“This Course is but a trigger. These words the prelude to the explosion. It is as if you have been 
waiting for someone to whisper: Now! The whisper has come. The time is now. (A Course of Love, 26.25)”
Affirmation: “The time is now.”
Reflections:
1 – “Explosion”
The words of this passage refer to the “explosion” that will occur, from a whisper, when we are ready for Christ-consciousness. We need, some of us, simply to accept that the time is now. The time has arrived. We do not have to do or say anything further.
2 – Awakening
Not all of us are ready for this blessing. But we can rest in assurance that when we are ready, God Himself will act to (metaphorically) reach down and lift us up.
3 – Always Seeking
Always we have thought that there was something else that we had to read, something else that we had to do, some other pathway that we had to explore. It appears to me that one of the reasons that Jesus wrote this sequel is that students of A Course in Miracles could not seem to cease their seeking. Here in A Course of Love Jesus gives us the signal to cease our seeking. We know enough. We are ready. Even, we are told, we do not have to be perfect (a belief that many of us have, at least subconsciously). Just rest and receive from God. Again, I emphasize that Jesus says that “now” is the time.
4 – Ready for the Awakening
Does not this passage for today seem too good to be true? We have waited long to read such a passage, such an assurance that we really are ready to receive Awakening or Christ-consciousness. At first we will see in glimpses, but these glimpses will lengthen, and when they do, we will almost imperceptibly be living in Christ-consciousness all the time. It is true that some, such as Eckhart Tolle (The Power of Now; A New Earth) have sudden experiences of union. But it would appear from my reading of A Course of Love that such individuals are in the minority. Most are given, as A Course in Miracles points out, a slowly evolving pathway. If the light were suddenly turned on for those of us still asleep, we would be very, very frightened. ACIM makes this clear. Our happy dreams from the Holy Spirit have prepared us, though, and now we are ready to move into the great blessing of Awakening, or Christ-consciousness, without fear.
5 – Wait Long?
Will we have to wait long? Not if we take Jesus at his word. But neither do we want to claim this great blessing before we sense its true arrival. We do not want to be false prophets, here as we reach the culmination of a long road to the epitome of salvataion.
6 – Christ-consciousness
Pray for Christ-consciousness, and assume that if Jesus has said that we are ready, it is only a matter of time before we will find that his word is indeed true.
Prayer:
Dear Father/Mother,
May I rest in Jesus’s assurance that the time is now for Christ-consciousness. But I know that the “now” in eternity is not the “now” of this world. And so I will be patient. But I will need seek fruitlessly. Constant seeking is a deterrent. And I would not defer Christ-consciousness.
Help us to follow in Your way, knowing that You make the decision of the rightness of Awakening. I would have it no other way, though I admit to being impatient. Take this impatience from me, and give me peace and comfort in Your grace.
Be with all my brothers and sisters. We need each other, perhaps as we have never needed each other before. Help us to say and do and think what You would wish.
And may Christ-consciousness be not long delayed. Thank You.
Amen.
MIRACLES EACH DAY 