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Frances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-1.1-Principles of Miracles.50-51OrEd-T-1.1-Principles of Miracles.50-5150. The miracle is a learning device which decreases the need for time. In the longitudinal or horizontal plane, the recognition of the true equality of all the members of the Sonship seems to require almost endless time. However, the sudden shift from horizontal to vertical perception, which is the miracle, brings an interval where both doer and receiver come much farther along in time than they could without the miracle. The foundation of the miracle is recognizing the perfect holiness and equality of doer and receiver. The miracle shortens time by making...2015-08-0410 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-1.1-Principles of Miracles.43-49OrEd-T-1.1-Principles of Miracles.43-4943. A major contribution of miracles is releasing man from his sense of isolation, deprivation, and lack. Miracles are affirmations of Sonship, which is a state of completion and abundance. Whatever is true and real is eternal and cannot change or be changed. The spirit is therefore unalterable because it is already perfect. The mind can elect the level it chooses to serve. The only limit on its choice is, it cannot serve two masters. If it chooses, the mind becomes a medium by which the spirit creates along the line of...2015-07-2910 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-1.1-Principles of Miracles.36-42OrEd-T-1.1-Principles of Miracles.36-4236. Christ-controlled miracles are part of the Atonement, but Christ-guidance is personal and leads to personal salvation. The impersonal nature of miracles is an essential ingredient, because this enables Jesus to control their distribution. Christ-guidance leads to the highly personal experience of revelation. This is why it involves personal choice. A guide does not control, but he does direct, leaving the following up to me. "Lead us not into temptation" means "guide us out of our own errors." "Take up your cross and follow me" means, "Recognize my errors and chose to abandon them...2015-07-2311 min
Frances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-1.1-Principles of Miracles.28-35OrEd-T-1.1-Principles of Miracles.28-3528. Miracles are a means of organizing the different levels of consciousness. Miracles come from the subconscious level below, and revelations come from the superconscious level above. The conscious level is in between, and responds to either the sub- or super-conscious impulses. Consciousness is the level that works in the world, and is able to respond to both above and below. Consciousness has no impulses of itself, but is only the tool for making a response. It can be very wrong. Revelation unites spirit directly with God. Revelation causes complete but temporary...2015-07-1910 min
Frances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-1.1-Principles of Miracles.21-27OrEd-T-1.1-Principles of Miracles.21-2721. Miracles are natural expressions of total forgiveness. Through miracles, man accepts God's forgiveness by extending it to others. 22. Miracles are associated with fear only because of the wrong belief that darkness can hide. Man believes that what he cannot see does not exist, and his physical eyes can't see in the dark. This is a solution that has led to the denial of the Holy Spirit. The escape from darkness involves two stages: A.The recognition that darkness cannot hide. This step usually brings fear. B.The recognition that there is...2015-07-1408 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-1.1-Principles of Miracles.1-20OrEd-T-1.1-Principles of Miracles.1-201. There is no difference in difficulty in miracles. One is not "bigger" nor "harder" than another. All expressions of love are total. They are all the same.2. Miracles of themselves do not matter. Their Source is all that matters, and It is far beyond human evaluation. 3. Miracles happen naturally as expressions of love. The miracle is the love that inspires them. Everything that comes from love is a miracle.4. God is the Giver of life. All miracles support life. His Voice will specifically direct me. I will...2015-07-1207 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-1.0-Forward and IntroductionOrEd-T-1.0-Forward and IntroductionForward: This course is a beginning, not an end. My Friend goes with me. I am not alone. No one who calls on Him can call in vain. Whatever troubles me, I am certain that He has the answer, and will gladly give it to me, if I turn to Him and ask. He will give all answers that I need for anything that seems to trouble me. He knows the way to solve all problems and resolve all doubts. His certainty is for me, and will be given to me. I...2015-07-1203 min
Frances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-25.5-The Joining of MindsOrEd-T-25.5-The Joining of Minds.mp332. Minds that are joined and recognize they are can feel no guilt. For they cannot attack, and seeing their safety in this happy fact, they rejoice that this is so. They seek for joy because it is their purpose to behold it and rejoice. Their joy is in the innocence they see. Everyone seeks for what brings him joy as he defines it. Yet, the way the aim is seen makes the choice of means inevitable. The choice of means is beyond hope of change, unless the aim is changed. Then the 2015-05-0705 min
Frances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-25.4-Fundamental Law-PerceptionOrEd-T-25.4-Fundamental Law-Perception23. The extent to which I value guilt, to that extent I will perceive a world in which attack is justified. The extent to which I recognize that guilt is meaningless, to that extent I will perceive attack cannot be justified. This is in strict accord with vision's fundamental law: I see what I believe is there, and I believe it is there because I want it there. Perception has no other law than this. The rest stems from this, to hold it up and offer it support. Adapted to this world, this is perception's form...2015-05-0208 min
Frances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-25.3-Savior From the Dark.2OrEd-T-25.3-Savior From the Dark.217. The Holy Spirit is the frame God set around the part of Him that I would see as separate. Yet the frame is joined to its Creator, one with Him, and with His masterpiece. This is the frame's purpose, and I do not make the frame into the picture when I choose to see the Holy Spirit in place of the picture. The frame that God has given serves His purpose, and not my purpose which is apart from His. It is my separate purpose that obscures the picture, and cherishes the frame...2015-05-0107 min
Frances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-25.3-Savior From the Dark.1OrEd-T-25.3-Savior From the Dark.112. What the body's eyes perceive does fill me with fear. Perhaps I fancy to attain some peace and satisfaction in the world as I perceive it. Yet, it is evident the outcome does not change. Despair is always the result, despite my hopes and wishes. There is no exception, and never will be. The past gave me no rewards that I wish to keep. My learning this is the only value the past can have. This makes me willing to relinquish it and have it gone forever. 13. It is strange that...2015-05-0104 min
Frances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-25.2-The Appointed TaskOrEd-T-25.2-The Appointed Task4. The task that Christ appointed to me is not hard to do, for He is the one Who does it. And in doing it I will learn the body only seems to be the means to do it. For the Mind is Christ's, and mine, as His holiness directs the body through the mind at one with Him. And I am manifest to my holy brother, as he is to me. This is the meeting of the holy Christ with Himself. No differences are perceived to stand between the aspects of His holiness, which...2015-04-2606 min
