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Jesus, Faith & Food Insecurity

EPISODE: Jesus, Faith & Food Insecurity 
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Recorded: May 23rd, 2026 Released: May 25th, 2026
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Jesus clarifies in Matthew 15:11 (KJV) “Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.” Here Sarah shares parables of putting this Clarity into practice in her life through following the Guidance of The Holy Spirit and learning to Trust that she can be shown “what is” Truly Helpful.

Also FYI Sarah was enjoying sunflower seeds, not eating actual birdseed as it may sound!

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PODCAST TRANSCRIPT: Jesus, Faith & Food Insecurity

Addressing a fear thought is not enabling it. Especially if you are coming with the clarity, and the love, and the comfort of the Holy Spirit to share that even this—that may in your mind be some kind of a “worst case scenario”—is not really what we are discussing.

It is the insecurity that we feel in every moment, in every day, but we have minimized it. And so when we focus it on something that seems larger, it in fact can offer release, rather than some kind of fulfillment of the fear.

This episode is a continuation of the episode titled: Let All Things Be.

And in this episode our focus is now firmly on Jesus Faith and Food Insecurity. Now, it may seem strange to focus on insecurity, but the basic insecurity in Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, of food, is fundamental also to faith, and where we place our faith.

And when it seems like there’s an order, and a hierarchy of needs, as Maslow suggests. Then we lose the blanket effectiveness of our faith in Jesus as our elder brother who’s instructed us and bridged that gap between our seeming self in a world of separation, and our true remembrance of our Identity in Christ.

And so let’s begin. Jesus says:

Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man;
but that which cometh out of the mouth,
this defileth a man.
Matthew 15:11 (KJV)

And when we look at that, what we understand is that it’s the thinking and the thoughts that a man holds that defileth his constitution, his integrity, his understanding of himself as a Holy Child of God.

And Jesus later, further down in the chapter, says:

Do not ye yet understand,
that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly,
and is cast out into the draught?
But those things which proceed out of the mouth
come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts,
murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
These are the things which defile a man:
but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.
Matthew 15:17-120 (KJV)

There’s also a caution against procedure. And procedure was very important to the people of Judea at the time. It was integral to their understanding of what kept them safe and sacred, as the Children of God. And so this was quite a departure for Jesus to advise the apostles as he sent them out two by two, to not be concerned so much, especially as they were in houses that were sometimes Jewish and sometimes of the Gentiles. But to witness to the welcome that was there for them. And any time there wasn’t a welcome to, to kick the sand off their sandals, and the dust off their shoes, and leave that town.

And when we focus on welcome as the witness to what we are Guided to do, things line up differently in the mind. It becomes more relaxing without the judgment that we’ve inherited, or learned or taught ourselves, that we’ve researched, that we’ve educated ourselves on. When we let go of the panoply of miseducation that we’ve complicated our life with, we can be restored to The Kingdom in Awareness. It is like being a dove as you’re sent out!

And Jesus has said: I am sending you out amongst the wolves.

Behold, I send you forth as sheep
in the midst of wolves:
be ye therefore wise as serpents,
and harmless as doves.
Matthew 10:16 (KJV)

But the wolves, even from what he shares there are really the attack thoughts in “the mind” against our Identity in Christ, and against our own understanding of ourselves and what keeps us safe.

And so this is a highly individualized path of awakening and unlearning the world. And you don’t want to metaphysically ghost or pretend to be ahead of wherever you are.

And yet, as you are stretching beyond the known, into “the unknown” of your own experience, you can keep an eye to witnessing to what Jesus advocates in this Bible chapter, in Matthew 15, because it has an effect way beyond food insecurity, food thoughts, or hygiene. It really is a witness to the level at which we experience and are involved in the world. And that is “the level of the mind” because the world is a projection of the deceived mind.

