 I'm good to be with you feeling that love and joy pulsing through coursing through our heart and livening and illuminating our mind and showing the way Jesus said I am the way the truth in the life and we're in the tractor beam of the way and the truth and the life so yeah some beautiful remembrances and beautiful reminders that I teach what I would learn everything I perceive is what I believe and that everything I perceive is is a decision is the result of a decision in the mind so I can choose to be in the miraculous state of mind and see the world with the Holy Spirit and Jesus in a state of joy and wholeness and all inclusive love or the ego filter which is separation and fragmentation division competition all kinds of unreal ideas unreal beliefs that God did not create and that do not belong in our holy mind it is they are not in our Christ mind and they are not in our right mind when we're right minded and lined up with God illusions are gone and they are seen for what they are they are not believed to be real so today we are up to lesson 78 let miracles replace all grievances perhaps it is not yet quite clear to you that each decision that you make is one between a grievance and a miracle each grievance stands like a dark shield of hate before the miracle it would conceal and as you raise it up before your eyes you will not see the miracle beyond yet all the while it waits for you in light but you behold your grievances instead today we go beyond the grievances to look upon the miracle instead we will reverse the way you see by not allowing sight to stop before it sees we will not wait before the shield of hate but lay it down and gently lift our eyes and silence to behold the Son of God he waits for you behind your grievances and as you lay them down he will appear in shining light where each one stood before for every grievance is a block to sight and as it lifts you see the Son of God where he has always been he stands in light but you were in the dark each grievance made the darkness deeper and you could not see today we will attempt to see God's Son we will not let ourselves be blind to him we will not look upon our grievances so is the seeing of the world reversed as we look out toward truth away from fear we will select one person you have used as target for your grievances and lay the grievances aside and look at him someone perhaps you fear and even hate someone you think you love who angered you someone you call a friend but whom you see as difficult at times or hard to please demanding irritating or untrue to the ideal he should accept as his according to the role you set for him you know the one to choose his name has crossed your mind already he will be the one of whom we ask God's Son be shown to you through seeing him behind the grievances that you have held against him you will learn that what lay hidden while you saw him not is there in everyone and can be seen he who was enemy is more than friend when he is freed to take the Holy Role the Holy Spirit has assigned to him let him be Savior unto you today such is his role in God your father's plan our longer practice periods today will see him in this role you will attempt to hold him in your mind first as you now consider him you will review his faults the difficulties you have had with him the pain he caused you is neglect and all the little and large hurts he gave you will regard his body with its flaws and better points as well and you will think of his mistakes and even of his quote sins then let us ask of him who knows this son of God in his reality and truth that we may look on him a different way and see our Savior shining in the light of true forgiveness given unto us we ask him in the holy name of God and of his son as holy as himself let me behold my Savior in this one you have appointed as the one for me to ask to lead me to the holy light in which he stands that I may join with him the body's eyes are closed and as you think of him who greed you let your mind be shown the light in him beyond your grievances what you have asked for cannot be denied your Savior has been waiting long for this he would be free and make his freedom yours the Holy Spirit leans from him to you seeing no separation in God's son and what you see through him will free you both be very quiet now and look upon your shining Savior no dark grievances obscure the sight of him you have allowed the Holy Spirit to express through him the role God gave him that you might be saved God thanks you for these quiet times today in which you laid your images aside and looked upon the miracle of love the Holy Spirit showed you in their place the world and heaven join in thanking you for not one thought of God must rejoice as you are saved and all the world with you we will remember this throughout the day and take the role assigned to us as part of God salvation blend and not our own temptation falls away when we allow each one we meet to save us and refuse to hide his light behind our grievances to everyone you meet and to the ones you think of or remember from the past allow the role of Savior to be given that you may share it with him for you both and all the sightless ones as well we pray let miracles replace all grievances let miracles replace all grievances so this is a healing balm to our soul to our heart to our minds it just requires a surrender into the idea that we had been completely absolutely and completely mistaken about whatever concepts and beliefs and ideas we've held whatever images we've held against our brothers whatever memories that we've held from the past against our brothers today we're asking that they be lifted let miracles replace all