Speaker 1: Good morning, Welcome, welcome to the daily listen of a
Speaker 1: course in Miracles. Thank you for thank you for being
Speaker 1: here for a moment with me, to to take some
Speaker 1: time to spend with our father, take a moment in
Speaker 1: our busy life to slow down in order to speed up.
Speaker 1: And today we're at day seventy one, and that means
Speaker 1: that we're gonna look at the idea of God's plan
Speaker 1: for salvation. And uh, it is a a direct it's
Speaker 1: a direct what do you call that? It's directly in
Speaker 1: line with a lessoned from yesterday where we were looking
Speaker 1: at my salvation comes from me, and the idea of
Speaker 1: my salvation comes from me? Might be uh, one of
Speaker 1: those ideas that you immediately pet yourself on the back,
Speaker 1: gives give the ego that what we call I all
Speaker 1: the credits for uh, whatever is happening. But what it
Speaker 1: basically does, and we were looked at that yesterday too,
Speaker 1: is isolation comes from me. Is a direct acknowledgment that
Speaker 1: I have to make a choice and that choice is
Speaker 1: solely in my hands and that I will always in
Speaker 1: every situation receive what I have given the situation. And
Speaker 1: yesterday we had a quick look at the idea of
Speaker 1: fear and how to undo fear. And what became painfully
Speaker 1: clear was that it is up to me what I
Speaker 1: associate with and what I think that I'm part of,
Speaker 1: and that uh we were we were just quickly looking
Speaker 1: at an idea of ingesting or like taking to me
Speaker 1: the idea of pain and suffering a through the things
Speaker 1: that I was watching, the movies, I was watching the
Speaker 1: idea of the people I was associating with, the the
Speaker 1: pain and suffering that I would dwell in the moment
Speaker 1: I was holding on to grievances. And this is not
Speaker 1: really a course in uh how to actually uh uh
Speaker 1: treat your life or how to I should say that differently,
Speaker 1: how to fill in your life by dos and don'ts,
Speaker 1: Because what is very clear in the beginning of the
Speaker 1: course is that the the reason why we do a
Speaker 1: course in miracles, uh is the motivation for it lies
Speaker 1: in the experience of peace, and there is no other motivation.
Speaker 1: And what I find one of the things that we
Speaker 1: really have to be careful with is to regard one
Speaker 1: thing as completely justified based on a reasoning that by
Speaker 1: the way I made up, and something else is regarded
Speaker 1: as completely unreasonable. And undesirable, but also based on my
Speaker 1: own justifications for it. Because whatever we see here in
Speaker 1: this world we either agree or disagree with based on
Speaker 1: our own past memories and future wants, the things the
Speaker 1: outcomes that we want in the future that we think
Speaker 1: are appropriate. But today we're gonna look at God's plan
Speaker 1: for salvation, and in that plan of salvation it's got,
Speaker 1: it will become very clear that it is not really
Speaker 1: up to me, but it is up to God if
Speaker 1: I let him, and that there is only one thing
Speaker 1: required of me, and it is to come with holy
Speaker 1: empty hands and be open for the help to come
Speaker 1: to me in whatever form, without judging if that form
Speaker 1: is appropriate or not. And I really wanna associate with love.
Speaker 1: I want I as Jesus says it in the Court Miracles,
Speaker 1: you think what you are by the things that you
Speaker 1: that you surround yourself with. And because I know that
Speaker 1: pain and fear do not really help me think positively
Speaker 1: or feel happy or joyful or even peaceful, those are
Speaker 1: the things I don't surround myself with anymore. Does that
Speaker 1: mean you have to change your diet? I have no idea,
Speaker 1: don't ask me. I just know for myself that pain
Speaker 1: and suffering are in direct opposite to the love and
Speaker 1: the peace of God, and that is what I want
Speaker 1: to associate with. So coming back to the decision of yesterday,
Speaker 1: that my salvation comes from me. In other words, the
Speaker 1: answer to every single problem that I perceive is always
Speaker 1: coming from within, not made by my own by my
Speaker 1: own ideas. But listen, but the willingness to listen within
Speaker 1: me to the answer. So only God's plan for salvation
Speaker 1: will work. You may not realize that the ego has
Speaker 1: set up a plan for salvation in opposition to God's.
