So let's look at guidance for a moment,
like practically speaking
what we really encourage
in the people that I live with,
we always encourage people to just speak,
speak their thoughts freely.
Their hunches, their nudges, their intuitions,
their feelings, you know.
So don't hold back.
We don't want you to have kind of a guidance anxiety,
where everyone's like,
not gonna speak it, because
it could be wrong, it could be judged,
if I say something and...
you know, it's actually, we encourage
the sharing of ideas.
In fact, let's call this sharing of these ideas suggestions.
In other words the Holy Spirit gives instructions,
gives suggestions, but they have to be,
even the guidance has to be, we'll call it a suggestion,
because the Holy Spirit is not gonna
coerce you to follow.
The Holy Spirit never says, "Turn right,
at this traffic light, or else. You, you're gonna get it,
if you don't, if you don't turn right."
No, the Holy Spirit offers the what? Suggestion.
Turn right. Why is it a suggestion?
Because you, you do seem to believe you have a choice.
Although Ross, Ross would say the script is written,
but if you don't know the script is written,
you believe you have choices in time and space.
And if you believe you have choices,
isn't Jesus very loving? These are suggestions.
Guidance is really suggestions.
It's offering us suggestions, what would save us
from torment and hell.
Loving suggestions that will likely lift us
out of, of pain and suffering, of, of delay.
These suggestions actually save time;
they are miracles, actually collapse time.
They bring the alpha and the omega back together,
the beginning and the end, because they're so loving.
Now, I will give you an example.
Some of you, how many in here know my friend, Jason.
You've met Jason, you've met Jason, you've met Jason.
When I went to the 2007 A Course in Miracles
conference in San Francisco and,
and my friend Jeffrey and I were there.
We had a room and Jason said, "Can I come up and stay
in your room?" We said, "Okay."
So, Jason slept, with two beds and, single beds,
and then Jason slept on the floor.
And he was going through
a lot of emotions and everything and,
and at the end of the conference,
I, he, Jason said, "I really, I want to, I would like to
to travel with you, I would like to be with you
and work with you in more of an active way."
He was just really excited and, and kind of uh, inspired.
And so, here's an example. He said, "Okay, I,
but I don't know what's best. I don't really know
my best interest but I just feel like I'd like to
spend more time with you and work with you everything."
And I said, "Well, just, just be still a moment
and see if you hear any words or if there's any
intuitions, feelings coming in."
That's where we do it.
We just sit, sit still and pray and listen for something.
And he did this for a few minutes.
And then I said, "Did you hear anything?"
You see how different that is from telling people
what they should do.
It's just, the arrogance, spiritual teachers that say,
"You must do this or you're banished from the,
the community." Or da da da da da.
It, it was offered as "What are you hearing?"
And, and he said one word, "Australia."
That was what he heard at that point.
This was the conference in February 2007, "Australia."
So, was like, "Okay."
And he said, "What does it mean?"
I said, "I don't know. We will find out."
I was actually leaving San Francisco and flying to
Australia, right after the conference.
And, and you know tickets were bought,
gatherings were planned, arrangements were made,
da da da da da da da.
He said, "Does it mean I'm supposed to
fly to Australia with you?"
Isn't that obvious question if you hear "Australia"
after you've said that, everything.
I said, I prayed and said, "No I don't, I don't really
feel that um, I feel I'm, I know I'm taking off for
Australia but I don't really feel that."
It took, I think it took about a couple years after that,
before he found himself coming down here.
Before he found himself being guided to marry Kirsten,
who is from New Zealand,
before he found himself applying for a five-year visa
to reside in Australia. You see,
a lot of things came down the pike with Australia.
So now he's legally married to Kirsten.
He's got a five-year visa to be in Australia.
He's done tours, he's, that's where he met,
you know numbers of you; some of us maybe
met him in other places in the, in the world but he's,
he's actually been around.
He's been down South. He's been up here.
I actually met him up in
[audience member speaks inaudibly] a couple years ago.
Yeah. So those, those, a lot unfolded
but that was what he heard, was Australia.
And it's kinda interesting 'cause I,
I had a feeling when I woke up this morning.
I was feeling Australia, you know the feeling of Australia,
and all that means to me is the sense that,
that I know I've been used mainly on
four different continents, uh, and,
and Australia is one of those areas.
And, it just feels, it's like an intuitive feeling
about that. Now how it plays out, it will have to be given.
Uh, another example is um, just to give you an example
about planning in the future.
'Cause I was in the car with,
with Helena and Cecilia and Christian and,
I was going through my iPhone
and my emails and I went,
"Oh look at this!" And I read them the email which was
they had selected now the location for the 2013
A Course in Miracles conference in April or May of 2013.
And it says David; it wasn't just a general email.
It was David, you know, something about abundant
joy and happiness to you and, and so forth.
And I read down. It says, "We have selected the dates,
the possible dates for the conference
and we would certainly like you to be there.
Can you hold these dates for us?"
See how practical we're talking now?
We're getting into the practicalities.
2013.
So what that is meant to show is that,
when we, it talks about, if there are plans to be made,
let them be for one purpose.
Let the function of the body be for one purpose.
Let your life on Earth be for one purpose.
And you can't control the outcome, which is best.
You, you can't know the, the reason for it.
Like, someone could say, "What would be the purpose of
going to a conference in 2013, spring of 2013?"
Well, don't try to figure out the answer to
that question in a specific way.
There is an answer; the answer is forgiveness.
The answer is forgive 2013 and let me lead the way,
you know, and let me speak through you,
shine through you.
Don't, don't pay attention to the calendar.
Pay attention to my guidance and inspiration,
my suggestions, my instructions.
That's what this is about.