How Can I Be Truly Helpful?
Celebration of Illumination, the Joy of Time’s End – Opening Session—How Can I Be Truly Helpful?
Join David and many friends from all around the world to celebrate and remember the presence of love in our hearts. David inspires and blesses us with a number of topics: putting a blanket of light on the world, the illusory state of guilt, letting everything be as it is, the family of Christ Mind, and how to listen and follow!
Gold Nugget:
“The mind is not really designed or created by God to be tinkering around with little minutiae of time and space. It’s actually created by God to create in spirit. And once you put your full focus back on that God goal, that creation goal, then you can spring back into the natural ability of spirit creativity. And that’s what the spiritual journey is about; it’s just about remembering what always is so and learning to release and forget that which is of no concern. To put your attention where you truly want it to be, into the spirit, into the happiness, and to pull it away from these worries and concerns of time and space.
It does take effort, it does take practice as long as you believe in the ego, because to believe in the ego is to believe in opposites. And opposites are not natural. There are no opposites in Heaven. There’s no competition or conflict in Heaven. It’s unnatural to put your God-given mind in the direction of opposites. But while you have done that, then the next step to do is to just call out in prayer and say, Whoops, I made a mistake. I took my powerful mind, and I aimed it at these tiny little imaginary scenarios and questions, and I got all caught up in guilt and shame and struggle. But now Spirit, I turn back to you. I call upon you, Holy Spirit, to guide me, to direct me.”
Recorded at the Celebration of Illumination Free Online Retreat – The Joy of Time’s End on December 28, 2020
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