 living the light. We're here with the Course in Miracles live. Practicing, extending, being the light of truth. And we're just so grateful for this opportunity to be, as we were created by God. So we're going through the workbook lessons of Course in Miracles, day by day, practicing hour by hour, moment by moment, giving our heart and our mind over to the Christ in us, to the Holy Spirit and to the bridge to back to remember our Creator God. And it's just so, so devotional and so deep. So today it feels like today is a day of remembering strength. The strength of the divine mind that is behind this world, behind the ego's projection and the veil of forgetfulness is the divine mind of Christ and the divine mind of God. Christ is a divine idea in the mind of God and that is the truth. That is the fact of things. The projected world is just an attempt by the ego to cover over that joy and that love and glee and light and laughter. And also this is a day of opening up to God's will. I know for a lot of us growing up, you know, we heard a lot of different things about God's will. It's God's will that that happened or it's God's will that this occurrence happened and so on and so forth. But we learned from the the clarification of terms in A Course in Miracles that God's will is for perfect happiness and that God's will is in heaven. God wills perfect happiness for Christ, the beloved Son of God. The, you might say, the perfect idea in a perfect mind of God that remains untouched and violet by anything that seems to occur in this in the projected world. Jesus is teaching us how to forgive the world by releasing all thoughts of separation, all beliefs in separation by giving back the tiny mad idea of ego to the Holy Spirit and letting the the light, perfect love cast out of fear, letting the light shine away the darkness. But this ego belief had been buried in the unconscious. So what we experience as our daily experiences on planet Earth are basically just opportunities to remember God's will. And even some of the metaphors over history, you know, which were not my will, but thine be done, which was just an appeal to show me your glory, God, show me your will and show me that as you created me, my will and yours are one. So today's review lesson is going to deal with the the idea of our will. And in heaven, our will is free. We have free will in heaven. But in this world, with the belief in the ego, the will seems to be imprisoned because the mind, this powerful, powerful mind that was given all power from God in creation, if this mind believes in miscreation or believes in fear, doubt, believes in separation, the ego, then the will seems to be imprisoned. Not in reality. In heaven, our will is eternal and our will is one with God. And that's why Jesus could honestly say, I and the Father are one. He was saying we share the same will for happiness, joy, peace, tranquility, serenity. We share the same will for light, creation, light, extending light, extending light. We are the same self in heaven. But in this world, the will seems in prison. And that's why we have these workbook lessons from Jesus, because he's saying, you need to actively use your will. And then you will see that it's not imprisoned at all. It never has been. It was just a belief in miscreation or misuse of light to make up forms and make up projections, make up worlds, make up a cosmos with black holes and quasars and different galaxies, you know, all of time and space is like a veil of forgetfulness. The big bang was a big bang of believing something other than God's will. And now it's time to say, oops, a big oops with that one, that God's will is guaranteed. God's will is a promise always kept. God's will is unchangeable. It's unalterable. You know, you can't stop the light of God. It's one of Kim Walker Smith's songs, Unstoppable Love. That's a pretty good description of God's will. God's will is eternal love, and God's will is unstoppable because it has no opposite. This world of time and space of past and future and male and female and young and old and rich and poor, all of the dualities are just projections of a split mind that doesn't want to give up the ego. As soon as you hand the ego back to the Holy Spirit and say, oops, separation is not a belief I wish to hold on to, particularly when you start to see it's just generating a world of opposites that's not real. It's a hallucination. It's a scheme. It's a veil. It's a hiding place. It's like trying to cover a guilty mind, a mind that believes it's guilty, trying to cover its guilt with destructive devices, idols and images that it gives meaning to and value to. And then as you go deeper and deeper, you start to see these images, idol images, they have no meaning. You can't put idols in place of God. As the Bible says, hold no idols, hold no graven images before the Lord thy God. So basically, this is freedom, but it's actually seeing that our freedom is in heaven. Jesus tells us in his course, in his text, that he says, you know, your son of God is only happy in the environment in which he was created. So that really means that that Christ can only be Christ in heaven. The word gets bantered around on earth, and that's a beautiful pointing symbol to be still and go within and find the Christ within because the Christ is within, not within the body, but in the mind, if you go deep enough beyond all the beliefs and the concepts and the different emotions that the ego generates, you know, if you go down, down, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep within, if you go down the rabbit hole of the sleeping mind or the split mind, then you find the light is there. Once you kind of go past the ego belief in all of its tricks and opposites and differences, and then you go all the way in and then it's just, that's where the kingdom of heaven is. It's where the light is. That's where the love is. So today's lesson is remembering all power and glory is in our true identity, the Christ, and in the Creator, God, God and Christ. God is the cause, the idea of Christ, not the man or the projections of the world, but Jesus was a beautiful demonstration of the actual experience of this oneness with God, of a living experience of I and the Father are one. That's what makes a way show when he says, I am the way, the truth and the life. Yeah, that's it. That's the universal spirit. That's the Holy Spirit speaking using the puppet of a man, but the Christ is neither male nor female. It's just a perfect idea in a perfect mind, which is the mind of God, and our will is free in heaven. So here we go. This is a day to start to remember true freedom, not freedom of the body and all the concepts the ego made up of freedom of mobility and freedom of money and possessions and all the foolishness of the ego's world, but actually freedom of spirit, not like a free spirit of body, but free in remembrance of divine spirit. So our lesson today, workbook, we're still in part one, review two. We are in lesson 87. Our review today will cover these ideas. I will there be light. Use it. Jesus is saying, use your will. You still have it. You may have tried to cover it, but it's still there. I will there be light. I will use the power of my will today. It is not my will to grope about in darkness, fearful of shadows and afraid of things unseen and unreal. Light shall be my guide today. I will follow it where it leads me, and I will look only on what it shows me. This day, I will experience the peace of true perception. These forms of this idea would be helpful for specific applications. This cannot hide the light I will to see. You stand with me in light. In the light, this will look differently. That's amazing. I will there be light. I will there be light. I will not will for anything else, but God's will. I will there be light. And our second review idea. There is no will, but God's. I am safe today because there is no will, but God's. I can become afraid only when I believe there is another will. I try to attack only when I am afraid. And only when I try to attack can I believe that my eternal safety is threatened. Today, I will recognize that all this has not occurred. I am safe because there is no will, but God's. The Beatles had a song, All You Need Is Love. This is basically reminding us today, there is no will, but God's. All there is is love. All I am is love. All there is is love. Love is all there is. Slight alteration of the Beatles lyrics, but good for us today. Because our reminder lesson is there is no will, but God's. You cannot will apart from the Creator. Not possible. And sometimes in philosophy free will is associated with choice, but actually Jesus is teaching us that choice is just the faintest reverberation or reflection of the will, but actually free will has nothing to do with choice. That's why we can will our way to the kingdom of heaven. Instead of seek ye first the kingdom of heaven, will ye first the kingdom of heaven. Whoa, use the power of the will. Use the power of the will to remember God for the highest possible goal there could ever be. Remembering the Creator and remembering true identity as the Christ. These are some useful forms of this idea for specific applications. Let me perceive this in accordance with the will of God. It is God's will you are his son and mine as well. This is part of God's will for me. However, I may see it. So it's really getting to those parts. Some of you might remember the stages of the development of trust in which Jesus says now the teacher of God must reach a state that may be seeming possible for a long long time. Basically it's coming down to what do I will to be so? Do I will there be light or darkness? Our lesson for today is I will there be light and then there is no will but God's. It's not giving an opportunity for a doubt thought. If you perceive any form of fear, guilt, shame, pain, if you perceive anything that feels uncomfortable or frustrating or irritating, that's just all asserting that there is a will apart from God because God is pure love and God's will for us is perfect happiness. As spirit, of course, there is no will but God's. It's a call to remember the spirit within. It's a call to remember the changelessness, the constancy, the certainty of the Christ. That's what always came through at the presence that Jesus was demonstrating. Clear, patient, tranquil, calm, strong. Even when tempted by the devil 40 days in the wilderness and the devil offering him the whole world, Jesus was in I will there be light. He was in there is no will but God's. He was not tempted to believe in something of the world. He was really expressing and demonstrating in his earthly mission of those three public years. He was demonstrating less than 128 from his course of miracles. The world I see holds nothing that I want and the devil's seeming temptations to believe something other than the will of God were not successful. That's why Jesus is the way show or the way, the truth and the life because the Christ, the Christ mind and the Christ idea that's in the