Day 273

Today's Lesson:

The stillness of the peace of God is mine.

Perhaps we are now ready for a day of undisturbed tranquility. If this is not yet feasible, we are content and even more than satisfied to learn how such a day can be achieved. If we give way to a disturbance, let us learn how to dismiss it and return to peace. We need but tell our minds, with certainty, "The stillness of the peace of God is mine," and nothing can intrude upon the peace the God Himself has given to His Son.

Father, Your peace is mine. What need have I to fear that anything can rob me of what You would have me keep? I cannot lose Your gifts to me. And so the peace You gave Your Son is with me still, in quietness and in my own eternal love for You.

Miracles I'm noticing:

As I read today's lesson, I imagined what a whole day of undisturbed tranquility would be like. I actually had a picture in my mind of biking through the fall leaves somewhere in Minnesota, all alone with nature on a crisp Sunday. Then I thought about what I have scheduled for today and got to the next part of the lesson that said "If this is not yet feasible ..." and realized that that is not possible today. However, when I continued to read, I see that I have the capability of returning my mind to peace, despite what may be happening around me.

So although I need to pack for an overnight trip to Minneapolis (and need to to that and be ready to go in the next 90 minutes) and then drive there and do everything that is scheduled for the trip, I can choose peace and stillness in the midst of everything else.

That's my miracle for today!

Day 272

Today's Lesson:

How can illusions satisfy God's Son?

Father, the truth belongs to me. My home is set in Heaven by Your Will and mine. Can dreams content me? Can illusions bring me happiness? What but Your memory can satisfy Your Son? I will accept no less than You have given me. I am surrounded by Your Love, forever still, forever gentle and forever safe. God's Son must be as You created him.

Today we pass illusions by. And if we hear temptation call to us to stay and linger in a dream, we turn aside and ask ourselves if we, the Sons of God, could be content with dreams, when Heaven can be chosen just as easily as hell, and love will happily replace all fear.

Miracles I'm noticing:

This course really is about mind re-training. I'm noticing that awareness is the first step. When I become aware of the way I'm thinking and notice the results of that thinking, I then am able to choose a new thought or a new way of thinking. When I become aware of the illusions instead of the truth, I can choose not to be tempted by those illusions. It really comes down to how I feel. I never felt good when limited by religion and the rules and beliefs that were passed down for no reason except "that's the way it is." I feel so much more free to connect with Spirit by studying this course. And the best part is that I am studying it with a group. That's why this is so important to me. I learn what I learn on my own, but then have an opportunity to learn from my friends and fellow students. That's a miracle for me!

Day 271

6. What Is the Christ?

Christ is God's Son as He created Him. He is the Self we share, uniting us with one another, and with God as well. He is the Thought which still abides within the Mind that is His Source. He has not left His holy home, nor lost the innocence in which He was created. He abides unchanged forever in the Mind of God.

Christ is the link that keeps you one with God, and guarantees that separation is no more than an illusion of despair, for hope forever will abide in Him. Your mind is part of His, and His of yours. He is the part in which God's Answer lies; where all decisions are already made, and dreams are over. He remains untouched by anything the body's eyes perceive. For though in Him His Father placed the means for your salvation, yet does He remain the Self Who, like His Father, knows no sin.

Home of the Holy Spirit, and at home in God alone, does Christ remain at peace within the Heaven of your holy mind. This is the only part of you that has reality in truth. The rest is dreams. Yet will these dreams be given unto Christ, to fade before His glory and reveal your holy Self, the Christ to you at last.

The Holy Spirit reaches from the Christ in you to all your dreams, ad bids them come to Him, to be translated into truth. He will exchange them for the final dream which God appointed as the end of dreams. For when forgiveness rests upon the world and peace has come to every Son of God, what could there be to keep things separate, for what remains to see except Christ's face?

And how long will this holy face be seen, when it is but the symbol that the time for learning now is over, and the goal of the Atonement has been reached at last? So therefore let us seek to find Christ's face and look on nothing else. As we behold His glory, will we know we have no need of learning or perception or of time, or anything except the holy Self, the Christ Whom God created as His Son.