grievances let me not see a grievance in the place of your miracle Holy Spirit it's a time of joy it's a time of celebration in freedom true freedom and the symbol of the eagle has been coming I thought of yesterday of the Steve Miller band song fly like an eagle to the sea fly like an eagle let my spirit carry me that's it that's what this is it's be lifted up be lifted up in the miracles anything that we have thought about the past has been wrong all of our positive interpretations about the past have been wrong all of our negative connotations about the past have been wrong we cannot find healing of mind in the past because it's a linear time trick it's like sticky glue it's like flypaper if you put your mind and your attention on the past then you have your attention on guilt on sin on shame on pain on grievances on accusations on victim victimizer thoughts and beliefs the past is a cauldron of falsity it's a it's like a cauldron of false belief and everything that seems to be involving this the separation from God or the unholy instead is in that cauldron so Jesus is telling us don't deny the Christ don't deny the light and look not back kind of like in the Bible they told Lot's wife you know when you're on this journey you know just don't look back and Jesus is giving us a clear kind of illumination about that that when we look back on the past it doesn't matter what we perceive we are not looking at the Holy Spirit Jesus says that in you know the the text or he talks about it in the test of truth he talks about it in many different sections he basically saying you can't look back you have to you have to set the goal setting the goal sections another beautiful example of that in the text where you have to put the goal out front and if you have your goal out front clearly in front then you will perceive everyone and everything is playing their part perfectly because the purpose has been set and set out front but if you don't have a clear cut purpose then the world just seems to happen and then the ego just picks apart the past and it labels some things grievances and some things good things things that it wanted and things that it didn't want but Jesus is telling us in this lesson you know you assigned the role in the unholy instant you assigned the roles of the past and that is not the role that you play in the miracle the miracle is forgiveness for all the miracle is like a blanket of peace that just goes over all the images of the world that the ego made all the linear images and brings everything back to the present moment seeing that everything that is perceived had to first be believed you can't see a grievance until you realize that you first must have believed in separation if you don't hold on to the belief in separation then you don't hold on to the perception or interpretation of grievances so it's a tweak in the mind it's a prayer to see things differently above all else I would like to see things differently above all else I would like to see I would like to see with the vision of Christ but grievances hide the light of the world grievances are an attack upon get God's plan for salvation you can't be at peace and hold on to grievances if you are holding on to any grievances any grievances even the tiniest scrap of grievances then peace will be obliterated from your mind from your awareness it's still there but you aren't aware of it if you hold on to attack thoughts and judgments and opinions and grievances so for today I thought I would read a couple sections from from the text and and then have a song or maybe even a couple songs today we've got we're on a roll this is a big one so for our lesson today let miracles replace all grievances let's jump back to our foundation which is chapter five healing and wholeness that's our that's our foundation that's our purpose and section to the voice for God healing is not creating it is reparation the Holy Spirit promotes healing by looking beyond it to what the children of God were before healing was needed and will be when they have been healed this alteration of the time sequence should be quite familiar because it is very similar to the shift in the perception of time that the miracle induces introduces the Holy Spirit is the motivation for miracle mindedness the decision to heal the separation by letting it go your will is still in you because God placed it in your mind and although you can keep it asleep you cannot obliterate it God himself keeps your will alive by transmitting it from his mind to yours as long as there is time the miracle itself is a reflection of this union of will between father and son the Holy Spirit is the spirit of joy he is the call to return with which God bless the minds of his separated sons this is the vocation of the mind the mind had no calling until the separation because before that it had only being and would not have understood the call to right thinking the Holy Spirit is God's answer to the separation the means by which the atonement heals until the whole mind returns to creating the principle of atonement and the separation began at the same time when the ego was made God placed in the mind the call to joy this call is so strong that the ego always dissolves at its sound that is why you must choose to hear one of two voices within you one you made yourself and that one is not God but the other is given you by God who asked you only to listen to it the Holy Spirit is in you in a very literal sense his is the voice that calls you back to where you were before and will be again it is possible even in this world to hear only that voice and no other it takes effort and great willingness to learn it is the final