October 5, 2008 Creation’s freedom promises my own.

Lesson 278:

[The end of dreams is promised me, because God's Son is not abandoned by His Love.  Only in dreams is there a time when he appears to be in prison, and awaits a future freedom, if it be at all.  Yet in reality his dreams are gone, with truth established in their place.  And now is freedom his already.  Should I wait in chains which have been severed for release, when God is offering me freedom now?]

“Should I wait in chains which have been severed for release?” I keep my dog’s collar ridiculously loose. I can slip it off his head at any time. He could get it off anytime he wanted, if he only knew that he could and how he could do it. When on the leash he pulls forward trying to free himself which pulls the collar tight against his front shoulders. No freedom is possible using this approach. All he has to do is back up against the leash and his collar will slip right over his head giving him his freedom. He can’t see this so he keeps attempting to free himself in the only way he thinks will work. Futile, but he keeps trying.  Hmmmm? Read that once again!

Is it possible to dream that you are awake?

I’ll just leave that one for a while. I do have an example but it has to wait for another day. When? How should I know?

Yesterday I traveled to my old home town. I visited with many friends and had a great time. They all told me how much they missed having me around and wanted to hear how much I missed being there. They all asked how my mother was feeling because that is, kind of, the reason I left. I had such a good time I stayed until really late. I felt that I had to leave and my friends, knowing that I had over a hundred miles to drive, implored me to stay the night. They can’t see driving so far especially that late at night. I enjoy it but that is not why I left. I left because I felt I had to leave.

I took the exit to get onto the highway and this great analogy involving time and space appeared in my mind. I thought about what great blogging material that it would be. I will post it, I think, some day. The idea appeared in an instant but right after I saw an exit sign approaching. I thought that it was impossible for that first exit to have come up so quickly because I had just got onto the highway. I looked at the sign again and it wasn’t the next exit it was my exit! I had travelled 80 miles! Whew.

Can you see how I could have thought that that was the reason that I chose to leave? The insight and the experience could have been the catalyst for the decision to leave and yes, I did think it.

As I waited for the ambulance to arrive in the middle of the night to transport my mother to the hospital I thought that maybe that was the reason that I chose to leave last night. Then I thought that maybe this incidence justified the move that I had recently made and discussed at length the previous night. Maybe I missed my old town and needed this to justify my leaving? Maybe I needed to have it justified to me?

We really can become obsessed with discovering the reasons why things happen as they do.  We write these incidences off to good luck, bad luck, divine intervention, manifestation, a lesson, a gift, a prophesy or any other things that really amount to thoughts that we have about thoughts that we have without regard to any understanding.

“You can’t always get what you want. But if your try, sometimes. You just might find. You get what you need.”

–The Rolling Stones

Actually, you always get exactly what you want whether you really believe you want it or not. If it’s happening you wanted it to happen. What we are doing here is realizing that you must take full responsibility for everything that seems to be happening to you. Then once we come to the understanding that we cause it we can change it as we see fit.

It’s a dream, after all. Once we learn to control it we can make it anything we want it to be. Logical, right? Or we can assume that whatever happens that that is how we wanted it to be or that that is how someone wanted it to be for us. Right?

Next question:

Can we find freedom in a dream?

Whatever we find within the dream is still a dream. Whatever we create within the dream is still a dream. So yes, we can dream freedom but it being in a dream is it really freedom?

“If I am bound in any way I am lost to reality.”

“Only in dreams is there a time when he appears to be in prison, and awaits a future freedom, if it be at all.”

Back out of the collar.