Speaker 1: So again, you might not realize that that little voice
Speaker 1: within you that we call I, that we call ego,
Speaker 1: that we that we almost want to call something that
Speaker 1: we cannot do anything about. I am I right. I
Speaker 1: have to live, right, I have to survive here. I
Speaker 1: need to go to my job in order to make money,
Speaker 1: in order to pay my bills and to feed my children.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. What I do know
Speaker 1: is that I don't want to make any decisions as yet.
Speaker 1: Let me see what God wants from me. Let me
Speaker 1: see what his plan is. Instead of the plan of
Speaker 1: knowing the right people having a bank accounts that you
Speaker 1: can impress your friends with. But it goes on. It says,
Speaker 1: it is this plan in which you believe, I'm sustained
Speaker 1: by the world and I'm sustained by the idea that
Speaker 1: the ego is telling me. And we're gonna read I
Speaker 1: hope in a minute, a little bit out of chapter fifteen,
Speaker 1: where where it has become clear that the ego is
Speaker 1: using time to prove destruction and with that telling me
Speaker 1: that I am also bound by destruction. So that's the
Speaker 1: plan that the ego is offering destruction and search. We're
Speaker 1: gonna read that in the second search, but do not find.
Speaker 1: If you would find it, that would mean the end
Speaker 1: of the ego, and that that would mean like self destructive,
Speaker 1: and that's of course not possible. The ego, the eye
Speaker 1: always wants to be important, and how can it be
Speaker 1: important if it's no longer needed. And that's something that
Speaker 1: we really have to look at. That's why the poll
Speaker 1: is so strong for change, the pool, to not the pool,
Speaker 1: to not choose for change, to keep everything the same
Speaker 1: and keep the search going. Try to find love outside
Speaker 1: of me, Try to find love in another partner, Try
Speaker 1: to find love in another form. It is the plan
Speaker 1: in which you believe, since it is the opposite of
Speaker 1: gods of God God, you also believe that to accept
Speaker 1: God's plan in place of the ego, it's to be damned.
Speaker 1: It's one thirty eighth, sir. I think so. Yes, he
Speaker 1: got a little interrupted by someone that was walking in,
Speaker 1: not knowing for what reason, but thinking that he was
Speaker 1: looking for something and he did. Okay, since it is
Speaker 1: the opposite of God's since the Egos plan, it is
Speaker 1: the opposite of God's plan. You also believe that to
Speaker 1: accept God's plan in place of the ego, in place
Speaker 1: of the Egos plan is to be damned, because that
Speaker 1: what you associate with you will cherish and you will
Speaker 1: justify any type of form of ridiculous reasoning to hold
Speaker 1: on to that plan until and that's when the motivation
Speaker 1: really comes in, until you start to see that that
Speaker 1: plan is designed to never reach the truth and to
Speaker 1: never reach love, forgiveness, peace oneness. It is set up
Speaker 1: to fail. This sounds purpor perposterous, of course, Yet after
Speaker 1: we have con shouldn't just what the egos plan is,
Speaker 1: perhaps you will realize that, however preposterous it may be,
Speaker 1: you do believe in it, and that's where the real honesty,
Speaker 1: of course, every single day comes in. And the great
Speaker 1: thing is is that it is, thank God, only in
Speaker 1: my hands. So before we have to embarrass ourselves in
Speaker 1: front of family or friends, we can just pull back,
Speaker 1: close the door, go in our closet, go in our bedroom,
Speaker 1: and at least, if anything else, at least be honest
Speaker 1: to ourselves and simply look at it. That's the same
Speaker 1: as yesterday, and we're gonna do it today again. Is
Speaker 1: like walking through that cloud. On the outside, it looks
Speaker 1: solid and unpenetrable, but when you walk through it, you
Speaker 1: see that all your grievances and all the negativity and
Speaker 1: all the things that this life seem to hold you
Speaker 1: back simply are like a loose veil that you can
Speaker 1: just push through and walk into the light. You look
Speaker 1: up and you are blessed, but the everlasting light. The
Speaker 1: egos plan for salvation centers er around holding grievances, and
Speaker 1: it doesn't really matter in what kind of form. It
Speaker 1: can show up as gossip, it can show up as
Speaker 1: it can show up as protective measurements to protect your view,
Speaker 1: to protect your standpoint, to protect your reasoning. But it
Speaker 1: doesn't really matter how the grievance shows up. It is
Speaker 1: merely by the fact of seeing grievances that the ego
Speaker 1: dwells in that I what I call I dwell in.
