"The heart that remembers this call is a "widening world of light" against which all darknesses melt away, leaving only rest and happiness and peace. It is given to us now, to give away to each other now."
This beautifully poetic passage was like an actual light shining in this post on my screen. I am recently home from an unexpected and challenging ten days in the hospital due to some complications from a recent surgery.
For much of the time I was in the hospital, I was in pain or very uncomfortable at best, dealing with significant stress and uncertainty. The emotional challenges felt as overwhelming at times as the physical ones.
I was blessed to be in a room with one wall consisting entirely of a window that looked out over the Wasatch Mountains outside Salt Lake City. One morning right after waking, the room was quiet and it had just rained. As I lay there in silence, my mind was wondering about the dream I was dreaming. All of it: the physical pain and discomfort, the emotional stress and anxiety, the uncertainty of my condition. I can't say how, but I was suddenly, acutely aware of the dreaming of it (even though I was quite awake). I had just physically awakened but I knew I was still dreaming all of what I was experiencing.
I looked over at the window just as the sun began to rise through the clouds over the mountains. It was all majestically, unspeakably beautiful and moving. And in the awakening to and welcoming of that "widening world of light" I literally felt the darknesses, all of them melting away, leaving an experience, a recognition, of Peace that I can't say I've ever felt in exactly that way before.
In that moment I knew Christ's presence in that room and in my heart and I knew I was whole and at least in my awareness of that moment, I felt Home.
Sean, your profoundly moving words here brought that experience back in such a felt way, I just wanted to share the experience and thank you once again, for Light that comes through you and your messages.
This is beautiful and clear and I just want to say thank you for sharing it. There is so much hope and clarity in it, nothing for me to add. I'm deeply grateful 🙏🙏
Oh and I loved these words that you wrote Sean, they were perfect as always, thank you.
And all we have to do for it to happen is be willing that it happen. We have to see that the reason it's not happening is because we're not willing that it happen, and we have to become willing. We have to get out of our own way and let something unexpected happen, something we can’t plan for or control.
I agree with you Sean we need to Stop! Stop doing anything other than trusting that everything is solvable, but not by us but by the One that sees the whole picture, by the One who waits to be called upon, by the One who wants you to stop your pain and put your trust in Him to bring you back to peace by knowing you are never alone with anything that you believe to be real. He can return our minds to peace, we simply need to be willing to try, to be willing to stop trying to solve anything for ourselves and let Him lead the way.
There is another way, lets just try that way today and see the miracles unfold. We need do nothing but trust in the power and love of the One who knows the answer to every problem, to every pain and to every fear we hold. Only He as all the answers and He waits patiently for our return to Him.
Thank you Sean for reminding me of this truth, it is hard to remember this in the mad and crazy world we find ourselves in every day.
You are an amazing light Sean that brings our minds gently back to truth and healing with every post, thank you. Love + Blessings as Always Suzy xxx
You're welcome, Suzy, and thank you so much for sharing. Everytime I read youI feel lifted and nurtured. I am glad that we are friends on this path; your wisdom and intelligence are truly welcome. Thank you for being here 🙏🙏
I loved this statement Sean, "For most of my life I thought following Jesus was for the spiritually
gifted - “…..it made me aware I still think this way.
But, as I read on in your article you made it clear and I felt it true, that Christ consciousness is available in this moment, I just have to get out of my own way, let go of control, and open….
Thank you for your endless ways of helping me to remember who I really Am. 🙏
You're welcome Glenda . . . thank you for being here and for sharing . . . yes, the gift is eternally given, always present, even when we forget or ignore it . . . it's a very comforting realization . . . 🙏🙏
Thank you Sean, it is great to receive your message again. Hope you are all well. Thank you for reminding us that we are doing this unto ourselves. It can’t be repeated well enough. This translates in my mind also as I am here to learn only Jesus’s lessons. Not my own lessons only His lessons. I know nothing and I was wrong all along. (Resign now as your own teacher!) Intensity of the resistance I am feeling following these statements is immense, but all I need to do is to be aware, even though it can be easier to be said than done but we need to keep trying and ask for Help 😊
Thanks for being here, Aysin. Yes, the Course is all about the Teacher we choose. I too experience painful resistance when I contemplate resigning, letting go, letting Jesus take the wheel, et cetera. But it's so helpful to see that! It was seeing that that allowed me to understand what the Course meant when it said the secret to salvation was I am doing this to myself. And then - not gracefully but stubbornly, baby step after baby step - I slowly began to look for a new Teacher and be open to what they suggested. It is a new way of living for sure.
Thanks again, Aysin. I really appreciate your presence.
The Light You Bring was such a gift to read. I too have to remember to take Jesus' hand as I go through my day and let go of my monkey mind so I can be at peace. So helpful to read your words. Thank you Sean.
Glad you're back in the saddle, Sean. Thanks for making it apparent that "the widening world of light" doesn't necessarily require a 2x4 to the head. Thanks for helping me to remember today, I have chosen to forget. Only this, prevents me from remembering to laugh at the appearances as I see. To See differently, we choose again.