And our function while we appear to be in “time and space” is to be right minded in relation to what we are perceiving. To understand where these judgments are coming from, and the effect they have on our seeming self, and the seeming world we behold. And when we get in right relationship with ourselves, with our elder brother Jesus, with God and with the world, we become very gently funneled into a flow that is for us, it’s for Forgiveness. It is a pathway of Peace that is streamlined, and simple, and direct.

Now it may look, according to the theories of the world, pretty circuitous—because it is not following markers that are heavily emboldened with; striving, achieving, gathering, garnering, hoarding, fighting, finding and staying fit. It is of the moment! And so in relinquishing all of those bold achievements of time and space, and simply going forth as an envoy of peace. Simply showing-up, moment by moment in our own life—whatever is given for us, whatever our backdrop may look like—then we can witness to a life beyond judgment.

It is not that the judgment in the mind will cease entirely. It is simply that we will no longer be enthralled by it, and therefore we will no longer be captive to its constraints. In moment by moment relinquishing the judgment, by questioning it where we learned it, whether it’s love or fear based. And if it’s judgment and it’s not the judgment of the Holy Spirit, it will be fear based.

And so rather than trying “not to judge” which is actually impossible while you are in this (seeming) separated state, our call is to recognize that we do not wish to believe that the judgment is our own! We do not wish to attach or associate with it. And rather than pretending that the judgments are not present, we want again, like Jesus says: to leave the ego to me.

When you feel guilty,
remember that the ego has indeed violated the laws of God,
but you have not.
Leave the “sins” of the ego to me.
That is what Atonement is for.
A Course in Miracles (T-4.IV.5:1-3)

We want to hand over these judgments that we’re hearing in our mind, the fear thoughts we have about the world. And we want to be relieved of the suffering, that being attached to the “false cause and effect” of those judgments give us. Because this fear, and fear of outcomes, is what is controlling and crucifying your experience in the world.

There’s a capital J when it comes to the judgment of the Holy Spirit. And if you trust in the Holy Spirit’s judgment, as a good friend of mine once said: I’m not in control, but I’m deeply loved by one Who Is and knows what’s best for all in every circumstance! When we accept that capital J judgment, capital J, Jesus as our Brother, and the Holy Spirit as the Comforter and Guide, then we are no longer foisting on form “salvation.” It is not going to be in the next medication, it is not going to be in the next bite of food. It is not going to be in the quenching of that thirst we had for water. It is not going to be in a home, or in a shelter, or when it rains, or when the sun shines.

It is going to be always found consistently in the same place. And that is in our Faith and Trust in Who we are being shown that We Truly Are. And by our desire to discover—the discoveries of the Holy Spirit—discover Who We Are, and have that as a real and visceral experience in our lives.

And the question is, “Does it feed you, this backdrop that you have? Are you really tuned into the Guidance that is for you?” Does it feed you? Because that’s the way to make everything into manna from Heaven have a singular purpose of Forgiveness, “for” everything that you perceive of time and space. Remember, the tenth characteristic of a teacher of God is “Open Mindedness.”

And so when we hold an attitude of Forgiveness as our slide rule for everything we look upon, we turn with that singular purpose for everything. We turn what used to be cleverness into a desire for clarity. And so what used to be a split devotion, of trying to “overcome” the world and also be “at one” with Jesus. Turns to Accepting the Atonement for ourselves, it now becomes a singular devotion.

It is the end of multitasking because you can’t serve two masters!

No man can serve two masters:
for either he will hate the one, and love the other;
or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other.
Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Matthew 6:24 (KJV)

And in this case, “mammon” is what serves the “self-concept.” It may be referred to as money, or power, or things of time and space (some form of power) but it is really the self-concept. You cannot serve the self-concept and serve your Identity in Christ—you cannot serve the Awakening Mind.

And when you understand that split devotion is the Call for Love in the deceived mind, that is when we are wrong minded and that what we need to swap out is our split devotion for a singular devotion, you can hold at once the duality of “wanting this” and “wanting that.”

