 We're walking with Jesus. We're opening our hearts, opening our minds, listening, following, listening to the guidance, the prompts, the nudges, those intuitive little guides that we get all through the day. And we're practicing the workbook lessons of A Course in Miracles. And today we have reached lesson 69, My Grievances Hide the Light of the World in Me. No one can look upon what your grievances conceal. Because your grievances are hiding the light of the world in you. Everyone stands in darkness and you beside him. But as the veil of your grievances is lifted, you are released with him. Share your salvation now with him who stood beside you when you were in hell. He is your brother in the light of the world that saves you both. Today, let us make another real attempt to reach the light in you. Before we undertake this in our more extended practice period, let us devote several minutes to thinking about what we are trying to do. We are literally attempting to get in touch with the salvation of the world. We are trying to see past the veil of darkness that keeps it concealed. We are trying to let the veil be lifted and to see the tears of God's sons disappear in the sunlight. Let us begin our longer practice period today with the full realization that this is so, and with real determination to reach what is dearer to us than all else. Salvation is our only need. There is no other purpose here and no other function to fulfill. Learning salvation is our only goal. Let us end the ancient search today by finding the light in us and holding it up for everyone who searches with us to look upon and rejoice. Very quietly now, with your eyes closed, try to let go of all the content that generally occupies your consciousness. Think of your mind as a vast circle surrounded by a layer of heavy dark clouds. You can see only the clouds because you seem to be standing outside the circle and quite apart from it. From where you stand, you can see no reason to believe there is a brilliant light hidden by the clouds. The clouds seem to be the only reality. They seem to be all there is to see. Therefore, you do not attempt to go through them and past them, which is the only way in which you would really be convinced of their lack of substance. We will make this attempt today. After you have thought about the importance of what you are trying to do for yourself and the world, try to settle down in perfect stillness, remembering only how much you want to reach the light in you today. Now, determine to go past the clouds. Reach out and touch them in your mind. Brush them aside with your hand. Feel them resting on your cheeks and forehead and eyelids as you go through them. Go on. Clouds cannot stop you. If you are doing the exercises properly, you will begin to feel a sense of being lifted up and carried ahead. Your little effort and small determination call on the power of the universe to help you and God himself will raise you from darkness into light. You are in accord with his will. You cannot fail because your will is his. Have confidence in your father today and be certain that he has heard you and answered you. You may not recognize his answer yet, but you can indeed be sure that it is given you and you will yet receive it. Try as you attempt to go through the clouds to the light to hold this confidence in your mind. Try to remember that you are at last joining your will to God's. Try to keep the thought clearly in mind that what you undertake with God must succeed. Then let the power of God work in you and through you that his will and yours be done. In the shorter practice periods, which you will want to do as often as possible in view of the importance of today's idea to you and your happiness. Remind yourself that your grievances are hiding the light of the world from your awareness. Remind yourself also that you are not searching for it alone and that you do know where to look for it. Say then, my grievances hide the light of the world in me. I cannot see what I have hidden. Yet I want to let it be revealed to me for my salvation and the salvation of the world. Also be sure to tell yourself, if I hold this grievance, the light of the world will be hidden from me. If you are tempted to hold anything against any one today, my grievances hide the light of the world in me. And for support for today's lesson, we're going to turn to the text, Chapter 5, Healing and Wholeness. And we're going to Section 2 and we'll jump down to the fourth sentence here in the first paragraph. The Holy Spirit is the motivation for a 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 blessed 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 is 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 of God, but the other is given you by God who asks 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 let 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 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 choice is 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 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 propheteth a man if he gained the whole world and lose his soul, 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 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 the decision itself is the decision to share. It is made by giving and 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 it change you just as it changed me. This mind is unequivocal because it hears only one voice and answers only one way. You are the light of the world with me. Rest does not come from sleeping but from waking. The Holy Spirit is the call to awaken and be glad. Today is a day of wholeness. It is a day of joy. Today is also Saturday. It is our movie day. For those of you that are part of the tribe of Christ, if you are not, you can go to the mystical Christ, the hyphen Christ.net. You can join and then there is a tab that has events. You can go down and check the Saturday movie workshops. Today we are going to be showing a classic movie. It is from 1989. It stars Robert Downey Jr. and Sybil Shepard. It is called Chances Are. What I love about this classic movie and the adventure we are all on today is that Jesus and the Holy Spirit are