Day 183

Today's Lesson:

I call upon God's Name and on my own.

God's Name is holy, but no holier than each of ours. To call upon His Name is but to call upon our own. A father gives his son his name, and thus identifies the son with him. His brothers share his name, and thus are they united in a bond to which they turn for their identity. Our Father's Name reminds us who we are, even within a world that does not know; even though we have not remembered it.

God's Name can not be heard without response, nor said without an echo in the mind that calls us to remember. Say His Name, and we invite the angels to surround the ground on which we stand, and sing to us as they spread out their wings to keep us safe, and shelter us from every worldly thought that would intrude upon our holiness.

Repeat God's Name, and all the world responds by laying down illusions. Every dream the world holds dear has suddenly gone by, and where it seemed to stand we find a star; a miracle of grace. The sick arise, healed of their sickly thoughts. The blind can see; the deaf can hear. The sorrowful cast off their mourning, and the tears of pain are dried as happy laughter comes to bless the world.

Repeat the Name of God, and little names have lost their meaning. No temptation but becomes a nameless and unwanted thing before God's Name. Repeat His Name, and see how easily we will forget the names of all the gods we valued. They have lost the name of god we gave them. They become anonymous and valueless to us, although before we let the Name of God replace their little names, we stood before them worshipfully, naming them as gods.

Repeat the Name of God, and call upon our Self, Whose Name is His. Repeat His Name, and all the tiny, nameless things on earth slip into right perspective. Those who call upon the Name of God can not mistake the nameless for the Name, nor sin for grace, nor bodies for the holy Son of God. And should we join a brother as we sit with him in silence, and repeat God's Name along with him within our quiet minds, we have established there an altar which reaches to God Himself and to His Son.

Practice but this today; repeat God's Name slowly again and still again. Become oblivious to every name but His. Hear nothing else. Let all our thoughts become anchored on this. No other word we use except at the beginning, when we say today's idea but once. And then God's Name becomes our only thoughts, our only word, the only thing that occupies our minds, the only wish we have, the only sound with any meaning, and the only Name of everything that we desire to see; of everything that we would call our own.

Thus do we give an invitation which can never be refused. And God will come, and answer it Himself. Think not He hears the little prayers of those who call on Him with names of idols cherished by the world. They cannot reach Him thus. He cannot hear requests that He be not Himself, or that His Son receive another name than His.

Repeat God's Name, and we acknowledge Him as sole Creator of reality. And we acknowledge also that His Son is part of Him, creating in His Name. Sit silently, and let His Name become the all-encompassing idea that holds our mind completely. Let all thoughts be still except this one. And to all other thoughts respond with this, and see God's Name replace the thousand little names we gave our thoughts, not realizing that there is one Name for all there is, and all that there will be.

Today we can achieve a state in which we will experience the gift of grace. We can escape all bondage of the world, and give the world the same release we found. We can remember what the world forgot, and offer it our own remembering. We can accept today the part we play in its salvation, and our own as well. And both can be accomplished perfectly.

Turn to the Name of God for our release, and it is give us. No prayer but this is necessary, for it holds them all within it. Words are insignificant, and all requests unneeded when God's Son calls on his Father's Name. His Father's Thoughts become his own. He makes his claim to all his Father gave, is giving still, and will forever give. He calls on Him to let all things he thought he made be nameless now, and in their place the holy Name of God becomes his judgment of their worthlessness.

All little things are silent. Little sounds are soundless now. The little things of earth have disappeared. The universe consists of nothing but the Son of God, who calls upon his Father. And his Father's Voice gives answer in his Father's holy Name. In this eternal, still relationship, in which communication far transcends all words, and yet exceeds in depth and height whatever words could possibly convey, is peace eternal. In our Father's Name, we would experience this peace today. And in His Name, it shall be give us.

Miracles I'm noticing:

This is about the simplest mantra for meditation. Wayne Dyer calls it getting in the Gap, where we repeat the sound for the name of God ("ahhh") which he says appears in all Names for God. So today that is my mantra. I will repeat it during my meditation, and will use it at every down time I have today. Stay tuned tomorrow for results of my waking meditation using the Name of God. Miracles are everywhere!