Frances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-25.1-Introduction, The RemedyOrEd-T-25.1-Introduction, The Remedy1. The Christ in me does not inhabit a body. He is in me, so it must be that I am not within a body. What is within cannot be without. And it is certain that I cannot be apart from what is at the very center of my life. What gives me life cannot be housed in death. No more can I be housed in death. Christ is within a frame of holiness. It's only purpose is so He may be made manifest to those who do not know Him. That He may call...2015-04-2402 min
Frances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-24.8-The Meeting Place.2OrEd-T-24.8-The Meeting Place.268. A co-creator must have a Son. This Son must have been created like it's father, a perfect being, all-encompassing and all-encompassed, nothing to add and nothing taken away. It is not born of size nor weight nor time nor held to limits or uncertainties of any kind. Here the means and end unite as one. This one has no end. All this is true, but has no meaning to one with uncertain purpose, divided aim, and/or an unlearned lesson in his memory. 69. This course only attempts to teach what can be...2015-03-0406 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-24.8-The Meeting Place.1OrEd-T-24.8-The Meeting Place.162. Everyone tied to this world defends the specialness he wants to be the truth! Its wish is law to him, and he obeys. He provides everything his specialness demands. He loves it, and denies nothing it needs. While it calls to him, he hears no other Voice. And he protects it from attack with every resource available. This is my son, beloved of me as I am to my Father. However, it has taken the place of my creations, who are son to me, that I might share the Fatherhood of God, not take...2015-02-2807 min
Frances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-24.7-Salvation From Fear.2OrEd-T-24.7-Salvation From Fear.255. Eternity is regained by recognizing the Christ in my brother. I must choose between his body or his holiness, as what I will see. My salvation and peace are only in his holiness, not in a body. God set Himself forever in my brother's holiness, that I mighty see the truth about myself in terms I recognize and understand. I will choose in countless situations, throughout seemingly endless time, until the truth is my decision. 56. Specialness looks on my brother's body and does not see him. The Christ in me beholds my...2015-02-2507 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-24.7-Salvation from Fear.1OrEd-T-24.7-Salvation from Fear.149. The world is still before my brother's holiness. Peace and blessings descend gently on the world, so complete not one trace of conflict remains to haunt me in the night. My brother is my savior from the dreams of fear. He heals my sense of sacrifice and fear, that what I have will disappear. In him is my assurance God is here, and with me now. While my brother is what he is, I can be sure that God is knowable and will be known to me. For God could never leave His own...2015-02-2307 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-24.6-Resolution of the DreamOrEd-T-24.6-Resolution of the Dream.mp340. The Christ in me is very still. He looks on what He loves and knows it as Himself. And He rejoices at what He sees, because He knows that it is one with Him and with His Father. Specialness, too, takes joy in what it sees, although it is not true. Yet, what it seeks is a source of joy as I conceive joy. What I wish is true for me. It is not possible that I can wish for something, and lack faith that it is so. Wishing makes real, as...2015-02-2110 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-24.5-Specialness and SalvationOrEd-T-24.5-Specialness and Salvation34. Specialness is a lack of trust in anyone except myself, for faith is invested in myself. Everything else becomes my enemy, feared, dangerous, hated and worthy of destruction. Whatever gentleness it offers is only a deception, but its hate is real. In danger of destruction, it must kill, and I am drawn to it to kill it first. And such is guilt's attraction. Here, death is enthroned as savior, crucifixion is redemption now, and salvation is destruction of the world, except myself. 35. Specialness is the purpose of the body. And it is...2015-02-1607 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-24.4-Forgiveness of SpecialnessOrEd-T-24.4-Forgiveness of Specialness.26. Forgiveness is the end of specialness. Forgiveness is release from all illusions, and that is why it is impossible to forgive partly. Whoever clings to illusions, keeping just one error for himself as still lovely, cannot see himself as sinless. He makes the error a sin, and calls it "unforgivable". He cannot wholly forgive, because he would not receive forgiveness for himself. For he would surely receive complete forgiveness the moment he gave it. His secret guilt would disappear, forgiven by himself. Illusions disappear when they are forgiven.27. My cherished form of...2015-02-1509 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-24.3-Treachery of Specialness.2OrEd-T-24.3-Treachery of Specialness.219. I will think of the loveliness that I will see in myself, when I have looked on my brother as a friend. He is the enemy of my specialness, but only a friend to what is real in me. The attack I thought I made on him did not take away the gift that God would have him give to me. His need to give it is as great as mine to have it. I let him forgive me all my specialness, making me whole, one in mind with him. He waits for my...2015-02-1308 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-24.3-Treachery of Specialness.1OrEd-T-24.3-Treachery of Specialness.1 12. Specialness always makes comparisons. It is established by a lack seen in another, and maintained by searching for and keeping in clear sight all lacks it can perceive. Specialness seeks and looks on this. Comparison is an ego device, for love makes no comparisons. And always, the one it diminishes would be my savior, if I had not chosen to make him a tiny measure of my specialness instead. Against the littleness I see in him, I stand tall and stately, clean and honest, pure and unsullied by comparison with what I see in...2015-02-1109 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-24.2-Specialness, Sub. for LoveOrEd-T-24.2-Specialness, a Sub. for Love3. Love is extension. To give the smallest gift is to know love's purpose. Love offers everything forever. Hold back only one belief, one offering, and love is gone, because I asked a substitute to take its place. The substitute for peace is war. War comes with the alternative that I choose for love. And choosing the alternative gives it all the reality it seems to have. 4. Conflicting outcomes are impossible, so beliefs will never openly attack each other. But an unrecognized belief is a decision to war in secret, where...2015-02-0809 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-24.1-Intro-Specialness:SeparationOrEd-T-24.1-Intro-Specialness/Separation1. I will not forget that the motivation for this course is the attainment and the keeping of the state of peace. Given this state, the mind is quiet, and the condition in which God is remembered is attained. It is not necessary to tell Him what to do. He will not fail. Where He can enter, He is there already. And can it be He cannot enter where He wills to be? Peace will be mine because it is His Will. Can you believe a shadow can hold back the Will that holds the universe...2015-02-0802 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-23.5-The Fear of LifeOrEd-T-23.5-The Fear of Life47. What is not loving must be attack. What is not love is murder. Every illusion is an assault on the truth, and every illusion does violence to the idea of love, for the illusion seems to be equal to the