Village Square III
In our AcimVillage, we have the plane tree that stands in the central village square. Its enormous branches spread out to cover an area wide enough to provide shade on a warm day for many a traveller or tradesman. Water bubbles and trickles from a stone fountain on the eastern side. It is under the plane tree and by the fountain that wandering sages have traditionally lead conversation with the local people, before setting off again on their way; it is here that the townspeople come to exchange views and thoughts on their beloved spiritual philosophy, learning from each other in kindness and wisdom.
Rules to ponder…
Study of A Course In Miracles benefits greatly from sharing our experiences in its practice. Here you can talk about what works, or doesn’t, for you, taking obvious care not to be ‘preachy’, please. We all learn best when someone talks from their own experience, rather than tries to tell us what we should be doing differently. Let’s take the position that none of us are teachers, we are all at the same point returning on the path Homeward. All of us will still be making mistakes for a while yet, so let’s be particularly humble and caring in how we deal with each other. Please keep in mind that this is a site dedicated to the approach Kenneth Wapnick takes to teaching ACIM. I shall certainly do my best to bring everyone back to the core principles as taught by him.
I would also like to point out that AcimVillage is the place to come to explore our judgments, but not to express them as judgments. If you feel you need to gripe, criticize and vent, even subtly, then contact me privately (at bernard@pauloandthemagician.com) where I will receive you with kindness and understanding. Please do not do so in the forums where I will inevitably moderate out this kind of post. Remember, you will feel better only when you are able to move past the investment in your judgments, not simply by unloading them for everyone to see. This means taking responsibility for your perceptions and acknowledging that ultimately no one has prevented you from feeling completely peaceful and safe, despite what might appear to be the unfortunate conditions of your life at this time. (I know, this is hard. Contact me if you’re struggling.)
So, two basic rules here. One, we avoid mention of other approaches to the study of ACIM (non-Wapnickian) as well as to other philosophies we might be studying. This is purely to achieve a stable, comfortable learning forum where we are all aiming at the same goal, using the same symbols and language to get there. This is not to cast any judgment on any other approaches or philosophies. ACIM is a sufficiently difficult path to undertake without bringing more confusion into our study than our minds already contain! If you have benefited from other paths and would like to share your thoughts, by all means do so. Just please do this in the privacy of your personal emails. It’s also my personal opinion (take it or leave it) that at some point a student of ACIM is much better off sticking with one set of symbols and one teacher, and working with these thoroughly, instead of getting too dispersed. Rule two, we try not to play ‘teacher’ with each other here, reminding ourselves to be humble and always equal with our brother.
Enjoy the discussion!
yayayayaya – thanks! I was driving around yesterday, and something was bothering me…. then my own Mind told me…. RELAX! this really is just a dream…. and well, I have to say, I LOL’ed!
So maybe this year my sincerity to change and ask for a better way is happening. For They have come at last!
Happy Birthday, TexAnne!!! You trailblazer! You comforter. You educator. You communicator. You joy bringer. You rock!!! You deserve a year of life filled with loving warmth and endless giggles. Because that is who you are.
{{{{ Texie }}}}
thanks! But it’s my (Somewhat Cosmic) Babysitter that keeps me in line! 😉
Love you texAnne!
Happy, happy birthday, TexAnne ! Hope the day/evening is going splendidly well for you, or Larry Crowne might say…”spectacular” ! (:
(do you like movies ? and have you seen Larry Crowne with Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts ?)
Wishing you great fun for the year ahead !!!
Lesson 317
I follow in the way appointed me.
(1:2-4) Salvation waits until I take this part as what I choose to do. Until I make this choice, I am the slave of time and human destiny. But when I willingly and gladly go the way my Father’s plan appointed me to go, then will I recognize salvation is already here, already given all my brothers and already mine as well.
Found this daily meditation by Robert Holden in my in box this morning:
Busy, busy, busy, busy, busy, busy . . . dead!
There must be a better way.
<3 <3 <3
Lesson 318
In me salvation’s means and end are one.
So, today we see an assumption I am exercising my decision maker. My side notes in JTTW say that – not sure if it came from a Ken class. But that’t what it would take to pull the means and end together.
From JTTWB: …”God’s Son is not only homo sapiens, for every separated fragment — animate or inanimate– is a fragmentary shadow of the one sleeping Son.”