And yet in releasing and relinquishing the bind that is the judgment between two things that both seem to be love, which is a trauma, and handing over the capital J judgment to the Holy Spirit, the one who loves you and knows what’s best for all in every circumstances, then what is truly helpful in the moment can be made clear. Without you trying to decide between two things in form.

And so the joy of joining with The Comforter in this way allows us to proceed effortlessly through time and space. Because we are no longer evaluating this and that. We are no longer deciding between things in form. We are deciding simply to be with Love and the Holy Spirit! And everything else drops away like a small child following its mother. It is a natural focus on “do only that.”

And in following and doing only that of the Holy Spirit. All the world of time and space that was possibly against you, or maleficent in some way fades, because your focus is so supremely on the “do only that” and the following of the Holy Spirit. And that is what keeps the mind “safe.”

If you are ever in a moment and you’re wondering: what keeps the mind safe? And you believe you can’t hear the Holy Spirit, then the simplest answer will inevitably be it the Spirit’s Answer. And so if you start from that first principle of that “you don’t know” and “you don’t understand” but you can be shown, because that is your desire. Because you have a singular desire for peace, then everything can be made very clear for you. And if you have a desire for something other than peace, and let’s keep it with Maslow and his hierarchy of needs, keep it very simple, you have a desire to survive, and you have a desire for peace.

That’s a split desire. However, the desire for peace contains everything that could seem to be needed in time and space. And so in handing over all other desires—as fundamental as they may appear and as reasonable as they may appear, and as entitled as we may feel to them—even if the courts of human rights says we are entitled to them. We are “entitled to miracles.” And in order to be in a miracle state of mind, we must hand over those other desires, vital as they appear, in order to be in the flow, so that peace is our constant and consistent experience.

Within Peace, “The Peace of God” contains everything I want. “Forgiveness offers everything I want” is: food, shelter, clothing, housing, friends, family, love, affection. It is all contained within the Peace of God. And it’s only the misunderstanding of what the Peace of God is. Because if it is total wholeness and complete and utter contentment, then it can be expressed in any of those seeming “other” desires. They can all contain the Peace of God, because that is the highest octave of experience that you can have in this world is the Peace of God. In fact, it is Heaven when you are in, when you are in The Peace of God. The peace that passeth understanding. Yet you must be clear on what it is you are asking for in order to, without sacrifice, hand over the “other” often competing and conflicting desires that you would have. They must be relinquished in priority to Peace.

It is not that you can’t have the preference, but they must be relinquished in priority. And Peace must be your purest preference. And if you understand truly that the only reason you wanted any of those other desires was to eventually come full circle into this present experience of peace, then you see you are relinquishing nothing.

“What did you want that well fed meal for?”
Well, to imagine myself at the end of it feeling satisfied and peaceful!

And so when the focus is on the feeling that you desire, then it is not confused by the form. And the Spirit in fact can use any available form, to bring the experience to you, because you have now relinquished your judgment, and your assessment of “what” is needed. And in forgetting “the things you think you need” the highest prayer of your heart can be more easily Answered. And so it becomes an experience of desire fulfillment again and again and again. It’s a very convincing hit after hit after hit of like an flow into an ecstasy of continual fulfillment, because you’re in fulfillment of and Acceptance of your Identity in Christ.

Now, instead of your preference, occasionally being given, everything is your preference because your preference is continually for Peace.

The secret of true prayer
is to forget the things you think you need.
To ask for the specific is much the same as
to look on sin and then forgive it.
Also in the same way,
in prayer you overlook your specific needs as you see them,
and let them go into God’s Hands.
There they become your gifts to Him,
for they tell Him that you would have
no gods before Him; no love but His.
—ACIM Song of Prayer (S-1.I.4:1-4)

So when we talk about food insecurity, when we talk about basic needs being met, or apparently not being met, this is really where the rubber meets the road. And this is actually really what we’re talking about. We’re talking about, do you want the food on that plate, or do you want the experience that you hope the food on that plate will give you? And so I’m not saying to choose between a plate of food or an empty plate. I’m advocating that we listen to the Holy Spirit and our brother Jesus, and we choose the fulfillment of the experience that’s being offered to us continuously. And if in that moment, the portal to Peace involves a plate of food, then it will be freely Given and it will have no contaminant, and it will have no adverse effects, and we need not be afraid of it. And I found several times in my own life that I’ve had to make that decision.