Today's Lesson:

Christ's is the vision I will use today.

Each day, each hour, every instant, I am choosing what I want to look upon, the sounds I want to hear, the witnesses to what I want to be the truth for me. Today I choose to look upon what Christ would have me see, to listen to God's Voice, and seek the witnesses to what is true in God's creation. In Christ's sight, the world and God's creation meet, and as they come together all perception disappears. His kindly sight redeems the world from death, for nothing that He looks on but must live, remembering the Father and the Son; Creator and creation unified.

Father, Christ's vision is the way to You. What He beholds invites Your memory to be restored to me. And this I choose, to be what I would look upon today.

Miracles I'm noticing:

I attended a 25th anniversary celebration last night for one of my clients' business - what a total blast! As I looked around the room it occurred to me how very fortunate I am to have clients like I do is a blessing - and to consider them friends (and their friends my friends) is a double blessing.

I think back to the me I was before I began to study this course and I don't think I would have been as confident as I am today. I would have looked around that room and questioned my worthiness to be in the company of such wonderful people. But I had such a great time with everyone I talked to and the new people I met.

We are all worthy - because we can choose to see through Christ's vision. What a miracle! And it was there all the time!

Day 270

Today's Lesson:

I will not use the body's eyes today.

Father, Christ's vision is Your gift to me, and it has power to translate all that the body's eyes behold into the sight of a forgiven world. How glorious and gracious is this world! Yet how much more will I perceive in it than sight can give. The world forgiven signifies Your Son acknowledges his Father, lets his dreams be brought to truth, and waits expectantly the one remaining instant more of time which ends forever, as Your memory returns to him. And now his will is one with Yours. His function now is but Your Own, and every thought except Your Own is gone.

The quiet of today will bless our hearts, and through them peace will come to everyone. Christ is our eyes today. And through His sight we offer healing to the world through Him, the holy Son whom God created whole; the holy Son whom God created one.

Miracles I'm noticing:

I love the idea of today's lesson. What if there were only the eyes of Christ and not the body's eyes? What if that were all I could see with? How much more (and how much less) would I actually see? I'd love to see more good, more beauty, more justice, more peace, more happiness and less prejudice, less upset, less hatred, less jealousy, less anger. What if that is possible now? I do have other eyes through which to see everything. What if I consciously used that filter through which to see what my physical eyes see?

Yesterday during the class I was teaching, one of the participants came up to me during a break and told me she felt she needed to know me better. I felt the same way based on some of her comments during the class and also her answers to some of the prework she turned in before the class. She was writing about intention, and she was the only one in the class who had seen The Secret. When I asked, her answer was, "of course."

So she and my business partner and the person who lined up the training went out for dinner last night and had a very deep and meaningful conversation about mirroring, oneness, accountability and Gandhi ("you must be the change your wish to see in the world.").

There are no coincidences. It was a fabulous conversation and I know I've made a new friend. She and her husband own a vacation home in Maine, and I fully intend to take advantage of her offer to use it sometime.

I'm excited to see what I'll see today on my drive home from Pierre, SD to Fargo (about 6 hours) as I consciously choose not to use my body's eyes. Where will I see the miracles?

Day 269

Today's Lesson:

My sight goes forth to look upon Christ's face.

I ask Your blessing on my sight today. It is the means which You have chosen to become the way to show me my mistakes, and look beyond them. It is given me to find a new perception through the Guide You gave to me, and through His lessons to surpass perception and return to truth. I ask for the illusion which transcends all those I made. Today I choose to see a world forgiven, in which everyone shows me the face of Christ, and teaches me that what I look upon belongs to me; that nothing is, except Your holy Son.

Today our sight is blessed indeed. We share one vision, as we look upon the face of Him Whose Self is ours. We are one because of Him Who is the Son of God; of Him Who is our own Identity.