Just slipping in a quick ‘Happy Birthyday’ to our beloved TexAnne (I already sent my wishes on FB). May her happy star twinkle brightly all this next year. We loves ya!
Lesson 319
I came for the salvation of the world.
You and your brother are the same, as God Himself is One and not divided in His Will. And you must have one purpose, since He gave the same to both of you. His Will is brought together as you you join in will, that you be made complete by offering completion to your brother. See not in him the sinfulness he sees, but give him honor that you may esteem yourself and him. To you and your brother is given the power of salvation, that escape from darkness into light be yours to share; that you may see as one what never has been separate, nor apart from all God’s Love as given equally (T-25.II.11).
Lesson 320
My Father gives all power unto me.
His holy will can never be denied, because his Father shines upon his mind, and lays before it all the strength and love in earth and Heaven.
How effortless a day can be when there is one unified agenda.
Thy Will Be Done.
A prayer I have utter many a time.
Today, however, I will say the words asking only for one moment, just a single glimpse of knowing my will and Gods’ Will are united.
And if that moment does not occur I shall not dismay.
Instead, I will be happy that I have moved one more grain of sand that is obstructing my view.
All Glory Be to God.
Section 11. What is Creation?
Creation is the sum of all God’s Thoughts, in number infinite, and everywhere without all limit. Only love creates, and only like itself.
Lesson 321
Father, my freedom is in You alone.
I did not understand what made me free, nor what my freedom is, nor where to look to find it. Father, I have searched in vain until I heard Your Voice directing me. Now I would guide myself no more. For I have neither made nor understood the way to find my freedom. But I trust in You. You Who endowed me with my freedom as Your holy Son will not be lost to me. Your Voice directs me, and the way to You is opening and clear to me at last. Father, my freedom is in You alone. Father, it is my will that I return.
Lesson 322
I can give up but what was never real.
I hear Ken’s voice so clearly in this lesson. I can count on one hand how many times I have attended a lecture Ken was giving. And it was pretty clear to me that if I attended a hundred more I would keep hearing this same concept being repeated…
“NOTHING HAPPENED”
“We come into this body to keep from awareness the mind’s power to choose our Self rather than the ego. This subterfuge is what we need to see: our macrocosmic and microcosmic worlds are part of the ego’s carefully contrived plot to keep us from returning to the mind, where we would certainly choose truth instead of illusion, and correction instead of sin. sacrifice of the body, then, becomes the central concept in the ego’s plan for itssalvation.”
Ken was so clear that his only purpose was to get us to LOOK!
And as the quote from the JTTWB states-“we would certainly choose truth instead of illusion”.
Thanks for posting up L 322, Annie.
I have started today on L323, and I am so tempted to write it down, I resonate much more with today’s Lesson than yesterday’s, (which I found very hard to remember through the day, but I did remember), Yay ! Maybe I would give myself a C grade, but I passed ! (:
I wanted to write about your Friday night dinner experience in the FireSide, but I don’t want to be commenting twice in a row in there… It brings to mind more the thought that there’s no one there, and I am just talking to myself !
There is no world, this is the Central thought the Course attempts to teach, and that’s a direct quote from the text ( and I hope its accurate, because I don’t want to go and check ! (:
And perhaps my resistance to posting twice in the FireSide (or the Garden, for that matter) twice in succession, with no intervening comment, is indicative of my resistance in accepting that there is no world. That there is no Fireside, no Garden, no Annie, no Anil, no Course either.
Sounds depressing were it not for the fact that there Is God.
The God that I don’t even believe in,
Or at least I am not sure I believe in !
No.
somewhere within my mind,
there is a tiny sliver, some particle-like thought, infinitesimally small, and it DOES believe.
It does believe that Reality is kind. And merciful. And loving.
And what I am experiencing now is not Reality.
Just a dream.
Not a particularly bad dream this morning.
But a dream, nonetheless.
Tinged with the faint glittery edge of excitement, just a tiny dose of anxiety, a magnetic pull to do CERTAIN things IMMediately, or else…. (:
There are so many swirling shadowy thoughts, all that make up my world, and they dance just out of the edge of my awareness, waiting to make their presence felt, with the attending emotions that are automatic once that particular shadow is allowed into my mind.
And Yet, there is that tiny sliver,
that little particle,
silent, unmoved, certain,
just a little particle really,
but steadfast in its certainty.
