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ACIM - Reflections with Devavan (98) -- Teaching by Example: Reflections on healing sharing, Ch. 5

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In this episode we are continuing to look at the teaching of Christ-Jesus and His Course in Miracles in regard to the idea of sharing what we realize as truth in ourselves. At this time of Christmas we are invited to follow His example by His Love, Blessing and Guidance. By giving these Gifts away the Atonement gives us the power of a healed Mind. Merry Christmas to all of us. ◊
We are sharing A Course in Miracles as given in in the Notes correlating with — chapter 5-V-8-end of the Complete & Annotated Edition, published in FIP-Edition as chapter 5–IV-3-end, and parts of the daily Lessons 357, 358 & 359 of the Workbook — ACIM-Reflections (98) with Devavan.

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Thinking tonight of a place even more than I m thinking tonight of a place. So for I am thinking you behold for Christmas you can come m h snow so present. Yeah. And the presence under the tree is you, is the Christ in you. And this is really the time of the year in which we come together to share our light and love of our realization that all heaven is within us and coming from the winter swords dice. And within

three days that light comes for us, which is revelatory light. And it is that light of that coming out of the total darkness of the separation of human consciousness with its sauce. And so everything that was on that way, bathed the way, bathed with limitations, with thoughts that were religious transient,

opens up into that Christmas light. And from that time on there is a time of self reflection, of experience of peace that it goes through the new year, and then that coming of those three Kings that represent in that picture that the entire world is bowing down and giving gifts that giving everything to that experience, and what we experience within ourself is that gift of love, light of self recognition, what we are, who we are as the home of

God himself as the love in which he resides. God himself resides the reflection, being that reflection of his love, the eternal life that is guaranteed in and through that affected love that is realized, that is touched. And of course all the imagery that the world gives, that imagery of reflections of fear, become completely impossible and meaningless, because in reality these reflections have no existence whatsoever. It is the celebration, the coming together, the sharing of choice,

established without opposite. This is what Jesus shares with us in his cousu murders at this time in that bad that we call the lessons of the day, the workbook of a cause of murderers. That but that guarantees a new sight, is seeing in that light, through that light as seeing of myself, my true self. And yeah, we this Christmas lessons, and I might just not just share with you today's lessons, but also that those words

that are given in the next days for Christmas. The Truth answers every care that we make to God, and responding first with miracles and then returning unto us to be itself. The Truth is revealed and opens up unto us to be itself as what we are, and so forgiveness, which is Druth's reflection, tells us, tells me how to offer miracles coming from an acceptance.

Yes, I'm only helpful to this world when I offer miracles. When I give miracles, when I receive the miracles, accept them for myself and thus escape. He calls it once again the prison house, escaping, that prison house in which a human separated mind believed to live and to be literally in its limitation, imprisoned by its own self concept, in which I think I live as a human being. Your holy son is pointed out to me, first in my brother, then in me. Your voice instructs me patiently to

hear your word and give as I receive. So it is first the recognition within the dream images, the ones with whom we walk, You as my savior, you as my friend from out of time, You as my mighty companion on my side, You as my own light, creative light reflection, and that will go back and reflect back in me and be realized in me.

What we see first in our brother is really what we discover. It is guaranteed for ourselves, in ourselves, because the druce is what I see in you in my neighbor, in my friend, and next one next to me is really always only see myself. So that voice that instructs us patiently to hear God's word is given as we receive it, and as we look. As I look upon your son today, I hear your voice instructing me to find the way to you, as you appointed that the way shall be.

What is the way? It just gives it as a very simple expression. Behold his sinlessness, and be you healed. Behold the sinlessness of yourself. Behold the sinlessness of your brother, and be you healed. And experience and accept the healing of your mind. The healed mind is what awakened mind is, and that will bring us to that Lessons three fifty eight, which is very much a Christmas lesson, that no call to God can be unheard nor left unanswered. And of this we can be sure. I can't be

sure. You can be sure that his answer is the one that we really want, that I you, we really want. You who remember what I really am alone, remember what I really want? It is that faculty of God's mind, the Holy Spirit alone, who remembers what you really what I really want. Because we don't really want any more dream sequences, another game projected on the screen, another movie that keeps us in misery and pain and

suffering, another continuum of separation. What we really want is the peace of God, and only the peace of God that we realize in that connection with Christ within. You speak for God, and so you speak for me, so that you that He addresses here and is literally also addressed as the manifestation of God's mind. The manifestation of the Holy Spirit is literally Christ in action.