truth. God remains the only place of safety, for there is no attack in Him. And no form of illusion stalks Heaven, for Heaven is wholly true. No differences enter there, and what is all the same cannot conflict. I am not asked to fight against my wish to murder. But I am...2015-02-0510 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-23.4-Salvation Without CompromiseOrEd-T-23.4-Salvation Without Compromise41. I do not recognize some of the forms attack can take. I do not recognize the source of my pain. Attack in any form will hurt me as much as in a form I recognize. Attack in any form is equally destructive, and its purpose does not change. If the intent is death, it does not matter what form it takes. The only intent of attack is murder. Attack serves to cover the massive guilt, and frantic fear of punishment the murderer feels. If the intent is death, it does not matter what form...2015-02-0207 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-23.3-The Laws of Chaos.3OrEd-T-23.3-The Laws of Chaos.333. These do not seem to be the goals of chaos, for by that great reversal, they appear to be the laws of order. But chaos is lawlessness, and has no laws. Its seeming laws must be perceived as true to be believed. The goal of madness must be seen as sanity, as fear is lifted to the throne of love. Now, fear is the substitute for love, and the savior from salvation. The laws of fear make death appear lovely, and we give thanks to the hero on love's throne, who saved the...2015-01-2707 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-23.3-The Laws of Chaos.2OrEd-T-23.3-The Laws of Chaos.226. There can be no release and no escape. Atonement becomes a myth, and vengeance, not forgiveness, is the Will of God. From where all this begins, there is no sight of help that can succeed. Only destruction can be the outcome. And God Himself seems to be siding with it to overcome His Son. The ego will not enable me to find escape from what it wants. That is the function of this course, which does not value what the ego cherishes. 27. The ego values only what it takes. (4) This leads...2015-01-2509 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-23.3-The Laws of Chaos.1OrEd-T-23.3-The Laws of Chaos.119. The "laws" of chaos can be brought to light, but not understood. Chaotic laws are hardly meaningful and therefore out of reason's sphere. Yet, they appear to constitute an obstacle to reason and to truth. We will look beyond them calmly, understanding what they are, and not believing what they say is true. It is important to understand what they are, because their purpose is to attack the truth and make it meaningless. These are the laws that rule the world we made. Yet, they govern nothing, and need not be broken, only...2015-01-2307 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-23.2-The Irreconcilable Beliefs.2OrEd-T-23.2-The Irreconcilable Beliefs.213. Truth does not fight against illusions, nor do illusions fight against the truth. Illusions battle only with themselves. Being fragmented, they fragment. One illusion about myself can battle with another, yet the war of two illusions is a state where nothing happens. There is no victor, and no victory. I will remember what I know, when I learn I cannot be in conflict. I will remember I am as God created me. Truth is indivisible, and far beyond the little reach of illusions. Truth stands radiant and quiet in the peace of God, untouched...2015-01-2006 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-23.2-The Irreconcilable Beliefs.1OrEd-T-23.2-The Irreconcilable Beliefs.17. The memory of God comes to the quiet mind. It cannot come where there is conflict, for a mind at war against itself does not remember eternal gentleness. The means of war are not the means of peace, and what the warlike would remember is not love. War is impossible unless belief in victory is cherished. Conflict within me must imply that I believe the ego has the power to be victorious. Why else would I identify with it? Surely I realize the ego is at war with God. The ego is certain it...2015-01-1707 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-23.1-Intro.War Against MyselfOrEd-T-23.1-Intro.War Against Myself1. Can I see that the opposite of sinlessness is weakness and frailty? Innocence is strength, and nothing else is strong. The sinless cannot fear, for sin of any kind is weakness. Attack would use a show of strength to cover frailty, but not conceal it, for how can the unreal be hidden? No one is strong who has an enemy, and no one can attack unless he thinks he has an enemy. The belief in weakness is therefore the belief in enemies, and weakness is not the Will of God. Being opposed to...2015-01-1606 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-22.7-Freedom and Holy Spirit.2OrEd-T-22.7-Freedom and Holy Spirit.258. We will see our value through each other's eyes. Each one is released, as he beholds his savior, instead of the attacker that he thought was there. All the world is released through this releasing as we fulfill our part in bringing peace. For we have asked, "What is our function here?", and have been answered. We will not seek to change our function nor substitute another goal. Only this one was given to us. We accept this one, and serve it willingly. For how the Holy Spirit uses the gifts we give...2015-01-1410 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-22.7-Freedom and Holy Spirit.1OrEd-T-22.7-Freedom and Holy Spirit.151. What do I value, freedom of the mind, or freedom of the body? I cannot have both. For one will be my goal, and the other the means to reach the goal. The means must serve the goal, and lead to its predominance. As the goal is reached, the means are seen as functionless. Everyone yearns for freedom, and will seek for it where he believes it can be found. Which one he chooses as his goal, mind or body, he will make the other serve his choice as means to reach it...2015-01-1108 min
Frances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-22.6-Weakness and DefensivenessOrEd-T-22.6-Weakness and Defensiveness45. How are illusions overcome? Surely not by force, or anger, nor by opposing them in any way. Only by letting reason tell me that illusions contradict reality, can they be overcome. Illusions go against what must be true. The opposition comes from illusions and not from reality. Reality opposes nothing. What is, needs no defense, and offers none. Illusions need defense because they are weak. It is easy to walk the way of truth when only weakness interferes. We do not want anything that needs defense, for it would only weaken us. We are...2015-01-0707 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-22.5-The Branching of the RoadOrEd-T-22.5- The Branching of the Road38. It is quite apparent that I can't go forward when I come to a branch in the road. I must go either one way or the other. For now if I go straight ahead I will go nowhere. The whole purpose of coming this far was to decide which branch I will take now. It doesn't matter the way I came. That way no longer serves. No one who reaches this far can make the wrong decision, but he can delay by not deciding on which way to go. No part...2014-11-2707 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-22.4-Reason and Holy RelationshipOrEd-T-22.4-Reason and Holy Relationship29. Reason's goal is to make plain and obvious. I can see reason, but not with the body's eyes. Vision is sense, quite literally. This is the beginning of vision that has meaning. Vision must, and can be understood, for it is plain, obvious, and not ambiguous. The ego and reason are contradictory, and cannot co-exist in my awareness. Here, reason and the ego go their separate ways. The introduction of reason into the ego's thought system is the beginning of its undoing. 