North's Journey Journal

In response to "what verse to write" the first question is who is me and the second is do I know what I am here to do? The ego is certain. The Self is aware. To choose between the two is what gives life its spice. As many of you know, I have been a student of the Course of Miracles for over a year now. I use the daily devotionals as a means to a means. That is it opens my communion with Self and from there God/dess. (For clarity I use God/dess as my reference point as I beleive there is a non-exclusive Source that binds us together regardless of gender. I also believe the male female archetype is alive in each of us and all things and expresses itself as Truth in Life.)

After I dropped the Whitman poem into my last blog, I spent some time reflecting on what to answer and then the clarity came in this daily devotion #330. There is more to this, but for now I just want to say that the physical experience I am having is a blessed journey. So many of you speak wisdom to me and help me clarify my thinking. I sat for almost a week, feeling the pain dominate all my interpretations. Finally, I yeilded to higer authority of the medical doctors and started taking my pain medicine on regular basis. Giving up on the expectation that surely my positive thinking would prevent my pain. It turns out that it was not the lack of positive thinking it was the lack of uniting in God/dess's Will.

My recent reference to being "doped" was spotted by a dear friend. He pointed out that what I am experiencing is the "miracle of a molecular relief". What a wonderful way to reframe the lower vibration of "dope". In this same way I seek to reframe the "me" in "I" and "thou". Please follow as I try to simply articulate this over the next few entries.

I start with this and will explain in the next entry.

Lesson 330

(What is Creation?) *

I will not hurt myself again today.

Let us this day accept forgiveness as our only function. Why should we attack our minds, and give them images of pain? Why should we teach them they are powerless, when God holds out His power and His Love, and bids them take what is already theirs? The mind that is made willing to accept God's gifts has been restored to spirit, and extends its freedom and its joy, as is the Will of God united with its own. The Self which God created cannot sin, and therefore cannot suffer. Let us choose today that He be our Identity, and thus escape forever from all things the dream of fear appears to offer us.


Father, Your Son can not be hurt. And if we think we suffer, we but fail to know our one Identity we share with You. We would return to It today, to be made free forever from all our mistakes, and to be saved from what we thought we were.



With Much Love and Life,

North