The Christmas Poem from the notes of A Course in Miracles

Christmas

Christ passes no one by, through this you know
He is God’s Son. You recognize His touch
In universal gentleness. His love
Extends to everyone. His eyes
behold The Love of God
in everything He sees.
No words but those His Father’s Voice dictates
Can reach His ears. His hands forever hold
His brothers’, and His arms remain outstretched
In holy welcome. Would you look on Him
And hear Him calling you this Christmas day?
Behold, He offers you His eyes to see,
His ears to listen to His Father’s Voice,
His hands to hold His brothers’, and His arms
To reach to Him as He would reach to you.
You are as like to Him as He to God,
And You to God because you are like Him.
All that He offers you is but your own.
Accept His gifts to you this Christmas day,
That you who are as God created you
May come to recognize the Christ in you.
- A Course in Miracles

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Best wishes for the holiday, whichever one you celebrate, and the New Year.
Peter

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The Sign of Christmas is a Star

Let no despair darken the
Joy of Christmas,
for the time of Christ
is meaningless apart from Joy.
The sign of Christmas is a star.
See it not outside yourself,
but shining in
the Heaven within.

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The Joy of Christmas (photo)

Merry Christmas - Eve

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Let no despair darken the
Joy of Christmas,
for the time of Christ
is meaningless apart from Joy.

The sign of Christmas is a star.
See it not outside yourself,
but shining in
the Heaven within.

~~~~~~~~~~

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ACIM Speaks - The Christmas Podcast

Acim Speaks - The Christmas Podcast by Peter Demers  
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This is the Christmas podcast from ACIM Speaks. Whether you celebrate
or observe Christmas or any other marker this season, whether the
words used in A Course in Miracles have meaning for you, or do not -
you can replace the words with words or symbols that resonate with you
- the message of the Course will be the same.

The Voice of the Course once told Helen that she was being given
charge of "one way" to God. The way, the method, or the path you
choose is up to you, but the end of the journey is the same.

Helen did ask, "Why me?" And was told, "Because I knew you would do
it." Some have said that Helen did not embrace the message of the
Course, but she knew the message of the Course very well. She taught
the message and mentored the first "students" of the Course. Helen's
story is very interesting and more about her story will come to us in
time.

When I first thought about doing this Christmas podcast, I thought I
would read only a couple of the poetic passages in the Course that
mention Christmas. But I cannot give only the passages that everyone
knows, and has heard, without the context. I believe that mashups can
be made from different sections of the Course because the message is
consistent. But various quotes alone make the Course sound glib, and
that is not my intention. In reading over the selections for this
podcast, it is clear that they follow gracefully from the earlier two
podcasts on the season of Christmas and the Atonement.

To read the texts used in this podcast, click on The Miracles Journal Project web site, www.fromoutoftheblue.com.

The next ACIM Speaks podcast will be one for the New Year.

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