As we go about our daily lives, we consume oxygen and use it to burn glucose so these little bodies we think we are can continue to live and function.
Yet it's our Mind that is who we are. Not the ego mind that thinks thousands of thoughts each day, that makes judgments, that worries and fears. It is God's Mind that we are. For when God extended Himself to create the Sonship he performed that act purely: By extending Himself, He shared the Love, the very essence that is God, with the Sonship so that we are all created from the same "stuff" as God...and that is Love. To my thinking, the concept of "extending" is even more powerful than "creating" because it evokes the image of God simply becoming more of the Love He already Is -- if that were even possible for an infinite, eternal Creator -- and yet He blessed that extension of Himself which has become known through ACIM as His beloved Sonship.
Lesson 45, "God is the Mind with which I think" says is nicely.
That idea holds the key to what our real thoughts are. They are nothing that I think I think, just as nothing that I think you I see is related to true Vision in any way. There is no relationship between what is real and what I think is real.
We think with the Mind of God. Therefore we share our thoughts with Him, as He shares His with us. They are the same thoughts -- God's Will -- because they are thought by the same Mind. To share is to make alike, or to make one. Nor do the thoughts we think with the Mind of God leave our mind, because thoughts do not leave their source. Therefore, the thoughts of our Right Mind are in the Mind of God, as we all are.
So for me, I find it moving when I see Love being expressed among people. It harkens back to the Love that God extended and expressed in each of us and reflects so wonderfully on the Loving core of who and what we all really are. Finding genuine expressions of Love is not especially difficult these days. In addition to enjoying a fulfilling Holy Relationship with Becky that causes me to thank God at least a couple of times every day, I find expressions of Love that our wonderful technology brings to us.
Here's a short example. The audience, the judges and I am sure most every viewer of this live performance expressed Love, warmth, encouragement and admiration for this young man. May we all do more of that... more of the time...with more and more of our brothers and sisters...as we burn up that glucose and oxygen while we go about our seeming lives every day.
Yet it's our Mind that is who we are. Not the ego mind that thinks thousands of thoughts each day, that makes judgments, that worries and fears. It is God's Mind that we are. For when God extended Himself to create the Sonship he performed that act purely: By extending Himself, He shared the Love, the very essence that is God, with the Sonship so that we are all created from the same "stuff" as God...and that is Love. To my thinking, the concept of "extending" is even more powerful than "creating" because it evokes the image of God simply becoming more of the Love He already Is -- if that were even possible for an infinite, eternal Creator -- and yet He blessed that extension of Himself which has become known through ACIM as His beloved Sonship.
Lesson 45, "God is the Mind with which I think" says is nicely.
That idea holds the key to what our real thoughts are. They are nothing that I think I think, just as nothing that I think you I see is related to true Vision in any way. There is no relationship between what is real and what I think is real.
We think with the Mind of God. Therefore we share our thoughts with Him, as He shares His with us. They are the same thoughts -- God's Will -- because they are thought by the same Mind. To share is to make alike, or to make one. Nor do the thoughts we think with the Mind of God leave our mind, because thoughts do not leave their source. Therefore, the thoughts of our Right Mind are in the Mind of God, as we all are.
So for me, I find it moving when I see Love being expressed among people. It harkens back to the Love that God extended and expressed in each of us and reflects so wonderfully on the Loving core of who and what we all really are. Finding genuine expressions of Love is not especially difficult these days. In addition to enjoying a fulfilling Holy Relationship with Becky that causes me to thank God at least a couple of times every day, I find expressions of Love that our wonderful technology brings to us.
Here's a short example. The audience, the judges and I am sure most every viewer of this live performance expressed Love, warmth, encouragement and admiration for this young man. May we all do more of that... more of the time...with more and more of our brothers and sisters...as we burn up that glucose and oxygen while we go about our seeming lives every day.
