From the closing of the Workbook of A Course in Miracles for 31 December 2024 This course is a beginning, not an end.
Epilogue
1. This course is a beginning, not an end.
* Remember this, please!
²Your Friend goes with you.
* SPIRIT is your friend embodying the best of each of us in the Whole Sonship of Christ AND FATHER’s VOICE.
³You are not alone.
* EVER, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE!
⁴No one who calls on Him can call in vain.
⁵Whatever troubles you, be certain that He has the answer, and will gladly give it to you, if you simply turn to Him and ask it of Him.
* Four points. Did you count them? Each is huge in your walk with SPIRIT IN THE PRESENCE OF THE FATHER OF ALL THAT IS OR EVER COULD BE.
⁶He will not withhold all answers that you need for anything that seems to trouble you.
* LISTEN, LEARN HOW HE SPEAKS WITHIN YOU.
⁷He knows the way to solve all problems, and resolve all doubts.
* He becomes your ALL. You KNOW that ALL resides in the witness that HE IS.
⁸His certainty is yours.
* Oh, WOW! YES!
⁹You need but ask it of Him, and it will be given you.
* That is the verse on the card this month when I got back to the Midwest and felt prompted to draw a card for myself from Doreen Virtue’s “Loving Words From Jesus” made just before she threw away what she had and stepped into the traditional fear that Christianity teaches. That is her walk and her part of the Universal Plan. My remarks are an observation, not a judgment. I do not believe she could ever lose what she knew before and what happened in her life was so that other’s would get stronger and step up so we want to look at “existence” in the illusion for what it is, not real but a symbol of God’s Love for His Son in a way we more than likely do not understand.
* I found out that I cannot do a personal reading anymore. It is always a “universal one” because that is how I think from within the Atonement. (I will share another four-card reading after a bit since I shared this one with you here. It had been tickling my brain that I needed to do this.)
* I will say this about asking. It is wiser to imagine how you would like to FEEL if you received what you THOUGHT you wanted. THEN TELL JESUS WHAT YOU WANT TO FEEL LIKE and let him through Father and whatever part of the Sonship of Christ SPIRIT advises bring it to you.
2. You are as certain of arriving home as is the pathway of the sun laid down before it rises, after it has set, and in the half-lit hours in between.
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²Indeed, your pathway is more certain still.
³For it can not be possible to change the course of those whom God has called to Him.
⁴Therefore obey your will, and follow Him Whom you accepted as your voice, to speak of what you really want and really need.
* Did you HEAR THAT? HIS VOICE CARRIES OUR TRUE DESIRES FROM THE DEPTHS OF OUR CONSCIOUSNESS, EVEN OUR CREATION. HE REMEMBERS AND WILL REMIND US.
⁵His is the Voice for God and also yours.
⁶And thus He speaks of freedom and of truth.
3. No more specific lessons are assigned, for there is no more need of them.
* We simply walk as a happy toddler never knowing what is coming round the corner but somehow knowing we will enjoy it. Yep. Even the difficult parts.
²Henceforth, hear but the Voice for God and for your Self when you retire from the world, to seek reality instead.
³He will direct your efforts, telling you exactly what to do, how to direct your mind, and when to come to Him in silence, asking for His sure direction and His certain Word.
⁴His is the Word that God has given you.
⁵His is the Word you chose to be your own.
* I am getting chills, and my eyes are filling up. Imagine what the world will come to be as we do this and watch each other blossom! That is what I wish for each of you to embrace.
4. And now I place you in His hands, to be His faithful follower, with Him as Guide through every difficulty and all pain that you may think is real.
* “… that you may think is real.”
²Nor will He give you pleasures that will pass away, for He gives only the eternal and the good.
* These are real and you come to desire them above all.
³Let Him prepare you further.
⁴He has earned your trust by speaking daily to you of your Father and your brother and your Self.
⁵He will continue.