30. Reason sees through errors, telling me what I thought...2014-11-2509 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-22.3-My Brother's Sinlessness.2OrEd-T-22.3-My Brother's Sinlessness.2*22. We must not forsake each other now. For we who are the same, will not decide alone nor differently. We give each other either life or death. We are each other's savior or his judge, offering him sanctuary or condemnation. This course will be believed entirely or not at all. For it is wholly true or wholly false and cannot be partially believed. And I will either escape from misery entirely, or not at all. Reason will tell me that there is no middle ground where I can pause uncertainly, waiting to choose between...2014-11-2406 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-22.3-My Brother's Sinlessness.1OrEd-T-22.3-My Brother's Sinlessness.116. The opposite of illusion appears to be disillusionment. They seem to be the only alternatives and different from each other. In truth they are the same. Both bring the same amount of misery, though each seems to remedy the misery the other brings. Every illusion carries pain and suffering in the dark folds of heavy covers where it hides its nothingness. Yet in these dark and heavy covers, are those who seek illusions, covered and hidden from the joy of truth. Truth is the opposite of illusions. But to the ego, truth is meaningless. 2014-11-2306 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-22.2-Message of Holy Relation.2OrEd-T-22.2-Message of Holy Relation.211. Our holy relationship is like a baby now, so recently reborn from an unholy relationship, and yet more ancient than the old illusion that it replaced. Yet, in the infant, my vision is returned to me, and he will speak the language both of us can understand. He is not nurtured by the "something else" I thought was me. He was not given, nor received by anything except myself. Instead of separate, in each holy relationship the ability to communicate is reborn. For no two people can unite except through Christ, Whose vision...2014-11-2206 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-22.2-Message of Holy Relation.1OrEd-T-22.2-Message of Holy Relation.15. I will let reason take another step. If I hate the one God loves, and attack whom He would heal, then I have a different will than my Creator. Yet, if I am His Will, my belief must be that I am not myself. I can indeed believe this with faith, and see much evidence as witness. Then I wonder why there arises in myself a strange uneasiness, a sense of being disconnected, a haunting fear and lack of meaning? It is as though I wandered in without a plan except to wander...2014-11-2107 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-22.1-Intro-Salvation, Holy Rela.OrEd-T-22.1-Intro-Salvation, Holy Rela.1. So long enslaved, we take pity on ourselves. We whom God has joined, have come together, and rejoice we no longer look on sin alone. If two look on sin together, they never see sin in the same place and time. Sin is an individual perception, seen in the other, yet believed to be within himself. And each one seems to make a different error, one the other cannot understand. Brothers, all sin is the same, made by the same, and forgiven in the same way. 2. The holiness of our relationship forgives...2014-11-2005 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-21.9-The Inner ShiftOrEd-T-21.9-The Inner Shift(75. Do I desire a world I rule instead of one which rules me? Do I desire a world where I am powerful instead of helpless? Do I desire a world in which I have no enemies and cannot sin? And do I want to see what I denied, because it is the truth?)85. Are thoughts then dangerous? To bodies, yes! The thoughts that seem to kill are those that teach the thinker he can be killed. And so he dies because of what he learned. He goes from life...2014-11-1905 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-21.8-Perception and Wishes.2OrEd-T-21.8-Perception and Wishes.276. I have already answered the first three questions, but not the last. For this one still seems fearful and unlike the rest. Yet reason would assure me they are all the same. We said this year would emphasize the sameness of things that are the same. This final question, which is the last I need decide, still seems to hold a threat that the rest do not. And this imagined difference attests to my belief that truth may be the enemy I yet may find. This seems to be the last remaining hope of...2014-11-1807 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-21.8-Perception and Wishes.1OrEd-T-21.8-Perception and Wishes.170. Helplessness is sin's condition. This one requirement demands that helplessness be believed. It is the cost of sin, and only the helpless could believe in sin. I can see that all my misery comes from the strange belief that I am powerless. Enormity has appeal only to the little, and only those who believe that they are little could see attraction there. Treachery to the Son of God is the defense of those who do not identify with him. I am for him, or against him. Either I love him or attack him, protect...2014-11-1706 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-21.7-Reason and Correction.2OrEd-T-21.7-Reason and Correction.265. Reason, like love, would reassure me and does not seek to frighten me. The power to heal the Son of God is given me because he must be one with me. I am responsible for how he sees himself. And reason tells me it is given me to change his whole mind, which is one with me, in just an instant. And any instant serves to bring complete correction of his errors and make him whole. The instant that I choose to let myself be healed, in that same instant is his whole salvation...2014-11-1405 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-21.7-Reason and Correction.1OrEd-T-21.7-Reason and Correction.159. Reason values only the correction of errors. Reason cannot see sin, only errors, and it leads to their correction. When I think I sin, reason tells me that I only call for help. If I accept the help I called for, I will believe that help is mine to give, and giving help, undo the belief in sin. For uncorrected error deceives me about the power that is in me to make correction. If the power in me can correct, and I do not allow it to do so, I deny correction to myself...2014-11-1307 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-21.6-Reason and Perception.2OrEd-T-21.6-Reason and Perception.254. God's plan is simple, never circular and never self defeating. He has no Thoughts except the Self-extending, and in this my will must be included. Thus, there must be a part of me that knows His Will and shares it. It is not meaningful to ask if what must be is so. But it is meaningful to ask, "Why am I unaware of what is so (true)?". This must have an answer for God's plan of salvation to be complete. God's plan is complete, because the Source does not know of incompletion. The answer...2014-11-1205 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-21.6-Reason and Perception.1OrEd-T-21.6-Reason and Perception.149. Perception makes and selects the world I see. It literally picks it out as the mind directs. Perhaps the laws of size, shape and brightness would hold if other things were equal. But other things are not equal. I am more likely to find what I wish to see, than what I prefer to overlook. Perception is a choice and not a fact. But far more depends on this choice than I realize. To those who want to hear it, the still small Voice for God is not drowned out by all the ego's...2014-11-1006 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-21.5-The Fear to Look WithinOrEd-T-21.5-The Fear to Look Within41. The Holy Spirit will never teach me that I am sinful. He will correct errors, but this is not fearful. I am willing to admit that I am afraid to look within and see the sin I think is there. My faith that sin is there witnesses to my desire that sin be there to see. The ego deems that fear, in association with sin is quite appropriate, lets me feel ashamed, and smiles approvingly. Yet this only seems to be the source of fear. The ego's temples do not shake because...2014-11-0908 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-21.4-Faith, Belief, and Vision.2OrEd-T-21.4-Faith, Belief, and Vision.235. Faith/belief now become attached to vision. All the means that once served sin are redirected toward holiness. Sin is redefined as limitation. Because of fear, I hate those I try to limit to the body, and refuse to forgive my brother. I would condemn him to the body, because the means for sin are dear to me. Yet, holiness would set my brother free, removing hatred by removing fear at its source, not as a symptom. 