Miracles I'm noticing:

There really are miracles all around, who are there to show me the face of Him Whose Self is ours. I'm going to be teaching creativity and innovation today, which allows me to see with new eyes. Today's prayer asks to surpass perception and return to truth. According to this course, perception is only what I think I see - it is seeing through the body's eyes and may not really be the truth. So today I will ask to see beyond my physical sight and see the truth as I'm teaching.

I trust I will see all kinds of miracles in the students I'll be teaching. I need only open the eyes of my heart.

Day 268

Today's Lesson:

Let all things be exactly as they are.

Let me not be Your critic, Lord, today, and judge against You. Let me not attempt to interfere with Your creation, and distort it into sickly forms. Let me be willing to withdraw my wishes from its unity, and thus to let it be as You created it. For thus will I be able, too, to recognize my Self as You created me. In love was I created, and in love will I remain forever. What can frighten me, when I let all things be exactly as they are?

Let not our sight be blasphemous today, nor let our ears attend to lying tongues. Only reality is free of pain. Only reality is free of loss. only reality is wholly safe. And it is only this we seek today.

Miracles I'm noticing:

Wow this lesson really hits home. It reminds me of Byron Katie's "The Work" again (I suppose it should be no surprise that that would be at the forefront of my awareness since I listen to it at least once a week on CD). She asks the question there "Who needs God when you have your opinion?" If we are believing our thoughts, we are not open to what is because we've made something completely false act like the truth. She says more than once, "It is what it is, until it's not - that's the way of it."

If we don't even know what we don't know, it's probably because we're believing our thoughts. And if our thoughts are not producing joy and love and peace, they're not true thoughts because, as today's lesson reminds us, "Only reality is free of pain. Only reality is free of loss. Only reality is wholly safe."

If we aren't able to let all things be exactly as they are in all their perfect imperfection, then we are judging. Mother Teresa once said she worked with the poorest of the poor because in them she saw Jesus Christ in all his distressing disguises. She was a person who didn't fight against things the way they were, she believed that standing for something was much more powerful.

I notice my own judgments all the time, even though I want to believe I don't have prejudices. Awareness is the first step to artful action, which is mindful and deliberate and focused. Artful action then leads to transformation, which is when we really begin living what we're learning here in this Course.

Blessed and grateful!

Day 267

Today's Lesson:

My heart is beating in the peace of God.

Surrounding me is all the life that God created in His Love. It calls to me in every heartbeat and in every breath; in every action and in every thought. Peace fills my heart, and floods my body with the purpose of forgiveness. Now my mind is healed, and all I need to save the world is given me. Each heartbeat brings me peace; each breath infuses me with strength. I am a messenger of God, directed by His Voice, sustained by Him in love, and held forever quiet and at peace within His loving Arms. Each heartbeat calls His Name, and every one is answered by His Voice, assuring me I am at home in Him.

Let me attend Your Answer, not my own. Father, my heart is beating in the peace of the Heart of Love created. It is there and only there that I can be at home.

Miracles I'm noticing:

I definitely have my moments of peace; but there are still those moments of worry and doubt, which remind me that I am still on the journey and haven't reached the destination yet. It is in those moments of worry and doubt that today's lesson is so necessary for me.

Yesterday I had the opportunity to ride with a friend to a small town about 90 minutes away and the ride was quite peaceful, simply because I didn't have to drive. The leaves are turning color, and the day was sunny and hot. However, it was very windy, which caused my friend to have to really hold on to the wheel more tightly than normal. I knew this because of the big gusts that would grab the car and try to throw it off course. Although had all the makings of a peaceful drive for me, I found myself being just the slightest bit nervous because I wasn't in control of the car. I found myself at least once doing the mom gasp (I call it that because my mom did that all the time when she would ride with me - gasp and grab the dash when a car in front of us put on its brake lights or for many other reasons which were mostly unknown to me as the driver) and then catching myself and remembering that she is perfectly capable of driving safely.