Christ that comes into the dream and represents himself, demonstrates what a teacher out of time, a teacher of God really does and facilitates, offers and lives by example. And this will be the title of our class today. That is very much aligned with the Christmas message as the message of coming of

Christ within the human mind's consciousness. It is teaching by example, teaching with that guidance from out of time, so that you that he mentions here is addressed to that one teacher, that one Christ mind, that awakened mind that gives example, and that guides and directs and invites to go that way to the source home into Heaven. We say so to speak without the need to wait for anything to go all the way home, hand in hand with that

savior that is literally picking us up very individually. It's a very individual offering that is also individually replied and answered with a full commitment to the awakening, to the change of mind, to salvation according to the plan of God. So that you that speaks for me, and what you give me comes from

God himself. You see, that is also the recognition that those gifts that are shared here as literally gifts from Heaven, gifts that represent the choice, the love, the happiness, the peace about all those qualities and aspects that make you the teacher of God. And so this is being given you, this is being thought, This comes from God himself. Your voice, my Father, then is mine as well. And all I want is what you offer me. This is all you want, brother, is what God offers

you in just the form that you chose that it be mine. Let me remember all I do not know, and let my voice be still remembering. Let me remember what my function here is. This is a prayer that we direct to God. This is what comes as a translation of his will, of God's will for his son, which is perfect happiness. Let me remember all I do not know, and let my voice be still remembering. But let me not forget your love, Father, and your care keeping your promise

to your son in my awareness always, let me not forget. Myself is nothing but myself capitalized. My true self is all is all, there is, is, everyone and everything. No call to God can be unheard nor left unanswered. Of this, we can be sure his answer is the one that we really want. And because it is Christmas time, we're going to include also the Lessons three fifty nine, which says that God's answer is some form of peace, or pain is healed, or misery replaced with joy.

All prison doors are open, and all sin is understood as merely a mistake beautiful connection to what we were just sharing. From these two previous lessons, we are directing our mind to our creator, to Father God, and pray Father today this very moment, today we will forgive your world and let creation be your own. We have misunderstood all things, but we have not made sinners of the holy sons of God. What you created sinless so abides forever

and forever. Such are we, and we rejoice to learn that we have made mistakes which have no real effects on us. We have made mistakes. We were not sinful. We just made mistakes. They didn't really have any effect on us. They just came and go and left. It was like admitting the mistake, giving the whole picture to the Holy Spirit. It's very obvious in that experience of peace with sin that they have no real effects on us. Sin is impossible. And on this fact, forgiveness rests upon a

certain base more solid than the shadow word. We see. Help us forgive, for we would be redeemed. Help us forgive, for we would be at peace. So here we are. He calls it again, just a shadow word. Why would we make a shadow word real when we already see and recognize the real word, the light of the real word, of creative mind, of that that is forever alive. So that needs our forgiveness in the experience of our redemption, our liberation from all those concepts that we projected

upon ourselves. Help us Father to forgive, for we would be at peace. So with all these Christmas decoration, as you can see, that envelops us in our mind, let's just a few more sounds of this wonderful Christmas song Home for Christmas, Because in the thinking in this action. We are going home. We are on our way home for the recognition of Christ consciousness within us Christ, within Christ. Christmas Eve, we'll find where the dovel lob people, reapers a people. You can come, o me, thank

you, thank you, Merry Christmas. This is the beauty of our joining in his mind, of our letting go and being willing to be aligned in this light so that it becomes very very clear what we what we really want to teach, what we can teach by example by that guidance. And so I will repeat a few sentences where we left it the last in the last episode. And we're talking here about the chapter five, the fourth section.

