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-I've had times in the ministry where it would be just me
listening, following, and I would have some people helping
me out, but if they got involved in other things,
a lot of times people seem to get lured back into
all the complexities of the world, I would just
get like another hat. you know how they say,
"wearing lots of hats" doing lots of jobs and things.
So I went out traveling, and teaching, and counseling,
and sharing, come back. Oh, I'd like to upload
to the internet. Well there's no staff.
Okay, I'll do that too. It was like Jesus had me wearing
25 hats, you know, I -- okay, I'll do this, and then this,
and this. And, but it's not like, there's never a sense of
overload with it, because you know, I can do all things
with Christ, Jesus who does it through me, you know.
It's-- all things in Christ Jesus. It was a thing of,
when you really give yourself over and you're linked
with God, you know, if God is with you
who can be against you. If God is with you,
you can't really be overloaded because it can not
be difficult to do the task that Christ appointed you
to do, for it is he who does it, Jesus says
in the Course In Miracles. You see how you can't get
overloaded, overwhelmed, because it is Christ who
does it through you. It's Christ that's pulling the strings.
That's the easiest thing in the world. To be in your
Christ Mind, and be done through by Christ Jesus.
There can't be anything easier than that. And so that was
my experience. And occasionally I would get involved
in collaborations and people would say, "sorry, can't do it,
can't do it, gotta stop, gotta drop out," da da da.
And it would almost be like Jesus was smiling,
like, "what problem? We can handle it. We can handle anything!
I can do anything with you, in alignment with you".
It's kind of an interesting feeling of not needing people.
Suddenly, you know, you realize oh! I always thought people
were so important, but through Christ I can do all things!
I don't even need the people. You know, we're so used to
being dependent on other people. How many of us
have worked on projects, and we get in the middle
of the project, of the collaboration, and somebody says
"can't show up! Got another gig. Gotta do something else.
Can't be there". It's just an opportunity. Jesus is like,
"no problem. We can handle this". No matter what it is.
"We can handle it, we can handle it, we can handle it."
And that's where you become so dependent on the Holy Spirit,
on Christ, for everything. You become emotionally dependent
on that thought system, and that beautiful emotion of
love, of joy, of happiness. It's the best kind of dependency
that you can have, because it's vertical. You're lined
up with your Source. That's safety. That's security.
That's certainty. You don't have-- it's not an interactive
thing. You're not waiting. You're not saying,
"okay, let's take a vote". The vote is gone.
It's not a democracy. Christ runs the show. (David laughs)
It's like a beneficent instructor. A loving instructor,
who knows your best interests, always, and is just giving
it to you, giving it to you, giving it to you.
That's how to have an easy life. It's holding on to the ego,
and trying to think against God, you know,
"I'll do it my way". Some of you remember the singer
Frank Sinatra. He had a song "My Way".
One time when he was elderly, I was traveling somewhere
and I heard the report that he was, I think,
on a Las Vegas stage, and he was singing the song "My Way"
and he literally (sound of hand hitting microphone)
fell over face first. His face just hit the stage
(sound of hand hitting microphone) singing "My Way".
You know, some of you know the lyrics of that song.
♫ Yes there were times, I'm sure you knew,
that I bit off more than I could chew. But through it all
when there was doubt I ate it up and spit it out.♫
You know, ooh, it's a rough life. "And through it all I stood
tall and did it my way." (sound of hand hitting microphone)
(David and audience laugh) Right into the ground.
That's where it will take you.
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