How Do We Collaborate in Mind with Jesus?
Session 6 of the Light in You Retreat—How Do We Collaborate in Mind with Jesus?
David Hoffmeister shares about the levels of relationships and how to unlearn our past and come back to Divinity. He also reminds us in this session that the Course is not so we can avoid things, but the Course is for letting Jesus direct and guide our life and provide us with miracles to heal our beliefs about those things.
Gold Nugget:
“What does Jesus say? ‘It is a journey without distance to a goal that has never changed.’ T-8.VI.9:7 So it must be that this journey is in our mind if it doesn’t involve distance. And if it does involve a goal, it must not involve a future goal. It must be a present goal there for me to embrace right now! And if I try to project it to time and I say, There is time between right now and the time when I forgive in the future sometime, there must be a gap the ego tells you between the time in which you forgive in the future and now, that gap is sacrifice. If you believe in that gap, that it’s going to take you time to forgive, that is the sacrifice.
So he’s got a whole section in the Text called ‘The Immediacy of Salvation.’ He says in this section, ‘Be not content with future happiness. … For you have cause for freedom now.’ T-26.VIII.9:1-3 And it’s only this gap that you believe between now and future forgiveness that is generating this sacrifice idea. Future loss is not your concern; your real dread is present joining. Remember, he said, ‘You are afraid of your brothers. You are afraid of me. You’re afraid of the Holy Spirit, and you’re afraid of God’ It’s because of this belief in sacrifice. What am I going to have to give up for love? What is love going to cost me? And that is the question we must face. So when we’re sharing, we’re sharing from our experience that a journey of miracles is a journey of joy! Of course the joy is convincing. Why would we let go of holding on to something in the past unless we were given a glorious experience that was drawing us, that we could really put our faith in? So in that sense, our journey has been a journey of convincing. You have the faith, and then you say, Jesus, convince me. Show me that what you’re talking about is real and true. And then, when we have the experience of the joy, the peace, the happiness, that’s what we needed!”
Recorded at The Light in You Retreat on January 21, 2020 at La Casa de Milagros in Chapala, Mexico (with Spanish translation)
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