lesson that I learned and God's sons are as equal as learners as they are as sons you are the kingdom of heaven but you have left the belief in darkness enter your mind and so you need a new light the Holy Spirit is the radiance that you must let banish the idea of darkness his is the glory before which associate dissociation falls away and the kingdom of heaven breaks through into its own before the separation you did not need guidance you knew as you will know again but as you do not know now God does not guide because he can share only perfect knowledge guidance is evaluative because it implies there is a right way and also a wrong way one to be chosen and the other to be avoided by choosing one you give up the other the choice for the Holy Spirit is the choice for God God is not in you in a literal sense you are part of him when you chose to leave him he gave you a voice to speak for him because he could no longer share his knowledge with you without hindrance direct communication was broken because you had made another voice the Holy Spirit calls you both to remember and to forget you have chosen to be in a state of opposition in which opposites are possible as a result there are choices you must make in the Holy State the will is free so that its creative power is unlimited and choices meaningless freedom to choose is the same power as freedom to create but its application is different choosing depends on a split mind the Holy Spirit is one way of choosing God did not leave his children comfortless even though they chose to leave him the voice they put in their minds was not the voice for his will for which the Holy Spirit speaks the voice of the Holy Spirit does not command because it is incapable of arrogance it does not demand because it is does not seek control it does not overcome because it does not attack it merely reminds it is compelling only because of what it reminds you of it brings to your mind the other way remaining quiet even in the midst of the turmoil you may make the voice for God is always quiet because it speaks of peace peace is stronger than war because it heals war is division not increase no one gains from strife what profit of the man if you gain the whole world and lose his own soul if you listen to the wrong voice you have lost sight of your soul you cannot lose it but you cannot know it it is therefore lost to you until you choose right the Holy Spirit is your guide in choosing he is the part of your mind that always speaks for the right choice because he speaks for God he is your remaining communication with God which you can interpret interrupt but cannot destroy the Holy Spirit is the way in which God's will is done on earth as it is in heaven both heaven and earth are in you because the call of both is in your mind the voice for God comes from your own altars to him these altars are not things they are devotions yet you have other devotions now your divided devotion has given you the two voices and you must choose at which altar you want to serve the call you answer now is an evaluation because it is a decision the decision is very simple it is made on the basis of which call is worth more to you my mind will always be like yours because we were created as equals it was only my decision that gave me all power in heaven and earth my only gift to you is to help you make the same decision this decision is the choice to share it because a decision itself is a decision to share it is made by giving and is therefore the one choice that resembles true creation I am your model for decision by deciding for God I showed you that this decision can be made and that you can make it I have assured you that the mind that decided for me is also in you and that you can let change let it change you just as it changed me this mind is unequivocal because it hears only one voice and answers in only one way you are the light of the world with me rest is not come from sleeping but from waking the Holy Spirit is the call to awaken and be glad the world is very tired because it is the idea of weariness our task is the joyous one of waking it to the call for God everyone will answer the call of the Holy Spirit where the sonship cannot not be known as one what better location could there be for any part of the kingdom than to restore it to the perfect integration that can make it whole here only this through the Holy Spirit within you and teach your brothers to listen as I am teaching you when you are tempted by the wrong voice call on me to remind you how to heal by sharing my decision and making it stronger as we share this goal we increase its power to attract the whole sonship and to bring it back into the oneness in which it was created remember that yoke means join together and burden means message let us restate my yoke is easy in my burden light in this way let us join together for my message is light I have been joining you to behave as I behave but we must respond to the same mind to do this this mind is the Holy Spirit whose will for God is always he teaches you to keep me as the model for your thought and to behave like me as a result the power of our joint motivation is beyond belief but not beyond accomplishment what we can accomplish together has no limits because the call for God is the call to the unlimited child of God my message is for you to hear and give away as your answer as you answer the Holy Spirit within you beautiful mm-hmm the voice for God the Holy Spirit is the spirit of joy yeah that's that's our guide Holy Spirit is the spirit of joy well let's take a moment here for a little music break this is my friend and dear dear friend Helena Hoonison from Sweden she put out