ACIM Lesson 100 ~ Iambic Pentameter ~ Listen

Recitation of Lesson 100 in ‘blank verse’ www.acimradio.net/IP_100/100_IP_ACIMRadio_meter_IP_dyn.wma IP formatting by Lee Flynn, voice&music: maz ~oOo~

Lesson 100“My part is essential to God’s plan for salvation.” Just as God’s Son completes his Father, so your part in it completes your Father’s plan. Salvation must reverse the mad belief in separate thoughts and separate bodies which lead separate lives and go their separate ways. One function shared by separate minds unites them in one purpose, for each one of them is equally essential to them all. God’s Will for you is perfect happiness. Why should you choose to go against His Will? The part that He has saved for you to take in working out His plan is given you that you might be restored to what He wills. This part is as essential to His plan as to your happiness. Your joy must be complete to make His plan be understood by those to whom He sends you. They will see their function in your shining face, and hear God calling to them in your happy laugh. You are indeed essential to God’s plan. Without your joy His joy is incomplete. Without your smile the world cannot be saved. While you are sad the light which God Himself appointed as the means to save the world is dim and lusterless. And no-one laughs because all laughter can but echo yours. You are indeed essential to God’s plan. Just as your light increases every light that shines in Heaven, so your joy on earth calls to all minds to let their sorrows go, and take their place beside you in God’s plan. God’s messengers are joyous, and their joy heals sorrow and despair. They are the proof that God wills perfect happiness for all who will accept their Father’s gifts as theirs. We will not let ourselves be sad today. For if we do, we fail to take the part that is essential to God’s plan, as well as to our vision. Sadness is the sign that you would play another part, instead of what has been assigned to you by God. Thus do you fail to show the world how great the happiness He wills for you. And so you do not recognize that it is yours. Today we will attempt to understand joy is our function here. If you are sad your part is unfulfilled, and all the world is thus deprived of joy, along with you. God asks that you be happy, so the world can see how much He loves His Son, and wills no sorrow rises to abate his joy; no fear besets him to disturb his peace. You are God’s messenger today. You bring His happiness to all you look upon; His peace to everyone who looks on you, and sees His message in your happy face. We will prepare ourselves for this today in our five minute practice periods, by feeling happiness arise in us according to our Father’s will and ours. Begin the exercises with the thought today’s idea contains. Then realize your part is to be happy. Only this is asked of you or anyone who wants to take his place among God’s messengers. Think what this means. You have indeed been wrong in your belief that sacrifice is asked. You but receive according to God’s plan, and never lose or sacrifice or die. Now let us try to find that joy which proves to us and all the world God’s Will for us. It is your function that you find it here, and that you find it now. For this you came. Let this one be the day that you succeed! Look deep within you, undismayed by all the little thoughts and foolish goals you pass as you ascend to meet the Christ in you. He will be there. And you will reach Him now. What could you rather look upon in place of Him who waits that you may look on Him? What little thought has power to hold you back? What foolish goal can keep you from success when He Who calls to you is God Himself? He will be there. You are essential to His plan. You are His messenger today. And you must find what He would have you give. Do not forget the idea for today between your longer practice periods. It is your Self who calls to you today. And it is Him you answer every time you tell yourself you are essential to God’s plan for the salvation of the world.  “

Poetry ~ Helen Schucman, scribe of A Course in Miracles

The  Risen Sun
~*~
By Helen Schucman*

[as it appeared in the December 2011 Newsletter]

Helen Schucman ~ Scribe of A Course in Miracles

Be still, my soul, and rest upon the Lord In quiet certainty. For He has come To rescue you from doubt. And now you stand In blazing glory of a risen sun That cannot set. It will forever be Exactly as it is. You stand with Him Within a radiance prepared for you Before time was and far beyond its reach. Be still and know. And knowing, be you sure Your Lord has come to you. There is no doubt That stands before His countenance, nor can Conceal from you what He would have you see. The sun has risen. He has come at last. Where stands his Presence there can be no past. Be still, my soul, and rest upon the Lord Who comes to keep the promise of His Word. ~FEBRUARY 11, 1974 MUSIC by Martin Weber-Caspers [maz] Maz SINGS Helen’s poem beautifully, and sets it to his MUSIC. CLICK above and choose “The Risen Sun” *Maz is currently the voice for the Original Edition [OE] of A Course In Miracles, produced by SonShipRadio. Maz serves the OE so that it can be shared globally; and as chairman of the Curtis Knight Foundation he produces local radio programs, internet radio shows and other endeavors to promote and support co-creativity on a broader scale. More MUSIC from MAZ *Helen Schucman, scribe of A Course in Miracles, was also a poet who took down several poems even while she was scribing A Course in Miracles. This poem “The Comforter” was dated January 1, 1974 and is located among many of her other poems in a book titled, “The Gifts of God” published by the Foundation for Inner Peace [FIP]. The book is available through FIP and also through the Community Miracle Center CMC.

