LESSON NINETEEN

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE: The Course text is in bold face. The Guidance is in normal type In His Guidance, He has asked Me to capitalize the pronouns You and We as an acknowledgement of the Divinity of All of Us, an acknowledgement of Equality, an expression of His Love and respect for You. When You see the word ‘YOU’ capitalized in the Guidance, know that He is not just speaking to YOU, He is honoring YOU.

I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my thoughts.

We are not alone.  Never.  Not ever.  The Psalmist sung that if He rode the dawning sun to the furthest reaches of the sea, there would God be.  Even in ‘hell’ the Love of God is there.₁  And where God is, so are All Your Brothers.

How could You think or feel alone when We are All indissolubly connected?  What affects You has effect on All Our Brothers.

We spoke yesterday about choosing Life.  When but One of Us makes that choice, it is made for Every One.  Here is the message of the Resurrection.  I am not the only begotten One.  We are All equal.

The choice for Life I made is Yours as well, as soon as You allow it.  For I did open the door of consciousness, shut by the separation.

¹ The idea for today is obviously the reason why your seeing does not affect you alone. You will notice that at times the ideas related to thinking precede those related to perceiving, while at other times the order is reversed. The reason is that the order does not actually matter. Thinking and its results are really simultaneous, for cause and effect are never separate.

From My words, You begin to see that this is a really different view than the old one that You have held of Reality.  Do not fear to let it go – the old one – for it has only brought You misery.

Your thoughts and Your experience are but inextricable.

There is no ‘out there’ that does need fixing.  All Your work takes place as consciousness, And Yours specifically.  This is true for Every One and makes Us Universal.  For the Good each One does immediately blesses All of Us.  We‘re that connected.

² Today we are again emphasizing the fact that minds are joined. This is rarely a wholly welcome idea at first, since it seems to carry with it an enormous sense of responsibility and may even be regarded as an “invasion of privacy.” Yet it is a fact that there are no private thoughts. Despite your initial resistance to this idea, you will yet understand that it must be true if salvation is possible at all. And salvation must be possible because it is the Will of God.

What does the lack of private thoughts have to do with salvation?  If there were separate minds, how puny would salvation be if it were in any way partial; for the Love that is Our God does now source Every One and Every Thing.

³ The minute or so of mind searching which today’s exercises require are to be undertaken with eyes closed. The idea is to be repeated first, and then the mind should be carefully searched for the thoughts it contains at that time. As you consider each one, name it in terms of the central person or theme it contains and, holding it in your mind as you do so, say:

⁴ I am not alone in experiencing the effects of
this thought about ___.

That’s it for ‘make wrong’.  For when I criticize My Brother, I criticize Myself as well, since We are not separated.

⁵ The requirement of as much indiscriminateness as possible in selecting subjects for the practice period should be quite familiar to you by now and will no longer be repeated each day, although it will occasionally be included as a reminder. Do not forget, however, that random selection of subjects for all practice periods remains essential throughout. Lack of order in this connection will ultimately make the recognition of lack of order in miracles meaningful to you.

⁶ Apart from the “as needed” application of today’s idea, at least three practice periods are required, shortening the length of time involved if necessary. Do not attempt more than four.

Let Me today remember that what I see ‘out there’ surely lives ‘in here’ as well.

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[Thank you Dear Brother]

*Sun~Rose is the scribe of the recently published book, “YOU ARE LOVED AND SAFE: PREP NOTES FOR EXPERIENCING GOD’S LOVE“, Jesus’ Guidance on the Miracle Principles

She is also author of, “RADIANT LIFE: RAW FOOD AND THE PRESENCE OF LOVE”

BOTH now available on amazon.com