so

its sunday night, and we go to bed with freezing rain falling and collecting
on trees very rapidly. we didn't sleep well that night, and then the power
went out at about 6am monday. we got up around nine and showered in the
diminishing warmth of our powerless house (thankfully we had hot water and a
gas stove). i went to work at about 11am, but lindsay stayed home from work,
as her boss had lost power at his house where she works. unbenounced to me,
at about noon my wife and my ex-wife took off on a road trip in search of a
heater for my ex and the girls, and a surprise for lindsay and me (only a
surprise to me).

as for me, i went to work on what turned out to be the busiest day i have
ever been a part of. as i drove in to work i literally watched limb after
limb fall from trees and generally mess things up alot...

T-19.I.5. It cannot be difficult to realize that faith must be the
opposite of faithlessness. 2 Yet the difference in how they operate is
less apparent, though it follows directly from the fundamental
difference in what they are. 3 Faithlessness would always limit and
attack; faith would remove all limitations and make whole. 4
Faithlessness would destroy and separate; faith would unite and heal.
5 Faithlessness would interpose illusions between the Son of God and
his Creator; faith would remove all obstacles that seem to rise
between them. 6 Faithlessness is wholly dedicated to illusions; faith
wholly to truth. 7 Partial dedication is impossible. 8 Truth is the
absence of illusion; illusion the absence of truth. 9 Both cannot be
together, nor perceived in the same place. 10 To dedicate yourself...

An exploration of this topic related to both Biblical and the Course's
sources is found in:

http://groups.google.com/group/healing-minds-miracles/web/the-borderland-between...

Emails can be sent to: healing-minds-miracles@googlegroups.com

thula

http://courseinmiracles.com/acourseinmiracles/acim11_21/page13h.htm

"To wish for guilt in any way, in any form, will lose appreciation of
the value of your guiltlessness, and push it from your sight. There is
no compromise that you can make with guilt, and escape from the pain
which only guiltlessness allays. Learning is living here, as creating
is Being in Heaven. Whenever the pain of guilt seems to attract you,
remember that, if you yield to it, you are deciding against your
happiness, and will not learn how to be happy. Say, therefore, to
yourself, gently, but with the conviction born of the love of God and
of His Son:

"What I experience I will make manifest. If I am guiltless, I have
nothing to fear. I choose to testify to my acceptance of the
Atonement, not to its rejection. I would accept my guiltlessness by
making...

You could no more be apart from God than the sea elect to be apart of
water!

(indirect quote from 150s or 160s lesson, Ideas leave not their
source)

Hi jon, all

This is my shot at explaining solipsism
back in '99, at the alt.solipsism n.g. ;)

~ Lee

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Newsgroups: alt.solipsism
From: "Lee Flynn" <4gi...@innocent.com>
Date: 1999/08/29
Subject: Re: what's solipism

Hey there,

This is my first crack at answering this question, and so
please just add "I suppose" or "I would guess that..." to
every sentence that appears to speak for other than my
own experience. That being said..

ACIM Workbook Lesson 354 ~ December 20

http://courseinmiracles.com/acourseinmiracles/workbook/acim/lesson354.htm
http://www.acimradio.net/urwork/

" Lesson 354

"We stand together, Christ and I, in peace
and certainty of purpose. And in Him
is His Creator, as He is in me."

"My oneness with the Christ establishes
me as Your Son, beyond the reach of time
and wholly free of every law but Yours.
I have no self except the Christ in me.
I have no purpose but His own. And He
is like His Father. Thus must I be one
with You as well as Him. For who is Christ
except Your Son as You created Him?
And what am I except the Christ in me?" "

~ Urtext of ACIM

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[ Hear Today's Lesson in Iambic Pentameter ]

Surah 19. Mary
1. Kaf. Ha. Ya. 'Ain. Sad.

2. (This is) a recital of the Mercy of thy Lord to His servant
Zakariya.

3. Behold! he cried to his Lord in secret,

4. Praying: "O my Lord! infirm indeed are my bones, and the hair of my
head doth glisten with grey: but never am I unblest, O my Lord, in my
prayer to Thee!

5. "Now I fear (what) my relatives (and colleagues) (will do) after
me: but my wife is barren: so give me an heir as from Thyself,-

6. "(One that) will (truly) represent me, and represent the posterity
of Jacob; and make him, O my Lord! one with whom Thou art well-
pleased!"

7. (His prayer was answered): "O Zakariya! We give thee good news of a
son: His name shall be Yahya: on none by that name have We conferred
distinction before."

8. He said: "O my Lord! How shall I have a son, when my wife is barren
and I have grown quite decrepit from old age?"