All He needed was my willingness to accept Him! And He is here, at last!
I asked Him, and He came!
I did not hear Him enter, for I did not wholly welcome Him. And yet His gifts came with Him. He has laid them at my feet, and asks me now that I will look on them, and accept them as my own.
He needs my help in giving them to all who walk apart, believing they are separate and alone. They will be healed when I accept my gifts, because my Guest will welcome everyone whose feet have touched the holy ground whereon I stand, and where His gifts for them are laid.
My Guest is here and I accept His gifts with all my heart! I accept them and I am healed! I finally know that I am free because I am the Son of God.
Perhaps I do not see yet, how much I now can give, because of everything I have received. Yet He Who entered in but waits for me to come where I invited Him to be. Let me not hasten and keep Him waiting. There is nowhere else His gifts of peace and joy, and all the happiness His Presence brings, can be obtained.
I cannot see my Guest, but I can see His gifts. And when I look at them, I will believe His Presence must be there. For what I now can do could not be done without the Love and Grace His Presence holds.
Based on ACIM, chapter 29, The Coming of the Guest
Tuesday, February 24, 2009, 04:52 PM CET
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He has asked me to choose once again.
“Choose once again if you would take your place among the saviors of the world, or would remain in hell, and hold your brothers there”.
How easy this choice is, indeed! He asks me to choose between my weakness and the strength of Christ in me; this is the favor my Guest asks of me.
What I choose is what I think is real.
He asks me never to let weakness direct my actions. This is how I give it no power. He asks me to let the light of Christ in me take charge of everything I do.
He asks me to bring my weakness unto Him, and He will give me His strength instead!
This is the gift He asks of me.
He explains to me that trials are but lessons that I failed to learn presented once again, so where I made a faulty choice before I now can make a better one, and thus escape all pain that what I chose before has brought to me.
In every difficulty, all distress, and each perplexity my Guest calls to me and gently says, “My brother, choose again.” He would remove all misery from me whom God created altar of joy. He would not leave me comfortless, alone in dreams of hell, but would release my mind from everything that hides His face from me.
If I give Him this little gift, His strength is mine because He is the Self that God created as His only Son.
Let me not deny Him the little gift He asks, when in exchange He lays before my feet the peace of God, and power to bring this peace to everyone who wanders in the world uncertain, lonely, and in constant fear. For it is given me to join him, and through the Christ in me unveil his eyes, and let him look upon the Christ in him.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009, 05:10 PM CET
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GODISLIKEUS
1. God,the Patron and the Avenger.
Little Christina asks protection from her Father but she is also scared of him. She tries to hide from him because she is afraid of His judgment and His punishment. She feels guilty for her sinful thoughts. She goes to church with her grandma every Sunday, because it is her duty.
This God is vindictive, arbitrary, irritable, jealous, and reproachful – he gives rewards and punishments, sometimes he is indecipherable, and sometimes he is merciful.
2. TheRebellionagainsttyranny.
Little Christina, grows up and puts everything under question.
Downwiththetyranny!!
Downwiththetyrants!!
Power to the people!!
There cannot be a tyrant up there ruling our destiny. All this is nonsense. There is no God.
Viva communism!! Christina says she is an atheist.
Still, deep inside her, she feels there is a Superior Power, but she does not admit it in public. She does not want to be “misunderstood” by her comrades.
3. The Change and the Search for the baby in the bathwater.
Christina starts to get over the period of spiritual puberty; she gets more serious and seeks for the truth.
She starts wondering if she had thrown “the baby with the bathwater”.
Communism has collapsed and she has been naïve believing into so many lies!
For the first time in her life she takes on astrology as a hobby and makes new discoveries.
How come and planetary positions and astrological aspects come true if all that there is, is matter? Her faith in a Superior Power becomes stronger and comes to surface.
4. The Peaceful God of Love.
Christina starts reading books on self improvement and spiritual growth, mainly oriental philosophy.
Now, at last she meets a God detached, calm, confronting, not demanding, reconciliatory, quiet and meditative.
She starts to understand and gets over her prejudice against religious matters.
She reconciles with herself.
However, she still believes she is a sinner. She makes guilty thoughts and sometimes she considers herself as a not a very nice person.
5. God the redeemer
Christina becomes happier and happier. Her guilty thoughts and the blockages she had imposed on herself, are cast out one by one, like the skin of the snake.
God is understanding, tolerant, forgiving, does not judge, contains everyone, accepts. But she is still afraid not to hurt her family by her choices.
6. God the Creator – the God of miracles.
Christina’s horizons are widening even more.God has a limitless creative potential.
He has control over time and space.
Abundance is His Will.
He is open, generous, willing to be understood, inspired.
Christina is in a permanent state of prayer.
She asks and she is given.
Synchronicities are almost an everyday experience.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009, 05:43 PM CET
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The following article is based on THE COURSE IN MIRACLES, chapter 30.
Decisions are continuous.
We take decisions all the time consciously or unconsciously, before we say or do anything.
Every move or thought is preceded by a decision.
We take thousands of decisions every day.
It is not wise to let ourselves become preoccupied with each one of them.
What we need is the proper decision, the proper set of mind, adopted consciously each time we wake.
Let us decide for a happy day with the determination not to make decisions by ourselves.
“Today I will make no decisions by myself.”
This means that we will not let our ego be the judge of what to do.
This seems to be a real decision in itself.
We either make decisions with idols or with God.
We can ask for help from our ego or from our sacred Self.
Let this be the day that we choose wisely.
Let us ask for guidance from the Inner Voice, the Voice for God.
And when we ask, it is certain that we will receive.
Our day is not at random. It is set by what we choose to live it with, and how the friend whose counsel we have sought perceives our happiness.
We always ask advice before we can decide on anything.
Let us ask it from the Right One.
Nevertheless, it is very possible that there will be times throughout the day that we’ll fail to “stick” to our decision. Maybe we feel anger, uncertainty and fear. Each time we feel like this, it is certain that we have taken a decision asking the “wrong” guide.
However there is still time to say:
“At least I can decide I do not like what I feel now.”
Having decided that we do not like the way we feel, what could be easier than to continue with:
“And so I hope I have been wrong”
And then:
“I ask for another way to look at this.”
This final step is but acknowledgement of lack of opposition to be helped.
We will not resist to the guidance of our Holy Self anymore.
It is a statement of an open mind, not certain yet, but willing to be shown:
“Perhaps there is another way to look at this.
What can I lose by asking?”
We and our adviser must agree on what we want before it can occur. It is but this agreement that permits all things to happen.
Decisions make results because they are not made in isolation. They are made by us and our adviser, for ourselves and the world as well.
There is one great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It's your mission on earth.
The Alchemist
Seeking Love
The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us. And to save us.
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
The Best Teacher
What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.
The Witch of Portobello
Befriending the Heart
The boy and his heart had become friends, and neither was capable now of betraying the other.
The Alchemist
The Only Thing
Only one thing makes a dream impossible: the fear of failure.
The Alchemist
This Precious Moment
We are travellers on a cosmic journey, stardust, swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.
The Alchemist
The Secret of Life
The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.
The Alchemist
The Good Fight
Often, during combat, the warrior of light receives blows that he was not expecting. And he realizes that, during a war, his enemy is bound to win some of the battles. When this happens, the warrior of light weeps bitter tears and rests in order to recover his energies a little. But he immediately resumes the battle for his dreams.
Manual of the Warrior of Light
What is Intuition?
Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all people are connected, and we are able to know everything, because it's all written there.