⁶Now you walk with Him, as certain as is He of where you go; as sure as He of how you should proceed; as confident as He is of the goal, and of your safe arrival in the end.
5. The end is certain, and the means as well.
²To this we say “Amen.”
³You will be told exactly what God wills for you each time there is a choice to make.
* GRATEFUL! I do not have to second guess that what I do, or did, was something that was not correct for that precise moment.
⁴And He will speak for God and for your Self, thus making sure that hell will claim you not, and that each choice you make brings Heaven nearer to your reach.
* Amen.
⁵And so we walk with Him from this time on, and turn to Him for guidance and for peace and sure direction.
⁶Joy attends our way.
⁷For we go homeward to an open door which God has held unclosed to welcome us.
6. We trust our ways to Him and say “Amen.”
* Amen.
²In peace we will continue in His way, and trust all things to Him.
³In confidence we wait His answers, as we ask His Will in everything we do.
* HEAR THAT.
* IT IS FATHER’S VOICE YOU WANT TO HEAR, not his or hers or even theirs!
* YOU MUST ASK, DAILY, WHOLE (embodying all) INSTANT BY WHOLE INSTANT and HE WILL ANSWER!
⁴He loves God’s Son as we would love him.
* … AS WE TRULY WANT AND NEED TO EMBRACE HIM AS OUR EQUAL AND OUR BROTHER. (No gender touches any part of that statement.) Because we have lost the BELIEF IN THE HATE that we have been “CAREFULLY TAUGHT.” That phrase came from a song I just heard by a beautiful soprano in a red dress, Audra McDonald, on SDPB/PBS.
⁵And He teaches us how to behold him through His eyes, and love him as He does.
* FATHER TEACHES US HOW TO SEE EACH OTHER THROUGH HIS EYES, AND VALUE HIM AS ONLY GOD HAS THE RIGHT TO DECLARE IT ~ THROUGH SPIRIT ~ THAT RESIDES WITHIN YOU AND YOU NOW HAVE THE WITNESS AND COURAGE TO HONOR IT.
⁶You do not walk alone.
⁷God’s angels hover near and all about.
* Angels are known as protectors, and this statement I would suggest is specific to the WORLD OF FORM. We have so much assistance even in our confusion. Yet there is a Universal Plan that serves the WHOLE Sonship that cannot be denied for if even one is missing from the fold or fullness of the “body” it is counted for loss.
* I just watched “King Richard” for the first time in Central Park on SDPB/PBS. I heard and saw the word “God” many times used by those shun HIM and DENY HIS EXISTENCE except to use it in our “play” of treachery and murderous self-betrayal. THIS is what the world we have IN THE PAST accepted. It DOES NOT NEED TO BE SO NOW. Let us SEE GOD and LIVE!
⁸His Love surrounds you, and of this be sure; that I will never leave you comfortless.
* FATHER’S PRESENCE SURROUNDS US. That is the meaning of LOVE in it’s TRUEST FORM.
* And Christ, of which Jesus is a part in the Body that belongs to the Son of God that can NEVER BE DIVIDED FROM FATHER OR ITSELF, holds out assurance that He Lives In You and Every Part of the Sonship that is Christ throughout ALL TIME and in all dimensions, spheres, or Thought of Father, Himself; THIS BEING THE MEANING OF COMFORT ITSELF, that you could NEVER BE ALONE or SEPARATE for it is an impossibility.
* Jesus, in spirit, is more involved in the particulars of our story than we realize or have been led to believe. Look to him for assistance as you would a big brother and thereby be comforted and supported on your journey.
* May you know the meaning of the ATONEMENT this coming year that by year’s end Christ will be seen in a way he never has since TIME began. And let time release its hold as we let go of idol worship and deliver ourselves from the many trappings of separation that we think give meaning to our existence while we deny the evidence of our Creator in our midst.
* And so it is, in the Name of Father and Son, amen.
(ACIM, W-ep.1:1–6:8)
Till next time, God Bless, debi.
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