vision that you will merely love him and be glad that you will merely love him and be glad. You will not think to judge him, or who would see the face of Christ and yet insist that judgment still has meaning. His insistence is of those who do not see vision or judgment is your choice, but never both of these. Your brother's body is as little is as little used to you as it is to him. All right, Jesus is really giving it to us straight today. Your brother's body is as little used to you as it is to him. He's got some, some pretty good humor going on here now he's cranking it up. When it is used only as the Holy Spirit teaches. It has no function. For anyone who's thinking I'm going to get into a holy relationship and I'm going to have the best relationship that you can have on earth with another person then put it through this. This teaching of the Holy Spirit. When it, when the body is used only as the Holy Spirit teaches. It has no function. Let's go on and let's see what he's what he's going to carry on with this for a moment. Okay, for minds need not the body to communicate. The site that sees the body has no use which serves the purpose of a holy relationship. Why we better go back and read those two sentences. He's really given us a download today. Okay, same for minds need not the body to communicate. Okay, for minds need not the body to communicate. Oftentimes I meet people on my travels around the world I've met thousands and thousands of people and some of them say oh I blew it. I got to talk to my father or mother before they passed away. I say talk to them now. They said, they're gone. So what do you mean they're gone. They're gone. They died. They're gone. I can't communicate with them. Is you really merge with the Holy Spirit and you start to realize that the body is not necessary for communication. The body is not necessary for prayer. The body is not necessary for joining with with the light. The body is not necessary for joining with the Holy Spirit and with Jesus. It's the reason the body is not necessary is because for minds need not the body to communicate. All we're asked to do is let the voice for God speak through us. But that is even just a stepping stone idea because the Holy Spirit is a light in the mind and the Holy Spirit wants to be experienced directly. When we let the Holy Spirit speak through the body channel through the body express through the body. That's just that's just kindergarten that's not even kindergarten that's preschool. And then when you start to move more and more into your function. You can pray. Any time and any place because the body is not necessary in time and place are not necessary for prayer. The prayer is direct communion and contact with with God. It's the Holy Spirit. The site that sees the body has no use which serves the purpose of a holy relationship. Wow. That should be a marriage now. You should, you should maybe recite that on your wedding day. I'll say it again. The site that sees the body, which is ego distorted perception, the site that sees the body has no use which serves the purpose of a holy relationship. And while you look upon your brother thus the means and then have not been brought in line. Why should it take so many holy instance to let this be accomplished when one would do. There is but one. Little breath of eternity that runs through time like golden light is all the same. Nothing before it. Nothing afterwards. So I know this is beautiful because our lesson love created me like itself is pointing us to the light it's just asking us to go deep inside today. And pray to be in contact with the light. And then our reading there from the text is basically saying, Holy relationship is an experience that transcends the body, just like the Holy instant transcends the body. We've read that in the course that no single instant as the body exists at all. It's always remembered or anticipated, and holy relationship is just about open communication. When you share the thoughts of God, the thoughts that the Holy Spirit gives you drops into your mind the thoughts that Jesus drops into your mind when you, when you share, when you extend those ideas. In every seeming meeting and every seeming interaction in every seeming thoughts that you hold in your mind you move into the realm of holy relationship. Holy relationship has to be what Jesus would say right minded, you have to be right minded you have to be in connection in alignment with God to be in holy relationship. And all of us know that all the expectations that are placed on the body basically coming from past learning. What a body should be what a body should do expectations body should act a certain way a body should play a certain role. And Jesus and the angels are laughing saying, Why do you hold your brother and your sister to a body, because you're holding them to the past. And you're holding them to what they really are not, they are spirit, they are spirit here and now in this present moment. So, wow. Off we go into the beautiful day. Thank you for joining in a course of miracles workbook lesson number 67 love created created me like itself. He told us, use this idea frequently today, and let many kind related thoughts of truth come to support you in your, your beautiful extension today as as a perfect child of God. Thank you. Lots of love. I send you all my love. Thank you.