When I remember that I don't have to be a back seat driver in my own life, I know that God's love calls to me in every heartbeat and every breath and peace fills my heart. My mind is healed, and all I need to save the world is given me.

This is a great reminder to me to just notice the miracles all around, because they're there all the time.

I'll be on my way to Pierre, SD in a couple of hours, and as I'm driving, I will keep today's lesson in mind. I'm sure I'll see many opportunities to notice my heart beating in the peace of God.

What are you noticing??

Day 266

Today's Lesson:

My holy Self abides in you, God's Son.

Father, You gave me all Your Sons, to be my saviors and my counselors in sight; the bearers of Your holy Voice to me. In them are You reflected, and in them does Christ look back upon me from my Self. Let not Your Son forget Your holy Name. Let not Your Son forget his holy Source. Let not Your Son forget his Name is Yours.

This day we enter into Paradise, calling upon God's Name and on our own, acknowledging our Self in each of us; united in the holy Love of God. How many saviors God has given us! How can we lose the way to Him, when He has filled the world with those who point to Him, and given us the sight to look on them?

Miracles I'm noticing:

Today's lesson reminds me that I can see God in everyone around me. I was reading the Sunday paper this morning, and if I keep today's lesson in mind, there should be no upsetting news. I remember thinking that the letters to the editor would go away if everyone saw their holy Self in God's Son - there would be nothing to complain about!

I'm certainly not at the point where I don't think about things to complain about, but I notice that I don't say things out loud anymore. I know that's not quite the same thing as achieving enlightenment, but it's a start!

Where are you noticing yourself becoming more enlightened? Where are your behaviors adjusting? Where are you seeing your holy Self in others? That's the miracle!

Day 265

Today's Lesson:

Creation's gentleness is all I see.

I have indeed misunderstood the world, because I laid my sins on it and saw them looking back at me. How fierce they seemed! And how deceived was I to think that what I feared was in the world, instead of in my mind alone. Today I see the world in the celestial gentleness with which creation shines. There is no fear in it. Let no appearance of my sins obscure the light of Heaven shining on the world. What is reflected there is in God's Mind. The images I see reflect my thoughts. Yet is my mind at one with God's. And so I can perceive creation's gentleness.

In quiet would I look upon the world, which but reflects Your Thoughts, and mine as well. Let me remember that they are the same, and I will see creation's gentleness.

Miracles I'm noticing:

Today's lesson reminds me of Byron Katie's "The Work" which I listen to at least twice a week in my car. That Work asks us to question our thoughts instead of just blindly believing them. Whenever we notice a thought that makes us frustrated (like "I am sinful and unclean," for example) we are to ask ourselves whether or not that is actually true. If we can determine that our thoughts are not really true, we can see that we have been deceiving ourselves and not really living in Truth.

Today's lesson reminds us that what we fear is not in the world, it is in our minds alone. And if we can learn to question those thoughts and realize they are not even true, we can see that there is only gentleness in God's creation.

Notice for yourself where you are believing your thoughts. I'll bet miracles will start showing up instead!

Day 264

Today's Lesson:

I am surrounded by the Love of God.

Father, You stand before me and behind, beside me, in the place I see myself, and everywhere I go. You are in all the things I look upon, the sounds I hear, and every hand that reaches for my own. In You time disappears, and place becomes a meaningless belief. For what surrounds Your Son and keeps him safe is Love itself. There is no source but this, and nothing is hat does not share its holiness; that stands beyond Your one creation, or without the Love which holds all things within itself. Father, Your Son is like Yourself. We come to You in Your Own Name today, to be at peace within Your everlasting Love.

My brothers, join with me in this today. This is salvation's prayer. Must we not join in what will save the world, along with us?

Miracles I'm noticing:

I don't think there is anything else that needs to be said today. Let's join in salvation's prayer and watch the miracles unfold.

Day 263

Today's Lesson:

My holy vision sees all things as pure.

