Join us this Sunday, Mar. 19, 2023.
9:15 AM to 10:30 AM (Mountain Time)
Weekly Workbook Lesson Review:
Via ZOOM and in-person at the RMMC.
Barbara McKinstry is facilitating a group that meets weekly to review the daily Workbook lessons of the week starting with Monday’s lesson and ending with Sunday’s lesson; meet in person or on Zoom.
facilitated by Barb McKinstry
11:00 AM to Noon (Mountain Time)
Sunday Gathering I:
Via ZOOM (emphasis) and in-person at the RMMC.
Topic: What to Forget and What to Remember
ACIM references:
- Lesson 52 (ACIM, W-52)
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4. Because of your Father’s Love you can never forget Him, for no one can forget what God Himself placed in his memory. ²You can deny it, but you cannot lose it. ³A Voice will answer every question you ask, and a vision will correct the perception of everything you see. ⁴For what you have made invisible is the only truth, and what you have not heard is the only Answer. ⁵God would reunite you with yourself, and did not abandon you in your distress. ⁶You are waiting only for Him, and do not know it. ⁷Yet His memory shines in your mind and cannot be obliterated. ⁸It is no more past than future, being forever always.
5. You have but to ask for this memory, and you will remember. ²Yet the memory of God cannot shine in a mind that has obliterated it and wants to keep it so. ³For the memory of God can dawn only in a mind that chooses to remember, and that has relinquished the insane desire to control reality. ⁴You who cannot even control yourself should hardly aspire to control the universe. ⁵But look upon what you have made of it, and rejoice that it is not so.
6. Son of God, be not content with nothing! ²What is not real cannot be seen and has no value. ³God could not offer His Son what has no value, nor could His Son receive it. ⁴You were redeemed the instant you thought you had deserted Him. ⁵Everything you made has never been, and is invisible because the Holy Spirit does not see it. ⁶Yet what He does see is yours to behold, and through His vision your perception is healed. ⁷You have made invisible the only truth that this world holds. ⁸Valuing nothing, you have sought nothing. ⁹By making nothing real to you, you have seen it. ¹⁰But it is not there. ¹¹And Christ is invisible to you because of what you have made visible to yourself.
7. Yet it does not matter how much distance you have tried to interpose between your awareness and truth. ²God’s Son can be seen because his vision is shared. ³The Holy Spirit looks upon him, and sees nothing else in you. ⁴What is invisible to you is perfect in His sight, and encompasses all of it. ⁵He has remembered you because He forgot not the Father. ⁶You looked upon the unreal and found despair. ⁷Yet by seeking the unreal, what else could you find? ⁸The unreal world is a thing of despair, for it can never be. ⁹And you who share God’s Being with Him could never be content without reality. ¹⁰What God did not give you has no power over you, and the attraction of love for love remains irresistible. ¹¹For it is the function of love to unite all things unto itself, and to hold all things together by extending its wholeness. (ACIM, T-12.VIII.4:1–7:11)
- And when the memory of God has come to you in the holy place of forgiveness you will remember nothing else, and memory will be as useless as learning, for your only purpose will be creating. ²Yet this you cannot know until every perception has been cleansed and purified, and finally removed forever. ³Forgiveness removes only the untrue, lifting the shadows from the world and carrying it, safe and sure within its gentleness, to the bright world of new and clean perception. ⁴There is your purpose now. ⁵And it is there that peace awaits you. (ACIM, T-18.IX.14:1-5)
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4. To you who still believe you live in time and know not it is gone, the Holy Spirit still guides you through the infinitely small and senseless maze you still perceive in time, though it has long since gone. ²You think you live in what is past. ³Each thing you look upon you saw but for an instant, long ago, before its unreality gave way to truth. ⁴Not one illusion still remains unanswered in your mind. ⁵Uncertainty was brought to certainty so long ago that it is hard indeed to hold it to your heart, as if it were before you still.
5. The tiny instant you would keep and make eternal, passed away in Heaven too soon for anything to notice it had come. ²What disappeared too quickly to affect the simple knowledge of the Son of God can hardly still be there, for you to choose to be your teacher. ³Only in the past,—an ancient past, too short to make a world in answer to creation,—did this world appear to rise. ⁴So very long ago, for such a tiny interval of time, that not one note in Heaven’s song was missed. ⁵Yet in each unforgiving act or thought, in every judgment and in all belief in sin, is that one instant still called back, as if it could be made again in time. ⁶You keep an ancient memory before your eyes. ⁷And he who lives in memories alone is unaware of where he is.
