The first talk and meditation reading through the analogies by Jesus in ACIM. This week we give over the time to listen and meditate on the analogy of the smallest of sunbeams of the beautiful holy infinite golden light of the Sun. Taken from Chapter 18, Section VIII The Little Garden. Jesus loves to give us analogies so that we can allow these ideas to be used by the Holy Spirit to show us, how body identification is being used by the mind, to think it has split off and is now separate to Infinite Love and Happiness (God). Here are a few sentences from this little section that will help your mind, release all ego ideas that say you are just a little body or like I prefer to call it - skin, hair, fingernails and teeth. Am I really just these body parts? If I identify with the ego thought system, its thoughts will always refer to me as skin, hair, fingernails and teeth. The ego is my deep wish to flee from the guilt that I think is within and thus, identify as something that I can fence off from God. So, the ego thoughts say that safety lies in being skin, hair, fingernails and teeth. It says if I identify with these body parts, that I will be safe from a god that it says, is out to get me. (We need to see how absurd this concept is haha) From The Little Garden - The body is a tiny fence around a little part of a glorious and complete idea (God) This fragment of your mind (ego) is such a TINY part of it that, could you (decision maker) but appreciate the whole (God), you would see instantly that it is like the SMALLEST SUNBEAM to the SUN. In its amazing arrogance, this TINY SUNBEAM has decided IT IS THE SUN. Haha Think how frightened is this LITTLE THOUGHT, this infinitesimal illusion, holding itself apart, against the UNIVERSE (God). The sun (God) becomes the sunbeams (egos thought that I am a body) "enemy" that would devour it. Yet, the Sun is not even aware of all this strange and meaningless activity (God, being infinite Love and Happiness, is not even aware that you, the decision maker, has chosen the egos thoughts of being a body. God is not aware of the strange and meaningless thoughts that you, the "chooser" have chosen.) God, the Golden Sun of holy Love, has merely continued, unaware that they are feared or hated by this tiny infinitesimal segment of themselves. Even that little sunbeam, that thinks it is separate from the Sun, has not for one moment, actually been separate. How can a sunbeam be separate from the Sun? Isn't the sunbeam, the shining aspect of the Sun. Isn't the Love that You are, the Shining aspect of Infinite Love (God). The sunbeams whole existence still remains One within the Golden warm light of the Sun. Like the sun, your Self continues, unmindful that this tiny part regards itself as you. (Like the Infinite Love, your Self continues, unmindful that these tiny false ego thoughts, keep telling you that it is you) DO NOT ACCEPT this little fenced off aspect of yourself. The Sun is nothing beside what YOU ARE. The sunbeam sparkles ONLY IN THE SUNLIGHT. The Holy Self sparkles ONLY IN THE experience of Infinite Love (God) (I have left out references to the ripple and the ocean so that the mind can focus purely on the aspect of being a sunbeam that can never be separate from the Golden Sun that shines eternally) Blessings and Love from Cate and Shannon xo