The first time was when I worked at a hospital while I was studying counseling psychology.
And I worked in the kitchens, and there were some rooms that I noticed nobody was going into.

And I said, “What’s the story with room 13?” And I was told, “Oh, you can just go in the door and leave the tray. You don’t have to go into the room. Because they’re in isolation—because they’ve got tuberculosis. And I said, “Oh, okay, yeah.” She [the nurse] said, “You can just. You don’t. Don’t worry about it. You can just slip it in, Slip that tray in. There’s a little thing inside the door, and you can just do that.”

Now, I was already A Course in Miracles student, and I had been on this ward all day, and I’d noticed nobody going into that room, which I was okay with because, you know, I’m kind of naturally a hermit, and “alone time” doesn’t frighten me. But every other door was open, and every other door had visitors or people coming in, giving them cups of tea, like the people that I was working with. And something just felt really wrong about it.

And so there was a mask and gloves and everything for the room. And I remember feeling that I was to go in and I was to serve the person exactly like everyone else was served. Now this was not, not allowed. But I put on all of the cleaning gear that we would use to clean that room when the patient was no longer there to go in and serve the lunch. And I brought it over and they [the patient] were like, “It’s okay, you don’t have to come in. I know you don’t want to. Don’t worry about it.” And I said, I’m not worried about it. And I wasn’t. And I come over and put it on the table and serve them exactly the way I would serve anyone else. Because I really felt called to. I also wouldn’t have felt ashamed if I was Guided not to do that, if I was Guided to just put the tray in the door and smile at them as I closed it. But I really felt called to go in and serve it to them.

And I remember the attack thought in the mind saying, oh, you could give yourself tuberculosis now. And you know how bad that is. You’ve seen all those movies of all those saints, those black and white movies, they’re always getting sick with tuberculosis. But it felt, and I can’t even remember or recall the patient in that moment somehow very important to do this for myself. Actually it wasn’t for them. It wasn’t false empathy, it wasn’t, they need this from me or they’ll feel bad. It was a genuine feeling of I don’t want to, I want to experience myself as being under no laws but gods. And it resulted in a very wholehearted encounter with. Without much chatter or anything, but it was so joyful. And I remember coming out of there, doing my proper ablutions and taking off all of the masks and all the things I had to put on and just feeling amazing and genuinely feeling like I was under no laws but gods. The thing is, I would have felt I was under no laws but gods, even if I got tb. The point is not whether you get fed or ill. The point is the freedom in the mind and the release into an experience of not being this self concept. That’s actually the point.

And I had another opportunity like that, except it was of a more social construct. When I was doing aid work in a country that is just to the east of Ukraine that some of you might have heard of called Belarus. And there was an aid convoy where they drove across Eastern Europe from Ireland and they brought all the food that the volunteers would need, because this was in the catchment area of the Chernobyl meltdown. And so we were told and instructed, “Do not eat any of the food when you go there. Alcohol is okay because it’s been distilled and doesn’t come from this area and is bottled, but don’t eat anything.”

So I was there and got friendly with somebody who lived on the grounds, and had their own little house nearby, it was one of the teachers, and they invited me for dinner. And I went with a friend of mine who was also doing this aid work in the orphanage for the children. And I sat there and on this beautifully laid out table, in this very simple and pretty little home, there was homegrown tomatoes, there was salads, there was everything we had been told not to touch. And I sat there and I thought, what is worse, to reject what this person has to eat themselves every single day, or to join them in the truth of how wonderful it is to meet companions, to invite friends into your home to celebrate together, to have faith and trust in one another, that The Spirit has sent you?

