What you are..is.."so holy..and so beautiful..that..if I saw it,
I could scarce refrain..from kneeling..at[your]feet."
we_are..all so unique..

That's..an awesome..statement,..isn't it?

Yet..that is our reality.
That is..*what we all..are.

The tradition..of Christmas is often,..,
filled..with expressions of awe..that Good..should come to dwell with/..in mankind;

exclamations of amazement..and wonder
at the incredible significance..of what was in
that..tiny child,..lying in a manger....YET..lies..within_us..*all

"Joy..to the world!...The Lord..is one!...EVERY-one"
"Silent night!..Holy night!

Sun..of God,..Love's..pure Light!"

"O holy night!..oh the darkness gone..…
O night..when Christ..*in us..was born!"

I think what Jesus..is suggesting to us
in this passage..about his birth..

of an altar..into holiness..is that all
of that..awe,..all..of that wonder,..wonder for all..

all..of that breathtaking_glory..that righfully belongs..to thee..*with-in us..all!

For we are..the birth-place of..*Christ..within.
What traditionally is seen..as having taken shape
with-in..that material-baby..in a manger..

is actually taking shape..
within..each and every one of us....all the time..

within gods..ever living/loving..now...moment..
Christ is born..too..in me...Hallelujah!

Demonstrating.,.that He Lives..in Us
What does it mean..to have Jesus..reborn..in us?

Well,..it isn't like..the reincarnation..of some Tibetan-Lama
in a young boy..in Seattle..(a story told..in a recent movie);

it doesn't mean..that all of us are..(or become),..in some literal sense,..the re-incarnation..of Jesus...

Yet in a figurative sense,..that is exactly..what it means:

In our lives,..in our thinking,..in our behavior,
in our compassion,..in our kindness,..in our forgiveness,
and most of all,..in our love,..

we can reproduce..or.."reincarnate"..christ..within.

We become..what he was,..a human being.."who remembered..his..*spirit..inheritance..its knowledge"
and the need..for its application..into everday living...(T-3.IV.7:3),

and..who.."saw the face..of Christ
in all..his others..and remembered God"
saw god in him...

see me see my father..sustaining..the goods..of life..(C-5.2:1).

Teach not..that I died..in vain.
Teach rather..that I did not die..by demonstrating..that I live..in you..(T-11.VI.7:3-4).


christ..is reborn in us..when we remember..*WE ARE..spirit.
Jesus is reborn..in us..when we remember..*God lives..in our heart.

We remember God..by choosing,to DO..as Jesus chose,to do..good

to see..the face of Christ..in all our others.

Those words,.."demonstrating..that I live..in you,"..never fail to move me.

They awaken..a deep longing...in my heart,..
a longing..that the apparently..ordinary events..and encounters,
of my daily life..would become ways..of demonstrating..that he..the ALL/lives..in me...and thee..

[Deleted. Looking at the thread it is apparent that One Under God has been flouting the word limits so I have suspended him for a month.]

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Yet..you will take..his love..and express that hidden..[unseen]..
from the minds-eye..[image]..hidden/within..using your hand..and make it seen..

instead of,..the good..being unseen...the unseen becomes seen

for you..are like..your father..in the sight..that the mind/sees..
it creates..that..unseen..into that seen..by the will..that say's..be..and is..[see?]

see him thus..
not alone..within..
and..not only...without..
but the means..and the way..of things..becoming..being/seen..(W-pI.161.9:1-4).

Many years ago,..Charles Sheldon..wrote,..a book of inspiration,..titled,.."What..Would Jesus Do?"

It told..of a man..who decided..to ask himself
that..deceptively simple question..in every situation..of his life.

It seemed..an innocuous decision,..and yet it revolutionized his life.

In A Course in Miracles,..Jesus makes..a similar suggestion..to us.

He suggests..that we go through our days..asking the Holy Spirit,
"What would You..have me do?..Where would..You..have me go?

What would You..have me say,..and to whom?"..how?(W-pI.79.9:3-5)

We are told..that the Holy-Spirit,..the Voice for Good,..can direct our every step:

"Seeing your strengths..exactly as they are,
and equally aware..of where/how..they can be best applied,
for what,..to whom..and when,..He chooses and accepts..your part..for you"..

and you chose the part..
even..can refuse..to play any part..and he loves you still..(W-pI.154.2:2).

Jesus tells us..that he is our model..for learning.
that learning..is the aim of teaching...
the teachers learning..is the teaching..

If we are to demonstrate..that he lives in us,..
we must live..to the good..as he did.

be the light..living..
not the darkness obsuring..that good/true..

He says,

"I have enjoined you..to the one..within you
enjoin you..to behave..[do]..as I behaved..[to do]..,that of the good
but we must respond..to the same good..within Mind..and..h-ear-t..to do this

This Mind..is the Holy Spirit,..
Whose Will..is for the Good..always...good.."(T-5.II.12:1-2).

So the way we learn..to be/have/do..as he behaved/did/does..is
to listen to the same Voice,..to decide,that good..as he did,

..to hear only..the good..of the Holy-Spirit...
that the good..be done..and seen to be done well

If we listen..only to the judgment..
of the un-Holy..Spirit's,

we will ever condemn..one another..
or perceive sin..in one...and..another;
and this..is not the way of it...is not the truth...[not good]

anything not true..is not real..
unless we make it real..