Where the Dolphins by J. Michaels

Where the Dolphins Dwell
~*~
By J. Michaels*

[as it appeared in the November 2011 Newsletter]

I’m a tiny drop of water Longing for its home Fallen from the sky From whence I once did roam I’m heading for the river To join its urgent flow To let it gently take me Back to my ocean home There to join my fellow Drops of water fell Together, indistinguishable To hear the Wholeness tell That here is our home It’s where the dolphins dwell Copyright 2011 J. Michaels from his book “Soul Transformed” J. Michaels Writer, Storyteller & Poet Website: www.jmichaelsbooks.biz Blog: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theovernightpoet/

Disappearing Truthe ~ Chris F Minshew

Disappearing Truthe
~*~
By Chris F Minshew*

[as it appeared in the October 2011 Newsletter]

Wantingly, wearily, they begin to see The writing on the wall confirms you and me. We all tried to tell them, but to no avail This isn’t heaven, it’s literally hell. Forget what we told you, believe it or not The truth behind hell is neither cold nor hot. Living it is the only way you will see Nothing here exists, not even you or me… **Chris F. Minshew has led anything but a “normal” life. His list of prior occupations ranges from Bail Bondsman to Golf Club Executive to Walt Disney World employee! For the past 20+ years (as well as in past lives) he has been a musician and a poet (150+ poems & counting). In the past couple of years he has begun putting some of the poems to music under the band name “Punchweasel” (www.punchweasel.com). On more than one occasion, when asked how he has been able to write so many poems/songs, Chris has been overheard saying, “I don’t write them, I just write them down…” (Most of the time, the poems are dictated from a “Source.”) Along with his wife Summer (Punchweasel’s vocalist), Chris is working towards using his music for healing purposes (as instructed by his “Source”). Chris and Summer reside in Carthage, MS and have been studying ACIM for the past few years.

Nothing but Oneness by J.Michaels

 

Nothing but Oneness

By J. Michaels*
[as it appeared in the September 2011 Newsletter]

 

I have found my home It is not here or there But everywhere Not with this person or that With every man, woman, and child With the living thing That runs through all living things Well-cozied in eternity The universe my home Wrapped in the arms of my Father Warmed by Heaven’s glow Surrounded on every side By love’s gentle heart Nothing but oneness And never apart. Copyright 2009 J. Michaels J. Michaels Writer, Storyteller & Poet Website: www.jmichaelsbooks.biz Blog: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theovernightpoet/

 

*J. Michaels is a longtime ACIM student and lifelong student of the human mind and spirit. He has authored books in non-fiction, fiction, and poetry. Profoundly influenced by ACIM, his writing challenges popular beliefs and expresses the spiritual in a unique storytelling style. His poetry is published in the Musings of Mind and Spirit series and he is also author of the novella Treasure of the Mind. [reviewed here] J Michaels may be contacted on Facebook or his website at jmichaelsbooks.biz . His work may be seen on his blog at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theovernightpoet/

Poetry ~ Helen Schucman

 

The Comforter
~*~
By Helen Schucman*

[as it appeared in the  August 2011 Newsletter] 

Step back, My child, and let Him lead the way Whom I have sent to you. He holds your hand And speaks to you of Me. His memory Holds in your mind My Name. His peace surrounds My child with all the love a Father feels For what He cherishes above all else In earth and Heaven. Whom I sent to you Has shared My Heart and brings My Word with Him To solace and to comfort all the world That has forgot My Name. Homeless are they Who would abide alone, apart from Me. Yet would I call them home. My Voice I send To sing in soundless places. Hear from Me The song a Father sings to you, His child; A melody from far beyond he world, Step back and listen, for He comes to bless And tell you that you are not comfortless.The summer’s stillness of arresting heat; - by Helen Schucman 1/1/1974 *Helen Schucman, scribe of A Course in Miracles, was also a poet who took down several poems even while she was scribing A Course in Miracles. This poem “The Comforter” was dated January 1, 1974 and is located among many of her other poems in a book titled, “The Gifts of God” published by the Foundation for Inner Peace [FIP]. The book is available through FIP and also through the Community Miracle Center CMC.