mind of God is reality. It's not some concept. It's actually reality. So I thought to reinforce our lesson today, lesson 87, I would go to the course and I just typed in two words and I received a lot of results. I typed in two words today to help us with our review lesson. I typed in God's will and I got 785 results from those two words. God's will and so I think that will help us as we will that there be light and we realize there is no will with God. From beginning off with text chapter 1 section 5, when the atonement has been completed, all talents will be shared by all the sons of God. Chapter 1 section 7, all real pleasure comes from doing God's will. Text chapter 2 section 1, in the creation God extended himself to his creations and imbued them with the same loving will to create. Also in that section, this requires God's endowment of the Son with free will because all loving creation is given in one continuous line in which all aspects are of the same order. So God endowed the Christ with free will in heaven and that's what creation is. It has nothing to do with time and space or big bangs or trees of the knowledge of good and evil. You know it actually God is the creator of reality and reality is eternal and that's what we're forgiving the dreams of time and space to remember the eternal. We're giving up the temporary as it says in Corinthians you know for that which lasts forever which is eternity. There is no strain in doing God's will as soon as you recognize that it is also your own. Everyone will ultimately look upon his own creations and choose to preserve only what is good just as God himself looked upon what he had created and knew that it was good. I have said that only what God creates or what you create with the same will has any real existence. You are afraid of God's will because you have used your own mind which he created in the likeness of his own to miscreate. I cannot yet unite your will with God's for you but I can erase all misperceptions from your mind if you will bring it under my guidance. Thank you Jesus oh my gosh what a blessing. If you are willing to renounce the role of guardian of your thought system and open it to me I will correct it very gently and lead you back to God. When teaching is no longer necessary you will merely know God. I will never forsake you any more than God will but I must wait as long as you choose to forsake yourself to forsake your Christ self. I will bring it to God for you knowing that to know your brother is to know God. To know my brother is spirit is to know God not a body not a person not a private mind with private thoughts and a private past and a private future there's no personal perspective in God's will. God's will is universal. You cannot be content for a form of any kind it is love it is light it is eternal life that is God's will. God will come to you only as you will give him to your brothers be the light of the world be the bringer of light learn first of them and you will be ready to hear God. This communication is the will of God the communication of pure love blessed are the pure of heart so they for they shall see God pure love pure love that's our communion that's this communication is the will of God as long as the Holy Spirit is extending communication to us and guidance and instructions and then the communion of father and son as one or creator and creation as one God created every mind by communicating his mind to it thus establishing it forever as a channel for the reception of his mind and will their helpfulness is their praise of God and he will return their praise of him because they are like him and they can rejoice together the Holy Spirit will remain with the sons of God to bless their creations and keep them in the light of joy 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 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 Holy Spirit is the way in which God's will is done on earth as it is in heaven this mind is the Holy Spirit whose will is for God always I will never leave you or forsake you because to forsake you would be to forsake myself and God who created me the joint will of the sonship is the only creator that can create like the father because only the complete can think completely and the thinking of God lacks nothing give it to the Holy Spirit who will undo it in you because it does not belong in your mind which is part of God he's talking about the ego give it give the ego therefore to the Holy Spirit who will undo it in you because it does not belong in your mind which is part of God God himself gave you the perfect correction for everything you made that is not in accord with his holy will help me to teach it to our brothers in the name of the kingdom of God but first believe that it is true for you or you will teach amiss I will with God that none of his sons should suffer the final step will still be taken for you by God but the third step the Holy Spirit has prepared you for God by the third step to will with God is to create like him the last step that God will take was therefore true in the beginning is true now and will be true forever to think you can oppose the will of God is a real delusion this light will shine back upon you and on the whole sonship because this is your proper gift to God if you will keep in mind what the Holy Spirit offers you you cannot be vigilant for anything but God and his kingdom any belief you accept apart from this will obscure God's voice in you and will therefore obscure God to you if your mind could be out