this album called sharing the joy and I thought today to help strengthen us in our our lesson of the day let miracles replace all grievances that I would share a couple songs from her album so the first one is love walks in sunshine within love is not a body don't trash your house of sin any blessings elates on everything come bring your secrets to heaven the light your dreams of guilt and death will shine away your shame but you can choose again the light of love to the night your dreams are guilt and death with nothing okay let's play one more heart to heart beautiful beautiful beautiful well I thought I would bring in one more piece from chapter 21 to uh to anchor our lesson today again our lesson for today is let miracles replace all grievances and Jesus reminds us perhaps it is not quite clear to you that each decision that you make is one between a grievance and a miracle that's a choice of purpose purpose is the only choice grievance or miracle each decision that you make is one between a grievance and a miracle so to help boost us in remembering that all throughout the day moment by moment by moment let's go to chapter 21 reason and perception and section 2 the responsibility for sight we have repeated how little is asked of you to learn this course it is the same small willingness you need to have your whole relationship transformed to joy the little gift you offered to the Holy Spirit for which he gives you everything the very little on which salvation rests the tiny change of mind by which the crucifixion is changed to resurrection and being true it is so simple that it cannot fail to be completely understood rejected yes but not ambiguous and if you choose against it now it will not be because it is obscure but rather that this little cost seemed in your judgment to be too much to pay for peace this is the only thing that you need due for vision happiness released from pain and complete escape from sin all to be given you say only this but mean it with no reservations for here the power of salvation lies i am responsible for what i see i choose the feelings i experience and i decide upon the goal i would achieve and everything that seems to happen to me i ask for and receive as i have asked deceive yourself no longer that you are helpless in the face of what is done to you acknowledge but that you have been mistaken and all effects of your mistakes will disappear it is impossible the son of god be merely driven by events outside of him it is impossible that happenings that come to him were not his choice his power of decision is the determiner of every situation in which he seems to find himself by chance or accident i'll say that again his power of decision is the determiner of every situation in which he seems to find himself by chance or accident you perceive what you believe is what jesus is teaching us here no accident nor chance is possible within the universe as god created it outside of which is nothing suffer and you decided sin was your goal be happy and you gave the power of decision to him who must decide for god for you this is the little gift you offer to the holy spirit and even this he gives to you to give yourself for by this gift is giving you the power to release your savior that he may give salvation unto you be grudge not then this little offering withhold it and you keep the world as you now see it give it away and everything you see goes with it never was so much given for so little in the holy instant is this exchange effected and maintained here is the world you want here is the world you do not want brought to the one you do and here the one you do is given you because you want it yet for this the power of your wanting must first be recognized you must accept its strength and not its weakness you must perceive that what is strong enough to make the world can let it go and can accept correction if it is willing to see that it was wrong the world you see is but the idle witness that you were right this witness is insane you trained it in its testimony and as it gave it back to you you listened and convinced yourself that what it saw was true you did this to yourself see only this and you will also see how circular the reasoning on which you're seeing rest this was not given you this was your gift to you and to your brother be willing then to have it taken from him and be replaced with truth and as you look upon the change in him it will be given you to see it in yourself perhaps you do not see the need for you to give this little offering look closer than at what it is and very simply see in it the whole exchange of separation for salvation all that the ego is is an idea that it is possible that things could happen to the son of god without his will and thus without the will of his creator whose will cannot be separate from his own this is the son of god's replacement for his will a mad revolt against what must forever be this is the statement that he has the power to make god powerless and so to take for it for himself and leave himself without what god has willed for him this is the mad idea you have enshrined upon your altars in which you worship and anything that threatens this seems to attack your faith for here is it's invested think not that you are faithless for your belief and trust in this is strong indeed so he's telling us that that in truth where we have a very powerful mind because god is powerful and the mind of christ is powerful but to believe in the ego you know is to attempt to make god powerless and and to obliterate awareness to have amnesia about being the christ all power and glory is in god and in christ whom god created as one with himself created