Wednesday, July 1, 2009

13 comments:

karl said...

What you talkin' 'bout Willis?

Anonymous said...

MY BIG IDEA IS "GOD IS LOVE"!

Anonymous said...

"Time is free, but it's priceless.

You can't own it, but you can use it.

You can't keep
it, but you can spend it.

Once you've lost it
you can never get it back.”


- Harvey MacKay


Today is July 1. Hard to believe that 1/2 of 2009 is gone!

Unknown said...

For me, the BIG idea is a community of people, loving each other anyway...and changing the world...free to follow their individual dreams but committed to the unity of all dreams working together as one.

karl said...

All dreams working together as ONE, so then there are many more visions to be written down for all to see clearly.

karl said...

Cool,as soon as blogged here about dreams and visions, the song "I have a dream" by Abba was playing over on my blog!

word ver: moleddia

maybe "day of the mole?", nah...reminds me more of "melody" instead.

Northern Light said...

The Big Idea here today for me is, WOW......despite all the "stuff" going on, I beat through the technology and found a computer out in the world that actually let me post......I've missed everything and everyone ! I'll show these machines. HA

...and I'll be back with something real to say. I have ALOT of reading to catch up here.
Peace,
Northern Light

River said...

The big IDEA is living for a Newness in an ever changing world.

Pastor Nancy said...

Avatar!
The big IDEA is Loving each other ANYWAY.

Mother Teresa~
DO IT ANYWAY

People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, People may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; Be kind anyway,

If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies; Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; Be honest and frank anyway....

It goes on to say... Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world the best you've got anyway.

You see, in the final analysis it is between you and God; It was never between you and them anyway.

Anonymous said...

To invent the best mouse trap, that would be so good, that no one, would even consider, inventing one better.

itsooga said...

This speaks to so much. We all are seeking the Big Picture, the Big Destiny, The God Given Purpose. Such an image to ponder and search our inner beings for.

Anonymous said...

ACIM Lesson 186 - part 1

Salvation of the world depends on me
Here is the statement that will one day take all arrogance away from every mind Here is the thought of true humility, which holds no function as your own but that which has been given you. It offers your acceptance of a part assigned to you, without insisting on another role. It does not judge your proper role. It but acknowledges the Will of God is done on earth as well as Heaven. It unites all wills on earth in Heaven's plan to save the world, restoring it to Heaven's peace.
Let us not fight our function We did not establish it. It is not our idea. The means are given us by which it will be perfectly accomplished. All that we are asked to do is to accept our part in genuine humility, and not deny with self-deceiving arrogance that we are worthy. What is given us to do, we have the strength to do. Our minds are suited perfectly to take the part assigned to us by One Who knows us well.
Today's idea may seem quite sobering, until you see its meaning All it says is that your Father still remembers you, and offers you the perfect trust He holds in you who are His Son. It does not ask that you be different in any way from what you are. What could humility request but this? And what could arrogance deny but this? Today we will not shrink from our assignment on the specious grounds that modesty is outraged. It is pride that would deny the Call for God Himself.
All false humility we lay aside today, that we may listen to God's Voice reveal to us what He would have us do We do not doubt our adequacy for the function He will offer us. We will be certain only that He knows our strengths, our wisdom and our holiness. And if He deems us worthy, so we are. It is but arrogance that judges otherwise.
There is one way, and only one, to be released from the imprisonment your plan to prove the false is true has brought to you Accept the plan you did not make instead. Judge not your value to it. If God's Voice assures you that salvation needs your part, and that the whole depends on you, be sure that it is so. The arrogant must cling to words, afraid to go beyond them to experience which might affront their stance. Yet are the humble free to hear the Voice Which tells them what they are, and what to do.
Arrogance makes an image of yourself that is not real It is this image which quails and retreats in terror, as the Voice for God assures you that you have the strength, the wisdom and the holiness to go beyond all images. You are not weak, as is the image of yourself. You are not ignorant and helpless. Sin can not tarnish the truth in you, and misery can come not near the holy home of God.
All this the Voice for God relates to you And as He speaks, the image trembles and seeks to attack the threat it does not know, sensing its basis crumble. Let it go. Salvation of the world depends on you, and not upon this little pile of dust. What can it tell the holy Son of God? Why need he be concerned with it at all?

Anonymous said...

ACIM Lesson - Part 2
And so we find our peace We will accept the function God has given us, for all illusions rest upon the weird belief that we can make another for ourselves. Our self-made roles are shifting, and they seem to change from mourner to ecstatic bliss of love and loving. We can laugh or weep, and greet the day with welcome or with tears. Our very being seems to change as we experience a thousand shifts in mood, and our emotions raise us high indeed, or dash us to the ground in hopelessness.
Is this the Son of God? Could He create such instability and call it Son? He Who is changeless shares His attributes with His creation All the images His Son appears to make have no effect on what he is. They blow across his mind like wind-swept leaves that form a patterning an instant, break apart to group again, and scamper off. Or like mirages seen above a desert, rising from the dust.
These unsubstantial images will go, and leave your mind unclouded and serene, when you accept the function given you The images you make give rise to but conflicting goals, impermanent and vague, uncertain and ambiguous. Who could be constant in his efforts, or direct his energies and concentrated drive toward goals like these? The functions which the world esteems are so uncertain that they change ten times an hour at their most secure. What hope of gain can rest on goals like this?
In lovely contrast, certain as the sun's return each morning to dispel the night, your truly given function stands out clear and wholly unambiguous There is no doubt of its validity. It comes from One Who knows no error, and His Voice is certain of Its messages. They will not change, nor be in conflict. All of them point to one goal, and one you can attain. Your plan may be impossible, but God's can never fail because He is its Source.
Do as God's Voice directs And if It asks a thing of you which seems impossible, remember Who it is That asks, and who would make denial. Then consider this; which is more likely to be right? The Voice That speaks for the Creator of all things, Who knows all things exactly as they are, or a distorted image of yourself, confused, bewildered, inconsistent and unsure of everything? Let not its voice direct you. Hear instead a certain Voice, Which tells you of a function given you by your Creator Who remembers you, and urges that you now remember Him.
His gentle Voice is calling from the known to the unknowing He would comfort you, although He knows no sorrow. He would make a restitution, though He is complete; a gift to you, although He knows that you have everything already. He has Thoughts which answer every need His Son perceives, although He sees them not. For Love must give, and what is given in His Name takes on the form most useful in a world of form.
These are the forms which never can deceive, because they come from Formlessness Itself Forgiveness is an earthly form of love, which as it is in Heaven has no form. Yet what is needed here is given here as it is needed. In this form you can fulfill your function even here, although what love will mean to you when formlessness has been restored to you is greater still. Salvation of the world depends on you who can forgive. Such is your function here.