36. Those can have no fear who would free their brothers from the body. They...2014-11-0706 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-21.4-Faith, Belief, and Vision.1OrEd-T-21.4-Faith, Belief, and Vision.129. All special relationships are bargains with reality, and have sin as their goal. These seeming unions are adjusted toward the goal of sin. I will not forget that to bargain is to set a limit, and I hate any brother with whom I have a limited relationship. I may attempt to keep the bargain in the name of "fairness," sometimes demanding payment of myself, and sometimes of the other. With "fairness", I attempt to ease the guilt that comes with the accepted purpose of sin. That is why the Holy Spirit must change...2014-11-0606 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-21.3-Responsibility For Sight.2OrEd-T-21.3-Responsibility For Sight.222. The Holy Spirit can easily give me faith in holiness, and the vision to see holiness. However, the altar where these gifts belong has not been left open and unoccupied. I have set up my idols to something else where faith in holiness should be. This something else seems real to me, and it seems to tell me what I must do. Faith in holiness that would show me otherwise, must seem unreal. I am not asked to make or do what lies beyond my understanding. I am asked to make room for truth...2014-11-0407 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-21.3-Responsibility For Sight.1OrEd-T-21.3-Responsibility For Sight13. Little is asked of us to learn this course. It is the same small willingness we need to have our whole relationship transformed to joy, the little gift we offer to the Holy Spirit for which He gives us everything, the very little salvation rests on, the tiny change of mind by which the crucifixion is changed to resurrection. And being true, it is so simple that it cannot fail to be completely understood. Rejected yes, but not ambiguous. If we choose against it now, it will not be because it is obscure, but...2014-11-0107 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-21.2-The Imagined WorldOrEd-T-21.2-The Imagined World3. The world the sightless "see" must be imagined, for what it really looks like is unknown to them. They must infer from INDIRECT evidence, and reconstruct their inferences. They stumble and fall, or walk unharmed through doors that they thought were closed. So it is with me. I do not see. My cues for inference are wrong. I stumble, fall down, and am not aware I can go through doors I thought were closed. But the doors stand open before my unseeing eyes, waiting in welcome for me. 4. The world must be...2014-10-2907 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-21.1-Intro.The Inner PictureOrEd-T-21.1-Intro.The Inner Picture 1. Projection makes perception. The world I see is what I gave it, nothing more nor less. Therefore, to me it is important. The world is the witness to my state of mind, the outside picture of an inward condition. As a man thinks, so does he perceive. Therefore, I do not seek to change the world, but I will to change my mind about the world. Perception is a result, not a cause. That is why order of difficulty in miracles is meaningless. Everything looked upon with vision is healed and holy. Everything...2014-10-2602 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-20.8-Consistency of Means-EndOrEd-T-20.8-Consistency of Means-End 58. Jesus has spoken about discrepancies between means and end, and how these must be brought together before our holy relationship can bring us only joy. He said that the means to meet the Holy Spirit's goal comes from the same Source as His purpose. Being so simple and direct, this course is consistent. The seeming inconsistencies, or parts we find more difficult than others, are only indications of areas where means and end are still discrepant. This produces great discomfort, and need not be. This course requires almost nothing of us. It is impossible...2014-10-2209 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-20.7-Temple of the Holy Spirit.2OrEd-T-20.7-Temple of the Holy Spirit.251. Idolaters will always be afraid of love, for nothing so severely threatens them as love's approach. Let love draw near them, overlooking the body, as it will surely do, and they retreat in fear, feeling the seeming firm foundation of their temple begin to shake and loosen. Brothers, we tremble with them. Yet what we fear is only the herald of escape. This place of darkness is not our home. Our temple is not threatened. We are no longer idolaters. The Holy Spirit's purpose lies safe in our relationship, not our bodies...2014-10-2008 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-20.7-Temple of the Holy Spirit.1OrEd-T-20.7-Temple of the Holy Spirit.145. The meaning of the Son of God lies solely in his relationship with his Creator. And this is wholly loving and forever. If his relationship were elsewhere, it would rest upon contingency, but there is nothing else. Yet, the Son of God has invented an unholy relationship between him and his Father. His real relationship is one of perfect union and unbroken continuity. The one he made is partial, self-centered, broken into fragments, and full of fear. The one created by his Father is wholly self-encompassing and self-extending. The one he made...2014-10-2007 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-20.6-Heralds of EternityOrEd-T-20.6-Heralds of Eternity37. In this world, God's Son comes closest to himself in a holy relationship. There he begins to find his Father's certainty in him. In a holy relationship, his function becomes bringing that which is outside and lost, back under the laws of God. Only in time can anything be lost, and never lost forever. So, the parts of God's Son gradually join in time, and with each joining, the end of time is brought nearer. Each miracle of joining is a mighty herald of eternity. No one has fear who has a single purpose...2014-10-1809 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-20.5-Entering the ArkOrEd-T-20.5-Entering the Ark28. Nothing can hurt me unless I give it the power to do so. For I give power as the laws of this world interpret giving--giving is losing. However, it is not up to me to give power at all. Power is of God, given by Him, and the power is reawakened by the Holy Spirit, Who knows that giving is gaining. Sin has no power, because the Holy Spirit gives it no power. The results of sin as this world judges---sickness, death, misery and pain, likewise have no power. The Holy Spirit does not...2014-10-1610 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-20.4-Sin as an Adjustment.2OrEd-T-20.4-Sin as an Adjustment.222. The world believes in sin, but the belief that made the world as I see it, is within myself. I will not try to make the Son of God adjust to his insanity. There is a stranger who carelessly wandered into the home of truth, and he will wander off again. He came without a purpose, and he will leave, because I accepted the shining light the Holy Spirit offered. For in the light I am welcome, but the stranger is made homeless. 