Father, Your Mind created all that is, Your Spirit entered into it, Your Love gave life to it. And would I look upon what You created as if it could be made sinful? I would not perceive such dark and fearful images. A madman's dream is hardly fit to be my choice, instead of all the loveliness with which You blessed creation; all its purity, its joy, and its eternal, quiet home in you.

And while we still remain outside the gate of Heaven, let us look on all we see through holy vision and the eyes of Christ. Let all appearances seem pure to us, that we may pass them by in innocence, and walk together to our Father's house as brothers and the holy Sons of God.

Miracles I'm noticing:

I spent Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning with an amazing group of people - the staff of Trollwood Performing Arts School at a beautiful resort in Minnesota. It was so great to work with these wonderful people! We actually held our first session on the beach, complete with the flipchart in the sand.

What I noticed from working with this group and also from my three mastermind groups on Tuesday and Wednesday (one on Tuesday before I left for the retreat and two on Wednesday after I got back) is how hungry people are to talk about things that matter and how dedicated they are to challenging their old thoughts and moving ahead.

The mastermind groups are studying the 1937 Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich! and it's been a total joy to learn from them. I'm currently conducting four different study groups and I'm having a blast. I'm not sure exactly what it is about this book that is so appealing to people that causes them to form mastermind groups to study it - unless it is that concept; the concept of creating a mastermind to support each other in the endeavor.

We had our final study session last night for the group in which I am a participant and the conversations were outstanding. I had a lengthy and very substantial conversation with one of the participants who I hadn't really talked to all that much before and it was clear from our conversation that studying this book had really changed his way of thinking.

I'm finding that the circle of people I'm with may change from time to time, whether that is client circles or social circles, but they always provide me with additional learning and growing. Could that be because I know my genius to be "Inviting Dialogue"and that's what I'm seeing everywhere now?

As I realize more and more that "My holy vision sees all things as pure," I can't not see it that way anymore. I realized just recently that my biggest hangups with anything are about exclusion. Having to pick a political affiliation or just one service club or a religious denomination just aren't comfortable for me anymore because I want to be inclusive, not exclusive.

That's my miracle for the past two days! I'm BLESSED and GRATEFUL!

Day 262

Today's Lesson:

Let me perceive no differences today.

Father, You have one Son. And it is he that I would look upon today. He is Your one creation. Why should I perceive a thousand forms in what remains as one? Why should I give this one a thousand names, when only one suffices? For Your Son must bear Your Name, for You created him. Let me not see him as a stranger to his Father, nor as stranger to myself. For he is part of me and I of him, and we are part of You Who are our Source, eternally united Your Love; eternally the holy Son of God.

We who are one would recognize the truth about ourselves. We would come home, and rest in unity. For there is peace, and nowhere else can peace be sought and found.

Miracles I'm noticing:

I am posting this a day late as I was at a resort facilitating a retreat for a client, and there was no internet access. I'll write about that experience in today's lesson (see next post).

Day 261

5. What Is The Body?

The body is a fence the Son of God imagines he has built, to separate parts of his Self from other parts. It is within this fence he thinks he lives, to die as it decays and crumbles. For within this fence he thinks that he is safe from love. Identifying with his safety, he regards himself as what his safety is. How else could he be certain he remains within the body, keeping love outside?

The body will not stay. Yet this he sees as double safety. For the Son of God's impermanence is "proof" his fences work, and do the task his mind assigns to them. For if his oneness still remained untouched, who could attack and who could be attacked? Who could be victor? Who could be his prey? Who could be victim? Who the murderer? And if he did not die, what "proof" is there that God's eternal Son can be destroyed?

The body is a dream. Like other dreams it sometimes seems to picture happiness, but can quite suddenly revert to fear, where every dream is born. For only love creates in truth, and truth can never fear. Made to be fearful, must the body serve the purpose given it. But we can change the purpose that the body will obey by changing what we think that it is for.

The body is the means by which God's Son returns to sanity. Though it was made to fence him into hell without escape, yet has the goal of Heaven been exchanged for the pursuit of hell. The Son of God extends his hand to reach his brother, and to help him walk along the road with him. Now is the body holy. Now it serves to heal the mind that it was made to kill.