Thanks, Jim . . . yeah, the 2x4 to the head is not a requirement though I forget this a lot and am often whacking myself over and over and calling it love. . . remembering to laugh is such a gift . . . thanks for being here, Jim 🙏🙏
Thanks for reading and sharing, Nilsa . . . gratitude is so so important, yes . . . and having friends who share the way, help us practice and stay faithful . . . Our clarity brightens when we join . . . thank you for being here and sharing the way 🙏🙏
Sean your back I know it was a short time but it makes this post better than any before. I can see and hear and what's better I totally believe and trust in all you have written. Thank you Sean hope to see you Sunday even though I can't always make it
Thanks for being here, Sean . . . Yes, I am on the mend though to be honest I still feel a little under the weather. But clear enough to write again anyway! As always, I appreciate your presence here. It only works when we go together, as you know. Thanks, Sean.
Sean you do for me for us what that saying about the obscure we eventually come to see the obvious takes a little longer. Thank you Sean Reagan from my heart
Thank you, Sean. I'm glad it's helpful, and glad that we are friends ont this path. The light we see in the other is the light we have shared with them - we are always gazing at our own self and remembering what we are in truth. So thank you, Sean . . . I hope all is well.
Thanks, Sue - basically I was reading and re-reading "The Light You Bring" from Chapter 25 and yes, it does feel like a neat summation of the Course. . . thanks for being here and sharing this path with me 🙏🙏
"The heart that remembers this call is a "widening world of light" against which all darknesses melt away, leaving only rest and happiness and peace. It is given to us now, to give away to each other now."
This beautifully poetic passage was like an actual light shining in this post on my screen. I am recently home from an unexpected and challenging ten days in the hospital due to some complications from a recent surgery.
For much of the time I was in the hospital, I was in pain or very uncomfortable at best, dealing with significant stress and uncertainty. The emotional challenges felt as overwhelming at times as the physical ones.
I was blessed to be in a room with one wall consisting entirely of a window that looked out over the Wasatch Mountains outside Salt Lake City. One morning right after waking, the room was quiet and it had just rained. As I lay there in silence, my mind was wondering about the dream I was dreaming. All of it: the physical pain and discomfort, the emotional stress and anxiety, the uncertainty of my condition. I can't say how, but I was suddenly, acutely aware of the dreaming of it (even though I was quite awake). I had just physically awakened but I knew I was still dreaming all of what I was experiencing.
I looked over at the window just as the sun began to rise through the clouds over the mountains. It was all majestically, unspeakably beautiful and moving. And in the awakening to and welcoming of that "widening world of light" I literally felt the darknesses, all of them melting away, leaving an experience, a recognition, of Peace that I can't say I've ever felt in exactly that way before.
In that moment I knew Christ's presence in that room and in my heart and I knew I was whole and at least in my awareness of that moment, I felt Home.
Sean, your profoundly moving words here brought that experience back in such a felt way, I just wanted to share the experience and thank you once again, for Light that comes through you and your messages.
Blessings as always,
Dan
Thank you Dan, I was deeply touched by your sharing.
Glenda, I'm so glad--thank you!
Dan
Dear Dan,
This is beautiful and clear and I just want to say thank you for sharing it. There is so much hope and clarity in it, nothing for me to add. I'm deeply grateful 🙏🙏
Love,
Sean
Thanks so much, Sean. I'm happy to hear it was meaningful for you.
Best,
Dan
InSpired. So grateful.
Thank you for being here, Deb 🙏🙏
Love,
Sean
Thank you!!!!!(more)😂 I save every thing you write , it really has helped me understand. 🫶🏻
Oh and I loved these words that you wrote Sean, they were perfect as always, thank you.
And all we have to do for it to happen is be willing that it happen. We have to see that the reason it's not happening is because we're not willing that it happen, and we have to become willing. We have to get out of our own way and let something unexpected happen, something we can’t plan for or control.
xxx
🙏🙏
I agree with you Sean we need to Stop! Stop doing anything other than trusting that everything is solvable, but not by us but by the One that sees the whole picture, by the One who waits to be called upon, by the One who wants you to stop your pain and put your trust in Him to bring you back to peace by knowing you are never alone with anything that you believe to be real. He can return our minds to peace, we simply need to be willing to try, to be willing to stop trying to solve anything for ourselves and let Him lead the way.
There is another way, lets just try that way today and see the miracles unfold. We need do nothing but trust in the power and love of the One who knows the answer to every problem, to every pain and to every fear we hold. Only He as all the answers and He waits patiently for our return to Him.
Thank you Sean for reminding me of this truth, it is hard to remember this in the mad and crazy world we find ourselves in every day.
