How does this play out for me?
"A Course In Miracles" would call it your special function.
You have a special function, using your
skills and abilities, that you develop on an ego framework.
But then, when you give them over to the Holy Spirit,
the Holy Spirit will use those same abilities and skills, that are already there,
to unwind you from the self-concept and bless the whole universe,
whatever those skills are.
Erik was up talking to Kirsten about that, and
you were saying there are some creative things.
I bet you even have some tech skills that maybe you don't consider so creative.
They're more associated with the job, the work.
But the Holy Spirit can use whatever is there.
Holy Spirit can even use tech skills.
I did not like computers.
I remember through my 10 years of university,
I did everything I could to avoid and resist computers.
That's going back a few years when they had giant machines in rooms
that had these little cards with holes punched in them.
Some of you might remember the early, early, early days.
This is pre-Apple.
This is way back, you know.
MS-DOS and big, huge mainframe computers, and
I just was like,
I don't want to spend my life around these big machines with a bunch of cards.
I didn't have an attraction there.
And, then, as it went on I still wasn't....
Even though computers and technology were there just to be used. I had a bit of an aversion to it.
And it's so funny, now decades later, some people call me the tech mystic.
I've got tech thrown on front of the mystic for it.
Because I just was willing. You should have seen me all those days
Jesus is like, I'm using these old-fashioned phones and paying the phone company all this money
and Jesus started talking to me about VoIP.
And I'm like VoIP?
What is VoIP?
Voice over Internet Protocol.
It's what they use nowadays, for Skype and so many things that we take for granted.
This was many years ago. Jesus is talking to me about VoIP.
VoIP, that sounds really technical and he's like,
you're gonna have to start using it,
because you're gonna be communicating with people all over the world.
And your old phone company bills, your old long-distance calls
of hundreds of dollars, it's not gonna work
It's not gonna work. You need to learn
these kind of things. I think I used Vonage.
Somebody might remember Vonage is one of the early ones and then he got me into it.
The years go by and different things would come in. I remember one time. He said go to YouTube.
YouTube, how do you even spell it? Is it U t u b e?
He said "No". It's YouTube
So what's YouTube?
Or Laverne who's down in Mexico coming to me one day.
David, I found this thing called Spreaker. I said Spreaker. Does it speaker? No it's Spreaker?
Spreaker.
What is Spreaker? So I'm called a tech mystic, but all
I know is I keep getting these things that keep coming to me.
Facebook. Facebook?
What is that?
These things come along and they're all part of the plan. They're all to be used.
But I'm just innocent and I don't know what they mean.
That's why when we begin the journey on that end of the spectrum, it's more
important that we're just open minded and willing.