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CHAPTER TWENTY NINE

"THE AWAKENING"
VI. The Changeless Dwelling Place     
 

The changelessness of Heaven is in you, so deep within that nothing in this world but passes by, unnoticed and unseen. The still infinity of endless peace surrounds you gently in its soft embrace, so strong and quiet, tranquil in the might of its Creator; nothing can intrude upon the sacred Son of God within. Here is the role the Holy Spirit gives to you who wait upon the Son of God and would behold him waken and be glad. He is a part of you, and you of him because he is his Father's Son and not for any purpose you may see in him. Nothing is asked of you but to accept the changeless and eternal that abide in him, for your Identity is there. The peace in you can but be found in him. And every thought of love you offer him but brings you nearer to your wakening to peace eternal and to endless joy.  

   

WHAT IS THE SECOND COMING?
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   Christ's Second Coming, which is sure as God,

   is merely the correction of mistakes

   and the return of sanity. It is

   a part of the condition which restores

   the never-lost, and re-establishes

   what is forever and forever true.

   It is the invitation to God's Word

   to take illusion's place; the willingness

   to let forgiveness rest upon all things

   without exceptions and without reserve.

 

   It is this all-inclusive nature of

   Christ's Second Coming that permits it to

   embrace the world, and hold you safe within

   its gentle advent, which encompasses

   all living things with you. There is no end

   to the release the Second Coming brings,

   as God's creation must be limitless.

   Forgiveness lights the Second Coming's way

   because it shines on everyone as well.

  *And thus is oneness recognized at last.
   *this line is not in Notes

  

   The Second Coming ends the lessons which

   the Holy Spirit teaches, making way

   for the Last Judgment, in which learning ends

   in one last summary which will extend

   beyond itself, and reaching up to God.

   The Second Coming is the time in which

   all minds are given to the hands of Christ,

   to be returned to Spirit in the Name

   of true creation and the Will of God.

 

   The Second Coming is the one event

   in time which time itself can not affect.

   For everyone who ever came to die,

   or yet will come or who is present now,

   is equally released from what he made.

   In this equality is Christ restored

   as one Identity, in Which all Sons

   of God acknowledge that they all are one.

   And God the Father smiles upon His Son,

   His one creation and His only joy.

 

   Pray that this Second Coming will be soon,

   but do not rest with that. It needs your eyes

   and ears and hands and feet. It needs your voice,

   and most of all it needs your willingness.

   Let us rejoice that we can do God's Will,

   and join together in Its holy light.

   Behold, the Son of God is one in us,

   and we can reach our Father's Love through him. 

  

   ~ Original Hand Script of ACIM    

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L e s s o n  307
Conflicting wishes cannot be my will.

 

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     Father, Your Will is mine, and only That.

    There is no other will for me to have.

    Let me not try to make another will,

    for it is senseless and will cause me pain.

    Your Will alone can bring me happiness,

    and only Yours exists. If I would have

    what only You can give, I must accept

    Your will for me, and enter into peace

    where conflict is impossible, Your Son

    is one with You in being and in will,

    and nothing contradicts the holy truth

    that I remain as You created me.

 

   And with this prayer, we enter silently

   into a state where conflict cannot come,

   because we join our holy will with God's,

   in recognition that they are [but one].

                 

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Lesson 307
Conflicting wishes cannot be my will.   
 
Sarah's Commentary:

This lesson starts off by saying, "Father, Your Will is mine, and only that." (W.307.1.1) Well, if the truth is that, "There is no other will for me to have," (W.307.1.2) then how is it that we seem to express our own will in determining what we think we need to make us happy? Clearly we have made another will, which Jesus says is exactly what is causing us pain. Indeed, our will never has and never will bring us the peace and happiness that we are striving for. How could a will that causes us pain be something that we want to hold onto, if our true will is only for happiness? Clearly, we have no idea that when we go after what we think will bring us pleasure and happiness, we get only pain in the end. If we really got this, would we not want to accept our Father's Will, which is only for our happiness? Would we still want to pursue our own will?
 
This is the battle that is going on in our minds. We have chosen this path, which constitutes a decision that we have made to give up our investment in our own will, but there is a part of the mind that resists this decision. It is the part of the mind that is identified with the ego, but the ego is nothing. It has no power except that which we give it. It seems like an inner battle between our will with that of God, only because we are not yet fully committed to our decision to give over our will. We still want control over our lives. We want to make decisions on our own behalf. We want to hold onto our personal agenda of our egoic mind. It is a will that requires that our demands be met as we define them. It is the part of us that rejects what is, demanding changes that we believe are important to us for our happiness, but this will of ours is not authentic. It is a conditioned will, conditioned by our past learning. It is not the real desire of our heart, and we know that, as we have answered to the call that reflects this deep desire to know ourselves.

