 on the 27th day of January 2024 and our Course in Miracles workbook lesson for the day is above all else. I want to see lesson number 27. So how beautiful. So we've just come through our early workbook lessons undoing and changing the way we think, changing the way we perceive being willing to. And then recently we were just being reminded that we don't really understand what anything is for in this world. We can't really, really understand anything, what anything means. And then we also realize that it's our tech thoughts, our grievances, our judgments that are attacking our invulnerability, our Christ invulnerability. God created us as a pure being of love and light. And if we don't remember that love and light, then we hold on to judgments and grievances that basically attack our invulnerability. And this is in our awareness. So that's why we're training our mind. So we're on lesson 27 today of mind training, learning to line up with the Holy Spirit in absolutely everything and let go of all the thoughts I think, I think, and all of the images that I think I perceive. That's our goal. And this is our determination to see with the vision of Christ above all else I want to see. Today's idea expresses something stronger than mere determination. It gives vision priority among your desires. You may feel hesitant about using the idea on the grounds that you are not sure you really mean it. This does not matter. The purpose of today's exercise is to bring the time when the idea will be wholly true a little nearer. There may be a great temptation to believe that some sort of sacrifice is being asked of you when you say you want to see above all else. If you become uneasy about the lack of reservation involved at vision has no cost to anyone. If fear of loss still persists and further, it can only bless. The idea for today needs many repetitions for maximum benefit. It should be used at least every half an hour and more if possible. You might try for every 15 or 20 minutes. It is recommended that you set a definite time interval for using the idea when you wake or shortly thereafter and attempt to adhere to it throughout the day. It will not be difficult to do this even if you are engaged in conversation or otherwise occupied at the time. You can still repeat one short sentence to yourself without disturbing anything. The real question is how often will you remember? How much do you want today's idea to be true? Answer one of these questions and you have answered the other. You will probably miss several applications and perhaps quite a number. Do not be disturbed by this but do not try to keep on your schedule from then on. If only once during the day you feel that you are perfectly sincere while you are repeating today's idea, you can be sure that you have saved yourself many years of effort. Above all else I want to see. So today we are going into that teaching from the Bible where Jesus said, let thine eye be single. He was saying perceive a single unified world by perceiving as the Holy Spirit perceives unified, connected, whole, complete. That is the purpose of vision is to come to see, truly see with the Holy Spirit and to put that priority on seeing with the Holy Spirit. In fact, top priority. Jesus just told us it is literally beyond mere determination. This is like with your whole heart saying I am determined to see and then as we give ourselves over to this desire then everything else falls in line because if we're determined to see truly with the Holy Spirit we will not emphasize perceived differences. We will not emphasize perceived conflicts because all differences and conflicts, all competition is of the ego and the Spirit does not even know what competition is. It's just a make believe idea, ego idea and all of the conflicts, the fights, the wars, the disagreements, everything that is not happy, not joyful, not peaceful in this world always coming from a mistaken belief of identity and today we would go past that. So we're going to look at some passages that support our one goal of sight, of spiritual sight. So let's start off by going to the text chapter four. We're going to go to the first section called right teaching and right learning down to paragraph four to start. Teaching and learning are your greatest strengths now because they enable you to change your mind and help others to change theirs. Refusing to change your mind will not prove that the separation has not occurred. The dreamer who doubts the reality of his dream while he is still dreaming is not really healing his but mind. You dream of a separated ego and believe in a world that rests upon it. This is very real to you. You cannot undo it by not changing your mind about it. If you are willing to renounce the role of the guardian of your thought system and open it to me, I will correct it very gently and lead you back to God. Every good teacher hopes to give his students so much of his own learning that they will one day no longer need him. This is the one true goal of the teacher. Wow. Every good teacher hopes to give his students so much of his own learning that they will one day no longer need him. You can feel the resonance of that. This is the one true goal of the teacher and this fits in with our lesson today because when we pray, when we desire vision above all else I want to see, then with that desire we are saying that we want to let go of the obstacles to this seeing, this true seeing, this vision and in having this is our one goal, then all other goals fade and grow dim and fall away and that is what spiritual awakening is about. You want God, you want only God, you pray for God's help to guide you and the guidance that seems to come from the Holy Spirit is about taking seeming steps in time and space but they're all with the same purpose or goal to unwind from the ego's belief system, to unwind from fear, to unwind from guilt, to unwind from false responsibilities, to unwind from fiction and come back to the reality of the light within, the kingdom of heaven within. Okay, let's move now to the text chapter five healing and wholeness and we go down to the voice for God section 11. 