23. I should not ask this transient stranger, "What...2014-10-1507 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-20.4-Sin as an Adjustment.1OrEd-T-20.4-Sin as an Adjustment.116. The belief in sin is a shift in perception, or an adjustment. An adjustment is a change. It is a belief that what was so before is made different. Every adjustment is a distortion, and it calls on defenses to hold up the adjustment against reality. Knowledge requires no adjustment, and is lost if any shift or change is made. Any shift or change at once reduces knowledge to perception--a way of looking in which doubt has entered, and certainty is lost. Adjustments are necessary to this impaired condition because perceptions are not...2014-10-1506 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-20.3-Thorns and Lilies.2OrEd-T-20.3-Thorns and Lilies.210. We have forgiven Jesus. This Easter we look with different eyes upon each other. And yet, until WE can see our gift of lilies, Jesus cannot use them. Nor can we use what HE has given unless we share it. Listen and hear this carefully. The Holy Spirit's vision is no idle gift, no plaything to be tossed about and laid aside. We will not think it is only a dream, a careless thought to play with from time to time, or a toy we would pick up and then put away. For if...2014-10-1106 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-20.3-Thorns and Lilies.1OrEd-T-20.3-Thorns and Lilies.15. I look on all the trinkets made for the body's use, to hang on it, to cover it. I see all the useless things made for its eyes to see. I think of the many offerings made for its pleasure, and remember that all these were made to make what I hate seem lovely. Would I use this hated thing to attract my brother and his body's eyes? I learn that I offer him a crown of thorns, not recognizing it for what it is. His acceptance of the gift seems to justify my...2014-10-1105 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-20.1,2-Intro, Holy WeekOrEd-T-20.1,2-Intro, Holy Week1. This is Palm Sunday, the celebration of victory and the acceptance of the truth. We will not spend this holy week brooding on the crucifixion of God's Son, but happily in the celebration of his release. For Easter is the sign of peace, not pain. A slain Christ has no meaning. But a risen Christ becomes the symbol of the Son of God's forgiveness of himself, the sign he looks upon himself as healed and whole.2. This week begins with palms and ends with lilies, the white and holy sign the Son...2014-10-0704 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-19.5-Obstacles to Peace-d.2.2OrEd-T-19.5-Obstacles to Peace-d.2.2d.2-The Lifting of the Veil.2104. All the grace of Heaven I can offer to, and receive from, my most holy Friend. He would offer grace to me, for by receiving grace, I offer grace to him. He will receive of me what I received of him. Redemption has been given us to give, and to receive from each other. What we give we share, and the one we forgive is free. I forgive all the guilt I think I see in my brother, and all the sins my brother thinks he...2014-10-0507 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-19.5-Obstacles to Peace-d.2.1OrEd-T-19.5-Obstacles to Peace-d.2.1The Lifting of the Veil.197. We remember that we came this far together. The Guide Who brought us here remains with us, and when we raise our eyes, we will be ready to look on terror with no fear at all. But first, we will lift our eyes and look upon each other, in innocence born of complete forgiveness of each other's illusions, and through the eyes of faith, that do not see illusions.98. Unless he has accepted Atonement for himself and learned illusions are not real, no one can look...2014-10-0307 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-19.5-Obstacles to Peace-d.1OrEd-T-19.5-Obstacles to Peace-d.1d. The Fourth Obstacle: The Fear of God90. What would I see without the fear of death? What would I feel and think if death had no attraction for me? Very simply, I would remember my Father. I would remember the Creator of life, the Source of everything that lives, the Father of the universe and of the universe of universes, and of everything that lies beyond them. As the memory of this rises in my mind, peace still must surmount a final obstacle for salvation to be completed, and the Son of...2014-09-3007 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-19.5-Obstacles to Peace-c.2OrEd-T-19.5-Obstacles to Peace-c.2c. The Third Obstacle.2The Incorruptible Body80. In opposition to life, innocence, and the Will of God, from the ego came sin, guilt, and death. Such opposition can lie only in the sick minds of the insane, dedicated to madness, set against the peace of Heaven. God did not create sin or death, and does not know of either sin or its results. The figures in the funeral procession are not marching in honor of God. They are opposing His Will, for God wills they live. 81. And what is this...2014-09-2710 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-19.5-Obstacles to Peace-c.1OrEd-T-19.5-Obstacles to Peace-c.1c. The Third Obstacle.1The Attraction of Death77. To us in whose special relationship the Holy Spirit entered, it is given to release and be released from the dedication to death. For release was offered us, and we accepted. Yet we must still learn more about this strange devotion, for it contains the third of the obstacles which peace must flow across. No one can die unless he chooses death. What seems to be the fear of death is really its attraction. Guilt, too, is feared and fearful. Yet it could...2014-09-2603 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-19.5-Obstacles to Peace.b.1OrEd-T-19.5-Obstacles to Peace.b.1b. The Second Obstacle.1 The Belief the Body is Valuable for What it Offers59. Peace must first surmount the obstacle of our desire to get rid of peace. Peace is not wanted where the attraction of guilt holds sway. The second obstacle, and closely related to the first, is the belief that the body is valuable for what it offers. For here the attraction of guilt is made manifest in the body and seen in the body. 60. We think peace would rob us of this value, and believe...2014-09-2308 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-19.5-Obstacles to Peace.2OrEd-T-19.5-Obstacles to Peace.2 a.The First Obstacle.2The Attraction of Guilt49. The attraction of guilt produces fear of love, for love would never look on guilt at all. It is the nature of love to look only upon the truth, for there it sees itself, and would unite in holy union and completion. Love looks past fear, and fear does not see love at all. For love contains the end of guilt as surely as fear depends on guilt. Love is attracted only to love. Overlooking guilt completely, love sees no fear. Being wholly...2014-09-2210 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-19.5-Obstacles to Peace.1OrEd-T-19.5-Obstacles to Peace.1a.The First Obstacle.1The Desire to get Rid of It40. The first obstacle that peace must flow across is our desire to get rid of it. For it cannot extend unless we keep it. We are the center from which peace radiates outward to call the others in. We are its home, its tranquil dwelling-place from which it gently reaches out, never leaving us. We must keep peace so it can abide within the Son of God. Peace must begin with us, spread across the whole creation, and from us...2014-09-2108 minFrances Shares Her InspirationA Message to Listeners and FollowersA Message to Listeners and FollowersI will be helping with the local Strawberry Fields Forever Music, Movie and Enlightenment Festival for the next month in Duchesne, Utah, USA. I will not be posting on Spreaker during this time. I invite you to go to previous postings beginning last November. Love and Blessings,Frances Allan2014-08-1800 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-19.4-Unreality