Speaker 1: And if you look back at whatever conversation you had
Speaker 1: in the past days, weeks, months, you will see that
Speaker 1: a lot of those conversations might be completely absorbed by
Speaker 1: the idea of holding agreements. Someone tells me I cannot
Speaker 1: do this or cannot do that. I don't like them,
Speaker 1: And that's a great thing about just going into your closet,
Speaker 1: be in your own space, in your bedroom for a second,
Speaker 1: and to just really look at what you're doing in
Speaker 1: your own mind, not so much because it is painful
Speaker 1: for someone else, but to truly look at your own
Speaker 1: ideas and see, is this really what I want? The
Speaker 1: ego's plan for salvation centers around holding grievances. It maintains
Speaker 1: that if someone else spoke or acted differently, if some
Speaker 1: external circumstances or event were changed, you would be saved.
Speaker 1: In other words, my biggest grievance is that you walked
Speaker 1: into the room not with a smile on your face. Ys,
Speaker 1: and therefore I am unhappy if you would only smile
Speaker 1: to me, I would be happy. But of course, if
Speaker 1: you would walk in smiling, then that I would say.
Speaker 1: If you only matched your shirt with your trousers, I
Speaker 1: don't like the color combination, and it distracts me from
Speaker 1: focusing on the lesson of today. If only you had
Speaker 1: metched that in the morning, I would be happy. And
Speaker 1: the funny thing is that we most of the time
Speaker 1: don't really think things through. We just spurt them out.
Speaker 1: I don't like this, I don't like that, And what
Speaker 1: we're basically saying is that's wrong. That's wrong. Meaning if
Speaker 1: it will be different, I would be happy. And maybe
Speaker 1: that's helpful. Maybe you should do that. Maybe with every
Speaker 1: single thing that you're saying that it's negative, you should
Speaker 1: add if it would be different, I would be happy.
Speaker 1: Maybe that will trigger something in my mind to realize
Speaker 1: that it cannot be out there, because if that was
Speaker 1: the truth, I would be damned forever. I would always
Speaker 1: I would always have to wait for you, and if
Speaker 1: you wouldn't see me or forget me, I would be
Speaker 1: damned forever. Thus, the source of salvation is constantly perceived
Speaker 1: as outside yourself. The source of salvation is constantly perceived
Speaker 1: as outside yourself as what we were looking at yesterday.
Speaker 1: The source of my grievances is constantly put outside of myself.
Speaker 1: Each grievance you hold is a declaration and an assertion
Speaker 1: in which you believe that says, if this were different,
Speaker 1: I would be saved. And that's the whole thing. It
Speaker 1: is an assertion, it is a declaration, It is an
Speaker 1: It is something that I make very solid in my mind,
Speaker 1: and today only God's plan for salvation will work. WILL
Speaker 1: try to weaken that a little, to s to make
Speaker 1: that soltness perceived. That's uh what it really Isn't that?
Speaker 1: You know? We can easily walk through this cloud that
Speaker 1: might surround us for a second and it looks evy,
Speaker 1: it looks like it's everywhere, but that we can easily
Speaker 1: just walk through into the light. The change of mind
Speaker 1: necessary for salvation is thus demanded of everyone and everything
Speaker 1: except yourself. And if you really look at any kind
Speaker 1: of struggle in your life, the biggest struggle is that
Speaker 1: I cannot change you, and I cannot live with that.
Speaker 1: I try to do everything. I try to give you advice,
Speaker 1: friendly friendly advice. I tell you how you could do
Speaker 1: it differently. I can slam my fist on the table
Speaker 1: and say you should do this, but you hardly change.