You will identify with what you think will make you safe. Whatever it may be, you will believe that it is one with you. Your safety lies in truth, and not in lies. Love is your safety. Fear does not exist. Identify with love, and you are safe. Identify with love, and you are home. Identify with love, and find your Self.

Today's Lesson:

God is my refuge and security.

I will identify with what I think is refuge and security. I will behold myself where I perceive my strength, and think I live within the citadel where I am safe and cannot be attacked. Let me today seek not security in danger, nor attempt to find my peace in murderous attack. I live in God. In Him I find my refuge and my strength. In Him is my Identity. In Him is everlasting peace. And only there will I remember Who I really am.

Let me not seek for idols. I would come, my Father, home to You today. I choose to be as You created me, and find the Son whom You created as my Self.

Miracles I'm noticing:

I just got off the phone with a very good friend who lives in Chicago. We have only seen each other in person three times, but we talk at least once a week. What I'm learning from this friend is how much I am learning from this Course. Everything that comes up in our conversations has something to do with fear vs. love or ego vs. Spirit. It's amazing to me how much this Course has become a foundation for everything I am and everything I believe.

We talked today about authenticity and the challenge for us who are perfectionists in not trusting our own authenticity because there must be A right answer out there. When I live what I'm learning here - which, fortunately, happens much more often than not these days - I find that life is so much easier.

I love Bob Proctor's statement: "What other people think of me is none of my business." They draw their own conclusions based on their own levels of awareness, and that should have nothing to do with who I really am and what I really stand for.

God is my refuge and security, so there should be no need for defense in the form of a fence or wall or anything. I've heard it said many times that defense is the first offense. We say in our country that we have a great defense system, yet that makes us subject to attack where we then become the offenders. I'd like to do more research about what makes Switzerland the place where there is no war. I've heard that they never get involved in wars because they have no defense system in place. Switzerland cannot physically be attacked because they are non-violent.

If I put a wall in place to shield me from love, what is the victory? I will identify with what I think will make me safe. If I put my faith and trust in the wall or in the national defense, I will believe that that is one with me. But love is the true safety. Fear does not exist.

That's the true miracle!

Day 260

Today's Lesson:

Let me remember God created me.

Father, I did not make myself, although in my insanity I thought I did. Yet, as Your Thought, I have not left my Source, remaining part of Who created me. Your Son, my Father, calls on You today. Let me remember You created me. let me remember my Identity. And let my sinlessness arise again before Christ's vision, through which I would look upon my brothers and myself today.

Now is our Source remembered, and Therein we find our true Identity at last. Holy indeed are we, because our Source can know no sin. And we who are His Sons are like each other, and alike to Him.

Miracles I'm noticing:

I've really started realizing that as I give up ego, everything falls into place so much more easily. It seems my phone has been ringing a lot more recently, which means I've been a lot busier growing my business. I'm learning - and am hearing from others in the form of feedback - that people can relate to me as I tell my own story of awareness which has led me to using what I'm learning and now teaching. I believe and am passionate about everything I teach, even though there are times it seems to be easier to backslide and not live what I'm teaching. It's really not easier - that is the illusion of sin and guilt. It is now much easier to give up ego and live in the light but it has taken practice and commitment because that ego is pretty strong.

God really does want us to succeed - and each step we take closer to Him and away from our ego gets easier and easier. It's almost like we've got the Holy Spirit as our own personal coach, cheering us on as we make the decisions for God. It's simply a matter of waking up to those cheers. They've been there all along, but we've allowed ego to drown them out.

Whose side are you playing for - God or ego? If we choose ego, it's really Edging God Out - EGO. I choose God. What a difference it's making in my life!

Day 259

Today's Lesson:

Let me remember that there is no sin.

Sin is the only thought that makes the goal of God seem unattainable. What else could blind us to the obvious, and make the strange and the distorted seem more clear? What else but sin engenders our attacks? What else but sin could be the source of guilt, demanding punishment and suffering? And what but sin could be the source of fear, obscuring God's creation; giving love the attributes of fear and of attack?

