Day 165: Let not my mind deny the Thought of God.

As A Course in Miracles tells us, an idea never leaves its source.  Who are we then?  From where do we come?  The answer here is simple, yet we have denied the Truth about ourselves for so long that we have forgotten Who We Really Are.  Simply put, we are ideas in the Mind of God.  His Thought created us, and as such, we have never left Him Who is our Source.  Our lesson for today elaborates:

The Thought of God created you.  It left you not, nor have you ever been apart from it an instant.  It belongs to you.  By it you live.  It is your Source of life, holding you one with it, and everything is one with you because it left you not.  The Thought of God protects you, cares for you, makes soft your resting place and smooth your way, lighting your mind with happiness and love.  Eternity and everlasting life shine in your mind, because the Thought of God has left you not, and still abides with you.

If God is All There Is and All There Ever Will Be, and we are His creations, then we must also Always Be.  Let us put it a little more logically:

• God is Eternal.
• We are the Thought of God.
• Thoughts never leave their source.
• Therefore, we are Eternal with God, Who is our Source.

Think about that for a minute.  We are Eternal Beings.  Really let this idea sink in.

Immortality is something we, as humans, tend to glorify.  And indeed it is glorious.  Perhaps our fascination with the concept is because it is reflective of our True Nature.

So what does Eternal Life mean?  Well, for starters, as we know, it means that we can never die.  Death, then, is only an illusion.  But death is such a fundamental aspect of this world.  Everything a part of it must die.  The world itself, then, must be an illusion.

To deny the Thought of God is to believe that the illusions of this world are the truth.  But if the Truth is that we are Eternal, then this world cannot exist.  How can we reconcile this?  We can't, of course.  We must believe the Truth or else believe in its false opposite.  But as long as we are living in this world, how can we come to See what is familiar to our eyes as only holograms within a vivid dream?  We begin by our acceptance of the Truth of Who We Are.  We need not understand it all completely.  That will come in time, and when True Understanding comes, that will mark the end of time.  The death of this world is the birth of our awareness of our Everlasting Home in Heaven.

Let us accept, then, Who We Are today.  As ideas in the Mind of God, we have been given Everlasting Life!  This is a day of celebration.  Let us no longer deny the Truth of our Glorious Nature.  The more we come to understand this, the more we'll recognize the world's illusions as they are.  Rejoice in the knowledge of Who You Are today.  We will live forever, for we are One with God Who is our Source.

Until tomorrow,
Journeyman