Turning our will over to God means trusting in His guidance and depending on Him for all of our needs. It reminds me of the Bible verse that says "seek ye first the Kingdom of God and all else will be added onto you." In other words we can trust that all will be given as needed. It is not up to our own efforts. It is all done through us. We have resistance to accepting our true Will, but our will has no real power to keep us from accepting the truth about ourselves. Our resistance shows up when we get scared to trust the promises made by God. We need not fear our resistance, but just notice that it is there and trust that as we go through the process of undoing our way and turning more and more to guidance, that resistance will increasingly fall away.

A few years ago, when my husband had left me and I was in a lot of despair, I felt powerful guidance to move from my home and community and start anew. The idea of a move such as this brought up a lot of fear, but I decided to act on that guidance and immediately a home showed up that seemed so incredibly right and perfect that I did not even look at any other and made an immediate decision to buy it. I was convinced that it was perfectly delivered by the Holy Spirit, but my husband still held joint title with me on our current home and I had no money in the bank. However, the guidance was to write a check and put in an offer with no conditions. Having done so, the next day the ego became very raucous and all kinds of fear thoughts showed up. I had no money to cover the check, my son refused to move and I would be taking him away from his school community during a very important final year of school.

My realtor was aware of my fears and offered to tear up the check and forget the whole thing. I asked him to let me have another twenty-four hours to reflect. I spent a whole night with many fear thoughts and thoughts of unworthiness occupying my mind and yet I felt this deep call to trust what seemed to be given. Everything seemed to be given so perfectly, but the trust was not strong at that time. Yet in the morning, there was a quiet confidence that this was being given and I could trust in the perfection of what had shown up for me, but it felt like a big leap of faith. Despite my lingering trepidation, I told my realtor I was going to go ahead and within seven days our house sold, and my son was allowed to continue in the previous school district without additional tuition costs, despite the fact that we were no longer living in the same school jurisdiction.

I am not suggesting with this example that God is some kind of divine butler, delivering what will keep our egos happy. I look at this situation now as an example of how the form that was given (this home) was just a means for the content of His Love to shine forth. It was early in my journey with the Course and I needed this 'evidence' to support my wavering faith in the Holy Spirit's presence in my life. Jesus says that "The miracles I give are given back in just the form I need to help me with the problems I perceive." (W.PII.345.1.4) Since that time, the house has been given over to a bigger purpose and serves that purpose beautifully. It is being used for gatherings, spiritual movie nights and as a place for those needing temporary housing, and it is perfectly situated for this purpose in a way that I could never have conceived. The space is perfect, the location is between two freeways, thus easily accessed, and parking is not a problem for our group, which generally numbers 20 plus. It is not something that I could have ever foreseen had I relied on my own will. Following His Will enables us to fulfill our special function in God's plan for our salvation in ways that we can never conceive on our own. "The ego believes that all functions belong to it, even though it has no idea what they are." (T.9.IV.7.2)(ACIM OE T.9.III.15)
 
With each opportunity to look at our fears, our unworthiness, our anger, our grievances, whatever the ego throws at us, we can choose to recognize that we don't have to listen to it. It is always wrong about everything. We listen because we want to be in control. Trusting our inner guidance seems frightening because it is stepping into the unknown. We are no longer in control. The ego insists that we are not safe with God, but we need to check this out for ourselves. My experience is that when I let go of my fears, of my way, of my trepidation based on ego fear thoughts, then a glorious new opportunity opens up. No, it does not always mean that everything initially looks rosy. We do have to go through the fear to the love, but when we learn that the purpose is about undoing our fear-based thought system, then everything that happens offers us another opportunity for healing. We all have areas where the fear runs rampant for us. It may be around a relationship, money, power, worthiness, or power. This is where we feel most vulnerable, and it is here where we have the most work to do in looking at our control. This is also where the biggest opportunities are to take a leap of faith in trusting Spirit.

