The Light Has Come - A Course In Miracles

Breathing in and breathing out.

You don't know where to go,

Nothing to do or think about.

You can just,

As I heard this week,

Quarantine our minds.

Where we don't have to take it all in.

We don't have to take in all the news or the information or the worries.

We can actually quarantine the mind.

So this morning let's focus on that.

Now we're just in this sheltering in love,

Sheltering in presence in our own heart and mind.

The mind of the soul.

Where we know we are not these bodies.

We are deep loving spiritual beings.

This is just a human experience.

We can watch it.

We can be neutral to it.

We can just open our hearts to love and compassion.

So breathing in and breathing out.

Relaxing a little more with each exhale,

Letting go.

And I invite you,

If it's comfortable,

To put a hand at your diaphragm.

A hand at your heart.

As you feel the heart,

Imagine the heart opening to the light.

The light has come.

You are healed and you can heal.

The light has come.

The light of forgiveness.

All that we see.

Instead of looking upon a world of darkness,

We look upon a world of light.

Where we know that we are all one in community.

And what appears to be a terrible thing happening in the world,

We choose to see that the light is upon us.

The light is upon whatever we are seeing.

And when we see with light,

Everything transforms.

One might ask,

How did Jesus meditate?

He lost himself in love.

He was one with all beings.

He was one with God.

So I invite us to lose ourselves in love and in light and just nothing else.

Whatever we get distracted when our mind floats off,

We just return to that.

Knowing that we are in love and light right there in our hearts.

It's there.

We just keep turning towards it.

Looking at it,

Feeling it,

Sensing it.

Breathing in and out of the heart.

Think of your mind as a vast circle surrounded by a layer of heavy dark clouds.

From where you stand,

You can see no reason to believe there is a brilliant light hidden by the clouds.

The clouds seem to be the only reality.

They seem to be all there is to see.

But remember how much you want to reach the light in you.

Determine to go past the clouds of what you see in the world.

Reach out and touch the clouds in your mind.

Brush them aside with your hand.

Go through the clouds.

Feel them resting on your cheeks and forehead as you go through them.

Clouds cannot stop you.

Just make a little effort to go past those clouds and ask God and the universe to help you raise from darkness into light.

Remember that you can join your will to God's will and let that light and love work in you and through you.

There's a saying in the Course in Miracles,

My grievances hide the light of the world in me.

If I hold a grievance,

The light of the world will be hidden from me.

So each time our grievances come up,

Our judgments,

Our upsets,

We're hiding the true light that is there.

See if you can imagine that you're just brushing those clouds away,

Those grievances,

Those upsets.

They're going to come up.

They come up in me.

They come up in you.

They come up in everyone.

We just have to stop and know there it is without judgment,

Just humbly going back to the grace of God and looking upon a world with light in our eyes,

Light and love and forgiveness.

The light is here.

The light is in me.

Wherever I see fear,

I can shine that light on the people at the grocery store,

My neighbors,

What I see in the news.

Just make it a practice to let that light shine over the fear and just love it up.

Even when your own fears come up,

You put them into our heart,

Breathe into the heart,

And just shine that light of forgiveness and compassion onto your own fears.

If you have any fears right now that have come up this week,

Put them in your heart today,

Right now.

Let the light shine upon them in perfect love.

Just offering gentle,

Compassionate words to your fears as they sit in your heart,

Being held without any judgment.

You can say,

I know you feel this way.

I hear you.

I understand.

I'm with you.

It's okay.

Just talk to your fears or your worries or anxieties about others,

About yourself,

About the world,

Any of it.

So let's hold all these perceived problems in our heart.

Breathing in and breathing out.

Keep breathing into any fears or anxieties or anger,

Any unpleasant emotion.

Just breathe into it whenever it arises,

Turning towards it,

Giving it gentle,

Attentive kindness.

And sometimes when we don't know what to do,

When we think about others who are suffering more than we are during these times,

We feel helpless and we just don't know what to do or how this is all going to turn out.

We could just give it to the Holy Spirit.

We could just give it to God or the universe,

Whatever term works for you.

Give it to love.

Give it to the light.

Just saying,

I don't know how to help these people or I don't know how to solve this problem.

But I know really that just being separate from God or the greater spirit is really the only problem.

As soon as we can just let it,

Give it over.

Just like anyone who goes through an AA program,

We just give it to our higher power.

We surrender,

We don't know,

We don't have the answers.

We can't do this ourselves.

Separation is the only problem we have.

So I invite you to try that,

To give it over,

To surrender,

Whatever it is that you're struggling with right now.

Because your ego human mind will never figure it out,

Will never have all the answers,

Will never,

And always will want to judge or label or attack something.

But this is not who we are.

This is not our true selves.

So we need to keep returning again and again to our spirit,

To the greater spirit,

To the universe of love.

And bring heaven to earth now by shining the light onto ourselves and to others.

It will take a few moments to just reflect or meditate or release whatever you need to do right now to find peace.

The light has come.

You are healed and you can heal.

You are at peace and you bring peace with you wherever you go.

The light has come.

Today we celebrate the happy ending to your long dream of darkness.

The light has come.

Today the time of light begins for you and for everyone.

It is a new time in which a new world is born.

Today we see a different world because the light has come.

We offer thanks for the passing of the old and the beginning of the new.

No shadows from the past remain to darken our sight and hide the world forgiveness offers us.

Today we accept the new world as what we want to see.

We will be given what we desire.

We will to see the light.

The light has come.

Today the real world rises before us in gladness to be seen at last.

Sight is given us now that the light has come.

We do not want to see the ego shadow on the world today.

We see the light and in it we see heavens reflection lie across the world.

The light has come.

I forgive the world.

I forgive myself.

Thank you.