The Use of Time
Time to put away
child’s toys
They’ve had their play
Time to stop
talking about.
All talkings
had its day
Time to “let it be”
So we can see
That Time to love
Embraces
you and me
Time itself
Has passed away
No time to say
Time is no more!
Yet Love is ever near.
I love you,
Michael
and this:
Thought is Cause
The thought Ego,
a separate entity,
produced
a body lying,
a body crying,
a body dying.
Authorities of ancestors
use this body
to garment my soul
with rules of pleasure,
rules of pain,
longings for leisure
midst struggle and strain.
This garment of lies
is now unraveling.
The Light and Power
Of “I AM PRESENCE”
shines through cracks.
my being shouts,
“ No turning back!”.
New thought replaces
ego’s shrills.
At first a whisper.
then louder
and louder still,
revealing a will
i long have slighted,
animating long dying
forms with
cells of crystal lighted,
melting old authorities,
replacing them with Love.
Michael
Clear Truth
The Course in Miracles is very clear about Truth. Take a few moments now and consider very carefully what the Course says about Truth:
T-14.II.2 The Holy Spirit, begins His lesson in simplicity with the fundamental teaching that truth is true. 2 This is the hardest lesson you will ever learn, and in the end the only one. 3 Simplicity is very difficult for twisted minds. 4 Consider all the distortions you have made of nothing; all the strange forms and feelings and actions and reactions that you have woven out of it. 5 Nothing is so alien to you as the simple truth, and nothing are you less inclined to listen to. 6 The contrast between what is true and what is not is perfectly apparent, yet you do not see it.
W-pI.107.1 Where truth has entered errors disappear. They merely vanish, leaving not a trace by which to be remembered. And so they disappear to nothingness, returning whence they came.
T-14.II.3. 2 To those unhappy learners who would teach themselves nothing, and delude themselves into believing that it is not nothing, the Holy Spirit says, with steadfast quietness: 3 The truth is true. 4 Nothing else matters, nothing else is real, and everything beside it is not there. 5 Let Me make the one distinction for you that you cannot make, but need to learn. 6 Your faith in nothing is deceiving you.
W-pI.152.3. Salvation is the recognition that the truth is true, and nothing else is true. Nothing but the truth is true, and what is false is false.
T-14.IX.3. Merely by being what it is, does truth release you from everything that it is not. 5 But to give illusions to truth is to enable truth to teach that the illusions are unreal, and thus enable you to escape from them. 6 Reserve not one idea aside from truth, or you establish orders of reality that must imprison you.
Now, is it not clear that Truth is always Truth and never changes even slightly in any way? It’s always permanently absolutely the same, always has been and always will be eternally. And is it not clear that it has no parts or differences or size or shape or definition or limitation? It’s absolute, infinite, shapeless, changeless, formless and eternal. That’s what Truth is, and only Truth is True and nothing else is True.
So anything that is not absolute, not infinite, not formless, not changeless, not eternal, is not Truth. And only Truth is True. 4 Nothing else matters, nothing else is real, and everything beside it is not there. That’s what illusions are. Illusions are the something else besides Truth that’s not real, that’s not there, and that doesn’t matter.
If only truth is true and truth is formless, then form is not truth, not real, not there and doesn’t matter. An idol is simply something else other than Truth to which you attribute reality, something you believe to be real that isn’t real. Like form, like the body, like illusion.
The Course says, 6 Reserve not one idea aside from truth, or you establish orders of reality that must imprison you. Well, what are ideas aside from Truth. The ideas that form, bodies and illusions are real. Which if you believe are real when in fact they’re not, establish orders of reality that must imprison you. Because then you become trapped into something that’s false, cutting you off from Truth, cutting you off from permanence, eternality and infinity.
My body doesn’t matter because it’s not real. It’s an illusory appearance that doesn’t matter so I leave it alone. If I believe it’s real then my faith in nothing is deceiving me. It’s not Truth so it’s nothing.
The course says, “Consider all the distortions you have made of nothing; all the strange forms and feelings and actions and reactions that you have woven out of it.” Well, what are the distortions and strange forms it’s talking about? Illusions, forms, bodies. None of it’s real, none of it matters, and if it’s not real and doesn’t matter just leave it alone.
Don’t try to comprehend it, control it, fix it, enhance it, improve it, protect it, love it, fear it, worry about it, or be concerned about it in any way whatsoever. Just keep your attention on God and God alone and you’ll find that you simply have nothing to worry or be concerned about. God is the Kingdom of Heaven. Jesus said, “Seek ye first the Kingdom of Heaven and all else will be added unto you.” Don’t complicate things beyond that.
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