Summer’s Daydream ~ Marc R Boulais

Summer’s Daydream
~*~
By Marc R. Boulais*

[as it appeared in the July 2011 Newsletter] 

Artist ~ Suzette Boulais

The summer’s stillness of arresting heat; That makes you lie down in lush green pastures To marvel at the passing menagerie of heaven’s clouds Bringing perfect peace and no distractive sounds. May you daydream of Vikings with horned helmets, Pirate ships and floppy capped elves; Puffy dragons Passing overhead in a lazy afternoon parade led By the bearded lady of the circus; gives rise to Long lost imagination and contemplative delight. A cacophony of crickets, cicadas and mosquitoes Kamikazes with their buzz of surprise attack On vulnerable arms and legs. And the fourth of July lightning bug daredevil pilots with their Pulsating beauty and aerial dogfights In flashing blazes of glory. Add the mystery of a sudden summer evening Display of blood-chilling thunder and fireworks Of Greek gods of mythology hurling their Thunderbolts of lightning across the agitated night sky. The tears of God’s falling rain soften the earth In a rejuvenation of hope that each living plant or Person becomes a personification Of His non-judgmental Love. May your thirst for God be as single-minded As the spawning salmon who overcomes any Obstacle of opposing currents and fearlessly Jumps the rapids of self-comfort, self-concern, Self-preservation and self-reliance with a Goal-oriented determination to escape the Life-destroying clutches of the grizzly bear of self-pity. Where is your path, O’ Lord that I may walk with you And forever dwell in your heart’s arms? “Walk in the path of delight, my Child, and dance for joy.” - by Marc R. Boulais 7/2011 * Marc R. Boulais is a serious student of Life who is committed to learning, living and practicing universal life truths. Having been raised Roman Catholic, it is clear that his short story “Deep Waters” includes imagery and references that reflect his strong Christian background. But Marc is also a student of other disciplines. He studies A Course in Miracles, the works of Joseph Campbell, the teachings of native American Indian Fools Crow, as well as the poetic writings of Rumi and Lao-Tzu, to name a few. According to Marc, all spokes of the wheel lead to the center and that center is God. Painting Artist: Suzette Boulais is a student of Course In Miracles and co-facilitates a Sunday morning Course in Miracles class in Peoria, Illinois. More of Suzette’s artwork can be found on her website at http://www.suzetteboulais.com/

Will to Mind by J.Michaels

Will to Mind

By J. Michaels*

~*~*~*~*~*~

[As it appears in the May 2011 Newsletter] 

It breaches the intellectual Exceeds beyond time and space Entering realms incomprehensible Looking angels in the face Communicating without words Thought not required at all Knowledge shared through being In love that heard our call So much more than expected More than can be known By minds locked in separatioin Restraining the holy flow Treasures beyond imagination Await in mindful prayer For the one pure moment When Sons of God declare Dissatisfaction with the normal and will to Mind most fair From Odd Duck J. Michaels Copyright 2011 J. Michaels Writer, Storyteller & Poet Website: www.jmichaelsbooks.biz Blog: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theovernightpoet/

Poetry ~ Marc R Boulais

 

Resurrected Flight

By Marc R. Boulais*

 

 

All of Nature’s quiet, expectant groaning Trapped by seed self under Earth’s death door Yearning for existence to reach for Heaven’s heights And be caressed by sun’s and wind’s gentle touch once more.   Something inside must die to crack its small prison Ego’s craftiness controls to thwart Life’s purposeful decision Dying to self  brought seeds of blood to the Master’s brow Let go and trust God in darkness impossible to understand Accept mysterious Love appearing as loss dealt from such a heavy hand.   The Father’s Love is ever faithful to see His children Reach for heights of Love’s upward, transformed fruition. Your crucifixion is the plan to pay the cost of Life’s tuition To be raised anew in a Christ-centered selfless creation.   The worm sees not the flight, but eats the dirt to his delight. God’s plan is much better; A Resurrection born in flight To reach ever upward and soar the skies to mystical height Of Love’s infinite capacity to give of True Self In Resurrected glory to become a beam of Light.   by Marc R. Boulais 3 -19 -2011