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 sunship and to bring it back into the oneness in which it was created. Remember that yoke means join together and burden means message. Now he's going to take something from the Bible as saying from the Bible and he's going to restate it. Let us restate my yoke is easy and my burden light in this way. Let us join together for my message is light and we feel that in our hearts, we know that the message of Jesus has always been for love, for oneness, for knowing God, for knowing the light, for opening our hearts to the light of the world and embracing it and accepting it. And so that is a beautiful reinterpretation just showing us the meaning of my yoke is easy and my burden light. Let us join together for my message is light. And that's tied in, that light is the light of Christ, that light is the vision of Christ. Above all else I am determined to see. Above all else I want to see. There's nothing more than I want and to want to see. God let me see as you see. Let me see with your vision. You created me as the Christ. You created me as your Holy Son. Let me see with the vision of Christ. Let me not see grievances. Let me see not see attack. Let me not see judgments of good and bad, right and wrong. Let me not stick with this egoic split mind, this perception of duality of opposites. Heaven is one. Why would I hold on to the world of opposites? Why would I have goals that are based on achieving something in the world of opposites or collecting something or making something happen in the world of opposites when the whole perception of opposites is blocking my Christ's vision. And today, with my lesson 27, as I go through the day, I repeated above all else I want to see. Today we put God first. Above all else I want to see. We will repeat that, that beautiful line above all else I want to see. And Jesus has told us it's just a short line. So even if you're in a conversation and you're pausing, you can just mentally say it to yourself silently above all else I want to see. Yeah. No matter what's happening, no matter what you perceive is happening today in the world, above all else I want to see. You can close your eyes, you don't have to close your eyes. If you're talking to somebody, you don't have to close your eyes. You could just not interrupt what's going on, seemingly on the screen of the world. Don't interrupt the movie, just silently to yourself, say above all else I want to see. So let's jump to texts, chapter seven. And let's go down to section four. And we'll go down into the second sentence here of the third paragraph. It's actually the third sentence. The Holy Spirit teaches you to use what the ego has made to teach the opposite of what the ego has learned. The kind of learning is as irrelevant as is the particular ability that was applied to the learning. All you need to do is make the effort to learn for the Holy Spirit has a unified goal for the effort. If different abilities are applied long enough to one goal, the abilities themselves become unified. This is because they are channelized in one direction or in one way, ultimately, then all contribute to one result. And by doing so, their similarity rather than their differences is emphasized. All abilities should therefore be given over to the Holy Spirit, who understands how to use them properly. He uses them only for healing because he knows you only as whole. By healing, you learn of wholeness. And by learning of wholeness, you learn to remember God. You have forgotten him, but the Holy Spirit understands that you're forgetting must be translated into a way of remembering. So now we're starting to get a sense of how it works. Because in the ego framework, everyone seems to have learned lots of skills and abilities. That's part of the human condition. That's part of personhood, personality. Persons seem to have skills and abilities. And what we're hearing Jesus tell us now is no problem. The Holy Spirit can use what the ego has made to teach the opposite of what the ego has seemed to learn. So basically, the plan is now you have the goal. You can call it forgiveness. You can call it inner peace. You can call it unified awareness. Call it whatever you want. But you have the goal. You have the one goal. And in our terms of today's lesson, it's above all else I want to see. You want the vision of Christ. So let's just say you really focus your mind like a laser beam of wanting the vision of Christ. And then he's saying that basically if different abilities are applied long enough to one goal, the abilities themselves become unified. The ability to read. If you give your ability to drive a car over to the Holy Spirit, if we use it probably to send