Speaker 1: So maybe, and we're only looking at the idea year
Speaker 1: there's nothing else asked of us, Maybe we should break
Speaker 1: that in. Maybe we should pull that idea in, bring
Speaker 1: it closer to home, and realize that if we would
Speaker 1: change our minds, if I would change my mind, I
Speaker 1: might be a little bit more successful. The role assigned
Speaker 1: to your own mind in this plan. The role assigned
Speaker 1: to your own mind in this plan, then, is simply
Speaker 1: to determine what other than itself must change if you
Speaker 1: are to be saved according to this insane plan. And
Speaker 1: any perceived source of salvation is acceptable provided that it
Speaker 1: will not work. And that's a that that might well
Speaker 1: be a tough one. That everything that we throw out
Speaker 1: there that we actually don't want to work, And that
Speaker 1: is for our love of being right, our love for
Speaker 1: holding on to her grievance, that we can chew on
Speaker 1: and tell everyone around us like how pitiful we are
Speaker 1: and look at me being a victim here. But what
Speaker 1: we're actually asking for is someone that put an arm
Speaker 1: around us for no reason whatsoever, because basically, what you're
Speaker 1: always missing is that love, that love that I that
Speaker 1: I really that I really want, the joining that I
Speaker 1: really want, and we seek it out there while it
Speaker 1: is actually only within us that is what will really
Speaker 1: satisfy me. All the other things will come and go,
Speaker 1: to come again and to go again. But here's the thing.
Speaker 1: This is what the ego, that's what we call the
Speaker 1: eye brings. This ensures that the fruitless search, the fruitless search,
Speaker 1: will continue, for the illusion persists that although this hope
Speaker 1: has always failed, there are still grounds for hope in
Speaker 1: other places and in other things. And thank God for
Speaker 1: those eight billion people, because I shaked with thousands of
Speaker 1: people hands and I still have billions to go, and
Speaker 1: hopefully one of them will bring me salvation. But you
Speaker 1: see that the problem is always bigger. Then I can
Speaker 1: oversee what actually is very good reasoning to say that
Speaker 1: let's not do my plan but God's plan, because I
Speaker 1: cannot oversee it. Another person will yet serve better, another
Speaker 1: situation will yet offer success. Such is the ego's plan
Speaker 1: for salvation. Surely, surely you can see how it is
Speaker 1: strict accord with the ego's basic doctrine, seek but do
Speaker 1: not find, for what could more surely guarantee that you
Speaker 1: will not find salvation than to channelize all your efforts
Speaker 1: in searching for it. Were not seeking a solution where
Speaker 1: it is not. But here's the other side. Only God's
Speaker 1: plan for salvation will work. God's plan for salvation works
Speaker 1: simply because by following his direction, you seek for salvation
Speaker 1: where it is. And you don't have to agree with that. Again,
Speaker 1: the only thing that we're looking at now is a
Speaker 1: little bit, tiny, tiny bit of willingness to open your
Speaker 1: mind for a new idea. I mean, like we have
Speaker 1: constantly tried to do my plan with constantly the same results,
Speaker 1: with the consistency of pain and suffering, constantly falling out
Speaker 1: of peace. Let's see what happens. Let's look at God's
Speaker 1: plan for salvation. But if you are to succeed as
Speaker 1: God promise you, you must be willing to seek there only.
Speaker 1: If you are to succeed as God promises you, you
Speaker 1: must be willing to seek their only. Otherwise your purpose
Speaker 1: is divided, and you will attempt to follow two plans
Speaker 1: for salvation that are diametrically opposed in all ways. And
Speaker 1: that's what we call put all your eggs in one basket.
Speaker 1: You cannot serve God and Mammon. You have to choose
Speaker 1: one or the other. But the promise from God is
Speaker 1: God says, choose for me, and everything else will be
Speaker 1: added onto it. You will not lack a single thing.
Speaker 1: And that's where a little bit of trust goes a
Speaker 1: long way. You cannot choose two things at the same time.