of accord with God's you would be willing without meaning creation not separation is your will because it is God's and nothing that opposes this means anything at all if you choose to separate yourself from God that is what you will think others are doing to you chapter seven section seven and you are the will of God that supports our review lesson for today I will there be light there is no will but God's there it is in chapter seven section seven you are the will of God meaning the spirit you the Christ you is the will of God the kingdom of God is the will of God the kingdom of heaven is the will of God you can call it whatever you want to call it nirvana I call it bliss call it whatever you want to call it call it pure oneness call it eternity call it everlasting life eternal life call it what you want identity you are the will of God that's text chapter seven section seven but see the love of God in you and you will see it everywhere because it is everywhere only you can limit your creative power but God wills to release it since it was the will of God to give it to you he gave it forever truth is God's will chapter seven section 10 truth is God's will it's synonymous you know if you don't like the word God you can use truth you don't like the word truth use the word love you don't like the word love use the word oneness you don't like the word oneness use everlasting life if you don't like everlasting life just use eternity just it doesn't matter the words it's a reality we're talking reality is love all of you are is love you believe that doing the opposite of God's will can be better for you you also believe that it is possible to do the opposite of God's will you can wish for the impossible but you can will only with God I said before that you are the will of God it was accomplished for you by the will of God who has not left you comfortless there is no confusion in the mind of a son of God whose will must be the will of the father because the father's will is his son miracles are in accord with the will of God whose will you do not know because you are confused about what you will if you are God's will and do not accept his will you are denying joy this is his will for everyone because he speaks for the kingdom of God which is joy know then the sons of God and you will know all creation it is never God who coerces you because he shares his will with you the lesson is that your will and gods cannot be out of accord because they are one the ego tries to teach that you want to oppose God's will the Holy Spirit opposes any imprisoning of the will of the son of God knowing that the will of the son is the father's when you have learned that your will is God's you could know more will to be without him than he could will to be without you when I said all power and glory are yours because the kingdom is his this is what I meant the will of God is without limit and all power and glory lie within it you are the will of God because that is how you were created glory to God in the highest and to you because he has so willed it to fulfill the will of God perfectly is the only joy and peace that can be fully known because it is the only function that can be fully experienced yet the wish for other experience will block its accomplishment because God's will cannot be forced upon you being an experience of total willingness that's it total willingness total willingness yields the will of God and the will of Christ only his teaching will release your will to God's uniting it with his power and glory and establishing them as yours God wills no one suffer if God's will for you is complete peace and joy unless you experience only this you must be refusing to acknowledge his will you were in darkness until God's will was done completely by any part of the sonship thank you Jesus if you will accept the fact that I am with you you are denying the world and accepting God as God sent me to you so will I send you to others your will is as free as mine and God himself would not go against it I cannot will what God does not will I can offer my strength to make yours invincible but I cannot oppose your decision without competing with it and thereby violating God's will for you nothing God created can oppose your decision as nothing God created can oppose his will God gave your will its power which I can only acknowledge in honor of his God's sons are equal in will all being the will of their father the undivided will of the sonship is the perfect creator being holy in the likeness of God whose will it is by the belief that your will is separate from mine you are exempting yourself from the will of God which is yourself by joining your mind with mine you are signifying your awareness that the will of God is one nothing can prevail against our united wills because nothing can prevail against God's so wow it just so strong goes on and on there is strength under our review lessons I will there be light I will there be light and there is no will but God's feel the the power and the glory the strength and the might and the magnitude and the vastness and the all-encompassing glory and strength in that I will there be light there is no will but God's okay we're zooming into the day I thought too I I would play a song that will also carry us along and this song is called thy will be done by slava and this is is just the most glorious you might want to go to soundcloud and and just go and and check some of those songs out because this one is thy will be done deep will thank you thank you god