Today’s reading is too good to read quickly. It begins with a reinterpretation of Jesus’ crucifixion. Many of us were taught that Jesus died for our sins. Today’s reading says that Jesus “released the sins of the world as illusion … and returned himself to the Awareness of God,” and then it asks us to make the same decision.

Are you ready to give no more meaning to illusion?

Are you ready to give all of your love and attention to truth?

Today’s reading shares a couple of ‘tests’ we can give ourselves in order to be honest with ourselves regarding our own spiritual progress.

First, we are asked to notice how we feel about others. If there is anyone we “do not love truly,” there are misperceptions in our mind that still need healing.

Next, we are asked to notice if some things in our lives have higher priority than other things. If some matters have more meaning to us than others, we do not yet see all things as God. The only exception to this test is when truth has more meaning than illusion.

I hope you decide to read today’s reading slowly and contemplatively. I recommend taking notes as you read today.

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Today’s reading opens by saying:

We proclaim the Word of Life.

A word can be a declaration, so the essence of the statement above is this:

You are Life!
(said with great declaration and emphasis)

Today’s reading also says:

God is an awareness that is pure,
because it looks on only that which is wholly true.

This is God. And God, as an awareness, exists within you.

That means that when you see life and only life, you see with God-awareness.

Here’s an example:

Recently, while traveling in New Mexico, I stopped to go to the bathroom at a truck stop. When I went into the toilet stall, my heart leapt with great joy when I saw a fly resting on the toilet seat. It actually took the mind another second or two to realize it was looking at a fly on a toilet seat in a truck stop. When that was realized, I laughed, because I knew most humans would not understand the great joy I felt.

The joy was natural and spontaneous, prior to thought. It was God-awareness leaping for joy when it recognized its Self. It didn’t see a fly on a toilet seat in a truck stop. It saw life-awareness!

Life-awareness experienced life-awareness and felt great joy being aware of itself.

On Day 254, I gave the example of a tree as a representation of the enlightened mind. I said that the tree does not judge the people who gather under it, and the people who gather under it do not affect the tree. Of course, the tree does not see people gathered under it. In order to see people, the tree would need a brain. However, the tree does see. Actually, it would be more correct to say that the tree knows. The tree knows the life-awareness that is gathered under it as people, and the tree experiences joy. That joy is the joy of life-awareness in the presence of life-awareness.

For more understanding, watch this 3-minute video about my experience as an apple.

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