Lesson 237 – God creation

Now would I be as God created me.

Today I will accept the truth about myself. I will arise in glory, and allow the light in me to shine upon the world throughout the day. I bring the world the tidings of salvation which I hear as God my Father speaks to me. And I behold the world that Christ would have me see, aware it ends the bitter dream of death; aware it is my Father’s call to me.

Christ is my eyes today, and He the ears that listen to the Voice for God today. Father, I come to You through Him who is your Son, and my true Self as well. Amen.

I did the first day of the family constellation course today, and was completely blown away by the process. There is still so much to uncover, so much to re-learn.

Went for a walk on LlansteffanBeach as the sun was setting, and ate chips with tomato ketchup from the locally renowned kiosk on the way back.

Going to bed early. Energy work is exhausting.

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Lesson 237 – I am as God created me

Now would I be as God created me.

Today I will accept the truth about myself. I will arise in glory, and allow the light in me to shine upon the world throughout the day. I bring the world the tidings of salvation which I hear as God my Father speaks to me. And I behold the world that Christ would have me see, aware it ends the bitter dream of death; aware it is my Father’s call to me.

Christ is my eyes today, and He the ears that listen to the Voice for God today. Father, I come to You through Him who is your Son, and my true Self as well. Amen.

I did the first day of the family constellation course today, and was completely blown away by the process. There is still so much to uncover, so much to re-learn.

Went for a walk on LlansteffanBeach as the sun was setting, and ate chips with tomato ketchup from the locally renowned kiosk on the way back.

Going to bed early. Energy work is exhausting.

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Lesson 236 – The ruler of the mind

I rule my mind, which I alone must rule.

I have a kingdom I must rule. At times, it does not seem I am the king at all. It seems to triumph over me, and tell me what to think, and what to do and feel. And yet it has been given me to serve whatever purpose I perceive in it. My mind can only serve. Today I give its service to the Holy Spirit to employ as He sees fit. I thus direct my mind, which I alone can rule. And thus I set it free to do the Will of God.

Father, my mind is open to Your Thoughts, and closed today to every thought but Yours. I rule my mind, and offer it to you. Accept my gift, for it is Yours to me.

It took me five and a half hours to complete a journey Google Maps listed as three hours. One hour from junctions 5-8 on the M5 and a similar time at the M5/M4 junction outside Bristol. By the time I decided to stop at a Service station to stretch my legs, the heavens opened, and I knew I’d either be sitting in the car park till the rain stopped or getting drenched making the dash from the car. By the time I stepped out of my car onto the drive of the Bed and Breakfast I’m staying at, my bottom had lost all feelings, and my joints could have done with some WD40.

After being shown to a room the size of an apartment, I wasted no time heading to the recommended pub for a spot of nosh. It was curry night, so I went of the Caribbean sweet potato, chick pea and spinage which came with wild/white rice, but when it was offered, I went for the half and half. That’s half rice and half chips. A mistake, as the plate was piled so high I had to leave most of the rice, a few chips, and bits of the side salad. Nothing was left, however, of the large glass of Sauvignon Blanc, and I was feeling very light of step as I weaved my way back to the house.

What’s all this got to do with the lesson? Not a lot really. The challenge of the lesson was to accept the journey and to use my mind to give it my own meaning. I told myself every 30 minutes over the allotted 3 hours, that there was a good reason why I had to arrive at 6.30 instead of 4 p.m. I ruled my mind, and told it what to think.

I also learned that if you ask the satnav to take you a route that does not go through a toll road, it will take you 40 miles outside of the toll road.

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Lesson 235 – Happiness is my right

God in His mercy wills that I be saved.

I need but look upon all things that seem to hurt me, and with perfect certainty assure myself. ‘God wills that I be saved from this’, and merely watch them disappear. I need but keep in my mind my Father’s Will for me is only happiness, to find that only happiness has come to me. And I need to remember that God’s Love surrounds His son and keeps his sinlessness for ever perfect, to be sure that I am saved and safe forever in His arms. I am the Son He loves. And I am saved because God in his mercy wills it so.

Father, Your holiness is mine. Your Love created me, and make my sinlessness forever part of You. I have no guilt or sin in me. For there is none in you.

