When cleverness confounds with hypothetical thinking Sarah reminds us that welcoming-in, what ACIM calls “The Appointed Friend” is the antidote to the ego’s seemingly endless self generating complexity.
It is also The Answer when group doubt, and despair arises when joining with companions. Instead of trying to alleviate seeming collective fears, The Welcome Guest brings delight to all who encounter Christ. Clarity is found and certainty restored in Awareness. HolySpirit decide for God for me!
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EPISODE: Hypotheticals or The Appointed Friend
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Recorded: April 7th 2026 Released: April 7th 2026
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PODCAST EPISODE: Hypotheticals or The Appointed Friend
Well, hello everybody. It feels very important in this moment, in this holy instant that we find ourselves in, to draw in nearer to the Holy Spirit, to draw deeper in presence and prayer to know thyself.
And so I’d like to start with reading a little piece from A Course in Miracles:
~ Sarah reads from: ACIM, Chapter 26 – VI. The Appointed Friend
Anything in this world that you believe is good and valuable and worth striving for can hurt you, and will do so. Not because it has the power to hurt, but just because you have denied it is but an illusion, and made it real. And it is real to you. It is not nothing. And through its perceived reality has entered all the world of sick illusions. All belief in sin, in power of attack, in hurt and harm, in sacrifice and death, has come to you. For no one can make one illusion real, and still escape the rest. For who can choose to keep the ones that he prefers, and find the safety that the truth alone can give? Who can believe illusions are the same, and still maintain that even one is best?
Lead not your little life in solitude, with one illusion as your only friend. This is no friendship worthy of God’s Son, nor one with which he could remain content. Yet God has given him a better Friend, in Whom all power in earth and Heaven rests. The one illusion that you think is friend obscures His grace and majesty from you, and keeps His friendship and forgiveness from your welcoming embrace. Without Him you are friendless. Seek not another friend to take His place. There is no other friend. What God appointed has no substitute, for what illusion can replace the truth?
Who dwells with shadows is alone indeed, and loneliness is not the Will of God. Would you allow one shadow to usurp the throne that God appointed for your Friend, if you but realized its emptiness has left yours empty and unoccupied? Make no illusion friend, for if you do, it can but take the place of Him Whom God has called your Friend. And it is He Who is your only Friend in truth. He brings you gifts that are not of this world, and only He to Whom they have been given can make sure that you receive them. He will place them on your throne, when you make room for Him on His.
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And that’s the section called the appointed friend from chapter 26 verse 6. There is much commentary on the world right now and I do not desire to add to that commentary in describing the perceptual problem as we perceive it, and then coming up with solutions even high-minded ones to address a disquieted spirit.
What I am interested in is going directly to the mind to the one listening to the one who is choosing what world it sees to reminded that beyond this world there is a world I want and to encourage all of us all the seeming separate ones all the brothers and sisters upon this beautiful and yet seeming tragic earth to come together to remember the truth of who they are. And you may have found yourself very understandably of late, deep in hypothetical thinking, magically trying to imagine outcomes to scenarios, inventing yet more scenarios and more outcomes and more ways to rise above, fight, be fit, and face these hypothetical outcomes and form.
And yet without meaning to what’s happening in the mind is that energetically these are all being given life to and born in your heart. And then your heat-seeking missile that attempts to through even forgiveness circumvent the outcomes and form that you imagine are the subsequent to the cause you have put forth. This is this is a a zero sum game. This is the generating that the ego does. And when we are feeling vulnerable and in fear, we are all the more prone to its thinking. And so if you want to be practical and if you want to be in any way, shape or form in your mind prepared as if prepared means for future outcome. If you want to be prepared, then you must prepare the way now for him to take his place on the throne of your heart. That’s all you need do.