you on many healing missions. If you use your ability to speak, the Holy Spirit will speak through you. If you have abilities with music or art, the Holy Spirit will use those abilities to extend the love and light of God. Because the purpose of spiritual awakening is to see with spiritual vision. And that's what our lesson is today. Above all else, I want to see. So basically he continues on in paragraph four, all abilities should therefore be given over to the Holy Spirit who understands how to use them properly. He uses them only for healing because he knows you only as whole. Okay, that's it. But that's that's reminding us again, this is the purpose for the skills and abilities. The purpose for the body is a purpose for everything. It's a purpose for that bank account. It's the purpose for everything. That house, that car, name it, that these clothes, whatever, everything has the purpose of unified perception because everything wants to go toward the light. Everything in your heart, deep down in your heart of hearts, wants to see as Christ sees, wants to see as the Holy Spirit proceeds. The perspective will say of the Holy Spirit. And the vision of Christ is our goal. Above all else, I want to see. And also from a review section in the workbook part one, review six, this jumps into lesson 205, but it's so beautiful. I have to include it. Not to jump ahead with that. The peace of God is everything I want. The peace of God is my one goal, the aim of all my living here, the end I seek, my purpose and my function and my life while I abide where I am not at home. That says it all. That says it all. That's that's another way of restating our beautiful one-liner lesson today. Above all else, I want to see. That's what we carry in our heart. Well, how beautiful. It's beautiful to be joining with you in this way. I got the nudge to come on today. Today is Saturday, the 27th. And as some of you know, I'm sharing a movie every other Saturday. So today is movie day. So not only do I get to join with you here, but in about an hour and 15 minutes, 10 a.m. CST, I will join you for the movie of the day. I mentioned this on my last broadcast that, yeah, that I was stepping back from a lot of things. Social media, communications, yeah, turning off my gadgets, turning off my computer, turning off my iPhone, my iPad, turning off the gadgets, the devices. And I also mentioned that I would show a movie that really comes down to a deeper understanding of the workbook lesson. My thoughts are images I have made. You know, these early workbook lessons of a course in miracles are, in a sense, we'll say Jesus deconstructing the faulty perception of the ego. Jesus showing us that what we think is not the truth. The thoughts we think we think in our everyday lives, the thoughts of the past and the future, these are not the present moment. These are not the vision of Christ, the love of God, the holy instant. So basically, we're seeing a deconstruction of our perception. And he's doing that by showing us that our thoughts are not reliable. Our daily thoughts that are passing through our mind, the ones that are covering over our real thoughts, the thoughts we think with God, we'll call them our purely loving thoughts, are covered over by the dense fog of thoughts that we think we think, but we're thinking, we're trying to think with the ego. And Jesus told us, no, your mind is actually blank when you're trying to think with the ego. They're not real thoughts, so you're blank and you need inspiration. You need mind training to let go of egoic thoughts and egoic judgments and egoic grievances, because that's what all grievances are. All attack thoughts come from the ego belief system. So our movie today is a classic. I told you, I'm just showing some classic movies that are really, I'll give some setup, I'll give some commentary, but basically it's, the classic movie is fantastic as a teaching device to bring about some kind of giant insight, giant recognition, giant discovery in mind. And this is about salvation. This is about salvaging the split mind and realizing it's whole and complete. And it's saved through peace. And it's not saved in other ways. We're here to find redemption. We're here to find enlightenment, discover, to be what we are. It's not a personal achievement. It's not an achievement in time and space. It's simply the recognition of what is. And that's the goal today and every day as we practice our mind training. And then once every two weeks, I will show a movie. So if you're registered for this free movie and you want to come and join me, just come into Tribe of Christ. Here's again, the mystical Christ. There's the website there. And then when you go on to the website, just go to programs, go down to the movies and follow the steps to sign up and I'll see you online. We are joining together for enlightenment, for illumination, for clarity, for deep trust, for expanding faith. That's the purpose. Are we doing this for entertainment? No. Are we doing this for achieving something in the world? No. We're actually doing this to be present, to learn to be present, to stay fully present and stay fully aligned with God and our intuition and the Holy Spirit and Jesus. So thank you for joining me. It's a blessing to be with you. It's a blessing to feel the love that's inside of us and feel this deepening in faith that's coming along. So amen. Hopefully see you at the movies soon.