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Author: DeborahDeborah Date: Mar 10, 2008 03:56
There's not going to be many people here who can relate to this, but
what the hell. It's my turn to tell.
In the summer of 1979 I had a profound spiritual awakening. It
happened in the late afternoon, in my kitchen of all places. I don't
know how much later it was, maybe an hour, mayber more, but I went to
the corner store to get some milk or something. I'd been to that
store many times before. I'd talked to that clerk many times before.
This time the clerk said to me "You seem happy." And then he said
"Quietly happy". So I knew he knew something had changed. He'd never
said anything like that to me before.
In the days that followed I felt nothing but a longing to "go home".
Home to the condition one might call "heaven". Where one is in a
state of direct contact with God. It was all I wanted. But when I
told people in my church this, they said "You'll go home in due
course, that's certain, but for now you are supposed to be here". And
for some stupid reason I took their word for it.
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Author: JimboJimbo Date: Mar 10, 2008 05:08
"Deborah" wrote...
> There's not going to be many people here who can relate to this, but
> what the hell. It's my turn to tell.
>
> In the summer of 1979 I had a profound spiritual awakening. It
> happened in the late afternoon, in my kitchen of all places. I don't
> know how much later it was, maybe an hour, mayber more, but I went to
> the corner store to get some milk or something. I'd been to that
> store many times before. I'd talked to that clerk many times before.
> This time the clerk said to me "You seem happy." And then he said
> "Quietly happy". So I knew he knew something had changed. He'd never
> said anything like that to me before.
>
> In the days that followed I felt nothing but a longing to "go home".
> Home to the condition one might call "heaven". Where one is in a
> state of direct contact with God. It was all I wanted. But when I
> told people in my church this, they said "You'll go home in due
> course, that's certain, but for now you are supposed to be here". And
> for some stupid reason I took their word for it.
> ...
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Author: CarrieCarrie Date: Mar 10, 2008 05:40
"Deborah" plonketyplonk.com> wrote in message
news:2o2at3dvkbhblhs00u1g6t8nv1ssl71u8k@4ax.com...> There's not going to be many people here who can relate to this, but
> what the hell. It's my turn to tell.
>
> In the summer of 1979 I had a profound spiritual awakening. It
> happened in the late afternoon, in my kitchen of all places. I don't
> know how much later it was, maybe an hour, mayber more, but I went to
> the corner store to get some milk or something. I'd been to that
> store many times before. I'd talked to that clerk many times before.
> This time the clerk said to me "You seem happy." And then he said
> "Quietly happy". So I knew he knew something had changed. He'd never
> said anything like that to me before.
>
> In the days that followed I felt nothing but a longing to "go home".
> Home to the condition one might call "heaven". Where one is in a
> state of direct contact with God. It was all I wanted. But when I
> told people in my church this, they said "You'll go home in due
> course, that's certain, but for now you are supposed to be here". And
> for some stupid reason I took their word for it. ...
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Author: eluqeluq Date: Mar 10, 2008 09:34
Thanks for sharing that DebBC,
There seems to be a need for the loss of our seeming individual identity.
I'm guessing that is part of the lingering so that there is an ongoing
realization that there is nothing outside of us -- that the world of
perception is an expression of an aspect of mind trying to express a will
other than God's. Forgiveness is a process that enables us to free our self
from the belief that this is real and it affects us.
Sorry if this sounds rhetorical.
You're right this is the EGO's world and the only way it can be nullified is
to recognize the effects (like the ones you mention) are projections of the
split mind. Accept that the effects are not true...
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Author: DeborahDeborah Date: Mar 10, 2008 13:37
On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 07:08:58 -0500, "Jimbo" comcast.net>
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>"Deborah" wrote...
>> There's not going to be many people here who can relate to this, but
>> what the hell. It's my turn to tell.
>>
>> In the summer of 1979 I had a profound spiritual awakening...
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Author: MikeMike Date: Mar 10, 2008 14:08
On Mar 10, 3:37Â pm, Deborah blanketyblank.com> wrote:
>The world doesn't need me for
>salvation any more than I need it.
> Deborah (BC)
"So much depends on
the red wheel barrow
glistening with rain
beside the white chickens."
William Carlos Williams
Me thinks you underestimate your own importance.
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Author: CarrieCarrie Date: Mar 10, 2008 14:24
"Deborah" blanketyblank.com> wrote in message
news:o46bt3p2cn9eotcvpqdhcrifrsstsrngr6@4ax.com...> On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 07:08:58 -0500, "Jimbo" comcast.net>
> wrote:
>>>
>>"Deborah" wrote...
>>> There's not going to be many people here who can relate to this, but
>>> what the hell. It's my turn to tell.
>>>
>>> In the summer of 1979 I had a profound spiritual awakening. It
>>> happened in the late afternoon, in my kitchen of all places. I don't
>>> know how much later it was, maybe an hour, mayber more, but I went to
>>> the corner store to get some milk or something. I'd been to that
>>> store many times before. I'd talked to that clerk many times before.
>>> This time the clerk said to me "You seem happy." And then he said
>>> "Quietly happy". So I knew he knew something had changed. He'd never
>>> said anything like that to me before.
>>>
>>> In the days that followed I felt nothing but a longing to "go home". ...
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Author: giggig Date: Mar 10, 2008 14:32
"Deborah" blanketyblank.com> wrote in message
news:o46bt3p2cn9eotcvpqdhcrifrsstsrngr6@4ax.com...> On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 07:08:58 -0500, "Jimbo" comcast.net>
> wrote:
>>>
>>"Deborah" wrote...
>>> There's not going to be many people here who can relate to this, but
>>> what the hell. It's my turn to tell.
>>>
>>> In the summer of 1979 I had a profound spiritual awakening. It
>>> happened in the late afternoon, in my kitchen of all places. I don't
>>> know how much later it was, maybe an hour, mayber more, but I went to
>>> the corner store to get some milk or something. I'd been to that
>>> store many times before. I'd talked to that clerk many times before.
>>> This time the clerk said to me "You seem happy." And then he said
>>> "Quietly happy". So I knew he knew something had changed. He'd never
>>> said anything like that to me before.
>>>
>>> In the days that followed I felt nothing but a longing to "go home". ...
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Author: PieterPieter Date: Mar 10, 2008 14:47
"Deborah" blanketyblank.com> schreef in bericht
news:o46bt3p2cn9eotcvpqdhcrifrsstsrngr6@4ax.com...> On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 07:08:58 -0500, "Jimbo" comcast.net>>>Humanity needs our care....
>>for we are humanity...
>>Thanks for sharing,
>>Jim
>
> Read Lesson 317 and tell me if you think it serves to entrench us in
> this world with a mission. It doesn't say to me that there's anything
> left to do. My only mission is to recognize that it is done. The
> world doesn't need me for salvation any more than I need it.
This passage from lesson 317:
". . . when
I willingly and gladly go the way
my Father's plan appointed me to go,
then will I recognize salvation is
already here, already given all
my brothers and already mine as well."
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Author: JimboJimbo Date: Mar 10, 2008 16:01
"Deborah" wrote ...
>>
>>
>>It seems i remember the Course saying we are exactly where we are meant to
>>be. That nothing happens by accident.
>>
>>When we serve others, we are expanding/extending ourselves... our
>>boundries...
>>connecting and unifying...... on a level greater then ourselves.
>>It is the ego that says "screw them, what about me"....lol
>
> Yes, it's the ego when the "what about me?" references something one
> wants to get out of living in this world. My "what about me?"
> doesn't. It references union with God.
Hi Deborah :)
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