So will the year begin in joy and freedom. There is much to do, and we have been long delayed. Accept the holy instant as this year is born, and take your place, so long left unfulfilled, in the Great Awakening. Make this year different by making it all the same. And let all your relationships be made holy for you. This is our will. Amen. Jesus Christ ~ A Course In Miracles
Enjoy our New Year’s eCard which includes a performance of Seasons of Love by Teachers of A Course In Miracles at the Miracles Healing Center Sunday service this morning (December 30th).
Give us a new birth . . .
as we celebrate the beginning of your Son’s life on earth.
-Christmas Vigil Mass
The holy Christ is born in me today.
Watch with me, angels, watch with me today. Let all God’s holy Thoughts surround me, and be still with me while Heaven’s Son is born. Let earthly sounds be quiet, and the sights to which I am accustomed disappear. Let Christ be welcomed where He is at home. And let Him hear the sounds He understands, and see but sights that show His Father’s Love. Let Him no longer be a stranger here, for He is born again in me today.
Your Son is welcome, Father. He has come to save me from the evil self I made. He is the Self That You have given me. He is but what I really am in truth. He is the Son You love above all things. He is my Self as You created me. It is not Christ That can be crucified. Safe in Your Arms let me receive Your Son.
This is a real miracle story. My Dad is a compere/quiz master but his true career is lifting people’s spirits. At the age of 78 he shows no sign of retiring! Many years ago in Anderson’s Bay, Dunedin, New Zealand… in a supermarket called ‘Woolworths’ he was doing his usual give-away show….
These are his own words (an excerpt from his book):
One dream ending to a give-away occasion happened at a Woolworths Supermarket opening at Andersons Bay Dunedin. My roving commission took me up and down the aisles to locate winners for a variety of prizes, some supplied by Woolies others from my stable of sponsors. I suddenly espied this old tramp of a character, sporting a great pack on his back, and about a years growth of beard sprouting from a ruddy smiling face. Here was an instant target. Hitting my mini hooter I loudly proclaimed he was standing in the Lucky Spot zone and due for a Jackpot pay-out. The crowd gathered around as prizes were piled in his direction – Colgate Toothpaste, Palmolive Soap, chocolates, cigarettes, canned fruit, biscuits, bacon, sausages, the more that was pushed into his pack and into his pockets the broader his smile became. And slowly, tears started to trickle down his cheeks. As he trudged away totally laden with goodies (even a Gillette razor) all the sales ladies within earshot were bawling their eyes out too. That without any doubt was my most pleasurable moment over a lifetime in this give-away game. Other contestants had won houses, holidays, motor-cars and every kind of household appliance – but never had anyone looked as elated as the man we labelled the Back-packer Champion of New Zealand. He’d surely have died since but hopefully with that smile still on his face.
Let that love, that beauty, which was the message to the shepherds, be thine today:
‘Unto thee is born, yea, unto thee — each one — if offered a knowledge, an understanding of the life of the Christ that will renew thy life, thy purpose — if ye will but sing that new song, ‘Love One Another’.”
“Then, as ye give so do ye receive. As He hath given, the love of the Father to the children of men is manifested in that spirit of Christmas that which may now be raised to that consciousness, that level above man’s way of thought, man’s concept of force, power or might; and that the real strength, the real hope, the real contribution is in that still small voice within.”
Sunday December 23rd The sign of Christmas is a star, a light in darkness.
See it not outside yourself, but shining in the Heaven within, and accept it as the sign the time of Christ has come. He comes demanding nothing. No sacrifice of any kind, of anyone, is asked by Him. In His Presence the whole idea of sacrifice loses all meaning. For He is Host to God. And you need but invite Him in Who is there already, by recognizing that His Host is One, and no thought alien to His Oneness can abide with Him there. Love must be total to give Him welcome, for the Presence of holiness creates the holiness that surrounds it. No fear can touch the Host Who cradles God in the time of Christ, for the Host is as holy as the Perfect Innocence which He protects, and Whose power protects Him.
This Christmas give the Holy Spirit everything that would hurt you. Let yourself be healed completely that you may join with Him in healing, and let us celebrate our release together by releasing everyone with us. Leave nothing behind, for release is total, and when you have accepted it with me you will give it with me. All pain and sacrifice and littleness will disappear in our relationship, which is as innocent as our relationship with our Father, and as powerful. Pain will be brought to us and disappear in our presence, and without pain there can be no sacrifice. And without sacrifice there love must be.