And it says to me, whispers almost, but without any sound, just the strength of its certainty felt, and expressed through the feeling.
This world is not Reality.
Lesson 323
I gladly make the “sacrifice” of fear
Anil – “somewhere within my mind,
there is a tiny sliver, some particle-like thought, infinitesimally small, and it DOES believe.
It does believe that Reality is kind. And merciful. And loving.”
You have written from that Self many times – and brought us all to tears of gratitude by sharing Truth. Particle-like? nope 🙂
Lesson 324
I merely follow, for I would not lead.
Father, You are the One Who gave the plan for my salvation to me. You have set the way I am to go, the role to take, and every step in my appointed path. I cannot lose the way. I can but choose to wander off a while, and then return. Your loving Voice will always call me back, and guide my feet aright. My brothers all can follow in the way I lead them. Yet I merely follow in the way to You, as You direct me and would have me go.
I do not know what anything is for
Thanks, Nina ! (:
ps. Your words brought tears of relief to my tired eyes. Will write more later. in another venue (:
love,
a
Tex – I just have to tell you how much I LOVE YOU whenever I read your posts here. Whatever you post – I sense a loving universe around it, holding us all. I would hug you crazy if you were here. And you are of course . Beware, I am here – allhugging –
yes, I love you all, and now just this needed to be posted by me
good night all
(Lawrence, come visit – Bernard too :))
mwaah
Nina
Lesson 235
All things I think I see reflect ideas.
{{{ <3 }}} hugs back, Nina!
Lesson 326.
I am forever an Effect of God
Ken’s Journey adds,
“This is thr process: we remain in the world, but look at it differently– forgiving it and ourselves — and then all disappears as the will of God ascends in the Son’s healed and holy mind. And he is home, where God would have him be (T31’VIII.12.8).
Yesterday, I was apparently dyslexic with the lesson number. It was nearly 5 pm (here) before I realized the lesson had slipped my mind altogether all day. I am taking an Adyashanti class on Nisargadatta, but had my granddaughter that class evening so was doing a makeup day to listen and read his lesson material, and was thinking about how challenging Zen was in trying to reach all the way to the Void and how gentle and embracing the thought that God would reach down and lift me into that.
Adya talked about how people can have awakening experiences of seeing the ego separate from their consciousness over their life before actually reaching — can’t recall his exact words — a constant state of no-self.
Someone is yelling, ya ya – ya ya. My cue!
Lesson 327
I need but call, and You will answer me
Katrina, its almost midnight your time, not quite, so here’s the next Lesson ready for you tomorrow ! (:
I like this lesson, it is quite unambiguous about calling on God for help. It says…
” I am not asked to take salvation on the basis of an *unsupported* faith “. I mean, here is J saying that when we talk to our Creator, we can actually test Him, he expects us to, and is happy to answer to increase our personal connection with Him.
In fact, in the closing prayer, it goes…
“Father, I thank You that Your promises will never fail me in my experience, *if I but test them out* ”
What could be more clear than that ! (:
I’ve been testing these words from the Lesson today, and maybe you might be thinking that I am joking, but He helped me get out of bed, when I was feeling depressed, He set my mind right when I was going off-kilter(silently) on Shobha’s harsh words on the phone, (for the millionth time in 7 years), in a few seconds, I was able to smile at the fact that everyone in my life is acting out the script I made, so that I feel stressed, unloved, irrelevant and special.
What a strange game the Ego plays ! Ha !
Yes, I’ve been testing out God on more than 4 occasions today, (and its only 5 hours since my eyes opened to another day in Paradise (not ! (:)), and so far He’s holding up pretty good.
Yes, indeed, I need but call and You will answer me
Good morning dear Family, I am now on lesson 354; JTTW (1:2) …I have no self except the Christ in me , Ken’s comment to that : Spend some time reflecting on that thought. If you think about it, you may indeed break into a cold sweat, accompanied by anxiety and palpitations…..
Katrina, do you take the class on Nisargadatta online ? Is it helpful ? Of all the many Indian “saints” he and Ramakrishna are the closest to my heart !
And if, Hedda, one had spent the whole day in a cold sweat, accompanied by anxiety and palpitations, and I mean that literally, not metaphically, literally, every moment since waking being a moment of terror (leavened only momentarily by the relief of calling out to God), then the phrase in question would bring some light at the end of the tunnel !