And I had to make the decision and. And I sat there and I looked at the tomatoes in particular, and I thought, “I want to see this differently. I don’t want to see it as the produce of a garden that comes in a chain of false cause and effect all the way from Chernobyl.” And so I decided, because I recalled the story of Jesus sending the apostles out. I recalled the story of having faith and eating whatever was Given. This is when I very first got the Course. And I just really thought, that’s just how I want to be. I just want to be like Jesus said. And in truth, “under no laws but God’s.”

And we had the most amazing meal and the most amazing evening together, full of total joy, where these people were so grateful and hopeful for their futures because of the work that we’d done to take care of the local community as well as the orphanage. In fact, what had started to happen was the orphanage had been so well taken care of, that instead of there being a disparity between the orphanage and the local people, the local people were now feeling envious of and confused by the care that was being taken of the children because they were living in such poverty. This is when Belarus was still independent, and now it’s part of Russia.

So while we were there, we were also helping with adoptions for lots of the children, especially ones who needed a lot of work done for their teeth or in hospitals or different things like that. They would go for vacations to Ireland, have their medical treatments taken care of, and then come back. And when we were there, we learned that what happened for most children was that there was two expectations. The boys would go into the army, and the girls would become sex workers. And those were the only two expectations. Unless somehow the girls got married. There was no expectation for work in any shape or form.

And at the time, I didn’t speak the language. My interpreter was six. She was absolutely fluent. She was amazing. And she followed me around everywhere and would translate for me so I could play with the children or talk to people. And I had so many holy encounters with all these children of all different ages. I felt that my function was to be there in respect and honor of who they were and what was possible in that moment. And that a future moment that seemed to condemn what could or would happen to them was not the way I should be relating to them through that filter, I felt was inappropriate for the function I had in being present with them.

And I also realized pretty quickly that the people that needed the most help were the volunteers that were “helping” these children. Because the majority of them, in one shape or form—and I watched this for myself too—were offsetting some sense of guilt in the mind whereby they felt bad about something and they could make up for it here. You know, all old style atonement!

And the Spirit will take everything. The spirit will take all offers of help and support and, and then try and transform that experience for the mind to open. And yet it was very interesting because I was looking at children who I was encountering on a daily basis, who I had been told had no future. And if I had put my focus on that, as many of the volunteers did, they were very despondent during their entire time there was in fact, they would have to go to bed early or sequester themselves because of the deep emotions they were all going through. They actually didn’t have the energy as much to do the work they were supposed to do or the enthusiasm to be joining with the children because they were so overwhelmed by the ideas they had in place with what would happen in this future.

And so I had a real experience that it really was not just what went into the mouth that defiled, but what came out of the mouth that defiled. It was that thinking that was being held about the children and their potential future. And it was clouding and it was defiling the experience of the volunteers and therefore the children that they were interacting with. And even though the country then got taken over and all the adoptions got stopped that were in place by the new government. In my mind, I recognized and realized how important it was to be with those children and be with myself. In the reality of the moment. In the reality of the moment, everybody was well fed. In the reality of the moment, everybody was well taken care of. In the reality of the moment, we were very much enjoying each other’s company. And an experience such as that for myself, because I offered it to myself as well as the children and the other volunteers who, like I said, were becoming overwhelmed at times, in offering that true relationship and true experience, I couldn’t help but feel that that would offer a transcendent experience, no matter what was to be faced by any of us in a seeming hypothetical future, by myself or by the children.

And I would say that I gained way more from the experience of going there and being in that environment, because since I was a small child, I had felt a lot of fear around Chernobyl.

I had been trained how to deal with nuclear meltdowns since I was very small, because Dublin is right across the water, less than 20 miles from Salafield, which is a nuclear UK facility.

And so when the nuclear reactor melted down in Belarus, it brought up a lot of fear for me. And I felt this huge kinship with everyone who was affected there, and all the nature and the plants and the in perpetuity nature of the seeming destruction.