Speaker 1: The result can only bring confusion, misery, and a deep
Speaker 1: sense of failure and despair. So how can we escape
Speaker 1: all this? Only God's plan for salvation will work. Very simply,
Speaker 1: the idea for today is the answer. Only God's plan
Speaker 1: for salvation will work. There can be no real conflict
Speaker 1: about this because there is no possible alternative to God's
Speaker 1: plan that will save you. And that is true because
Speaker 1: it doesn't really matter what I tried. The eternal The
Speaker 1: idea of eternal life felt always very scary. But if
Speaker 1: life is the only true thing, I have to change
Speaker 1: my mind about it. And the only way to change
Speaker 1: my mind about it is to not try the same
Speaker 1: tricks that I did before, but to let go of
Speaker 1: all the ideas that I had and try a different
Speaker 1: plan this time. His is the only plan that is
Speaker 1: certain in its outcome. His is the only plan that
Speaker 1: must succeed. Let us practice recognizing this certainty to day,
Speaker 1: A happy outcome is certain to all things. That is
Speaker 1: the real hope. And that is also where we bring
Speaker 1: the idea from yesterday and to day back into the
Speaker 1: present moment. Is that grievances always have to do with
Speaker 1: something that was in the past or anticipate it in
Speaker 1: the future. But what about here and now. Let's try,
Speaker 1: just for a moment to lay aside all plans and
Speaker 1: let us rejoice that there is an answer to what
Speaker 1: seems to be a conflict with no resolution possible. How
Speaker 1: can the how is it possible that the answer is
Speaker 1: in the right here and right now. I remember yesterday.
Speaker 1: I know what is going to happen tomorrow based on
Speaker 1: my expectations. But the only thing that I can say
Speaker 1: is that have a little talk with someone that you
Speaker 1: met yesterday and ask them what they remember about yesterday.
Speaker 1: And I can guarantee you that in line in certain
Speaker 1: lines in the red line, it's probably gonna match up
Speaker 1: close to your idea of what happened yesterday. But you
Speaker 1: will also discover that this person remembers different things than
Speaker 1: you do, or at the very least have different opinions
Speaker 1: about what happened yesterday. So don't look at the past,
Speaker 1: don't look at the future. Be in the right here,
Speaker 1: right now, for just this second, let us do this
Speaker 1: practice period, and then you're free to do whatever you want,
Speaker 1: whatever whatever brings you peace. But be a little bit
Speaker 1: willing to open this up for something completely different, because
Speaker 1: all things are possible to God, and salvation must be
Speaker 1: yours because of His plan which cannot fail. And that
Speaker 1: is a promise that does not require any time. So
Speaker 1: I'll begin the two longer practice periods today by thinking
Speaker 1: about today's idea. Only God's plan for salvation will work,
Speaker 1: and realize that it contains two parts, each making equal
Speaker 1: contribution to the whole. God's plan for salvation will work.
Speaker 1: God's plan for your salvation will work, and other plans
Speaker 1: will not. Do not allow yourself to become depressed or
Speaker 1: angry at the second part the idea that my plan
Speaker 1: or the egos plan, or however you wanna try to
Speaker 1: claim what it is that that will not work. But
Speaker 1: I put all this effort in my plan, and now
Speaker 1: that was all in vain, Well, who cares? It's all
Speaker 1: in the past, And I was just sole in my
Speaker 1: opinion about things that would work or wouldn't work, And
Speaker 1: the least helpful thing is having an opinion about the past.
Speaker 1: God's plan for salvation will work and other plans will not.
Speaker 1: Do not allow yourself to become depressed or angry at
Speaker 1: the second part. It is inherent in the first my
Speaker 1: plan will not work. God's plan will. And in the
Speaker 1: first only God's plan for salvation will work. Is your
Speaker 1: full release from all your own insane attempts and mad
Speaker 1: proposals to free yourself. I don't have to come up
Speaker 1: with the solution myself anymore. They have led to depression
Speaker 1: and anger. But God's plan will succeed. It will lead
Speaker 1: to release enjoy. Remembering this, let us devote the reminder
Speaker 1: of the extended practice period to asking God to rer
Speaker 1: reveal his plan to us. So I'm gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 1: play a little song, and in the first part of
Speaker 1: our exercise we really gonna look at only God's plan
Speaker 1: for salvation will work and the release and enjoy and
Speaker 1: burden on my shoulder that is lifted up. We gonna
Speaker 1: be in that experience. And then we were gonna ask
Speaker 1: some questions. But first let's take a few seconds to
Speaker 1: think about God's plan for salvation.
Speaker 2: Sweet New raisday fo ride New Sunder's rude in my safe.