It all depends on one’s state of mind, and whether one is already at the bottom of the barrel or not ! (;
Dear Anil, could that perhaps mean ,good news ? That the ego is really suspecting the worst and trying to put in its final defens ?
Dear Hedda,
yes, I agree. The Ego is ratcheting up its game, at least in my life, and since I continue to believe in the Ego, I continue to give it power. But, I, am also improving my game (: I am able to witness all manner of negative emotions within me, and no one watching me would ever guess.
This is in contrast to the old days, when the slightest thing that didn’t go my way would throw me into the darkest of moods. I am so used to not getting my way now, that in a minute or two, sometimes more, and sometimes less, I am back in the observer mode.
It’s certainly tiring, but I can feel the progress. So I spent the whole day in a near-panic-attack just simmering below the surface, and it dragged on for almost 13 hours now. The longest I have ever experienced.
Maybe it will get worse tomorrow ! (: but I’m ready. (: let it throw what it will my way, I have a corrective thought for it from J.
1) every figure in my dream is acting out what I wish
2) all of this is a dream/nightmare
3) X is Spirit, whole and Innocent, all is forgiven and released
4) everything that happened that brought me here was all my own doing
5) nothing happened
6) there it goes again, my own Ego trying to make me feel useless, irrelevant and a loser.
These are the 6 most prominent corrective thoughts I have been applying the last few days/weeks/months, most often almost instantaneously after the erroneous thought comes into my mind. And it works !
And today, there was a seventh…I need but call, and You will answer me.
I must have used it at least 15 times. Everytime, the thought of peace followed. I believe, increasingly with my experience today, that we are Spirit, Whole and Innocent. And God will always answer. Not necessarily on the form we want. But an answer for sure.
G’night, dear Hedda. Nice chatting with you through the day…
Anil
Lesson 328
I choose the second place to gain the first.
(2)There is no will but Yours. And I am glad that nothing I imagine contradicts what You would have me be. It is Your Will that I be wholly safe, eternally at peace. And happily I share that Will which You, my Father, gave as part of me.
Hi everyone, just saying hello as I read through your posts, coffee in hand at 6am here in France. Much love to you all.
Dear Anil, it’s Tuesday early morning and I saw your great post now !! Thank you for the very helpful correcting thoughts ! I need them right now at this early hour ! Hugs to everyone !
Lesson 329
I have already chosen what You will.
Father, I thought I wandered from Your Will, defied it, broke its laws, and interposed a second will more powerful than Yours. Yet what I am in truth is but Your Will, extended and extending. This am I, and this will never change.
Good Morning, it is early Tuesday morning here in sunny California, light mist over the Salinas riverbed. It has been 10 hrs since Bernard and Hedda’s sat for a minute or two with their coffee, and now I sit with mine. That rolling consciousness is so sweet.
Anil, I hope I remember to use your steps 15 times today! The arm wrestling with the ego’s imaginative and relentless challenges always pays off. It seems overwhelming when it gets to 3 or 4 fronts at the same time. Then there is a pause, Big J pulls you in for a hug, grins at you, glancing over those sunglasses that Susan Dugan conjures up, and you sigh in gratitude for all you been given.
Then you turn a corner and the ninja thing starts again. These must be rungs we are climbing.
Michelle, i received my little package and am enjoying its contents with Amery. She loves to twirl and dance, and I think of joy’s legacy and the way we set something down and it lives beyond us. What we grasp as life in its finite definitions is really just wrong and shortsighted. The tail of the comet is still part of the comet !
Hedda, the class is 4 parts, with one left. I will tell you what I think in a week. I had only seen pictures of Nisargadatta and do not know why I felt like taking this, but did. So far it has been about being earnest, meditation ‘I AM’, going back deeper into that presence, and Adyashanti answering students questions about having had awakening experiences, but still wanting that perception to be fulltime. And WHY NOT ?
Annie, thanks for catching the lesson when I am obviously lost in a fog. I hope that after the holidays I will have a chance to come and see you. Anil, anytime you are up and have had your lesson is a wonderful to pour out the tea for the remainder of the world !!! No matter where you are. Magically, your cookie crumbs transform into croissants and scones. We love magic ! Tex, it is always magic to see your wee makers from time to time. You are so prolific elsewhere, but here we get your endearing hugs, and see ghem as your undying willingness.
