My thoughts* on ACIM Urtext Lesson 183, for July 1, 2024. God’s Name can not be heard without response.
I call upon God’s Name and on my own.
1. God’s Name is holy, but no holier than yours.
* Whoa!
²To call upon His Name is but to call upon your own.
³A father gives his son his name, and thus identifies the son with him.
⁴His brothers share his name, and thus are they united in a bond to which they turn for their identity.
⁵Your Father’s Name reminds you who you are, even within a world that does not know; even though you have not remembered it.
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2. God’s Name can not be heard without response, nor said without an echo in the mind that calls you to remember.
²Say His Name, and you invite the angels to surround the ground on which you stand, and sing to you as they spread out their wings to keep you safe, and shelter you from every worldly thought that would intrude upon your holiness.
3. Repeat God’s Name, and all the world responds by laying down illusions.
²Every dream the world holds dear has suddenly gone by, and where it seemed to stand you find a star; a miracle of grace.
³The sick arise, healed of their sickly thoughts.
⁴The blind can see; the deaf can hear.
⁵The sorrowful cast off their mourning, and the tears of pain are dried as happy laughter comes to bless the world.
4. Repeat the Name of God, and little names have lost their meaning.
²No temptation but becomes a nameless and unwanted thing before God’s Name.
³Repeat His Name, and see how easily you will forget the names of all the gods you valued.
⁴They have lost the name of god you gave them.
⁵They become anonymous and valueless to you, although before you let the Name of God replace their little names, you stood before them worshipfully, naming them as gods.
5. Repeat the Name of God, and call upon your Self, Whose Name is His.
²Repeat His Name, and all the tiny, nameless things on earth slip into right perspective.
³Those 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.
⁴And should you join a brother as you sit with him in silence, and repeat God’s Name along with him within your quiet mind, you have established there an altar which reaches to God Himself and to His Son.
6. Practice but this today; repeat God’s Name slowly again and still again.
²Become oblivious to every name but His.
³Hear nothing else.
⁴Let all your thoughts become anchored on this.
⁵No other word we use except at the beginning, when we say today’s idea but once.
⁶And then God’s Name becomes our only thought, 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.
* I wonder if this is what is happening to me. I cannot seem to get myself to go into my fella’s presence. I do not want to play the ego’s game of cat and mouse where my psyche is stretched to its limits as I recognize the trust and confidence that the Holy Spirit has in him and yet behaviorally I have to deal with his past and fears of the future so that “I” myself am not really accepted since he cannot get past that (his past and fears of the future) and I am left ‘adrift’ in a place where Heaven and form do not meet. I never have felt fear for my physical state of being, but I do have a bit of fear for my mental state at this time because that cannot be healthy.
* I cannot force him or anyone else and would not want to.
* I want God and those who know Him more than I want ANYTHING that the world without God has to offer. Even the sunset is vacant if God’s Presence is not acknowledged. Touch, which is so important to me has little meaning without God’s Presence acknowledged.
7. Thus do we give an invitation which can never be refused.
²And God will come, and answer it Himself.
³Think not He hears the little prayers of those who call on Him with names of idols cherished by the world.
⁴They cannot reach Him thus.
⁵He cannot hear requests that He be not Himself, or that His Son receive another name than His.
* Do we not call Christ a sufferer, a lamb to the slaughter, a sacrifice? Thereby condoning the murder of what God created His ONLY Begotten?
* Do you really think that God sees His Son, or any part of the Sonship, that way?
8. Repeat God’s Name, and you acknowledge Him as sole Creator of reality.
²And you acknowledge also that His Son is part of Him, creating in His Name.
³Sit silently, and let His Name become the all-encompassing idea that holds your mind completely.
⁴Let all thoughts be still except this one.
⁵And to all other thoughts respond with this, and see God’s Name replace the thousand little names you gave your thoughts, not realizing that there is one Name for all there is, and all that there will be.
* Do you hear what is being said here? God’s Name belongs on that brother that you do not get along with. God’s Name belongs on that ex-girlfriend that you claim you hated. God’s Name belongs on that son-in-law that did your daughter dirty. God’s Name belongs on that kid who drives through town in the middle of the night after visiting his girlfriend and has woken you up for years. God’s Name belongs on EVERTHING that has ever been or ever will be. God’s Name belongs on the ex who walked into my daughter’s room and propositioned her. God’s Name belongs on that man I called Dad who hurt my brother. God’s Name belongs on that sister that slandered me whenever she could because she projected her possessive and hoarding behavior onto me. There just IS NOT ANYTHING that does not bear God’s Name, including Earth, the cosmos, the oceans, and all of its inhabitants, etc. without end.
* God’s Name belongs on this body with the mushy tits of a 67-year-old woman instead of the firm ones of a 16-year-old kid. God’ Name belongs on that body that doesn’t function like an 18-year-old kid can. There is nothing that does not have God’s Name on it, IN the realm of the Son’s sight or the Father’s because the Father transmutes what the Son sees into the Glory that IS God. That IS His Power and His Authority.
9. Today you can achieve a state in which you will experience the gift of grace.
²You can escape all bondage of the world, and give the world the same release you found.
³You can remember what the world forgot, and offer it your own remembering.
⁴You can accept today the part you play in its salvation, and your own as well.
⁵And both can be accomplished perfectly.
10. Turn to the Name of God for your release, and it is given you.
²No prayer but this is necessary, for it holds them all within it.
³Words are insignificant, and all requests unneeded when God’s Son calls on his Father’s Name.
⁴His Father’s Thoughts become his own.
⁵He makes his claim to all his Father gave, is giving still, and will forever give.
* Please hear this and understand that when you Remember God you receive the blessings that IS YOUR FATHER. ³Words are insignificant, and all requests UNNEEDED when God’s Son calls on his Father’s Name. ⁴His Father’s Thoughts become his own. ⁵He makes his claim to all his Father gave, is giving still, and will forever give.
⁶He 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.
* I WOULD GIVE THIS BLESSING TO MY FELLA and to EVERYONE I have known or ever will know. Hear the FULLNESS of the teaching of Jesus and not only the little bit that the ego=god’s ear allows (or wants) you to hear.
11. All little things are silent.
²Little sounds are soundless now.
³The little things of earth have disappeared.
⁴The universe consists of nothing but the Son of God, who calls upon his Father.
* I am pleading with the Son of God (All That Is) to COME UNTO HIS FATHER.
* And if you do not think the earth, along with All That Is is NOT listening to me you are mistaken.
⁵And his Father’s Voice gives answer in his Father’s holy Name.
⁶In 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.
⁷In our Father’s Name, we would experience this peace today.
⁸And in His Name, it shall be given us.
* This “train of thought” is NOT ABOUT to STOP. Are you “onboard” or not?
(ACIM, W-183.1:1–11:8)
* Free stock photo: We MUST look to FATHER for the Answers and He gives them to each of us within through the Holy Spirit.
Till next time, God bless, debi.