In the edited version we say paragraphs three, and in the complete and Annotated version edition we are in chapter five, section five, and that this paragraph eight. So he was sharing with us that if you are a bad of God and the sonship is one, you cannot be limited to the serf the ego sees. We are talking often way too much about the ego and what we consider the ego without really realizing that we're talking about nothing, just about

a construct in our mind that we made real and health real. But we want to miss that Christ Light, be very careful to even address anything of the ego, because it's in truth, not even there, nor has any reality whatsoever. The sonship. Sonship is one, and we cannot be limited to that self of the ego. That the ego sees every loving thought held in any bad of the sonship belongs to every bad. That is a crucial

expression and sentence. That every thought, every fragment that has this in its core, that expression of love that has become an expression of Christ's mind is really belongs to every to every bad of the sonship, to everyone that it is shared, because it is loving and loving sharing. Sharing is God's way of creating, and it is also your way. And the ego can keep you in exile from the kingdom, but in the kingdom itself it has no

power. It has no power in what is in that alignment with Christ Light. And we continue here. There's one sentence that has been also edited in the complete and unupdated version, but I have it here in the original words as they were given in the notes to Helen Jackman. You have become willing to receive my messages as I give them, without interference by the ego.

See. He basically confirms it. Hey, we are doing this now for a while, and this dictation, this communication, this conversation that we literally are having, and you have learned you are capable now to re see my messages without interference, so we can clearly we can clarify an earlier point which was mentioned before. We said, we said that you will one day teach as much as you learn, and that will keep you in balance. And

these are expressions that I'm both editions. So here we are with this experience of christ Light. And this is the perspective that is given to each and everyone who is willing to give these gifts, a way to share these gifts, that to be capable to be able to teach as much as as we learn, and that will keep you in balance. He says. The time is now. This, this is really what Christmas is about. To realize that the time is now to remember, the time is now to enter into

that peace. The time is now to realize that that piece of God, that creative thought is always there, is our inheritance, is the gift of God itself. The time is now because you have let it be. Now you are no longer needing the result on the timeline in a future time. You no longer need to pray for future occurrences to be fulfilled. The time is now. You let it be. Now. You're receiving that strength of God, that answer that He gives us, a reflection of His will in

that very instant now itself. You cannot learn except by teaching. See teaching and learning intruce is one. But we can only learn by teaching, by giving it away, by demonstrating it, by giving example of it. How we receive the guidance, and how we follow that guidance. I heard one voice because I had learned that learning is attained by teaching. I understood that

I couldn't atone for myself alone. See, it is that one mind, the recognition that everyone that is perceived and seen in one's own consciousness is really with of with me, with of with me, with you. In that it is at the end of the road, completely singular. It is the one that is my mind, that is your mind, and no other minds separate from that one mind exists. I couldn't atone for myself alone. I couldn't that accept that I'm doing of that separation for myself. Listening to one

voice means the will to share the voice to hear yourself. The mind that was in me is still irresistibly drawn to every mind created by God, because God's wholeness is the wholeness of his son. Also an amazing, beautiful expression of the oneness that we are and that we realize in our coming together, especially at this special time of the year. Or coming together, especially at this special time of the year, I will really again listening to one voice

means the will to share the voice, to hear it yourself. The mind that was in me Jesus is speaking, is still irresistibly drawn to every mind created by God, because God's wholeness is the wholeness of his son. Turning the other cheek does not mean that you should submit to violence without protest. It means that you cannot be hurt and do not want to show your brother

anything except your wholeness. You do not want to share your brother that you're a victim of an atrocity, that you're a victim of someone or something outside yourself. You do not want to show him a guilt projection for which he, your brother, anybody, would be responsible for. What you want to

show him is that nothing is really affecting you. Nothing that is not of God has no effect on you, and everything that is of God is you, because you are eternally an effect of God, and so everyone shares that with you. Everyone is and becomes that effect of God in their recognition, maybe step by step and slowly, that God is the cause, the only cause, no other cause there is. You do not want to show your brother anything except your wholeness, show him that he cannot hurt you and hold

nothing against him, or you hold it against yourself. And this is very important when there are hurt feelings coming up, when their grievances there, when there are projecting thoughts coming into the consciousness. Look what you have done. Look what you have done to the relationship, Look what you have done to

me. In these moments, we need to remember to show our brothers only wholeness, the wholeness of our own self, and also to reconfirm that they hold themselves and cannot be anything else, And that you do not hold anything against yourself, and that means you do not even allow that anything is held against yourself from your brother. You stay in that certainty of recognition that your brother always only offered your help no matter maybe how much pain you went through,