A friend of mine is struggling with the concept of no guilt, and brings me back, in a very confrontational way to the statement I made that ‘I don’t do guilt.’ I have not yet found a way to explain in a form that he can accept that it serves no useful purpose. Should mass murders feel guilt? Should mothers who neglect their children that come to harm feel guilt, should adulterers feel guilt. On all counts I said no, and convinced him even more that I am out of sync with the world, and with reasonable, logical people.

It was our support group meeting tonight, and one of the issues which came up was how to live a life of love in an illusionary world. At the end of the day, it has to be about our deeds and not just our words. Hopefully, in time, my friend will accept that he can let go of guilt and replace it with love.

I spent two hours with another friend who’s been living the laws of attractions. It was a joyous time as we shared our mutual manifestations, and I came away with another reading booked for 3rd September at the Yardbird in Birmingham City Centre.

And yes, I ended the day HAPPY!

 

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Lesson 234 – A child again

Father, today I am your Son again.

Today we will anticipate the time when dreams of sin and guilt are gone, and we have reached the holy peace we never left. Merely a tiny instant has elapsed between eternity and timelessness. So brief the interval there was no lapse in continuity, nor break in thoughts which are forever unified as one. Nothing has ever happened to disturb the peace of God the Father and the Son. This we accept as wholly true today.

We thank You, Father, that we cannot lose the memory of You and of Your Love. We recognise our safety, and give thanks for all the gifts You have bestowed on us, for all the loving help we have received, for Your eternal patience, and the Word which You have given us that we are served.

I discovered today that a family constellation course which is holding a deposit for me is due to be run this Saturday and Sunday – in Wales. The facilitator suggested that I go down on Friday night to give myself time to rest, as the courses can be very intense emotionally. I’ve been busy re-scheduling my appointments to go.

It wasn’t in my plans just now to engage in family work, but my higher self must know different.

I went to meet with the manager of the Harriet Tubman Bookshop tonight, and not only do I have 20 minute slot with the Gabbidons on September 1st to promote Betrayed, I also have an event on October 13th to promote all of my work, novels, CDs, and dance. And I can invite friends to join in.

I AM SO EXCITED!!

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Lesson 233 – A superb guide

I give my life to God to guide today.

Father, I give You all my thoughts today. I would have none of mine. In place of them, give me your own. I give you all my acts as well, that I may do your will instead of seeking goals which cannot be obtained, and wasting time in vain imaginings. Today I come to you. I will step back and merely follow you. Be you the guide, and I the follower who questions not the wisdom of the Infinite, nor Love whose tenderness I cannot comprehend, but which is yet your perfect gift to me.

Today we have one Guide to lead us on. And as we walk together, we will give this day to Him with no reserve at all. This is His day. And so it is a day of countless gifts and mercies unto us.

There is a short saying that encompasses everything in this lesson, and I had need of using it several times today. It’s ‘Let go and let God’.

In a meeting where I was expected to defend my corner I resisted the temptation to attack, and simply sat back and allowed the situation to unfold. I don’t yet know how the whole thing will play out, but I am very pleased that I had this lesson today to focus on, and I remained at peace throughout.

Today I knew the meaning of faith.

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Lesson 232 – Daily companion

Be in my mind, my Father, through the day.

Be in my mind, my father, when I wake, and shine on me throughout the day today. Let every minute be a time in which I dwell with You. And let me not forget my hourly thanksgiving that You have remained with me, and always will be there to hear my call to You and answer me. As evening comes, let all my thoughts be sill of You and of Your Love. And let me sleep sure of my safety, certain of Your care, and happily aware I am Your Son.

This is as every day should be. Today, practice the end of fear. Have faith in Him Who is your Father. Trust all things to Him. Let Him reveal all things to you and be you undismayed because you are His Son.

A few lessons ago the corresponding text was all about faith, and today I needed it in oodles and oodles. I was being challenged on lots of fronts, or maybe it was just one front taking many forms. I was being asked to defend my lack of belief in guilt, my belief that Jesus does not want us to worship him, and that I trust that whatever comes out of my mouth is what is supposed to come out, based on each encounter with another brother being a holy encounter, and that there is learning and teaching in every encounter.

The thing that kept me centred today was the total trust I placed in God to guide me, to speak through me, and to deliver whatever the message was that I needed to hear.

In another conversation, the person had experienced being surrounded by three snails as he sat in a chair. I shared my story about the snail on the door, (Lesson 225 – Loving my Dad) and he saw much relevance in the meanings for him.

