 Hi everyone. Hi. Thanks for joining us again. So good to be together. Yeah we've got a wonderful day ahead of us and I'm Peter for those who are new and the host and yeah so we're going to start the day with a movie commentary with David and you know after that we'll have a 10 minute break and then we go to a Q&A session. So this is going to be a wonderful movie commentary. I haven't seen this one. I'm looking forward to it. So I'm going to pass it over to David now. Hi everyone. Welcome. Wow. This is a fun way to wake up watching movies. Who would have thought of it? Only Jesus could think of such a great idea. And in these movies often times we'll do the, I'll do a setup and commentary to help bring the movie and the themes alive in your heart so you can feel like oh yeah that's what's important. That's what I'm devoting my life to. That's what I need to focus on to be happy and peaceful and joyful. So these movies are really teaching devices that are very practical for us to live a very wonderful spirit guided life. And I know some of you recently saw the movie, the last movie I think it was with me called Man of God. Nectarius has been visiting people during the week. They were so inspired. I heard so many reflections. Oh my gosh, thank you for showing a movie of such a humble man. Such a man devoted to prayer. Such a simple-minded man who had his focus on God and really just try to serve Jesus the best that he could moment by moment regardless of what the circumstances are. And today I'm going to show you a woman of God. I'm going to show you a woman who has a lot of strength, who was raised with this idea that God is very important. You should put God first in everything you think and say and do. And where Nectarius was a priest, this woman her name is Mahalia Jackson. She is one of the most famous gospel singers in history. She was a very strong-minded and non-compromising woman who basically would pray and would not compromise with the temptations of the world. And because she didn't compromise, she had this beautiful voice, a huge voice, almost like a voice from heaven. It's hard to believe a woman could have such a strong voice like the voice of a thousand angels. And yet she had the same temptations in this world to use it for money or for fame or for purposes that the ego comes up with. But instead she chose to use it for love, for healing. And I would say she used it for equality. You know equality is something that the ego doesn't know about because all we have an equal presence in the love of God. God loves everyone equally because God loves Christ as one. And now the children of God, which we could say we're all children of God, we are equals. We are absolute equals. No person is ahead, no person is behind. And all of us have equal gifts to give in the sense that what we're giving, we're giving our gifts from the light that we are. So all of our gifts, even though they seem to take different forms in this world, are all coming from the light. They're inspired by the light. And so their gifts to help us remember our true identity as light, as the Christ. So to give you a little bit of background on Mahalia Jackson because she's going to be our role model today. She's our woman of God role model. She was born in 1911 in New Orleans in what they call the deep south of the United States. And the deep south of the United States is known for the struggles that people had for equality because Mahalia Jackson is a black woman born in 1911. And then she has to go through the challenges and trials of what would be the ego's world. And the ego's world is a world of inequality. Inequality the ego would say based on race, on ethnicity, on your financial socioeconomic background, based on your level of education, and based on physical traits like physical beauty and skills and abilities. The ego tries to use all those things to convince your mind, which is the sleep, that it's different from all the other ones. So the ego always emphasizes differences. And the Holy Spirit basically says no, you're the perfect Christ, you're the perfect child of God. You always have been and you always will be. And you're created as perfect love. So there's nothing you can really do to change the love and the innocence that you are. You may dream that you're not worthy, but truly you are worthy. You may dream that you're not enough, but you're the Christ. And the Christ is everything. So, you know, whatever seems to be happening in the dream is not reality at all. And the light of Christ is reality. So, quite simply, we might say that the only purpose in this world that's worthy of your mind is forgiveness or releasing illusions from your mind so that you can see with the vision of Christ. And spiritual vision is not vision with the body's eyes. Spiritual vision is pure light. So, when you really forgive in the deepest way, then you become aware of the one light, the light of God and the light of Christ. So, Mahalia Jackson, she grows up in the deep south. And also though in the deep south, they have some very devoted spiritual people in the sense of devoted Christians that have given their life over to reading the Bible, studying the Bible, singing songs of praise to God, which we can call gospel songs, and feeling the Holy Spirit, or they sometimes call it the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost is in me. And Mahalia, she has the Holy Ghost in her, for sure. She's not only aware of this calling to God, but she goes the next step, which is devoting her life to being an expression of her devotion to God. So, even though she was born in 1911, I'd say her major decades, where she really let that booming voice just come out in worship to God and glory to God, those decades were the 1940s, the 