Journaling with Lesson 27

Jan '24 • Feed

Today’s practice represents, with direct clarity and instruction, exactly the outcome we are choosing to achieve: your commitment to choosing Truth.

Above ALL else, I want to See. How can any other goal be equally as valuable? Consider the following instruction in case you have challenges with today’s practice. If, there were moments throughout the day when you were unable to stay on task, take a breath, focus within, and review the other replacement goals or activities which were on your thinking mind today.

Yes, distraction is easy and True Sight is not defined by your mind, in a concrete manner, in your current experience. Therefore, making disciplined time to realize Seeing ABOVE all else really does not make much sense to you at this moment of time. Above all else… what is this Sight and what is all else? The thinking mind analyzing asks, “How can I ask to See, when I am not blind?”

The thinking mind does not recognize its own blindness. Every circumstance, attribute, body that the thinking mind ‘sees’ is given definition. These objects and subjects are clearly and easily, if not instantly, judged. The objects and subjects then contain ‘understanding’, long before they can be doubted. This is why forgiveness and choosing again is far from easy. By first allowing for forgiveness and then bringing the practice to consciousness practice, Your unlearning mind is literally turning itself on its heels to ‘imaginatively’ go in the opposite direction of every thought ever recognized.

Your thoughts seem instantaneous. These thoughts ‘just appear’ without hesitation or a personal self choosing them. Walk down any street and briefly look around. Immediately your brain will be flooded by narrations of the objects seen and experiences perceived. “I know what this is for… and this… and this…” No doubt here, right?

For me to say that you are doing this to yourself makes zero sense. But yet, here I am not only Guiding you to this self-admission; but also, letting you know that you are blind. Sounds insulting! Rationally, what lunatic would dare listen to My words. We are not even bringing up the fact that the words being written down in this moment’s conversation are coming from the same seeming ‘inside my head’ experience. How can you be asked to choose between when the evidence is so confusing?

One instruction that I can give, to which you may have already noticed, is that Guidance is recognized by the companions known through the words heard. The steady calmness or peace-filled warmth around your heart-center, all felt as words I speak are heard, do witness to the Source of Love that Is My Source. As you ‘hear’ my words, there is no anxiety or mindlessness. There is only a steadfastness to our being together and you listening. Peace.

The thinking mind, on the other perspective, is anxious, stressed, distracted, busy, conflicting and very splitting in the judgments made… and made and made. A staccato cacophony of words, opinions, labels and ever labile emotions. Being swept up by this experience is easy, especially when Peace feels so unrecognizable and foreign.

Thereby if ‘hearing’ the thoughts of the thinking mind has you consequently anxious and the like, a rational assessment may be to simply question from an observers mind if there is another way. Perhaps two research psychologists could testify to the value of this questioning. (Smile)

To say then that you don’t Know what Sight is and that you do not recognize your current ‘blindness’ is not wholly accurate. Beloved One, you know what the essence of Peace is in our experience together and also recognize a converse experience when operating of the world. See both examples as data for a better choice. The doings of ‘life-stuff’ continue with uncertainty and confusion, seeming to occur when it appears to be we are apart. Now, in Truth, we are never separate; but, there are plenty of times when you wander away to play.

Despairing toys of death, destruction, blame, shame or guilt; beliefs in lack, loss and limitation become the jagged edged knives with which you play. Together, I can Be your protection, not that you need protection from threat; but only a motive to put down these play things.

Today’s exercise helps you clearly recognize how each moment, several times within the day, there is a choice. ABOVE ALL ELSE Sight can Be. Breathe and Be in willingness. Be in the willingness even if you are unsure of what exactly this dedication is now. For at this moment of time, in stillness, there is a choice. Try to release doubt and analysis. Choose instead to do your best to come back to another Wholesome Choice within your day. This reframing is another Call with another Witness.

Love has You now as Always, so do not fret if and when you do forget. Again, there is no ‘bad Course student’ penalty box or extra karmic delay. To believe such a claim would be to believe in a punishing Source, which we have already shared is simply not True.

The thinking mind is the only judge and the only executioner. You can choose today, several times in the day, to put down these toxically self-destructive play things. Choose again and return to sanity. Choose again and let your mind rest. Choose again and find a different Witness to your Self again.

Yes, Beloved One, above ALL ELSE I want to See and DO!

Love Is.

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