Speaker 1: My plan I will lay aside for a second. Only
Speaker 1: God's plan for salvation you have will work can be called.
Speaker 2: But you were lways.
Speaker 1: So now we're released from fast and future ideas and
Speaker 1: are in the right here and right now. Now we
Speaker 1: can ask honest questions because we have no idea where
Speaker 1: we came from, no idea where we're going to. We're
Speaker 1: right here and right now, and I'm gonna ask very specifically, Father, God,
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, Holy Spirit, speak to me, now, what would
Speaker 1: you have me do? Where would you have me go?
Speaker 1: What wh what would you have me say into whom?
Speaker 1: In my I literally I'm literally gonna give up in
Speaker 1: my Savior, my own ideas you have and let me
Speaker 1: lead by the voice within which let me be guided
Speaker 1: by the Holy Spirit. Can I stretch my hand out?
Speaker 1: And because the thought is helpful in nice, I think
Speaker 1: of Jesus grabbing my hand and leading me. Say, Father,
Speaker 1: what would you have me do? Where would you have
Speaker 1: me go? What would you have me say into whom?
Speaker 1: And don't be afraid that you cannot hear the answer.
Speaker 1: I will guarantee you that the answer is filling your
Speaker 1: heart with joy, will fill your heart with the spirit.
Speaker 1: God's plan for salvation will work nice. But let him
Speaker 1: answer these questions, and then now give him full charge
Speaker 1: of the rest of the practice period, and let him
Speaker 1: tell you what needs to be done by you in
Speaker 1: his plan for your salvation. And we're coming back to
Speaker 1: motivation and willingness. He will answer in proportion to your
Speaker 1: willingness to hear his voice. I am motivated. I'll let
Speaker 1: all my own plans go, and I will listen to
Speaker 1: his voice, answering the questions what would you have me do?
Speaker 1: Where would you have me go? What would you have
Speaker 1: me say? And to whom I am willing to hear
Speaker 1: his voice? And I refuse not to hear it. The
Speaker 1: very fact that you are doing the exercise now, where
Speaker 1: you lay down your own plan and asks for God's
Speaker 1: plan for salvation, proves that you have some willingness to listen.
Speaker 1: A little bit of willingness goes a long way. That
Speaker 1: is enough to establish your claim to God's answer. Father, God,
Speaker 1: what would you have me do? Where would you have
Speaker 1: me go? What would you have me say into whom
Speaker 1: only God's plan for salvation will work. So in the
Speaker 1: shorter practice periods today that we're gonna have many many times.
Speaker 1: Tell yourself often that God's plan for salvation and only
Speaker 1: his will work. Be alert to all temptation to hold
Speaker 1: grievances today. Be alert to all temptation to hold on
Speaker 1: to the past today. Be alert to all temptation to
Speaker 1: determine how the future should look like today, and respond
Speaker 1: to them with this form of today's idea. Holding grievances
Speaker 1: is the opposite of God's plan for salvation, and only
Speaker 1: his plan will work. Try to remember today's idea some
Speaker 1: six or seven times an hour. There could be no
Speaker 1: better way to spend half a minute or less to
Speaker 1: remember the source of your salvation and to see it
Speaker 1: where it is. Holding grievances is the opposite of God's
Speaker 1: plan for salvation, and only his plan will work. Amen,
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for spending a little bit of
Speaker 1: time here with us to rejoice in the never failing
Speaker 1: ways that Jesus is setting out for us to call
Speaker 1: us home, and that the joy and happiness is my
Speaker 1: own and the only requirement. It's a little bit of
Speaker 1: willingness to not try to figure it out myself, but
Speaker 1: in every single situation ask for help. Father, your plan
Speaker 1: not mine. Let me be free and joyful and peaceful.
Speaker 2: Amen.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much and I'm certain, I'm certain that
Speaker 1: I will see you soon again. Have a wonderful rest
Speaker 1: of your day. Amen.
Speaker 2: Amen, you have been listening to voice from Heaven live
Speaker 2: in the Miracles Healing Center.
Speaker 1: Remember that God's voice speaks to you all through the day.
Speaker 1: That God goes with you wherever you go, and that
Speaker 1: God is the mind with which you think. God bless
Speaker 1: us everyone,