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<\/span><\/p>\nI know it was in March because I got a new computer that precipitated my review of old files, and also because I was just finding my way back to the cabin after months of snow and cold that kept me from it. Once I started reading \u201cIdentity,\u201d my desire to keep reading felt a lot like my impulse to get to the cabin. Having begun, I kept returning to it. Still . . . Lee, who never before (in my experience) had been a quick reader, was farther into it than I was. He was loving it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The next time that Lee and I talked he had become enamored by one of the sermons recounted in \u201cIdentity Crisis.\u201d It spoke of the Kingdom. It was given by Fr. Warren based on Jer. 1:1, 4-10\/Jn 20:1-2, 11-18, and this is the relevant passage:<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWhat the Gospel says is that everyone is a part of the kingdom, and everyone, as a part of the kingdom, has a part to play.\u00a0 And the part we play may bring forth one hundred-fold, sixty-fold, or less, but we do produce.\u00a0 We do have talent.\u00a0 Some of us are richly talented.\u00a0 Some of us less so.\u00a0 We all have talent.\u00a0 That\u2019s how God made us.\u00a0 And that\u2019s how God has called us.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Lee then spoke of the Kingdom in Chapter 7, section 5 of ACIM OE, (FIP T-7.III.2), saying:<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIn all the times I\u2019ve passed through this work, it never hit like this. References to the Kingdom in ACIM are references to here and now, and the Kingdom is nothing other than what I can come to know of this or any holy moment here or anywhere, as directed by love to know it <\/span>truly<\/span><\/i>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Highlights from ACIM OE Chapter 7, Section 5: The Recognition of Truth<\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cGod\u2019s meaning waits in the Kingdom because that is where He placed it. . . . How can you, who <\/span>are<\/span><\/i> God\u2019s meaning, perceive yourselves as absent <\/span>from<\/span><\/i> it?\u201d ACIM OE Tx:7.26 (FIP T-7.III.2)<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cTo be <\/span>in<\/span><\/i> the Kingdom is merely to focus <\/span>on <\/span><\/i>it. . . . You who <\/span>are<\/span><\/i> the Kingdom are not concerned with seeming. Reality is yours because you <\/span>are <\/span><\/i>reality.\u201d ACIM OE Tx:7.29 (FIP T-7.III.4)<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIt smacks of the mysticism at the end of ACOL\u2019s Forty Days,\u201d Lee said. \u201cGod is creating you and you are God creating<\/span>,<\/span> at the same time. (See Day 32) <\/span>It\u2019s<\/span> in the same order of <\/span>like<\/span>, <\/span>Let\u2019s just fling the doors open<\/span><\/i>!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cGod has lit your minds Himself and keeps your minds lit by His light because His light is what your minds <\/span>are.\u201d <\/span><\/i>ACIM OE Tx:7.30 (FIP T-7.III.5)\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cThe Course,\u201d Lee recounted, speaking of ACIM, \u201cdescribes this entire life to me as one rolling holy moment. Telling me in essence, <\/span>\u2018<\/span>Lee, what you are in truth<\/span>,<\/span><\/i> the direct experience of this, <\/span>is<\/span><\/i> the Kingdom because you <\/span>are<\/span><\/i> the Kingdom.<\/span>\u2019<\/span> God has given you a gift that you both have and <\/span>are<\/span><\/i>. By not knowing this, you do not know who you <\/span>are<\/span><\/i>.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The phrase, \u201cWhat you are,\u201d Lee told me, \u201cis in 150 places in ACIM. Four of them in this section alone. They\u2019re the last three words that appear in this section.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cLove needs only this invitation. It comes freely to<\/span> all<\/span><\/i> the Sonship, being what the Sonship <\/span>is<\/span><\/i>. By your awakening <\/span>to <\/span><\/i>it, you are merely forgetting what you are <\/span>not. <\/span><\/i>This enables you to remember what you <\/span>are<\/span><\/i>.\u201d<\/span><\/i> ACIM OE Tx:7.38 (FIP T-7.IV.7)<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWho you are\u201d is in <\/span>A Course of Love<\/span><\/i> over 380 times.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Lee and I have been having conversations, like this one, once a week for years. We\u2019ve been saying for a while that we should open them up now and again and see what happens. This might just be the perfect topic with which to begin.<\/span><\/p>\n Stay posted for a date and time. We\u2019ll release it soon here on Musings, other websites, and Facebook. If you care to indicate your interest now, you can do so here, and we\u2019ll start a list.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n