In Marianne Williamson's book Return to Love we find the quote: “’The Face of Christ’ is the innocence and love behind the masks we all wear, and seeing that face, touching it and loving it in ourselves and others, is the experience of God. It is our divine humanness. It is the high we all seek.”
The first song is one of my favorites. It's called “Will’s Song” from Cary's album: No Solid Ground and illustrates this beautifully.
WILL’S SONG – Listen here
When you hear me laughingDon’t always be fooled by my disguise
Don’t forget to look twice in my eyes
Hear what I’m really saying
I don’t always tell the truth
Embarrassed and ashamed of the past
Too afraid to ask for help
I need help
Won’t someone hear what I’m really saying
Will you be a light Shining through the dark
Will you be the Voice calling out
It’s OK ~ It’s Safe ~ You’re alright
Don’t forget to look twice in my eyes
It may appear I’m fighting you
I’m only tryin’ to claw my way out
Suffocating in this tomb of fear and doubt
When you hear me shout
Hear what I’m really saying
Don’t believe in what I do or say
I’m more than just the actor in the play
Look beyond and see what I truly AM
Help me remember
What I truly AM
Will you be a light Shining through the dark
Will you be the Voice calling out
It’s OK ~ It’s Safe ~ You’re alright
Don’t forget to look twice in my eyes
Don’t forget to look twice in my eyes
“Help me to REMEMBER what I truly AM.”
In preparing for the workshop I gave on Healing, I was using our On-Line Searchable edition for “brother is my savior”. (The search goes through all 365 lessons, 600+ pages of the Text & Manual.) The search results came back and revealed that this phrase only appears in one place!
It appears in only one of the lessons. I saw that it was in the 200’s and knew that was toward the end of the year but didn’t notice anything in particular about it.
Then I got goose bumps. I went over to my Study Guide to see what lesson everyone would be doing on the day of the workshop October 15th and it was that very same Lesson ~ Lesson 288. OMG I just burst into tears! I love synchronicities!
Here is Lesson 288 from A Course in Miracles read by maz Weber-Caspers, CIMS member & musician:
Lesson 288 - Let Me Forget My Brother's Past Today
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Let me forget my brother’s past today.
This is the thought that leads the way to You,
and brings me to my goal. I cannot come
to You without my brother. And to know
my Source, I first must recognize what You
created one with me. My brother’s is
the hand that leads me on the way to You.
His sins are in the past along with mine.
And I am saved because the past is gone.
Let me not cherish it within my heart,
or I will lose the way to walk to You.
My brother is my Saviour. Let me not
attack the Saviour You have given me,
but let me honor him who bears Your Name,
and so remember that It is my own.
Forgive me, then, today. And you will know
you have forgiven me if you behold
your brother in the light of holiness.
He cannot be less holy than can I,
and you can not be holier than he.
~ Original Handscript of ACIM
The Course in Miracles tells us that there are no accidents. Perhaps the Course is calling to you, beyond your thoughts, beyond your dreams. Angels are calling you home. Allow this song to open your heart to the Love that is already there! It is a song exquisitely sung by Donna Marie Cary without any musical accompaniment.
Echoes in the Silence ~
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Beyond my thoughts, Beyond my dreams there is a voice calling.
Truth is what it speaks. Love is all it seeks.
Breaking down the walls around me.
And it echoes in the silence.
Rolling back the tides. Lighting up the night.
Opening up my eyes to love.
Seeing what is real. How it feels to know I’m only love
And it echoes in the silence.
Beyond the world there is a home where we all live as one.
Angels sing a long forgotten song.
Singing us home. Can you hear them singing us home?
Love is revealed. I am healed. Beyond the Silence.
Beyond my thoughts, Beyond my dreams.
The world I see.
And it echoes in the silence.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Reja Janaki Joy Green is one of the founding members of the Course in Miracles Society (CIMS), publisher of A Course in Miracles – Original Edition. Reja has facilitated Course in Miracles study groups since 1983 and is in the 2nd year of the CMC Ministerial program. Currently Reja resides with her loving husband Chris Green in Omaha, NE.http://www.jcim.net/
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