There’s no other activity, no convoluted thinking in mind, no magical imaginings, no physical futureproofing to protect a body or a house or a home. And if we could take a moment now to practically pull back to draw deep into the mind that we share that one mind experience without the perception of separate interests. And as we sink deeper into that one will that we share with God, we can rest assured that our function has not changed. Our singular function for forgiveness to use forgiveness as the means by which all things are seen as the same. And from sameness comes sness. And our sanity is the most beautiful, clear, bright gift we could give the whole universe right now. And it requires nothing of us that we cannot do. For it only asks us to move over a little and make space to welcome this invited guest to come into our hearts and minds and very gently live through us. And no matter where you appear to be on the planet, no matter your seeming circumstances or what is before you in your life, this is the service that you can offer the whole universe.
First and foremost, this is the service you can offer yourself to restore awareness of peace exactly as it is to not be deceived by the Maya and illusion of fluctuating form and to follow him who knows what’s best for all in every seeming circumstances.
If you’ve been finding the cleverness ramping up in your mind and seeking for solution and form where there is none, do not feel ashamed. It is a very natural and expected avenue to pursue because we want to be “ready.” We want to be “good.” We want to be “chosen.” We want to be on board with “what is.” Even from a forgiveness point of view, even from the point of view of acceptance that perhaps you think the world is going to pot, going to go to hell in a handbag.
And you in your little heart have this intensely devoted attitude that you want to be good with that. You want to be “good with taking the hit” even as the world turns and changes. Even when you secretly fear that your little self-concept as you’ve known yourself to be may be at risk, or other little bodies that you love may be threatened in some way, or that just seeming daily life might shift from what you’ve known it to be.
And yes, we are going deeper into the unknown. And yet what has been issued is a clarion call of invitation of welcome, of divine timing that now, now is the perfect moment to open to that welcome. And to allow that gentle beautiful presence to become a greater part of your life.
This is the level of intimacy you’ve been longing for your whole life!
It doesn’t involve people, or places, or things. You need make no declarations of what you’re doing and what you’re about. It is a quiet, yielding to awareness of Love’s Presence. And as that Presence melts like liquid gold into your Being, it has nothing it wants from you—only your blessing to come and be. And to lay by your arms by which you have defended your idea of yourself, and others and this world for so long.
You are birthing a new age, and by your invitation it is Guided and Led by One who is Beloved.
That’s what makes this…
[EDITORS NOTE Sarah goes into a mystical experience here and is quiet for a long while… the spaces between the following words were also elongated so we edited the audio to maintain the rhythm, but reduce the gaps.]
And yet, even as I make this recording, I can feel what people are now describing as timelines shifting back and forth amongst what is desired and what is rejected and what is wanted and what is not. And yet all the while I can feel peace, soft like a bright note singing beneath the murkiness. And the more now, you can take pauses in what you are doing, or trying to do or think you should be doing, and to sit for a moment, and let that all just drop away and say, “I welcome You in. I would have you teach me of my Self. You are my Welcome Guest and I am aware you bring nothing but blessings. And I am aware that by simply bringing to the surface any apprehension or disquiet that arises in my mind, you can gently look with me at it until we are both belly laughing at the idea that You could be other than what I Am. That you could have a sense of humor other than what I have. That you could be something I have to attain rather than something I need to Remember.
And when you find yourself reunited and Beloved once more, then hold this experience as the most Real and practical thing in your life. When others lean in and ask you questions, that are not real questions, laced with doubt and fear and interpolation, introduce them to your Welcome Guest.
And in their own delight, at the sparkle in your eyes, they will find igniting within their own Self the spark and sparkle of the One Who Loves them.
And this is how we share the Good News! By simply allowing it to be effervescent in our lives. It’s not about what you do or what you say. And even what you think may still have a tempo that seems more aligned with the ego than it does with Presence, and yet in your new found attraction and draw to that Presence, that Small Still Voice. Your awareness, and your draw to the fire will keep having you brought back to that warm glow.
