I will step back and let Him lead the way.
* This is what I am literally in the process of doing today. I totally understand that I do NOT have a clue (know) what anything is about.
* Now, I am not saying that my impressions or ego sometimes don’t slip into things. I can still get caught up in the online scammers things, especially regarding Elon (I will need to buff up my spiritual muscles on this and they will be over time, but I cannot get “cocky” about it, or I will fall on my face, not that this will stop me from continuing what SPIRIT leads me to do).
* At the same time, I am told fairly soon when something is “off,” and I remove myself from its grip, thanking Father and asking HYMN to walk before me.
1. There is a way of living in the world that is not here, although it seems to be.
* This means do not fall into fear or second-guessing yourself when it comes to what is going on at home or in the media. And caution there, AI and the knowledge of psychological manipulation is well versed in stirring up fear and prejudice. Please, remove yourself from that as soon as you feel it coming on. SPIRIT will not lead you into either.
²You do not change appearance, though you smile more frequently.
* If only to yourself, depending on how many experiences you have with people trying to knock it off your face. You will know within yourself.
³Your forehead is serene; your eyes are quiet.
⁴And the ones who walk the world as you do recognize their own.
* This I am hoping to experience in form.
⁵Yet those who have not yet perceived the way will recognize you also, and believe that you are like them, as you were before.
* This I have had witness of throughout my life and yet there has always been signs that others knew there was something different about me. I did not understand that it was my reliance on Father. Or I did not acknowledge it the way I do now, with the testimony of Jesus in A Course in Miracles.
2. The world is an illusion.
²Those who choose to come to it are seeking for a place where they can be illusions, and avoid their own reality.
* This would be important to remember for the little ones coming into the world, though I suspect that they will be coming in with greater ‘natural light’ and being able to keep it as they grow more and more.
³Yet when they find their own reality is even here, then they step back and let it lead the way.
* Meaning that when they find the memory that their truth is inside, they let God direct them.
⁴What other choice is really theirs to make?
⁵To let illusions walk ahead of truth is madness.
* I have called the illusions “stories” and “costumes or masks” as many traditions have in our various cultures.
⁶But to let illusion sink behind the truth and let the truth stand forth as what it is, is merely sanity.
* It is like Halloween is what we live most of our lives until we witness the truth and let go of our reliance on “form” or bodily senses to define or direct us. That does not mean we give up bodily senses, it means we let Father interpret them for us through SPIRIT.
3. This is the simple choice we make today.
²The mad illusion will remain awhile in evidence, for those to look upon who chose to come, and have not yet rejoiced to find they were mistaken in their choice.
³They cannot learn directly from the truth, because they have denied that it is so.
⁴And so they need a Teacher Who perceives their madness, but Who still can look beyond illusion to the simple truth in them.
* This defines how we are to walk in the world. Though I still choose to put Student in front of Teacher in my path. It reminds me to be vigilant in listening to Father’s Guidance through SPIRIT and not let egoic fear monopolize my thoughts.
4. If truth demanded they give up the world, it would appear to them as if it asked the sacrifice of something that is real.
²Many have chosen to renounce the world while still believing its reality.
* Monks and priests do this all the time. That is a trap in itself
* We want to understand that the way the world is seen is false, completely, then our staying here in chaos, even after accepting the Atonement, benefits both ourselves and others.
* This shows that caution that needs to be taken with statements about the world within the Course that could suggest “outward peace” is the telling of a true follower of Jesus.
* It is the inward peace that you carry, even though it is felt through energy by others; you may be disturbed by something emotionally, for instance, but inner peace remains untouched.
³And they have suffered from a sense of loss, and have not been released accordingly.
⁴Others have chosen nothing but the world, and they have suffered from a sense of loss still deeper, which they did not understand.
* That loss is of self, connection, and Father.
5. Between these paths there is another road that leads away from loss of every kind, for sacrifice and deprivation both are quickly left behind.
²This is the way appointed for you now.
³You walk this path as others walk, nor do you seem to be distinct from them, although you are indeed.
⁴Thus can you serve them while you serve yourself, and set their footsteps on the way that God has opened up to you, and them through you.
* This is due to our truth in God and our witness inside of it, even when it appears hidden from us at the moment.
6. Illusion still appears to cling to you, that you may reach them.
²Yet it has stepped back.
³And it is not illusion that they hear you speak of, nor illusion that you bring their eyes to look on and their minds to grasp.
⁴Nor can the truth, which walks ahead of you, speak to them through illusions, for the road leads past illusion now, while on the way you call to them, that they may follow you.
7. All roads will lead to this one in the end.
²For sacrifice and deprivation are paths that lead nowhere, choices for defeat, and aims that will remain impossible.
³All this steps back as truth comes forth in you, to lead your brothers from the ways of death, and set them on the way to happiness.
⁴Their suffering is but illusion.
