A New World

Wow... simply wow...

I knew I was disconnected from my feelings for most of my life, and I knew I was sensitive and wow...

I feel..... constantly..... i feel.

I can no longer watch the news or television programs that I once loved because the violence and anger in them doesn't just upset me it devastates me.

My MIL was telling me yesterday about how they are dealing with the rabbit problem in the retirement village where they live (I love bunny rabbits!) and I almost threw up.

I am being reminded every time I go out of the house to Angelic Light myself because I am picking up on so much stuff.

I always have picked it up - I was just so disconnected I didn't feel it - I could feel the effects of it - just not the feeling itself.

It is exquisite and at the same time somewhat overwhelming. The Angels have me well in hand though and are supporting me to ease gently into my new way of being. Jesus is walking beside me every step of the way and as I feel the anger, sadness, dissapointment, fear etc I simply ask Him to help me see it another way. It is truly amazing. A Course In Miracles has helped me to learn that.

I have been a student of A Course In Miracles for the last 13 years and at last I think I am beginning to get it. I am being told that I have just passed through the second stage of the learning process... perhaps it is time I started doing my lessons again...

For those who are not familiar with it A Course In Miracles is a text that was received by a woman using inner dictation. The author of the work is Jesus. Some dispute that and it does not matter to me - I know it is true. It is a powerful and profound spiritual text which completely changes they way you think about and experience the world. It consists of three parts; the text; a workbook for students; and a manual for teachers. It is a self study course!

In 13 years I have picked it up and put it down I cannot telll you how many times but it has never been far away from me! I have completed lessons 1 through 55 about 8 times because I start and then stop and when I come back to it I figure I better start at the beginning again... LOL... today I am beginning on lesson 56!

A great book which gives you insight into the principles of A Course In Miracles is called
"The Disappearance Of The Universe" by Garry Renard. It is funny, easy to read and really gives you a good understanding of what the text is about.

The text of ACIM is a bit hard to read at times yet it is so beautiful. I remember like it was yesterday (and it was 13 years ago) the first time I read the following peice of text... I cried for hours it was such a radical way for me to think and yet I knew it was true.

T 4:7 "Your worth is not established by teaching or learning. Your worth is established by God. As long as you dispute this everything you do will be fearful, especially any situation which lends itself to the belief in superiority and inferiority ... Again,- nothing you do or think or wish or make is necessary to establish your worth."

While there are 365 lessons it is not essential they be completed in a year, which is just as well for me! LOL

I used to attend a study group when I first discovered the Course. I would love to begin one here... will look into it once we are moved and settled. Would anyone be interested?

I leave you today with the introduction from A Course In Miracles

INTRODUCTION

1. This is a course in miracles. 2It is a required course. 3Only the time you take it is voluntary. 4Free will does not mean that you can establish the curriculum. 5It means only that you can elect what you want to take at a given time. 6The course does not aim at teaching the meaning of love, for that is beyond what can be taught. 7It does aim, however, at removing the blocks to the awareness of love's presence, which is your natural inheritance. 8The opposite of love is fear, but what is all-encompassing can have no opposite.

2. This course can therefore be summed up very simply in this way:

2Nothing real can be threatened.
3Nothing unreal exists.

4Herein lies the peace of God.