* Marc R. Boulais is a serious student of Life who is committed to learning, living and practicing universal life truths. Having been raised Roman Catholic, it is clear that his short story “Deep Waters” includes imagery and references that reflect his strong Christian background. But Marc is also a student of other disciplines. He studies A Course in Miracles, the works of Joseph Campbell, the teachings of native American Indian Fools Crow, as well as the poetic writings of Rumi and Lao-Tzu, to name a few. According to Marc, all spokes of the wheel lead to the center and that center is God. Painting Artist: Suzette Boulais is a student of Course In Miracles and co-facilitates a Sunday morning Course in Miracles class in Peoria, Illinois. More of Suzette’s artwork can be found on her website at http://www.suzetteboulais.com/

ACIM Lesson 100 ~ Iambic Pentameter ~ Listen

Recitation of Lesson 100 in ‘blank verse’ www.acimradio.net/IP_100/100_IP_ACIMRadio_meter_IP_dyn.wma IP formatting by Lee Flynn, voice&music: maz ~oOo~

Lesson 100“My part is essential to God’s plan for salvation.” Just as God’s Son completes his Father, so your part in it completes your Father’s plan. Salvation must reverse the mad belief in separate thoughts and separate bodies which lead separate lives and go their separate ways. One function shared by separate minds unites them in one purpose, for each one of them is equally essential to them all. God’s Will for you is perfect happiness. Why should you choose to go against His Will? The part that He has saved for you to take in working out His plan is given you that you might be restored to what He wills. This part is as essential to His plan as to your happiness. Your joy must be complete to make His plan be understood by those to whom He sends you. They will see their function in your shining face, and hear God calling to them in your happy laugh. You are indeed essential to God’s plan. Without your joy His joy is incomplete. Without your smile the world cannot be saved. While you are sad the light which God Himself appointed as the means to save the world is dim and lusterless. And no-one laughs because all laughter can but echo yours. You are indeed essential to God’s plan. Just as your light increases every light that shines in Heaven, so your joy on earth calls to all minds to let their sorrows go, and take their place beside you in God’s plan. God’s messengers are joyous, and their joy heals sorrow and despair. They are the proof that God wills perfect happiness for all who will accept their Father’s gifts as theirs. We will not let ourselves be sad today. For if we do, we fail to take the part that is essential to God’s plan, as well as to our vision. Sadness is the sign that you would play another part, instead of what has been assigned to you by God. Thus do you fail to show the world how great the happiness He wills for you. And so you do not recognize that it is yours. Today we will attempt to understand joy is our function here. If you are sad your part is unfulfilled, and all the world is thus deprived of joy, along with you. God asks that you be happy, so the world can see how much He loves His Son, and wills no sorrow rises to abate his joy; no fear besets him to disturb his peace. You are God’s messenger today. You bring His happiness to all you look upon; His peace to everyone who looks on you, and sees His message in your happy face. We will prepare ourselves for this today in our five minute practice periods, by feeling happiness arise in us according to our Father’s will and ours. Begin the exercises with the thought today’s idea contains. Then realize your part is to be happy. Only this is asked of you or anyone who wants to take his place among God’s messengers. Think what this means. You have indeed been wrong in your belief that sacrifice is asked. You but receive according to God’s plan, and never lose or sacrifice or die. Now let us try to find that joy which proves to us and all the world God’s Will for us. It is your function that you find it here, and that you find it now. For this you came. Let this one be the day that you succeed! Look deep within you, undismayed by all the little thoughts and foolish goals you pass as you ascend to meet the Christ in you. He will be there. And you will reach Him now. What could you rather look upon in place of Him who waits that you may look on Him? What little thought has power to hold you back? What foolish goal can keep you from success when He Who calls to you is God Himself? He will be there. You are essential to His plan. You are His messenger today. And you must find what He would have you give. Do not forget the idea for today between your longer practice periods. It is your Self who calls to you today. And it is Him you answer every time you tell yourself you are essential to God’s plan for the salvation of the world.  “