So if you look at the problem, and you start to realize there are no specific problems,
there's no environmental problems, relationship problems, health issues, there's just no specific
problems, but cracked or distorted perception is the problem. What did they say in the bible?
“You look through a darkened glass”, it says in Corrinthians. That's a problem – looking through
a darkened glass, you can't really see. None of us can really see when we are looking through a
darkened glass. So if distorted, or fragmented perception is the problem, then what is it that
will stabilize that distorted perception, that will clear away that darkened glass?
Jesus says Only a single purpose can unify perception. Only a single purpose can unify
perception, So we have this purpose and you can call it forgiveness,
you can call it Atonement, you can call it the miracle, you can call it one single intention,
you can call it anything you want. But this one single purpose exercised, practiced, used,
done through will unify perception. It is the purpose you bring with you,
it's the purpose in mind that you bring to the projects, that you bring to
whatever you're doing, that's everything. That's your decision. It's not that the world happens
to you in some kind of accidental, Oh, I happened to have a bad day because this happened to me and
this and this and this. Remember the workbook lesson, “My Self is ruler of the universe.
It is impossible that anything should come to be unbidden by myself, even in this world as I rule
my destiny. What happens is what I desire. What does not occur is what I do not want
to happen.” OK, you don't need a whole Course in Miracles, you can just use that one phrase, that,
“Myself is ruler of the universe.” The power of decision, Lesson 152, “The power of decision is
my own”, it says, “You may believe that this is too all-encompassing to be the truth”, Jesus says.
“The power of decision is my own. But “ he says,
“truth has no exceptions.” Indeed that's exactly the way it is. Everything that seems to happen to
me I ask for and see it as I have asked. And there are no exceptions, ever ever ever. So this is
where we're zooming in to enlightenment, where we start to take the empowering journey, seeing how
empowering our mind is, the power of decisions, and we don't try to let ourselves get snagged into
this idea that we're just raking leaves, we're just doing the dishes, we're just chopping
the celery or whatever. Which the ego would have us freeze into because why? Because that's
littleness. And the ego wants us to be content with littleness and just leave it at that – just
stay guilty and little. And a unified purpose lifts us up higher and higher and higher into
a state of the celestial glory – to a level of mind which we see is all-encompassing.
So it's never about the project. It's more about the motive, what's the motive.
What is it for, what's the motive for the project? And for me that's the best
thing in my life is it doesn't matter if I have 50 emails, the number doesn't matter.
I just pray, and if I'm guided to pick out two or three and respond to those,
that that's everything. And I've never felt a sense of coercion, I've never felt a sense
of duty. It's not fun to feel that I have a duty to serve the Holy Spirit, an obligation,
Oh, I'm going to have a day serving the Holy Spirit. I'm obligated
to the Holy Spirit today. No. Where's the fun in that? I would always say what the Holy Spirit
wants from me is for me to be happy, for me to be inspired, for me to experience myself as I truly
am and not to hold onto this idea of what David wants, what David doesn't
want. That's going to get me nowhere. Most of the tasks that I did at the very beginning,
even ones that the Holy Spirit would ask me to do, talk to somebody, call somebody, do this and this,
I had trepidation, and fear at the beginning because it was so out-of-pattern for the way I was
living my life and yet I still followed and I felt bursts of joy after I got off the phone, after I
visited somebody in the hospital, paid a visit to their house, I was just swelling with joy.
Because I listened and followed even when the ego was saying, “Don't do it! Don't do it!
Stop. You're going to lose your autonomy, you're going to lose your individuality if you keep
following that little voice”, I kept at it. “No”, I would tell the ego,
“I like that joy. I like that feeling of joy. I want more of that feeling of joy. And so I
lost myself in that joy, I lost my ego, you could say – not my true Self, but in that experience.