It’s Time
The awakening essay
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| Written by Karyn Aldin | |
| Thursday, 08 July 2010 | |
It’s TimeBy Karyn AldinIf I were “time”, there would perhaps be one experience I would not extend an invitation to. That experience is “the miracle”. Oh, and of course, I would certainly not look on “revelation” favorably. Choosing to meet up with either of these would, after all, be much the same as extending invitation to the imminence of my death. But I’m not time. Well, not totally. And it is time for me, for all of us, to make very active use of the miracle. Now and in every moment it’s called for. We know it. A Course in Miracles was not some mistaken anomaly, entering our world as a “here’s another idea to place on the mantel”, or to “chew on for a lifetime”, or simply to add an interesting contrast to the yellow and red books on the book shelf. Anyone who receives the Course knows it came by special delivery as result of an earnest request spoken by his/her heart, and perhaps verbally as well. Even those among us who may have gone out and purchased the Course ourselves (many had it ‘land’ on them from unexpected sources) still know that it was special delivery – that it was never actually on the store’s shelf until our heart made its request. And if you really know the Course, you know indeed that its insertion into this time and space is truly the grandest of miracles. All our embedded memories are surfacing and asking for a bath – at last. Call it purification; call it a drag, adventure, excitement, misfortune or whatever. This cleansing requires nothing short of a parade of miracles. As per Jesus’ promises throughout the Course, the parade is on. Our initial requests for help, in many cases, came as a dark night, down on the knees, grueling cries for guidance and comfort. Regardless of how they occurred, He heard, He listened, He amazingly answered with this incredibly poetic and thorough, written communication displaying the hugeness of His Love. We’ve read through this glorious response. In fact, we’ve learned now to perform miracles, and we’ve learned to witness to continual miraculous occurrence. Time has begun its collapse. But now… Now it’s time for bigger bites, greater and greater faith. We’ve all been chiseling away at our identities (all identities having the same surname – “Resistance”), but unfortunately, we’re still too often recognizable to the objective animates and in-animates we constructed long before the Course arrived. And some big, challenging memories are emerging that now require a miraculous mindset which fully acknowledges an essential foundation for accomplishment of this Course: “There is no order of difficulty in miracles”. So a quick look at the current requirements: 1. We need to truly be ready and willing to really, fully accept that this world is an illusion: “… healing is the gift of those who are prepared to learn there is no world, and can accept the lesson now” - (from lesson 132). And from review lesson 58, in review of the idea that “There is nothing my holiness cannot do” comes this teaching: “My holiness is unlimited in its power to heal, because it is unlimited in its power to save. What is there to be saved from except illusions?” Without recognition that the world is entirely a construct of mind, and exists only in the moment we ‘look’ at it, it becomes impossible to accept that there is no order of difficulty in miracles. And in that impossibility, the miracle becomes far too limited in a time when this can no longer be afforded. 2. We must truly accept entitlement to miracles. It is essential to let every misjudged, undeserving thought about ourselves be perused, loved, and then cleaned up and replaced by the loving truth. At last, let ourselves be the idea and expression of love that we, in fact, are. Humble ideas to the contrary will only be pleasurable gratification to ‘time’, and a heavy sledgehammer to the miracle. 3. Ask. Asking for the miracle, the light insertion, and then receiving it, knowing it has been given indicates willingness to no longer hold ourselves separate. It also evidences our faith in Him. He awaits only our invitation. The willingness to ask for help demonstrates and radiates our desire to join, to love, and so to accept miracles. 4. The skill of ‘stepping back’ must follow the asking. The prodding ego may do as much as exasperate itself trying to find ways to nudge itself into the scene (its mission: speak first), but in stillness (achieved by truly stepping back) its nudges can be regarded as pure entertainment and perhaps even a tidbit of sweetness (now this is a purified soul!) 5. We must learn to wholly place our dependence on God now. This, in its fullness, may seem a feat, but it is invitation to a continual stream of miraculous occurrence until ‘some day’, the separate, objective animates and in-animates referred to earlier no longer recognize us. And that will of course be because we will no longer recognize ‘them’, all having become just One. In that sense, there is recognition, but simply as mySelf. It is well and good to look at this with light hearts, and yet accompaniment by a steadfast determination and earnestness to really demonstrate the miraculous without order of difficulty is now needed. It really is time. It’s time for major collapses of time, the conviction to be who we truly are, with the inclusion of release of all our illusions and small, aimless fantasies. There is no world as we once imagined it. We can hug our Self in celebration of this single, holy instant that exists only just now. We are an undivided, miraculous, infinitely expanding, awesomely radiant, immeasurably loving extension of God Himself. And that’s not ‘time’. That’s eternal. |
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