And then to be here, just like on the edge of the Zone, in this beautiful place that outwardly didn’t seem to have now, any years and years later, any visible effects, that there was a problem, it didn’t feel right to keep reminding myself of the problem on a constant basis.

And so this story has come to my mind again recently because of my lovely rancher that I mentioned in the last episode talking about food insecurity and the fact that she said, someone who does everything organically, then saying the food is poisoned because of the sprays that are put on top of the food, or, you know, that it’s going moldy underneath the protection of the antimicrobials, that the food’s rotting inside, even though it looks fine on the outside, it doesn’t really matter. I’m just very much living in remembering of those two different instances, one in the hospital and one with the children in Belarus. And I feel overall that our focus needs to be firmly on “the world we want” and not on the world we don’t. And to follow Guidance and whatever you’re Guided to do and whatever you’re Guided to eat wherever you’re Guided to be and whomever you’re Guided to be with is vital. It’s vital for your mind. It’s vital because while you believe yourself to be the active agent in the world that’s perfect protecting or supporting your well being, this is the way in which you can slowly relinquish that belief in control and actually truly be done through and under Christ’s control.

And I recently for myself, came to that fork in the road. So when you come to that fork in the road for yourself, perhaps you’ll remember this conversation with me and you’ll be able to look through the podcasts and find this one to listen to again. And I recently came to this fork in the road practically for myself. I was in a remote place and all the food appeared to be gone and I had no transport. And somehow I felt like this wasn’t going to be a problem. It was a very strange experience. I’d been following guidance, doing everything I was told, and there was this feeling of letting go, of making provision for myself. And the next thing was, I opened the door one day and someone had left eggs outside.

I was like, oh my gosh, isn’t that lovely? Because with the eggs and the butter that I had, and, you know, it was perfect, I could make eggs. And I’d started opening up to eating, eating the butter on its own, which was fun. But very strange things started happening. Like food started appearing. Like I would suddenly find, you know, a bag of beans and I’m like, I don’t even know where these came from. Or I had eaten just about everything and cleaned the cupboards before, you know, because I would be leaving in a few weeks and I was sure I knew what everything that was there was. And then I remembered I’d put some as bird seed, old seeds to one side for the birds when they would come back for the spring, because there was very little around for the winter. And I took them out and they were out of date. And I thought, I’ll toast these. And so every day for a week and a half to two weeks, I just had a cup of seeds a day.

Well, a half a cup of seeds a day. And I would toast them with some, some sea salt that I had. And I would look forward all day to this. I had some lemon juice left and I had a dropper. This again is what kept reminding me of the children. I had a dropper of iodine from kelp. And I was like, well, this is what I have. And I discovered that if you put a dropper of iodine from kelp and lemon juice. And some sea salt. And you put it in the freezer. And you make it slightly crystalline. It’s very, very tasty. And so that’s what I had every day. Because that’s what I had.

“…your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.”
—Luke 12:30 (KJV

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“…for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.”
—Matthew 6:32 (KJV

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The experience was so abundant. I’ve been very well taken care of in my life. And I can’t explain to you just how much more abundant this felt. It was incredible. Every day it felt like this was exactly where I was supposed to be. And exactly what I was supposed to be doing. There was absolutely no deprivation. And what it showed me was that it was in the renewing of my mind. During this hermitage period. And the relinquishment of the idea that I knew what I needed. And to not try and falsely make provision for myself. Beyond what the Spirit Guided me to do initially, I was two months on my own.

It felt so amazing. It felt so incredible. And it really relieved me of the belief that I could suffer. When ideas of nutrition and value and support. And being cared for. Were shifting in the world. And it’s what’s led me to talk with you today. Because I feel that it’s much easier to begin to face these ideas. When we seemingly have everything we need. Like I had over years and years and years with the Spirit. Questioning the need. While being grateful, and in gratitude, and deep appreciation for what I had. And also associating the having with the Spirit. Rather than by my own hand. So that on the days when it didn’t seem that I had it by my own hand. I didn’t feel deprived, or beat myself up as if I should have. And it’s my own fault that I don’t.