God only wants us to have happiness. Jesus reminds us that "If I would have what only You can give [happiness], I must accept Your Will for me," (W.307.1.5) instead of my own. Conflict is only possible when we listen to our separate will. When we join our holy will with God's and see that they are the same, then "conflict cannot come." (W.307.2.1) Clearly, when we pursue the things that we still think we want, when we pursue our desires, when we are tempted to listen to our fears and act on our grievances, there is conflict with what God offers us. We see this when we get on the spiritual path and feel this conflict that arises between what we think we want and the pull to join with God's Will. We see it when we hold thoughts in our mind of guilt, sadness, grievances, and judgments. These thoughts keep us from the love that we are, but Jesus says that our natural desires are all aligned with God's Will.
 
We can only exercise the power of our true will when we choose to accept the truth about ourselves, which is what this healing path is about. When we reach for substitutes we are unknowingly actually reaching for God. We are looking for happiness in these substitutes. We have learned to live with this conflict. We see this conflict when we want to keep a grievance and justify it, and yet also want to join with our brother and have peace. This conflict can only be resolved when we recognize how much we hurt ourselves when we stubbornly hang onto our positions. Stepping forward in willingness is to join with God's Will and find the place where we cross the bridge into truth. Notice how much reluctance there is in doing this at times. Notice the thoughts that hold you back. Notice the temptation to stay in hell. Notice the conflict in your mind and how you are keeping yourself away from peace when you hold onto your own will and your own way.

Jesus tells us that we do not really know what we want, and what we think we want can never bring us peace and happiness. "Therefore ask not of yourself what you need, for you do not know, and your advice to yourself will hurt you. For what you think you need will merely serve to tighten up your world against the light, and render you unwilling to question the value that this world can really hold for you." (T.13.VII.11)(ACIM OE T.12.VII.69)
 
We think we have made ourselves, yet the Course reminds us over and over "I am not a body, I am free. For I am still as God created me." (W.PI.RVI.3.3-5) We can't change what we are in our creation. We are not the authors of our lives, God is. We have made a substitute self, an image, an untrue will that has no foundation. Yet we put a lot of energy into defending this image. All of our needs, our lacks, our desires to be important, to be admired, to be liked, to have approval, to get attention, to be listened to, to be acknowledged, and to be wanted and loved are about our having others see us as special. With God, there is a solid foundation of security and invulnerability in knowing who we are. Our real Will, which is of God, is unlimited love. Everything else is just a substitute. As lesson 331 says, we have made a plan for our damnation, yet we have a certain way for our release. How much do we want it?
 
Clearly we will never be happy as long as we are in conflict. The end of this conflict is the acceptance of the unity of our one will with God's. In the holy instant, we join in that one Will, and every time we experience resistance and conflict, we recognize that we have chosen wrongly. We now have a beautiful opportunity to look at what we are thinking and believing, which is incorrect, and be willing to stay with those thoughts and recognize that we don't need to believe them. They are thoughts that are trying to pull us into the chasm, but we don't have to agree to go there. The Help is always available to dissolve the thoughts that do not serve us, and shift our perception to the truth of who we are. "And with this prayer we enter silently into a state where conflict cannot come, because we join our holy will with God's, in recognition that they are the same." (W.307.2.1)
 

Love and blessings, Sarah 

huemmert@shaw.ca

 

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Chapter Twenty-Nine

The Awakening

VI. The Changeless Dwelling Place      

31 There is a place in you where this whole world has been forgotten, where no memory of sin and of illusion lingers still. There is a place in you which time has left, and echoes of eternity are heard. There is a resting place so still no sound except a hymn to Heaven rises up to gladden God the Father and the Son. Where both abide are They remembered, both. And where They are is Heaven and is peace. Think not that you can change Their dwelling place. For your Identity abides in Them, and where They are, forever must you be.

 

32 The changelessness of Heaven is in you, so deep within that nothing in this world but passes by, unnoticed and unseen. The still infinity of endless peace surrounds you gently in its soft embrace, so strong and quiet, tranquil in the might of its Creator; nothing can intrude upon the sacred Son of God within. Here is the role the Holy Spirit gives to you who wait upon the Son of God and would behold him waken and be glad. He is a part of you, and you of him because he is his Father's Son and not for any purpose you may see in him. Nothing is asked of you but to accept the changeless and eternal that abide in him, for your Identity is there. The peace in you can but be found in him. And every thought of love you offer him but brings you nearer to your wakening to peace eternal and to endless joy.

 

33 This sacred Son of God is like yourself---the mirror of his Father's love for you, the soft reminder of his Father's love by which he was created and which still abides in him, as it abides in you. Be very still and hear God's Voice in him and let It tell you what his function is. He was created that you might be whole, for only the complete can be a part of God's completion, Which created you.