how much conflict you had to convert. If he was a helper, you want to demonstrate that he helped you in any way you recognize that,

now you acknowledge it, you expressing your gratitude for that help. Why because you moved on, because you learned, because you could step above the battleground, you could move beyond the grievance, beyond the littleness of the of the imagery as the human dreaming separation is there and first perceived, we're moving on into what is unified, completely unified, And this is what we share, beautifully expressed, isn't it? And here comes the expression of what that chose

for today's title of what we are sharing today. Teaching is done in many ways, in many many ways, by formal means, by guidance, and above all by example by former means, as you can whatever form is used if you publish something in written words, in spoken words. But teaching wants to be demonstrated by guidance, and that guidance you can sense if the guidance is from out of time, if the guidance comes from him or from one's own self concept and one's own little idea is a little ego, and so

teaching is done by example. We are living our experience. And if you're teaching the truths as it is represented in these calls and mirators you want, you have to come from your personal universal experience within yourself, from the singularity that literally has opened up your self concept and shown you that you are not limited to any of those limited thought forms within the self concept. If you

will to learn, you must will to teach. Teaching is demonstrating. Teaching is therapy because it means the sharing of ideas, sharing of ideas, demonstrating what ideas you choose you want to share, and the awareness that to share them is to strengthen them. Everything that we share, everything that we give away, will increase, will increase in strengths, strengthens. The union of the sonship is its protection. The ego cannot prevail against the kingdom because it

is united, and the ego fades away. And this is undone. In the presence of the attraction of the parts of the sonship, which here the call of the Holy Spirit to be as one, I cannot forget my need to teach what I have learned again Jesus is speaking first person. I cannot forget my need to teach what I have learned, which arose in me. Because I learned it, I called upon you to teach what you have learned,

because by so doing you can depend on it. Make it dependable in my name, Make it dependable in Christ Jesus name, because my name is the name of God's Son. What I learned, I give you freely, and the mind which was in me rechoices as you will to hear it. So you see, if you received it freely by Jesus himself, why wouldn't you offer it and give it and share it freely with all of yourself?

Thank you, Thank you always for this remind us because you're not here to negotiate, we are not here to do have a business with that and live of it. We can ask for being supported, and so it can happen. But it is freely given, and we want to recognize that we freely received it, and therefore we also are willing to give freely. What is the representing the gift within ourselves, the holy spirited tones in all of us by undoing, and thus lifts the burden you have placed in your mind.

By following him, he leads you back to God where you belong. We are led back to our home, to God's mind, to God himself where we belong. And how can you find this way except by taking your brother with you, by taking all your thought from with you, by taking all your projections with you, but first of all, by taking the light, the creative thought that is in each and everyone, in everything, and you want to take that with you? Wow, this is so beautiful. How

can you find this way except by taking your brother with you? My part in that tonement is not complete until you join it and give it away as you teach. So shall you learn. I will never leave you or forsake you, because to forsake you would be to forsake myself and God who created me. You will forsake yourselves and your God. If you forsake any of your brothers, you are more than your brother's keeper. You know what that

means? Really, No matter what happens, no matter if we're walking different ways, I need to be in that awareness that take everyone with me wherever I go. As long as there's consciousness involved and there is a single thought and image in my mind, I'm seeing myself I have to take myself with me. You have to take everyone with you. You cannot forsake your brother, because you would forsake yourself. You will forsake yourself and your God.

If you forsake any of your brothers, you are more than your brother's keeper. In fact, you do not want to keep him. You must learn to see him as he is, as that creative light, as that christ light that he is, and know that he belongs to God as you do. How could you treat your brother better than by rendering unto God the things which are God's rnder to God, render to Sease, and what belongs to Caesar, and render to God what belongs to God. Well, your brother

belongs to God, So render him to God. Ideas do not leave the mind which thought them in order to have separate being, nor to separate thoughts conflict with one another in space because they do not occupy space at all. Human ideas can conflict in content, and everybody knows that, of course, that human ideas can conflict in content because they occur at different levels and include opposite thoughts. At the same level, it is impossible to share opposing thoughts.