And that’s really what I would want for all of us. I just would really want us to have that experience. The experience that this is our own mind. And that it is in the renewing of our mind. And that everything is coming towards us. Or seemingly departing in order to support the renewal of the mind. And the strengthening of that faith. And that is why I’ve titled this “Jesus, Faith & Food Insecurity.” Not so that you will feel insecure, and start thinking fear thoughts about your future. But so that you can now, in your present abundance, come into an understanding and appreciation of what you truly need! And allow the Peace of God to be your one goal.

What I discovered during this time was that the insecurity was within me:
It wasn’t in “food.”
It wasn’t in “form.”
It wasn’t in a “future” thought even.

If there was any insecurity, it was my lack of Faith that “I”was truly cared for, and Beloved!

And in moving into the Guidance of what was Given, moment by moment for me, and not trying to future proof things, I was given a gateway to an experience of genuine comfort and conforming that “the mind that was in Christ Jesus” was also in me.

“Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
But made himself of no reputation,
and took upon him the form of a servant,
and was made in the likeness of men.”
Philippians 2:5-7 (KJV)

Sarah reads ACIM Lesson 151

All things are echoes of the Voice for God.

1. No one can judge on partial evidence. ²That is not judgment. ³It is merely an opinion based on ignorance and doubt. ⁴Its seeming certainty is but a cloak for the uncertainty it would conceal. ⁵It needs irrational defense because it is irrational. ⁶And its defense seems strong, convincing, and without a doubt because of all the doubting underneath.

2. You do not seem to doubt the world you see. ²You do not really question what is shown you through the body’s eyes. ³Nor do you ask why you believe it, even though you learned a long while since your senses do deceive. ⁴That you believe them to the last detail which they report is even stranger, when you pause to recollect how frequently they have been faulty witnesses indeed! ⁵Why would you trust them so implicitly? ⁶Why but because of underlying doubt, which you would hide with show of certainty?

3. How can you judge? ²Your judgment rests upon the witness that your senses offer you. ³Yet witness never falser was than this. ⁴But how else do you judge the world you see? ⁵You place pathetic faith in what your eyes and ears report. ⁶You think your fingers touch reality, and close upon the truth. ⁷This is awareness that you understand, and think more real than what is witnessed to by the eternal Voice for God Himself.

4. Can this be judgment? ²You have often been urged to refrain from judging, not because it is a right to be withheld from you. ³You cannot judge. ⁴You merely can believe the ego’s judgments, all of which are false. ⁵It guides your senses carefully, to prove how weak you are; how helpless and afraid, how apprehensive of just punishment, how black with sin, how wretched in your guilt.

5. This thing it speaks of, and would yet defend, it tells you is yourself. ²And you believe that this is so with stubborn certainty. ³Yet underneath remains the hidden doubt that what it shows you as reality with such conviction it does not believe. ⁴It is itself alone that it condemns. ⁵It is within itself it sees the guilt. ⁶It is its own despair it sees in you.

6. Hear not its voice. ²The witnesses it sends to prove to you its evil is your own are false, and speak with certainty of what they do not know. ³Your faith in them is blind because you would not share the doubts their lord can not completely vanquish. ⁴You believe to doubt his vassals is to doubt yourself.

7. Yet you must learn to doubt their evidence will clear the way to recognize yourself, and let the Voice for God alone be Judge of what is worthy of your own belief. ²He will not tell you that your brother should be judged by what your eyes behold in him, nor what his body’s mouth says to your ears, nor what your fingers’ touch reports of him. ³He passes by such idle witnesses, which merely bear false witness to God’s Son. ⁴He recognizes only what God loves, and in the holy light of what He sees do all the ego’s dreams of what you are vanish before the splendor He beholds.