Cheers, Bernard and Nina, it is gratitude awareness time here, and I love loving you and all at our village today.
I am ia living mess – so i must be doing something right!
<3 to my true family – here
Katrina, that’s a delightfully long and juicy post ! (:
(By the way, I hope that your shoulder pains are no longer an issue, and writing in encumbered by physical pain is what you are experiencing these days).
Re: the arm wrestling, etc (:, the issue is that the bouts last long these days, hours at a stretch, this is a new experience for me, where earlier, there were equally long moments of respite from the gloom, now those moments are few and far between, and they only seem to happen when a Course thought comes to mind.
But since this is all me doing this to myself, and that’s a wonderful thought to segue into remembering today’s Lesson, (I will not hurt myself again today), I can get some respite from the darkness that seems to exist even in broad daylight. It’s the darkness in my mind, the dark looking-glass of the Ego that lives In my mind. Would that I could see it is an Illusion right now, snap by fingers and be done with it. alas ! (:
(But writing that thought out automatically allows me to breathe, fancy that ! (:
Also, just to clarify, (perhaps unnecessarily so), its not that I run through those six thoughts in sequence, each of them seem to work their own magic (and everything in this world is magic), and what’s even better is that I don’t seem to have to apply any concious effort to recall those thoughts anymore. They pop up randomly on their won, and do their magic.
I don’t believe all of them, but I do see the glimmer, the faint recognition that they might reflect some truth, some hope of escape for my tired mind, and when they arise, even their arising is sufficient release.
Which brings me to something I wanted to write to Hedda,
Hedda, thanks for your note from Tuesday, I was actually prompted to write down those (six) corrective thoughts as a way of firming them up in my mind, and when I started writing them wasn’t even sure how many there were actually. But am glad that you found them useful.
It sounds like you and I Share the same trait of finding the early hours difficult to navigate without the help of our trusted companions, and although it is not early morning for me here in Songapore, its almost 930am, but I just awoke at 830ish, and the morning gloom is just slowly lifting from my mind ! (:
Michele, thanks for your note in the Garden, if you want to know more about the deal, please google PropTiger and News Corp together, you’ll see some details of what I was referring to Nov 21st. The press releases went out yesterday, and some of them even mention a company name you might recognize ! (:
Lesson 330
I will not hurt myself again today.
Still, afters eons of this course, this realization wobbles around and slips off kilter. Maybe i could use a bungee cord to clamp it onto my mind. That should do it!
Katrina, there’s a typo in my first line of first paragraph.. I wrote “unencumbered”, and it morphed to “in encumbered”, hope that didn’t cause any problem when you read it !
Lesson 330 is so simple and clear…I’m off to the next one now, just finished reading it. Allowing it to sink in.
Amen.
12. What is the Ego?
(1:1) The ego is idolatry: the sign of limited and separated self, bore in a body, doomed to suffer and to end its life in death.
(3) The son of God is egoless. What can he know of madness and the death of God, when he abides in Him? What can he know of sorrow and of suffering, when he lives in eternal joy? What can he know of fear and punishment of sin and guilt, of hatred and attack, when all there is surrounding him is everlasting peace, forever conflict-free and undisturbed, in deepest silence and tranquility?
How lovely does the world become in just that single instant when you see the truth about yourself reflected there. Now you are sinless and behold your sinlessness. Now you are holy and perceive it so. And now the mind returns to its Creator: the joining of the Father and the Son, the Unity of unities that stands behind all joining but beyond them all. God is not seen but only understood. His Son is not attacked but recognized. (C-3-8).
Lesson 131
There is no conflict, for my will is Yours.
(2) Forgiveness shows us that God’s Will is One, and that we share it. Let us look upon the holy sights forgiveness shows today, that we may find the peace of God. Amen.
A simple and Beautiful Thanksgiving prayer.
Peace my Friends
Typo’s abound.
Lesson 331 noted above
(:
The sun is rising over my ridge, 6:58 here. Annie has ushered us into the last consideration we ever need of the idolatrous ego. My wee baby girl is still sleeping. Today I am going to make the turkey differently than all other turkeys I’ve cooked up before. (Hope it works out…). Thank you, Annie, i missed you and am gushingly grateful you are back!! Are you having a big family meal today? Is your son home, too?! You are probably out getting your walk in now. Michele, are you gathering with many friends to nestle in for the winter? That is what Thanksgiving has always been to me, a time to settle down for the winter months with family and making sure friends have a family they are included in.