That is, in the original notes, capitalized and dire sentence. It is impossible to share posing thoughts. You cannot share that it is in opposition to creative thought. You cannot share what is of the ego. You cannot share what you were literally hallucinating. The Holy Spirit doesn't let you forsake you, brothers, Thank you. Therefore, you can really share only the paths of your thoughts which are of Him, which He also keeps for you,

and of such is the kingdom of heaven. Or the rest remains with you until He has reinterpreted them in the light of the kingdom, making them doo worthy of being shared. Wow. Love it. When they have insufficiently purified, he lets you give them away. The will to share them is the purification. The will to share them is their purification. You see, like

there's an undoing principle all the time going on. And in that sense you are you are educated, you could say, you're trained in that acceptance of the purification of your thoughts. And once you accept that toning, that the tonement, that undoing of limited thought form, and then you're going to be used. Right then he wills, his will is that you share them. That tonement gives you the power of a healed mind. But the power to

create is of God. Therefore, those who have been forgiven must develop themselves first to healing, because having received the idea of healing, they must give it to hold it. That is a very crucial expression. Also, you

know, those who have been forgiven. If you have that experience that you have been forgiven, that the world has forgiven you, that you have forgiven yourself, then you have to devote yourself first to healing, because having received the idea of healing, you must give it to in order to keep it for yourself to hold it. Expressed it here. So it's a full dedication to the healing of the mind. It's a full dedication to the full transformation

of mind. It's a dedication to awakening from the dream. The full power of creation, of creating cannot be expressed as long as any of God's ideas are is holding it from the kingdom. The choice will of all the sonship is the only creator that can create like the Father. That is because only the complete can think completely. Holy Yeah, and the thinking of God lacks nothing. Everything you think that is not through the Holy Spirit is lacking,

or I said before is meaningless. Isn't really there, doesn't do anything, doesn't affect anything, and so on. Okay, let's finish that up one more paragraph. How can you, who are so holy suffer? How can you, who are so holy suffer? All your past except its beauty, is gone, and nothing is left except a blessing. Wow, all your past except its beauty, except the loving thoughts, he says on a different But in the cause all your past is gone and nothing is left except a

blessing, you can indeed depart in peace. Let's remember that now. Let's celebrate that now, in that we are one and together, you can indeed debut in peace. Because I have loved you as I loved myself. You go with my blessing, and for my blessing, hold it and share it, that it may always be ours. I place the peace of God in your heart and in your hands to hold and share. The heart is pure to hold it, and the hands are strong to give it. We cannot

lose. My judgment is as strong as the wisdom of God, in whose heart and hands we have. Our being His quiet children are His blessed sons. The thoughts of God are with you. Wow, you go with my blessing, and for my blessing, hold it and share it, that it may always be ours. I place the peace of God in your heart and in your hands to hold and share. The heart is pure to hold it,

and the hands are strong to give it. We cannot lose. My judgment is as strong as the wisdom of God, in whose heart capitalized and hands capitalized, we have our being His quiet children, are His blessed sons. The thoughts of God are with you. The thoughts of God are with

me. If we bring that home, if we turned that for our own understanding, and just a couple of days, days we had this lesson three fifty three, that my eyes might tongue, my hands, my feet today have but one purpose to be given Christ, to use to bless the word, this miracles, and with this my brother in light, whom I love beyond description. I see you in the stars and beyond. I wish you a wonderful time of that remembrance of that Christ Light coming coming to you,

remembering it. It is you, remembering that it like it flows over and is like a well of which the entire world can't quench. Its first and in that blessing of a merry, Merry Christmas. We know each other as completely won and unified, and as that oneness we are home. We are going home in dead. Of course. The last step does God himself. And don't worry about anything. Just put up your Christmas decoration and enjoy the

idea of the time as it is given you. Okay, and pass that message on, Pass it on. This is really your mind, This is your realization. This is your message to the world. We are receiving it from Christ Jesus, but it is mine, it is yours. And with that I can only say hallelujah. Amen, I amen. He has something to just say goodbye for now without saying any goodbye. Raisay f ride new

song does ride in my saves. In my saviors, you have find me cold, but you are always he cannot find my fee in my saviors. In my saved us, color me see new rains fall the bride. New sun was the means in my saviors, as in my saviss you have find the color, but you excuse me. I can find belief in my Savis, in my say if you lose come a

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