of Sin.2OrEd-T-19.4-Unreality of Sin.233. If sin were real, it would forever be beyond the hope of healing. For there would be a power beyond God's power, capable of making another will which could attack and overcome His Will, giving His Son a will different from his Father's will, and stronger. Each part of God's fragmented creation would have a different will, in eternal opposition to God and to each other. Our holy relationship has as its purpose the goal of proving this is impossible. Heaven has smiled on our holy relationship. The belief in sin has been uprooted...2014-08-1508 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-19.4-The Unreality of Sin.1OrEd-T-19.4-The Unreality of Sin.125. The attraction of guilt is found in sin, not error. Sin will be repeated because of the attraction. Fear can become so acute that the sin is denied the acting out, but the mind will suffer and not let go of the idea of sin while guilt remains attractive. For guilt still calls to the mind, and the mind hears it and yearns for it, making itself a willing captive to guilt's sick appeal. Sin is an idea of evil that will forever be desirable and that cannot be corrected. That I will...2014-08-1409 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-19.3-Sin Versus ErrorOrEd-T-19.3-Sin Versus Error17. The distinction between error and 'sin', is essential, and makes salvation possible. For an error can be corrected, and the wrong made right. But if sin were possible, it would be irreversible. The belief in sin is based on the conviction that minds can attack. The mind is guilty forever, unless another mind can give it absolution. As error calls for correction, sin calls for punishment, and the belief that punishment is correction is clearly insane. 18. Sin is not an error, for sin entails an arrogance which the idea of error lacks...2014-08-1108 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-19.2-Healing and the Mind.2OrEd-T-19.2-Healing and the Mind.210. To have faith is to heal. Faith is the sign that I have accepted the Atonement for myself, and would share the Atonement. Faith offers the gift of freedom from the past, for me to receive and to offer to my brother. Nothing my brother has done in the past can condemn him now. I freely choose to overlook his errors, and look past all barriers between my self and his self, seeing our selves as one. And in that one I see my faith is fully justified. Faith is always justified, but...2014-08-0907 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-19.2-Healing and the Mind.1OrEd-T-19.2-Healing and the Mind.13. The body cannot heal because the body cannot make itself sick. It needs no healing. The body's health or sickness depends entirely on how the mind perceives the body, and the mind's purpose for the body. It is obvious that a segment of the mind can see itself as separated from the Universal Purpose. Then the body becomes a weapon used against this Purpose, to demonstrate the 'fact' that separation has occurred. Acting out the separation, the body becomes the instrument of illusion, seeing what is not there, hearing what truth never said...2014-08-0706 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-19.1-Intro-Beyond the BodyOrEd-T-19.1-Intro-Beyond the Body1. When a situation has been dedicated wholly to truth, peace is inevitable. The attainment of peace is the criterion by which the wholeness of the dedication can safely be assumed. Yet, without faith, peace will never be attained. What is wholly dedicated to truth as its only goal is brought to truth by faith. This faith encompasses everyone involved, and the situation is perceived as meaningful and whole. Everyone must be involved in it, or our faith is limited and our dedication incomplete. 2. Properly perceived, every situation becomes an opportunity to heal...2014-08-0701 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-18.11-Passing of the DreamOrEd-T-18.11-Passing of the Dream95. This Course will lead to knowledge, but knowledge itself is beyond the scope of our curriculum. Nor is there any need for us to speak of what lies beyond words, and beyond which learning cannot go. We will remember that who attains the real world will go beyond it, but in a different way. Learning ends where God begins, for learning ends before Him Who is complete and where there is no end. There is much to learn and we will not dwell on what cannot be learned. The readiness for knowledge still...2014-08-0703 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-18.10-A Delusional Thought SystemOrEd-T-18.10-A Delusional Thought System84. I have been told to bring the darkness to the light and guilt to holiness. And I have also been told that error must be corrected at its source. Therefore, it is the tiny part of myself, the little thought that seems split off and separate, which the Holy Spirit needs. The rest is fully in God's keeping and needs no guide. Yet this wild and delusional thought needs help. In its delusions this little thought thinks it is the Son of God, sole ruler of a mad kingdom, set apart for it...2014-08-0612 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-18.9-Purpose of the Body.2OrEd-T-18.9-Purpose of the Body.278. Love knows no bodies, and it reaches to everything created like itself. Love's total lack of limit is its meaning. It is completely impartial in its giving, encompassing what it would give only to preserve and keep the gift complete. In my tiny kingdom, I have so little! The dry desert makes up my little kingdom-unproductive, scorched and joyless. I would call on love to enter there. I will realize the life and joy that love will bring to my desert, bringing life and joy from where it comes, and would return with...2014-08-0406 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-18.9-Purpose of the Body.1OrEd-T-18.9-Purpose of the Body.171. Can we know ourselves as an idea if we see ourselves within a body? Everything I recognize I identify with externals. I cannot even think of God without some form I think I recognize. The body was made to limit the unlimited Son of God. For the body is a limit on love. It is the awareness of the body that makes love seem limited. 72. The body is a tiny fence around a little part of a glorious and complete idea. The body draws a circle, infinitely small, around a very...2014-08-0406 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-18.8-I Need Do NothingOrEd-T-18.8-I Need Do Nothing63. I still have too much faith in the body as a source of strength. In some way, all the plans I make involve the body's comfort, enjoyment or protection. This interprets the body as an end, not a means, and always means that I still find sin attractive. I prefer sin and pain, so I have not met my one responsibility to accept the Atonement for myself. 