in the same likeness the same likeness meaning spirit god is spirit christ is spirit spirit is all powerful and the ego believes that everything that it projected the big bang of the cosmos has no power whatsoever there is no power in illusions all power is of the divine mind of god and christ the holy spirit can give you faith in holiness and vision to see it easily enough but you have not left open and unoccupied the altar where the gifts belong where they should be you have set up your idols to something else this other will which seems to tell you what must happen you give reality and what would show you otherwise must therefore seem unreal all that is asked of you is to make room for truth you are not asked to make or do what lies beyond your understanding all you are asked to do is let it in only to stop your interference with what will happen of itself simply to recognize again the presence of what you thought you gave away okay that that could be emblazed in blazing lights and and gold all you are asked to do is let it in only to stop your interference with what will happen of itself be willing for an instant to leave your alters free of what you placed upon them and what is really there you cannot fail to see the holy instant is not an instant of creation but of recognition for recognition comes of vision and suspended judgment then only is it is possible to look with them and see what must be there plainly in sight and wholly independent of interference and judgment undoing is not your task but it is up to you to welcome it or not faith and desire go hand in hand for everyone believes in what he wants that's a good one to repeat faith and desire go hand in hand for everyone believes in what he wants desire is the key make thy let thy and I be single we have already said that wishful thinking is how the ego deals with what it wants to make it so there is no better demonstration of the power of wanting and therefore of faith to make its goals seem real and possible faith in the unreal leads to adjustments of reality to make it fit the goal of madness the goal of sin the goal of sin induces the perception of a fearful world to justify its purpose what you desire you will see and if its reality is false you will uphold it by not realizing all the adjustments you have introduced to make it so when vision is denied confusion of cause and effect becomes inevitable the purpose now becomes to keep obscure the cause of the effect and make effect appear to be a cause the seeming independence of effect enables it to be regarded as standing by itself and capable of serving as a cause of the events and feelings its maker thinks it causes earlier we spoke of your desire to create your own creator and be father and not son to him this is the same desire the son is the effect whose cause he would deny the son the christ is the effect with the capital E whose cause god he would deny and so he seems to be the cause producing real effects nothing can have effects without a cause and to confuse the two is merely to fail to understand them both it is as needful that you recognize you made the world you see is that you recognize that you did not create yourself they are the same mistake nothing created not by your creator has any influence over you and if you think what you have made can tell you what you see and feel and place your faith in its ability to do so you are denying your creator and believing that you made yourself for if you think the world you made has power to make you what it wills you are confusing son and father effect and source okay so let miracles replace all grievances it's it's really calling us today to decide for the miracle to choose to see that the world of images are they are unreal effects from an unreal cause and that unreal cause is the ego it's a projection of guilt is what the cosmos is the big bang is a projection of guilt and it's an attempt to get rid of something jesus says that you do not want you think you don't want the guilt you see it acted out in all the people places things situations and circumstances a clever trick but actually it doesn't allow for healing if what i surround myself with is i project the ego and make up a whole world and place the guilt onto the body bodies circumstances situations you know that's going to bring about an interpretation that is guilt inducing and today's lesson let miracles replace all grievances is basically saying let innocence replace the belief in guilt that's what we're looking at today and hallelujah you know it's seems like this ego belief has been playing out uh was what we would call history and over history is the ego any more or less angry no it's it's just still pure anger it's a death wish it's just pure rage and uh is the ego any more or less clever it's still the clever in puff of nothingness the tiny mad idea that it always was it's hiding in the unconscious mind now let's play ollie ollie income free let's let the guilt surface and seem to play out in terms of the world but we must realize that this guilt was just a belief in the mind just a decision every grievance is an attempt to hold on to the guilt and and perpetuate the guilt and jesus is saying it's over and gone enough already your miracles are are predominant now and your miracles show you that that guilt has been replaced by forgiveness and uh shame and pain have been replaced by by joy and laughter he's like saying be glad now that old way is over and gone the past is gone it can't touch me not so beautiful beautiful beautiful beautiful hope you have a glorious day and you go forth and shine your light and just remember our lesson let miracles replace all grievances