JUNE: Don’t Make It Real ‘Cause Laughter Is The Deal!
DON’T MAKE IT REAL
‘CAUSE
LAUGHTER IS THE DEAL!
“Into eternity where all is one there crept a tiny mad idea and the Son of God remembered not to laugh. In his forgetting to laugh did the thought become a serious idea and possible of both accomplishments and real effects.”
ACIM T 27. VIII.6;2
Hello dear friends,
As we bring our minds together in the joy of truth, I meet you now in silence. Let us release all thoughts of events of violence, war, fires, and personal fears to pause in the calm. You may wonder in regards to what I’ve just mentioned how I could I possibly suggest that we remember to be in joy at a time like this. Let us look at the big picture.
The Course tells us that this world of duality that we seem to be living in (a place of good and bad, love and hate, innocence and sin, etc.) has come from our belief in one seeming moment containing one tiny mad idea. That idea was that we could be separate from God. The Bible begins with a story of Adam who went to sleep, and the Course points out that nowhere does it say that Adam awoke. Adam metaphorically could be said to represent God’s extension of life to His Son. The Courses’ view of the moment that life was given to God’s son, the son then had a tiny mad idea that he/we could be separate from our divine source. He seemed to take it seriously, and then seemed to fall into a deep sleep amidst the garden of God’s non dual world of only love. His newly extended consciousness began fantasizing a dream of a separate and insane world of duality and we labeled it sinful. The only problem . . . he/we forgot to remember to laugh at that tiny mad idea that we could be separate from God who is truth and—who is only love.
So, how do we get back to that non dual world of only love? How do we live in the world—but not of it? We have to learn to not take the dream seriously! It’s not real. Does that mean that we make fun of others in our disagreements, ignore those undergoing pain and illness, disregard the rules that help us to be civil to one another, or act out in insane cruel ways? No! We have to be “normal” and with love learn to forgive a world that doesn’t exist as we are experience the dynamics found in a dream world that has its own crazy ways.
How do we act normal in an abnormal world? Three things:
***We ask for Spirit’s guidance to maintain an awareness that this dream world is not real. Therefore, we can forgive everything—no matter what.
***We see only love for that is what we truly are. Only love heals because only love is real. (No judgment)
***We don’t forget to remember to laugh! When we are in joy, we are in truth.
Radical, huh? Seeing the world this way is the path to remembering that we are not separate . . . that we are all one. That’s why to be separated is so painful. For example, remember the dreaded punishment of separation by your teacher or your parents when you act out of the normal . . . go stand in the corner, or go to your room, or you’re “left out” when not invited to sit with anyone at the lunch table, or even in sports if you are rejected as the last person to be chosen on a team. Society’s ultimate punishment is to incarcerate, to imprison—to be put away from society.
People need to be with people. (Sounds like a song 😊) The Course views the Noah’s Ark parable as a way of showing us we cannot get home without each other. Two by two, we heal only through our lessons of learning to love and forgive each other in the classroom of our relationships.
Our Mind knows everything. We are gradually awakening from the dream of death to remember what is already in our sub-conscious mind. Part of us knows that there has to be more, that we are not at home here. Even as a child, this was symbolically brought forward in some of our Nursery rhymes; Sleeping Beauty, was awakened by the loving kiss of a noble prince; Snow White was awakened by the loving kiss of Prince Charming. When they awakened to the truth, there was joy and laughter!
“All the next day, I laughed and languished in the euphoria of this new world as light and images roamed in and out of my mind . . . I had glimpsed ecstasy. I could taste a profound simplicity in all of life. I had slipped outside of time and space. During that period, nothing could have interrupted my peace.”
TGIC p.4 (CLICK)
In my ACIM class I joked about my first experience of being in a bar as an unlikely moment that turns out today to be what I consider an example of the joy and oneness we are seeking. I’d finished my student teacher placement in college, and my master teacher and I decided to celebrate in a popular Irish bar on St. Patty’s Day.
Wearing my green tartan (I was married to a Scottish man at the time) we plopped ourselves on barstools and began to chat with the persons next to us. Pretty soon, with a little libation to forget the cares of the day, I was telling this perfect stranger all about me—even things my friends didn’t know 😊 and the stranger was doing the same. We knew we would never meet again so it didn’t matter. What mattered was we’d found a safe space to be fully open-hearted, and to laugh together at ourselves. As the night ended, we were hugging each other and everyone around us—and saying, “I love you.”
This simple moment for me became an illustration of spontaneous expression of the oneness that we know we are. Just one of many miracle moments in our beautiful awakening out of time.
“Miracles are expressions of love, but they may not always have observable effects.”
ACIM M. 35 (CLICK)
Like Gulliver in his travels who is bound tightly to the ground by little people, I see miracles as one by one cutting those ropes of guilt to be set free.
Let’s never forget to remember the truth of our laughter. To forgive and be in true and pure joy, is to be in truth. As Jerry Jampolski always said, Let go, Let God . . . and lighten up!
So, until next time,
When you find yourself staring into the headlights of fear, I hope you can stop . . . allow yourself to laugh at your temporary insanity . . . and say, as I often do, THANK GOD I’M CRAZY! 😊
***** SEE ONLY LOVE FOR THAT IS WHAT YOU ARE *****
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Thank God I’m Crazy includes pictures of places which took place in Grace’s life, as seen in her visions. Grace Avalon, teacher and intuitive counselor, has taught A Course in Miracles for nine years. She gives presentations, seminars and workshops for anyone whose known abuse, thought they were crazy, or wants to live a joyful life.
*** Gary Renard, (International bestselling author of Disappearance of the Universe, and international speaker) says, “Grace Avalon’s courage to share her secret visions that led her out of deep abuse to heal through forgiveness brings a whole new level of understanding to the principles of love found in A Corse in Miracles.”
*** Marianne Williamson, (NY Times bestselling author, teacher, and internationally renowned speaker) , has said, “Grace Avalon inspires all of us to trust the wisdom of our hearts. Here is spirituality in practice.”