64. I have made much progress, and am trying to make more. Only I have never utterly forgotten the body, even for one instant. It...2014-08-0306 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-18.7-Dreams and the Body.2OrEd-T-18.7-Dreams and the Body.256. Yet, leaving the body without my guilt upon it is the only way I can escape. The place I set aside to house my vengeance and hate is not a prison, only an illusion of myself. Universal communication, an eternal property of the mind, is limited by the body. The universal communication is internal. Mind reaches into itself within itself. There are no limits, and no outside. I am within mind, and mind is within me. There is nothing else.57. The body seems to surround me, shutting me off from others...2014-08-0207 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-18.7-Dreams and the Body.1OrEd-T-18.7-Dreams and the Body.149. There is nothing outside me. That is what I must learn. That realization will restore the Kingdom of Heaven to me. God created only the Kingdom of Heaven, and He did not leave it nor separate Himself from it. The Son of God also dwells in the Kingdom of Heaven, along with His Father. And the Son of God has never left the Kingdom of Heaven either, where His Father and He dwell together. The awareness of perfect Oneness, and the knowledge that there is nothing else besides perfect Oneness is the Kingdom...2014-08-0107 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-18.6-The Happy DreamOrEd-T-18.6-The Happy Dream41. We prepare now for the undoing of what never was. If we already understood the difference between truth and illusion, the Atonement would have no meaning. The holy instant, our holy relationship, the Holy Spirit's teaching, and all the means by which salvation is accomplished would have no purpose. For they are all but aspects of the plan to change our dreams of fear to happy dreams from which we waken easily to knowledge. We do no put ourselves in charge of this, for we cannot distinguish between advance and retreat. Some of our...2014-07-3107 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-18.5-The Little WillingnessOrEd-T-18.5-The Little Willingness32. The holy instant is the result of my determination to be holy. It is the answer. The desire and the willingness to let it come precedes its coming. We prepare our minds for it only to the extent of recognizing that I want it above all else. It is not necessary that I do more. Indeed, it is necessary that I realize that I cannot do more. I must not attempt to give the Holy Spirit what He does not ask for, or I will add the ego, and confuse the two. He asks...2014-07-3007 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-18.4-Light in the DreamOrEd-T-18.4-Light in the Dream24. Walking the way of dreams, we have spent our lives bringing truth to illusion, reality to fantasy. We have gone from waking to sleeping and on to yet deeper sleep. Every fantasy made the darkness deeper, as one dream led to another dream. No ray of light could enter the darkness. In our insanity we sought complete blackness, so we could hide from truth forever. We forgot that the light is in us, and cannot be put out. 25. We willingly accept the goal of knowledge. And we are advancing because our...2014-07-3008 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-18.3-Basis of the DreamOrEd-T-18.3-Basis of the Dream14. Arising in my sleeping dreams is a world that seems quite real. It is not the world I saw before I slept. Planned around what I would have preferred, it is a distortion. The ego looks upon itself and me as vulnerable and always under attack. But in the dream, I am "free" to change whatever seemed to attack me into a tribute to the ego. This would be my wish, because I had identified myself with the ego, 15. My conflicting wishes govern my dreams, and dreams are chaotic for they...2014-07-2909 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-18.2-Substitution as DefenseOrEd-T-18.2-Substitution as Defense4. I made only one substitution, by believing that God is fear. That substitution has taken many forms because it was the substitution of illusion for truth, of fragmentation for wholeness. It has become so splintered and subdivided and divided again, over and over, that it is now almost impossible to perceive it once was one substitution, and still is what it was. That one error, which brought truth to illusion, infinity to time, and life to death, was all I ever made. My whole world rests upon it. Everything I see reflects it, and...2014-07-2711 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-18.1-Intro-Dream and RealityOrEd-T-18.1-Intro-Dream and Reality1. To substitute is to accept instead. If I considered what this entails, I would perceive how much this is at variance with the goal of the Holy Spirit and what He would accomplish for me. To substitute is to choose between, renouncing one in favor of the other. For this special purpose, one is judged more valuable and the other is replaced by him. The relationship becomes fragmented, parts of the relationship are excluded, and its purpose is split accordingly. Substitution is the strongest defense the ego has for separation. 2. The Holy...2014-07-2703 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-17.9-Conditions of ForgivenessOrEd-T-17.9- Conditions of Forgiveness74. The holy instant is nothing more than a special case or an extreme example of what every situation is meant to be. The meaning which the Holy Spirit's purpose has given it is also given to every situation. It calls forth just the same suspension of faithlessness, withheld and left unused, that faith might answer to the call of truth. The holy instant is the shining example, the clear and unequivocal demonstration of the meaning of every relationship and every situation, seen as a whole. Faith has accepted every aspect of the situation...2014-07-2306 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-17.8-The Need for FaithOrEd-T-17.8-The Need for Faith65. There is no problem in any situation that faith will not solve. There is no shift in any aspect of the problem but will make solution impossible. For if I shift part of the problem elsewhere, the meaning of the problem must be lost, and the solution to the problem is inherent in its meaning. It is possible that all my problems have been solved, but I have removed myself from the solution. Yet faith must be where something has been done and I see it is done. A situation is a relationship...2014-07-2311 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-17.7-Practical ForgivenessOrEd-T-17.7-Practical Forgiveness57. The practical application of the Holy Spirit's purpose is simple, and unequivocal. For the application to be simple, it must be unequivocal, leaving no doubt. The simple is very clear and easily understood. The Holy Spirit's goal is set in a general context. He will work with me now to make it specific, for application is specific. There are very specific guidelines He provides for any situation, but I do not realize yet their universal application. Therefore, it is essential at this point to use them in each situation separately, until I can look beyond...2014-07-2308 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-17.6-The Healed Relationship.2OrEd-T-17.6-The Healed Relationship.250. I accept with gladness what I do not understand, and let it be explained to me, as I perceive its purpose work in it to make the relationship holy. We will find many opportunities to blame each other for the "failure" of our relationship, for it will seem at times to have no purpose. A sense of aimlessness will come to haunt me and to remind me of all the ways I once sought for satisfaction and thought I found it. I must not forget the misery I really found, and will not breathe...2014-07-2207 minFrances Shares Her InspirationOrEd-T-17.6-The Healed Relationship.1OrEd-T-17.6-The Healed Relationship.143. The holy relationship is the expression of the holy instant in living in this world. Like everything about salvation, the holy instant is a practical device, witnessed to by its results. The holy instant never fails. The experience of it is always felt. Yet without expression, it is not remembered. The holy relationship is a constant reminder of the experience in which the relationship became what it is. And as the unholy relationship is a continuing hymn of hate in praise of its maker, so is the holy relationship a happy song of praise...2014-07-2210 min
Two Chairs No Waiting Andy Griffith Show Fan PodcastTwo Chairs No Waiting 148: From Frances to Aunt BeeHost: Allan Newsome Running time: 0:18:44 In the past few weeks, I've received several requests to hear more information about Frances Bavier. As you know, Frances was Aunt Bee on The Andy Griffith Show but she had a long career before her time in Mayberry. She was a stage actress beginning back in 1925 and [...]2011-08-0918 min