Christmas Thoughts And Decisions

Thoughts About Christmas
This time of year may be the only time some people think about religion at all. My upbringing did not involve much church at all, a little Sunday School, but that was it. I do not regret being brought up suburban and secular. But I sure wish somebody had gotten through my thick teenage skull somehow something about the spiritual side of life. I think I would have enjoyed learning about “the other side” a long time ago. It sure has become my passion the last few years.
The subject of decision-making has popped up in my mastermind group. I point to the Course’s teaching on that subject. Every second, you are deciding between the Crucifixion (the physical world) and the Resurrection (spirit, heaven, the infinite reality.) This is actually to my mind less a topic of religion but more of quantum physics. We have a split mind. One part believes in the body and in the world, the other part being whispered to by spirit somehow knows we are infinite and eternal, timeless and shapeless.
One way to stay in the spiritual mode more often is to simply assess how you feel. If while saying “I Love You” over and over makes you feel more peaceful than while getting whirled around in the usual worldly thoughts of news, jobs, work, time, making money, why not choose the resurrection and stay timeless in your mind? Try it as often as you can this Christmas, I bet Peace on Earth will start to seem possible, no, not for those people fighting over 4G phones at the mall, but for you. Well, that is a start, one small decision can go a long way!