The Christmas stuff openly started at Halloween this year. I took the bait and ordered an ipod for Sydney (13). The baby is easy – a wooden rocking horse will overwhelm her with wonder and the access to climbing! I told my son he HAD to pick out something so he had something to unwrap under the tree. He texted me that why not only make it about the kids. I think he is right. So, I am trying to see all the hype and sales as Ego, with its message of not getting enough, and let it go.
Anil, yes, I guess my shoulder has healed up pretty well. I do not get any pain from typing. Wow! My physical therapy has morphed to baby lifting and back scratching. It is strange to count the months since the injury (7), sort of vaguely recall all the no-can-do’s i had but, strangely, not really remember them, as life just picks up and carries on. By the way, I did the web search you suggested and about choked! That must have been such a challenge to have been in the middle of while S and L were gripping your heart. Here, have a sitdown at the Thanksgiving table and I’ll pass the potatoes and gravy!!
May each of us have a day of Love and warmth, throughout the world, beyond our regional holiday.
Well, there is some whooping going on and I’m off to get me some morning kisses and hugs!
Happy Thanksgiving Dear Village ~
I was looking for a quote I always loved, about spreading love like you spread seeds and your harvest remains undiminished. I couldn’t find it but found this:
“My true religion is kindness.” … Tenzin Gyatso
“Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it.” … Unknown
Sometimes a person needs to simply walk away.
Day 34
“A kind word is like a spring day.” … Russian Proverb
“Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.” … George Sand
Love to everyone ~
Michele
<3 love to you all, y'all!
Big warm grouphug everyone…mmmm yes! Lawrence, there you are too…so glad we get together here at the Tavern with cosy fire and mulled wine…and some nice cakes and sweets i see too…and Lawrence is showing slides in a little while, from his sortement of everything strange and sweet – and even a story, I think –
cheers and thanks for all the years we have shared as monklings and friends and fellow students and teachers of Love
Happy Thanksgiving, dear friends !! (:
may we always feel the presence of abundance, and come to experience that all lack is merely an insubstantial thought, floating like a feather in the wind…
Hi everyone, we’re running out the door to catch a plane to Brussels. We’re giving a two-day workshop on The Choice for Inner Peace. And tonight, an informal presentation on What is healing? In flying through the Village, I noticed katrina talking about Nisargadatta, one of my all time favorite teachers. If you read his book, I am that, you’ll be really amazed at how many phrases could have been said, word for word, by Ken. All minds are joined! There is only one truth, and then it is expressed through our individual tastes and culture. He also has a good sense of humour. Will catch up on your posts next week. And many thanks to all of you for continuing our pursuit of truth and peace together. Blessings.
Sweet postings of Gratitude above, hope everyone had a lovely day ♡
Not sure if we broke a temperature record but it felt like a perfect summer day.
Kinda sad I was indoors cooking all day but the meal was delicious and we had a great time
playing a dice game that kept me up till almost midnight… Sooo past my bedtime! This mornings coffee is barely helping me keep my eyes open- luckily my shift starts at 9am so I should be mostly awake by then.
Today’s lesson reminds me of a sign that makes me laugh no matter how many times I’ve read it. The kind of giggle that escapes when one recognizes a truth exposed.
PLEASE DO NOT FEED THE FEARS
Lesson 332
Fear binds the world. Forgiveness sets it free.
In Ken’s JTTW, my notes in the Ego section–
“Temptation has one lesson it would teach, in all its forms, wherever it occurs. It would persuade the Holy Son of Glod it is a body, born in what must die, unable to escape its frailty, and bound by what it orders him to feel.”
Orders us to feel ! My notes say MY FEELINGS are ordered by the ego! Then when students jumped in to analyze the ego giving Good feelings, Ken said that was part of the ego’s strategy, too. We don’t need to analyze the good stuff, but we do need to know the source of the bad feelings. These are the limitations.
Verrrry interesting ! And just to finish to the spectacular finish . . .
It (temptation) sets the limits on what he can do; its power is the only strength he has; his grasp cannot exceed its tiny reach. Would you be this, if Christ appeared to you in all His glory, asking but this:
Choose once again
If you would
Take your place
Among the saviors of the world,
Or remain in hell,
And hold your brothers there.
For He has come, and He is asking this.
Amen Katrina