 When we look at our lives and if we count the way that our lives have gone, if it was like a graph it would just kind of go off the chart. In really very recent years, for our states of mind, it's been an exponential change. And that's what the hopeful aspect of all this is. It's very exponential. The world would have you believe it's very, very slow and you can even get quotes from the course about millions of years and perhaps longer than it took for the separation to occur. And those are metaphors, kind of like God weeps. You can find anything, go in and book. I think our experience and what I want to share is it's a very hopeful, joyful experience. Like if you really do take to this in a very sincere way, you can actually have a huge shift in consciousness. Things can happen and you can experience things that you would never have imagined. You've rolled the clock back 20 years on either of us and if somebody had shown us a video of our lives, we both would have just left. There was a lot of shyness with a lot of parallels. We were both very shy. I would have either said if somebody had shown me a video of how my life has gone the last 20 years, I would have just left and said, you're crazy. That's ridiculous. Or I would have just been in total disbelief saying, no, you're wrong. You're absolutely wrong about that. That could never happen. I don't know who that is on there. It has a resemblance but it's not me. And so in one sense you become a living demonstration of what's possible. And isn't that wonderful to teach us to demonstrate? And when we say we're having a lot of fun, we're not kidding. We're sincere about that. We really are having a lot of fun. So to me, this is why it's encouraging. I'm happy when somebody meets me and they say, wow, that had a major impact on my life or it really turned my life around. I hear a lot of those kind of witnesses and stories. It's the Holy Spirit. It's not David. There's no person doing anything here. It's just the Holy Spirit. My mind is calling forth witnesses and we get a bunch of witnesses and that's exactly how it works. The Holy Spirit has a major convincing job to do to convince you that you're whole and complete instead of separate and unworthy and weak. It's just a major convincing job. But when people would ask me, well, how do you do that? I said, well, I kept coming to the table with a little willingness and letting that little willingness meet with the glorious magnitude and the power of the Holy Spirit. That's the way that it worked for me. I could look back and write a memoir and say, well, I made some good moves here and made some good investments here and there. It was more like I started surrendering and yielding and listening more and more and more and following. And that made the whole difference. Wouldn't it be funny if you wrote your memoirs and then you were accused of plagiarism? That would be a real funny situation. Plagiarizing your own memoirs. That's amazing. If you told me 20 years ago that what was going to happen in my life was about to happen, I would have been so joyous. Now, in truth, a lot of it has been like a major pain in the ass. But if you told me 20 years ago that that was going to happen, jumping up and down for joy, that's the way that I should be now. So I try to remember that. I try to remember, yeah, yeah, it is a pain in the ass. But it's great. It's like you would be besides yourself if you realized what was going to happen in your life. So it's kind of like that duality, kind of like that good and bad thing going on. And I just wanted to mention that because I never could have seen this coming. I never could have seen that coming. And I wouldn't have believed it either. And for people to come up to me and say, oh, you know, like David was telling a story about all these different versions of how people had a course of miracles and went through all the stages of their houses and all these things. And nobody ever really reads it. It just sits there on the bookshelf. There have been thousands of people who have told me, yeah, I tried to read the course. It didn't make any sense. But just the years started to make sense to me. And they go back to the course and they start to get excited about it. So I was lucky in the sense that it was that way for me right from the beginning. Because the first time that I ever picked up the course and read it, it might as well have been written in a foreign language. It just made no sense whatsoever. And then Art and Person appeared to me several times. And this is where people, they really don't get it about Art and Person. There's no way that I could have ever written in the book, The Distance of the Universe. It just wouldn't be impossible. My contribution to the book is that I carry on my end of the conversation and I insert notes that tell people what was going on for me and my narration tells people what was going on for me at that point in my life. That's how you can tell that it has a timeline. It has a real story behind it. And that's really my contribution. But when it comes to clarifying the course, that wasn't my contribution and there's no way that I could have done that. So they started explaining the course to me and then after seven or eight visits, I went back and read the course again. This thing that made no sense whatsoever. And I started to read it and I could look at it and I said, wow, it does say that. It does mean that. And it started to actually make sense to me. And when I saw that, that's when I started to get excited about what I was doing. Because I realized, no, if you could do that for me, it's probably going to be able to do the same thing for other people. So it's like all of a sudden, okay, I realized that I was on to something. I was participating in something that was really interesting. And that's when I started to trust art in person a little bit more. Was when I realized that what they were doing was actually working for me. And I think that people, you know, they start to trust the Holy Spirit. When they realize what the Holy Spirit is doing for them is working. I don't think it's a blind faith. I've said this before, but I don't think it's a blind kind of the faith. I think that the faith of the Holy Spirit is something that the Holy Spirit earns by actually making things work for us and by actually leading us in the right direction if we're willing to listen. So like the course says, Mary Baker Eddy also said, everyone is called, but few choose to listen. And by the way, Jesus mentions a couple of quotations from Mary Baker Eddy's Science and Health, which was published exactly 100 years before Course in Miracles. And Mary Baker Eddy's Science and Health, 1876, Course in Miracles, 1976. And Jesus is kind of like tipping his hat to Mary Baker Eddy by using a couple of things that she did in that book. And he's not a plagiarist, by the way. He's just repeating a couple of really interesting ideas. For example, it was Mary Baker Eddy who I believe first pointed out that the Bible says that a deep sleep fell upon Adam. And nowhere is there any reference to him waking up. I think Mary Baker Eddy is the first one to point that out. And so Adam fell asleep and sleeping is a dream. The Bible never says that he woke up. And Course in Miracles also mentions that there's no reference to Adam ever waking up. Well, our job is to wake up. And the way that you awaken is through forgiveness. Course says right in the preface, forgiveness is the way that we will remember it. And that's how you do it. If you practice forgiveness, eventually you will remember God. You will wake up and you'll be home. And that's when you'll realize that she never left.