WISH TO SEE THE EVIDENCE OF LOVE..... WISH TO BE THE PRESENCE OF LOVE WHICH COMES FIRST? I said, there are two things: Wish to SEE the evidence of Love, no matter what’s presenting itself. And wish to BE the presence of Love. Wish to see the evidence of Love and wish to be the evidence of Love. And it’s important. Which one comes first? There is an order to it. . Does the wish to be the evidence of Love come first or the wish to see the evidence of Love? I will tell you: It’s the wish to see the evidence of Love. The first part of it, the first step of it is, selflessness, gifting your Brother instead of yourself.. When you wish to see the evidence of Love in your Brother or in anything you are looking at, you are opening yourself up to the influx of divine clarity. And when that divine clarity dawns on you, infills you, it inspires you and you end up involuntarily being the evidence of Love. And I mean by that, that your behavior isn’t designed by you to have any particular effect because your behavior is beyond your will. Joy that exudes from you spontaneously is the evidence of Love that blesses everyone it falls upon, especially the one whom you decided not to be the evidence of Love to first—the one who seemed to be calling for Love. . “Oh, yeah, I’m going to be the evidence to Love for my Brother here. He really needs it and I really have it to give it to him. You know, I’ve been studying for years, I know the Course inside and out. And I’m going to be the evidence of Love . . .” . Well, bullshit! You’ve missed the point! You can’t be the evidence of Love that way. You can’t start from yourself and your past. You have to start from the innocence of the moment you are in, in which you’re undefended against the Father’s Perspective, the Father’s Will, which is truly yours. But when the Father’s Will dawns upon you, you behave in totally unexpected ways because you’re not in charge of your behavior any longer. . And it’s a wonderful event that you are joyed in and everyone else is joyed in. And that’s the way it works. So . . . [reading fromText] [But] As you forgive him, you restore to truth what was denied by BOTH of you. And you will see forgiveness where you have GIVEN it. . . . you are holding BOTH of you away from truth and from salvation. [But] . . . Again: Expressions of anger always do that. And that’s the only thing they ever do. They help put you back in charge in your own mind, because they make you the most important thing in your mind. And that makes you feel strengthened and more present, even though you’ve stepped out of Reality entirely and are spinning around in this little space of craziness, unconnected with anything Real and incapable of being the evidence of Love. Why? Because you said, “No, I do not wish to see the evidence of Love.” There it is! . Well, what does that mean? It means that when you find yourself disturbed and losing your peace because another is attempting to solve his problems through fantasy, you have decided not to take this presentation and hand it over to truth for truth to correct. You would rather have held it yourself for your purpose. Your purpose being, that you are going to have a little fit of anger and get the most out of it that you can, because that’s more important to you. That’s a self-assertion, isn’t it? That lets you know that you’re real, that you really exist. . Now, you tell me, what’s the difference between looking at your Brother and forgiving your Brother and having truth restored to both of you? What’s the difference between that and looking at a location in Japan, which is overloaded with radioactivity and radioisotopes that are dangerous, and forgiving that and seeing correction occur, seeing truth restored? What is the difference? What is the difference between looking at what you call matter and bringing it to truth, so that truth might reveal to you that it is actually Substance, even though you’re calling it matter and that Substance in its Reality, in its only-ness is Spirit—the Substance of God. . What’s the difference? And in what way is what I’m talking about denying what the Course is saying, by saying, look at matter with the curiosity to see it begin to behave like Spirit. There is no difference. And as long as anyone maintains that there is a difference the correcting principle of the Course will not function for you, because you are denying the fundamental principle that is saying one thing: God is All . . . is All . . . is All . . . is All . . . is All there is in the radioactive isotope . . . is All there is in the splinter of wood that’s caught in your finger . . . is All that there is to my finger.. Mind maintains all Ideas—from a blade of grass to a star—as distinct and eternal. The moment you glimpse the fact that the Course is teaching exactly that, we will all see transformations occurring that everyone deserves to be experiencing and the Course will have fulfilled its purpose.. You don’t live in a frightening world, you live, some of you at the moment, in a frightening way of looking at the world—an isolated independent way, isolated from the Father, but joined with Brothers and Sisters in the same mutual agreement . . . a misperception. ~excerpt from ACIM Study Group with Raj/Jesus Chapter 17 – FORGIVENESS AND THE HOLY RELATIONSHIP Section: FANTASY AND DISTORTED PERCEPTION Conducted by the Northwest Foundation for ACIM nwffacim.wordpress FaceBook: https://facebook/groups/183859725130360/ Now I am present with and available to every single one of you, everyone at every moment. And so it is my intent in being with groups of people like this to make this fact known and by Pauls presence and demeanor also convey the fact that my being available doesnt require of anyone any special talent, because Paul is about as regular as anyone else on this planet and has no special talent in order to hear me. Does that clarify that for you? For those of you who are students of A Course In Miracles, I will take this opportunity to point out that my time spent with Helen Schucman was also not a special instance. And although there have been some expressions of the fact, or the idea-not the fact-the idea that everyone else cant expect the same sort of relationship with me or with Guidance that she experienced, is untrue. It is an attempt to elevate her, and to elevate the Course into a false position of religious respect, whether it is stated that way or not. All of the activities of the Northwest Foundation for A Course In Miracles are provided without charge or obligation. This is possible because of thoughtfulness, love extended without conditions. Such is the nature of Gift. As a result these materials are available to you, because someone like you has already gifted you with them. And, at Rajs instruction, these materials will never be sold. If you would like to add your thoughtfulness and love, to gift others with the availability of these materials, please contact nwffacim.org -----oOo-----
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