[we give it reality..
to that..we decide to..bring into reality..]..[do]

when we..will to see..the face of Christ,..in neighbour
which symbolizes the innocence..of a Sun of Good.

It is our forgiveness..of our sisters and brothers
that demonstates..that Jesus lives..in us.

Just as he..did not perceive attack..even..in those who crucified him,

we—if we listen..to the same Voice..Jesus listened to..will see only the innocence,

only the call..for love,..in those..who seemingly attack us.
Demonstrating that he lives..in us..is but..one way..we can celebrate his birth.

by..Becoming the Manifestation of good..of the Holy Spirit

You are..His manifestation..in this world.

Your FATHER calls to you..to be His Voice..without..along with him..who attends that within.

Alone..we cannot be..the Helper of God's Son..for he..alone is functionless.
But joined with you..he is the shining Savior..of the world,..Whose part in its redemption you have made complete..(C-6.5:1-4).


We honor Jesus..by becoming..like him.

The great significance..of the birth of Jesus,..to Christians,
is that God..was manifested in the flesh...and the flesh knew it
though most..of the flesh..even now..know it not..

a sun of Good..took birth,..and lived among men..as a man...right here on earth..
The Course refers..to Jesus as.."the manifestation..of the Holy Spirit"..
but so too is he within us all..( T-12.VII.6:1; C-6.1:1).

So,..in a certain sense,..it agrees with Christian tradition;
Jesus was the manifestation..of God in this world...but so too are WE ALL..

"Manifestation"..means a form..
in which an image..an unseen idea,..or divine being,
that only by doing..is revealed;

the American Heritage Dictionary definition
includes these very applicable words:

"The materialized form..of a spirit."

That is exactly what Jesus was,
this..is egsactly..what WE ALL ARE..

"the materialized form"..of the Holy Spirit.

That is what made his birth..so significant.

The Course,..however,tells us,.."You are His..[the Holy Spirit's]
manifestation..in this world."..Jesus is..the materialized form..of the Holy Spirit,..

but so are we!

That is,..to me,..what it means..to give our body
to the fulfillment of the purpose of the Holy Spirit.

It means that you..and I can become,..quite literally,
the embodiment of God..[good]..in this world,..the expression,..
in material form,..of God's Love...

This is not something you..or I can do..alone,
however;..it is only possible..as we join..with one/another,
in recognition of..that same Christ-spiritus..within us all

Dear One under God, happy new year to you.
You must surely be suffering from repetitive strain injury after all the typing above?

Cheers,
Suze.

bless you..suze
long..may you be..on-line

your words..help give energy
but recall..these arnt my words im typing
im only adding bits..to what others..labouriously wrote

just joining..the dots..listening to my inner-thought...as i read and re-read..others thoughts..that they too read..and re-read..then writ by rote

so here again..is the last of..of but one..of Allen Watson's
many writings..inspired by study..of a course in miracles..[link at the end]

I..can become the Voice..for Good..for my brother..[and..so he has]
as I allow him..to become..the Voice for Good..for me...[as he was..for me]

And the light..life/love..WITH-in..them..[us all]
will..show you all that you need..to see...[the light with]-in..you.

When the peace..in you..has been extended..to encompass everyone,
the Holy Spirit's function here..will be accomplished..(T-19.IV.3:4-6).


As I behold innocence..in my sister's,..
and the silences of my br-others..as I learn to hear..God's-Voice/speaking..through her..longing to hear..him

to tell me..*of thy innocence,..[and them..of theirs]..
so too..I will come to recognize..my innocence..and experience..the Holy-Spirit..working..through me..to heal my others.

The process of a holy relationship is,
at least in part,..a process of learning..into perceiving

my relationship partner..as a witness..to my own innocence,..
rather than a bringer..of guilt...blame..shame..or condemnation..

I need..to learn to recognize
the Holy Spirit in her,..or in him...
see the way to recognize your many..other
is by recognizing..the Holy Spirit..in all..(T-5.III.1:1).

You cannot see..the Holy-Spirit,
but you can see..your brother..truly.as he is..

simply by being..who you are..just as he is
sustained..to be him..in him

In turn,..I began to realize..that my brother..or sister
is calling to me..to be voicing..God's/good Voice..for him..or for her...for now.

The pain,..the guilt,..the attack,.the anger..and the fear
that I perceive..in those around me..is calling out..to God's Voice..in me,..to work quickly..[thus..the many errors in typing..and..cutting/pasting/trimming/lopping and chopping]

calling out..to hear the words..of divine Love..
I have heard in me..as was in he..speaking to me..
to speak...to be heard?..to be voiced?

As I open..to the possibility..that I/we..really am/are..here..
to save the world,..with word..to be a savior..*from guilt/fear/blame/shame....to those..around us,

I come..*to know myself..
as what I am:..only..huh?-man..

being..the Love of God
good..in materialized form.

And thus is..Christ born again..in me...and thee