You are an amazing light Sean that brings our minds gently back to truth and healing with every post, thank you. Love + Blessings as Always Suzy xxx
You're welcome, Suzy, and thank you so much for sharing. Everytime I read youI feel lifted and nurtured. I am glad that we are friends on this path; your wisdom and intelligence are truly welcome. Thank you for being here 🙏🙏
Love,
Sean
I loved this statement Sean, "For most of my life I thought following Jesus was for the spiritually
gifted - “…..it made me aware I still think this way.
But, as I read on in your article you made it clear and I felt it true, that Christ consciousness is available in this moment, I just have to get out of my own way, let go of control, and open….
Thank you for your endless ways of helping me to remember who I really Am. 🙏
You're welcome Glenda . . . thank you for being here and for sharing . . . yes, the gift is eternally given, always present, even when we forget or ignore it . . . it's a very comforting realization . . . 🙏🙏
Love,
Sean
Thank you Sean, it is great to receive your message again. Hope you are all well. Thank you for reminding us that we are doing this unto ourselves. It can’t be repeated well enough. This translates in my mind also as I am here to learn only Jesus’s lessons. Not my own lessons only His lessons. I know nothing and I was wrong all along. (Resign now as your own teacher!) Intensity of the resistance I am feeling following these statements is immense, but all I need to do is to be aware, even though it can be easier to be said than done but we need to keep trying and ask for Help 😊
Thanks for being here, Aysin. Yes, the Course is all about the Teacher we choose. I too experience painful resistance when I contemplate resigning, letting go, letting Jesus take the wheel, et cetera. But it's so helpful to see that! It was seeing that that allowed me to understand what the Course meant when it said the secret to salvation was I am doing this to myself. And then - not gracefully but stubbornly, baby step after baby step - I slowly began to look for a new Teacher and be open to what they suggested. It is a new way of living for sure.
Thanks again, Aysin. I really appreciate your presence.
Love,
Sean
Thank you it is so empowering to know we are not alone on this Path.
Much gratitude🙏
The Light You Bring was such a gift to read. I too have to remember to take Jesus' hand as I go through my day and let go of my monkey mind so I can be at peace. So helpful to read your words. Thank you Sean.
You're welcome, April. Thanks for being here. Yes - Jesus rather than monkey mind!
Love,
Sean
Glad you're back in the saddle, Sean. Thanks for making it apparent that "the widening world of light" doesn't necessarily require a 2x4 to the head. Thanks for helping me to remember today, I have chosen to forget. Only this, prevents me from remembering to laugh at the appearances as I see. To See differently, we choose again.
Now I just need to not fall out of the saddle!
Thanks, Jim . . . yeah, the 2x4 to the head is not a requirement though I forget this a lot and am often whacking myself over and over and calling it love. . . remembering to laugh is such a gift . . . thanks for being here, Jim 🙏🙏
Love,
Sean
Dear Sean
How grateful I am to know we are together in this way. ( TRYING TO SCAPE FROM THIS WORLD)
You wrote: We have to get out of our own way and let something unexpected happen, something we can’t plan for or control.
Yes, indeed we need to do that and believe that:
"Love is the way I walk in gratitude. "
The Holy Spirit is my only Guide. He walks with me in love. And I will give thanks to Him for showing me the way to go."
Thanks for reading and sharing, Nilsa . . . gratitude is so so important, yes . . . and having friends who share the way, help us practice and stay faithful . . . Our clarity brightens when we join . . . thank you for being here and sharing the way 🙏🙏
Love,
Sean
…so beautifully written. This hits home 🙏
Thanks for being here Jennifer 🙏🙏
Love,
Sean
Sean your back I know it was a short time but it makes this post better than any before. I can see and hear and what's better I totally believe and trust in all you have written. Thank you Sean hope to see you Sunday even though I can't always make it
Thanks for being here, Sean . . . Yes, I am on the mend though to be honest I still feel a little under the weather. But clear enough to write again anyway! As always, I appreciate your presence here. It only works when we go together, as you know. Thanks, Sean.
Love,
Sean
Sean you do for me for us what that saying about the obscure we eventually come to see the obvious takes a little longer. Thank you Sean Reagan from my heart
Thank you, Sean. I'm glad it's helpful, and glad that we are friends ont this path. The light we see in the other is the light we have shared with them - we are always gazing at our own self and remembering what we are in truth. So thank you, Sean . . . I hope all is well.
Love,
Sean
An absolute pleasure to read this this morning. ACIM in a nutshell to carry with me and refer back to, thank you. I am so grateful. 🫶🏻
Thanks, Sue - basically I was reading and re-reading "The Light You Bring" from Chapter 25 and yes, it does feel like a neat summation of the Course. . . thanks for being here and sharing this path with me 🙏🙏
Love,
Sean
I really needed this message this morning, thank you Sean❤️❤️❤️
You're welcome, Ginny! Thank you for being here and sharing the path 🙏🙏
Love,
Sean
Always love your words❤️
Thanks Julie - sharing the way is the way 🙏🙏
Love,
Sean
Thank you
You're welcome, Silvanus. Thank you for reading and sharing 🙏🙏
Love,
Sean
It was fine-tuned for my morning and current process. A little miracle. :)