-A Course in Miracles Text, ch. 15 “Christmas as the End of Sacrifice”
The light has come. You are healed and you can heal. The light has come. You are saved and you can save. You are at peace and you bring peace with you wherever you go. Darkness and turmoil and death have disappeared. The light has come.
Today we celebrate the happy ending to your long dream of disaster. There are no dark dreams now. The light has come. Today the time of light begins for you and everyone. It is a new era, in which a new world is born. The old one has left no trace upon it in its passing. Today we see a different world because the light has come.
Our exercises for today will be happy ones, in which we offer thanks for the passing of the old and the beginning of the new. No shadows from the past remain to darken our sight and hide the world forgiveness offers us. Today we will accept the new world as what we want to see. We will be given what we desire. We will to see the light; the light has come.
“People of all faiths and homelands are divided into reasonable and unreasonable people. All that I wish and pray to God for is that the reasonable people would outnumber the fools.”
This is a very interesting statement made by the Moslem Sunni leader, Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi in the intro video to the up and coming CBS documentary In God’s Name airing THIS SUNDAY.
Many if not most of us believe that all humanity’s problems are rooted in the desire to overpower, control and consequently kill those who seem to be religiously, racially or politically separate. The problem is rooted in a FALSE IDEA OF SEPARATION. Religion backed by recent scientific discoveries reveal the truth that we all come from the same source both physically and spiritually. Based on that fact, by nature we ARE shifting our desire more toward peace than war. It is evident that there are more individuals in this world today that oppose war (even in the name of peace or God) than there were maybe a century ago. This is the result of nature’s course of action for thousands of years. It is the evolution of human kind. The wish, “prayer of the heart”, for betterment is/has been enough for change and yet at this point in time in our evolution of mind, we are are desperate for a more rapid solution to accelerate the necessary shift in consciousness. We can all feel the sense of urgency. TIME IS SHORT.
By the grace of God, we have been given a miraculous speed up device, A Course In Miracles, for every single individual on the planet who is willing to change themselves. Through simple acts of forgiveness an individual can be directed toward a new purpose ultimately leading to a whole new thought system which shows everyone as one creation of God, innocent and loveable regardless of their mistakes.
In the intro video Jules Naudet raises a very good question in regard to the events of September 11th:
You were in darkness until God’s Will was done completely by any part of the Sonship. When this was done, it was perfectly
accomplished by all. How else could it be perfectly accomplished?
My mission was simply to unite the will of the Sonship with the Will of the Father by being aware of the Father’s Will myself. This is the awareness I came to give you, and your problem in accepting it is the problem of this world. Dispelling it is salvation, and in this sense I am the salvation of the world. The world must therefore despise and reject me, because the world is the belief that love is impossible. If you will accept the fact that I am with you, you are denying the world and accepting God. My will is His, and your decision to hear me is the decision to hear His Voice and abide in His Will.
As God sent me to you so will I send you to others. And I will go to them with you, so we can teach them peace and union.
Let no despair darken the joy of Christmas, for the time of Christ is meaningless apart from joy. Let us join in celebrating peace by demanding no sacrifice of anyone, for so you offer me the love I offer you. What can be more joyous than to perceive we are deprived of nothing? Such is the message of the time of Christ, which I give you that you may give it and return it to the Father, Who gave it to me. For in the time of Christ communication is restored, and He joins us in the celebration of His Son’s creation.
In the beginning was the Word. . .
and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me. And of his fullness have all we received, and grace for grace.
For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
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“God is my Father, and He loves His Son.”
My true Identity is so secure, so lofty, sinless, glorious and great,
wholly beneficent and free from guilt, that Heaven looks to It to give it light.
It lights the world as well.
It is the gift my Father gave me, the one as well I give the world.
There is no gift but This that can be either given or received.
This is reality, and only This. This is illusion’s end. It is the Truth.
“My Name, oh Father, still is known to You.
I have forgotten it, and do not know where I am going, who I am, or what it is I do.
Remind me, Father, now, for I am weary of the world I see.
Reveal what You would have me see instead.”
Jesus Christ ~ A Course In Miracles