Father, I would not be insane today. I would not be afraid of love, nor seek for refuge in its opposite. For love can have no opposite. You are the Source of everything there is. And everything that is remains with You, and You with it.

Miracles I'm noticing:

I must admit, guilt has been a big part of my religious upbringing. Everything I ever learned about God and the church had sin and guilt as the foundation. Feeling guilty for my sins was really the justification I had for being a sinner. They just went hand-in-hand, and forgiveness for those sins was something someone else could grant me, whether that be God or someone whom I had wronged by my sin. I remember never feeling good enough because I was, by nature, sinful and unclean, according to the creed we said in church every single Sunday.

Today's lesson is so freeing and so joyful for me. What can I be allowed to be and do when I am freed from the burden of sin and guilt? I don't think today's lesson is asking us to just blow off "bad behavior" (I had a hard time coming up with what to call that) ... but as we fight against anything, what we resist persists.

I'm reminded of something one of my spiritual teachers said one time about right and wrong, good and bad. She said if we judge actions - by ourselves and others - as right or wrong, good or bad, we then become people who believe there is right and wrong, good and bad in the world instead of just seeing everything as just what it is, without a label. The only person I can choose for is me, so instead of judging what others do, I can make choices for myself. If I deem another's actions as bad or wrong, then I attract into my space people to whom those types of actions happen.

If we can simply keep in mind today's lesson, "Let me remember that there is no sin," it will be much easier to remain joyful and focus on abundance and love. God does not want our lives to be difficult and guilt-ridden!

Day 258

Today's Lesson:

Let me remember that my goal is God.

All that is needful is to train our minds to overlook all little senseless aims, and to remember that our goal is God. His memory is hidden in our minds, obscured but by our pointless little goals which offer nothing, and do not exist. Shall we continue to allow God's grace to shine in unawareness, while the toys and trinkets of the world are sought instead? God is our only goal, our only Love. We have no aim but to remember Him.

Our goal is but to follow in the way that leads to You. We have no goal but this. What could we want but to remember You? What could we seek but our Identity?

Miracles I'm noticing:

I'm working on creating and then delivering a 6-hour class called The Goal Achiever, which is part of my Bob Proctor certification. This course is all about determining exactly what the goal is that participants want in their lives and their companies. When I read today's lesson, it becomes really clear that as awareness grows, the goals actually become much more focused, and are no longer about material things in this world, but simply God.

The lesson says that God's grace shines in our unawareness - even though we may not be aware of it, it still is there. We are focused on the things of the world when we really have no aim but Him.

I'll look forward to having that conversation as part of the awareness of the class. I'll keep my goal on God and allow the class to evolve as it needs to. As we begin to realize, together, that setting the goals based on purpose will yield better results, we will get to this point.

I'm blessed and grateful that my awareness continues to grow. Awareness leads to true happiness, but happiness is not a goal. It's the result of realizing purpose.

What a great lesson for me to keep in mind as I design this class!

Day 257

Today's Lesson:

Let me remember what my purpose is.

If I forget my goal I can be but confused, unsure of what I am, and thus conflicted in my actions. No one can serve contradicting goals and serve them well. Nor can he function without deep distress and great depression. Let us therefore be determined to remember what we want today, that we may unify our thoughts and actions meaningfully, and achieve only what God would have us do this day.

Father, forgiveness is Your chosen means for our salvation. Let us not forget today that we can have no will but Yours. And thus our purpose must be Yours as well, if we would reach the peace You will for us.

Miracles I'm noticing:

Today's lesson reflects what I'm talking about in my master mind group with the company I'm working with this week. We've been talking about setting goals and achieving goals and the distinction is that when you set goals based on a purpose, you have an incentive to achieve them. Most people set goals based on what they already know they can achieve, so there is no growth.