8. Let Him be Judge of what you are, for He has certainty in which there is no doubt, because it rests on Certainty so great that doubt is meaningless before Its face. ²Christ cannot doubt Himself. ³The Voice for God can only honor Him, rejoicing in His perfect, everlasting sinlessness. ⁴Whom He has judged can only laugh at guilt, unwilling now to play with toys of sin; unheeding of the body’s witnesses before the rapture of Christ’s holy face.

9. And thus He judges you. ²Accept His Word for what you are, for He bears witness to your beautiful creation, and the Mind Whose Thought created your reality. ³What can the body mean to Him Who knows the glory of the Father and the Son? ⁴What whispers of the ego can He hear? ⁵What could convince Him that your sins are real? ⁶Let Him be Judge as well of everything that seems to happen to you in this world. ⁷His lessons will enable you to bridge the gap between illusions and the truth.

10. He will remove all faith that you have placed in pain, disaster, suffering and loss. ²He gives you vision which can look beyond these grim appearances, and can behold the gentle face of Christ in all of them. ³You will no longer doubt that only good can come to you who are beloved of God, for He will judge all happenings, and teach the single lesson that they all contain.

11. He will select the elements in them which represent the truth, and disregard those aspects which reflect but idle dreams. ²And He will reinterpret all you see, and all occurrences, each circumstance, and every happening that seems to touch on you in any way from His one frame of reference, wholly unified and sure. ³And you will see the love beyond the hate, the constancy in change, the pure in sin, and only Heaven’s blessing on the world.

12. Such is your resurrection, for your life is not a part of anything you see. ²It stands beyond the body and the world, past every witness for unholiness, within the Holy, holy as Itself. ³In everyone and everything His Voice would speak to you of nothing but your Self and your Creator, Who is one with Him. ⁴So will you see the holy face of Christ in everything, and hear in everything no sound except the echo of God’s Voice.

13. We practice wordlessly today, except at the beginning of the time we spend with God. ²We introduce these times with but a single, slow repeating of the thought with which the day begins. ³And then we watch our thoughts, appealing silently to Him Who sees the elements of truth in them. ⁴Let Him evaluate each thought that comes to mind, remove the elements of dreams, and give them back again as clean ideas that do not contradict the Will of God.

14. Give Him your thoughts, and He will give them back as miracles which joyously proclaim the wholeness and the happiness God wills His Son, as proof of His eternal Love. ²And as each thought is thus transformed, it takes on healing power from the Mind which saw the truth in it, and failed to be deceived by what was falsely added. ³All the threads of fantasy are gone. ⁴And what remains is unified into a perfect Thought that offers its perfection everywhere.

15. Spend fifteen minutes thus when you awake, and gladly give another fifteen more before you go to sleep. ²Your ministry begins as all your thoughts are purified. ³So are you taught to teach the Son of God the holy lesson of his sanctity. ⁴No one can fail to listen, when you hear the Voice for God give honor to God’s Son. ⁵And everyone will share the thoughts with you which He has retranslated in your mind.

16. Such is your Eastertide. ²And so you lay the gift of snow-white lilies on the world, replacing witnesses to sin and death. ³Through your transfiguration is the world redeemed, and joyfully released from guilt. ⁴Now do we lift our resurrected minds in gladness and in gratitude to Him Who has restored our sanity to us.

17. And we will hourly remember Him Who is salvation and deliverance. ²As we give thanks, the world unites with us and happily accepts our holy thoughts, which Heaven has corrected and made pure. ³Now has our ministry begun at last, to carry round the world the joyous news that truth has no illusions, and the peace of God, through us, belongs to everyone.

A Course in Miracles (W-151)

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ADDITIONAL REFERENCES

Matthew 6:25-33 (KJV)

“Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.”
Matthew 6:25-33 KJV 
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Luke 12:22-31 (KJV)

“And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on. The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment. Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls? And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit? If ye then be not able to do that thing which is least, why take ye thought for the rest? Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. If then God so clothe the grass, which is to day in the field, and to morrow is cast into the oven; how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith? And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind. For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things. But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you.”
Luke 12:22-31 (KJV)

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