6. Forgiveness is the great release from time. ²It is the key to learning that the past is over. ³Madness speaks no more. ⁴There is no other teacher and no other way. ⁵For what has been undone no longer is. ⁶And who can stand upon a distant shore, and dream himself across an ocean, to a place and time that have long since gone by? ⁷How real a hindrance can this dream be to where he really is? ⁸For this is fact, and does not change whatever dreams he has. ⁹Yet can he still imagine he is elsewhere, and in another time. ¹⁰In the extreme, he can delude himself that this is true, and pass from mere imagining into belief and into madness, quite convinced that where he would prefer to be, he is.
7. Is this a hindrance to the place whereon he stands? ²Is any echo from the past that he may hear a fact in what is there to hear where he is now? ³And how much can his own illusions about time and place effect a change in where he really is?
8. The unforgiven is a voice that calls from out a past forevermore gone by. ²And everything that points to it as real is but a wish that what is gone could be made real again and seen as here and now, in place of what is really now and here. ³Is this a hindrance to the truth the past is gone, and cannot be returned to you? ⁴And do you want that fearful instant kept, when Heaven seemed to disappear and God was feared and made a symbol of your hate?
9. Forget the time of terror that has been so long ago corrected and undone. ²Can sin withstand the Will of God? ³Can it be up to you to see the past and put it in the present? ⁴You can not go back. ⁵And everything that points the way in the direction of the past but sets you on a mission whose accomplishment can only be unreal. ⁶Such is the justice your All-Loving Father has ensured must come to you. ⁷And from your own unfairness to yourself has He protected you. ⁸You cannot lose your way because there is no way but His, and nowhere can you go except to Him.
10. Would God allow His Son to lose his way along a road long since a memory of time gone by? ²This course will teach you only what is now. ³A dreadful instant in a distant past, now perfectly corrected, is of no concern nor value. ⁴Let the dead and gone be peacefully forgotten. ⁵Resurrection has come to take its place. ⁶And now you are a part of resurrection, not of death. ⁷No past illusions have the power to keep you in a place of death, a vault God’s Son entered an instant, to be instantly restored unto his Father’s perfect Love. ⁸And how can he be kept in chains long since removed and gone forever from his mind? (ACIM, T-26.V.4:1–10:8)
- “5. How willing are you to escape effects of all the dreams the world has ever had? ²Is it your wish to let no dream appear to be the cause of what it is you do? ³Then let us merely look upon the dream’s beginning, for the part you see is but the second part, whose cause lies in the first. ⁴No one asleep and dreaming in the world remembers his attack upon himself. ⁵No one believes there really was a time when he knew nothing of a body, and could never have conceived this world as real. ⁶He would have seen at once that these ideas are one illusion, too ridiculous for anything but to be laughed away. ⁷How serious they now appear to be! ⁸And no one can remember when they would have met with laughter and with disbelief. ⁹We can remember this, if we but look directly at their cause. ¹⁰And we will see the grounds for laughter, not a cause for fear. 6. Let us return the dream he gave away unto the dreamer, who perceives the dream as separate from himself and done to him. ²Into eternity, where all is one, there crept a tiny, mad idea, at which the Son of God remembered not to laugh. ³In his forgetting did the thought become a serious idea, and possible of both accomplishment and real effects. ⁴Together, we can laugh them both away, and understand that time cannot intrude upon eternity. ⁵It is a joke to think that time can come to circumvent eternity, which means there is no time.” (ACIM, T-27.VIII.5:1–6:5)
- “You are at home in God, dreaming of exile but perfectly capable of awakening to reality.” (ACIM, T-10.I.2:1)
- “The memory of God comes to the quiet mind.” (ACIM, T-23.I.1:1)
Also mentioned during this session: Gently Down This Dream: Notes on My Sudden Departure by Hugh Prather
Charles Lang
Facilitated by Charles Lang
12:30 PM to 1:30 PM (Mountain Time)
Sunday Gathering II:
IN PERSON at the RMMC (emphasis) and via zoom.
Topic: What does it REALLY mean to wake up from the dream?”
ACIM references: T.B.A.
Facilitated by Anna Kujawa