My thoughts* on Workbook Lesson 293 for October 18, 2024. All fear is past and only love is here. *In REALITY, but …

All fear is past and only love is here.

* It is interesting to me that as I am more aware of this reality WITHIN the role that I play in this Universal Plan of Jesus and his team that we are all a part of I deal with a lot of raw emotion that I have not really allowed myself to experience before.

* HATRED I DO NOT ENTER AT ALL, but I cannot say that I will be sorry when certain individuals move out of their current roles and into their next adventure. Does that sound really lousy of me? Well, I think it is my emotional pendulum coming into a healthier balance by identifying what is real and what is not.

* Now, I ~ IN NO WAY ~ need to hurry the process along or even wish them ill in this lifetime but I can admit to wanting to have a chat with them once they cross over. I have with others and wished them well, encouraging them to continue to walk into the greater light. These are only ‘roles’ and to the individual souls, I need to offer great gratitude because they helped me in my current role.

1. All fear is past, because its source is gone, and all its thoughts gone with it.

* This is just plain SILLY to have been worded this way!

* It has truth in it, but it is stated in a way so as to make you believe it is impossible to be in Heaven IF YOU EVER FEEL FEAR and that is NOT the case.

* We will still be FEELING AS IF WE ARE IN THIS “PAST” UNTIL ALL ERROR IS CLEANED UP.

* We are able to KNOW THIS IS NOT ONLY PAST BUT ENTIRELY UNREAL; and HAVE AN INNER WITNESS THAT WE CAN TRUST MORE THAN OUR “NATURAL” EYES AND EARS.

²Love remains the only present state, whose Source is here forever and forever.

* DON’T KID YOURSELF!

* The ONLY TRUE ‘FORM’ of Love comes from FATHER. So, to make this statement without saying that is false.

* HOWEVER, look at the second half of the statement: “whose Source is here forever and forever.” THAT is saying that the ORIGINAL, UNIVERSAL, CREATOR Father, God is Who He IS ~~~ without being really clear about it, if you know what I mean.

³Can the world seem bright and clear and safe and welcoming, with all my past mistakes oppressing it, and showing me distorted forms of fear?

⁴Yet in the present love is obvious, and its effects apparent.

⁵All the world shines in reflection of its holy light, and I perceive a world forgiven at last.

* THIS we all acknowledge in some form. EVEN the deviant criminal because they recognize their ability to fantasize their desires in the present.

* Let us RECOGNIZE GOD’s PRESENCE so that we may have a means to internalize WHAT that LOVE MEANS TO US.

2. Father, let not Your holy world escape my sight today.

²Nor let my ears be deaf to all the hymns of gratitude the world is singing underneath the sounds of fear.

* It is there, children. Every time you step out in nature it calls to you. Beyond the death and decay the ground and waters testify of.

³There is a real world which the present holds safe from all past mistakes.

⁴And I would see only this world before my eyes today.

* This world is KNOWN within and holds all of your dear ones, and your enemies, without their cloaks of conniving deceit and betrayal. It holds galaxies beyond number, as well.

* It is THIS WITNESS that can have you near tears or feeling over-whelmed when it comes over you as it did Helen Schucman in the bus when she saw the nastiness change to a glowing and radiant Love. It may only last seconds but the memory stays to warm you, I suspect for a lifetime.

* My sense of this is not as radical as a ‘vision’ but I have had that feeling of Love for ALL and a connection to everything come over me and this resides in me (and in you) always.

(ACIM, W-293.1:1–2:4)

Till next time, God bless, debi.