1950s, and the 1960s. So, for three decades, the spirit is going to boom this beautiful voice out to the whole planet. And also, she's not just, you can't really just classify her as a singer, because she also was so involved in equality, she really believed that in her heart that everyone was equal. And so, she would go to political rallies, civil rights rallies in the United States, particularly during the 1960s, when there were many civil rights leaders, including Martin Luther King Jr., who were talking about equality, and how equality is something that comes from God. And it's really, it's like our birthright to be equal to one another, because really God created us as the same one. So, even if it seems like we're in different characters, we're the same one. No one's better, no one's worse. So, in these decades, Mahalia Jackson, she began to sing, and we will see in the movie, she stays true to her calling. They will offer her different temptations to do theater, or to become a blues singer, or to branch out, like they call them crossover singers, where they move between genres. Basically, she's just got such a devotion to God, she's not interested in crossing over to anything else. She's not going to cross over to anything else, because her devotion is to God. And she also is going, we'll see, she has a very strong influence in her childhood, her aunt. And her aunt is just a really devoted woman of God. And I would say, I just wish all of us had aunts like this, that were so devoted to God when we were children, that they would have really imparted to us how important it is to follow your heart, to follow your joy, and to serve God in the deepest way that you can. That is our fulfillment. That is where we find everything that we're looking for. So, we're also going to find that, unlike the man of God, who was just a devoted priest his entire life, that Mahalia's life is going to involve relationships, romantic relationships. So, I know for many people, this is important. You may watch the man of God, and you may say, wow, what a humble man, what a trusting humble man. And he was a priest basically most his whole life. But now we're going to see from a woman of God, who she will go through a marriage, and then she will have another relationship after she gets a divorce. And then she will actually have a then a second husband will come after that. And so, we're going to watch her as she moves through relationships. Because all of us know that a course in miracles is a pathway where Jesus teaches that you've learned to forgive through your relationships, that the relationships that you have are mirrors to what's going on in your mind. And so, there is no relationship that's unimportant. Every single relationship that we have is teaching us something very valuable that we need in order to realize that we're the Christ. The relationships just mirror the unconscious beliefs that we still hold on to. And of course, unconscious means out of awareness. So, we should be really grateful for these relationships. We should have, Jesus says, you should always have full appreciation and gratitude. And then he goes on to say that that is the only thing you should feel for all of your relationships ever. Appreciation and gratitude. Because he says that all those relationships are opportunities to extend love or to realize there's a call for love. And if you answer the call for love with love instead of attack or defense, then when you answer the call for love, then you realize you are the love. That's how you realize you are the love by giving the love that is called for or by giving the love that just wants to shine through your heart. So, this movie will span the entire life from childhood all the way through adulthood for Mahalia Jackson. And also, some of you are familiar with Martin Luther King Jr. What an amazing man. He was a minister, a reverend, a preacher. He spoke on behalf of Jesus, on behalf of love, inequality. And Martin Luther King was a man who was inspired by Mahatma Gandhi, who lived a little bit before Martin Luther King. And Martin Luther King loved how Gandhi focused on nonviolence and equality. And so, this is a very famous minister. And he is also going to be a very close friend of Mahalia Jackson. Some of you, it's not really in the movie, but some of you know one of Martin Luther King Jr.'s most famous speeches that he gave, I believe it was in Washington, D.C., was called, I Have a Dream. And I mean, it was delivered with such passion. You know, I can just go into my mind, I have a dream. You know, whoa, you know, this is some major passion. And who was the woman behind Martin Luther King? It's Mahalia Jackson. Go on, Martha, tell them about the dream. Don't people please here, don't compromise, even if it's on national television and there's hundreds of thousands of people listening, tell them about the dream. And I can feel Jesus right now is like saying, don't play small for on me, don't play like you're a human being. You are a child of God. I want you to act like a child of God. I want you to shine like a child of God. Jesus is more like, if I use Martin Luther King's voice, you are the dreamer of the dream. And don't forget it. You know, that's what Jesus is saying through Martin Luther King. You are the dreamer of the dream. And in this movie, we're going to see that Mahalia Jackson has this huge energy, huge strength, and huge devotion. And she is going to really support Martin Luther King Jr. And actually, Martin Luther King Jr. will support her. This is a beautiful example of a holy relationship. Yes, Mahalia Jackson will be married, and Martin Luther King Jr. is married. He's married to Coretta. And Mahalia Jackson will be married. Her first husband is Isaac, and her