 

34 There is no gift the Father asks of you but that you see in all creation but the shining glory of His gift to you. Behold His Son, His perfect gift in whom his Father shines forever and to whom is all creation given as his own. Because he has it is it given you, and where it lies in him, behold your peace. The quiet that surrounds you dwells in him, and from this quiet come the happy dreams in which your hands are joined in innocence. These are not hands that grasp in dreams of pain. They hold no sword, for they have left their hold on every vain illusion of the world. And being empty, they received instead a brother's hand in which completion lay.

 

35 If you but knew the glorious goal that lies beyond forgiveness, you would not keep hold on any thought, however light the touch of evil on it may appear to be. For you would understand how great the cost of holding anything God did not give in minds that can direct the hand to bless and lead God's Son unto his Father's house. Would you not want to be a friend to him, created by his Father as His home? If God esteems him worthy of Himself, would you attack him with the hands of hate? Who would lay bloody hands on Heaven itself and hope to find its peace? Your brother thinks he holds the hand of death. Believe him not. But learn instead how blessed are you who can release him just by offering him yours.

 

36 A dream is given you in which he is your savior, not your enemy in hate. A dream is given you in which you have forgiven him for all his dreams of death-a dream of hope you share with him instead of dreaming evil separate dreams of hate. Why does it seem so hard to share this dream? Because unless the Holy Spirit gives the dream its function, it was made for hate and will continue in death's services. Each form it takes in some way calls for death. And those who serve the lord of death have come to worship in a separated world, each with his tiny spear and rusted sword to keep his ancient promises to die.

 

37 Such is the core of fear in every dream that has been kept apart from use by Him Who sees a different function for a dream. When dreams are shared, they lose the function of attack and separation, even though it was for this that every dream was made. Yet nothing in the world of dreams remains without the hope of change and betterment, for here is not where changelessness is found. Let us be glad indeed that this is so and seek not the eternal in this world. Forgiving dreams are means to step aside from dreaming of a world outside yourself. And leading finally beyond all dreams unto the peace of everlasting life.

 

VII. Forgiveness and Peace                  

38 How willing are you to forgive your brother? How much do you desire peace instead of endless strife and misery and pain? These questions are the same in different form. Forgiveness is your peace, for herein lies the end of separation and the dream of danger and destruction, sin, and death; of madness and of murder, grief and loss. This is the "sacrifice" salvation asks and gladly offers peace instead of this.

 

39 Swear not to die, you holy Son of God! You make a bargain that you cannot keep. The Son of Life cannot be killed. He is immortal as his Father. What he is cannot be changed. He is the only thing in all the universe that must be one. What seems eternal all will have an end. The stars will disappear, and night and day will be no more. All things that come and go, the tides, the seasons, and the lives of men; all things that change with time and bloom and fade will not return. Where time has set an end is not where the eternal is. God's Son can never change by what men made of him. He will be as he was and as he is, for time appointed not his destiny nor set the hour of his birth and death. Forgiveness will not change him. Yet time waits upon forgiveness that the things of time may disappear because they have no use.

 

40 Nothing survives its purpose. If it be conceived to die, then die it must unless it does not take this purpose as its own. Change is the only thing that can be made a blessing here, where purpose is not fixed, however changeless it appears to be. Think not that you can set a goal unlike God's purpose for you and establish it as changeless and eternal. You can give yourself a purpose that you do not have. But you can not remove the power to change your mind and see another purpose there. Change is the greatest gift God gave to all that you would make eternal, to ensure that only Heaven would not pass away.

 

41 You were not born to die. You cannot change, because your function has been fixed by God. All other goals are set in time and change that time might be preserved, excepting one. Forgiveness does not aim at keeping time but at its ending when it has no use. Its purpose ended; it is gone. And where it once held seeming sway is now restored the function God established for His Son in full awareness. Time can set no end to its fulfillment nor its changelessness. There is no death because the living share the function their Creator gave to them. Life's function cannot be to die. It must be life's extension, that it be as one forever and forever without end.

 

42 This world will bind your feet and tie your hands and kill your body only if you think that it was made to crucify God's Son. For even though it was a dream of death, you need not let it stand for this to you. Let this be changed, and nothing in the world but must be changed as well. For nothing here but is defined as what you see it for. How lovely is the world whose purpose is forgiveness of God's Son! How free from fear, how filled with blessing and with happiness! And what a joyous thing it is to dwell a little while in such a happy place! Nor can it be forgot in such a world, it is a little while till timelessness comes quietly to take the place of time.

 

 

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