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Like most of you, I grew up with an understanding of what it meant to awaken. I knew it as awakening from a slumber, a dream, or from a misconception. Then there are the biblical words which speak to awakening when you understand that the Christ Light is alive in everything and everyone. Of the many definitions, none held the negative connotations which have been pushed onto the word in the past decade. My neighbor came to visit this evening and we listened to an astonishing new singer on the folk music scene, Jesse Wells. This young man could be called a political activist because he’s not afraid of telling it like it is. Some of the titles of his songs are: That Can’t Be Right; Tylenol; The Poor; Meet The New Swamp; Venezuela; No Kings. He is such a quietly powerful songwriter, singer, presenter of truth — well, we commented numerous times on the chills we got during particularly powerful statements. I first heard him a few weeks ago at the Farm Aid benefit, and most recently in concert with Joan Baez. It seems to me he is the definitive “sign of the times” today. May he inspire us all to be truth sayers. It’s time to wake up.
“The Holy Spirit never itemizes errors because He does not frighten children, and those who lack wisdom are children. Yet He always answers their call, and His dependability makes them more certain. Children do confuse fantasy and reality, and they are frightened because they do not recognize the difference. The Holy Spirit makes no distinction among dreams. He merely shines them away. His light is always the Call to awaken, whatever you have been dreaming. Nothing lasting lies in dreams, and the Holy Spirit, shining with the light from God Himself, speaks only for what lasts forever.”
A Course in Miracles T-6.V.4:1-7
“Ontology receives less attention than physiology. Why?Because mortal mind must waken to spiritual life before it cares to solve the problem of being, hence the author’s experience; but when that awakening comes, existence will be on a new standpoint.”
Mary Baker Eddy - Science. & Health Page 556:25-30
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