* Yet, IT SEEMS SO VERY REAL! DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THIS, OR DISRESPECT IT!
⁵Yet they need a guide to lead them out of it, for they mistake illusion for the truth.
8. Such is salvation’s call, and nothing more.
²It asks that you accept the truth, and let it go before you, lighting up the path of ransom from illusion.
³It is not a ransom with a price.
⁴There is no cost, but only gain.
⁵Illusion can but seem to hold in chains the holy Son of God.
⁶It is but from illusions he is saved.
⁷As they step back, he finds himself again.
9. Walk safely now, yet carefully, because this path is new to you.
²And you may find that you are tempted still to walk ahead of truth, and let illusions be your guide.
³Your holy brothers have been given you, to follow in your footsteps as you walk with certainty of purpose to the truth.
⁴It goes before you now, that they may see something with which they can identify; something they understand to lead the way.
* Even so, I have to admit this makes me nervous. I know it is happening and must and with this understanding the choice to remind myself that God is going before me and through me with gratitude on awakening and when engaging with people is VITAL.
* I suppose it will become second nature, maybe, or maybe it will be like the “cold plunge” and retain its bit of shock, even once you know you survive the cold and feel better. 
10. Yet at the journey’s ending there will be no gap, no distance between truth and you.
²And all illusions walking in the way you travelled will be gone from you as well, with nothing left to keep the truth apart from God’s completion, holy (*WHOLE or WHOLLY) as Himself.
³Step back in faith and let truth lead the way.
⁴You know not where you go.
⁵But One Who knows goes with you.
⁶Let Him lead you with the rest.
11. When dreams are over, time has closed the door on all the things that pass and miracles are purposeless, the holy Son of God will make no journeys.
²There will be no wish to be illusion rather than the truth.
* Let’s be real here, there may be moments that the thought that it would be “nice” not to know the truth crosses your mind, but this does not mean that you hold onto that thought, or that you mean it. Does that make sense?
* It is almost like an “emotional breaker” for your thoughts to remind you that, yes, YOU CHOOSE to see the truth, and NO ONE FORCED it on you. It gives me the chance to say, “I accept this, Father, thank you.”
³And we step forth toward this, as we progress along the way that truth points out to us.
⁴This is our final journey, which we make for everyone.
⁵We must not lose our way.
⁶For as truth goes before us, so it goes before our brothers who will follow us.
12. We walk to God.
²Pause and reflect on this.
³Could any way be holier, or more deserving of your effort, of your love and of your full intent?
⁴What way could give you more than everything, or offer less and still content the holy Son of God?
⁵We walk to God.
⁶The truth that walks before us now is one with Him, and leads us to where He has always been.
⁷What way but this could be a path that you would choose instead?
13. Your feet are safely set upon the road that leads the world to God.
²Look not to ways that seem to lead you elsewhere.
³Dreams are not a worthy guide for you who are God’s Son.
* Jesus is referring to our lives within the illusion of separation from God, here. But I would also add that your dream state here in the world can come under attack as well. Do not let this frighten you, but understand that it is a truth because we are energetic beings, and there are some who know how to manipulate it so that it invades our “privacy and the boundaries” of our sleeping bodies.
* I had a witness of such events as I woke up this morning. There are symbols therein, however, that are clues to intrusion, and you will have discernment when you are willing to listen to your internal spiritual guidance.
* Again, if there is confusion, I would suggest what SPIRIT has done for me and that is to step back and see the big picture of what is going on according to your understanding of spiritual things today.
⁴Forget not He has placed His Hand in yours, and given you your brothers in His trust that you are worthy of His trust in you.
* Jesus is referring to FATHER here. ISN’T that A GLORIOUS THOUGHT?
* Yes, I know that Jesus says that he will hold our hand as well, and he has mine. throughout my life. However, in that sentence it is the compontent that says “He has given you your brothers in His trust (trusting YOU) that you are worthy of His trust in you” that tells me this refers to FATHER.
⁵He cannot be deceived.
⁶His trust has made your pathway certain and your goal secure.
⁷You will not fail your brothers nor your Self.
14. And now He asks but that you think of Him a while each day, that He may speak to you and tell you of His Love, reminding you how great His trust; how limitless His Love.
* Don’t buy that, folks! We NEED to think of HYMN continually. It may start out slow as mine did, but I truly think the time for that slow pace is ending and continual witness to His Presence is required. I KNOW that it is for me and those who are on the front lines of this ascension.
²In your Name and His Own, which are the same, we practice gladly with this thought today:
³I will step back and let Him lead the way, for I would walk along the road to Him.
* THERE IS NO DISTANCE BETWEEN GOD AND YOU, PLEASE LET GO OF THAT IDEA. This was not understood by the scribes and editors of the Course (and Jesus’ teachings), but it should be becoming more and more evident to us today in 2025.
(ACIM, W-155.1:1–14:3)
Till next time, God Bless, debi.
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