Today's lesson - Above all else I want to see.

We all have a choice to make: Do I want to walk on the path of the ego or the path of the Spirit?

Do I want guilt and judgment or healing and Love?

We have the power to make that decision. Actually, it is the only power we have. All the rest is an illusion to which we are attached. Decide many times today to see clearly the Love that abides hidden behind the obstacles and barriers of the ego.

Ask Alexa - Why is it raining?

Alexa: Why is it raining?

It is raining because God is crying and God is crying because of something you did.

Really???????????????????????/

Is your life in balance?

Osho tells us, "The truth of life is found through balance and harmony. Those who go to the extreme in any direction wander away from the path."

Sounds like Aristole's "golden mean" doesn't it?

Sounds like the Tao of the Tao Te Ching doesn't it?

Sounds like the free and responsible search for truth and meaning in the fourth principle of Unitarian Univeralism doesn't it?

Unitarian Univeralism describes itself as a "living tradition" which is based on many sources with at least six identified.

There are many roads to Rome, many ways to skin a cat, many trails up the mountain to enlightenment. The perennial psychology tells us the middle path is best; avoid the extremes. In Alcoholic Anonymous they say, "Easy does it."

At UU A Way Of Life Ministries we encourage people to keep their balance.

Today's lesson - Attack thoughts are like a mosquito on an elephant's ass.

We think we are vulnerable and it is only a matter of time before we are attacked and hurt. We can be attacked by weather, by other people, by health problems, by financial situations and other resource scarcities and deprivations. Our religions tell us we can even be attacked by God and put in hell.

Our egos are never secure and tell us it's "me or them," "one or the other."

These fears attack our security before they ever even happen in the external world.

"Anxiety" is the biggest mental health problem in the United States and anxiety arises in the face of our fears of vulnerability.

The ego tricks us by generating fears of all kinds. The first step in finding peace is in recognizing and acknowledging what in Alcoholic Anonymous is called "Stinking thinking."

The second step is to recognize and acknowledge that we are spirits in a body not bodies with a spirit. As a spirit we are One with the All and as such cannot be harmed and are eternal.

The lesson 26 for today from A Course In Miracles asks us to say, "My attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability." What is invulnerable, by definition, cannot be attacked. On the path of the Spirit, vulnerability makes no sense, only on the path of the ego.

Identify the attack thoughts and rise above them. They are like mosquitoes on an elephant's ass.

Ask Alexa - Do I need redemption?

Alexa - Do I need to be redeemed?

Absolutely so that you can become one with the All, and "redemption" is coming to understand that you already are one with the All but have separated yourself and walk the path of the ego in unawareness and the redemption from unawareness to awareness is necessary for all the children of God so they can consciously go home.

The Helpers - Good teachers who believe in their students