If we can remember our purpose - whether that's individually or at a company - there is much more inspiration around the journey toward the goal, and it seems much less daunting to achieve it.

I'm noticing how often certain words come up when I'm in the space of inspiration. Purpose is the word today - but it's so fun to be awake to all the miracles that are always present!

What are you noticing?

Day 256

Today's Lesson:

God is the only goal I have today.

The way to God is through forgiveness here. There is no other way. If sin had not been cherished by the mind, what need would there have been to find the way to where you are? Who would still be uncertain? Who could be unsure of who he is? And who would yet remain asleep, in heavy clouds of doubt about the holiness of him whom God created sinless? Here we can but dream. But we can dream we have forgiven him in whom all sin remains impossible, and it is this we choose to dream today. God is our goal; forgiveness is the means by which our minds return to Him at last.

And so, our Father, would we come to You in Your appointed way. We have no goal except to hear Your Voice, and find the way Your sacred Word has pointed out to us.

Miracles I'm noticing:

I am teaching this week in another town in Minnesota and what I'm noticing most this week is how much the members of the class reflect my attitude as the instructor. If I go in to class at all distracted, I lose the focus of the class. But when I'm directed and ready to share great information, the class takes it in much better. It's obvious to me because I'm conducting two different groups - one in the morning and one in the afternoon. It's the exact same content, but the two groups are completely different in their demeanor. Instead of getting frustrated about the lack of structure I'm finding in the first group (they are much more independent and I find them chatting amongst themselves a lot more than the afternoon group), I have stopped to see what my energy is in that first session compared to the second.

Today I'm going back with today's message in mind and I'll see how I can alter the group's attention with only my intention and my energy.

I'll let you know how it goes.

God is the only goal I have today.

Day 255

Today's Lesson:

This day I choose to spend in perfect peace.

It does not seem to me that I can choose to have but peace today. And yet, my God assures me that His Son is like Himself. Let me this day have faith in Him Who says I am God's Son. And let the peace I choose be mine today bear witness to the truth of what He says. God's Son can have no cares, and must remain forever in the peace of Heaven. In His Name, I give today to finding what my Father wills for me, accepting it as mine, and giving it to all my Father's Sons, along with me.

And so, my Father, would I pass this day with You. Your Son has not forgotten You. The peace You gave him still is in his mind, and it is there I choose to spend today.

Miracles I'm noticing:

It really is that simple to just declare how I want to spend my day. Our minds work toward things, not away from them so whatever we set our mind to we can have. If I am intending to spend this day in perfect peace, so be it.

We make things more difficult than they have to be because that's the way we've always done it. It's difficult for us to believe life could possibly be easy but that's the reality of it. It can be whatever we choose.

So today, I choose perfect peace. I can create my day and all my experiences right now.

So be it!

Day 254

Today's Lesson:

Let every voice but God's be still in me.

Father, today I would but hear Your Voice. In deepest silence I would come to You, to hear Your Voice and to receive Your Word. I have no prayer but this: I come to You to ask You for the truth. And Truth is but Your Will, which I would share with You today.

Today we let no ego thoughts direct our words or actions. When such thoughts occur, we quietly step back and look at them, and then we let them go. We do not want what they would bring with them. And so we do not choose to keep them. They are silent now. And in the stillness, hallowed by His Love, God speaks to us and tells us of our will, as we have chosen to remember Him.

Miracles I'm noticing:

I'll be teaching all week this week at a company in a neighboring town, and yesterday we talked about how we each have 60,000 random voices going through our heads at any given time. And most of those thoughts are the same thoughts we had yesterday, and will be the same thoughts we have tomorrow. It is possible to quiet those thoughts, and today's lesson shows us how to do that.

There are no coincidences - it is no accident that this lesson came up today as I'm preparing for a brand new speech I'm giving tonight when I get back from today's training. I'll meet with the classes again and remind them of the 60,000 random thoughts - and then will remember today's lesson for myself as I prepare this new speech. May God's Voice come through me today and tonight as I allow myself to be the vessel and get out of the way!