So it is time now to detach from energizing—by your focus and your attention—anything that does not serve you. And to come into quiet moments of Being; drinking a cup of tea, sitting in the garden, bare feet on the grass, walking down the street, watching the street lights come on as the evening light dims. Sitting by the ocean, watching the waves pounding or dribbling in, lapping up against the shore, encouraging, reminding, and Calling you Home.
So wherever you find your “steadiness” in form, allow it also to be a reminder, and an amplification of the Friend within. When you are stroking your pet, when you are feeding your children, when you are kissing them good night, when you are in the arms of your beloved, or you are at the other end of a phone and in a fight—allow any attempt at communication, to be turned into true Communion, and a remembrance of Who You Are and Who They Are!
And if we can sink deeper into this “prayer of quietude,” * and discover this “interior castle” ** of delight, and comfort, and quiet and allow it to become more real to us than the activities that are flowing through our fingers, or the words that are emitting from our mouth, or the kiss that is landing on our forehead. If we can allow all things to be done through us without judgment, without shame, without blame, without cause that is feared. Then we shall be—no matter where we are, or what we are doing or what it seems to be for in the world’s terms—we shall be an envoy of love, a messenger of peace, and a minister of God.
And there is much ministering now to do.
First it must be in your “own mind” as you experience it to be. To allow yourself to be supremely led to that quiet. Don’t wait for the heightened emotional moments. Become habituated to this inner dwelling, this temple of the Holy Spirit, this tabernacle of a relationship with God and allow yourself to be warmly welcomed.
It is not your job to take care of a hypothetical future. You couldn’t possibly know what would be truly helpful, nor are you meant to. Good little children are in the moment. They are not ahead of their parents. They are snuggled in and safe in the knowledge that if there is something they need to know, somewhere they need to go or something they need to see, they will be shown.
That trust is now essential!
And if you allow yourself to be unwound from the world of mesmerism and outcomes and form, you will see that the power of your mind is very strong. And when you withdraw energetic investment in anything that distresses you, and amplifies illusion, and multiplies hypothetical thinking, you realize:
“I have no need of that. That does not bring me comfort or peace at all. That does not leave me prepared for this hypothetical future which they are trying to force fear upon. It leaves me in fact disabled, because I am no longer centered in the peace and ground of my Being. I am already out on limb and flailing and nothing is currently happening!”
Remember, there is no future that we are afraid of! The fear is of a present and growing intimacy. A presence that is commanding our attention and is coming in close to hold us dear. All of the mechanization of the mind that’s occurring is to escape that one intimate kiss with the Beloved. That one Communion moment that transcends all communication, contrivance, compromise, and complicity with the ego. You can just be relieved.
So let us instead turn our face, our flush cheeks towards the intimacy that is now offered, and instead of saving it for a future fear moment where we try to arm ourselves to be prepared, recognize that what we thought we must fear, was not our thought at all! The thought of fear, not even the ideas surrounding it, the simple thought that there could be something to fear, is obviously an alien thought! And this alien will is not your friend, nor does it have any power over you!
If there was one thing that would be helpful to remember today, it is that “I have no need of this” and mean it. I have no need of hypothetical futures where fear rules, and struggle is what I must endure. I choose instead right now to intimately turn inward, to allow the last breath of the old world to exhale from my body.
And with a new prayer to inhale the Breath of Life, for He has come!
This is the second coming of Christ and it is You in your heart giving Welcome.
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NOTES:
* The prayer of quietude is a form of contemplative prayer in Christian mysticism, particularly associated with Teresa of Ávila, where the will is peacefully absorbed in God while other faculties may remain active. It represents an early stage of infused contemplation, emphasizing inner stillness and divine connection.
—Wikipedia
**The Interior Castle is a spiritual classic written by St. Teresa of Avila, which describes the soul’s journey towards union with God through seven “mansions” or stages. Each mansion represents a different level of spiritual growth and intimacy with the Divine.
—ccel.org
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