last husband is Sigmund. And then she's going to have a real blazing mighty companion come in, in between the two husbands. Another guy. And he's like a preacher. So you're going to see some preaching going on today. My commentary might get a little preachy, but just enjoy me. If I start talking like Martin Luther King and channeling Martin Luther King Jr. today, well, that's just for the good of the joy of everyone. Because I admired Martin Luther King. I was a big fan of Martin Luther King Jr. and of Gandhi. Those were some of my heroes when I was growing up. And now I get to channel them, because we're all the same one anyway. So you can play any character that you want in any moment. You can play Marilyn Monroe if you want, or James Dean. But really, it's the light in you that's shining through. That's what makes it so important. Because that light is extremely important. And so we had some themes. You all voted on some themes coming in today's movie. And the number one theme is always remember what the purpose is. Isn't that a nice theme? Always remember what the purpose is. Try to always remember the purpose as much as you can throughout the day. Even when you're tempted to get your mind focused on details, focused on plans, focused on what's coming in the future or what happened in the past, I can see why you voted that number one. That is coming from Jesus Christ in you, in your heart. Always remember what the purpose is. Number two, know there is a higher plan at work. When you start to feel depressed or angry or you start to feel down, always remember that there is a higher plan at work. Even when you're not connected in awareness to the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit is still working overtime. Even when you feel kind of sad and disorganized, or maybe you feel like a bit crazy, a bit insane, Jesus is still working overtime for you. You may not be aware of it, but the angels are working overtime for you. There's thousands, hundreds of thousands of angels that are working with you, and the ego is the only one that's working against you, or your true self, is trying to keep you from knowing that you're the Christ. The third one is be an uncompromising miracle worker. Oh, and Mahalia is going to take you a big stride in that direction. If you think you're a little too wishy washy, if you think you're a little too undecided, keep your eyes on Mahalia today. She's going for it. She's going for it. She's not going to be stopped. She's going to be strong. She's going to stay strong in there, and that's what we need to do to be a miracle worker. We need to have faith. We need to keep the faith alive. We need to keep the fire burning. Maybe we need to all start listening to more gospel songs. We should put a little Mahalia Jackson on our iPods and our iPhones in our music list. We need the booming voice of love coming in there when we feel sad or distracted. Let that booming voice of love come sweep you away. And Mahalia is really good at that. She's got this down perfect. Next one, number four, let love take over everything. Wow, do I hear an amen from the choir? Amen. We have an amen. Yes, we're going to let love take over everything, not some of it. We're going to let love take over all of it because we want to be happy and we know that when love leads us and love comes to us to lift us up to love, that's what we want. That's what we've always been praying for in our heart of hearts. And finally, number five, I know you guys are going to like this, dare to sing my heart song. Dare to sing. Linda threw her head up. She's like, yes, I've been waiting for this movie. It's about time my mind has put this in the queue a long time ago and today is my day. I'm going to dare to sing my heart song. And in order to do that, you can just give yourself over to it. Now, if you start singing your heart song, the ego will try to hijack that and will say, you can make a lot of money singing your heart song. You could have a lot of possessions. You could have a lot that this world have to offer if you really sing your heart song. And we know that because Barbara Streisand shows us there's another singer for God, Celine Dion. I heard Celine just was diagnosed with an incurable disease, but we know the real Celine, her heart goes on and on like in Titanic. There's nothing that can stop love because our heart goes on no matter what the world tries to present to us. So I think you're going to really enjoy it. You know, this one's not quite so intense as man of God. I don't think so. So this time take out your your your carpet magic carpet rides and plan to fly around in them a lot today. You can go way up above the clouds and soar all the way into the up above the clouds today because it's not, you know, she's going to have to face things, but she's got such a strength that, you know, you can start to feel, wow, she's not going to be slowing down for anything. She's she's just going to keep booming her voice and singing for God all the way through and admittedly when she's a girl she has a little bit of pride and then her aunt's going to come and knock some pride out of her so she can really get going for God. You know, that's that's why we need aunties like that that point us in the right direction. Let us really go for God. So enjoy the movie. I will come in and visit you during the movie, but I think you're going to love this movie. I think you're going to have a warm feeling in your heart after this movie because every time we see strength and uncompromising devotion, then we start to realize that we don't have to people please with this. We're going for God and we're not going to look back. We're not going to doubt ourselves. We're going straight to God. Okay, enjoy. Enjoy the movie.