I also made contact with someone who may want to put on a book promotion event for me. All in all a thoroughly guided and enjoyable day.

 

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Lesson 231 – What is salvation?

What is Salvation?

Salvation is a promise, made by God, that you would find your way to Him at last. It cannot but be kept. It guarantees that time will have an end, and all the thought that have been born in time will end as well. God’s Word is given every mind which thinks that it has separate thought, and will replace these thought of conflict with the Thoughts of peace.

Salvation is undoing in the sense that it does nothing, failing to support the world of dreams and malice. Thus it lets illusions go by. By not supporting them, it lets them quietly go down to dust.

Lesson 231

Father I will but remember you.

What can I seek for, Father, but Your Love? Perhaps I think I seek for something else; a something I have called by many names. Yet is Your Love the only thing I seek, or ever sought. For there is nothing else that I could ever really want to find. Let me remember You. What else could I desire but the truth about myself?

This is your will, my brother. And you share this will with me, and with the One as well Who is your Father. To remember Him is Heaven. This we seek. And only this is what it will be given us to find.

I was awake at 5.30 a.m. and approached this lesson while it was very still outside, and the only things making a noise were the birds. It felt great to remember that this is what life is really about, to be able to appreciate these beautiful moments, before the demands of the day clamours for our attention.

It was also the time when the characters from my new novel wanted to speak with me, to tell me their story, and to encourage me to write it down in their words, without any embellishments from me. At the end of the chapter I was, as always, surprised, and a little perplexed at the route they had taken me down. I’m sure there will be more revealed tomorrow.

On what turned out to be a beautifully sunny and hot day, I found myself enjoying it at the baptism of my friend’s baby in Whitnash, near Leamington Spa. As I sat later overlooking the golfers enjoying their game in the perfect rolling greens that I so love about Britain, I was again grateful to be alive, and to experience the wonder of God’s creation. Mind you, I had to go for a lie down by 5 p.m. ready for the evening shift.

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Lesson 230 – Finding peace

Now will I seek and find the peace of God.

In peace I was created. And in peace I do remain. It is not given me to change my Self. How merciful is God my Father, that when He created me He gave me peace forever. Now I ask but to be what I am. And can this be denied me, when it is forever true?

Father, I seek the peace You gave as mine in my creation. What was given then must be here now, for my creation was apart from time, and still remains beyond all change. The peace in which Your Son was born into your Mind is shining there unchanged. I am as You created me. I need but call on You to find the peace you gave. It is Your Will that gave it to Your Son.

It was our writing groups writing workshop in the Coffee Lounge today. A space shared with a group of very loud novelist (could there have been any writing with that racket going on?) Anyway, we waded our way through the complexities of the pontoum form of poetry, and I even managed a piece, related directly to my observations in the gym just hours before. It was a great joy to hear everyone else’s attempts.

Left there straight to the Flyover Show at Hockley Flyover where I stayed to see four acts, including Queen Nefretiti, a very encouraging drama piece, and the band Gabbidon. The lure of ackee and saltfish from Russells in Lozells was too great, but we had a chance to take in the very creative graffiti artists painting the subway. And the sun shone!

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Lesson 229 – I am love

Love, which created me, is what I am.

I seek my own Identity, and find It in these words. ‘Love, which created me, is what I am.’ Now need I seek no more. Love has prevailed. So still It waited for my coming home, that I will turn away no longer from the holy face of Christ. And what I look upon attests the truth of the Identity I sought to lose, but which my Father has kept safe for me.

Father, my thanks to You for what I am; for keeping my Identity untouched and sinless, in the midst of all the thoughts of sin my foolish mind made up. And thanks to You for saving me from them. Amen.

There is something incredibly comforting about these lessons. It wasn’t till it was discussed at the group tonight that I realised that I was supposed to be reading the initial introduction ‘what is forgiveness’ at the beginning of each of these lessons from 221-230, for added meaning and relevance. Despite that they have had the most amazing calming effect on me. They seem to be a constant reminder of who I really am, in a really gentle but insistent way. I am love. That’s my true identity. Why wouldn’t I be at peace?

I spent most of the day researching and writing the new novel. Had a real creative splurge. I’m developing a real relationship with the characters, and they are speaking to me with their own voices.

Had a mini celebration with a friend at the Bishop Vesey in Sutton. Another copy of Betrayed sold.

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