stretching our perception. They are opening our hearts. They are expanding our awareness to see the world in a very different way. It is kind of like from scientific terms. From the horizontal Newtonian view of the world to the quantum view of the world, which is holistic, which is really the Holy Spirit's perspective. We are asking for a different way of looking at the world. We are asking for a different way of looking at all our relationships. We are asking for a different way of living. That comes from a higher perspective. The perspective that Jesus has offered. The perspective that the Holy Spirit offers. It is really another way of looking at the world and coming to a peace of mind that is based on this vision of Christ, which is just a light beyond this world entirely. Beyond the veil of time and space, there is a light. That light of Christ, that light of Christ's vision is what true seeing is. Every day we are praying to see truly. We are praying for Jesus and the Holy Spirit to show the way. We use movies to help expand the perception. I would say in about just a little over two hours I will begin the setup of the movie Chances Are. If you have not been to one of our movie workshops, please do join in. You just join Tribe of Christ, which has all kinds of resources and participation opportunities, online courses, videos, all kinds of stuff. And then every Saturday, every other Saturday, actually we have a movie workshop which you are invited to attend for free. It is part of the Tribe of Christ experience. And I feel like holistic perception, a new way of looking at the world, is always the purpose, is always the point. And we have had a lot of great movies in our MWGE.org, a movie watcher's guide to enlightenment. But this movie is a particularly classic one which helps us really go beyond the personal, beyond the interpersonal, into a vast experience of love. Because basically, honestly, all of us are deeply in love because we are the children of God. We are God's son and we are God's perfect son. And when we know ourselves, we know everyone and everything from that perfection. We know God and God is really all that can really truly be known. The cosmos is just a bunch of symbols that the ego made and we can let the Holy Spirit use those symbols for a while and then see beyond the symbols, see directly with the light of truth, with the vision of Christ. So we've had some, in our movie watcher's guide to enlightenment, we've had some great loop movies. Some of you know Groundhog Day or Before I Fall. I mean, there's lots of these beautiful loop movies over the years. And then today's movie is kind of a, it's a set of looping, looping, looping. It's more of a one loop where the amnesia shot between the two seeming different lifetimes is not given. And so there seems to be some blending and bleeding going on between the two lifetimes and between the roles that are apparent in the lifetimes. And yet the love underneath is so strong that it comes breaking through the artificial divisions of the ego, the artificial differences, the artificial roles that the ego is assigned to every person, place and thing. These artificial situations all merge together in the quantum field and we start to realize that our mind is whole. And really, honestly, there is only one of us. Literally, there is one mind. And the belief in separation has just made it seem like separate bodies in separate places with separate thoughts and with private minds. But actually, there's only one mind. And that Christ mind is one with God in the mind of God. So basically, when Jesus said, I and the Father are one, he was describing this divine mind that is a natural creation of God. So we're always opening. We're using every opportunity, every movie to open to this oneness. And of course, you get to wave and say hi to all your friends around the world who are in this same joyful awakening experience. So as we get ready to launch into the movie now, we're just about just a hair over two hours away from the movie. I have a song from my friend Helena Hoonison and she wrote this, took this down from spirit. It's called That's Not the Reason Why. This fits perfectly with our lesson for today. My grievance is hide the light of the world in me because it's always our belief in separation from God. It's only the ego that gives us an artificial perception of person's places and things. Really, we are all in love because God created us as love. But the differences of the ego are emphasized along with comparison and competition and so forth. But every time there's an upset, we are reminded that we're not upset for the reason we think. That's lesson number five, workbook lesson number five from Jesus. I am never upset for the reason I think. And this song from Helena, That's Not the Reason Why, is a very catchy tune that you may want to re-listen to. It's from her Sharing the Joy album. And it's a beautiful happy reminder from Jesus and the Holy Spirit that whatever we believe we're upset by in the world is not the real reason. And it's just the faulty perception of ego that we're looking through and our identification with the ego belief system that is generating the artificial upset. And our inheritance is joy. Our inheritance is eternal life. Our inheritance is happiness. So we don't want the ego, but we have to start to be reminded that we're never upset for the reason we think. So join me now in a closing meditation here. And again, this is from Helena Hooneson's Sharing the Joy album. It's called That's Not the Reason Why. Okay, go for it. My grievances hide the life. We can't hold on to grievances with anything, anyone, any person, place, situation, anything that we perceive in all of history that we feel is upsetting is a mistake. We need to come back to the present moment. Live in the moment. Live in the joy. Live in the happiness and share the joy. So remember, my grievances hide the light of the world in me. So we're going to go through the day. And if anything arises, it's going to be up and out, back to the Holy Spirit. Given as a gift so that our Holy Mind can be free of it. The darkness is shying away in the beautiful, pure light of God's love. Love you.